Word: shriekingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given to four daughters. This time would His Majesty at last be able to give a sword? At exactly 6:39 a. m. came the first mewing cry. Tokyo trembled as the Imperial siren shrieked once (feminine), then went wild as a second shriek proclaimed a boy. Strangers solemnly congratulated each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes...
...Vagabond was sitting quietly last evening staring into the crackling hickory fire which drove the fall chill from his chimney corner, and thinking how the barbarian shriek of fire-engines would soon dispel the peace of his chambers under Memorial's clock. Suddenly there came a knocking from the depths, rap, rap, rap, thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came...
...time clock. When the General feels drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
...President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some sort of currency agreement. Rapping the President's action as "a deliberate stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business has been deliberately planned in cold blood as a piece of diplomatic blackmail...
...frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...