Tense silence for a moment held the room in the stillness of a sepulchre, and then a woman
shrieked, and fell prone across the table.
Not a
shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.
And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her
shriek and the words--"scoundrel" and "mistress." "And very likely the maids were listening!
Out of the silence of the ruined temple there rang, close to their ears, the same hideous
shriek they had heard the previous night, and with horrified cries the black warriors turned and fled through the empty halls of the age-old edifice.
Then some one ran to our master's house and came back with a gun; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful
shriek, and then all was still; the black horse moved no more.
Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind
shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.
We heard
shrieks and yells, and soon a woman came running and crying; and see- ing our group, she flung herself into our midst and begged for protection.
The slave girls upon the dais
shrieked and cowered away.
At last my hand closed upon the ship's rail and that very instant a horrid
shriek rang out below me that sent my blood cold and turned my horrified eyes downward to a shrieking, hurtling, twisting thing that shot downward into the awful chasm beneath me.
The noise of some great body crashing through the underbrush so close beside him, and the sound of that bloodcurdling
shriek from above, tested Clayton's courage to the limit; but he could not know that it was to that very voice he owed his life, nor that the creature who hurled it forth was his own cousin--the real Lord Greystoke.
She was about to make some reply when a fearful
shriek broke from the lips of the Lotharian.
"Why, madam, MY experience warrants me in stating that that tenor's voice is not a voice at all, but only a shriek--the
shriek of a hyena."