Shriek (Verb) Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Shriek (Verb)


Like one who wakens in a grave and shrieks, The still house seemed to shriek. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1
Shriek, Like a frayed bird in the gray owlet’s beak. —Thomas Hood	2
Shrieks like laughter in the demoned hills. —Richard Hovey	3
Shriek … as if a frightful memory whipped thy soul for some infernal crime. —Henry. C. Kendall	4
Shriek … during shipwrecks, like the cursed inhabitants of the Bay of the Dead, who await their prey in the ships lost at sea. —Alphonse M. L. Lamartine	5
Shriek like a storm-wind. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	6
Shrieking, like a soul in pain. —Celia Thaxter	7