Word: screeching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heard the startled sea-mews screech...
...glimmer up the road, indistinguishable at first from that of a star in the horizon; now scintillating, now increasing. A faint hum ! a louder and a louder whir! A blaze of light, a screech, a stop, and I am conscious that the express is there, and has pulled up but for a moment. Blinded by the glare, still half in dreamland and wholly confused, I spring upon the train The wheels once more revolve, and I turn to go in, - no door! I rub my eyes, and discover, but too late, that I am between the tender and the baggage...
Athwart the gleaming cliffs the sea-mews screech. Four streams, down-trickling from an azure lake, Mid rocks and ferns a rhythmic rippling make...