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Updated: May 11, 2025
A white butterfly follows along the waggon-road, the pheasants slip away as quietly as the butterfly flies, but a jay screeches loudly and flutters in high rage to see us. Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow's nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling.
The first warning is when the reel screeches and you see the line smoking out at right angles to the boat. Before you have time to entertain anxiety concerning the length of your line, the fish rises into the air in a succession of leaps. Since he is quite certain to be four feet long or over, the sport of landing so gamey a fish can be realized. When hooked, he invariably turns golden.
But when the Gorgons saw the scaly carcass of Medusa, headless, and her golden wings all ruffled, and half spread out on the sand, it was really awful to hear what yells and screeches they set up. And then the snakes! They sent forth a hundred-fold hiss, with one consent, and Medusa's snakes answered them, out of the magic wallet.
If any of Red Bill's gang tried to follow us now they'd have a lot of trouble." "That's so," agreed Peggy, and then went on to tell Roy of the terrifying screeches and yells she had heard in the night. "Nothing but the wind," opined Roy, with boy-like superiority. But the next instant it was his turn to start amazedly.
Pumpey see her Major afloat on a gory sea, and without askin' for explanations she give a loud holler and fainted on our stock of fancy dishes. "'Here's where we make a lot of money, I don't think, screeches Hadds he was an excitable person, that Hadds. 'Come! he hollers, 'help me get 'em out of here! There's enough chloroform loose to sleep the bunch of us!
In a huge arm-chair, bolt upright, where they had placed him, sat Farmer Geer, holding in his sadly awkward hands the unconscious cause of all this agitation, namely, a poor, little, horrid, gasping, crying, writhing, old-faced, distressed-looking, red, wrinkled, ridiculous baby! between whose "screeches" Farmer Geer could be heard muttering, in a dazed, bewildered way, "Ivy's baby!
Why, I know at Birmingham the daughter of an ironmonger, who screeches to the piano the Lady of the Lake's hymn to the Virgin Mary, always weeps when Mary Queen of Scots is mentioned, and fasts on the anniversary of the death of that very wise martyr, Charles the First. Why, I would engage to convert such an idiot to popery in a week, were it worth my trouble.
There may be two, four, or six, of different eggs, in the nest, and perhaps a young one, or two, at the same time. Eggs are found from April, or even March, till June or July, and there is, sometimes at any rate, a second brood as late as November or December. This owl does not hoot, but screeches. Est illis strigibus nomen, sed nominis hujus. Causa, quod horrenda stridere nocte silent.
What strange adventures would befall them? "Adventure? Piffle!" said Tim. "Give me Danger Mountain." "Sssh!" warned Ritter. "Mr. Wall will hear you." "Gee! Can't I even say what I'd like?" Off in the distance a dog barked. Tim barked in reply. The dog answered. It became a duel of sound. Tim was in his glory. Weird, nerve-racking screeches came from his throat.
I slyly pinched my sisters when we were exchanging parting kisses, till they were compelled to shriek out and box my ears an operation to which I was well accustomed and I made my brothers roar with the sturdy grip I gave their fingers when we shook hands; and so, instead of tears, there were shouts of laughter and screeches and screams, creating a regular hullaballoo which put all sentimental grief to flight.
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