Read full poem →I think it;
But let the screaming echoes rest, and froth your
mouth no more.
Dictionary Entry
To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. screamingscreaming startedscreaming began
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Poetry examples for “screaming”
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Read full poem →Oh priestess, what you cry is clear, and sound good sense I think it;
But let the screaming echoes rest, and froth your mouth no more.
'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
Read full poem →Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Read full poem →Close at my heel with yelping treble flies;
The whimpering girl, and hoarser-screaming boy,
Join to the yelping treble shrilling cries;
Read full poem →Inarmèd as we lay, sudden at once
Up from my side you started, screaming ‘Guilt!’
And ‘Lost! lost! lost!’ I on my elbow rose,
Read full poem →Inarmèd as we lay, sudden at once
Up from my side you started, screaming ‘Guilt!’
And ‘Lost! lost! lost!’ I on my elbow rose,
Read full poem →Over whom is the cry of this furor of exultation?
While they are skipping and screaming, and dancing their caps on the
points of
Read full poem →than the instructions advised. One night he insisted that I leave it on for
hours. I began screaming. I ran to the tub, filled it with water and washed
the salve off, with difficulty. I was burned, on my face, my back and chest.
Read full poem →Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily push witless
creases of screaming warmth chuck pil- lows are noise funnily swallows
swallowing revolv- ingly pompous a the swallowed mottle with smooth or
Read full poem →multiplicity of sects and nations! what a variety of costumes!
what a Babel of languages! what a screaming of beasts! what a
tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!”