Crossword-Solution: SHRIEKING 9 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke.

The thunder seemed to crash against one cliff, then against the other, and to go shrieking off into the inner canyon.

She lay there moaning, bruised, not caring, but still half-sobbing, half-shrieking,— “Percy, my husband, for God’s sake fly! Armand! Armand! why don’t you fire?” “One of you stop that woman screaming,” hissed Chauvelin, who hardly could refrain from striking her.

Fearsome-looking as they were, I did not know whether to fear them or not, for they did not seem to be particularly well equipped for fighting, and I was on the point of stepping from my hiding-place and revealing myself to them to note the effect upon them of the sight of a man when my rash resolve was, fortunately for me, nipped in the bud by a strange shrieking wail, which seemed to come from the direction of the bluffs at my right.

Wherever the Scots came, there was the same scene of horror and cruelty: women shrieking, old men lamenting, amid the groans of the dying and the despair of the living.