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Broun & Ex-Lax Sirs: In one of your recent issues Heywood Broun is reputed to have shrieked: "What is this� type casting?" as an answer to an offer to work on an Ex-Lax radio program.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another woman would have shrieked at him, cursed him, damned him down to seven hells.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He, like a true hero, had braced up his nerves to brave everything he might meet, or he would have shrieked out, and tried to run away.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles

And then all at once he came and stood near her, and looked down at her with such anguish in his eyes that she could have shrieked aloud.

From Vagabondia 1884 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The old man could have shrieked aloud in his agony.

From The Music Master Novelized from the Play by Klein, Charles