Example Sentences

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With a muffled skreigh the mare leapt forward, seized the bit 'twixt her teeth, and ventre à terre pursued the others in spite of her rider's remonstrances.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Ha! there it was again—the low skreigh o' pain I had heard before.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

It's time enough to skreigh when ye're strucken.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

I had it a' ower, my lee lane, afore the skreigh o' day.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

When thou an' I were young an' skeigh, An' stable-meals at fairs were dreigh, How thou wad prance, and snore, an' skreigh An' tak the road!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert