If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field
Through the broken windows the shrieks of terrified weasels escaping across the lawn were borne faintly to their ears; on the floor lay prostrate some dozen or so of the enemy, on whom the Mole was busily engaged in fitting handcuffs.
Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
The cars that fled by her with raucous shrieks were filled with strangers.
Valancy was once more seething with rebellion as she walked along, a prim, dowdy little figure in her shabby raincoat and three-year-old hat, splashed occasionally by the mud of a passing motor with its insulting shrieks.
Above, where all had been so still, the air was rent with shrieks and the clash of steel.
The wind shrieks, blows stinging sheets of snow into my eyes.
Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in.
I could hear the shrieks and groans of the princess, and having by this time taken off my rich garments and put on those in which I had arrived the previous day, I lifted the trap, found myself once more in the forest, and returned to my friend the tailor, with a light load of wood and a heart full of shame and sorrow.
He becamefurious, and was just going to tear the boot out of the soldier's hands, but at that moment the firstray of the rising sun broke forth from the sky, and the Evil Spirit fled away with loud shrieks.
" they shouted, and pursued the old man with shrieks.
Only one stone of it is now left, 'And that I drove down here as a boulder on the floating ice,' shrieks the wind.
