| 1. | 'One good screech will do more for you than all your rifles. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | At the sudden screech there was a movement of abject terror through that wedged mass of bodies. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 4. | The thing in the coffin writhed, and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | With one hand I felt above my head for the line of the steam-whistle, and jerked out screech after screech hurriedly. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 6. | What was the last line will never be known, for of a sudden the song was stayed by a dreadful screech from the cabin. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 7. | "It won't screech under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Of Owls and screech owls and what will happen to certain birds. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | A sudden screech of laughter came from the _Evening Telegraph_ office. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |