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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Shriek (Verb)

Like one who wakens in a grave and shrieks,
The still house seemed to shriek.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shriek,
Like a frayed bird in the gray owlet’s beak.
—Thomas Hood

Shrieks like laughter in the demoned hills.
—Richard Hovey

Shriek … as if a frightful memory whipped thy soul for some infernal crime.
—Henry. C. Kendall

Shriek … during shipwrecks, like the cursed inhabitants of the Bay of the Dead, who await their prey in the ships lost at sea.
—Alphonse M. L. Lamartine

Shriek like a storm-wind.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Shrieking, like a soul in pain.
—Celia Thaxter