She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.
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Screak
Synonyms for "screak" (67 found)
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11 entriesaudible screakloud screakmechanical screakmetallic screakpiercing screakscreak doorscreak floorboardscreak hingescreak jointscreak mechanismshrill screak
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The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
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They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.
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Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily.
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