Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreeks
Literary usage of Shreeks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"... make three great shreeks, or howles, in signe of joy and league of friendship:
presently upon that he did present unto him two other young male children ..."
2. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Henry Sweetser Burrage, Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"... beganne all his people to make three great shreeks, or howles, ... at the
giving of which even as before they gave out shreeks and howles very loud. ..."
3. The Voyages of the English Nation to America by Richard Hakluyt (1889)
"... beganne all his people to make three great shreeks, or howles, in signe of
ioy and league of friendship: presently vpon that he did present vnto him two ..."
4. The Voyages of the English Nation to America by Richard Hakluyt, Edmund Goldsmid (1889)
"... beganne all his people to make three great shreeks, or howles, in signe of
ioy and league of friendship: presently vpon that he did present vnto him two ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... hideous outcries, fearfull noises, shreeks, lamentable complaints, they are
possessed, • and through impatience they roar and howl, curse, blaspheme, ..."
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