I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, t...weak ears, screech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem to ...measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those whispering guns--O Christ, I want to go out And screech at them to stop--I'm going crazy;... I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon;... Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of i...ndustry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears--as the song of birds, wind in the ...trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk- happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »