But from the time this notion and desire began to affect me I envied most the great crested screamer, an inhabitant then of all the marshes in our vicinity.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer.
"A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee."
Davy Crockett
The gall sings like a man, and that screamer like a woman.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton