Well, I can't help feeling vexed; Bob screeches that hateful little name after me wherever I go.
"Tip Lewis and His Lamp"
Pansy
In the trees below the world, the tentative morning screeches of the lizard-birds-the souls of the damned, or the devils who hunted them, no one was quite sure which-took up the concert.
"The Thing in the Attic"
James Benjamin Blish
We expected an attack, and I often nearly mistook the screeches and cries of cockatoos and parrots and the loud, curious call of the birds of paradise for some distant war-cry, which was quite excusable, considering the state of our nerves and the sleepless night we had spent.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker