I watched Tommy start, of course at full speed, for when he got a chance of riding screechy he was in his glory, and as she was behind the mob, and anxious to overtake them, she would go at the rate of twenty miles an hour, if allowed to gallop; but much to my surprise, when they had gone about 200 yards along the grassy water-channel, apparently in an instant, down went Reechy on her knees, and Tommy, still in the saddle, yelled out to me, Plenty water here!
"Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1"
Ernest Giles
He hath snuffed the great Sahara, And the mute parade of stars; Shall he brook this shrill fanfara, Ramshorns, pigskins, screechy jars?
"Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse"
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
I shall never forget the pattern of the red carpet in our parlor,-we had achieved a carpet since Chelsea days,-because I lay for hours face down on the floor, writing poetry on a screechy slate.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin