screaking

The traveler had been staring at it for a while when it struck him that a gear in the draftsman should have been screaking; but everything was quiet, not the slightest humming could be heard.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

When his boat snapped loose from its mooring, under the screaking of the gulls, he tried at first to wave to his dear ones on shore, but in the rolling fog they had already lost their faces.

stanley kunitz | the long boat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

Their farther conversation was in fact interrupted by a blatant noise which rose behind them, in which the voice of the preacher emitted, in unison with that of the old woman, tones like the grumble of a bassoon combined with the screaking of a cracked fiddle.

Old Mortality 2004

The loudest thing in the quiet residence was Brass's own slow breathing, and the shoes of the team screaking on the hardwood floor.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

The loudest thing in the quiet residence was Brass's own slow breathing, and the shoes of the team screaking on the hardwood floor.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

The loudest thing in the quiet residence was Brass's own slow breathing, and the shoes of the team screaking on the hardwood floor.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

Her voice had the quality of chalk screaking along a slate board.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

Twice he heard it sung through to the faint accompaniment of the tiny screaking rocker.

Stubble George Looms 1906

Men came tramping up the screaking outside stairs that conducted to the office; the Squire had a room over Ward's general store.

When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

The silence was broken by more screaking of the outside stairs.

When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900