shrieks

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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman

Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last. Alexander Pope

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror. Golda Meir

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight. Libba Bray

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks. Elizabeth Wurtzel