It was blood-curdling and sent a chill up my spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9] Reference

Not once did they cease their blood-curdling shouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference

It was a long drawn out cry, weird and blood-curdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference

She was interrupted by a shriek, long and blood-curdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

It sounds like an apparition in a blood-curdling ghost-story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891] Reference

The hyrax equivalent of saying whee is a blood-curdling scream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Ill in Africa, and Loving It] Reference

Junot, had told him a most blood-curdling tale of events to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

"Revenge! sweet revenge!" cackled the hag in a blood-curdling voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference

"You would hear blood-curdling screams" coming from there, she recalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day That Changed America] Reference

Bin Laden, by contrast, did not issue his usual blood-curdling threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [TERRORISM: TALE OF THE TAPE] Reference

Then, in the silence which lay everywhere, a blood-curdling thing happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

Berrington had heard blood-curdling stories of what the Burmese could do in that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

On they came in single file, their blood-curdling war whoop enough to weaken the bravest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference

With a blood-curdling attempt at a laugh, he staggered out of the house into the sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

It was the most fearful, ear-deafening, blood-curdling sound he had ever heard in his life!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

These latter made a cold shiver run down my spine; the noise they made was so blood-curdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

Charles Dickens and other writers have supplied us with tales of the true blood-curdling type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

For some time past it has been telling blood-curdling stories of the iniquities of prison rule in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

I'm pretty sure my high-school English teacher is letting out a blood-curdling scream right about now.    From Wordnik.com.  [W00t! There It Is] Reference

He was rushing madly hither and thither, when suddenly he heard a blood-curdling yell not very far off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference

Then came that awful, blood-curdling scream again, and the shadow's owner seemed to plunge headlong forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

The creature floundered and slashed the water, gave a blood-curdling bellow, and rolled over on its back, dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

With a blood-curdling scream the brute halted, reared backward, then ran its head back and forth over the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

The cattle quieted down after the shot, and the coyotes only occasionally gave vent to their blood-curdling yells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference

League in all its blood-curdling details, naming every man and woman who were to be the victims of the mob's fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference

"Tell him I send my compliments," he whispered, and, looking about him furtively, he repeated the blood-curdling request.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

There are muttered curses, a blood-curdling, demoniacal yell, then in solemn, guttural tones, "The world shall see his bones.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

As soon as they were out of the room and into the hall he sat up on the mat and began to yowl in a most blood-curdling manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted Island] Reference

The young men gathered in the hotel round the constables, and told blood-curdling stories of his dare-devilism in the North-West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference

Then she gave a blood-curdling growl and retreated slowly towards the cubs, which came bounding to her side, whining impatiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference

Once they grazed the side of a floating log; it immediately turned upon them, emitting blood-curdling bellows through gaping jaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

He tried the most blood-curdling threats, which were no empty menaces, as his adversary well knew: these were received in silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

And she just bent over at the waist and screamed at the top of her lungs, as loud as she possibly could, I think, a blood-curdling scream.    From Wordnik.com.  [T-Bone Burnett: Zen And The Art Of Music] Reference