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...n of anything Wait until the wake’s wet tears have tried to dry Till living memory is pickled in uisce beatha All pain shrieked out to a hellish banshee rattle Don't talk to me of graves until you're long gone Till clods are covering your coffin-wearing bones And a lyre plucked to softly lament your soul Until the headstone has reached weak anonymity Till its...

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...ed prob- ably. A failsafe,” Vincent answered. “It was like the wail of the banshee. I felt more of a chill than when we were driving with the top dow...

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...t at the time, my words were not accepted, though I was screaming like a banshee, warning about the destruction of the world. Alas, it made no impr...

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... us all out in different ways — One was a Pixy, two were Fays, Another was a Banshee; “The Fetch and Kelpie went to school And gave a lot of trouble; ...

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...op scattered the stragglers right and left. A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves. It landed in the grove... ...mediately began to jeer. With the passionate song of the bul- lets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud cat- calls and bits of facetiou...

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...oming confidential and intimate when, in a lowered voice, he mentioned the Banshee’s crag, where the shrouded mes- senger of doom never failed to bewa... ...ple at dinner!’ and he groaned. ‘Good evening. Heigh ho! I won- der if our Banshee will think me worth keening for?’ ‘I hope she will have no occasion... ...n yet,’ said Albinia, as he shut the door; ‘but she will be a very foolish Banshee if she 481 The Young Step-Mother does not, for she will hardly fin...

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...at desolate castle, with not a living man in it at all at all, barring the Banshee and a ghost or two; and as I had nothing to do, and nowhere to go, ...

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...Autumn, clouds heavier, the League drumming, the cry of Ireland ‘ominously Banshee,’ as she wrote to Emma. 279 George Meredith CHAPTER XXX IN WHICH T...

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...m Philip as to what could engross them so deeply. ‘It was,’ said Laura, ‘a banshee story in Eveleen de Courcy’s last letter.’ ‘I never like telling gh...

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...—looked in with his shoes: besides rattling his feet upon the glass like a Banshee upside down. As a matter of course, Mr Quilp lost no time in resort...

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...hrough the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in—the banshee of the man upon the bed. For, on a low bed opposite the fire, a con...

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...hrough the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in—the banshee of the man upon the bed. For, on a low bed opposite the fire, a con...

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...ehow mixed up with its destiny. They were a species of tutelary sprite, or Banshee; although winged and feathered differently from most other guardian...