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blood-curdling en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of bloodcurdling.
As the van hurtled towards her, she threw the bag at the bonnet of the van. As it struck, she let out a blood-curdling scream, as if she had been run over. “AAAAARRR GGGGHHHH!!!!!!”
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:`Yes, yes,' said the other, and chuckled in a rather blood-curdling tone.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:But presently Numa gave up the chase and, with a series of blood-curdling moans and roars, turned angrily back in search of another and an easier dinner.
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121:Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife.
1914, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homerica, London: W. Heineman, page 435:
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