A frightful cry rose from the listeners, wails and groans at so grim a vision.

Then Balthus forgot his exasperation as his ears were outraged by the most frightful cry he had ever heard.

The man placed a foot upon the carcass of his kill, and, with his handsome face raised toward the full moon, gave voice to the most frightful cry that ever had smote upon her ears.

A frightful cry of pain echoed through his darkness.

At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.

That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.

T. S. Eliot created a character who . . . pulled her stockings off With a frightful cry of "Hauptbahnhof!"

With a cry so frightful, so bestial, that it momentarily paralyzed the startled Dango, the great ape launched his mighty bulk upon the surprised hyena.

After that one frightful cry came silence.

At this, she cast a loud and frightful cry.