screechings

When he was brought in, they fell at once into the most grievous fits and screechings.

Screechings and howlings echoed and re-echoed between the building walls.

But my notion is, that it may neither be Heaven nor t'other place that has much to do with these kind of fits and screechings.

Dorn followed the Baron about the corridors, his ears bewildered by the screechings from unexpected chambers of debate.