a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. v. 11 My sences would haue cool'd To heare a Night-shrieke . View more context for this quotation
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal 41 Let me live where no night-shrieks terrify.
a1850 W. L. Bowles Grave of Last Saxon ii, in (1855) II. 104 That Tower Which oft..has echoed to night-shrieks Of secret murder.