"Banshie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hear the wind scream like that," said Minny. "It is like the banshee. Hark! is not that some one knocking ...
— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.
... one another, there was nothing to wait for. 'How could he go back by himself (what a brogue he put on! yet the tears were in his eyes) to his great 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, why not be married then and there without more ado? If I refused, he should think it was all my pride, and that I couldn't take that "ornary object," as he had overheard himself described that day. (As if I did not love ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the house or the farm—and the Irish "good people;" and the Pooka, which comes in the form of a wild colt; and the Leprechaun, a dwarf who makes himself look like a little old man, mending shoes; and the Banshee, which cries and moans when great ...
— Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning • John Thackray Bunce
... He'd always bin told to do that, if he got lost. But by-'n'-by he heard 'Hen-ree! Hen-ree!' boomin' an' bellerin' back an' forrid across the bend in the dark; an' he thought the boody-man, an' the bunyip, an' the banshee, an' (sheol) knows what all, was after him. So he foun' this holler log, an' he thought he could nt git fur enough into it. He was about seven year old then; an' that was in '71— the year after the big flood—an' the shearin' was jist about over. How old would that make him now? Nineteen ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... kind in our neighbourhood. There had been no repetition of those strange, weird sounds that had startled us all earlier in the night, so Kennedy informed me; but he was still firmly convinced that they had emanated from the banshee, and when I laughingly tried to argue him out of his conviction he took me up rather sharply with the assertion that, had I been of Irish birth or extraction, I would know better than to make light of the matter. To my amazement, he seemed quite depressed and ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood |
