Another loud crash and the screech of tortured wood chased the fleeing Jarada downward.

Above him the tortured wood of the door shrieked in protest as the attackers struck it again.

The attached cable moaned, yanking hard at the grappling hook- -and the tortured wood gave way.

A few years later another face gave me the same impression of worn and tortured wood: that of Panait Istrati.

He remembered the tortured woods of Silvanesti, and that brought more memories of his brother.

A screech of tortured wood spoke of his opening a crate to replenish the depleted shovel stock.

There were popping sounds and the shriek of tortured wood.

The shriek of tortured wood and steel cut off further conversation.

She saw the floor split open underneath him with a scream of tortured wood, and her husband's body dropped into the seam up to his neck.

Birds fled squawling from the bushes, and branches dragged against the car, screeching in their agony of tortured wood.