"Shrill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in answer to his questions, there was a patter of bare feet on the stairs and in came Luis, his great dark eyes looking twice their normal size and his voice shrill with excitement, as he ...
— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond
... said a shrill voice from the dark—for such the night had already become, and threatened with a few heavy drops of straight rain, the fall of a ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... Like the bells in the valley where the old vicarage used to stand. Steel vaguely wondered who now lived in the house where he was born. He was staring in the most absent way at his telephone, utterly unconscious of the shrill impatience of the little voice. He saw the quick pulsation of the striker and he ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... followed by a sharp, shrill whistle from the policeman. Another whistle answered it from a street-corner one block ahead of him. "Whoa," said Gallegher, pulling on the reins. "There's one too many of them," he added, in apologetic explanation. ...
— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... something, far away. As I grew older, I came to believe that it was only because she was so often thinking of things that were far away. She was quick-footed and energetic in all her movements. Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum. Her laugh, too, was high, and perhaps a little strident, but there was a lively intelligence in it. She was then fifty-five ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
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