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High-pitched   /haɪ-pɪtʃt/   Listen
High-pitched

adjective
1.
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency.  Synonym: high.
2.
Set at a sharp or high angle or slant.





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... palace, using a smaller type anionizer, which, I noticed, was set just right so that while all of Nunami would be leveled, the temple with its great tower would be beyond the impact and left standing. Just as we had set it correctly, we heard a high-pitched whistle, which was the preconcerted signal among the raiders to use if any danger was nigh. We looked up directly and saw its reason: a squadron of Zards had been garrisoned inside the palace and had not left like the others, apparently because its sole ...
— The Revolutions of Time • Jonathan Dunn
... steamer unobserved. He edged around outside the lantern shine and went on along the beach to the native village. As he had foreseen, all the able-bodied men were down at the boat-landing working cargo. The grass houses seemed lifeless, but at last, from one of them, came a challenge in the querulous, high-pitched tones of age: ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... While I first found these sparrows near Peabody, they were also fairly common, a few days later, in northeastern Kansas, about a mile back from the Missouri River, where their low alto strains formed a kind of gray background for the high-pitched trills of the Harris sparrows and the loud pipings of the cardinals. Quaint as our little contralto's solos are, they have a distinct fascination for me, and now that I no longer live in the Sunflower state, I miss them sorely when the ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... know what is going on here?" went on Josiah Crabtree, in his high-pitched voice. "Who ...
— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield
... a high-pitched and querulous tone. "No! I want to see if this business owns me, or if I own it. Why should you need to communicate with me? Whenever I'm off a day you always sign everything; and I shall be gone but a day on any given date this time; so it's only the usual thing, ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick


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