How To Use Shrill In A Sentence

In a flurry of bright patterns, flashy materials, and skimpy outfits, several girls flurried into the room, all clicking away on high heels and giggling shrilly.
They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
Pettin's men surged up the steps at them, weapons flashing in the guttery light; Del's screaming, shrill as an angry hawk's, stabbed through Joanna's panic like the senseless sounds of nightmare. The Silicon Mage
Ah! that was Sit-cum-to-ha, shrilly anathematizing the dogs as she cuffed and beat them into the harnesses. THE LAW OF LIFE
She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting

And in that shrill voice of his, he would begin singing a song he had just written. The Other Side of Me
An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
Above the drums, singing, and stomping of feet, women ululate shrilly to express their excitement.
Anna Maria was still arguing in shrill tones. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
The grandfather stood under the door, watching her, when suddenly a shrill whistle was heard. Heidi
But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself. The Cry of the Onlies
Greeks were everywhere -- swarthy men in sea-boots and tam-o'-shanters, hatless women in bright colors, hordes of sturdy children, and all speaking in outlandish voices, crying shrilly and vivaciously with the volubility of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER XI
The trend gets much worse at midseason, with a "what were they thinking" project called Work It, a shrill Bosom Buddies knockoff about two unemployed he-men who dress as women none too convincingly to get jobs as pharmaceutical reps. Critic's Notebook: The ABC Upfront
A bullet glanced from a rock before them, and singing shrilly, rose low over their heads on its second flight. THE SUNLANDERS
She had a shrill high - pitched voice.
Expect some shrill recorded sound and lacklustre orchestral playing. Times, Sunday Times
She yells, but her voice takes on a slight shrill.
That spooked the horse because his head and ears picked up and he let out a shrill whinny.
The shrill whine and unbearable thunder of falling bombs dug in under my skin and stayed there.
What will be going on behind the sideline masks they will wear for most of the time tomorrow when the whistle shrills the start of the Allianz Hurling League final?
The North's shrillness may also be an attempt to undermine the South as the North seeks a warming of relations with America as part of the talks over nuclear weapons.
Yow -- yow -- yow! in accents the most shrill or the most melancholious. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
The shrill voices of the children, rising all around her, made a buzzing in her ears, for the argument between her boys and the Meanwells on one side and the Dalys on the other about the tent they had been trying to build together in the corner formed by her fence and the Meanwell coalhouse, was starting up again. The Dollmaker
I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
Fran uttered a shrill scream.
Their voices raised to the sharp shrill of a four-year-old just told to eat her vegetables.
Just then, a shrill voice pierced through the thick tension in the room.
Someone asked about the word asshat, a word with growing utility in our oh-so shrill and radical lefty bloggy discourse. Firedoglake » Gender and Identity Politics
Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing.
The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
His party was unable to broaden its appeal because it sounded too shrill. Times, Sunday Times
Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.
His face contorted in fury at the murder of his kinsmen, and with a shrill cry he leapt at the nearest of the ogrish guards.
The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
His anti-Americanism is shrill to the point of self-parody, and he has no powerful protectors. A Convenient Enemy
Close by the inn stood the ancient church, and the shrill, discordant clack of the cracked bell could be distinctly heard in the ballroom.
This will not only raise shrill demands for regulation and subsidy. Times, Sunday Times
The real show of class warfare is the threatened curtailment of charitable status for private schools and the shrill demand that universities take more state-school pupils.
But our face-off was interrupted by the shrill voice of a woman who stepped into the alcove.
His sister kept on laughing, though, her giggles breaking into shrill chortling.
Wallace blew his shrilly whistle and dismissed the team, who tiredly made their way to the locker room.
You heard about feminists and their arguments, and maybe they sounded "shrill" or "churlish" or "bitchy" to your patriarchally-attuned ears. "I'm not that!"
The next house was deserted, the door of the third place was slammed in his face before he could even make known his wants, and he was beginning to wonder if he must go breakfastless when a shrill, childish treble rang out clearly on the still morning air: At the Little Brown House
A shrill cry echoes through the conference room. Times, Sunday Times
He gave a shrill cry of pain as his eyes popped open wide.
Incidentally not once during the five days did the shrill sound of a whistle disturb concentration.
The shrill sound of Iris's voice (as well as her sharp knocking on the door) immediately changes the mood in the room.
He was screaming in high shrills, each an ear-splitting cry.
Tyler was lost for words, wondering about his reward when he heard a great shrill of excitement from the cash register.
She emitted one shrill cry and then was silent.
I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars 'rags, with beggars' bowls, sunning themselves side by side on the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children. Chapter 15
Saratoga with his shrill whistle and stentorian voice called his dauntless braves where the fight was thickest! History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)
'I hate you!' she shrilled.
Amara could hear her voice rising to a shrill whine, as it always did when she was upset.
When the phone shrilled on his desk, the tone of the woman on the other end was not a happy one.
The shrill, small voice of the sunbird is almost indistinguishable from the stridulation of one of the leaf insects, which makes its amorous noises in the evening as well as during the sunny hours. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
There are no shortage of shrill voices who think his participation is a stain on the NFL. Vick 2.0
She turned up a thin alley which was covered; it was full of the shrill song of cage birds.
The girls on the team have shrill voices and the boys sound like they are 35, made worse by dialogue mixed too loud.
Comparing politicians to evil dictators is offensive, shrill, and coarsens the political discourse.
A shrill cry echoes through the conference room. Times, Sunday Times
The hours dragged on until the school bell rang, its loud shrill signalling the end of the school day.
But when the automatics opened up on them, she panicked, struggled free and ran for the house, only to fall with a shrill cry a couple of meters away.
The evening was calm and still; — the shrill noise of the mountain bizcacha, and the faint cry of a goatsucker, were occasionally to be heard. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The cave echoed and re-echoed with the sounds of shrill squeals and flapping wings.
The terrible music alternates between sounding hollow, tinny, and shrill.
‘There is no room even for a mouse,’ shrilled the wife of a well-to-do cultivator — a Hindu Jat from the rich Jullundur, district. Kim
Before the sharp shrill sound there was a beautiful mix of anticipation and security. Times, Sunday Times
Hurrah!" shouted Seth Allport, his ringing voice making itself heard above the sound of the rushing water and the echoing chorus of the men's cheers; but, an instant after, his exclamation of delight was changed to one of dismay, as a flight of arrows and the ping of rifle bullets whistled around the party, while the dread war-whoop of their Indian assailants burst forth in all its shrill discordancy. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
Just as I was about to answer, the shrill school bell sounded throughout the halls.
They had not died away, before they were taken up and repeated, east, west, and north and south, by shriller, more pervading clangors. The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
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The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt. Isabelle
_not_ chew gum, but she whistled, and the teachers who reproved her most for what they called a boyish trick, always listened intently, when the clear, musical notes, now soft and low, now loud and shrill, were heard outside, or in the building. Tracy Park
The zebra squeaked out shrill cries as it was caught by a lion.
Yet the shrill protests from Smith's critics revealed less about Smith's work than about their own false and constructed assumptions.
Gatha could hear the shrill cry of a wounded colos warbeast echoing up the mountainside, but it was drowned out immediately by the grating roar of a massive Phyrexian dragon engine. Bloodlines
As the north-westerly wind whistled shrilly through the willows near my house, I concluded that this year would be special for kite-lovers.
Australian "cooee," following it up with a shrill piercing note from a little silver whistle; but the only response was the cry of an _ara_, one of the great scarlet and blue long-tailed macaws, whose harsh shriek came softened from the distance. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco
She heard a shrill of laughter that sounded as if it would have split a storm into two halves.
Pressing his ear against the door, he could hear his guest making outraged noises which mostly consisted of squawks and shrill whistles.
'Who's there?' she cried in a shrill voice.
Their songs have a certain keening shrillness that will leave all but the hardiest nerves frazzled and jangling.
For the last track on the album, he used 22 violins - no violas or cellos, so you get a very shrill sound.
The lieutenant spoke in short shrill periods, chopping off the ends of his words as if with a hatchet. Three Soldiers
Then one, two, three bronze figures dash down a steep ravine below the Convent walls, and plunge into the river – a shrill chorus of voices, growing momentarily more audible, is borne upon the wind – and in a few minutes the boat is beset by a shoal of mendicant monks vociferating with all their might Ana Christian ya Hawadji! A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
What more the skipper would have spoken remained unsaid, for _crack, crack, crack_! sounding smothered amongst the trees, came the reports of the rifles and the replies made by Don Ramon's vedettes as they were driven in, and the skipper's eyes flashed as he placed a little whistle to his lips and blew shrilly, bringing his own men together at the run. Fitz the Filibuster
From somewhere in that murk came a woman's voice calling shrilly for help. Page 1
My brain froze, the shrill of cicada faded, and my senses vanished. Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
There arose from behind some nearby bushes a shrill cachinnation and out waddled a gaggle of purposeful geese. Death of a Fool
The moment Charity had found her cousin, or any other occupation, Tom would slip away; and in a minute shrill cries would be heard from the dairy, "Charity, Charity, thee lazy huzzy, where bist?" and Tom would break cover, hands and mouth full of curds, and take refuge on the shaky surface of the great muck reservoir in the middle of the yard, disturbing the repose of the great pigs. Tom Brown's Schooldays
The shrill of a cell phone disrupted the conversation.
Johnny's shrill harmonica joined the whang of the guitar to make a sound powerful enough to bring the walls down.
He halves nothing whatever with our more earnest-minded juniors who -- perennially discovering that all religions thus far put to the test of nominal practice have, whatever their paradisial _entrée_, resulted in a deplorable earthly hash -- perennially run yelping into the shrill agnosticism which believes only that one's neighbors should not be permitted to believe in anything. The Queen Pedauque
Andrew Strauss's men also provided the evening with a degree of paparazzi-friendly A-list heft: the shrillest cheers of the evening on the red carpet outside MediaCity were reserved for Alastair Cook, emerging swooningly tuxedoed from his vast limousine. Mark Cavendish a fitting winner of BBC Sports Personality of Year
Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
From a dark courtyard came a sound of oaths and blows, followed by shrill screams, and, huddled upon a damp doorstep, he saw the crook-backed forms of poverty and eld.
(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood. Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns. Chapter 8
Cheered on by a Washington media rooting section that could only be portrayed by a cackling Heath Ledger brought back from the dead and replicated to fill every seat at Politico, Edwards is now caricatured as a shrill, unhinged she-devil rending her garments in airports and slicing the Achilles tendons of underlings with the vicious alacrity of a demanding hellcat. Tom Watson: The Cartooning of Elizabeth Edwards
Noise is the first consideration for a successful befana, noise of any kind, shrill, gruff, high, low -- any sort of noise; and the first purchase of everyone who comes must be a tin horn, a pipe, or one of those grotesque little figures of painted earthenware, representing some characteristic type of Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man Jerry awoke from his nap in the chimney corner, and, finding himself chilled through all his old, rheumatic bones, bent over the dying embers, pushed together the blackened and half-burned "chunks," and blew them until they glowed. Plantation Sketches
The people of these areas call the 3-toed sloth "ai" after its shrill cry("ai-ai!").
“Bitch, get away from him!” pealed a shrill voice from behind. Shore Thing
Five dollars would make me chirk up; ten would start a slight smile; twenty would put a beam in mine eye; fifty would cause me to utter shrill cries of unadulterated joys and a hundred would inspire me to actions like unto those of a whirling dervish. The Valley of the Giants
She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
Signaling with one long shrill of his whistle followed by one short blast, he waits for an echo from the harbormaster, then comes about and eases his boat against the wharf of a two-story shed.
The Opposition were shrill in their criticism of the Government's action.
Shrill and soft old Autumnal winds blow and we are tucked below the shallow soil where seeds spring up and wither quickly flirting madly.
A flock of owls swooped through her tower lands, hooting shrilly.
They shrieked, yelled, blared, shrilled, and boomed the scandals and horrors of the moment in multivocal, multigraphic clamor, tainting the peaceful air breathed by everyday people going about their everyday business, with incredible blatancies which would be forgotten on the morrow in the excitement of fresh percussions, though the cumulative effect upon the public mind and appetite might be ineradicable. Success A Novel
While his performance has its share of moments that borderline on the shrill, by the end of the movie he has managed to generate more than a little sympathy.
The commander seemed to become shriller and more strident the more I held my tongue in check and treated the board of inquiry with respect.
The shrill voices in the stands seemed to suggest he had. Times, Sunday Times
Sure, Ann Coulter has proven that being shrill and vapid is no serious barrier to success, but Coulter is at least sporadically witty and entertaining — she can turn a phrase, whether or not she uses it to say much of anything. Peer Produced Harassment
You have to squeak it in a shrill whine, which says all that you need to know about the man himself.
The shrill feminist denunciations of male patriarchy share a common origin: the Marxist creed.
The only thing the Left offered was shrill ideology.
Julian winced slightly at the sound of the shrill voice echoing down the halls, accompanied by thundering footsteps.
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Per contra, there was Frank Barlow, whom we used to call "Crazy Barlow" because of his headlong rush at whatever object he had in view, and he could make the call shrill and thrill like a fife. My Friends at Brook Farm
I put my slippers back on and started up the stairs when a shrill cold scream sent a chill down my spine.
Shrill trilling vocalizations are thought to be similar to the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
Only the public's expectations have made those claims sound shrill. Times, Sunday Times
The harder you blow or the smaller the hole, the shriller the whistle.
She bewailed his evil lot, with many shrill cries, and flung the useless flacket far away. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
While it is very likely the most seriously toned of the films in the line-up this year, it still evokes shrills of fear and delight.
Americans must focus on reason and civility over contrived irrational, fear driven emotionalism from the shrill right wing. 'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care
When the disciples do answer, their voices are shrill and defensive. Christianity Today
Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks.
I thought he was pulling my leg but he was shaking with fear and speaking in a shrill voice. The Sun
Her voice could be unattractively shrill sometimes, he noticed. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
I thought he was pulling my leg but he was shaking with fear and speaking in a shrill voice. The Sun
On land, an unseen cicada had begun its shrill noise.
You don't see him walking around making shrill announcements and talking garbage.
I HAVE TO TELL YOU, KRIS," GINO began, "I wasn't all that keen on seeing a Catteni there on Botany, but ..: 'and Gino whistled expertly and shrilly through his teeth," when you see how that guy operates, I'd walk through fire for him now. Freedoms Challenge
she sang rather shrilly
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Expect some shrill recorded sound and lacklustre orchestral playing. Times, Sunday Times
Like most ‘metal’ bands, critics have found them shrill, crude, and offensive.
The sodden rosella just sat there and shrilled.
A rare moment of lucidity from a bunch of shrill, menopausal white women. Clinton supporters scrap letter pressuring Obama
Once they and the others have paid a tiny tribute to a few families that keep the market area clean, a whistle shrills and the bartering begins.
The train entered the tunnel with a shrill whistle.
That being said, I'd rather hang out with Peg Bundy than that shrill hag whose cootch your nose has been buried in since Christ was a carpenter. "The trouble with Sanjay Gupta," says Paul Krugman, is seen in the way he "mugged" Michael Moore.
This one's about, well, a hotel for dogs, as the title bluntly suggests, but instead of Sandler's shrill barking and over-the-top gestures, we have the adorable and classy Emma Roberts (niece to Julia). All articles at Blogcritics
The sound of the drill is high and shrill and shatters the silence in my room.
Swoop (shrill collective myth) into thy grave merely to toil the scale to shrillerness per every madge and mabel dick and dave Needles and haystacks and such.
Yet it was not the wolf-cry, for long ago the malformation of a healing throat-wound had distorted the bell-like cry into a hideous scream like the shriek of a soul foredamned, which quavered loud and shrill upon the keen air and ended in a series of quick jerks, like stabs of horrible laughter. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
While in coppice loud shrilleth and trilleth Hazár, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Hagrid sent him a bunch of earwiggy flowers that looked like yellow cabbages, and Ginny Weasley, blushing furiously, turned up with a get-well card she had made herself, which sang shrilly unless Harry kept it shut under his bowl of fruit. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything. Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
He moved forward for a better look when a shrill ring echoed through the silence and made Diego jumped three feet in the air before realizing it was his mobile that was ringing.
When he writes of "the scream of the maddened beach," he uses the pathetic fallacy; but his science is quite correct, for the swift whirling of myriads of pebbles does produce a clear shrill note as the backdraught streams from the shore. Side Lights
'That's not true,' she protested in a shrill voice.
I wonder: Speaking solely in terms of presentation and the notion of hectoring, lecturing and shrillness, do the same people who find Hillary off-putting also find Ron Paul so? "She seemed dogmatic, almost angry, like she was vicious..."
Drum, clarion, trumpet, and cymbal rung forth at once, and the deep and regular shout, which for ages has been the English acclamation, sounded amidst the shrill and irregular yells of the Arabs, like the diapason of the organ amid the howling of a storm. The Talisman
Everyone in the doctor's family is getting ready for a social event, when the telephone shrills urgently.
The whistle shrilled and he moved the kettle to a hot pad on the counter for a moment.
The color draining from his cheeks, Shanza floundered for an answer but was interrupted when a shrill shriek cried out across the room.
Galahs and lorikeets are shrilling and squawking over their territory in the old Norfolk Island pines and everyone is glad that night, finally, has rescued us from the sun's brutal strength.
The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.
irritatingly shrill-voiced arguments
The grandfather stood under the door, watching her, when suddenly a shrill whistle was heard. Heidi
This will not only raise shrill demands for regulation and subsidy. Times, Sunday Times
The warning had scarcely been given by the leader, whose two companions reloaded their fire-arms, when they heard a shrill cry of a peculiar kind, which is in the Colony called a cooee, and which is chiefly used by parties in the bush to denote their positions or make known their desire of help, guidance, etc. The bushrangers halted and listened attentively; the cry was two or three times repeated, apparently by the same voice. Ralph Rashleigh
You couldn't drive down the road without incurring their shrill warning cry. Times, Sunday Times
She woke the next morning to the shrill of the telephone ringing.
The shrill voice echoed in the earpiece and Judith automatically tilted the phone away from her ear.
She was seen as shrill, divisive, unlikeable. Times, Sunday Times
The phone rings, a shrill echo of sound from kitchen, living room, bedroom.
A shrill roar rumbled out from its mouth, and he cupped his hands over his ears to try to block it out.
And all the time the noise outside grew louder, wilder, overlaid by the shrill insistence of the bell. THE SCAR
How we yearned for the shrill sound of a vuvuzela. Times, Sunday Times
New moms and dads everywhere respond to shrill baby peeps with excited nods and bows, carefully clearing away eggshell shards from around fragile hatchlings tucked between their feet.
A sudden flash of ebony and ivory caused me to scream shrilly without intention as the bird, a magpie, flew directly at my exposed face!
One early spring morning in 1992,1 heard a shrill, piping squeak from the terrace.
And as the stars returned from filming, the fans' shrill shrieks could be heard more than half a mile away. The Sun
Anna Maria was still arguing in shrill tones. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
He sounded shrill and petulant. Times, Sunday Times
A small tube in which there is a fixed constriction such that when blown a shrill sound is produced.
I suspect they will be even more shrill and irrational while questioning Miers.
The Urlaur fans sensed a comeback and this was confirmed just before the shrill of the half-time whistle when Barry Nolan hit a curling shot into the bottom corner.
Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill, genteel scream. The Book of Snobs
Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
Egged on by shrill cries of approval from the ladies’ auxiliary, strapping bosthoons executed nimble jigs and reels, sang come-all-ye's, and vied with each other in hurling refuse cans the length of the street.
The shrill sound of the tea whistle gives Beth a reason to avoid the question.
The capstern went round with a merry tune -- the boatswain's whistle sounded shrilly along the decks with a magic effect -- the anchor was hove up -- the sails were let fall and but a few minutes had passed, after the captain gave the word of command, before the ship, under a wide spread of snowy canvas, was standing down the Solent towards the Needle passage. My First Cruise and Other stories
It sounded shrill and shrill has always been the death of us. Times, Sunday Times
She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
And clasping the youth to the breast of him, * Kissed his cheek a - shrieking the shrillest shright. [ Arabian nights. English
In all your shrill cawing and name-calling, you never once addressed my point. GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'
Only a blind musician, on the scaffolding of the orchestra, went on playing a shrill tune on his clarionet. The Magic Skin
And so, after the first few, heavy, swinging steps, the reflection of the fire behind him showed him the outline of a _keddah_ just in front, and with a shrill roar of rage Rataplan turned suddenly and fiercely round, dashed headlong through the line of fire, and, with a mighty trumpeting, disappeared into the forest. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories
His calamitous ignorance of his system's failure, plus his reluctance to acknowledge it once was drawn to his attention, drew shrill demands for his dismissal.
Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
With the azan shrilling in the background, the curtain rose on the beautiful Kashmiri dancers holding basketfuls of yellow flowers and yellow hankies, moving in simple and sensuous formations.

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