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The children scrambled round their mother, their shrill voices pecking at her with various questions.

"We're going to do that . . . in spite of the loud shrill voices (against it), " he said. Reid said a bill would be approved this year.

Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark u een, leaving the track of his song acro the hush of the evening.

A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices--voices of men, women, and children--resounded in the street while this wine game lasted.

Her computer screen is a collage of tween faces, rainbow colored text bubbles and a chorus of shrill voices all vying for her attention.

She did not know how to answer her mother's shrill, meaningless questions, put with the furious affectation of maternal concern.

while ever and anon, like the spirit of a departed sound, the shrill and piercing shriek of a female voice seemed to be ringing in my ears.

Then, still very faint and shrill, it sounded far ahead of him, and made him hesitate and want to go back.

Yet the idea that this shrill little dinosaur can survive indefinitely in a world ruled by and for mammals seems even more far-fetched.

Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.

Their shrill arguments are boring and comical once one has learned a bit of how the world really works.

She whacks the offenders over the head with a sizable branch or barks at them in a shrill voice until they leave her alone.

As she looked it over, she let out the most blood-curdling, shrill scream I'd ever heard in 29 years of marriage.

"More care! " said the old man in a shrill voice.

Jeyne Poole let out a shrill, high scream. "Oh, bloody shit, " said Holly. "That will bring the kneelers down on us, and no mistake. Run! "

Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice! '

A faint, shrill sound like that of a young bird ; a chirp .

There's no escaping. The only thing left he could do was let loose a high shrill scream, echoing across the silent valley.

Even the sailor on the Atlantic and Pacific is awakened by his voice; but its shrill sound never roused me from my slumbers.

The shrill , quick sound of a clock bell rang out on the frosty air.

A whistle from above, of a tone so clear and shrill, that it was heard even amid the noise of the waterfall.

Looking at a ship in resound through the skies of the sad and shrill interjection drive draw down water, see more feel more fearfulness.

The noise of the wind over the heath was shrill .

"The women . . . began to wail together; they mourned with shrill cries" (Joseph Conrad).

This confidence begins to fade a little when he arrives at the airport and winces at the shrill screaming of jet engines.

Fear is the only willow shore, in the face of shrill the dawn of the morning breeze and the setting moon.

Very faint and shrill it was, and far behind him, when first he heard it; but somehow it made him hurry forward.

After a moment or two I heard shrill screams coming from the rear room of the store.

While Japan was merely sounding shrill, China encouragingly said it was sending a high-ranking delegation to Pyongyang to talk reason.

Flowers gave a shrill cry, whether of outrage or terror I couldn't tell, and ran past us toward the door.

Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe.

The minutes seemed like hours, but then there came the shrill sound of the train whistle.

The sailor thought he recognized gulls and cormorants , whose shrill cries rose above the roaring of the sea.

All of a sudden , a shrill voice broke forth out of the darkness .

Their findings do not support the shrill protectionist rhetoric.

In this respect, last month's multilateral negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen were a shrill wake-up call.

Neither the shrill nor the sanguine arguments can be dismissed out of hand.

A shrill voice began whining behind the door, but Bailey couldn't comprehend any of what it begged.

The shrill joy of that whistle floated above all laughter and noise.

The blood said goodbye to his face and his ears ached from a piercing , shrill scream.

In July Michele Bachmann, a shrill congresswoman, had a moment of ascendancy.

The shrill ringing of a bell broke up the card game on the cutter.

Admittedly the trial proceedings exhausted them; in the evenings they were tired and got more shrill.

The shrill voice of the police vehicle was behind them, he bethought of hijacking the hostage.

GM supporters argue that public consultations mean little when the public is misinformed by 'shrill' civil society organisations.

Helen let out a shrill Cry when she caught sight of a snake.

Her voice turned shrill. She began to lose her hair.

Well before she arrived, she'd call out a friendly word with what little voice she had left, which was shrill and rasping.

Trees crash to earth, and flapping things called STINGBATS rise in to the sky with shrill calls.

Wolves in the mountains, cry shrill sad howl, My sister and I often awoke from a dream.

small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring.

It should not undermine that chance by becoming increasingly shrill about bogus trade issues.

Another women stepped forward and pointed to the pharmacy bag on the street saying in a near shrill, "that's his bag! "

For all its shrill boasts of self-reliance, the old game is up for North Korea.

The intercom had a loud call button that made a shrill beep when pressed.

He cried and his shrill tone troke the quietness, but the ship still left.

The shrill voice of his elevenyear-old son interrupted his concentration.

"A loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog, " Assef said. Kamal's laugh was a shrill, nervous sound.

Enthusiasts have always touted Linux as the best operating system, and they've become more strident and shrill since Vista's launch.

The shrill frictional noise of motor bicycle brake is investigated and the excited-self vibration theory is validated in this paper.

Fake Voice is a voice changer software which changes your voice to male, female, old, young, hard, shrill, or some one new.

Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky.

There is increasingly shrill commentary arguing that Greece is the start of a far bigger problem.

The owl is a nocturnal animal whose hoots sound sad and shrill, therefore people correlate its cry to the dead.

On the other side of the world, one senator is mounting a shrill television campaign to "keep Australia Australian" .

European rhetoric aimed at China is becoming American in style: confrontational and shrill.

Our work presented a perfect contrast to the shrill attacks of the Republicans.

A shrill of catcalls came from the audience as the controversial actor walked on stage.

Get rid of her, obsessive and shrill!

To utter the shrill cry characteristic of a cock OR rooster.

The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring. His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded(E. Spencer).

A woman is perceived as shrill, not spirited.

a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone.

Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.

A shrill, nasal tone strikes your listener like chalk screeching on a blackboard.

Suddenly, the donkey uttered a shrill cry. The tiger trembled with fear, thinking that the donkey was going to kill it.

Now North Korea has grown shrill towards South Korea, which under President Lee Myung-bak does not want to give unconditional aid.

The shrill tone of Obama's critics makes reading his books especially illuminating today.

In the ensuing years Canadian politics has become an unusually shrill, partisan and intransigent affair.

of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling.

For us, the slothful spell was broken on our second afternoon by a shrill whistle.

I had to back off several times, because the shrill noise was almost unbearable for the audience.

but slipping is accompanied by shrill sound, which will produce mental panic to people.

catcall: a harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval.

the boy looked up at leo , and his flat little face was desperate , his voice urgent and shrill.

a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together.

Some women were laughing in the pit. Their voices were horribly shrill and discordant.

Every few seconds, a shrill cry of "Justin! " erupted from somewhere in the crowd.

The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.

March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil.

There's already enough shrill nationalism in Asia as it is.

A harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval.

Despite some shrill claims from the miners, there is little evidence that Australia has been de-rated by the resource row.

To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.

His voice was shrill, but very clear and articulate.

The shrill media response in the UK was reported extensively in Iceland.

The boys mother shouted his name in a shrill voice.

But its leaders are increasingly unhappy about the shrill attacks.

Shrill protests about the new taxes filled the air.

But he was interrupted by a shrill cackle.

But when she heard the little wee voice of the Little Wee Bear, it was so sharp, and so shrill, that it awakened her at once.

At midnight, he was woken up by a shrill fire alarm.

his voice sounded shrill in the darkness, his sore throat in pain.

"Not like cats! " cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. "Would you like cats if you were me? "

The boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.

A shrill but sweet voice shushed a crowd. "You're waking them up! "

"If they are not zombies, what are they? " Jenni's voice was shrill.

Sadness for the two always wins sentence deep, and shrill sound, through the ages, the likelihood is it Shan.

Qiao Jean bellows a , that voice is highly sad ugg shrill.

" Cheap ! " cried a shrill voice in Mr. Bumble's ear .

The shrill screams from tickled girls.

e. g. The landlady's shrill voice always sets my teeth on edge.

Shrill song of gulls scavenging.

cissy caffrey s voice , still young , sings shrill from a lane.

The shrill cry of the monkey frightened us a lot.

A shrill, high - pitched sound.

But not all Arab accounts of Sudan are so blinkered and shrill.

"How can you stand that shrill barking? " one woman asked.

The argument has gotten so shrill and divisive that I am bored by it.

I asked, my voice sounding like a shrill echo.

She wore a tight shrill green dress.

The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn.

A sharp, shrill bark; a yelp.

So she says to him really shrill.

Demonisation of China today, especially in America, can sometimes seem almost as shrill.

Her shrill voice echoes in my ears.

Part of the answer is that the brain appears to be hardwired to be alarmed at, for example, alarms and other shrill noises.

Cicadas' shrill chirpings get on one's nerves.

I do not know when a group of people come here, in electric shrill sound of a tree also take a fall;

an autumn insect pays its respect to her remains with its last shrill

and then , all of a sudden , a shrill voice broke forth out of the darkness

Yonder is the Abbey of Saint-Martin, a shrill, cracked singer;

a very young voice, shrill and piercing

(of a sound) high; shrill

Sad, Shrill Cries of Woman's Revolt--On Bai Wei's Dramatic Works

The cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill