Someone laughed, a shrill cackling sound that made me jump.
Kamal's laugh was a shrill, nervous sound.
Outside, I could hear the shrill cries of sea gulls as they circled the ever changing surf on Long Island.
Well, goodbye" And she was off As soon as the queen's carriage was out of sight, the girl hurriedly flipped over the pages of the book, the prince turned into a canary, flew to the window, and struck the pillow like an arrow He instantly let out a shrill cry of pain The yellow feathers were stained with blood; the canary had driven the pins into his breast He rose with a convulsive flapping, trusted himself to the wind, descended in irregular arcs, and lit on the ground with outstretched wing
And then, all of a sudden, a shrill voice broke forth out of the darkness: ,.
We must both have cried out aloud when our eyes met, but while mine was the shrill cry of terror, his was a roar of fury like a charging bully's.
I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left the deck, all was so new and interesting to me--the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.
The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a star of Heaven In the broad daylight Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight: , , , —— Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see--we feel that it is there.
"Wait a minute," she said in a shrill voice.
Because of their ubiquitous shrill noise, these insects in Peiping seem to be living off every household like crickets or mice.
All was quiet until midnight, when suddenly a shrill whistling was heard in the air, and the twowatchers perceived the Evil One standing bodily before them.
As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice, could you not have done it more carefully.
But at the same moment the bird uttered a shrill cry.
The solemn stillness that reigned around them was now and then broken by the shrill cries of the great horned owl and other birds that they knew nothing of.
As she looked it over, she let out the most blood-curdling, shrill scream I'd ever heard in 29 years of marriage.
