A singular figure, one of extraordinary ferocity, was suddenly projected into the midst of the whirling crowd, and a chant, shriller and fiercer, rose above all the others.
Wilder and shriller grew the chant of the savage queen.
I appeared suddenly to lose the power of appreciating deep sounds, while the shriller ones were comparatively unimpaired.
The reason why the hum of a gnat is shriller than that of a beetle is that the wings of the small insect vibrate more quickly than those of the larger one.
There is therefore truth in the figure when we say that the gentian of the Alps sings a shriller note than the wild rhododendron, and that the red glow of the mountains at sunset is of a lower pitch than the blue of the firmament at noon.
The valley was full of music; from the adjacent woods issued a gush of song, while the sound of the Arve formed a suitable bass to the shrillermelody of the birds.
I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetnes, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King.
And change our shriller passions with that sound, First told thee into th' ayre, then to<60.
It was instantly replied to by the shriller snap of a revolver.
The cry was repeated, shriller this time with the insistence of anxiety.
Sherm's voice grewshriller and shriller till it broke with a dry sob.
Look at him," his voice raising in spite of himself to a shriller pitch--"he cannot deny it!
Tis always so,” said she, her voice growing shriller and shriller.
His voice piped shriller and shrillerwith the straining of his excitement.
We could see him for some time until the growing darkness concealed all but his outline, but we heard his mournful "tuituit," shriller and shriller as the night grew darker.
Their call note, to my ears, is very much like that of the least sandpiper, but shriller and less melodious.
This call is shrillerthan that of Phalaropus lobatus, and quite recognizable where the two species breed side by side.
His voice grew shriller and shriller as his pent-up fury was unleashed.
Sound, as we know, is produced by vibration of the air striking on the drum of the ear, and the fewer are the vibrations in a second, the deeper is the sound, which becomes shriller and shriller as the waves of sound become more rapid.
And shrillervoices answered: 'To the miller's barley!
But all at once a mightier and shriller hiss was heard from Ososcica, so that all present were seized with fear and dread.
The average effect of repeated and repeated mutual collisions must be to gradually convert all the translational energy into energy of shriller and shriller vibrations of the molecule.
By reason of the composition of the veins and vocal arteries the voice is formed, as appears by this similitude, that a small pipe sounds shriller than a great.
Why have the females of all living creatures the shrillest voices, the crow only excepted, and a woman a shriller and smaller voice than a man?
Amidst the hoarse shouting of the men, I heard screaming in the shriller voices of women.
For the old masters used church music for the portrayal of strong emotions, and on this account they needed the shriller pitch.
At present, on the contrary, we thirst for shriller and shriller tones, higher and higher singing.
Nearer and nearer rolled the battle and louder and shriller grew its note.
The varying and shriller notes heard through the steady roar of the great guns now grew more numerous and louder; and most persistent among them was a nasty buzz, inconceivably wicked in its cry.
Wondering at that strange shape Yet unalarmed at sight of living man, Unknowing of his sway and power misused; The clamours of their young Echoed in shriller yells That rung in wild discordance round the rock.
The harder she was thinking about fickle Richard McBirney, the louder and shriller she sang.
It is very doubtful whether the nation, entangled by fresh difficulties and deafened by pro-Boer yells growing shriller and shriller every hour, would have remained firm of purpose.
It grew shriller and shriller till at last it got to sound not a whistle at all, but more like a cock's crow.
In a few moments the cloth began to move, and as the pipe grew shriller and shriller two green and gold snakes put out their strange wedge-shaped heads and rose slowly up, swaying to and fro with the music as a plant sways in the water.
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