Where the damned ghosts in torments fry, 5 And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry, bootless > hopelessly, without remedy 6 Cursing high Jove, who them thither sent.
It fortuned, whilest thus she stifly stroue, And the wide sea importuned long space 8 With shrilling shriekes, Proteus abrode did roue, Along the fomy waues driuing his finny droue.
There was a loud shrilling of birds, and the tremulousness of the young leaves seemed to be as much from unseen wings as wind.
He leaped out of bed and pulled on his trousers, hearing all the while, as in a dream, his mother's voice shrillinghigher and higher.
It was a mechanical shrillingof extraordinary intensity that seemed to come simultaneously from every point of the compass.
And as he threw it about his shoulders there came from the room without the shrilling of a high-pitched bell.
The wind was shrilling now against the north side of the hall, and one window dripped a little inside on to the matting below it.
And then again, like the prick of a wound, the question had touched him, how would she receive him when he came back with the monastic spoils on his beasts' shoulders, and the wail of the nuns shrilling like the wind behind?
Then, through the shrilling of the tempest, a gun roared to starboard, and at the flash a gun to port boomed, shaking our decks.
It was hoped that his shrilling trumpet should be heard, not to announce a show, but to sound a charge.
For a few moments the shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued.
Now and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells like a gust of wind whipping tree-tops into fury.
They rolled up to him, brushed against his toes; a shrilling in his brain told him that Digger was aware of them.
Abruptly the spell was broken by something shrilling in his brain, sending little chills racing up and down his spine.
All were still save only the shrilling of the insects in the grass.
At the death-dealing volley the Englishmen were thrown into confusion; whilst the Indians, summoned by the firing and the shrilling of the captain's whistle, dashed blindly into the trap.
But now above the shrilling of the Indian chant and the crackling of the flames a low growl of thunder trembled in the upper air, and a gentle breeze swept through the tree-tops.
From the bunk-house across the court-yard floated the voice of the beloved Echo Phonograph, now sad, now gay; now shrilling the peaceful air with Mme.
Skinner darted a look toward Gallagher and the Centipede men gathered about the shrilling phonograph, stooped and tied his shoes, and breathed softly: "Spiel!
From the marsh beyond the creek came the familiar croaking of the frogs; from the foothills in the cow-pasture came the shrilling of the crickets.
From the creek hard by came the croaking of many frogs, from the cow pasture the shrilling of the crickets.
Ay, makin' for Derby," shrillingas loudly as she could.
There came a shrill sound, two violins and a piccolo shrilling on the frosty air.
High overhead, the Venice swifts flew shrilling as with ecstasy.
Again:-- And the soul, withshrilling cry, passed like smoke beneath the earth.
He was astonied beyond measure at the number of the eagles and their eyries, at the clamour and the shrilling of their cries.
Thereat broke forth a loud shrilling of clarions and sounding of trumpets, whilst the hosts drew together.
Then I heard shrilling voices through the castle, that cried aloud, "Murder!
But when I did so, it seemed as if my fingers forced their way into empty skeleton sockets, or held only dry withered joints, and the spectre laughed aloud in shrilling tones of scorn and mockery.
The old dames, meanwhile, were continuing their tales of ghostly apparitions; the wind was shrilling against the balcony glass, and far away the bells of the city tolled on.
Outside the window the shrilling of the whippoorwills had suddenly ceased, and above the murmurs of the gathering crowd there came the sound of a panic-struck whirring and fluttering.
Armitage hastened into some clothing and rushed across the street and lawn to the college buildings, saw that others were ahead of him; and heard the echoes of a burglar-alarm still shrillingfrom the library.
Sara's voice, shrilling a little with anxiety, came to him out of the darkness.
There was a shrilling note of apprehension in her voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrilling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
