35 collocations for shrill

"Kaú fai!" shrilled the voices below; and then in a fainter gabble, as though hurrying off toward the sound,"kaú fai!"

You can't do this to me, shrilled Celia.

The wild bee winds his drowsy horn, The bird swings on the ripened wheat, The long, green lances of the corn Are tilting in the winds of morn, The locust shrills his song of heat.

Cursing and swearing!" shrilled the Merle twin, but none heeded him.

"Tootle-toot!" shrilled the fife.

"Who" he shouted, "WHO has done this?" "Please, sir, we don't know," shrilled the chorus.

The naked boy in the green nest brushed a swarm of flies from his handful of sticky sweetmeats, looked up, pounded the clumsy shoulders, and shrilled a command.

O, who shall powre into my swollen eyes 115 A sea of teares that never may be dryde, A brasen voice that may with shrilling cryes Pierce the dull heavens and fill the ayër wide, And yron sides that sighing may endure, To waile the wretchednes of world impure!

Something akin I have experienced in an 'express' as it raged with mewinged, rocking, ecstatic, shrilling a dragon Aha!round a too narrow curve.

But they were shrilling new directions at him; perhaps they had been calling to him several times.

"What ... is ... that ... noise?" shrilled Mr. Downing.

The wild birds in a cloud fly up From their sweet feeding in the fruit; The droning of the bees and flies Rises gradual as a lute; Is it for fear the birds are flown, And shrills the insect-drone?

Now in ghastly silence deathly, Now with shrilling elfin cry Is it some mad dance of bridal, Or a death march passing by?

honk!" shrilled the flock now safe in the air.

Fire!" shrilled young Sam Brown Galloway, bouncing out of his father's store, and jumping up and down in the middle of Main Street.

Was I right?" shrilled the invalid, and when Byrne turned towards him, he saw the old man sitting erect, with an expression of wild triumph.

To shrill Menalcas' lot it fell to start the woodland lay: Then Daphnis took it up.

"Give an account of yourself, and tell us why you were creeping about here like a thief in the night?" "What! me a thief?" shrilled the man, as though, again excited by the very idea of such a base accusation; "I never had that name, young feller.

"It's unfair!" shrilled Marianne.

* To his homeward march, her cicadas shrilled the music of fifes.

how the minstrils gin to shrill aloud Their merry musick that resounds from far, 130 The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling croud*, That well agree withouten breach or iar.

It is no mean art to improve a language, and find out words that are not only removed from common use, but rich in consonants, the nerves and sinews of speech; to raise a soft and feeble language like ours to the pitch of High-Dutch, as he did that writ "Arts rattling foreskins shrilling bagpipes quell.

As yet, the climbing sun fired only the topmost branches, and flooded them with a tempered radiance through which birds plunged and shrilled vague rumors to one another.

Sally, shut the door and go about your business.' 'Shall I fetch a p'liceman, sir?' shrilled the servant.

C.] I. Ye heavenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie Under deep ruines, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the which shall never die Through your faire verses, ne in ashes rest; If so be shrilling voyce of wight alive May reach from hence to depth of darkest hell, Then let those deep abysses open rive, That ye may understand my shreiking yell!

35 collocations for  shrill