The captain's high-pitched tones carried clearly; but the grumble and growl of the mate were indistinguishable at that distance.

I will order a collar that is quite outside the fashion, in a high-pitched voice so that the whole shop can hear.

CHAPTER XXXVII HOW THEY LEFT BELSAYE Lanthorns gleamed and torches flared in the great square of Belsaye where panting, shouting townsfolk thronged upon Beltane and his company with tears of joy, with laughter loud and high-pitched, with shouts and wild acclaim; many there were who knelt to kiss their sun-browned hands, their feet, the very links of their armour.

The heavy thud of the cross-heads, flashing between their guides, beat time to the clang of the valve-gear, a pump throbbed like a kettledrum, and something tinkled like a high-pitched triangle.

" Before I could attempt an answer, a tall figure loomed up before us, the same high-pitched voice I had noticed previously calling out sharply: "There, that's enough, men!

The hair of the face was lost, the breasts enlarged, the voice became high-pitched, and the other type-characters of the eunuchoid complex appeared.

" A door slammed somewhere down the line of rooms and a high-pitched voice cried in excited tones: "I've found a baby!

This time Lanyard contented himself with nodding to the auctioneer; and the lips of the latter had barely parted to parrot the bid when Victor sprang to his feet, his features working, his limbs shaking so that the legs of the chair beside him, whose back he seized, chattered on the floor, while the high-pitched voice broke into a screech: "Twenty!"

The women chattered together with shrill, high-pitched voices.

He betrayed his race nowadays by little more than his colour, a certain high-pitched intonation of his voice and an extraordinary skill in the game of polo.

The Maori had such a high-pitched voice that I thought, as I rolled over restlessly, he would only have to raise it a little to make them hear him up in Sydney, eighteen hundred miles away.

From far above us came the sounds of uncontrolled merrimentthe high-pitched shrieks of a native rising above the deep bass laughter of Leith.

" After delivering one of the conversations between Rasselas and Imlac in a majestic, high-pitched voice, Miss Jenkyns said, "I imagine I am now justified in my preference for Dr. Johnson over your Mr. Boz as a writer of fiction.

But the high-pitched giggles and deeper shouts of mirth from the rest of the party drowned out the words.

Through the open door I could hear one quiet question and a high-pitched disclaimer of all knowledge; then an order, sounding like a grumble, and the small boy returned to the hall to invite me in, in reasonably good English, of which he seemed prouder than I of my Arabic.

" The two vessels were now near enough for a high-pitched conversation without the assistance of trumpets, and Mary Phillips assisted Bertha to the side of the steamer, where I could distinctly see her.

" And Spinrobin, expecting a thunderclap in his sleep, but ever plucky, answered in his high-pitched voice, "I'm ready, Mr. Philip Skale, I'm ready!

what?" she queried in that high-pitched voice peculiar to the deaf.

The doors and windows were all shut, so that he caught only a faint sound of the bump, thump of the scrubbing-brush as it accompanied Henri's high-pitched tune down the back stairs.

"Qui est la?" asked a high-pitched, trembling female voice.

I opened my lips to speak to R.C. when I was rendered mute by a piercing whistle, high-pitched and sweet and melodiously prolonged.

Copple added his Indian cry, high-pitched and wild, to the pandemonium.

The wolflike, high-pitched howl of the Arab outcaststhe robber-tribe which all Islam believed guilty of having pillaged the Haram at Mecca and which had for that crime been driven to the farthest westward confines of Mohammedanismthis war-howl tore its defiance through the wash and reflux of the surf.

She came toward Joseph's shop, singing in a high-pitched nasal tone this new song: "Dé'tit zozosyé té assis Dé'tit

Barbara darted down stairs, and what she may have said to Aunt Christie while Swan received some final instructions above, is of less consequence than what Miss Crampton may have felt when she found herself at the top of the stairs in the long room, with its brown high-pitched roofa room full of the strangest furniture, warm with the sun of August, and sweet with the scent of the creepers.