What is "shrilly"

Usage examples of "shrilly".

Protesting shrilly and brandishing an expensively plated and engraved pistol, it was clear that his presence in the Rolls was by no means voluntary.

Here Obadiah drew to a stop in front of one, about midwise of a long block, with several majestic elm trees in its yard, and several little girls inside shrilly playing croquette.

When he saw that the rest were far behind he stopped to take breath, slowly rosined his bow, so that the strings should sound more shrilly, then set off again, by turns lowering and raising his neck, the better to mark time for himself.

The Russian squealed shrilly as Sean used them as a handle to drag him backward and threw him against the sandbagged side wall of the emplacement.

Under such vibrant, emphatic fingers my frail nerves twanged all too shrilly, and of necessity coffee was abandoned--not without passing pangs--in favour of a beverage direct from Nature and untinctured by any of the vital principles of vegetables.

Rattisbon threatened him shrilly with the Municipal Corporation Aet of 1822 and looked about him for a constable.

Clover Lee continued to shout, and someone somewhere shrilly blew a whistle, and Florian and Banat and numerous roustabouts poured out of the chapiteau, each with a tent stake.

Her voice, lifting shrilly, sang the Song of Haleel, the song of the newly married, till it met the chant of the Muezzin on the tower of the mosque El Hassan, and mingled with it, dying away over the fields of bersim and the swift-flowing Nile.

Then on into a dark snowshed where the hurrying beat of the revolving wheels resounded shrilly and produced a meaningless rhythm in his thoughts.

A blackbird which has been observing him from one of the newer headstones is frightened by the sudden movement and rises, calling shrilly.

A phaser whined shrilly, almost at his elbow, as one of the four guards drew his illegally carried sidearm and sent a bolt of disruptor-level energy crackling into Naraht's side.

The men whistled shrilly, the asokins marshalled the arang into a bunch, preventing them crossing the bridge.

The forest seemed shrilly full of incessant baas and plaintive bleats.

While these possibilities ran past his inner scrutineer a remote corner of his mind called out shrilly against the injustice of missing stays - unknown in such conditions, monstrous, a malignancy designed to make him late on his station, to allow Harte to call him unofficerlike, no seaman, a dawdling Sybarite, a slow-arse.

Hagrid sent him a bunch of earwiggy flowers that looked like yellow cabbages, and Ginny Weasley, blushing furiously, turned up with a get-well card she had made herself, which sang shrilly unless Harry kept it shut under his bowl of fruit.