Word: shrilled
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...fellow creatures which these are not. For children as young as these are strange animals, and we have no way of understanding each other. They are alien, inhuman beings, less considerate than a dog, less controlled than a horse, less conscious than a cat, their very voices high and shrill as seabirds. They can satisfy none of our emotional needs yet we must satisfy all of theirs...
This time, the leading sheik answered with a shrill scream: "Oh cursed one, your time is come!", and drove his spear through Gordon's body...
...voice was shrill and hostile-far from the bland, candid tones which had once beguiled Chinese and unwary Westerners alike into misreading the nature and underestimating the strength of the Communists. The message he uttered came straight from the Kremlin's Mimeograph room (see above). But for the first time, as Chou took pains to point out, Red China was sitting with the big powers...
...Telephone Company does not know how to stop these injustices. What of the creeping immorality? Some suggest room inspections and moral instruction. But there is a clearer course. Every last one of those shrill little black monsters should be destroyed...
...crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull Park's seven months of racial conflict...