Word: shriller
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...another. Mme Mathis began to scream. One of the robbers broke loose and again tried to snatch her jewels. She kicked him repeatedly in the face. For several minutes the battle on the pavement continued, M. Mathis getting in some good licks, while Mme Mathis screamed louder and shriller. Foiled, the robbers suddenly fled...
...Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears had deceived them...
...tumult and the shouting of the political campaign grows ever shriller and more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby...
When the trumpet blew a shriller blast...