shrilly

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Shrilly he protested that it invariably caused him to fall fast asleep.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shrilly blew the whistle, and once more the ball, yellow no longer, for it had been ground into the dirt, sailed through the air.

From The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup by Forbes, Graham B

Where, from their frozen urns, mute springs   Pour out the river's gradual tide, Shrilly the skater's iron rings,   And voices fill the woodland side.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Shrilly piped the pipes, squeak and hum went the fiddles, but the sound that was sweetest to her was the pound of the horses' hoofs on the road in front.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

Shrilly sound Pan’s pipes; and behold the banker instantly concealed in the bank parlour!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis