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One of the combatants, by his voice, she immediately distinguished to be her father; but she did not so soon discover the shriller pipes to belong to the organ of her aunt Western, who was just arrived in town, where having, by means of one of her servants, who stopt at the Hercules Pillars, learned where her brother lodged, she drove directly to his lodgings.

The horse neighed three or four times, and I waited to hear some answers in a human voice, but I heard no other returns than in the same dialect, only one or two a little shriller than his.

The moment that he had won their attention he raised his voice to the shriller and more hideous scream of the beast he personated, and then, scarce stirring a leaf in his descent, dropped to the ground once again outside the palisade, and, with the speed of a deer, ran quickly round to the village gate.

Presently his articulation became shriller, and spreading his hands he rose to his feet.

But wilder yet was the cry, and shriller still the scream, when there rose up from the shadow of those silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen, and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks.

The razor-like edges of the detached cottages seemed to cut the very wind as it whistled against them, and to send it smarting on its way with a shriller cry than before.

It was not until it had been twice repeated, each time in a shriller tone, that he became conscious of the impropriety of his behaviour.

The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shriller; each soldier shouted a battle cry, and often fell with it on his lips.

He succeeds, and then they are all at it for dear life, up and down the hedge in full cry, the "Come back, come back," getting shriller and fainter every minute.

Upon reaching the first landing, heard two voices in loud and angry contention - the one a gruff voice, the other much shriller - a very strange voice.

Utagi added that the BJP campaign had become "shriller with attacks on martyrs" as Modi had sensed defeat and was desperately going all out to intimidate other political parties or their supporters, especially in West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

India, May 6 -- As the Modi government is running the last leg of its race, cry against minorities is getting shriller. With many foul-mouthing politicians indulging in no-holds-barred anti-minority bashing, some Sangh Parivar leaders are taking the pitch to higher levels.