A hum of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling.
Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.
The landlady's shrill voice always sets my teeth on edge.
Shouted the audience the shrill voice of joannes de molendino sounding above all the rest and piercing the general uproar like the fife in a charivari at names.
From the dining-room came the sound of mahjongtiles being shuffled round on the surface of the table and the shrill voices of the ladies as they commented on the extraordinary luck of the banker in the game they had just finished.
The children scrambled round their mother, their shrill voices pecking at her with various questions.
