Example Sentences

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And Hatred followed after, Shrilling madly down the breeze.

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert

Under a dull street light I watched them play, Shrilling in high-pitched and unchildlike tones, Daring the perils of the tainted city.

From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster

Shrilling, roaring and honking, we swooped through the ancient town, zigzagging from curb to curb.

From The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

Poor little face flying by with the word that saves, Pale little mouth of the mask of the measureless night, Shrilling the heart of it, lost like the foam on its waves!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Sit thee, Alice, sit and hark How the blackbird chants his note, The goldfinch and the gray-morn lark, Shrilling from their little throat.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various