shrilly
Adverb
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Adverb
shrilly
- In a shrill manner.
shrilly
- Somewhat shrill.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- The night—its silence—its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.
- 1860, Robert Stafford, Enoch, a Poem in Three Books
- Yet there they sat, as stones, silent and still. / Sudden a voice, a feeble shrilly voice, / Rose from the inner tent […]
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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