(9 quotes found)
“Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi”
Dante Alighieri
“Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The more shrill and hysterical they get, the more they isolate themselves.”
Sean Rushton
“All of the Rush Limbaugh wannabes have a very shrill edge.”
Tom Daschle
“I knew I was walking into an arena where the tone is shrill, ... I didn't realize there would be so much wrong information.”
Paul Kirchhof
“Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water.”
Rudyard Kipling
“The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.”
Thomas Gray
“None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.”
John Lyly
“The shrill class-warfare crowd can jump up and down all they want -- this is no sop to the rich, ... In Georgia, 60 percent of the dividend earners make less that $75,000. Is that rich?”
Zell Miller
