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Updated: May 20, 2025
The spring breeze blew in at the open door, and even fluttered the primer leaves, but the back of the room felt hot and close, as if it were midsummer. The children in the class read their lessons in those high-keyed, droning voices which older teachers learn to associate with faint powers of perception.
All about them rose myriads of birds and wild fowl, which made their nests among these marshes, and the babbling chatter of the rail, the high-keyed calling of the coot, or the clamoring of the home-building mallard assailed their ears hour after hour as they passed on between the leafy shores.
The line broke and wheeled, scattering, circling, still rising and falling, streaming in hair and feathers, and now attended with a wild discord of high-keyed yells. "Keep still, boys; don't shoot!" cried Franklin instinctively. "Wait!" It was good advice.
Now, when a man of intelligence, speaking the language of the country, backed by the police, the gendarmerie, and the Imperial Army, says "Nein" to me, if I am away from home I generally bow to the will of the people. So I waited. Then I heard the low rumble of a train and a short high-keyed shriek we used to make just such shrieking sounds by blowing into keys when we were boys. The St.
She paused a second, as if to gather force for the proper delivery of her next speech; a wondrous glow of unconscious but exalted triumph rose to her visage. "I went," she announced, her voice high-keyed with confidence as to what was about to fall upon the totally unprepared placidity of the unsuspecting Mrs. Lathrop, "I went to post a letter to Cousin Marion!" Mrs. Lathrop's jaw dropped.
There was doubtless in it the flavor of the amateur. "We never advise our customers," was the high-keyed reply. "Certainly not," I replied. "I don't want advice merely to know what is going on." "Excuse me, but I never gossip. It is a rule I make." "It might interfere with your opportunities to pick up a good bargain now and then," I suggested, as the blue-black man seemed at a loss for words.
She recognized it the high-keyed, monotonous cry of a man who often hurried past with a bundle of newspapers under his arm. Now it startled her. It filled her with foreboding. "Uxtra! Uxtra! A-a-all about the lubble-lubble-lubble in ump Street!" Street! What street? Gwendolyn strained her ears to catch the words. What if it were the street where her fath "Uxtra! Uxtra!" cried the voice again.
He laughed high-keyed, sardonic laughter; he scolded, he quavered, he pleaded, he was finally choked with sobs; while as for his wife, she, poor little wisplike body, early succumbed to whatever is Venetian for nervous prostration. Surely the Chauffeulier could not bear the strain of this agonizing scene?
You aided her to escape." Again the professor burst into high-keyed laughter. He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. "You are mad!" he cried. "You are talking insanely. I helped her to escape? Where is she now?" "She is there," said Holmes, and he pointed to a high bookcase in the corner of the room.
She had succeeded in stimulating Olivia to a real determination to be worthy of her teacher's expressed belief in her, even to the mastering of her girlish tendency to let her voice revert to a high-keyed feminine quality just when it needed to be deepest and most stern.
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