high-pitching

Updated: June 24, 2025

Come on; don't be a chump," cried Cal, from the doorway. "I guess you'll let a fellow do as he likes about it, won't you?" queried Chip, without looking up. He was very busy, just then, shading the shoulders of a high-pitching horse so that one might see the tense muscles. "What's the matter? You and the Little Doctor have a falling out?"

B. M. Bower - Chip, of the Flying U

That 'spiel' of mine is the best high-pitch in the business." "High-pitch?" "High-pitching," explained the quack, "is our term for the talk, the patter. You can sell sugar pills to raise the dead with a good-enough high-pitch. I've done it myself pretty near. With a voice like mine, it's a shame to drop it. But I'm getting tired. And Boyee ought to have schooling.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Clarion