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But it was a good two minutes before he was sufficiently recovered to look round angrily, and in a highly-pitched quavering voice exclaimed: "Look here: who was it did that?" "Nobody," roared Dick. "Oh, I say, Tom, what a game! Are your feet wet?"
Hodson is sometimes. There, hark!" I listened, and Burr major was speaking sharply in a highly-pitched voice, that was all squeak, and then it descended suddenly into a gruff bass like a man's. "Do you know what old Reb said he was one day?" said Mercer, wiping his eyes, for a chance to laugh at his tyrant always afforded him the most profound satisfaction. "No. A dandy?"
It was Mr Preddle's highly-pitched voice which I heard, and it was the sailor who had sat talking to the steersman who answered, and soon after I heard the chair squeak very loudly, as big Mr Preddle, looking as large as an elephant now, sat down by the boy on the tub, and leaned his head back against the bulwarks.
"That does not help us, sir," said the captain bitterly. "I want to know where they are." "Matches did you say matches?" cried a highly-pitched voice; and Jimpny dropped his bucket and started forward. "Back to your work!" cried one of the men, but the captain stopped him. "Yes, matches, my man," he said, for there was a faint hope that Jimpny might know something.
As far as I could judge, about a dozen mounted men cantered up, and a thrill ran through me as a familiar, highly-pitched voice cried in English, with the broadest of Irish accents: "Whisht now, me sable son of your mother! What does this mane?"
The history of the nineteenth century centres in the successive transformations of this ideal so highly-pitched. In the gradual declension of the cause which was then a religion, and to mankind the warrant of a new era, into a local or party-cry, a watch-word travestied and degraded, lies the origin of the intellectual despair or solicitude which marks the closing years of the century.
By him was a boy with a book, reading in a highly-pitched voice which did not seem to fit him, being, like his clothes, too small for such a big fellow, with his broad face and forehead all wrinkled up into puckers with the exertion of reading. "Tchish! tchish! Silence!" said Mr Rebble, giving three stamps on the floor. "Now go on, Dicksee." "I say, do listen," said the boy by my side.
Knowing nothing of the difference of opinion on board the yacht, Dick could not fathom this sudden graciousness on her part. Before he could answer, von Kerber's highly-pitched voice broke in. "Why did Captain Stump come ashore with you?" he asked. "To send Mrs. Stump a cablegram, I believe," replied Mrs. Haxton carelessly. "He ought to have asked my permission first."
He had counted on having to take but one person into his half-confidence; and then well, he had told himself while at the telephone that he would not find it difficult to conclude the bargain he desired to make with the woman whose highly-pitched, affected voice had given him, or so he had thought, the clue to a venal personality.
But look here, my boy, if matters begin to look very ugly you are not to hesitate for a moment." "Yah!" A pause. "Yoy-oy-oy-oy!" This last in a different tone, but both yells were of a most savage, highly-pitched nature. "Another of them," whispered the major; and then, as the sounds were repeated faintly a long way off, "There's the main body coming on. Mark, my lad, never mind me.
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