Again the professor burst into high-keyed laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.] Reference

"Two to one on Camden!" he shouted in a high-keyed voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"Oh you Lowland dog!" cried John Splendid, more high-keyed than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Unexcited he raised his voice, high-keyed, as was usual with him, but clear, untremulous, and firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

With cessation of physical pain and the exhaustion of the high-keyed string of his mind, came blessed reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

Rutherford, having a high-keyed voice, was a poor speaker; but that did not prevent him from holding multitudes spell-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

The boys yelled encouragement to their champion, their voices blending in a chorus, topped by his brother's high-keyed falsetto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"I had the eerie feeling that I had just returned from an actual stay on the moon ... a tale of super-sonically high-keyed suspense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition to Earth]

The roar was still steady, high-keyed, relentless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota] Reference

These high-keyed expectations were not disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

A coyote cut the keen air with high-keyed, staccato cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Rider] Reference

"We never advise our customers," was the high-keyed reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blindfolded] Reference

"What's the matter?" he asked in high-keyed tones of surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foolish Virgin] Reference

His voice lacked volume, and seemed thin and rather high-keyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865] Reference

"Nat talks too much, Mr. O'Day," he piped in a high-keyed voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Felix O'Day] Reference

Close on its apparition sounded the exultant, high-keyed shriek of the saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

He had a high-keyed voice and no front teeth, and always chewed as he talked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

Wilbur staunchly held the roan, listened to the high-keyed drone of a reaper in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Twin] Reference

The conclusion of the inscription sounds like a hymn of high-keyed self-praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

He replied in a high-keyed Irish intonation, at the moment rather feeble in volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

His first sentence was delivered in a peculiarly high-keyed voice, and disappointed us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him] Reference

She recognized it -- the high-keyed, monotonous cry of a man who often hurried past with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Little Rich Girl] Reference

Her pose was rigid and unmoving; an attitude of distress and high-keyed misery of spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference

"You be off, I say," she rasped in her high-keyed voice, "or I'll put the constable after you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference

He was hawk-nosed, with steel-blue eyes, and had a most peculiar sort of a high-keyed, nasal toned voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference

With the first streaks of the gray dawn Anthony heard a little, high-keyed, strange cry -- new to his ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indifference of Juliet] Reference

"I put the mail in the basket on the hall table," he said in high-keyed endeavour to express withering contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Clue A Mystery Story] Reference

Billy, swaying back and forth in his eagerness, began in a high-keyed voice, sounding unlike his ordinary tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference

Myles, in his high-keyed nervousness, could not forbear a short hysterical laugh at his friend's warmth of enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Iron] Reference

With a high-keyed, acute mind, she could not help listening and thinking; and such thinking is unfortunate, to say the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

A clear, sweet, strong, high-keyed note, uttered from some knoll or rock, or stake in the fence, is its proper vocal performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

The barren and monotonous prospect, the high-keyed air and the perpetual winds, thinned and wore out the fragile form of Mrs. Buford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains] Reference

He was talking to the girl in a high-keyed yet somewhat blustering voice, asking questions which Win could not and did not try to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference

A high-keyed voice that had irritating suggestions in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blindfolded] Reference

"Royalist?" reiterates Mary Kirke with a world of meaning to the high-keyed question, "then my welcome was no mistake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference

It is one high-keyed, humming roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference

Unexcited, he raised his voice, high-keyed, as was usual with him, but clear, untremulous, and firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.] Reference