Meanings of shrill piping in английском

There was piping of his boatswain, shrill piping -shrieksof the whistle.

The enormous flaring voice had become a shrill piping scream.

One look he gave them and then exclaimed in a shrill piping voice, in English:

The muffled drumbeats and the shrill piping had stopped.

And ever that shrill piping continued.

The dogs ran howling to the other end of the courtyard, and a shrill piping voice uttered the words:

From her throat came sounds of sobbing, which changed as she flew into the shrill piping of a bird.

The boatswain's mate's shrill piping and the long drawn out cry, "All hands clear ship for action!"

In between beats he heard a tinkling of bells and a shrill piping that could have been made by fifes.

There was a shrill piping as of a singing wind, and a wail that echoed hauntingly through the air as the tuner revolved.

The clatter continued, mingled with the sound of splashing water and a shrill piping as he whistled an air from "BohÂme."

Probably it was the shrill piping that awaked me, yet that piping was not what I noticed first when I opened my eyes.

I made out his warning through the shrill piping of the wind; and stopped and took in the plunging seascape from where I stood.

In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street.

Tom-toms and cymbals beat and clashed, while from the Chinese theater came the shrill piping of reeds and the high-pitched chanting voices of Chinamen.

No one answered his remark, and the silence was broken by his grandfather waking up; a shrill piping voice came from out of the rugs.