shrill-sounding

If opponents can find no reason or means to oppose her nomination other than shrill-sounding and unstatesmanlike rhetoric, opposition may in the long run not be such a good idea.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Anti-Sotomayor: 2009

Her shrill-sounding voice awakes one of the _little loves_, whose _chorus_ disturbs his meditations.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

So spake he, and smote the fair-maned horses with the shrill-sounding whip, and they felt the lash, and fleetly bore the swift chariot among the Trojans and Achaians, treading on the dead, and the shields, and with blood was sprinkled all the axle-tree beneath, and the rims round the car with the drops from the hooves of the horses, and with drops from the tires about the wheels.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

The whistle of widgeon and the shrill-sounding pinions of wild geese may be attractive noises, and no doubt all shooting is exciting; and a form of shooting which stakes all on one shot must offer some thrilling moments of expectation.

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat awake the god of day.

Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

Paris flings after us the boom of tocsin and alarm-drum, -- inaudible, for the present, amid shrill-sounding hosts, and the splash of rainy weather.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Accordingly on Saturday morning the 20th of June, shrill-sounding heralds proclaim through the streets of Versailles, that there is to be

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

He said, and with shrill-sounding scourge the steeds

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

The trouble is, calling George Bush and Dick Cheney war criminals who should be prosecuted and sent to prison is just as or more shrill-sounding to the Village scribes than rhetoric suggesting that Barak Obama is foreign, or a secret Muslim conspirator or otherwise illegitimate as president.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

Doth with his lofty [21] and shrill-sounding throat

Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590