"Squeaky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the musician, who had fearfully concealed his unholy instrument from the minister's eyes all afternoon, mounted upon a table, and after much screwing up and letting down and strumming of notes, now high and squeaky, now low and buzzing, banged his bow down upon all the strings at once, and in stentorian tones gave forth ...
— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith
... grandest violin player in the world. Not that I care much for the violin, myself. Kind of squeaky, I always think. But it just goes to show they're all alike. Ain't it the truth? I jollied him just like I did Sam Bloom, of Ganz & Pick, Novelties, an hour before. He laughed just where Sam did. And they both handed me a line of talk about my hair and eyes, only Sam ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... speak, but they are not prepared For the size of its mouth, and are horribly scared; Making sure it is going to swallow them all— Yet its voice when it speaks is quite squeaky and small. ...
— Fishy-Winkle • Jean C. Archer
... am a regular attendant in Cleary Street," said Adele laughing. "At least I go regularly on certain nights in the week and play the organ—a wretched, squeaky, little thing—and raise my voice on ...
— The First Soprano • Mary Hitchcock
... I, screwing up my face into a crying shape, and speaking in a squeaky, pseudo-tearful voice, "je ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... with a squeaky voice installed himself as timekeeper. He struck the gong, and the boxers met. Jim always smiled and bared his teeth while boxing. Mike was one of the bull-dog jaw; he kept his lips tight shut, and his small eyes twinkled with ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... out of four bedroom chairs and an eiderdown) planned an immediate elopement. They had decided to hire a car and make for Scotland, and were discussing which hotel to stay at, and what they should order for dinner, when the inevitable happened. The pert maidservant rushed in, and in a voice squeaky with tragedy, warned them of the immediate approach of ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... squeaky tone assumed by magistrates in their oratorical periods, and of which they cannot, or will not, divest themselves in society, "sir, the signal service which you yesterday rendered to my wife and son has made it a duty for me to offer you my thanks. I ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... her to be very attentive to the song, and not to interrupt it on any account. Almost before the Kangaroo had ceased to whisper in her ear, Dot heard this strange song, sung to the most peculiar tune she had ever heard, and in the funniest of little squeaky voices. ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... him. There was something of a flabby sort in Mullally's nature that made Henry instinctively angry with him: his vague features, his weak, wandering eyes, peering from behind large glasses, his tow-coloured hair that seemed to have "washed-out," and above all, his squeaky voice that piped on one ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... 'ave got along better, if he'd 'a' paid me regular every night," said the squeaky voice of little Jim;—"but he was allers puttin' me off till it come even change, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859 - [Date last updated: August 7, 2005] • Various
... hate, especially," observed the Glass Cat; "it's your dreadful music. When I lived in the same room with you I was much annoyed by your squeaky horn. It growls and grumbles and clicks and scratches so it spoils the music, and your machinery rumbles so that the racket drowns ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... and thou shalt witness that which must astound thee," old Goliba shouted, his squeaky voice being just audible above the loud hissing as our car flew along ...
— The Great White Queen - A Tale of Treasure and Treason • William Le Queux |
