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It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Lucy's eyes, moreover, were riveted on her face, on its colour, its fineness of feature, its brilliance and piercingness of expression.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Quite suddenly, shockingly, her lovely figure became transfused with a vile, interloping energy that struck at Druga's sensitivities with a sickening piercingness, so that he sprang to his feet in fear.

From Daughter of the Night by Shaver, Richard S.

Their piercingness was a mental quality, I suppose, and the velvety softness a physical one.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

But with their truth and piercingness and delicacy of observation, their roughness gives a kind of flavour which no elaboration could give.

From Bacon by Morley, John