Listening to her birdlike voice, I feel the same sympathy the church ladies must have felt at Glad Tidings.

Ms. Kraus, a championship fiddler who mixes bluegrass and folk, sings with a tiny, almost birdlike voice.

Some of them are singing in trilling, birdlike voices.

"Sometimes I dream about it," she said in a birdlike voice.

As she spoke she tilted her head to one side, quite like a bird, and spoke in a birdlike voice.

Through it the sharp birdlike voice of Harry Jones spoke, saying: "Canino?

Nastia sings a traditional harvest song in a young, birdlike voice.

She spins out her talks in a singsong birdlike voice.

Like Gracie herself, her birdlike voice was unforgettable, and she was the most natural performer I've ever seen.

'You'd better,' shrilled Miss Shelly, in her high, cultured, birdlike voice.