To this lucid address, which Mr Plornish always delivered as if he had composed it (as no doubt he had) with enormous labour, Mrs Plornish's father
pipingly replied:
The 30-strong children's choir - drawn from choristers at St Chad's Cathedral and Birmingham Junior Conservatoire - was also extremely impressive,
pipingly clear-voiced and well disciplined, even when not singing.
A soldier's soldier, on his first evening in Egypt, Montgomery jumped up on the hood of a jeep, gazed around at his troops, issued his customary ban on smoking or coughing, and then announced in his thin but
pipingly clear voice,