They sent a perfect storm of bullets, over, under, and into our men.

And now, being on this subject, once to dispatch [Thomas] Becket out of our way, just a jubilee of years after his death, Stephen Langton, his mediate successor, removed his body from the Under-croft in Christ-church, where first he was buried, and laid him, at his own charge, in a most sumptuous shrine, at the east end of the church.

The author is reporting on the high-pitched voice frequently considered a stereotypical feature of the burikko, a derogatory Japanese label used to describe women who exhibit feigned naïveté.

Coordinate term: idiolect