stridulous
Example Sentences
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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
And interweaving with it all, one continuous shrilling,—keen as the steel speech of a saw,—the stridulous telegraphy of crickets.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn
The poet spoke yet more, but in the end his excited stridulous accents fell on Reb Shemuel's ears as a storm without on the ears of the slippered reader by the fireside.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
They could only make their boisterous clamor in response to the old-fashioned appeal made by a high tone screeched by the stridulous tenor.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
