stridulous

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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

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 Zangwill, Israel

It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated feminine screams.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

Achilles and Ulysses had incurr'd265 Most his aversion; them he never spared; But now, imperial Agamemnon 'self In piercing accents stridulous he charged With foul reproach.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)