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

Now, at ten am, the whole mass is at furnace heat, kettles boiling, stewpots simmering, and frying-pans hissing—in short, a complete batterie de cuisine in stridulous activity.

From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

Methought I heard some sawyer draw his file With jarring, stridulous cacophany Across his notchy blade, to set its teeth And mine on edge.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various

Hovering over the cardoons, the Chimango listens for the stridulous laughter of the fledglings, and when he hears it the thorny covering is quickly pierced and the dome broken into.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)