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 Harte, Bret
He looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
