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

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

This crowing sound is accompanied by a harsh, grating, stridulous kind of cry which has been compared to the noise produced by whetting a scythe.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 by Various

"You don't!" said Donna Maria, rising to her feet, with white in her cheek, fire in her eyes, and a stridulous pitch in her voice.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

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