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
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 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)
Again Edmund fired upon it, and again it uttered its stridulous pipe of defiance, or fear, and leaped away in the tangle.
From A Columbus of Space by Serviss, Garrett Putman
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
