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

“He was quite like his old self before he left——” “Thanks to Miss Percy,” broke in a stridulous voice.

From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Often this recurs throughout all the burst of crying which follows, and each inspiration is accompanied by a shrill stridulous sound.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles