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

It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

Conspicuous amidst these nocturnal moths is the richly-coloured Acherontia Satanas, one of the Singhalese representatives of our Death's-head moth, which utters a sharp and stridulous cry when seized.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir