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

Nor is the sea now frozen, nor as before o'er the Ister   Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

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