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

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)

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

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