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

This last idea he derides as 'false below confute, arising perhaps from a small and stridulous noise which, being firmly rooted, it maketh upon divulsion of parts.'

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin

The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various

She rehearsed the unending plaint of those long evenings, set to the music of the restless wind around her bleak dwelling, with something of its stridulous reiteration.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

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