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

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

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

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

Her voice had changed suddenly; it was no longer bitter and stridulous, but low and thrilling as he had heard her call to him that night in the patio of Robles.

From Clarence by Harte, Bret