The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828] Reference

It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated feminine screams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

In passing through some parts where a good shower of rain has fallen, the stridulous piercing notes of the cicadae are perfectly deafening; a drab-colored cricket joins the chorus with a sharp sound, which has as little modulation as the drone of a Scottish bagpipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference

But at this moment the long-drawn, slightly stridulous utterances of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

Death's head moth, which utters a sharp and stridulous cry when seized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Death's-head moth, which utters a sharp and stridulous cry when seized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Shore and Sedge] Reference

Twice it circled rapidly round the vase, uttering strange stridulous sounds, then floated up to the canopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo. A Novel.] Reference

First there came a lull in the general clamour, and then a coarse, jarring, stridulous voice rose in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference

"He alternates his tapping with his stridulous call, and the effect on a cool, autumn-like morning is very pleasing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference

And interweaving with it all, one continuous shrilling, -- keen as the steel speech of a saw, -- the stridulous telegraphy of crickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference

Is it the creaking of an overstrained mill, – that stridulous, rushing, whirring, buzzing sound, which rises and falls, and dies and swells again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Clarence] Reference

The characteristic sounds of midsummer are the sharp, whirring crescendo of the cicada or harvest fly, and the rasping, stridulous notes of the nocturnal insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [By Shore and Sedge] Reference

"The meetin 'will come to order," commanded the president in a thin, stridulous voice, as he rapped upon the rough deal table with one of the teacher's rulers instead of a gavel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

Twice it circled rapidly round the vase, uttering strange, stridulous sounds, then floated up to the canopy overarching Felix's bed, and poised itself on the carved frame, waiting and flapping its wings, vulture-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo] Reference

He sang behind Lola's house, and winning a call in spite of his stridulous voice and singular phrasing, he stepped out from cover, bowed his acknowledgments, and, returning to his hiding place, serenaded his love over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

Birds of brilliant plumage flit about through the foliage upon its banks, some disporting themselves in its pellucid wave; some making the valley vocal with their melodious warblings, and others filling it with harsh, stridulous cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference

Startling effects are obtained by a confusion of keys, confusion of rhythms, sudden contrasts from an overpowering tutti to the stridulous whirring of empty fifths on the violins, a trill on the flutes, or a dissonant mutter of the basses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

At night they again heard the stridulous clamour of the maleos, and every morning looked out for them; but these fine fowls did not put in another appearance, much less deposit three dozen eggs right under their eyes, and in a convenient spot for being gathered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

"No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Deluge] Reference

Skipping from side to side he cried in stridulous tones, "Where are the people of my enclosure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference

Again the crowd burst into shouts of assent, and the stridulous voice continued: "Let us say to him 'Lord Basha, there is no way of help but one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference

"'Put that down,' came a hollow and stridulous voice, so unexpected and startling to Pym that he withdrew his hand, allowing the vase to drop back to the floor with a resounding thud.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Discovery] Reference

"'If thou hast aught of importance to impart,' continued the voice -- that of Masusælili -- still stridulous, but now having also the quality possessed by a voice heard through a speaking-tube, 'put thy mouth near to the spigot-hole, and disclose thine errand.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Discovery] Reference

On a stridulous cart passing out of Thebes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Moldaw reads Gjertrud Schnackenberg] Reference

In piercing accents stridulous he charged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference

A shrill stridulous sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

A high tone screeched by the stridulous tenor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference