Citizens of Ghent," he began in his harsh and strident voice which could be heard from end to end of the Kouter.
According to the local story, the cries of the women were so stridentand so continuous that all birds were scared away from Trosky.
The proprietor also possesses a gramophone, and its strident notes we may well suppose imitate the tones of the first inhabitants of this den.
The strained and strident yelling of the mob grew even louder.
At intervals he jerked the reins like a large strange toy and his strident voice said-- "He!
There came into the lad's somewhat strident voice a softness that was almost pathetic.
He cried out in his strident young voice-- "What the devil is all this silly nonsense about old Charlie and lies and misunderstandings and--and all that guff?
But that strident voice, edged with malice, had stirred bitter memories.
The strident ill-nature of the speaker challenged argument, but the boys were in good-humor.
At intervals he jerked the reins like a large strange toy, and his strident voice said: "Hé!
He cried out, in hisstrident young voice: "What the devil is all this silly nonsense about old Charlie and lies and misunderstandings and--and all that guff?
The last came out in a strident ferocious gasp, as its utterer drove the broad blade of his assegai down between the shoulders of his helpless captive.
They then and there set to work and belaboured his prostrate form with their sticks, uttering a stridenthiss with each resounding thud.
There was unanimous approval registered in a strident roar.
Everywhere were knots of excited men, with strident voices and brandished fists.
To all the tumult, the strident clamor of indignation, the scurrying hither and yon of scared, branded rats of men, O'Byrn remained curiously indifferent.
Reborn of the whispered message of wide-flung tides, the sight of the screaming gulls, the old longing of his nature sought vent in a strident inward cry.
The more harsh and strident are the sounds the more they will appeal to his musical taste.
The neighbouring forest was soon echoing thestrident notes of xylophone, banjo, ocarina and trombone.
But suddenly, above the general chatter, there arose the sound of a strident voice that there was no possibility of mistaking.
Tall as Lady Vivian was, and by no means slightly built, she seemed to Miss Bruce to be at once physically overpowered and almost eclipsed in the strident and voluminous greeting of her old acquaintance.
Bertha," called the landlord, in such a strident tone that the mountains echoed the sound.
He frequents the higher pine belts, and has a noisy strident call like a jay’s, and how clean he and the frisk-tailed chipmunks keep the camp!
Only Clark’s crow and the stridentjays make light of it; only they can afford to.
As he rode on, it followed him, maintaining its position and making the morning hideous with its strident cries, heedless of his efforts to drive it away.
The stridentvoice of betrayal was stilled for ever.
Only a strident screech answered him, a screech vibrating with harsh mockery.
But in the city, a mile away, he heard the strident blare of a trumpet.
What Mrs. Seeley thought expressed itself in the bang of the door as she left to answer a strident summons below stairs.
Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes--outside the echoes of the indignant woman's strident voice came across the hallway.
Mrs. Alden's hat with its waving plumes was overpowering enough, but her voice, strident and angry, seemed to fill the whole room.
But even above the strident shrill of the scolding and the abrupt command of the man's voice and the frightened wail of the littlest girl, rose the cry of Felicia's own anger.
We should be acting, aggressive, strident in the strength of the war we wage toward freedom.
Thereupon the young squaw sneered and the Indian idlers jeered loud in harsh, strident laughter.
He may jump up from the gutter and shout that he is the man of the moment, without offering any proof of his assertion beyond the loudness of a strident voice.
With a strident laugh she passed on to the next room through folding doors.
As I passed onward under the trees of the Calle del Pozzo, boys were crying La Voz, and from their strident shouts, and the eagerness of purchasers, I knew that the new Ministry had been officially announced.
The voice was vigorous, but showed sudden anger, a strident tone, a slight foreign accent, Spanish, perhaps.
They laughed, but here and there a laugh sounded strident or hysterical; the laugh did not ring true, but had the sound of cracked crystal.
And all the while that din sounded somewhere beyond them--running feet and strident yells.
It was a strange chase and a hot one, pounding on and on, racked with the wild, lurching flight, deeper and deeper into the yellow-gray night that welcomed them with more strident blasts and more stinging particles of sand.
The greater number of Luther's hymns are set to a less strident pitch, but all alike speak a language which reveals in every line the ominous spiritual tension of this historic moment.
