"Strident" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... already topped the slope, and was pouring over and down the other side like driving smoke. The wind had climbed along with it; and though I was still in calm air, I could see the trees tossing below me, and their long, strident sighing mounted to ...
— The Silverado Squatters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of vim. She usually talks at the top of a very high and strident voice (I don't know what they did with it at the convent), and I suddenly heard her screaming to the cabinet minister, 'Haven't you heard that? Oh, everybody's quoting it in Fleet Street, aren't they, Mr. Bryan? But I suppose you never go to Fleet Street, Mr. Blank; it's so important, isn't ...
— Potterism - A Tragi-Farcical Tract • Rose Macaulay
... the Pacific Coast," declares a Berkeley bulletin, "Miss Case has made strident advances in her art." The lady, it ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... be mentioned. The old fellow brought the point of his staff down with great emphasis upon the floor, and then held it loosely with the fingers of his trembling and shaking hand, and said, very earnestly, but with a shrill and strident voice like that of one of Homer's ghosts: "They say, sir, that that Mr. Lincoln has got to be a very respectable man. But I can remember, sir, when ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... the tone clearer will also make it more agreeable. The nasal pessimistic whine is not a pleasant recommendation of personality. High, forced, strident tones produce not only irritation in the listener but ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton
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