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strident
1. Says he, strident in his red gown,
2. The 'Amens' were as strident but fewer
3. But given his less than strident religious convictions, it was never a calling for him
4. His usually strident voice trailed off to little more than a whisper
5. Her voice was high and strident
6. The strident chirp from the front wheels of the grey Honda sedan attested to the pressure he felt
7. He had only been born the night before in a damp cave full of strident men, their endless, mirthless cacophony silenced by the sudden and unexpected cries of a child gasping for air and a mother suffering the pains of labor
8. The Civil War involvment in this is evident and often strident
9. ” The shows he talks about contain nothing strident and often exhibit no emotion at all
10. objectionable, Stella more and more strident
11. That the hotline for the CJCS (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) buzzed only once, instead of emitting a strident continuous ring until answered, as was once used by an imperious predecessor Admiral Radford, was a tribute to the gentleman�liness of the current CJCS, U
12. He was startled out of his reverie by the strident shriek of the landline from Bien Hoa tower
13. It is when recession hits that the complaints become strident
14. An overused analogy and strident with reality: the clock
15. A crow can really produce strident calls in an empty town
16. But we were not alone and that was the strident note
17. Do you remember our neighbors the Sanchez? The lady with the most strident voice I`ve ever heard with a hilarious taste for the gray and discolored outfits whose husband likes to observe us through the fence bars in the summer evenings, thinking that we are not watching him? Well, it turns out that this odd couple has a very good-looking grandson called Joseito, Spanish diminutive of Joseph I guess, that is spending his vacation here
18. His rich voice reverberated, calmed, and was far more convincing than Ishbel’s strident hectoring
19. They jammed in the narrow archway, and the Zingarans stabbed and hacked at their straining backs with strident yelps of glee
20. Startingly, shockingly in the slumberous stillness, there had boomed the deep strident clangor of a great gong!
21. "Rinaldo!" his voice was strident with desperate urgency
22. But in the city, a mile away, he heard the strident blare of a trumpet
23. 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
24. Only a strident screech answered him, a screech vibrating with harsh mockery
25. The few senior army officers that were left until yesterday and that had been the most strident supporters of continuing the war at all cost got what they asked for
26. Angrily, Mitchell grabbed for the hypodermic needle, voice strident
27. " In her strident tone, he regarded her condescendingly before walking away silent
28. The cop's strident attitude seemed to eradicate into thin air
29. Eventually, only the strident, irregular call of some kind of bird that hadn’t headed south for the winter broke the silence, and she wasn’t happy with the quiet
30. strident, as one surprise after another continued to be thrown at him
31. It was yet another recitation of the strident political views William had learnt, imperfectly, from his relatives
32. With another scream, matched by a strident noise of victory from the Zombie, the dance of death resumed
33. It was a very loud bell, for it rang upstairs as well as down in order to be sure of catching Lizzie's ear in whatever part of the house she might be endeavouring to evade it, and Lucy, as she listened to its strident, persistent summons of a Lizzie who didn't appear, felt more and more on edge, felt at last that to listen and wait any longer was unbearable
34. But as elites conspire to eliminate the trappings of Christmas in their quest for revolutionary liberation, they end up imposing a sociopolitical control more strident than anything concocted by the most repressed ascetic
35. He noticed immediately that Alice wasn’t in costume and yelled over both Guns N’ Roses and the strident arguing of his friends
36. the North are becoming more strident
37. strident note in the apparent calm
38. Durrant meanwhile enunciating strident politics with Sir Somebody in the back room) until the virginity of Clara's soul appeared to him candid; the depths unknown; and he would have brought out Jacob's name had he not begun to feel positively certain that Clara loved him--and could do nothing whatever
39. At the corner of the street, from a lower storey, rose a kind of humming with strident modulations
40. A great babble of news (and what sort of news too, good heavens!) and eager comment has arisen around this catastrophe, though it seems to me that a less strident note would have been more becoming in the presence of so many victims left struggling on the sea, of lives miserably thrown away for nothing, or worse than nothing: for false standards of achievement, to satisfy a vulgar demand of a few moneyed people for a banal hotel luxury--the only one they can understand--and because the big ship pays, in one way or another: in money or in advertising value
41. McG on 2 nets w/ strident, pointed questions of RN on VN
42. She was the strident political activist who’d been jailed at a protest
43. In 35 years, I’ve never seen a motion as strident in tone
44. "Oh, nothing, nothing," said he, and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet, the high, strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger
45. the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara
46. The butler ran to the top of the staircase and began to shout down it; a female voice, more strident than his answered
47. population and not being in the habit of taking strident political stands, they didn’t attract much coverage
48. Davis was wearing Chanel for her closing argument: a pink suit with black trim, calling up memories of Jackie Kennedy, although there was nothing of the former president’s wife in Davis’s strident voice
49. The voices were strident and angry
50. ” I was struck by how softly he spoke, so different from his usual strident tone