"Strident" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conventional enough, but they served only to accentuate others that were too hastily selected in the heat of this crisis. Enough to say that the lady overbore by sheer mass of tone production the strident soprano of Lew Wee, controlling it at length to a lucid disclosure of ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... a second theme which wanders in and out among the strident notes of Browning's anti-critical "apologetics." Of all the springs of poetry none lay deeper in Browning than love; to the last he could sing of love with the full inspiration of his best time; and the finest things in this volume are concerned with ...
— Robert Browning • C. H. Herford
... all earnestness, Paul and Dora resumed their quarrel, and Dora's strident voice echoed ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... agency, was glad to find, the next morning, that none of his jokes had been omitted by any of the nineteen chief London dailies. And the Strand and Piccadilly were quick with Witt v. Parfitts—on evening posters and in the strident mouths of newsboys. The telegraph wires vibrated to Witt v. Parfitts. In the great betting industrial towns of the provinces wagers were laid at scientific prices. England, in a word, was content, and the principal actors had the ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett
... miser'ble hoboe!" cried the old woman's strident voice as her powerful arms swung her lusty broom aloft. "I'll teach you, you scallawag!" Thwack fell the broom, and, releasing Joan, the man sought to protect his head with his arms. "I'll give you a dose you won't fergit, ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
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