"Stridently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Robert Burton's pharmacopoeia? I am afraid that we are a little wanting in gratitude, when we shake our sides at the flaying of Marsyas by some Quarterly of Apollo,—to the dis-cuticlcd, I mean. If he had not piped so stridently, we should not have had half so much sport; yet small largess does the miserable minstrel get for tooting tunelessly. Let us honor the brave who fall in the battle of print. 'Twas a noble ambition, after all, which caused our asinine friend to cloak himself in that cast leonine skin. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... could have worked out that table!" he said stridently. "Nobody! Morgan said you'd appreciate my work! He said you needed my talent! But what good do you see in it? You think ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... returned Sampson stridently. "So help me God, I'd rather see her Ranger Steele's ...
— The Rustlers of Pecos County • Zane Grey |
