5 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIDULANCE»
Discover the use of
stridulance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stridulance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine
And even if it were, and its song was of that doleful, screeching soul-rending
stridulance that startles ghosts and gives haunts the creeps was it not sweet
music to the only ear that heard it? Might it not have been the soul of the fiddle
stirred by ...
Robert Love Taylor, John Trotwood Moore, Thornwell Jacobs, 1906
And even if it were, and its song was of that doleful, screeching, soul-rending
stridulance that startles ghosts and gives haunts the creeps, was it not sweet
music to the only ear that heard it? Might it not have been the soul of the fiddle
stirred by ...
The living earth has Other disquietudes than calm: the breathing Birds in the
rushes and the stridulance of Insects hidden in the tule; cry Of four-foots fleeing to
a shelter ; stir Of grass and scruboaks entering the night. The low pools tremble.
4
Behold the Judge: A Novel
... them; the whisper and gusto and diminishing rustle of the wind in the trees, the
occasional twitter of birdsong, no longer joyful with the exuberance of spring, a
preoccupied music; and, at ground level, the stridulance of unseen grasshoppers
.
5
A calendar of sin: American melodramas
The night, the stillness, broken only by the diffused stridulance of locusts, seemed
to give his words a strange significance. If he had been handsome, richer, taller
To be so close to him she could see the very texture of his skin and feel his ...
