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Updated: May 28, 2025
At first it seemed as if he had been urging on the mob in its fury. His strident voice, with its broad provincial accent, was heard distinctly shouting loud vituperations against the accused. Then at a given moment, when the tumult was at its height, when the National Guard felt their bayonets giving way before this onrushing tide of human jackals, Lenoir changed his tactics.
Plenty of sugar, though." Patty gave the order to Janet, who had appeared to look after the visitor, and turned back at the sound of Azalea's loud, strident laughter. "Kimono! At six P.M. That's good. Why, Cousin, I use my kim for a dressing gown, I ain't going to bed, am I?" "No, dear. But we'll have a more cosy time, I think, if you get off your travel things and have a refreshing bath."
And poor Derrick, who was then quite unused to the species, had to stand and receive a flood of the most fulsome flattery, delivered in a strident voice, and to bear the critical and prolonged stare of the spectacled eyes. Nor would the harpy easily release her prey. She kept him much against his will, and I saw him looking wistfully now and then towards Freda.
She remained quite calm to the last, arranging a few flowers and unpacking a travelling bag in Godfrey's cabin, for as a colonel he had one to himself. Then the second bell rang, and to the ears upon which its strident clamour fell the trump of doom could not have been more awful.
His advent not having been expected there could be no plot against him in existence. Drowsiness stole upon his senses. He enjoyed it, but keeping a hold, so he thought at least, on his wits; but he must have been gone further than he thought because he was startled beyond measure by a fiendish uproar. He had never heard anything so pitilessly strident in his life.
The soldier held a long, heavy staff planted on one stirrup, from the top of which drooped in the dull air the once gay guidon, battle-rent and sodden with rain, and as he went he shouted at intervals, "Dovinger's Bangers! Rally on the guidon!" Now and again his strident boyish voice varied the appeal, "Hyar's yer Dov-inger's Rangers! Bally, boys! Rally on the reserve!"
Indeed, the rain was now grown to be a deluge; the gutters of the house roared; the air was filled with the continuous, strident crash. The stolidity of his face, on which the rain streamed, was far from reassuring me.
On the green background of the foliage the fireflies glowed and flickered. There was no strident steam whistle from factory or train to assault the ear, no rumble of passing cabs or street cars. Far away, in some distant part of the straggling town, a sweet-toned bell sounded the hour of an evening church service. "To see you is a breath from the past, Henry," said Mrs. Treadwell.
We must also keep the fire going," he added, when the priest, having slowly recovered from his amazement, passed into the sitting- room. The Moro took the iron bellows, a sort of arquebuse barrel, turned one end toward the coals, and blew into the other in so unusual a way as to produce a strident whistle. Then he started on his supper. What possessed him!
The major had too much to worry him, however, and this was so evident to his devoted wife that her laugh was brief, it was never loud or strident, and she moved her chair nearer to his own. "Is Mr. Ray in any trouble?" she asked, with genuine concern. "I don't know. Of the officers present at the conversation in the store this morning all I have since seen were infantrymen, whom I couldn't ask.
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