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Updated: May 28, 2025
There was a patter of applause, and a young negro came forward, and in a strident, music-hall voice, sung or rather recited with many gestures the ditty. He could n't have been much older than Joe, but already his face was hard with dissipation and foul knowledge. He gave the song with all the rank suggestiveness that could be put into it. Joe looked upon him as a hero.
On the first landing stood Miss Day, watching with lynx-eyes to see that no books or eatables were smuggled to the bedrooms. In a strident voice she exhorted the noisy to silence, and the loiterers to haste. Laura sped to her room. She was fortunate enough to find it still empty.
Hume had turned down the volume of the receiver so that the clicks in the mike no longer were so strident. "Set on maximum and left that way." "They had a force barrier around the camp and they knew about the globes and the watchers." Vye tried to imagine what had happened in that woods clearing. "The barrier might have shorted. And without the flitter they would have been pinned."
This time the strident roar of savage exultation was loud and deep enough to shake the flickering lamp upon its chain. A brief discussion of plans followed, and Roger he with the broad, hairy chest and that gleam of hatred for ever lurking in his deep-set, shifty eyes was chosen the leader of the party.
When its strident concatenation of sounds smote the morning air Lazarus would let it rave on interminably, probably hugging himself with the fierce joy of it, lulled by its final notes to a relapse of dreams. It did not on any occasion stimulate him to rise and dress. That was a more strenuous matter one requiring at times physical encouragement on my part.
The fellow made as if he would simply answer the justice's question, yet all the while he kept glancing about him timidly, till five or six inquisitive rustics had also gathered around him, only then did he exclaim in a strident whisper: "The poison has already arrived!" "You're a fool!" cried the justice, starting back as he spoke. "I am not.
Also, heavy drops of rain still bespattered our heads and shoulders, and at every peal of thunder the tree quivered and creaked until the strident din around us gave one the illusion of being afloat in a narrow caique. Meanwhile at every flash of the lightning's glare, we could see slanting ribands of rain cutting the air with a network of blue, glistening, vitreous lines.
Then for two minutes she stood and addressed them through the darkness in strident tones and language that would have shocked an old drover or a railway ganger. 'Bushrangin' ain't up to much, whimpered Ted, rubbing himself with both hands. 'It's rot! said Jacker fiercely. Peterson and Doon muttered words of approval, and Dick felt that four pairs of reproachful eyes were turned upon him.
It was the first time he had even entered its shadows, and as he turned its corner he looked curiously at the stump of a tree that had been hollowed into an ample office, and was assailed by the strident cries of cabmen.
And men in deadly earnest do not talk loudly. It has been my fortune to see men angry and aroused to the point of killing; they were intense, but quiet. I have also seen that bravado and drunken boisterousness which thought it imitated, and meant to imitate, genuine rage; it was always strident and violent, never dangerous, never sincere. The same thing is true in speech.
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