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Tender is the Night
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There was no answer; judging that she was asleep they walked into a warm strident Paris night, snatching a vermouth and bitters in the shadow by Fouquet's bar.†
Chpt 1.21 *
There are the rumble of trucks and the clump of trunks, the strident chatter of cranes, the first salt smell of the sea.†
Chpt 2.19
On the back seat of the car Dick remained quiescent until the yellow monolith of Golfe Juan was passed, and then the constant carnival at Juan les Pins where the night was musical and strident in many languages.†
Chpt 3.5

Definitions:

(1) (strident)
unpleasantly forceful when expressing opinions; or loud and harsh
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, strident can refer to a voice or sound that hisses as when pronouncing s or sh.