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All was silence around him, if you discounted the stridulations of insects and the be-ke korak-korak-korak of frogs.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.

Behind him the clicking roar, the high-pitched stridulations of the horde of army ants, rose in volume.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray

The broken stridulations took on the coherence of intelligible dots and dashes.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

They were advancing steadily and rapidly, shrill stridulations and a multitude of clickings marking their movements.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray

Curious rasping stridulations came from them, sounds which seemed to serve as means of communication, and which Mildred evidently understood.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various