clamant

Example Sentences

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Straightway she touched the kernel of those fear-blurred legends whispered about her cradle and now clamant.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

Along this stillness steals their ghostly laughter: The oaths they swore, the clamant song and jest, Are haunting still each oaken beam and rafter, That looked on many a gay, forgotten guest.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

"The measure of their failure," he says, "is to be found in those periods of clamant distress which evoke Mansion House Relief Funds."

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

As he did so, the bird whistled again, with precisely the note of a police-whistle blown under the stress of fear, excitement or anger, a clamant, bodeful, and insistent signal.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

This, meantime, appeared to all of them, the most clamant of all Missionary duties,—their very lives, and the existence of the Mission itself, depending thereon.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James