clamant
Example Sentences
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"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 Edmond Kelly
The life is hard, full of privations, sown with difficulties, clamant for technical knowledge, exacting of physical strength, dependent on shrewdness and knowledge of the world.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White
More "clamant" than carmine, vermilion, crimson, Costlier than diamond or ultramarine— A deuce of a theme to chant lyrics or hymns on, Or rummage for orotund "rot," is Ruthene.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
This is the clamant, imperious need of man.
From Friendship by Hugh Black
How often lately it had rung discordantly across her mood; now it seemed a clamant watcher, tolling joy.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
