clamant
Example Sentences
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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
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
The clamant abuse of putting mere clerks and sextons to do the work of priests was also now put a stop to, and training in clerical seminaries or academies was made compulsory.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
A shrewish voice rose in the darkness before him, and other voices, angry, clamant, protesting, struck in.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
Soon spaces are clamant for decoration and the stone soars into the beauty of Gothic vaulting and tracery.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
