clamant

Example Sentences

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Where, day by day, so many thousands passed, driven by eagerness and haste, in an unnoticeable throng, a single footfall now roused clamant echoes.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

Among the most distressing and clamant cases which came before him was the great Convict Settlement in the Andaman Islands, in which the mortality amounted in 1867 to over 101 per thousand.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

Both are clamant at this moment in you and me, clamant in you as you read these words, clamant in me as I write them.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Now he sorted all he had heard out on a system based on an intimate knowledge of his fellow-countrymen's methods in the face of clamant danger.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

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.