clamant

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But the descendants of another ardent Jacobite, Robert Gordon, wine merchant, Bordeaux, who rescued the family estate of Hallhead, Aberdeenshire, from clamant creditors, still flourish.

From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria)

Equally clamant was the need of information and instruction.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

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

A plea for a more devoted working and application of the program Christ laid out for His followers, to the clamant needs of humanity at large.

From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds

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 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir