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 Rives, Hallie Erminie

Among their clamant red and yellow laurel and rhododendron showed glossy green, and added to the gay tapestry.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

And, therefore, what a clamant and urgent need there is for love-fires at which to kindle these souls that are heavy, and burdened, and cold.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

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)

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.