clamant

Example Sentences

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He, and He only, will interpret each generation to itself, and will meet its clamant needs.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

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)

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

Soon spaces are clamant for decoration and the stone soars into the beauty of Gothic vaulting and tracery.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

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