clamant

Example Sentences

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Along this stillness steals their ghostly laughter: The oaths they swore, the clamant song and jest, Are haunting still each oaken beam and rafter, That looked on many a gay, forgotten guest.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

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.

He spoke with a certain sad quietness, very different from his old clamant vehemence.

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

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 White, Stewart Edward

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