clamant

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By 1817 the grievance had become clamant; and when that inquisitive agitator, Robert Gourlay, asked the farmers of Upper Canada what hindered settlement, he received the answer—Clergy Reserves.

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

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)

Yells and loud whistles rose clamant in the air, and his own name was shouted to and fro.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur

It was right, however, that the clamant demands for relief, uttered by her starving millions, should not stifle the smaller voice of suffering that issued from our Scottish shores.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

I gave him £50 of my own to meet clamant demands, and besought him to secure me a day or two of delay that something might be done.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James