clamant

Example Sentences

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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

Among the most distressing and clamant cases which came before him was the great Convict Settlement in the Andaman Islands, in which the mortality amounted in 1867 to over 101 per thousand.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

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

There was clamant need for reform in every department of the State.

From Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series by Morison, William

It was as unabashed and clamant as his motor horn.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings