clamant
Example Sentences
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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 James Paton
I remember dwelling in imagination upon this or that dish till my mouth watered; and long before we got in for the night my appetite was a clamant, instant annoyance.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
He plucked it open eagerly, keen to solve the puzzle of the noise, emerging on a night now glittering with stars, and clamant with the roar of tumbling waters.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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 L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
The fallen aristocrat still clinging to his pointless distinction is surely the most pitiful creature of pretence in all this clamant universe.
From Tales of Space and Time by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
