clamant

Example Sentences

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All we had was paid for in cash at the time, and there were so many clamant uses for cash.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John

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.

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

"The measure of their failure," he says, "is to be found in those periods of clamant distress which evoke Mansion House Relief Funds."

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

Et properare meum clamant, e turre propinqua, Obstreperæ campanæ aliorum in funere, funus.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John