clamant
Example Sentences
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"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 Edmond Kelly
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 B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
Equally clamant was the need of information and instruction.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
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
More "clamant" than carmine, vermilion, crimson, Costlier than diamond or ultramarine— A deuce of a theme to chant lyrics or hymns on, Or rummage for orotund "rot," is Ruthene.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
