vociferation

Example Sentences

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He continued to roar with very great vociferation, making all the cone ring, and casting about his legs and arms, like one distracted.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

Captain Stuart's calm, full voice struck the vibrating air at least an octave lower than the keen, high vociferation of the Cherokee.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Those who wish to make themselves understood by a foreigner in his own language should speak with much noise and vociferation, opening their mouths wide. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

The quiet and the steady going here, amid the German vociferation, is of itself an enormous—I was going to say pleasure.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

"A—a—Miss Katey, take the bushblunder out ov his hand 'fore he blows my brains out," and the shrieks were renewed with more vociferation than before.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various