clamant

Example Sentences

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Soon spaces are clamant for decoration and the stone soars into the beauty of Gothic vaulting and tracery.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

The life is hard, full of privations, sown with difficulties, clamant for technical knowledge, exacting of physical strength, dependent on shrewdness and knowledge of the world.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward

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

But the descendants of another ardent Jacobite, Robert Gordon, wine merchant, Bordeaux, who rescued the family estate of Hallhead, Aberdeenshire, from clamant creditors, still flourish.

From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria)

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 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir