clamant

Example Sentences

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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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

A shrewish voice rose in the darkness before him, and other voices, angry, clamant, protesting, struck in.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

This, meantime, appeared to all of them, the most clamant of all Missionary duties,—their very lives, and the existence of the Mission itself, depending thereon.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James

Yells and loud whistles rose clamant in the air, and his own name was shouted to and fro.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur