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)

Equally clamant was the need of information and instruction.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

Among the most distressing and clamant cases which came before him was the great Convict Settlement in the Andaman Islands, in which the mortality amounted in 1867 to over 101 per thousand.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

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

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