clamant

Example Sentences

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Along this stillness steals their ghostly laughter: The oaths they swore, the clamant song and jest, Are haunting still each oaken beam and rafter, That looked on many a gay, forgotten guest.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

Straightway she touched the kernel of those fear-blurred legends whispered about her cradle and now clamant.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

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

A plea for a more devoted working and application of the program Christ laid out for His followers, to the clamant needs of humanity at large.

From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds

I gave him £50 of my own to meet clamant demands, and besought him to secure me a day or two of delay that something might be done.

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