clamant

Example Sentences

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By 1817 the grievance had become clamant; and when that inquisitive agitator, Robert Gourlay, asked the farmers of Upper Canada what hindered settlement, he received the answer—Clergy Reserves.

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

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

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

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

Both are clamant at this moment in you and me, clamant in you as you read these words, clamant in me as I write them.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

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