clamant

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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

"The measure of their failure," he says, "is to be found in those periods of clamant distress which evoke Mansion House Relief Funds."

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

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

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)

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