clamant

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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

Et properare meum clamant, e turre propinqua, Obstreperæ campanæ aliorum in funere, funus.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, 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

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