clamant

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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

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

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)

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

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