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vociferate

[voh-sif-uh-reyt] / voʊˈsɪf əˌreɪt /


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These bronze rowdies whoop and vociferate on all sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'll vociferate, I'll whimper, pacing up and down the garden, my body distended, my legs bent outward, feigning madness to terrify the tom-cats!

From Barks and Purrs by Colette

He was for issuing forth to vociferate and slap members upon their backs and jovially arrange committeeships on the giffgaff principle of give us the Speakership and you shall become a Chairman.

From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis

And on this he began to vociferate, and scream out so loudly, 'Fire!--murder!--thieves!--help!' that I thought of nothing but getting out of the house as speedily as possible.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann

He replied audibly enough, in a fashion which made my companion vociferate, more clamorously than before, that a wide distinction might be drawn between saints like himself and sinners like his master. 

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Last week Asquithians and Georgians vociferated over an issue of molehill stature which they erected into a Liberal mountain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now another bellower cupped his hands, vociferated: "Long cheer for Pound!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The story you have told," Senator Norris vociferated, "is a falsehood.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have got some pink paper," Carl vociferated.

From Salome by Emma Marshall

“The King—the King!” vociferated the half hundred voices of their followers—the bystanders echoing the phrase only in faint murmuring.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lewis, and embraced him with great cordiality,—putting their left arm over his right shoulder, and clasping his back,—applying at the same time their left cheek to his, and frequently vociferating, 'Ah-hi-e!'—'I am glad!

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

I sat up at my desk, vociferating the words aloud.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

O'Byrn's appearance, when he had selected and donned his new ready-made suit, rakish derby and vociferating shirt, was decidedly tracky.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

That is to say, they will be deprived of all excuse for vociferating, plotting, and conspiring to have the pleasure of regulating the habits of others.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 by Various




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