vociferation

Example Sentences

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With assumed ferocity but real vociferation Buck uttered a shout and watched the effect.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.

As I was taking a sketch in a quiet corner I heard a vociferation so loud, so vehement, and so varied, that I really thought two or three people were quarrelling close to me.

From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward

If vociferation is to carry the question of religion, the North, and probably the Scotch, have it.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

He could hear voices behind—at the inn—a chorus of rough voices in loud vociferation.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

"A—a—Miss Katey, take the bushblunder out ov his hand 'fore he blows my brains out," and the shrieks were renewed with more vociferation than before.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various