vociferation

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Scarcely had I closed my eyes in balmy sleep, when I heard the unwelcome vociferation, "Pass the word for Lieutenant Shipp; pass the word for Mr. Shipp; send Mr. Shipp to me."

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John

"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

After much vociferation we both ended by appealing to the future, that enlightened and upright judge who always, alas! arrives too late.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

Walshingham had seemed to win at the beginning, but finally Chitterlow had made a magnificent display of vociferation and swept him out of existence.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The quiet and the steady going here, amid the German vociferation, is of itself an enormous—I was going to say pleasure.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry