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.

"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

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

The acolytes with the removal of their scarlet cassocks, were become somewhat ragged urchins playing pitch and toss with much gesture and vociferation.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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