vociferation

Example Sentences

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There is much vociferation also going on beneath the window respecting certain wheelbarrows which are in rivalry for our baggage: we appease their rivalry with our best patience, and follow them down the narrow street.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Mr. Brazen seem'd surpris'd at the thought of relinquishing America, and bawl'd out with the vociferation of an old miser that had been robb'd—Relinquish America! relinquish America! forbid it heavens!

From The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant by Moses, Montrose Jonas

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

The rest of the crew sprang from the grass, and followed the example set them by their comrade, roaring out the pledge until the woods rang with their vociferation.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

This was succeeded by a burst of furious vociferation in a voice which Paco knew to be that of Baltasar.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various