Clamour
[klæmә]
Definition
n. a loud continuous outcry: uproar; any loud noise.—v.i. to cry aloud in demand: to make a loud continuous outcry.—adj. Clam′orous noisy boisterous.—adv. Clam′orously.—ns. Clam′-orousness; Clam′ourer.
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Examples
- But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw the horse; I heard it stamp--I saw at least a mass; I heard a clamour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of alarm and clamour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was an excited clamour of voices, a clinking of mug-lids, a great crying of 'Prosit--Prosit! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- PICKWICK would not put up to be put down by clamour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then they streamed ashore, clamouring as if they had come from America. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He left here,' said Traddles, 'with his mother, who had been clamouring, and beseeching, and disclosing, the whole time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He did believe it, as the noise without shook the window, rattled at the door below, and went about the house clamouring and lamenting. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They accosted me as Satan, bid me avaunt, and clamoured to be delivered from temptation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He clamoured for an attack upon Carthage itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A great crowd clamoured and heaved round the door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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