All 8 Uses of
clamor
in
Gone with the Wind
- The white children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankee politicians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of the neighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.†
Chpt 1.3
- As they neared the intersecting road that came down the thickly wooded hill from Mimosa and Fairhill, the sound of hooves and carriage wheels became plainer and clamorous feminine voices raised in pleasant dispute sounded from behind the screen of trees.†
Chpt 1.5
- Simultaneously, the three young ladies raised lacy parasols, said they had had quite enough to eat, thank you, and, laying light fingers on the arms of the men nearest them, clamored sweetly to see the rose garden, the spring and the summerhouse.†
Chpt 1.6
- As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.†
Chpt 1.6
- The world will be at our doors clamoring for cotton and we can command our own price.†
Chpt 2.11 *
- Quiet, drowsy afternoon siestas had ceased to be, for though the clamor of battle might lull from time to time, Peachtree Street was alive and noisy at all hours, cannon and ambulances rumbling by, wounded stumbling in from the rifle pits, regiments hurrying past at double-quick, ordered from the ditches on one side of town to the defense of some hard-pressed earthworks on the other, and couriers dashing headlong down the street toward headquarters as though the fate of the Confederacy…†
Chpt 3.19
- Some of her dullness was passing now and her stomach was clamoring for food.†
Chpt 3.23
- Even the Thespians who gave amateur plays once a month clamored for her.†
Chpt 4.41
Definition:
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(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice