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  • The loader would raise the bin some twenty-five feet into the air and then, with the boom extended, tilt the forks so the scrap could slide out, raining down into the trailer with a tremendous clamor.†   (source)
  • Frau Holtzapfel clamored, but her sentence was just another hapless voice in the warm chaos of the shelter.†   (source)
  • "Show us how you did it!" we all clamored, but he wouldn't.†   (source)
  • Tonight, with everyone clamoring for their holiday hash, there's no one at the bathroom at all, so, putting her hunger on hold, she moves away from the crowd and across the warehouse toward the bathroom.†   (source)
  • As Pillsbury watched the clamor of colors, he thought of Christmas.†   (source)
  • The bag of gold, silver, and bronze jangling cheerfully in Harry's pocket was clamoring to be spent, so he bought three large strawberry-and-peanut-butter ice creams, which they slurped happily as they wandered up the alley, examining the fascinating shop windows.†   (source)
  • Something in him clamored for it again, at once.†   (source)
  • After a while, we heard a clamor of voices approach, and the gallery became crowded.†   (source)
  • In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquiums, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.†   (source)
  • He clamored for more, so I went on.†   (source)
  • Some Keepers seemed to actually agree with Minho's recommendation—like Frypan, who clapped to drown out Gally, clamoring to take a vote.†   (source)
  • We spoke of little nothings for a few minutes until we heard a general clamor at the front end of the room.†   (source)
  • I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once.†   (source)
  • The newspaper that morning had been filled with the usual headlines, several of them devoted to what was commonly called the Emergency: Things had gotten desperately out of control, the headlines reported; the school systems, the budget, the pollution, the crime, the weather …. why, everything, in fact, was a complete mess, and citizens everywhere were clamoring for a major — no, a dramatic — improvement in government.†   (source)
  • In those days all the money was being funneled into the development of the suburbs, which was fortunate for Savannah in one respect: It meant there was no clamor to bulldoze massive areas downtown for housing developments.†   (source)
  • With all the people clamoring for his time, perhaps I was trying to take too much away from these Tuesdays.†   (source)
  • The Soho gallery was clamoring for more of her work, which they called "a huge step forward in super-ugly neorealism."†   (source)
  • Owen managed to scream above the clamor.†   (source)
  • First it's a buzz-like trembling, then the shakes, and finally it's as if every bone inside him is clamoring to get out.†   (source)
  • When the bells of St. Peter's began their deafening clamor, both Langdon and Vittoria jumped.†   (source)
  • Well, in case suitors begin clamoring at the door, you can tell them I'm wearing this as an emblem.†   (source)
  • Amid a clamor of support, the two men moved the board half onto the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • All that lay between was too clamorous, too fluid to understand, though she sensed she had succeeded, even triumphed.†   (source)
  • There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.†   (source)
  • Doesn't speak to the kids, who clamor for him, holding on to his legs.†   (source)
  • After all these years I still love to watch the souls that float and spin in masses, all of them clamoring at once inside the air.†   (source)
  • When I came into the dining room, the kids, who'd been clamoring noisily for seats around the long table, froze and stared at me.†   (source)
  • As they stepped into the darkness the clamor of voices struck against them.†   (source)
  • She could hear the clamor of the fish market even at this distance.†   (source)
  • I have spoke nothin', but my heart has clamored intimations.†   (source)
  • Back at the Barbours', amidst the clamor and plenitude of a family that wasn't mine, I now felt even more alone than usual—especially since, as the end of the school year neared, it wasn't clear to me (or Andy either, for that matter) if I would be accompanying them to their summer house in Maine.†   (source)
  • The sun was bright when the last of my teammates pulled into Camp One, but by noon a scum of high cirrus had blown in from the south; by three o'clock dense clouds swirled above the glacier and snow pelted the tents with a furious clamor.†   (source)
  • Her voice was almost lost in the clamor, but I heard the steadiness in it, and moving off to the side, I could see her standing next to him, trying to calm him.†   (source)
  • The sounds of footsteps, ugly words, insulting shouts, and whispered commands formed an echoing clamor.†   (source)
  • For we shall destroy this place where the loud clamor of the sinners is waxen great before the face of the Lord.†   (source)
  • Soon they were clamoring that they too wanted to do sand-writing.†   (source)
  • Instead, he hugged Richard, spoke briefly to the clamoring reporters beyond the fence, and fled to Hebron with a stunned and silent Rachel in tow.†   (source)
  • He entered a world of clamor, smoke, and steam, refulgent with the scents of murdered cattle and pigs.†   (source)
  • It would provoke a minor clamor, but it had to be done.†   (source)
  • Certainly no clamor for a kiss.†   (source)
  • He jerked his head to one side, and I clamored unsteadily to my feet.†   (source)
  • The fences still buzz with news and gossip, and the mountains and hollows echo with the joyful clamor of childhood adventures.†   (source)
  • For a moment, she can hear the clamor of shrapnel ringing through the ironwork of the water tower.†   (source)
  • He took three fast mouthfuls, the pores on the and plain of his tongue widening and clamoring at the shock of the water, some of it spilling down his chin and onto the tee-shirt he wore, and then she drew it away from him.†   (source)
  • People were on their seats and clamoring for more.†   (source)
  • My heart clamoring inside my rib cage, I think to myself, This is her.†   (source)
  • We listened to news updates on the radio, curiously excited reports about firemen removing a burning sofa from a tenement in Watertown, delivered in a background clamor of ticker-tape machines.†   (source)
  • Vendors in the bazaar, sitting behind pyramids of oiled, shining vegetables, grew to recognize him and would attend to him amidst the clamoring of their other customers.†   (source)
  • The Circle still clamored for the Mortal Cup, but since the death of his father, Valentine had become an outspoken proponent of war against all Downworlders, not just those who broke the Accords.†   (source)
  • There was a small clamor of questions, comments, pleas, and thanks from children who had remained still as stones throughout the story.†   (source)
  • I marveled at the genius of creations so universal and lasting that they can survive death and war, the clamor of invention, the whims of style, the turn of centuries.†   (source)
  • The bedroom was large and bright, with an English bed protected by mosquito netting embroidered in pink, and two windows open to the trees in the patio, where one could hear the clamor of cicadas, giddy with premonitions of rain.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor's voice boomed over the clamor of footsteps and nervous whispers.†   (source)
  • The squealing clamor coming from Seth's efforts covered every other noise, so there was no discernible sound to make the image one of violence.†   (source)
  • How could we with nine tiny yellow puppies stumbling all over one another as they clamored to check out the latest strangers to drop by?†   (source)
  • When he moved to board they lofted themselves skyward, thirty or forty birds, it appeared at first, a clamor of wings, more of them than he imagined possible, half a hundred seagulls rising from the Islander, exploding out of her cockpit.†   (source)
  • They had been bold, clamoring kids a moment before.†   (source)
  • After a time, his clamoring thoughts fell silent, and a strange calm crept over him.†   (source)
  • Flowers festooning our car, we led the clamorous procession away from the airport.†   (source)
  • And yet, on that far-off, burning day, though this knowledge clamored in him and fell all around him, like the sun, and everything in him was aching and yearning for the act, he could not, to save his soul, have named it.†   (source)
  • Will fell after and they both stood, clamorous with alarms, shaken by concussions of silent pantomime, blasted by events all the more numbing because they ran off into the night unknown.†   (source)
  • The television guys were interviewing some of the kids, and the rest were clamoring around, mugging for the cameras.†   (source)
  • The driver was even more anxious than Winnie and I, and he was clamoring to jump out of the car.†   (source)
  • Why, I'm kept so busy I can hardly-till the orders for noise pills, racket lotion, clamor salve, and hubbub tonic.†   (source)
  • The Commandant seems indifferent to the clamor, fixated as she is on her work.†   (source)
  • Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor.†   (source)
  • We have become, in our society, overwhelmed by people clamoring for our attention.†   (source)
  • That's because when crime is rising, people clamor for protection, and invariably more money is found for cops.†   (source)
  • The clamor of the children continued.†   (source)
  • Yet Pea was unaffected by the clamor--even around the campfire he kept quiet when the talk was of women.†   (source)
  • The shack is on the edge of Addis Ababa, and the traffic noise from beeping cars and buses without mufflers provided a steady background clamor.†   (source)
  • He was deposited on a thick pile of faded carpets next to Ali, the proprietor, whose spotless lavender shalwar seemed a miracle amidst the dust and clamor of his business.†   (source)
  • Obasan, however, does not come from this clamorous climate.†   (source)
  • Most of the damage ended up confined to shattered storefronts and traffic accidents north of the city, but as we pushed our way through the clamoring throng of press in the Hall's lobby, the quake's biggest news crackled with the fierceness of a live wire: The bride and groom hiller was free.†   (source)
  • The war in Europe had ended and the railroad cars piled high with dead were a distant clamor, though it had not quieted down entirely.†   (source)
  • We packed it away by the plateful and clamored for more.†   (source)
  • At dawn when the clamor started again I left and went back to the headland.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to leave her, but outside I would hear the clamor of the departing kids.†   (source)
  • GENET AND ROSINA RETURNED two days before school began; they arrived with the clamor and excitement of the Indian circus coming to the Merkato.†   (source)
  • The beasts clamored to their feet and backed away from the cliff until only a deserted gray ledge ran along the horizon.†   (source)
  • There just weren't a lot of prisoners in New Hampshire clamoring to be organ donors these days.†   (source)
  • A dozen questions clamored for attention, with the most obvious being—Who in the world is Lettie Lang?†   (source)
  • The clamor of the machinery, the movement of throngs of men, the smell of cbapopote and the orange glow that radiated twenty-four hours a day from Fundidora's thermal core made Regiomontanos believe that it was really alive.†   (source)
  • The other Tanmind clamored, crying out in fear and protest.†   (source)
  • Or was it, did he mean that we should affirm the principle because we, through no fault of our own, were linked to all the others in the loud, clamoring semi-visible world, that world seen only as a fertile field for exploitation by Jack and his kind, and with condescension by Norton and his, who were tired of being the mere pawns in the futile game of "making history"?†   (source)
  • In Congress, and in the press, there was clamor for safer spacecraft.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and tried to force the clamoring memories away, into the dark.†   (source)
  • Recalling their youth, one of his brothers would describe Nathanael during lulls in the clamor of the foundry, seated near the great trip-hammer, a leather-bound volume of Euclid in hand, calmly studying.†   (source)
  • —When one strange pair of twins was stillborn, fused together at the breastbone, many had begun muttering of Devilment, and their eyes turned to Widow Gowdie, clamoring upon her as a witch.†   (source)
  • The night air was hot and damp and clamorous with insects and Annie could see the lights of the town twinkling far across the water.†   (source)
  • Four days later, before Ernesto can move his belongings from his mother's apartment to the house on Palmas Street, before Felicia's mother, children, and best friend, Herminia, can object to the suddenness of her marriage to Ernesto, before Felicia can heed the directives of the santero, whose advice she has not entirely forgotten, before she and her husband can celebrate their union with a clamorous party, Ernesto dies tragically in a grease fire at a seaside hotel.†   (source)
  • No doubt she leaned toward Nina, pulled her close, and in spite of the breath-stealing fumes, spoke into the girl's ear to be heard above the clamor: It's okay, baby, we're together, I love you, hold on to Mommy, I love you, you're the best little girl who ever was.†   (source)
  • "I feel like a new goose!" she exclaimed as the goslings clamored around their mother.†   (source)
  • He had finished his third year of medical school, and had chosen to do his first internship here, in part to get away from the clamor of Bujumbura and back to the country.†   (source)
  • But the president takes a larger view, realizing that America is enthralled by such a young First Family and clamors for every morsel of news about their daily life.†   (source)
  • The hollow sound should have been lost in the clamor of the battle, drowned in my fear and pain.†   (source)
  • But tomorrow they would clamor for a new directive from Wesley Mouch and a free housing project from Orren Boyle, while Boyle's girders collapsed upon their heads.†   (source)
  • School grew nearer, the early morning collision of struggle and apprehension building from taste to clamor, the bitterness on her tongue expanding to a cacophony that assaulted her entire mind.†   (source)
  • Then he lifted his voice in a wild brassy blare that set echoes clamoring in the draws and canyons for miles around.†   (source)
  • A dreadful chorus of high-pitched shrieks and moans and low, angry growls of suddenly wakened beasts rises in the forest, clamors in our ears.†   (source)
  • Six of them were already on deck and others were clamoring up the lines.†   (source)
  • The din of the daily is left behind, and the moment is noted not for its clamor but its calm.†   (source)
  • It's usually after some round of clamor.†   (source)
  • Stem's three little boys clamored to have the ghosts put up this year the same as always, but Nora said it couldn't be done.†   (source)
  • Everyone is always clamoring for the bruts.†   (source)
  • The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of a larger interest, is drowned out by the clamors of impatient avarice for immediate and immoderate gain.†   (source)
  • Instinctively, both the drow and the wizard tuned their ears on the distant clamor and heard the continuing ring of battle.†   (source)
  • The automobile dealership was doing a brisk business, and the shops were filled with both quality goods and folks clamoring to purchase them.†   (source)
  • The clamorous street had turned private, a blue path such as should rightly lead to a hidden knoll, and so on.†   (source)
  • The White men chasing Lolla-Wossiky came to the gate, clamoring for the guard to open it.†   (source)
  • Sophie fell to eating her hot dog with truly serious absorption while Nathan unwound from his flight and began to get better acquainted with me over the clamor of the train.†   (source)
  • '_ And so the red blood blushing in their faces and their eyes shining with wonder, Frodo and Sam went forward and saw that amidst the clamorous host were set three high-seats built of green turves.†   (source)
  • F RO NI the first I was clamorous to learn—I wanted to know and begged to be told not so much what, or how, or why, or where, as when.†   (source)
  • In fact, we were clamoring for a turn at the thing ourselves.†   (source)
  • I would argue lamely for peace in Vietnam while my students clamored for the H-bombing of Hanoi and the subsequent obliteration of Moscow and Peking.†   (source)
  • Will was sitting in his glass-walled office from which he could watch the activity of his mechanics without hearing the clamor of their work.†   (source)
  • For just the second it took, she blocked the path of the boys clamoring after it.†   (source)
  • The sky was pompously playing neighbor To the unstirring treetops, while the distance Was clamorous with the exchange Of long-drawn clarion calls of roosters.†   (source)
  • There was no music: only the density of bodies and of the smell of a market bar, of beer, whiskey and country bodies, salt and leather; no clamor, only the thick quietude of crumpled talk.†   (source)
  • The air was full of the stirring clamor of a multitude of voices—angry, triumphant, scornful with an occasional oath or epithet of contempt—but the voice of Sam Houston was not heard.†   (source)
  • If he suffers us to fall to such a case that there is no escaping, then we may stand to our tackle as best we can, and yes, Will, then we may clamor like champions …. if we have the spittle for it.†   (source)
  • Rod found it more disturbing than their clamor, since a noisy stobor advertised its location whereas a silent one could be anywherewhy, the nearest one could now be sitting on the branch behind his head.†   (source)
  • The Gilt Corpse began to clamor for attention.†   (source)
  • "And turn all the people of the villages against us?" clamored Shere Khan.   (source)
    clamored = protested
  • Then the clamor broke out again.   (source)
    clamor = noisy demands
  •   "To kill a naked cub is shame. ... Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law. Is it difficult?"
      There was a clamor of scores of voices, saying: "What matter? He will die in the winter rains. He will scorch in the sun. What harm can..."   (source)
    clamor = loud voices making themselves heard
  • Saknis raised his arm, and instantly the clamor was silenced.†   (source)
  • Growing up in Baton Rouge, it was a crowded house, full of clamor and extremes.†   (source)
  • Other chairs and bodies clamored to the floor.†   (source)
  • I can tell by the clamor that rises in the room after Tobias speaks.†   (source)
  • The girls nearest me clamored to know what the letter said and who had written it.†   (source)
  • "Did it work?" a clamor of voices asked when I got back to the dining room.†   (source)
  • Mama stood up, stopping the clamor short.†   (source)
  • You can't do this," the Asian guy clamored.†   (source)
  • Whether or not they understood the meaning of "loud clamor," they didn't dare be making one now.†   (source)
  • Barely weaned before you clamor for the whiskey bottle, the pint of stout.†   (source)
  • CLAMOR AND SCREECH of birds, as if the sunlight had set them afire.†   (source)
  • Then they were all talking at once, trying to be heard over the fierce clamor of the dog.†   (source)
  • So many groups would clamor to give him awards that he'd find it difficult to fit everyone in.†   (source)
  • A dozen other men all spoke at once, clamoring to be heard.†   (source)
  • Nymphs clamor for me, and I may choose the best among them, which is Scylla.†   (source)
  • For their part, they crowded him, clamoring for the story of his miraculous transformation.†   (source)
  • When the nieces and nephews began clamoring for the little flags on the pickup, he snapped at them.†   (source)
  • "There's also a great gaggle of bakers, butchers, and greengrocers clamoring to be heard."†   (source)
  • Such mounts were used to the din and clamor of battle; the scent of blood did not spook them.†   (source)
  • Jared started to say something in an urgent tone, but a clamor from the tunnel interrupted him.†   (source)
  • PACIFIC COAST CLAMORING FOR MATCH RACE HIGH STRIKE WAR ADMIRAL SEA BISCUIT IN THAT ORDER.†   (source)
  • The boy screamed, but his screams were lost in the clamor that was tearing the night apart.†   (source)
  • The cabinet members are struck by his modesty but clamor for more.†   (source)
  • The shrill sound cut through the clamor like a sword.†   (source)
  • "What's this?" he says, his face all clamor and disappointment.†   (source)
  • She'd expected a murky lake bottom below her-black demons clamoring for her in their lust for death.†   (source)
  • With Charles he shared his private views on the current clamor over the subject of equality.†   (source)
  • People started talking about my stylish armor designs, and now they're clamoring for product.†   (source)
  • Their clamor echoed back at them from the walls, only to redouble their fear.†   (source)
  • Our studying forgotten, we girls clamor around her, hands reaching for some word from home.†   (source)
  • At the meal's conclusion, a great clamor swept the dining hall.†   (source)
  • Max was dully aware of the announcer's voice rising above the clamor of the crowd.†   (source)
  • An angry clamor went up from the king's men.†   (source)
  • Two more of the wraiths did likewise, and the forest echoed with the strident clamor of their cries.†   (source)
  • But I'd give a day's pay to find out what caused that clamor.†   (source)
  • Vamos!" my uncle called and we clamored aboard.†   (source)
  • The reporters have begun clamoring for him, shouting their questions up to the third-floor window.†   (source)
  • "Jeremy," she said slowly, her voice barely audible over the clamor of the fighting.†   (source)
  • His head was throbbing from a shrill clamor that drilled relentlessly into both ears.†   (source)
  • But the clamor continued, wails and cries and moans.†   (source)
  • But Old Chao and Theresa seemed to him to be making an outrageous clamor even when they were quiet.†   (source)
  • He spat by his foot as people clamored with agreement.†   (source)
  • For all the clamor over politics, the country was still at peace and more prosperous than ever.†   (source)
  • The birds raise a clamor with their chilling caws.†   (source)
  • Then they heard a high-pitched clamor of screams and knew it was horses.†   (source)
  • "Memememe," the girls clamored in English.†   (source)
  • One and then another and then all of them, a great clamor.†   (source)
  • ANN'S RETURN TO SPENCE IS GREETED WITH CHEERS FROM the younger girls, who clamor for her attention.†   (source)
  • A clamor filled the pavilion, as other men loudly set forth their claims.†   (source)
  • "The Lady Meera of House Reed," the rotund guardsman bellowed over the clamor.†   (source)
  • "Belike we need to flush the crows," Rattleshirt bellowed over the clamor.†   (source)
  • The bull riding clamored and clanked to a conclusion.†   (source)
  • Once I started teaching on the island, a great many of my friends clamored for a trip to Yamacraw.†   (source)
  • The clamor beyond the intervening door was muffled.†   (source)
  • Outside his closed mind a huge thing was clamoring to get in.†   (source)
  • She kicks down both of the Plexiglas walls, and they clamor against the desk and chair before sliding onto the ground.†   (source)
  • Harry caught sight of a pearly white figure drifting across the entrance hall below and yelled as loudly as he could over the clamor.†   (source)
  • The Slytherins clamored to give their explanations; Snape pointed a long yellow finger at Malfoy and said, "Explain."†   (source)
  • He shook her again, and this time her lashes fluttered; he felt his relief like a sudden cold sweat, and then her eyes were open, but they were no longer green; they were an opaque and glowing white, white and blinding as headlights on a dark road, white as the clamoring noise inside his own mind.†   (source)
  • The cafeteria clamored with the sounds of plastic trays against wooden tables and forks scraping plates, but any conversations were muted.†   (source)
  • I remember pondering the phrase "new life" as if it actually might reveal some hint of where he'd gone; for after I'd badgered and clamored and pestered my mother for about a week, she'd finally consented to let me see the letter myself ("well, all right," she said resignedly, as she opened her desk drawer and fished it out, "I don't know what he expects me to tell you, you might as well hear it from him").†   (source)
  • The big iron gate in front of the building was closed, but there was an unusual clamor coming from inside the house.†   (source)
  • Then his need and will to live , and there was still quite a lot of each in him , rose up and clamored the momentary weakness away.†   (source)
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