All 5 Uses of
clamor
in
Jane Eyre
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.†
p. 56.1clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- as it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.†
p. 65.9
- It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued.†
p. 126.7
- Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adele: she demands a 'cadeau,' clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush.†
p. 142.9 *
- They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly.†
p. 365.2clamoured = made loud noise and/or persistent demands
Definition:
loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice