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Definition
loud noise and/or persistent demands — especially from human voice
- At home he clamored that his father was a "tightwad."Chapter 12 (37% in)
- Ira clenched his fist and scowled, then belched with laughter, slapped Martin distressingly on the back, and clamored, "Brother, you've got to do better than that to get Ira's goat!Chapter 2 (61% in)
- Holding out his hand he clamored: "Angus, old man, want to congratulate you on getting Sigma Xi.Chapter 7 (47% in)
- So insistent was the thought that for a time he did not realize that Mrs. Novak was clamoring, "She is dead?Chapter 15 (79% in)
- Bert came back clamoring that every motor in town must carry a Wheatsylvania pennant.Chapter 16 (17% in)
- When the neighborhood suddenly achieved a real epidemic of diphtheria and Martin shakily preached antitoxin, one-half of them remembered his failure to save Mary Novak and the other half clamored, "Oh, give us a rest!Chapter 18 (48% in)
- They were all bouncing, all blond, all pretty, all eager, all musical, and not merely pure but clamorously clean-minded.Chapter 19 (53% in)
- He was eager to have Martin invent and clamor about his own Causes and Movements.Chapter 20 (0% in)
- At the cabin there was a clamor of disembarkation.Chapter 20 (90% in)
- Tredgold came into the laboratory, a half-hour later, with much clamor.Chapter 24 (42% in)
- Tubbs gasped, assaulted his whiskers, did a moment of impressive thinking, and clamored: "Do you mean to say you think you've discovered an infectious disease of bacteria, and you haven't told me about it?Chapter 29 (6% in)
- He felt that there should be a clamor from this exotic world, but there was only a rebuking stillness, and even Sondelius became dumb, though he had his moment.Chapter 33 (41% in)
- Inchcape Jones assured the doubtful Leora that she would nowhere else be so safe; the house was rat-proofed, and the doctor had caught the plague at the pier, had died without ever coming back to this well-beloved bungalow in which he, the professional bachelor, had given the most clamorous parties in St. Hubert.Chapter 33 (66% in)
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