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loud noise and/or persistent demands — especially from human voice
- These clamors attracted the attention of the cardinal.1.1.4 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 4 — Master Jacques Coppenole (57% in)
- The cries, the laughter, the trampling of those thousands of feet, produced a great noise and a great clamor.1.1.1 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 1 — The Grand Hall (13% in)
- From time to time, this noise and clamor redoubled; the current which drove the crowd towards the grand staircase flowed backwards, became troubled, formed whirlpools.1.1.1 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 1 — The Grand Hall (14% in)
- Hence, discomfort, impatience, weariness, the liberty of a day of cynicism and folly, the quarrels which break forth for all sorts of causes—a pointed elbow, an iron-shod shoe, the fatigue of long waiting—had already, long before the hour appointed for the arrival of the ambassadors, imparted a harsh and bitter accent to the clamor of these people who were shut in, fitted into each other, pressed, trampled upon, stifled.1.1.1 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 1 — The Grand Hall (49% in)
- And at the fountain of Saint-Innocent, that huntsman, who was chasing a hind with great clamor of dogs and hunting-horns.1.1.2 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 2 — Pierre Gringoire (37% in)
- He, on his side, perceived nothing that was going on in the hall; he wagged his head with the unconcern of a Neapolitan, repeating from time to time, amid the clamor, as from a mechanical habit, "Charity, please!"1.1.4 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 4 — Master Jacques Coppenole (25% in)
- His mouth was wide open, and from it there escaped a cry which no one heard, not that it was covered by the general clamor, great as that was but because it attained, no doubt, the limit of perceptible sharp sounds, the thousand vibrations of Sauveur, or the eight thousand of Biot.1.1.5 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 5 — Quasimodo (35% in)
- But the blind man began to increase his stride at the same time; and, behold! the cripple and the legless man, in his bowl, came up on their side in great haste, and with great clamor of bowl and crutches, upon the pavement.1.2.6 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 6 — The Broken Jug (15% in)
- Gringoire shuddered, and turned towards the side whence the clamor proceeded.1.2.6 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 6 — The Broken Jug (96% in)
- It was he who went to seek M. de Nemours at the Bastille Saint Antoine, in order to conduct him to the Halles; and to conduct to the Grève M. de Saint-Pol, who clamored and resisted, to the great joy of the provost, who did not love monsieur the constable.1.6.1 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 1 — An Impartial Glance at.... (23% in)
- From time to time, a sharp and vibrating voice pierced the general clamor.2.8.6 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 6 — Three Human Hearts Differently.... (42% in)
- The thought had occurred to him of ascending to the southern belfry and sounding the alarm, but before he could have set the bell in motion, before Marie's voice could have uttered a single clamor, was there not time to burst in the door of the church ten times over?2.10.4 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 4 — An Awkward Friend (47% in)
- I am not the man to fling myself into those clouds which break out into seditious clamor.2.10.5 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 5 — The Retreat in which.... (61% in)
- The roar of the outcasts' assault reached them more confusedly and less clamorously.2.11.1 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 1 — The Little Shoe (9% in)
- These torches seemed to be in search of something; and soon distant clamors reached the fugitives distinctly :—"The gypsy! the sorceress! death to the gypsy!"2.11.1 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 1 — The Little Shoe (21% in)
- The uproar drew nearer; the tower of the lieutenant's house, situated opposite the Grève, was full of clamors and light, and soldiers could be seen running on the opposite quay with torches and these cries, "The gypsy!2.11.1 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 1 — The Little Shoe (30% in)
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