All 9 Uses
clamor
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- In her cabin home the wings of desire were clipped, because she must needs put her passionate young soul into the longing for food, to quiet the cravings of a healthy stomach, which generally clamoured from one blackberry season to the other; the longing for shoes, when her feet were frostbitten; the yet more urgent wish to feed the little ones she loved; the pressing demand, when the water-bucket gave out and they had to pack water in a tin tomato can with a string bail; the dull ache of mortification when she became old enough to understand their position as the borrowing Passmores.†
Chpt 2clamoured = made loud noise and/or persistent demands
- And even as her feet carried her forward to Pap Himes's boarding-house, her soul went clamouring, questing back toward the heights, and the sunlight, the love and laughter, she had left behind.†
Chpt 3clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
- One would have said that to the daughter of such the close cotton-mill room with its inhuman clamour, its fetid air, its long hours of enforced, monotonous, mechanical toil, would be prison with the torture added.†
Chpt 5clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- The Hardwick mill was a large one; to the mountain-bred girl it seemed endless, while its clamour and roar was a thing to daunt.†
Chpt 6 *
- "I told you I'd speak a good word for you," shouted Mandy Meacham, putting her lips down close to Johnnie's ear where she struggled and fought with her looms amid the deafening clamour of the weaving room.†
Chpt 8
- She knew now that the tasks of the little spinners, which seemed less than child's play, were deadly in their monotony, their long indoor hours, and the vibrant clamour amid which they were performed.†
Chpt 9
- Something in the atmosphere must have made itself felt, for no sound could have penetrated the din of the weaving room; yet some of the women left their looms and came running in behind the two pale, scared little brothers, to add their shrieks to the general clamour.†
Chpt 17
- The narrow depression vibrated with its joyous clamour.†
Chpt 24
- Every whistle in Cottonville gave tongue, clamouring hoarsely above the valley, and out across the ranges, to the hundreds at their futile search, "Gray Stoddard is found.†
Chpt 24clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
Definitions:
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(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)