All 8 Uses
clamor
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- The sleepers sprang to life, and the station filled with clamour and shoutings, cries of water and sweetmeat vendors, shouts of native policemen, and shrill yells of women gathering up their baskets, their families, and their husbands.†
Chpt 2clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- All India was at work in the fields, to the creaking of well-wheels, the shouting of ploughmen behind their cattle, and the clamour of the crows.†
Chpt 3
- Half a mile in the rear, Kim heard a hoarse and joyful clamour rolling down on him through the thick dust.†
Chpt 6 *
- The clamour of Benares, oldest of all earth's cities awake before the Gods, day and night, beat round the walls as the sea's roar round a breakwater.†
Chpt 11
- 'Then it must be written, or she will deafen me with her clamour.'†
Chpt 12
- So the forest took them to her bosom, and, for all oaths and clamour, refused to restore.†
Chpt 13
- The little fir-clump filled with clamouring coolies—panic-stricken, and in their terror capable of anything.†
Chpt 13clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
- Then she fed him, and the house spun to her clamour.†
Chpt 15clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
Definitions:
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(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)