All 7 Uses
clamor
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- And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.†
Chpt 1clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
- Others, in the water, were clamouring to be taken aboard again.†
Chpt 1
- Perhaps it was to this that the golden colour was due; but golden his eyes were, enticing and masterful, at the same time luring and compelling, and speaking a demand and clamour of the blood which no woman, much less Maud Brewster, could misunderstand.†
Chpt 23clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- Wolf Larsen sprang on deck, and so swiftly that by the time we followed him he had pulled the steerage-slide over the drunken clamour and was on his way forward to close the forecastle-scuttle.†
Chpt 26
- For a time I listened to the clamour in the steerage and marvelled upon the love which had come to me; but my sleep on the Ghost had become most healthful and natural, and soon the songs and cries died away, my eyes closed, and my consciousness sank down into the half-death of slumber.†
Chpt 26
- Why, we'll be clamorous for something to do.†
Chpt 31 *
- But had she seen the clamour in them and understood?†
Chpt 35clamour = 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)