All 6 Uses of
clamor
in
The Good Earth
- But then his uncle's wife was a foolish woman, fat and lazy, and forever clamoring for sweet food and for this sort of thing and that and for new shoes bought in the town.†
Chpt 4
- He is clamoring to sell that strip near to the western field we now have.†
Chpt 5 *
- Here his old father habitually sat squatting on his thighs and leaning against the wall and here he sat now, having taken his bowl of food there to sup it, now that the children filled the but to bursting when they were clamoring.†
Chpt 13
- Then Wang Lung rose up, slowly and half dazed, and he set the girl child down and he went out and there before the great iron gates of the rich man's house a multitude of clamoring common people pressed forward, howling together the deep, tigerish howl that he had heard, rising and swelling out of the streets, and he knew that at the gates of all rich men there pressed this howling multitude of men and women who had been starved and imprisoned and now were for the moment free to do as…†
Chpt 14
- The land clamored for ploughing and planting and day after day he labored at it, and the paleness which the summer of his love had set on his flesh darkened to a deep brown under the sun and his hands, which had peeled off their callused parts under the idleness of love, hardened again where the hoe pressed and where the plow handles set their mark.†
Chpt 22
- When the river burst again the people went howling and clamoring to this magistrate's house, because he had not done what he promised and mended the dykes, and he ran and hid himself because the money he had spent in his own house, even three thousand pieces of silver.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice