All 14 Uses of
clamor
in
Ben Hur
- In its sleepy content, the brute did not admit of disturbance from the bustle and clamor about; no more was it mindful of the woman sitting upon its back in a cushioned pillion.†
Chpt 1.8clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- Her cries were shrillest of all; cutting through the clamor, they had risen distinguishably to the roof.†
Chpt 2.6
- Other trumpets joined in the clamor—all from the rear, none forward—from the latter quarter only a rising sound of voices in tumult heard briefly.†
Chpt 3.5
- The shouting increased on the right hand and on the left; before, behind, swelled an indescribable clamor.†
Chpt 3.5
- From fleet and wharf, and from ship to ship, the bondmen of traffic passed in clamorous counter-currents.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- Unlike the colder people of the West, he could not protest the driver's inability, and dismiss him civilly; an Arab and a sheik, he had to explode, and rive the air about him with clamor.†
Chpt 4.7clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- I seem to hear the crash of the falling of old walls and the clamor of a universal change—ay, and for the uttermost joy of men, the earth opens to take Rome in, and they look up and laugh and sing that she is not, while we are;" then he laughed at himself.†
Chpt 4.11
- As they approach, the spectators stand upon the benches, and there is a sensible deepening of the clamor, in which a sharp listener may detect the shrill piping of women and children; at the same time, the things roseate flying from the balcony thicken into a storm, and, striking the men, drop into the chariot-beds, which are threatened with filling to the tops.†
Chpt 5.12
- Meantime the ushers succeeded in returning the multitude to their seats, though the clamor continued to run the rounds, keeping, as it were, even pace with the rivals in the course below.†
Chpt 5.14
- When, at length, they reached the gate of the Praetorium, the procession of elders and rabbis had passed in with a great following, leaving a greater crowd clamoring outside.†
Chpt 6.6clamoring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
- Behind, the clamor continued—a medley of shrieks, groans, and execrations.†
Chpt 6.6clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- The talking was, for the most part, like that indulged by people at the seaside under the sound of the surf; for to nothing else can the clamor of this division of the mob be so well likened.†
Chpt 8.9
- If a throat tired of one cry, they invented another for it; if brassy lungs showed signs of collapse, they set them going again; and yet the clamor, loud and continuous as it was, could have been reduced to a few syllables—King of the Jews!†
Chpt 8.9
- Clamors blew upon him like blasts—laughter—execrations—sometimes both together indistinguishably.†
Chpt 8.10
Definition:
loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice