Both Uses of
clamor
in
1776, by McCullough
- Recalling their youth, one of his brothers would describe Nathanael during lulls in the clamor of the foundry, seated near the great trip-hammer, a leather-bound volume of Euclid in hand, calmly studying.†
p. 22.1 *clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- WINTER IN AMERICA was a trial British soldiers could never get used to, any more than they could adjust to the incessant clamor of frogs on spring nights or American mosquitoes or the absence of decent beer.†
p. 72.7
Definition:
loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice