The vision vanished, the shrill clamor died away over the open reaches of the lake, and shaking off my tremor, I cheered our dogs again to the road.
The sound changed gradually to a clamor of wolves over their slain victim, and then to the drums and trumpets of an army on the march; and then I awoke to find it broad daylight, and Stranion beating a tin pan just over my head.
It was partly the result of exhaustion caused by my anxiety and suspense, but partly also, no doubt, a sort of semi-hypnotic bewilderment induced by the motion and by the monotonous clamor of the storm.
My friends, more fortunate than I, will smother their loneliness in the clamor of an orgy.
The greater was her astonishment and anger when admission was refused, and she therefore began to clamor loudly, hoping by this means to attract some of the scholars, who would recognize her and procure her admittance.
They ran at top speed and in silence, but behind them came a clamor of soldiers from the guard-house.
In mid-morning there suddenly broke on the sweet stillness that clamor of discordant bells that made the wayfarer in Edinburgh stop his ears.
The sheep-dogs charged the cart with as deafening a clamor of welcome as if a home-coming had never happened before, and raced the horse across the level.
The triumphant clamor first of one then of another sect was confirmed, sometimes by miracle-proof, sometimes by bloodshed.
So, uncondemned, and indeed unobserved, in this clamor of fighting sects, Newton's grand theory solidly established itself.
Plunged in thought and heedless of the band, the increasedclamor aroused Obadiah.
The young hostess of this strange party was at first uncomfortable and embarrassed at the clamor of her small guests, but as she awakened to the enjoyment she was giving the orphans she forgot herself in their pleasure.
The killdeer is not forgotten, nor the burrowing owl, whose home is in the higher knolls; but over all and above all and through all comes the clamor of the black-necked stilt and the American avocet.
They were quite wild while here, rising with deafening clamor when approached, but they had become so attached to the locality that they would merely circle about and alight on the borders of some neighboring pool.
Ross also saw thousands of birds feeding greedily on the dried seed of the marsh grasses, paddling in the pools, and setting up a clamor to drive a man mad.
Ross heard a confused murmur of voices broken by the clamor of the dogs.
And the silence that followed was as threatening in its way as the clamor had been.
From window and doorway a clamor of questions arose, while many, running into the street, surrounded her and sought to stop her progress.
Again the clamor rose to drown his words, but this time Goursac, rushing from side to side, shouted: "Let him continue!
They moved with the assured bearing of cosmopolitans, stirred and exhilarated by the clamor but not confused by it.
As they rounded the next bend of the cliff, however, a clamor of excited satisfaction arose from all the party.
There was no need to urge his party to haste; but it seemed to them all as if they were standing still, so swiftly did the clamor of the apes come upon them.
With a hoarse clamor of admiration, the mob surged forward to examine the fragments.
The air was split and battered with the clamor of raving voices.
As soon as a tier of counties swinging upward like the horns of the moon against Ohio on the east and in the Wabash Valley on the west was fairly settled, a clamor went up for statehood.
Seeing a huge surplus of revenue in the Treasury in 1883, they anticipated popular clamor by revising the tariff on the theory that it ought to be reformed by its friends rather than by its enemies.
Their clamor for "the restoration of the land to the people could not be silenced.
The clerks and civil servants of the government who had enjoyed long and secure tenure of office became alarmed at the clamor of new men for their positions.
Jackson, puzzled by the clamor on both sides, followed their example without making the constitutional bar absolute.
Then the Emperor Constantine arose, and forthwith the clamor subsided, and the emperor said: "I have often and earnestly desired that peace and Christian charity might characterize our deliberations.
Be not disheartened if thou hearest the murmuring of the deniers, the clamor of the hypocrites, the shouting of the contradictors, the barking of the furious, harmful dogs, in those climes.
Consider thou the days of Christ, how they were a very few, yet in a short space of time they caused a clamor and acclamation throughout all regions.
The clamor of the spiritual people hath risen with praise and glory to God, the All-glorious!
A bloodthirsty yell from a hundred throats answered him, with such a waving of weapons and a clamor that he could not understand what they were saying.
Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold-domed chamber where Bunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais.
This delay gave rise to no little dissatisfaction in Washington, where a clamor arose that McClellan should have followed up his successes at Antietam by immediately pursuing Lee into Virginia.
But for all the clamor I heard him whisper, "You have done with me what no one ever did yet; and oh!
On the death of the pope, these bishops recommended a successor to the suffrage of the college of cardinals, [126] and their choice was ratified or rejected by the applause or clamor of the Roman people.
He spoke and those in the hall shouted again and made clamor around him.
The youths who came to the race were so many and the clamor they made after defeat was so great, that her father made a law that, as he thought, would lessen their number.
She gave him a sense of dark waters hidden from the moon--a tenuous fugitive figure in the pretty clamor of the bright street.
In the cafés, satraps and burghers eating amid a suppressed clamor of whispers, plans.
The tender passed about the point, and he could hear more clearly the sullen clamor of the waves on the seaward bars.
He continued for three and four and then five hours at the wheel, while the smooth clamor of the engine, a slight quiver of the hull, alone marked their progress through an invisible element.
With a great clamor they swarmed out of the pinnace and began to investigate.
It was a martial clamor of men on the march, with the rattle of drums and a loud fanfare of trumpets.
The passengers had made no great clamor until the menacing ship drew close enough for them to descry the dreadful pennant which showed as a sable blot against the evening sky.
Much clamor being made at the North for the publication of the despatch, Mr. Johnson pretended to give it to the newspapers.
