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Example sentences for "clamors"

Lexicographically close words:
clamore; clamored; clamoring; clamorous; clamorously; clamour; clamoured; clamouring; clamourous; clamours
  1. The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been scarcely called in question in regard to matters of law; but the clamors have been loud against it as applied to matters of fact.

  2. If, therefore, the loud clamors against the plan of the convention, on this score, are well founded, no epithets of reprobation will be too strong for the constitution of this State.

  3. But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

  4. It is not clamors merely, but threatening cries," put in the marshal of Champagne running to the door which he opened, and through which a wild outburst of furious imprecations penetrated into the royal chamber.

  5. At the touching spectacle, the enthusiastic clamors of the mobile and credulous mass resounded loud, and prolonged cries of "Long live Marcel!

  6. At that signal the tumultuous clamors of the Jacques was hushed by little and little until the silence became profound, disturbed only by exclamations and moans from the affrighted noble women.

  7. While death was thus gaining fast on Sheridan, the miseries of his life were thickening around him also; nor did the last corner, in which he now lay down to die, afford him any asylum from the clamors of his legal pursuers.

  8. In the mean time, the clamors and incursions of creditors increased.

  9. She clamors for equal rights with men, yet we learn that "few women care to canvas in undesirable districts.

  10. In consequence, however, of the clamors of the Northern people for the restoration of their friends, both Houses of Congress united in a request to President Lincoln to take immediate steps for a general exchange.

  11. Anon they burst out from the room, they drop from arches and pictures, they rise like steam from the glassy pavement, and, meeting, mingle in wavering clamors of lamentation and shrieks of anguish.

  12. With terrors and with clamors compassed round.

  13. The complaints and clamors of the people in Agathias (l.

  14. Yet in spite of the clamors of superstition, a favorable prejudice for the character of Leo the Isaurian may be reasonably drawn from the obscurity of his birth, and the duration of his reign.

  15. Their complaints were specious, their clamors were loud, and the Romans were not averse to the example of disorder and impunity.

  16. From the church the people adjourned to the hippodrome: Justinian, in whose cause not a sword had been drawn, was dragged before these tumultuary judges, and their clamors demanded the instant death of the tyrant.

  17. The dysentery swept away one third of their army; and the clamors of his subjects, who were impatient to pass the Alps, disposed Theodebert to listen with respect to the mild exhortations of Belisarius.

  18. Veratius ran through the streets striking on the face the inoffensive passengers, and his attendant purse-bearer immediately silenced their clamors by the legal tender of twenty-five pieces of copper, about the value of one shilling.

  19. At length, destitute of provisions and hopeless of relief, that unfortunate monarch yielded to the groans of his subjects and the clamors of his soldiers.

  20. Footnote 43: In their clamors against Maurice, the people of Constantinople branded him with the name of Marcionite or Marcionist; a heresy (says Theophylact, l.

  21. They resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude.

  22. From the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors which resemble billows stirred the multitude.

  23. The Macedonians, therefore, supposing he was dead, came with great clamors to the gates, and menaced his friends so that they were forced to admit them, and let them all pass through unarmed along by his bedside.

  24. The clamors of the tired and fleeced suitors in Lord Eldon's court were silenced by "the horrors of the French revolution.

  25. Great praise is due to the "Sailor King" for the firmness with which he stood by his reform ministers in this crisis, despite the clamors of alarmists in Church and State.

  26. Such are the clamors of the English and the partisans of Burgundy.

  27. More than once was she obliged to interrupt the sewing at which she was engaged and show herself at one of the casements in response to the clamors of the admiring crowds that pressed before the treasurer's house.

  28. The difficulty was increased by the jealousy of the various Italian states, so that an unbiased judgment about the merits of this army of writers called for a man with courage enough to shut his ears to the clamors of local prejudice.

  29. There were many good men in the church who saw and who lamented prevailing corruptions, but their voice was overwhelmed by the clamors of interested partisans, or silenced by the authority of the popes.

  30. On Holy Thursday, while Paschal officiated before the altar, he was interrupted by the clamors of the multitude, who imperiously demanded the confirmation of a favorite magistrate.

  31. With these clamors Jonathan and his partners were greatly provoked, although they durst not show their anger openly; so they made them no answer, but went to other villages.

  32. But still the same clamors met them from all the people, who said, "Nobody should persuade them to have any other commander besides Josephus.

  33. How does he drown the clamors of passion, the calculations of mere expediency, the sophism of mere personal interest and utility.

  34. The justice of the National Assembly will probably dispose them to grant it, and the clamors of the Bordeaux merchants may be silenced by the clamors and arms of the colonies.

  35. House of Representatives, of a pretended memorial presented by Logan to the French government, has been so palpably exposed, as to have thrown ridicule on the whole of the clamors they endeavored to raise as to that transaction.

  36. Thus judged, as is their wont, the crowd, Till murmur rose to clamors loud.

  37. The next day was far more tolerable for poor Bruder, because he was occupied, and he found it much easier to resist the clamors of appetite.

  38. And Cronk, having satisfied the clamors of his appetite, began to be fascinated in his rough way with her grace and beauty.

  39. When the superintendent read the note the four men rushed forward, and for a moment their clamors were indescribable.

  40. Next the valley of the Genesee was unfolded, and with each increasing mile more and more distinct grew the clamors of toiling millions, jubilant with life and measureless in energy.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clamors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.