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Example sentences for "clamoured"

Lexicographically close words:
clamoring; clamorous; clamorously; clamors; clamour; clamouring; clamourous; clamours; clamp; clamped
  1. Bennigsen manoeuvred and retired until his troops clamoured for battle.

  2. Such was the excitement that all Edinburgh seemed to have poured out to see the departure of the colonists, and hundreds of soldiers and sailors who could not be engaged clamoured to be taken on board.

  3. Presently we came in sight of the fine herds, who, all unconscious of trouble, were browsing on the fine pasture, and the Zanzibaris clamoured loudly for permission to capture them.

  4. The present Government is made up of men who clamoured for a Municipal Council during the Empire, and whose first step upon taking possession of the Hôtel de Ville was to decree the immediate election of a "Commune.

  5. Soothing measures, recommended by the Notables; long clamoured for by all liberal men.

  6. They clamoured once; now they have their misgivings; make their dolorous representations.

  7. For if there was ever a crying wrong that clamoured for suppression it is this violent woman.

  8. All had clamoured round that golden throne, pressing near to the queenly figure who sat there in a scarlet robe, her eyes still bandaged beneath the wreath of poppies which was pressed upon her shining tresses.

  9. Now they all clamoured and yelled as they dragged at his cloak, touched his clothes, fingered his sword, and nearly pulled the staff from his hand.

  10. In England the merchants still complained that their commerce was not properly protected, and the people clamoured against the conduct of the war.

  11. Remonstrances of the same kind were presented by different counties and corporations; and the populace clamoured aloud for inquiry and justice.

  12. Had the minister encountered no opposition but that which appeared within doors, his project would have certainly been carried into execution; but the whole nation was alarmed, and clamoured loudly against the excise-bill.

  13. The duke of Hamilton was at the head of this party which clamoured loudly for a new parliament.

  14. Thousands clamoured to follow, so that ere very long this island was colonized, a town being built there, and named "New Cadiz.

  15. What wonder if thousands clamoured to follow!

  16. And at length the camp became broken into two factions, one of which went with their leader, while the other clamoured for retreat.

  17. As a result of this realisation, Rhodes found himself confronted by all these followers, who loudly clamoured around him their indignation at having believed in his assertions.

  18. They would have ridiculed any general proposition as mere platitude, and pertinaciously clamoured for working details.

  19. The children of this world, who became the agitators of the church, clamoured for something more.

  20. No wonder, then, that these poor women flocked with tear-stained faces to the station, and clamoured for news of their husbands and sons.

  21. Unasked, they clamoured loudly to participate in the struggle, and while for the time being our own citizen soldiers were not accepted, contingents of splendid men were welcomed from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

  22. On the other hand, a rival print with an unpronounceable title, clamoured for Bikramajeet, the hero-king of old, for Hindu independence and the sword.

  23. That question clamoured for answer as the big ship began to slide from its moorings.

  24. The undercurrent bore him down a siding, into a backwater, as it were, that clamoured for discharge.

  25. His recognition of it was sub-conscious possibly, but for that very reason true: her purpose was consistent with the satisfaction at last of a deep instinct in him that clamoured to know gratification.

  26. Lady Fitzgraham, Connie Stapleton, and several others also clamoured for water to moisten their parched lips, and when I had attended to Dulcie I gave them some.

  27. I pounced upon him to make him be quiet, though Easterton and Osborne clamoured that he should be left alone and allowed to say anything he liked, Jack declaring that he wanted to hear "more of this romance.

  28. The Turkish Government continually clamoured for his release till 1723, but the French Government persistently denied having taken any part in the abduction.

  29. As the reason far this step could not be concealed, everyone, exaggerating the danger, imagined deadly mines ready to be fired everywhere, and the whole army clamoured to break up the camp.

  30. I can't spare that man; he fights," he had said when some clamoured for Grant's recall after Shiloh.

  31. Now that the President had intimated in the clearest possible fashion that he intended it to be permanent, they and all the inhabitants of Charleston, and indeed of South Carolina, clamoured loudly for the reduction of the fortress.

  32. By this time I was so full of the subject that it fairly clamoured for expression, and as I wrote the hours flew.

  33. Cries of angry feeling burst from the ranks of Brissot's friends, who clamoured for Camille Desmoulins' expulsion.

  34. They clamoured for interrogatory, sentence, forfeiture, abdication, imprisonment, and hoped to degrade royalty for ever by degrading the king.

  35. The multitude, not informed of this, filled the church, and clamoured for the priest and the promised Te Deum.

  36. The Jacobin party, with the exception of Robespierre, clamoured loudly for war: his fanaticism deceived him as to his weakness.


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