"Clamorous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you see that? They are bills for this house: the accounts of clamorous creditors, upholsterers, locksmiths, builders and I don't ...
— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie
... long time she would hear none of this; but they grew so clamorous in their suit that she had to put them off with craft. For she saw that there would be danger to her country, and her son, and herself, unless Odysseus came home some day and turned the suitors out of doors. She therefore spoke them fair, and gave them some ...
— Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew • Josephine Preston Peabody
... the dark waters jockeys in silken jackets and on sweating thoroughbreds drifted to and fro like helpless butterflies. While in contrast to these many-coloured creatures of faerie, the great-coated and helmeted police in blue, on horses, hairy and solid as themselves, butted their way through the clamorous deeps, as they made for the rock round which ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... clamorous, smoke-infested district embraced by the iron arms of the elevated tracks. In a city boasting fewer millions, it would be known familiarly as downtown. From Congress to Lake Street, from Wabash almost to the river, those thunderous tracks ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... so did the whispers and suspicions of the country round; they daily grew louder, and more clamorous; and soon the charitable nature of chagrined wonder assumed a shape more heart-rending to the wretched finder of that golden hoard, than any other care, or fear, or sin, that had hitherto torn him. It only was a miracle ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
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