746 examples of clamoured in sentences

But when we would have tarried yet for thee, these rogue-fellows clamoured for Walkyn to lead them into the wild, back to their ancient outlawry; so loud they clamoured and so oft, that, in the end, Walkyn smileda strange thing in him, master but he agreed, whereon we came nigh to cutting each other's throats, he and I. Howbeit, in the end he went, he and all the other rogues.

But when we would have tarried yet for thee, these rogue-fellows clamoured for Walkyn to lead them into the wild, back to their ancient outlawry; so loud they clamoured and so oft, that, in the end, Walkyn smileda strange thing in him, master but he agreed, whereon we came nigh to cutting each other's throats, he and I. Howbeit, in the end he went, he and all the other rogues.

Perceptibly the air thinned; one's lungs were taxed to capacity here; the blood clamoured for deeper drafts, for more oxygen.

"A short shrift for the mad dog," they clamoured, "who knows neither mercy nor pity.

"Diva," clamoured the famished citizens, "what doest thou, Frollo?

Thou mightst have yielded to the burning wind, That swept in tempest through thy scorching brain, And rushed into the thick cold night of the earth, And clamoured to the waves and beat the rocks; And never found the way back to the seat Of conscious rule, and power to bear thy pain; But God had made thee stronger to endure For other ends, beyond thy present choice: Wilt thou not own her story a fit theme For poet's tale?

In vain he clamoured!

They jostled each other for preference, they clamoured for notice as I have seen the dock labourers clamouring for a job at the London docks.

Prophets like Carlyle and Ruskin, slighting the economic causes of the change, clamoured for "Captains of Industry," employers who should realize a moral responsibility, and reviving a dead feudalism should assume unasked the protectorate of their employés.

A number of men clamoured for immediate lynching, but saner council prevailed for the time and he was dragged through the streets towards the city jail.

To this party, Sheridan, laughing in his sleeve at the extravagance of their demandsso that when they clamoured for a 'parliament once a year, or oftener if need be,' he pronounced himself an 'Oftener-if-need-be' manwas introduced, when his fame as a literary man had brought him into contact with some of its hangers on.

But the Cappadocians clamoured for a king, and so, in 93, the Senate appointed Ariobarzanes I. Mithridates then stirred up Tigranes, King of Armenia, to expel Ariobarzanes, who fled to Rome.

In February 54, a month when the senate had always much business to get through, it was so cold one day that the few members present clamoured for dismissal and obtained it.

Our spirits clamoured for expression, beating vainly against a thousand barred doors of speech.

In the pit, they exerted themselves with great spirit and vivacity; called out for the tunes of obscene songs, talked loudly at intervals of Shakespeare and Jonson, played on their catcalls a short prelude of terrour, clamoured vehemently for a prologue, and clapped with great dexterity at the first entrance of the players.

They rose at him as one man and clamoured for souvenirs.

They clamoured and begged so for Uncle Martin to stop over the next day for fishing and have one more good time with them,

These tributes were delivered in his lifetime; they deserve to be contrasted with the appreciations of those journalists who clamoured for his appointment, then clamoured for his dismissal, and profaned his passing with their insincere eulogies.

These tributes were delivered in his lifetime; they deserve to be contrasted with the appreciations of those journalists who clamoured for his appointment, then clamoured for his dismissal, and profaned his passing with their insincere eulogies.

"I'd walk up to the château if I were you," he said, when they clamoured for a jinriksha apiece.

A choice portion of his programme, which, owing to the events of the afternoon, he had almost resolved to omit, clamoured for production.

My wife went out and left me all alone, While more men came and clamoured at the door To strip the house of everything I own, The curtains and the carpets from the floor, The kitchen range, the cushions and the stove, And ask me things that husbands never know, "Is this 'ere paint the proper shade of mauve?"

No more obstinacy, no more hesitation; all of them clamoured to sign, willing, even eager to yield to any demand that a man gifted with the supernatural power of taking out his eye and replacing it at pleasure, might make.

And an inner voice clamoured in reply'Take her to those rooms?in the very middle of the struggle with those two pictures?go through all the agitation and discomfort of explanations with Lord Findon and Madame de Pastourelles?run the risk of estranging them, and of distracting your own mind from your work at this critical moment?the further risk, moreover, of Phoebe's jealousy?'

My small cannibals clamoured round me for flesh, as if I had had a butcher's cart in my pocket, till I began to laugh and then to run, and away they came, like a pack of little black wolves, at my heels, shrieking, 'Missis, you gib me piece meat, missis, you gib me meat,' till I got home.

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