"Clamant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nerve, the branches of which come out from the brain by the eye-sockets. Such investigations will never be properly carried out and co-ordinated without the establishment of a Hair Ministry, which is one of the clamant needs of reconstruction. It is an open secret that the question was discussed a year ago and set aside for the curious reason that of the three persons whose candidature was most powerfully supported two were bald, and the third was the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 30, 1919 • Various
... on the hills they are most likely to be live-oaks—they are semi-globular in shape like our apple trees, only huge, of a clamant, virile, poisonous green. They grow alone, and each one of them seems to be standing knee-deep in shadow so thick and moist that it is like a deep ...
— The Californiacs • Inez Haynes Irwin
... to Philip to protect me. I even begged him to permit me to retire from my Ministerial office, that thus the clamant envy that inspired my persecution might be deprived of its incentive. Finally, I begged him to order me to stand my trial, that thus, since I was confident that no evidence could be produced against me, I should force an acquittal from ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... a clamant and manifold astonishment in the kitchen of the inn, together with prodigal and ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... remarks I have already detained you far too long. Ere concluding, however, bear with me for a minute or two longer, while I shortly speak of one clamant subject—viz. the strong necessity of this Society, and of every Scotsman, battling and trying to prevent, if possible, the further demolition of the antiquarian relics scattered ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson |
