Literary notes about Clamoring (AI summary)
In literature, the term clamoring is used to convey an urgent outburst of noise or demand, whether it be from a boisterous crowd or the inner workings of a character’s mind. Authors use the word to illustrate the physical din of groups—think of a scene where voices shout for justice or basic sustenance [1, 2, 3]—as well as to evoke internal, impassioned struggles, where every fiber of the being seems to be clamoring for expression or resolution [4, 5]. The word also finds a home in descriptions of theatrical or historical scenes, where clamoring captures the raw, almost tangible intensity of collective emotion, heightening the sensory impact of the narrative [6, 7, 8, 9].
- He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The bread supply in the central portion of the town had suddenly given out and there was a clamoring crowd demanding to be fed.
— from The Johnstown Horror!!!
or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account
of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker - Every ship-load from German ports brings them to his door in droves, clamoring for work.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis - For him each point of space, of time, each feeling in the ego, each quality of being, is clamoring, "I am the all,—there is nought else but me.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - To live was to give expression to the clamoring forces in him.
— from Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht - In the quiet that had attended his entrance the roar of the impatient theatre, clamoring for the curtain to rise, could be heard.
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson - The Triumvirate, with Cæsar at its head, had finally trodden down all law; and yet every one was clamoring for legal rights!
— from The Life of Cicero, Volume II. by Anthony Trollope - Thank God for the swing of it, For the clamoring, hammering ring of it, Passion of labor daily hurled On the mighty anvils of the world
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker - Many of the personages comprised in this menagerie possessed no other renown but the outcry caused by their debts, clamoring around them.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo