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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].
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. To live was to give expression to the clamoring forces in him.
    — from Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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

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