Read full poem →While, scale in hand, Dame Justice pass'd along.
Before her each with clamour pleads the laws,
Explain'd the matter and would win the cause.
Dictionary Entry
A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. clamouragainst clamourclamour popularclamour greatclamour public
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Poetry examples for “clamour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Or else baseborn.”” Yet Merlin thro’ his craft,
And while the people clamour’d for a king,
Had Arthur crown’d; but after, the great lords
Read full poem →Hither and thither,
Till the city resolves itself into a clamour of voices,
Crying hollowly, like the wind rustling through the forest,
Read full poem →Is it Florence we follow, or are we to tarry yet longer,
E'en amid clamour of arms, here in the city of old,
Seeking from clamour of arms in the Past and the Arts to be hidden,
Read full poem →Bells, bells, bells—
In the clamour and the clangour of the bells!
IV.
Read full poem →And ice-cold wave, at whiles the swan cries,
Did for my games the gannet's clamour,
Sea-fowls' loudness was for me laughter,
Read full poem →Hither and thither,
Till the city resolves itself into a clamour of voices,
Crying hollowly, like the wind rustling through the forest,
Read full poem →Was heard no more 1000
For clamour, when the golden palace door
Opened again, and from without, in shone
Read full poem →AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,
Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,
Read full poem →Amidst the clamour of exulting joys,
Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,