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• Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
• He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the… — William Shakespeare
• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. — Oscar Wilde
• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison
• Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's… — Joy Williams
• The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann
• From the first I was clamorous to learn ... — Eudora Welty
• To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles
• When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. — Ben Okri
• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing… — H. L. Mencken
• Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the… — H. L. Mencken
• The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare

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