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When my palfrey eyed them askance for their clamorousness, and shrank somewhat back, they quarrelled with him almost before they saluted me, and asked him many pert questions.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

The plagues of Egypt scarcely symbolize the number and clamorousness of the mendicants.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

Is the clamorousness that succeeds the death of God’s dumb creatures, are crowded halls, are slaughtered cattle festivals?—are maddening songs, and giddy dances, and hireling praises from parti-coloured coats?

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

The daws, with cawing clamorousness, flew to and fro across the abyss, and crept into the crevices of the rock where their nests were.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John