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- noun Plural form of
clangour . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clangour .
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Examples
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Then clash their sounding arms; the clangours rise,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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The air, which encouraged perspiration, was rich with many odours; voices endeavouring to make themselves audible in colloquy, swelled to a tumultuous volume that vied with the Hungarian clangours.
In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880
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When cries confused, and clangours rolled more near;
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806
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Beneath him spread; nor clangours, nor deep groans,
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806
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Then clash their sounding arms; the clangours rise,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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But when the trumpet's clangours ceaaei Let Virtue tune the lute of Peace.
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The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900
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Henley speaks of his "clangours of bronze and gold and scarlet" and admits that "there are moments when his work is as infallibly decorative as a
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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■ who have ftood forth the zealous advocates of the democratical American charters, be the loudeft in their clangours againft fuch inn novations?
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