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Definition of Clangorously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clangorously
Literary usage of Clangorously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1901)
"... however, and in a moment the door opened sufficiently to give entrance to the
old gentleman, after which it closed quickly and clangorously behind him. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"and publishes a clangorously indignant Manifesto (evidently his own writing, and
coming from the heart): * ' How they have, not bound by their Austrian ..."
3. Philippine Life in Town and Country by James Alfred LeRoy, James Alfred Le Roy (1907)
"The bells from a score of towers make the day clangorously hideous and the early
morning an irritation to the stranger, if the Angelus bells of evening do ..."
4. Works by Thomas Carlyle (1894)
"... clangorously plaintive; what a wild sincerity, almost pathos, is in it; and
whether Fritzchen, with his eyes all bewept even for what Papa had suffered ..."
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