Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. From LearnThat.org. [Sir Walter Scott]
A clarion call. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"clarion," as Mike Bloomberg called the first remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Outside the Beltway] Reference
Slone understood it to be a clarion call to Nagger. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
And his clarion, so shrill, gave the company warning. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball] Reference
The hoarse clarion utters the ensanguined note of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Saw the seraphs gather them, their clarion voices calling. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
"You want to look at my pig!" she announced in clarion tones. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
A Roman lituus, or clarion, was found near Tattershall Ferry. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The clear clarion of the cocks sounded from distant clearings. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The Clintons 'visibility and clarion calls are always welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Walden: The Clintons Take Over Global Disaster Relief] Reference
The grave question rang like a clarion call in Marjorie's soul. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
By such clarion calls are nations summoned to strenuous exertions. From Wordnik.com. [War, The Health Of The State] Reference
The electorate wanted not ideological clarion calls but competence. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Right] Reference
In his mild way, he is issuing a clarion call to future generations. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Shesol: Evolving Circumstances, Enduring Values] Reference
He pressed the bell then and heard its clarion sound inside the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
Their clarion call is not "do something" but in reality to do nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Lennard Davis: Tea Party Activists? They Actually Are Inactivists!] Reference
Seizing the instrument, he clapped it to his lips, and blew a clarion call. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference
His voice, like a clarion trumpet among the Alps, produced echoes all around. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
She also issues a clarion call for an end to all new regulations in California. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Harsh Realm: The Meg Whitman Program for Future California] Reference
"A Million Moderate March ... a clarion call for rationality," Stewart called it. From Wordnik.com. ['Rally to Restore Sanity' to meet 'March to Keep Fear Alive;' Reddit users talk about starting the campaign] Reference
Willa's tones rang out without passion but clarion clear in her absolute certitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
She sat very still, almost breathlessly, listening to the clarion, welcoming prelude. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
All of it has the tone of a clarion call to duty and patriotism, and none of it makes sense. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: I'm America, and I'm Tired] Reference
The loud clarion sounded, the notes of the trumpets were heard, and the brazen cymbals shook the air. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The Byrds took it electric in the 1960s, but it lives on as a clarion call for a species on the brink. From Wordnik.com. [Harvey Wasserman: Pete Seeger Speaks & Sings for Solartopia] Reference
"Two," counted the teacher, and with one concerted blast every pupil blew his or her nose in clarion notes. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
He sent out one clarion cry of 'Good-bye, George!' and surrendered himself to a fit of uncontrolled laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
If Seles's tragedy was once considered an aberration, Kerrigan's seems a clarion call to increased vigilance. From Wordnik.com. [Sports, Most Foul] Reference
It is charged with no clarion message of prophecy; it is burdened with no exactly formulated philosophy of life. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Ever eager to issue the clarion call for sacrifice -- on somebody else's part -- they issued their calls to arms. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Austerity Chic: It's This Year's "Weapons of Mass Destruction"] Reference
Today's US Census report on poverty in the United States is a clarion call to our nation and our elected leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jesse Jackson: An Open Letter to Our Nation's Leaders] Reference
(Soundbite of applause) FOLKENFLIK: And Stewart says his clarion call for rationality cannot be easily dismissed. From Wordnik.com. [Stewart, Colbert To Host Dueling Rallies In D.C.] Reference
We didn't have that kind of clarion message that Ronald Reagan had, a clear distinct and a positive agenda. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Polls Show Gore and Bush Maintaining Iowa Leads; Bradley Sinking and McCain Rising in New Hampshire - January 23, 2000] Reference
It†™ s a bit of a kind of clarion call as to where America might yet go. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
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