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Outernational are known as a vociferous political-protest band, but the outfit's members are also seasoned musicians with wide-ranging talents (just ask Tom Morello, who produced tracks for the group's debut album), who know how to put on an excellent show.— Flavorpill New York Events
Often did the Clerks' {p.252} coach_, commonly called among themselves the Lively_--which trundled round every morning to pick up the brotherhood, and then deposited them at the proper minute in the Parliament Close--often did this lumbering hackney arrive at his door before he had fully appeased what Homer calls "the sacred rage of hunger;" and vociferous was the merriment of the learned uncles_, when the surprised poet swung forth to join them, with an extemporized sandwich, that looked like a ploughman's luncheon, in his hand.— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
The other, so far as I can remember, confined his utterances to frequent, vociferous, and wholly inarticulate cries of the chase The Major presented them to us as Captain Tom O'Halloran and Mr. Finucane And we've had the divvle's own luck, Major, dear," announced Tom O'Halloran.— Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
The howling monkeys were the most vociferous--now uttering loud groans, now yells of laughter and other strange sounds, truly making night hideous.— The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela

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