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  • The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: The Crimson Fairy Book
  • The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
  • Hitting metal crap with swords in-game should make a 'clanky' noise. Us Being Human
  • Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press.
  • Bottles roll clanking on the floor, under the bonnet a hung-up tappet or two chatters its story of discomfort. Gravity's Rainbow
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  • Madame Dort waddled over to the workbench, clanked her toolbox down beside it, flipped the heavy metal latches, and flung the thing open. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • 'Here we are now,' Beth said, as the train clanked into a tiny station.
  • Then in the sixth, again on a breaking ball, the pitch clanks off catcher Erik Castro and rolls out toward the mound, where Strasburg picks it up and fires to first to complete the putout. Eight Sliders Sliding
  • `Let me at the scoundrel ,' he cried, clanking across the yard, and throwing open his visor. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Gustav spoke, his voice fading and his armor clanking as he moved away.
  • ‘I will tell nobody,’ replied the youth, and as he spoke the sword clanked loudly. The Crimson Fairy Book
  • Then sun­light. ashed on metal, and the sound became distinct, a clank­ing and whirring of giant bronze wings. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Ruby knew it from the moment her excitement wore off, somewhere on the long, clanky elevated ride across Brooklyn. DIAMOND RUBY
  • With a loud clank, Pat dumped the money into the rusted box beside him.
  • Utrique igitur parti summe placuit contractus, et die lunae proximo ante festum Sancti Michaelis, apud North insulam de Perth, coram rege et gubernatore et innumerabili multitudine comparentes, conflictum acerrimum inierunt; ubi de sexaginta interfecti sunt omnes, excepto uno ex parte Clankay et undecim exceptis ex parte altera. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Beside him was a carelessly loaded dishwasher that was rattling and going clank, clank, clank. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • Thus Alastair Campbell, a key press aide, had "clanking great balls", George Bush is a "normal guy" and Alan Milburn, a favourite minister, was "fully simpatico with the direction of change".
  • The talk died away gradually until the only sound was the clank of the dishes.
  • Adrienne let go of her sword, which landed with a loud clank.
  • Abbadon steered himself through the maze-like tower, his heavy boots clanking with each step.
  • It seemed to him that he could already hear upon the winding stair the clank of the gens d'armes 'sabres as they came to get him. Sant' Ilario
  • The clank of our umbrellas as we hook them round the coat stand is shocking, like something clinking on a Church floor during prayer.
  • I hear a metallic "clank" as I start to walk across the ramp. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • The heels of her clogs clanking on the wooden desk floor, Matim Henoscil headed to a group of young ladies gathered near the railings.
  • One's senses become lulled to everything save bliss, for the clank and clamour of life have tiptoed from the room leaving you — I wasn't asleep. Janey Canuck in the West
  • His armour clankered slightly as he stepped, the gyrostabilisers kicking in with each grand step.
  • About half an hour later we had another quiet dinner, the soft clank of utensils the only sound in the stillness.
  • The radiator clanked and coughed, belching out a haze of smoke and heat.
  • The lights shone down upon us as our cleats clanked against the metal bleachers.
  • Also the great flob was there, who came clattering and clanking up from the bottom of the basin, with his hard shells and heavy claws, as if he was the greatest fish alive. Ting-a-ling
  • He was equipped for instant duty, as far as the imperfect twilight would allow me to see; the long sword clanked upon the floor as he made his way through the lobbies which led to my place of confinement; his ample military cloak hung upon his arm; his cocked hat was upon his head, and in all points he was prepared for the road. The Purcell Papers
  • In this age of virtual reality, audiences expect to be impressed and they were not disappointed, especially when the Beast's two robots with their creaks and clanks timed to perfection, bestrode the stage.
  • Inside the floors are splintery and rusty fans clank noisily above our heads.
  • It sounded like a clank of metal and some scratching.
  • Beside him was a carelessly loaded dishwasher that was rattling and going clank, clank, clank. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
  • The clank of metal against metal filled the room.
  • Breakfast was almost silent; the only sound the clanking of the bowls.
  • She tossed the iron into the brazier, where it landed with a metallic clank. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
  • His bootsteps clanked in time to hers on the decking gridwork. Songs of Love & Death
  • Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest. Rational Review
  • The corridors, she realized, had rubber mats so you could not hear sounds outside your cell, which heightened your surprise and panic when your cell door would clank open. Howard Kissel: Eva Zeisel: 1906-2011
  • You'll hear rather than see the unassuming clank of diesel locos sliding in and out of Newton Dale and the more exuberant klaxon and puff, puff, puff of the steam trains.
  • Five features you may have missed in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Spanish judge throws out criminal case against DS flash cart seller LittleBigPlanet Creator's Edition DLC delayed, producer apologizes Nintendo's resident name jotter-downer and kiester-kicker recently divulged to BMO Capital Markets attendees that the Wii is outperforming its rivals when it comes to female gamers. Joystiq
  • The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The best recent books: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alternate History
  • There was an almighty clank inside the mixer unit and boiling hot water started spurting out the sides and over the edge of the bath onto the floor.
  • The unit seized up with rattles and clanks, vibrating madly, falling supine upon the ground.
  • I love a mystery, but not if you hear the gears and wheels clinking and clanking in the background.
  • The sword clanked against die container side as I freed it, and I set aside my little pack of flask and sandwiches. The Gates of Noon
  • Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
  • Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest. Rational Review
  • I heard the cogged wheels under the drawbridge clank together and saw the bridge separate in the center and rise into the air. The Glass Rainbow
  • Whenever their team scored a goal, they leapt up and down clanking their beer cans together.
  • The fork clanked against her plate loudly.
  • I haven't seen anyone wearing cowboy hats or heard any spurs clanking.
  • `Let me at the scoundrel ,' he cried, clanking across the yard, and throwing open his visor. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • A valet whisks a car away for arriving patrons, while down at the corner, a Metro bus wheezes and clanks to a stop.
  • The sabers and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unornamental cortège as it trots toward Lafayette Square arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger stops and gazes.
  • The clanking tractor went along , shooting smoke out of its belly.
  • But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs. Tehran Winter
  • Clapping hands, smacking counter tops, stomping shoes on tile-they all have a nice "clank", "thud", or "bom" which delight a curious 13-month-old. Charlottesville Blogs
  • Partly it is the vividness of it - the great, gleaming engines with their clanking levers and hissing gouts of steam, and the almost vaudevillian cast of characters.
  • Utrique igitur parti summe placuit contractus, et die lunae proximo ante festum Sancti Michaelis, apud North insulam de Perth, coram rege et gubernatore et innumerabili multitudine comparentes, conflictum acerrimum inierunt; ubi de sexaginta interfecti sunt omnes, excepto uno ex parte Clankay et undecim exceptis ex parte altera. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • There was a sharp clank of silverware hitting the plate.
  • I listened again and heard a horse, then the clank of metal.
  • He heard the sounds of parts being welded and riveted together, and the clank of titanium against steel.
  • Mary went to a speaking tube by the lift and, after much rumbling and another clank, a pot of marmalade arrived. CHARMED LIFE
  • Somewhere in the distance a train was shunting; _clank, clank, clank_ went the wagons. The House with the Green Shutters
  • As if in mocking comment, from the town behind came the klaxon of a train, then the rumble and clank of wagons passing over the bridge. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • The sand disappeared in a giant ‘whoosh’ and the empty hemispherical sections returned together with a sharp clank.
  • Even “Button,” with its easily digested J-indie melody is clanky and bizarre. Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Japanese Music: 2000-2009
  • The clank of cutlery was loud against the plate as Kaethe set them down and cleared her throat, smiling a little too brightly.
  • Its five floors are linked by an old lift with a metal lattice door, clanked shut by an ageing attendant.
  • I walked over to him, my spurs clanking on the concrete platform and tipped the brim of my hat to him.
  • The covered sword clanked against the curlicued steel armrail, and the wiry little driver looked at me oddly. The Gates of Noon
  • Less than a second later, the chains clanked against the wall.
  • Metal rollers clank rhythmically inside the Imperial Distributors warehouse, as employees slide boxes packed with health and beauty products down the lines.
  • Hoyt's armor clinked and clanked with each step he took.
  • The ball clanked off the rim and toward the left corner.
  • Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires.
  • the train clanked through the village
  • Pavel drained his glass, set it on the table with a loud clank, and leaned back in his chair.
  • His knee bumped a bench, his sword clanked and clattered at his side, his footfalls boomed, or so it seemed to him. Dragons of a Vanished Moon
  • But the word trooper must not conjure up a vision of belted horsemen, rigid in uniform, with clanking sabres, and helmets of brass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • The last thing he remembered was a loud clank against his head… and then waking up in the backseat of a dingy car.
  • I picked my way down a well-worn trail toward the regular _clank, clank, click_ of the peavies. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • But, Lynnda, check this out ... * rattle rattle CLANK RATTLE rattle CLANK rattle* Don't you think you should do something about that? Idiot-milk Diary Entry
  • He stripped the leather gloves from his hands and pounded his fist into his steel palm with a clanking thud.
  • I heard an alligator flop in the water and the drawbridge opening upstream, the great cogged wheels clanking together, a boat with a deep draft laboring against the incoming tide. The Glass Rainbow
  • Slot machines were clanking, the juke box blasting with Glen Campbell. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • The gate clanked open.
  • Some of them certainly deserve naturalistic explanations: the last "true" ghost story I heard, for example, clearly involved a clanky furnace rather than a restless spirit. Archive 2008-01-01
  • The battlefield was silent. The only sounds were the whisper of wind through dry grass and the muted clank of weapons as soldiers stirred upon the walls.
  • She clanked softly as she moved - her whole body was covered with belts and buckles and straps.
  • A pause came, and I heard clanking in the background, repetitive and echoey, like thepingof a baseball against an aluminum bat. Duplex
  • Slot machines were clanking, the juke box blasting with Glen Campbell. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • The prisoner, with his hands tied behind his back, was brought out by the hangman, and amidst dead silence his sentence was being read by the judge when suddenly the sword clanked against his side. The Crimson Fairy Book
  • If you don't believe us, try it — the sound of ice clanking in a shaker causes a kind of Pavlovian response in party-goers. Party-Ready Punch
  • We headed over to where activity had been sighted, our heavy armor clanking ridiculously.
  • Mary went to a speaking tube by the lift and, after much rumbling and another clank, a pot of marmalade arrived. CHARMED LIFE
  • It's frustrating to see players get near the green in regulation, then start circling it to the right, clanking a bunch of chip shots off the hosel.
  • As for jewellery, lose anything rattly or clanky? Times, Sunday Times
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  • Above the faint rumble of the air conditioning, their cutlery clinks and clanks, the sound of a knight in full armour.
  • Kahn looked both ways and turned left, shifting into a higher gear with a clank.
  • the clanking arms of the soldiers near him
  • ‘Cheers,’ I said as we clinked our cans together a dull metallic clank before taking one long chug.
  • We eat tamales and posole, and set fire to farolitos and luminarias, and sing "Vamos Todos a Belen," "Everbody Go to Bethlehem" which is a kind of clanky waltz from "La Pastorela," the classic shepherds' play. Archive 2006-12-01
  • She fidgets throughout our chat, clanking a spoon on the table, tearing at the sauce sachets.
  • The girl talked, he talked, the radiator clanked.
  • I was genuinely quite shaken by the film, though - it's all machine guns rattling thunderously in your face and metal clanking noises - but the gore is pretty believable.
  • You'll hear rather than see the unassuming clank of diesel locos sliding in and out of Newton Dale and the more exuberant klaxon and puff, puff, puff of the steam trains.
  • My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
  • He laughed long and hard, bent over his knees, his armor jangling and clanking as his empty chest heaved.
  • To the tune of a Dutch sailors '"chanty" the links of the cable slowly clanked inboard. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub
  • Whenever their team scored a goal, they leapt up and down clanking their beer cans together.
  • A clanking, wheezing locomotive went past the cabin climbing the steep gradient.
  • The ball clanks off the rim like a cinder block; an ugly afterthought of a shot attempt.
  • Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press, but large sheets of uncut book pages would have been hanging from overhead wooden racks in the ceiling, the ink drying.
  • The law-machine was clanking and clattering to its own weird rhythm.
  • Ryan abruptly hung up the phone, the old receiver clanking heavily into the set.
  • Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest. Rational Review
  • The battle armour he always wore clanked incessantly against the scabbard of the broadsword at his waist.
  • The fact that it lost that high pitched clank is probably due to the fact that the recoil lugs are now mostly seated due to work-lapping and peening. A Shovelful of Salt
  • So if you see me driving round in a big, clanking heavy old thing, you will know that I got it right and chose the car.
  • She held the beer up like she was going to clink it to mine, but we only had one beer so I put up my fist and she clanked the beer to my fist.
  • My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
  • You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ... Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration
  • A small clank sounded and David looked down to see Julia rise with an old fashioned gold key.
  • Locking his own door securely, he moved to the green safe sitting in the corner of the room and opened it with a loud clank.
  • The ball clanks off the rim like a cinder block; an ugly afterthought of a shot attempt.
  • The _No. 5_ heaved anchor, the chain clanking and chattering in a hawsepipe. Poor Man's Rock
  • We had no air conditioning in the warm months and clanking radiators in the winter.
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  • They got off the bus and were led, leg chains clanking and dragging on the cobbles as they shuffled along, following the warder.
  • A pan rattled and clanked.
  • Bodies hurtle, armor clanks, force fields spark, vortexes swirl, oceans roil, warriors freeze and defrost, and none of it conveys a scintilla of feeling. 'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower
  • By three, just as the dawn was beginning to differentiate the east from the west, the regular _clank, clank, clink_ of the peavies proclaimed that due advantage of the high water was being seized. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
  • He yelled over the clanking and hissing of the hot metal being dunked into cold water.
  • He could hear the sound of scraping and clanking metal.
  • It carried through the muted, dusty air of the loft and out the mow and over the clanky elevator to Mark, who shut down the elevator. The Dirty Life
  • He raced towards the lake, his feet clanking on the tin roof, her own footsteps a bit louder behind him.
  • He clanked his chains, hoping someone on the floors above him would hear.
  • The severely sentenced prisoners' chains clanked as they walked.
  • At that moment, from across the river on whose banks they waited, there came a dull clanking, the sound muted by the damp atmosphere.
  • His heavy plate armour clanked as he waved his shield arm and brandished a huge spiked mace.
  • Her mother screeched and sat up abruptly, having the chair topple down onto the floor in a loud clank of noises.
  • He yanked out a knob and the music, a dirgelike stew of whistles, honks, and clanks, slowed down even more and went flat. Stalling
  • He heard the shriek of the gale, the clanking of the flag against its mast, the jangling of the jailers chain and his heavy footfall.
  • I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’.
  • Balance is achieved, a harmony of opposites in concord rather than discord (c.f. the robot's voice and clanking). Archive 2008-02-01
  • A loud clank echoed out and Tsuko was thrown off balance.
  • 'Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.' Moonwar
  • Behind him, Gideon heard the clank of a rifle bolt slamming home. Gideon’s war
  • None the less, the ponderous inspection machinery clanked into action.
  • Evan also clanked his chains as he shrugged and slouched further down in his seat, staring at his scarred wrists.
  • Every few hours a patrol of armoured vehicles clanks down empty streets and there is an occasional crackle of gunfire.
  • It makes such a satisfying "clank" when your vote is cast, like it weighs something. The Click Heard Round the World
  • A loud clank came from outside her door and they both stopped to listen, but no other sound made it to them.
  • The sound of booted feet was punctuated by the occasional clank of metal and soft, guttural voices.
  • As if in mocking comment, from the town behind came the klaxon of a train, then the rumble and clank of wagons passing over the bridge. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • Utrique igitur parti summe placuit contractus, et die lunae proximo ante festum Sancti Michaelis, apud North insulam de Perth, coram rege et gubernatore et innumerabili multitudine comparentes, conflictum acerrimum inierunt; ubi de sexaginta interfecti sunt omnes, excepto uno ex parte Clankay et undecim exceptis ex parte altera. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Occasional clanks are emitted by some distant valve.
  • Some light relief amid the high drama: he gets the ball and clanks around like an eejit.
  • He wore wooden shoes, that made a clonk and a clank every time he walked.
  • Like the generality of people who are psychic and who have never had an experience of the superphysical, my conception of a phantasm was a "thing" in white that made ridiculous groanings and still more ridiculous clankings of chains. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
  • The sword clanked loudly as the boy was led away, but the child said nothing, though he was very unhappy at being treated so badly when he had done nothing. The Crimson Fairy Book
  • The guard clanked his heavy ring of keys.
  • There was a loud clank as the metal hit concrete.
  • The law-machine was clanking and clattering to its own weird rhythm.
  • That is not an idle boast, for the network is alive night and day with the thundering rattle of powerful locomotives and the incessant clanking of machinery in repair depots and marshalling yards.
  • My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
  • Then she led him down the hallway, his suit of armor clanking in rhythm with his steps.
  • It even includes the clanky noise for extra effect. Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia
  • The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection.
  • Grimy tugboats lay beside the traps, shrilling the air with creaking winches as they "brailed" the struggling fish, a half-ton at a time, from the "pounds," now churned to milky foam by the ever-growing throng of prisoners; and all the time the big plants gulped the sea harvest, faster and faster, clanking and gnashing their metal jaws, while the mounds of salmon lay hip-deep to the crews that fed the butchering machines. The Silver Horde
  • His horse shied a little as a score of men heavily armed marched loudly past, metal armour clanking.
  • But the sword clanked, and the lad did not even look at her. The Crimson Fairy Book
  • The melodic Arabic intonations clash with the clanking of pots and pans in the steamy dishwater.
  • He heard the sounds of parts being welded and riveted together, and the clank of titanium against steel.
  • With a series of sharp metal clanks from each of the twelve locks the gateway swung open quietly on well oiled hinges to allow the travelers passage.

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