One would think the clack of the mill and the prattle of his pretty cousin Cicely might have drowned it, but it did not.
She answered with the same clutter and clack of unknown syllables, growing more and more excited as the dialogue continued.
He could hear the renewed signals and bells tinkles, the more insistent clack of pumps, the more resolute rise and fall of the ponderous cranks.
There is a ceaseless buzz andclack of talk and conjecture.
This quaint oak hall was now resonant with the buzz and clack of modern gossip, prose, and flirtation, and a great deal crowded, notwithstanding its commodious proportions.
The Sou'-West wind (there is always a wind by Volaterrae) blew from the bare ridge where Cherry Clack Windmill stands.
It had come down to the top of Cherry Clack Hill, and the light poured in between the tree trunks so that you could see red and gold and black deep into the heart of Far Wood; and Parnesius in his armour shone as though he had been afire.
And Grace Allen went about her work with clack of gripper-iron and dip of oar.
As we drew up alongside her, I heard the clack-clack of the sailors heaving at the windlass.
Forgive me, and go to Doctor Clack and get a soothing something.
The tremendous mental excitement, the shock and clash of thoughts afforded by this event, possessed some tonic faculty for her, and, as Doctor Clack had predicted, wrought more good than harm within her nature.
Doctor Clack had little difficulty in guessing at the nature of the conversation wherein such a confession had made a part.
That was all he had need to know, and I asked Clack to make Yeoland return to her on the strength of her confession.
SUN DANCE* On the morning of Easter Sunday, some three months after the departure of Doctor Clack from Little Silver, certain labouring men in their best broadcloth ascended Scor Hill at dawn.
Doctor Clack wondered in secret whether her old lover had also communicated with Honor, but seeing that his own missive was charged with a general message of goodwill to all at Endicott's, he suspected the letter came from elsewhere.
At the foot of this steep climb one Doctor Courteney Clackmet them.
But no sound reached his ear, and of Little Silver news neither he nor Courteney Clack had learnt anything of note for many weeks.
That she loved me too Clack probably added to my message.
Clack indicated a circumstance in itself satisfactory at this stage in his story.
He was sitting up with his back against the hayrick describing his sensations to an interested audience when Doctor Clack arrived.
Doctor Clack dismounted with some parade, and made his announcement before Honor and her uncle.
The sound carried his thoughts back so far that for a few moments he ceased to hear the clack of the spoon.
The clack of Tippy's spoon against the crock came in from the kitchen, and now and then the fire snapped or the green fore-log made a sing-song hissing.
In their estimation the most pious prisoner is he who weaves the most cloth, and no organ has half so religious tones as the clack of a loom.
It was painful to tread on these sacred ruins, and to hear the clack of looms where the soul had hung with transport on the sacred sounds of instruction, and been melted with the holy ardors of devotional feeling.
They finally settled in their seats, but as hands and feet became more quiet, alas, it seemed as if the clack of their tongues grew greater!
They became so proficient in this click-clack language that they were soon sending aerograms, or wireless messages, to the camp across the Lake for the doctor.
And about that time I began to hear far off down the windy road, by which that sack had come, faintly at first and slowly louder and louder, the click clack clop of a lame horse coming nearer.
Click clack clop and a loose shoe rattling, the sound of a horse too weary to be out upon such a night, too lame to be out at all.
Outside the bitter wind roared in my ears, and close in the darkness the horse went click clack clop.
The quick, irregular clack, clack of a type-writer responded like an echo.
It was like the clack, clack, clack of the type-writer under Ruth’s nervous, unconscious fingers.
Miss Clack may make her mind quite easy on this point.
Penelope was astonished to find that Miss Clack had not called yet.
Miss Clack is painfully conscious that she ought (in the worldly phrase) to feel herself put down.
Somewhere, someone had cut loose with a Banning and its high whine drowned out the clack of the spring guns.
There was a clack, clack from off to his left and he threw himself forward, skidding and sliding in the dust and gravel of the street.
Then he heard the clack, clack, clack of Rumi spring guns.
A loud clack of tongues now interrupted their discourse; and the domino, at the desire of Cecilia, for whom he had procured a seat, went forward to enquire what was the matter.
At the sharp clackof his Eskimo the wolves strained in their traces.
From Bram's throat there shot forth at the pack a sudden sharp clack of Eskimo, and with it the long whip snapped in their faces again.
I fancy I hear now the clack, clackof my many windlasses; the yo!
The clack, clack of a windlass was heard one fine morning sounding over the waters of the river that hurried by the Buccaneer's chief city.
Then the peaceful stillness of his shores would be broken by the clack, clack of his many windlasses, and the "yo heave-ho" of his merry men.
Old Andrew Fisher sat at the mullioned western window of the house that stood higher up above the mill-pond, listening drowsily to the distant clack of the hopper.
I hear the quivering click-clack of a mowing-machine in a distant hay field.
I longed to hear the sound of the wind in the pine trees; I longed to hear the single far-away bark of the dog on the neighboring farm, or the bang of a barndoor, or the clack of a guinea going to roost.
PAGE 77 clack of a guinea going to roost: The guinea-fowl as it goes to roost frequently sets up a clacking that can be heard half a mile away.
The click-clack of her wooden shoes on the hot pavements made none look up; little rustics came up every day like this to make their fortunes in Paris.
My dear, in my time I have had enough of satin shoes and of silver gilt heels; they click-clack as loud as yours, and cost much more to those who walk with them, not to mention that they will seldom deign to walk at all.
He looked up as the click-clack of snow-shoes caught his attention and seeing that it was Sparrer called cheerily, "What luck?
No chance," he decided, remembering the clack of his shoes in walking.
The grinding of one tree against another, even an unusually loud clack of his own snow-shoes, made his heart jump.
He hurried off, and in a moment the clack of bagatelle began again.
But he had not time to finish before the clack of bagatelle balls ceased, and the voice of the little deep-eyed man was heard saying: "Anybody who wants a book will put his name down.
