Success had rendered Marius so arrogant, that he committed many illegal acts, declaring that, amid the clashing of the swords of war, the silent motion of the sword of justice could neither be heard nor attended to.
The thunder and lightning, which frequently precede rain, are the clashing and shining of the arms of these Nat, who sometimes sport in mock battles.
At every house the women dance and sing, clashing castanets or cymbals of brass and jingling bunches of little brass bells in both hands.
At such times you may see and hear groups of benevolent and public-spirited men and women banging gongs, clashing cymbals, and drubbing drums for hours together.
While she slept a babel of meaningless voices kept clashing in her ears, and her own voice haunted her perpetually.
When Jem-y-Lord took the tea to his master's bedroom in the morning, the tray was almost banged out of his hands by the clashing back of the door, after he had pushed it open with his knee.
Mohammad ibn Izhak, starting upon his feet, and clashing his now finished bolster against his buckler, as he concluded this harangue.
A general shout andclashing of shields, with the sudden cessation of the wild music, announced the close of this savage pageant.
There was a sudden checking of careering steeds, a clashing of weapons, a heavy falling of wounded men, and three of De Roberval's party and one of the foe lay in the dust.
Back and forth they swayed in the clear light of the moon, their swords clashing and singing as they parried or thrust.
But the Slavonic Dance had set her heart bounding once more, until her very finger tips tingled with the blood racing through them, and the clashing cymbals had seemed scarcely louder than the ringing of her own ears.
Jo, clashingthe lid of the warming-pan like a cymbal.
The clashing of my armor in my ears Sounds like a passing bell; my buckler puts me In mind of a bier; this, my broadsword, a pickaxe To dig my grave.
After a series of expert, clashing strokes against the sharpening steel he held in his hand, he bent over a haunch of bacon on his board and began to slice it down.
Now, as the clock raced on toward noon and the storm raged on in unabated fury, he could see only the clashing seas around him and hear that high-pitched wailing of the wind.
All around him now were the voices of insane power, the clashing and crashing of that surging sea, the wailing of the wind.
De Wardes flew upon Raoul with such impetuosity, that at the first clashing of the steel blades Buckingham clearly saw that Raoul was only trifling with his adversary.
And disengaging his sword with a sinister clashing of the blade, the duke wounded the marquis in the breast.
The man assented with a guttural laugh, the two seated themselves near the table on which Yates had placed the waiter, and filled their glasses, clashing them against each other.
Men rushed about like demons, singing, shouting, and clashing their cups together.
Others drew forth, withclashing noise, upon the ground, great sheets of glowing steel, emitting an insupportable heat, and a dull deep light like that which reddens in the eyes of savage beasts.
After a time, with a greater clashing of steel-shod feet on rock, he returned.
There was a clashing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and now and again a sharp cry of command.
The writings of the Nation--then a new light in the literature and politics of Ireland--had a ring in them that was unpleasant to his ears, a sound as of clashing steel and the explosion of gunpowder.
Beneath a sky heavily canopied, the night was stark black and loud with clashing waters.
He fared on thus till he came to the counterslope of the mountain, along which he saw a dark-blue sea, dashing with billows clashing and yeasting waves each as it were a lofty mount.
Depend upon it, where there is a spirit of Christianity there is a spirit which rises above forms, above ceremonies, independent of sect or creed, and the controversies of clashing doctrine.
He says that there are such a multitude of sects and such diversity of opinion that he will exclude all religion, and all its ministers, in order to keep the minds of the children free from clashing controversy.
