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The sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface.

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  • Through the glass of my windowpane I heard the faint jingle of harness and the muffled clippety-clop of shod hoofs in new snow.
  • Indeed, nothing in it — not its arch sociology, not its clippety-clop NPR rhythm and especially not that fancy double negative at the end — would have interested Hannah...
  • Bugambilia hangs everywhere, tile roofs meet whitewashed walls, painted wooden shutters pique the curiosity as to what's behind there, fruit trees droop with the weight of...
  • She wore respectable running shoes instead of her usual clippety-clop heels, and she’d somehow managed to make herself look like a young mother or maybe an au pair—a bit...
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