Puke vainly tried to catch a fly, his jaws clopping as he snapped at it. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
A modest chariot drawn by two horses came clopping up and halted before me. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
His laugh echoed and reechoed along with the clopping of the horses 'hooves. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The seawolf twisted onto itself, its jaws clopping together near its own tail. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The loudest noise was of horseshoes, a sharp clopping followed by hollow echoes. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Sabin followed, the dun's shod hooves ringing out, the pack pony clopping behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The sharp clopping of hoofs on stone echoed around Anna and back down the valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
For just a moment, the echo of the slammed door drowned out the clopping of hoofs. From Wordnik.com. [Ordermaster]
In a moment there was a heavy clopping sound, and a really weird creature appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
The only sounds were the breathing of the horses and the clopping of hoofs on stone. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
Of long nights and short days, of horse-drawn sleighs clopping past candlelit homes. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
She glanced at Blackjack, who was clopping his hooves against the hood of the Prius. From Wordnik.com. ['The Last Olympian'] Reference
Soon, only the wheels of a carriage on the road and the clopping of hooves could be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage] Reference
"How far to the next town?" she asked over the dull clopping of hooves on flint-hard earth. From Wordnik.com. [Oathblood]
They'd never hear her well enough over the clopping of Saki's hoofbeats if she spoke aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
Alarms, many feet clopping in shower shoes, silhouettes moving by, a gray cloudy evacuation. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
But the hollow sound of hooves clopping over the bridge distracted them both at that moment. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
I heard heels clacking on the sidewalk and turned to see Valerie clippity-clopping over to me. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Up]
They were both listening to the sound of hooves clopping and wheels crunching on the terrace below. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
I imagined heading off along the roads, the horse clop-clopping, the wagon swaying a little as I went. From Wordnik.com. [Snug as a Bug in a Beautiful Box] Reference
The clopping of hoofs on the hard ground outside drifts through the half-open window by the crude door. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
The Mil came back overhead, turbines blaring and rotor blades clop-clopping, heading back down the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The second time I tried to pass the same tree, the owl flew out to meet me, clopping her beak ferociously. From Wordnik.com. [Man attacked by owl - Boing Boing] Reference
The show opened Thursday night to the clip-clopping rhythms of Luke Temples new project, Here We Go Magic. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Gorin: Deitch Projects Showcases Emerging Artists in Long Island City] Reference
Running was awkward and dangerous, but this soldier came clip-clopping into the room at an impressive pace. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
How ridiculously she was behaving, she thought as she listened to the horses clopping off into the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
'It would,' my father agreed, after the clopping of our horse's hooves had filled the silence for some time. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
As its clopping, limping hoofbeats dragged into silence, the faintest of breezes awoke and scattered the fog. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Its iron-shod wheels jolted sharply over the cobbles in the clopping wake of the three matched roan stallions. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
He slowed until he could get around a hansom cab, the hooves of its tired horse clip-clopping along the macadam. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
A few weeks after Klara signed up for the school, she heard the unscheduled clopping of hooves coming up the road. From Wordnik.com. [Journey] Reference
The sole sounds were those of the breeze and the clopping hoofs and creaking of a wagon somewhere down on the avenue. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
Carriage noises sounded outside, the jingle of harness, the clopping of hooves, as Gervase left her for the last time. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved]
They rode in complete silence, except for the clopping of the horses 'hooves on the hard-packed road, for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
He heard a sound like die clopping of monstrous hooves and ahead of it the measured 'steps that must be those of a man. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Bringer]
I must build the nest, for this I must have been hatched into the nest and I claw at the very fibers of the nest with my clopping hooves. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
A slow, clopping sound made me look behind, to where Murtagh, leading the pack horse, was coming over the small rise we had just descended. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
I followed Sebastian as he barged onto the street, his heels clopping on stones, wind in his ruddy face, as he raced after his schoolmates. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy from Thuringia] Reference
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