clanking chains.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The old jalopy clanked up the hill.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He clanked the shovel against the pail. ,to clank the cell door shut.    From Dictionary.com. 

It walked on 20 'long legs that reached down to rails on the seabottom, ferrying passengers along the shore in clanking comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 25, 2004 - July 31, 2004 Archives] Reference

Another said this is a military movement; how is it our boys are led through the streets by officers in clanking military regalia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scout Movement] Reference

He left the tent, his heavy sword clanking as he walked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

He swung out the door, his sword clanking and his arm waving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in Gray] Reference

A man with a sword clanking at his side stepped up and saluted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

The big man ran into the room, his sword clanking at his thigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

Turning, the commander started to leave, his broadsword clanking against his armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Test of the Twins]

Soon after Lieutenant Greg Holmes strode into the room, his sword clanking at his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands] Reference

But the knight was already shoving past him eagerly, his sword clanking against his thigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]

Shoving past him, she ran down the stairs, her sword clanking at her side, her armor rattling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of A Lost Star]

Then he turned and walked out of the chamber, his huge battlesword clanking against his thigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Krynn]

No, he said silently, watching Caramon come up the path, his battlesword clanking against his flabby thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time of the Twins]

Finding that he could make nothing of me, he paced up and down the room, his sword clanking on the hard mud floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [In New Granada Heroes and Patriots] Reference

He ceased speaking, turned, and began to walk up and down the small room, his spurs and sword clanking heavily at every step.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid] Reference

She used to have little fancies that he would call at the house sometime, and ask for her, with his sword clanking against his high boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

"What clanking chains?" whispered Shirley fearfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference

Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

"It's the clanking chains," she declared with relish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

Tony Blair liked Alastair Campbell because he had "clanking great balls".    From Wordnik.com.  [What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?] Reference

I could just kind of hear him clanking and pedaling, pedaling and clanking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgotten] Reference

You can hear the tank treads clanking as she tries to take the high ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Of Intrigue] Reference

Our chains are forged; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

(Soundbite of clanking sound) Mr. ANTHONY WILLIAMS: Even the tiniest of the tiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Shrinks Gulf Cleanup Crews, Tries New Tools] Reference

There were a clamor of voices, a rustle of silks, a clanking of spurs and swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Ed had his glass of Grouse in his hand, the cubes of ice clanking against one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Was From Minnesota] Reference

He sauntered down towards it, the washing-pan clanking against the shovel as he walked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

The clanking of chains succeeded, together with the howlings of persons as in great pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

But like everyone else, we hold unexamined premises clanking behind us like Marley's chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference

Henri, begging Ruth's indulgence with a look, sat down before the table, his sword clanking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference

"Do you hear my clanking chain?" she asked in what she fondly believed to be "sepulchral tones.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

The clanking armor columns rumble out of the sandy wastes into lush farmland, crisscrossed with canals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grunt's War] Reference

Our feet, so heavy and still frozen all the way through, made clanking noises on the wooden dance floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [In which me and Theodore re-enact the final scene from "Ice Castles"] Reference

Kane, his feet on the desk, his shirt, showing the day at cuff and collar, presses clanking behind him, says.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Cactus Land] Reference

He yanks hard on the door handle, metal clanking against metal, then turns and disappears behind the shelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Jeans and Black Leather] Reference

"It was him as told me about the clanking chains," he went on, "but, as I said, I don't take no stock in that part.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference

(Soundbite of tools clanking) MCCARTHY: Around-the-clock effort is underway to reinforce the crumbling mud and stone barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan Struggles To Help Flood Victims] Reference

HENRY CISNEROSCharismatic Texan with national ambitions will try to raise his stock by getting HUD's clanking bureaucracy to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power Players] Reference