~~Attach "clappers" to all the lights in the dungeon just before a paddling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naysayers Suck] Reference

"clappers," and were used, especially by strangers and summer guests, for orientation and description of location.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

For the first part, I would use the hand-clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

And the logo contest is going like the clappers, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [FrostWire beta now online] Reference

No, I couldn't unhook the clappers; they were a fixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference

I think it's fair to say most of us are casual clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference

Let's make off ... before coxcombs come with shoulder clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Our Yesterdays] Reference

Thus, I call on non-inter-movement clappers of the world to unite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn the applause light off?] Reference

"In Burma, there are no clappers to the bells," he said to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference

I think Claude Cooper copped my copper clappers kept in the closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005] Reference

Basically, I'll be going like the clappers till between now and August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't try this at home ...] Reference

There is often entertainment storytelling punctuated with wooden clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

This may be described as a wooden bell having inside it for clappers several.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Time for "The Shot;" I think it's fair to say most of us are casual clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference

"The mill-streams that turn the clappers of the world arise in solitary places.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

In the gardens to the south of the great temple, I came upon the happy clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Before Dillon could say anything he was charging back, running like the clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

A minute later, I could hear its engine distantly, still going like the clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

WEBB: You have any ideas who might have taken the copper clappers from the closet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005] Reference

I tried holding the clappers still, but that was no good, as there were four of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference

She's got some clappers in the audience, but the committee, by and large, is not amused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Hits McCain Again: "We Don't Need More Leaders Who Can't Admit They've Made A Mistake"] Reference

Then for a time, though jaws worked like mill-clappers, it was to better purpose than words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

As a substitute for bells, it is the practice to use a kind of wooden clappers, or troccola.    From Wordnik.com.  [04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004] Reference

They also make a din by beating empty oil-tins, and use clappers as the country boys at home do.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

So the workers would strenuously clap themselves into frenzy, trying to outdo the other clappers.    From Wordnik.com.  ["During these first 100 days, what has ... enchanted you the most?] Reference

And I was not halfway through my first quick dance with the hand-clappers, before the applause began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

After this they took tambourines, triangles, drums, and clappers, and made a noise, in perfect time and tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and Around Berlin] Reference

The largest lifted their bronze clappers at the angles of the room; others formed a chain at the foot of the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"I suppose I could come up behind him with wooden clappers," I said, "and hope to scare him so badly he'd jump out.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of a Geisha]

The strips of rawhide attached to the clappers dropped low enough for me to reach, and often tempted me to make the bells speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference