The Praetorians crowded forward, so that the bells that had pealed three times for me jangled madly and broke their cracked, dry straps, falling clangorously. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference] Reference
The new fully automatic top is the next upgrade; it eliminates the manual release of the previous model and operates (a bit clangorously) in about 20 seconds. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
No one interfered, however, and in a moment the door opened sufficiently to give entrance to the old gentleman, after which it closed quickly and clangorously behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Marrow of Tradition] Reference
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