I hear a metallic "clank" as I start to walk across the ramp. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
It makes such a satisfying "clank" when your vote is cast, like it weighs something. From Wordnik.com. [The Click Heard Round the World] Reference
He must fling away his chain now or feel it clank. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
It was clank and whirr and swish and rattle in one. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The chains of the anchor clank gratingly on the ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Up and down went the long handles, with a "clank-clank.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck] Reference
We heard two more plates clank and slide across the window. From Wordnik.com. [Vitamins] Reference
I heard a loud, grating clank and turned to look behind me. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
Voices mingled with the tread of feet and the clank of weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
I'd like to hear my victims shriek an 'clank their prison chains!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Even the discordant clank of the dock-gear is musical in memory's ear. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
This simple word, resembling the clank of cymbals, brought up to Prince. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The dishes in the galley rattled, and there was the clank of machinery. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
Through the chatter and tread, and the rudder's wash, and the dismal clank. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
There was a sharp clank as the hatch opened, and Jardine's head came into view. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
He heard the loud roar of the invisible fires, and now and then the clank of iron. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
One clank of mine is the merit of owning a well-diversified international mutual fund. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference
Clyde couldn't sleep what with the clank of steel wheels on the rails and the air horn. From Wordnik.com. [Boxcar Blues] Reference
Then there was clatter and clank down the entire line as others imitated their examples. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The Captain placed one near her and seated himself, with a clank of his dangling scabbard. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
They listened for the murmur of conversation, the scraping of feet, the clank of a weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy] Reference
Hence moans are heard and fierce lashes resound, with the clank of iron and dragging chains. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
We knew them to be Germans by the clank of the hobnailed boots which all our guards had worn. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
"Now pump her!" he cried, and the muggy air of the night throbbed to the clank of the brakes. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The faint clank of glass and porcelain rang out from the back as the staff began cleaning up. From Wordnik.com. [Roadside Daisies] Reference
Then he heard the sound of horses 'hoofs on the road, the clank of rings and iron trace chains. From Wordnik.com. [Seven O'Clock Stories] Reference
Clink, clank, death and fury; all persons gathering round, and new quarrels springing from this one!. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
We watched with wonder a battery clank out into the night, and then returned sleepily to the wharf-side. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
His dark, hawk-like face did not change, but there was a sound in his voice like the clank of broken iron. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
She watched through her copper bangs as the keys sailed towards her and landed with a clank on the asphalt. From Wordnik.com. [Songbird] Reference
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
His pockets pull with clinking dimes and when his hand jams in the silver-dipped copper disks clank and gather. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing, Flown] Reference
Suddenly the peace of eventide was rudely shattered by the jarring clank of a motor being geared-up for starting. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
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