The rail of the saltmarshes, the clapper, which is more commonly heard than seen. From Wordnik.com. [Tidal marsh] Reference
You'll note the white veil upon the cross, and the use of the "clapper" instead of the bells at the consecration. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Thursday from Ss. Trinita, Rome] Reference
The crotalus also called a "clapper" is "a wood rattle-like object which makes a terrifying sound. From Wordnik.com. [Maundy Thursday] Reference
"clapper" could ever be stopped is expressed in the same breath with his real sorrow at hearing of her death. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
It has no clapper, but is struck on the outside by. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
O'BRIEN: The clapper, you know, clap on, clap off. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference
If I could swing like the clapper on a heavenly bell. From Wordnik.com. [Ring Like a Bell] Reference
Didn't I tell ye ter keep yer clapper still about me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
If I could swing like a clapper on a great bronze bell. From Wordnik.com. [Ring Like a Bell] Reference
But, finally, let me say -- the Mayor, the lone clapper. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To The Cooper Union Community] Reference
Whenever you come near, the clapper strikes in your face. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian Literature] Reference
But not Kent French; nope, he's the world's fastest clapper. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference
Soon he found it: a cow with a clapper, ringing as it walked. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
A clapper of split bamboo is sometimes made to scare away the maya. From Wordnik.com. [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference
The bell chain rattled again and the clapper briefly un-jammed itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Then the room fell silent, as the clapper realized that he was quite alone. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Bad Day] Reference
But her tongue hung in the middle and worked both ways like a bell-clapper. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
The bell responds to the clapper; but who is it that makes the clapper to speak?. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The water pump hummed while the floating clapper on the intakeclop, clop, clopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Pool Party] Reference
His ears rang as if someone had been using his head for a clapper inside a gigantic bell. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Above the doorframe hung a brass bell of peculiar form, with a clapper attached to a cord. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
CONWAY: I said it's probably one of those clapper lights (ph), if you clap you turn it on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2002] Reference
The great bell alone, without the hammer or clapper, weighs 18,600 pounds, or over 9-1/4 tons. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
His strokes never faltered when Egwene rapped with the clapper, a sharp clang of iron on iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
Go drive the goats in, thick-chops, and stay that clapper of thine till they ask for a crow-keeper. 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
When the clapper strikes the lip of a bell it produces a sound and sends a tremor out upon the air. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
On examining the belfry, it was discovered that some persons had carried off the clapper of the bell. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
One miserable man was hung to the clapper of the same bell that he had rung to call the people to arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Another great minstrel and lover bought a leper's gown and bowl and clapper from some afflicted wretch. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
The Emperor was glad when it was ready to be heard, and ordered it to be hung, and the clapper attached. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
"Unclean!" called the old man warningly, and clashed the clapper of his dish loudly against the wooden rim. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
Pouch, in allusion to the licensed begging of lepers at our crossways in olden times with a bell and a clapper. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
An '' er tongue, it jes rattle lak a clapper in a bell. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
Cannon has an electronic "clapper" in her apartment probably cutting edge high-tech in those days. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
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