The breast of Delia, framed for softness and melancholy, was filled with sensations responsive to the objects around her, and even the eternal clack of Miss Fletcher was still.

I can do a great deal, but all the cursed nickel in the world won't bring back the' he checked himself suddenly, shutting his hard lips with an audible clack, and looking down.

I thought so when I heard the angry click-clack of his heels on the cement walk, and I carefully put all the chairs against the wall; I was sure of it when the door slammed, and I set the coal scuttle in the corner behind the stove.

"And she'll hear of it anyhow, if they keep up their infernal clack," said he fiercely.

And she brought her indictment against a raucous timepiece which was wont to lead up to its striking with a long, preliminary clack-and-whirr, alleging that twice, when she had quit her sculping early because the clay was obdurate and wouldn't come right, and had gone for a walk to clear her vision, the clock had accosted her in these unjustifiable terms: "Clacketty-whirr-rr-rr! Back-to-yer-worr-rr-rrk!

We have all seen children setting a number of wooden blocks on end, at equal intervals, and then tilting over the first so that it falls against the second, which in turn falls against the third, and so on, till the whole row, with a rapid clack-clack-clack, lies flat upon the table.

Then, as a faint plop! drifted to the watchersa sound no louder than a feeble clack of the tonguethis indefinite luminosity began to sink, to fade, falling slowly, gradually dissipating itself in the dim light over the stockade.