The hatchet struck the deck with a sharp clang, and I felt the frightened clasp of the girl's fingers on my sleeve.

" Isabelle swept past him with an indignant toss of her head, and the front door closed after the trio with a metallic clang.

"And now might be heard the loud clang and cry of battle and the clashing of lances.

He heard his feet move heavily to the gate, and the dull clang of the latter closing behind him.

Came now, like a bolt from the clear sky or the sudden clang of a fire-alarm bell, the threat of violation of this Eveless Eden by the intrusion of a pair of strange and unknown females.

Startled, I leapt backward, letting the trap fall, with a hollow clang, that filled the place with echoes.

Above the roar of the elevated, the harsh clang of the electric cars, the clatter of drays and wagons, the shouting of hucksters, the laughter and oaths of men, their voices float, a shrill, triumphant treble in the orchestra of toil.

Andy bent his ear, and caught the distant clang of the trolley wagon.

But has thou weigh'd well what thou urgest thus? Discord will come, and the fierce clang of arms, To scare this valley's long unbroken peace, If we, a feeble shepherd race, shall dare Him to the fight that lords it o'er the world.

I heard the frantic clang of gongs, and as we shot by the World Building, I saw ahead of us two plunging automobiles filled with men.

Hardly had the bell of Independence ceased ringing out in joyous clang on September 15, 1910, in celebration of free Mexico's centenary, hardly had the gorgeous fêtes for the President's birthday or the homage paid him by the whole world run their course, when the spark of discontent became a blaze.

" Then there was silence on the battlements; No sound was heard but the slow measured clang Of feet that paced the stony path below; Gwendolaine pushed aside the wind-blown hair From her wild eyes, and gazed into Sanpeur's.

" An hour later Mrs. Barclay's reflections were broken in upon by the ominous clang of the engine bell.

He could distinguish the majestic thunder of the huge mortars from the roar of the Parrotts; the irregular volleys of musketry had a resonant clang of metal in them like thousands of iron balls dropped on a sheet of tin.

" Then there was silence on the battlements; No sound was heard but the slow measured clang Of feet that paced the stony path below; Gwendolaine pushed aside the wind-blown hair From her wild eyes, and gazed into Sanpeur's.

The solemn clang of a gong presaging doom as dire as OEDIPUS'S (and incidentally inaudible to cigarette smokers in the foyer) gives notice of the resumption of the play, while at the end of the Acts the curtain flutters up and down at a feverish pace as if the idea was to get in as many "calls" as possible before the applause stops.

The old man flung down the lid of his strong box, which shut with a sonorous clang.

The dread Eumenides at length retire, The brazen gates of Tartarus I hear Behind them closing with a thunderous clang.

Yes, as she sat down on her old bed, and glanced up, she saw a bright-eyed Phoebe-bird who had built just over her head, and now was on her nest, while her mate poured out the cheery clang of his love song, on a limb near by.

He paid no regard to the salutation of the obsequious monks; in fact, he seemed scarcely to see them, but hurried in a disordered manner through the passages and gained the room of his cell, which he shut and locked with a violent clang.

In the lone tent, waiting for victory, She stands with eyes marred by the mists of pain, Like some wan lily overdrenched with rain; The clamorous clang of arms, the ensanguined sky, War's ruin, and the wreck of chivalry To her proud soul no common fear can bring; Bravely she tarrieth for her Lord, the King, Her soul aflame with passionate ecstasy.

The Florentines well know how much they owe as a community, and how much each man may some day come to owe personally to the Misericordia; and when the doleful clang of their well-known bell is heard booming over the city, women may be seen to cross themselves with a muttered prayer, while men, ashamed of their religiosity, but moved by feeling as well as habit, will furtively do the same.

Sometimes a whole multitude came driven in a body like starlings before the wind, now hither and thither, now up, now down; sometimes they went in a line like cranes, when a company of those birds is beheld sailing along in the air, uttering its dolorous clangs.

now the thunder's rattling clymmynge sound Cheves slowie on, and then embollen clangs, Shakes the hie spyre, and, losst, dispended, drowned, Still on the gallard eare of terroure hanges; The windes are up, the lofty elmen swanges; Again the levynne and the thunder poures, And the full cloudes are braste attenes in stonen showers.

" A gun cracked from the house; the bullet chipped the rock with an evil clang, and the flake of stone whirled through the air and landed at the feet of Drew.