" As she spoke a small boy and girl, her dead brother's children, came clattering in from the purple mysteries of dusk outside, hand clasped in hand, and stopped close to the bed, staring.

Outside he heard Shere Ali's voice ring clear, and the army of tribesmen clattered past towards the town.

Before I could again express my enthusiasm, reawakened by the felicitous adequacy of this device, he had seized his hat and was clattering noisily down the stairway.

Then a clatter of fire-irons downstairs moved her to speech.

Then, when he had finished, he clattered the steel and cleaver still more loudly, shouting lustily, "Now, who'll buy?

" They sprang to the stairs, and clattered downward.

Tinman pounding something that clatters dreadfully,very distinct, but don't know of any tinman's shop near by.

It was nine when they saw the lights of Calne below them, and trotting and stumbling down the hill, clattered eagerly into the town.

Sivert from Sellanraa came clattering up homeward, empty as usual, and the foreman called to him: "Hi, what are you coming up empty for?

I gave a graphic account of the argumentstough ones they were toothat Miss Augusta had with the overseer on religion, and many other subjects; of one jackeroo who gabbed never-endingly about his great relations at home; another who incessantly clattered about spurs, whips, horses, and sport; and the third oneJoe Archerwho talked literature and trash with me.

And, as of old resounding, grate The heavy hinges of the gate, And, clattering loud, with iron clank, Down goes the sounding bridge of plank, As if it were in haste to greet The pressure of a traveler's feet!

He thrust a long, hard hand at Dickie's chest, and the boy fell backward, clattering ruefully down the steps with a rattle of thin knees and elbows.

Suddenly the skipper had thrown her head into, the wind, the jib and mainsail were clattering thunderously, and the boom went slashing over like a club in the hands of a giant.

I looked for that cyclist, but he was already out of sight as we came into the Upper Sandgate Road or hidden from us by traffic; the char-à-banc, however, with its people now all alive and stirring, was clattering along at a spanking pace almost abreast of the nearer church.

Into this night they descended, for the last course of the journey; and as the ponies clattered upward again, white-coated natives came forth to meet them.

If I only had a lantern it wouldn't be so" her gaze fell upon the laborers' lantern that clattered aimlessly, uselessly against the stake.

But at last I slept, as tired folk will, leaving care to the morrow; and when I awoke it was daybreak, and Mariuccia was clattering angrily with the tin coffee-pot outside.

The spot was pleasant enough, for the land breeze, blowing strong and cool, set the leaves of the palm-tree above his head to rattling and clattering continually against the darkness of the sky, where, the moon then being half full, they shone every now and then like blades of steel.

As she stood irresolute, there came up from below the sound of steps on the stairs, ascending steps, nearer and nearer, then distinctly the clatter of Valentine's wooden shoes, then another and a heavier tread.