He began to think at last that there was no way out of it but that suggested by his own sergeantnamely, to "blow a blinkin' 'ole in 'im," and his sergeant spoke again with the rattle of his chattering teeth playing a castanet accompaniment to his words.

We moved slowly forward, toward the sound of the fierce moaning grunts which were varied at times by a castanet chattering of the tusks.

Down she bore upon the greater vessel until it seemed as if she must ram; but all the time she was veering to windward, and now she ran into the wind with a castanet rattle of sails.