" There is something in the short space of time preceding the first clack of the bat at a cricket match which rivals in interest even that exciting moment at football when the centre forward stands hovering over the ball waiting for the whistle to give the signal for the contest to commence.

Hold, hold thy eternal Clack.

Clack! was the sound that followed the first cry.

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.

; garrulity; multiloquence^, much speaking. jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet^, caquetterie

V. be loquacious &c adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter^, blether^; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; gossip &c (converse) 588; din in the ears &c (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense &c 497; be hoarse with talking.

In modern rotative land engines, the valves for admitting the steam to the cylinder or condenser, instead of being clack or pot-lid valves moved by tappets on the air pump rod, are usually sluice or sliding valves, moved by an eccentric wheel on the crank shaft.

The tea-room was a-clatter and a-clack with tongues.

The large kitchen as we entered was only lighted by the flame of the wood-fire on the hearth, in front of which a fowl and a piece of veal were turning on the same spit, moved by clockwork that said 'click-clack, click-clack;' which was as genial an invitation to dinner as any I had ever heard.

The large kitchen as we entered was only lighted by the flame of the wood-fire on the hearth, in front of which a fowl and a piece of veal were turning on the same spit, moved by clockwork that said 'click-clack, click-clack;' which was as genial an invitation to dinner as any I had ever heard.

The clack of the garden gate, as it swung to, awoke me from a pleasant sleep.

They knew without his white hat, and the clack of his whip.

Far away I heard the rattle of the elevated and the never-ceasing hum of Sixth Avenue and Broadway, but, save for these reminders of the city's life, the silence of the street was broken only by the click-clack of our horse's hoofs.

'You may find us at my Lady Betty Clack's, who will leave Orders with her Porter, that if an elderly Gentleman, with a short Face, enquires for her, he shall be admitted and no Questions asked.

Mr. Cunningham's description of the drawings of the natives in a cavern on Clack's Island.

Mr. Cunningham's description of the drawings of the natives in a cavern on Clack's Island.

The day after we arrived here, a boat from the San Antonio conveyed Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Cunningham to Clack's Island.

Mr. Cunningham observed a singularly curious cavern upon the rock, of which he gave me a description in the following account of the island: "The south and south-eastern extremes of Clack's Island presented a steep, rocky bluff, thinly covered with small trees.

CLACK'S ISLAND is a high rock, situated at the south-east end of reef b, in latitude 14 degrees 4 minutes 45 seconds, and longitude 144 degrees 11 minutes 45 seconds, and, being a bare black rock, with no apparent vegetation, is a conspicuous object: there is another rock on its north-east end.

I sent a boat to examine this shoal in making the same passage in August, 1823, and found it to be under the following bearings (by compass): namely, Cape Flinders, South-West by West 3/4 West; the high peak on the south-east part of Flinders' Group, South 1/4 West; the highest of Clack's Islands, North-West 1/2 West, and Cape Melville East 1/2 South.

We give the critters back, John, Coz Abram thought 't was right; It warn't your bullyin' clack, John, Provokin' us to fight.

Madame de Boufflers was more distressed, for he owned twenty times more than I had said: she frowned, and made him signs; but she had wound up his clack, and there was no stopping it.

When on the southern extremity Cape Flinders bore South 70 degrees West 3 miles, and Clack Island North 39 degrees West.

The engine bell rang, the whistle screamed, the clack of the wheels gradually became slower.

" "Glad to get rid of their wives' clack, I guess.

The private soldiers were almost to a man Democrats, but the chance to escape the long and irksome evenings of the camp and join the frolic and adventure of the street made most of them willing enough to play the part of claque or figurantes.

The first day there was a cram, the second day only the claque remained.

Nevertheless, though the place is peopled only with silence and solitude, the claque continues to do its duty, for it receives its pay.

"Gentlemen," said pretty Zinca Klork, her eyes bathed in tears, "do save him before he is sentenced" "Yes, my darling," said Madame Caterna, "yes, my heart, we will save your sweetheart for you, and if a benefit performance" "Bravo, Caroline, bravo!" exclaimed Caterna, applauding with the vigor of the sub-chief of the claque.

And Paris applauded feverishly, and yet with a full sense of the value of its applausegiven there in the only French theatre where the claque has been suppressed.

This was a lengthy process, but each child had a claque, which communicated enthusiasm to the others of the audience, and there was continuous clapping.

No need of a claque, no room for sham demonstration here!

The claque chef gets an ovation.

The claque chef gets an ovation.

The soft pedal on this emotion, the loud on that, or a new cry inaugurated which all took up, not with the noisy, paid insincerity of a claque, but with the vibrant force of a trained orchestra with the brasses predominant.

It was their fault that it got about that I had hired a claque to clap me!

For a long time he sat on the fence absorbing the night soundsthe claque of the frogs, the burring of the crickets, the hum of the water on the mill-dam far down the valley, and the occasional call of some human voice, ringing like a golden bell in the hush of the night.

distinctly I remember, it was drawing nigh September, And each trivial Tory Member pined for stubble, copse, and moor; Eagerly they wished the morrow; vainly they had sought to borrow From their SMITH surcease of sorrow, or from GOSCHEN or BALFOUR, From the lank and languid "miss" the Tory claque dubbed "Brave BALFOUR," Fameless else for evermore.