O, I'm for the wild-wood, to a wild life and wilder doings, being myself a wild man, henceforth, lawful food for flame or gibbet, kin to every clapper-claw rogue and rascal 'twixt here and Mortain.

And each and every a clapper-claw, a rogue in faith.

"And how would'st do it, Beltane?" "Make an end of the game laws, Benedictthrow wide the forests to all who will" "But master, thus shall every clapper-claw rogue be free to kill for his base sport thy goodly deer, or belike a hart of ten, fit for sport of kings" "Well, let them in this thing be kings.

"Well," continued the fiend, "I wish he may turn up shortly, for I am half deaf already with the banging and booming of this infernal clapper, which seems to have grown much worse of late; and the blessings and the crossings and the aspersions which I have to go through are most repugnant to my tastes, and unsuitable to my position in society.

I can carry anything but Blowes, Coles, my Drink, and that clapper of the Divell, the tongue of a Scould.

Now, miller, miller dustipoll I'll clapper-claw your jobbernole.

The tall grass about the borders of the island was alive with clapper rails.

Oven-bird, Oxalis, yellow, Papaw, Paroquet, Partridge-berry, Pelican: brown, white, Persimmon, Phoebe, Pipewort, Poison Ivy, Poppy, Mexican, Quail, Rail: Carolina, clapper, king, Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak), "Ricebird".

On the other side still stands a hand-bell, which, though it has no clapper, neither presbyterian bigotry, nor barbarian wantonness, has yet taken away.

A clapper of split bamboo is sometimes made to scare away the maya.

His brain was clear enough now for him to understand that he was ill, and to want to talk about it; but his tongue hung in his throat like a clapper in a bell.

There is the clapper's tink-a-link, tink-a-linkan interval of silencethen the occasional tink, tink, tink, to be followed, perhaps, by a repetition of the first-named sounds, varied occasionally by a compound of all, caused by the animal flinging its head to free itself from troublesome flies or mosquitoes.

If, instead of giving the bell the monotonous tink, the Indian had shaken the clapper irregularly, it would have resulted in the certain capture of the child, beyond the father's power of aid or rescue.

Whenever you come near, the clapper strikes in your face.

The valve is provided with an internal collar as shown, so that it has to rise for the width of this before the steam is let out, and thus determines the swing of the clapper and the force of the blow.

Item, paid for makying of a newe clapper to Judas bell xd." 2ndly.

With some comments by Raymond Clapper & others.

With some comments by Raymond Clapper & others.

The clapper on his giant side Shall ring no peal for blushing bride, For birth, or death, or new-year tide, Or festival begun!

The baldricke was the garter and buckle by means of which the clapper was suspended inside the bell.

O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell!"

He was sixty years of age, and had white hair, but he was as strong as younger men, and could swing the clapper against the side of the great bell with a boom that could be heard across rivers, and far into the peaceful country, on quiet nights.

He seized the long iron lever near him, by which the enormous clapper of the bell was swung, and moved it like the handle of a pump.

Seven times the clapper struck, and with each stroke Dan'l screamed, still riding and keeping his eyes upon that little doorway.

An' then she told us ow' when they rang a bell somebody was goin' to put Mortimer to death, an' 'ow she stopped that by climbin' up to the bell and 'angin' on to the clapper.