For a few minutes we thought our photographic work would be closed for a season; but when spirits and energies revived, we began to think of the camera and the very long exposure plate up at the top; so up we went again with much clattering commotion to warn our enemies of our approach, and thus you have a view that one of our party will ever regard as dearly obtained.

In twenty minutes the company is clattering out on the Mechanicsville road, and at noon, when the squadron halted for dinner, the company cook had to rely on the clumsy ministrations of his colored aides.

What was that?" A sound as of a clattering troop of cavalry, the neighing of horses in the grounds!

I could hear the mouth of the flask clattering against his teeth, as he put it eagerly to his mouth and took three or four long swallows.

Suddenly, however, at early dawn, we were startled by a loud banging at the door, the clattering of hoofs, and authoritative shouts in Russian.

It came from the road over which our travellers had themselves passed three hours before, and presently the clattering of a horse's hoofs was heard, and now Mr. Sady made his appearance on his foaming horse.

Just as they reached the house a horseman came clattering down the road and all paused involuntarily to mark the new arrival.

Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones: "Now come, ye lasses, and eke ye dames, And buy your meat from me;

Not long after this, a score or more of the King's men came clattering up to the door of the inn at Barnet Town.

Before they could lower their shafts, Heywood ran clattering down the stairs.

A donkey-engine was rumbling, a winch clattering, a capstan-pawl clanking.

When these things are properly taken care of, he may turn aside to others, ever ready and prepared for the present event, keeping time, {62b} as it were, with every circumstance and event: flying from Armenia to Media, and from thence with clattering wings to Italy, or to Iberia, that not a moment may escape him.

Thornton took his way to the stables, and I soon heard the clattering of his horse's hoofs on the hard gravelled road.

Sometimes they would even appear in cities of the size of Charleston, and walk the streets with their clattering side-armsan open scandal to the whole law-abiding colony.

Then there came a rolling murmur swelling into a shout, and a great brake with four horses came clattering along, all streaming with salmon-pink ribbons.

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!

Presently their weapons began clattering to the ice.

The buffaloes were drawn together in the form of a crescent; their eyes glared fiercely, and as they advanced in a series of short runs, stamping with their hoofs, and angrily lashing their tails, their horns would come together with a clanging, clattering crash, and they would paw the sand, snort and toss their heads, and behave in the most extraordinary manner.

This one was like a boomerang that did not hit what it was aimed at, but came banging and clattering back all the same.

The air was rife with clamorous sounds, Of clattering factory-thundering forge, Conveyed from the remotest bounds Of smoky plain and mountain gorge.

Thus he spoke and listened; for now was heard in the distance Clattering of horses' hoofs drawing near, and the roll of the wagon, Which, with furious haste, came thundering under the gateway.

The March sun is melting the icicles, and they came clattering down upon me, as I was in the yard, with a happy, twinkling, childish laugh.

Does it need so much chicanery to finish one man?" Time passed, and there was no sound except a long clattering from the courtyard.

Its cause had been the squealing and outcry made by two rats caught in one trap, that had come clattering down a flight of steps one time when he was a little lad, and had come sweeping chimneys to Roxborough.

At that same moment and as though to reinforce my decision, the strange clattering noise I had observed growing nearer and nearer during the last two days broke on the night air.