Straightway, the creature disappeared, with a clatter of loose earth and stones.

Mrs. W. was in high dudgeon; her heels clattered on the red-tiled floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a drum-head.

If you fall between the joists, you will clatter to the basement.

Then, with a cry that was almost a scream, he dashed the box upon the floor and flew out the door as if crazed, and Donald paused to listen to his footsteps clattering down the stairs.

She did not come down to the door to meet them when the carriage clattered over the cobble-stones of the echoing patio.

While the reinvigorated ranks were at coffee, there was a great clatter in the rear, and presently a cortége of mounted officers appeared, General McDowell among them.

We hobble as fast as possible to the window, and are sure to see some chappie of about five feet high stumping on the pavement with his most properly named cuddy-heels; and we stake our credit, we never yet heard a similar clatter from any of his majesty's subjects of a rational and gentlemanly heightWe mean from five feet eleven (our own height) up to six feet three.

Footsteps began to clatter through the asphalt court and there came the rattle of milk-cans.

He returned in two hours with the surgeon, and a half-hour later a cavalry troop clattered into 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.

" Down came the axe, striking a spark of fire from the lock, which fell with a clatter at the next blow; but ere we had time to open the door, Simon and his party, entering by the back door, forced us to turn for our defence.

The boys will make a loud clatter with the horses, and we shall bag the game without a blow.

How it clatters along the roofs, Like the tramp of hoofs!

Wagons clattered by over the rattling wooden block pavement.

The little boats, a crowd of which are in attendance, now dart out, surrounding the net on all sides, and the boatmen beating their oars on the sides of the boats, create such a clatter as to frighten, the fish into the circumference of the big net.

The snow had begun to fall as they clattered across the floating bridge of Tver.

Yet even these negresses are beginning to chatter and clatter about the Anti-Slavery mission, expressing their satisfaction to our Jewish neighbours.

I enquired of a man who was sawing wood for us this morning, what the bells clattered for last night.

Ida, the moment she had got over the top of the hill, had ridden quickly, and, of course, quite fearlessly and safely, and had got Rupert so well in hand, as usual, that when she heard the clatter behind her, and, turning, saw the peril in which Maude had put herself, she was able to pull Rupert up.

The gewgaws clattered like castanets, as though in frantic expostulation, and the radiant spun-glass humming-birds quivered until we expected them to break from their elastic fetters and fly away.

With a soft thudding upon the sand, and a clatter among the stones the weary pony was off upon her journey once more.

A rapid whirr due to the engines, and a rythmical clatter due to the relief valve on one of the port engine cylinders not being screwed down hard enough, and therefore lifting a little in its seat at each stroke, made the most of it.

In unspotted field uniforms, and helmets still without the green-gray canvas service covering, they clattered past the reviewing officers, each right leg coming down with the thumping goose-step salute, until halls and barracks echoed with the staccato tread of thousands of hob-nailed boots.

"Has anybody a toy cannon and a little flag?" Wye descended with a hop, sprang astride a chair, and clattered around the room, imitating his drill-master.

Little red squirrels danced and clattered above their heads, and every oak was a choir with a hundred tiny voices piping from the shadow of its foliage.