| 单词 | clangour |
| 例句 | A new mob had a minute before burst from the eastward into the Rue St. Honor�; and the roar of its thousand voices swelled louder than the importunate clangour of the bells. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The clangour and fury of this book could hardly fail to jar upon the nerves of so decorously classical a writer as Prescott. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z A clangour of trumpets wakes the echoes of the corridors. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z When the storms beat on the coast, driven by the wild west winds, the boom and clangour is heard as far inland as Lamorna Cove. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z You know the clangour of a station bell; of all sounds the last that it resembles is that of the funeral knell; yet this was its echo in the heart of Gladys. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z Below her to the right rose the smoke of the town and the ceaseless clangour of the ship-building yards. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Clang′our, a clang: a sharp, shrill, harsh sound.—v.i. to make a clangour. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Comes a merchant on his camel— Silk from Araby he sells: Listen to the rhythmic clangour Of the bells! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z I loathed the idea of getting into the hot bunk and lying there, stewing, a clear keen, clangour of thoughts making sleep impossible. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There is a shout within the Abbey like the roaring of the sea, and a clangour 250 of trumpets, and the doors open and the procession streams out. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z When the look-out man struck four bells, the sound seemed to wound like a sword-cut, so sharp and unnatural was its clangour. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The roar of the trains on the nearby Elevated seemed muted, the clangour of the Third Avenue surface cars blunted, and Joan fancied that the street lamps burned with an added lustre. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z It was of iron, and as he struck it with his hand, returned a hollow clangour. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z The night trembles in the powerful beat of a rhythmic clangour. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z This heavy Satan beat with his fist upon his immense belly, from whence came a loud and resounding metallic clangour, which died away in a sighing made by many human voices. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z I had barely finished when the clangour of a great gong startled me. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z In the midst of my perturbation it made every fibre of my frame tremble by striking one with a solemn clangour that I thought must have waked every sleeper in the house. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z On this, a terrible clangour was heard; the lights were extinguished; and Auriol was dragged through the doorway from which he had been brought forth. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Alongside, the frogs were making the deafening clangour of an iron foundry, and through that sound shrilled the cicadas. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The words had scarce passed his lips, when a loud clangour reverberated upon the air. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z I soon became aware that they were on their way to the Cathedral—whose matin bells were filling the streets with their clangour. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z But before she can reflect upon its significance the great convent bell breaks forth in noisy clangour, causing a flutter among the figures outside, with a scattering helter skelter. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The Dead March from Saul was played with all the poignant appeal of rolling and booming drums, wailing reeds, and the triumphant clangour of brass. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z No one could appreciate, could savour and watch and respond, more than myself to the tremendous growing clangour of the mental process as the last half-century has exhibited it. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Oh! many fearful natures in one name, I know ye; and these lakes and echoes know The darkness and the clangour of your wings. Heathen Mythology While I stood thus gazing idly the great bell of the gate rang out with a sudden clangour. Idonia: A Romance of Old London "Both legs," he exclaimed, as, putting forth a mighty effort, he twisted and broke them, throwing them down with the same provoking clangour. A Poached Peerage Hearing the thunder of horse-hoofs and the clangour of the chariot from afar, she bade one of the maidens go to the rampart of the Dūn and tell her what she saw. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race So said, admiringly, the late Lord Byron, But he had never heard your noisy knell, O blatant bellowing thing of brass or iron, Or surely he had metrically cursed Your nerve-distracting Corybantic clangour. Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories And in a moment more the whole church was filled with the clangour of armed men. The Firebrand Very copious citation would be necessary to show its excellence: but before Victor Hugo there is nothing in French equal to D'Aubigné at his best in point of clangour of sound and impetuosity of rhythm. A Short History of French Literature The heights rang back our screams of rage, our defiant war-cries, and the clangour of our blows. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Like the clangour of a bell, Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet, That is how he learnt so well To take the roses for his meat. The Wild Swans at Coole But louder far than all other sounds were the minute peals of cannon from the Bay, making the deep valleys ring with their clangour, and sending their solemn din into many a far-off glen. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Overhead, with shrill clangour, single file and in long wavering V lines, wing geese migrating southward for the season. The Story of the Trapper Sad mother, weep no more thy children slain; The trumpets and the battle clangours cease: Uplift to heaven the loud, the grateful strain, And hail the dawn of Freedom and of Peace. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 I cried, and the shout must have gone to our leader's ear, though I myself could not hear it, so great was the clangour and the din. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway But over their harping and over their singing, When twilight came mantled in lilac and grey, Would sound the sweet clangour of chapel-bells ringing "Ding-dong, ding-a-dong-dey," From over the hills and away. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 The narrow water space between her hull and ours was crowded by barges taking and delivering our cargo; the shriek of steam-tugs and clangour of their engine-bells advertised our stir and activity. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The loud clangour of pretenders Melteth before you Like the roll of carts passing, But you come silently And homage is given. The Tempers Strong shouts and clangours through the high wood run, And distant arms flash to the sinking sun; Dark forests their lone empire, the tall rocks Their shelter, and their wealth their wandering flocks. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 There were distant voices, clangour of weapons, one or two cries of terror, and then, with the deepest darkness of the night, heavy, soundless silence. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The king thrust his sword into a scabbard, and, with a clangour of hilt on iron, those behind him followed his example. A Prince of Good Fellows Its clangour startled him, and nearly made him fly from the place. Under False Pretences A Novel And in spite of the clangour of rivetters, the unceasing cries of fezzed and turbaned mechanics, and the heavy blows of sweating carpenters, caulkers and blacksmiths, Aliens grew. Aliens It is all as of old; the empty clangour. Poems Before man arrived, and introduced into the silence of the sea the smoke and clangour of a blacksmith’s shop, it was a favourite resting-place of seals. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Then the whole house was like that poem by Edgar Allan Poe, one magnificent texture of clangour. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Perhaps the same fellow who had made so horrid a clangour in the darkness not half an hour before now sent up the merriest cheer to greet the coming day. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) To what a tiny hum would the traffic fall when that titanic clangour met my ears! An Ocean Tramp To me, I don't know why, there is something crude—some harsh note—a clangour of metal. Love and Lucy The roar of water had a different note in it, and the clangour of the iron sheet one of the men was pounding rang out harshly. The Greater Power Backward driven, Again that multitudinous foe returned With clangour dire; futile, again fell back Down dashed, like hailstone showers from palace halls Where princes feast secure. Legends of the Saxon Saints The reverberation, the deafening clangour of this, cannot possibly be described, or appreciated by one that has never heard it. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Sometimes, in the clangour of the engine-room, they will relate perilous misadventures at sea, or ludicrous entanglements in sunny southern ports. An Ocean Tramp It bade me no adieu, its clangour of despair rang forth, an additional note of discord, from the inner courts of my palace. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy In another few moments Nasmyth was beating a suspended iron sheet, and while its clangour broke through the roar of the river the men floundered towards him over the shingle. The Greater Power Then followed a clangour of yells, and loud whoops, breathing menace and revenge. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness First those of the Cathedral, then of the Acordada, and the convent of San Francisco, with other convents and churches, till there was a clangour all over the city! The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley And while I do all this I try to make out the orchestration of the uproar as my friend would some tremendous Wagnerian clangour. An Ocean Tramp The evolutions of soldiers and clangour of martial music were nothing to him, but he must wait upon his little mistress. Daisy Thou springest forth valiant; The clangour swells far as thy direful arms ring. A Victor of Salamis The horses of the Indians were now picketed upon the grass, and browsing peacefully—as if the clangour of strife had never sounded in their ears. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness What roar of rampant tumult bursts in clangour on the coast? The Children's Garland from the Best Poets From Greenock to Glasgow resounded the clangour of hammers and the thunder of mechanism. An Ocean Tramp A steady, persistent clangour vibrated in his brain, dulling it, so that senses like sight and hearing seemed slow as though drugged. Athalie Like clangour of bells rings the multiple voice of Joy! The Wagnerian Romances I had the feeling in April, unknown to any snail on the thorn, that the park was deafening with the clangour of pallid, tense, and contending lunatics. Waiting for Daylight On walking rapidly into the centre of the island, countless myriads of birds rose shrieking on every side, so that the clangour was absolutely deafening, "like the roar of some great cataract." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The roaring of the discharges, the screaming of the shells, the clangour of metal upon metal, the crashes of the explosions, made up a tumult that was painful in its intensity. World's War Events, Vol. I There is a look of trim elegance everywhere, which refreshes the eye; and over the streets there broods an immemorial peace, which even the echoing clangour of the Navy Yard cannot dispel. American Sketches 1908 But these lookers-on have said nothing on the subject, or their mild voices have been lost in the clangour of actors vehement and earnest. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets He struggled, he called, he cried; his voice was lost in the din and clangour. Wood Magic A Fable Now and then, too, here and there peals forth the clangour of the war-trumpet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 This was followed by the clangour of horns and trumpets, and the explosion of fireworks—as if let off upon the occasion of a jubilee. The Tiger Hunter How could the calm voice of Science make itself heard among the clash and clangour of war? The World Peril of 1910 The clangour of the bells broke out anew. The Valley of the Kings The clangour of their wings resounded, a hoarse shout arose from their throats, they strained every nerve to overtake and assist their king. Wood Magic A Fable Zdenko accidentally knocked down a spear; and the clangour, echoing round the hall, awakened the men. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology A frightful monotonous clangour rent the interior of the safe. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In the uproar bugles blew furiously and the harsh German cavalry trumpets, peal on peal, nearer, nearer, nearer, answered their clangour. Lorraine A romance The white mist hanging over the sunken road, the clangour of beaten shell cases ringing out alarm, the whistle of the warning rockets and the noise of men choking in the spongy fog. Men of Affairs Now they reach thee in their anger: Fire and smoke and hellish clangour Are around thee, thou world's wonder! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry I would he were the only clangour I had to fear in this house.” The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Bells had already commenced their clangour, and other notes of rejoicing fell upon the ear. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse They are of two kinds; one, the clattering of horses’ hoofs, the other, the clack and clangour of men’s voices. The Death Shot A Story Retold If strangers come to stop under the shadow of the church the clangour disturbs their sleep for the first night, and after that they, too, hear nothing. The Nebuly Coat The unrhymed line, so often but by no means uniformly resounding with a suspended clangour that is not caught up by the following stanza is distinctly reminiscent of the Alcaics of Horace. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson Beneath them is a traveller taking a tender farewell of the chambermaid, who is not to be moved by the clangour of the great bar bell, or the more thundering sound of her mistress's voice. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency And they, in the empty level field that cleared for them, darted swiftly forward, and hurling their spears from far, close in battle shock with clangour of brazen shields. The Aeneid of Virgil Thus indeed were they fighting; and the iron clangour 558 reached the brazen heaven through the unfruitful air. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Then he crept deafened with the clangour down the stairs into the belfry, and sat on the sill of a window watching the ringers rise and fall at their work. The Nebuly Coat Twice a day the mountains echoed to the clangour of the passing express train, and at intervals less settled and orderly to the slower rumble of luggage-trucks, laden or empty. Despair's Last Journey For five minutes there was brazen clangour and shouting and an agony of effort, then the blue streamed back, past the Dunkard wood and church, back into the dreadful cornfield. The Long Roll "With horrible howlings," says Mr. Turner, "and loud clangour of drums and trumpets, the Turks rushed on;" and you may recollect, the savage who would have murdered the Bishop of Bamberg, began with a shriek. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity The clangour of the outer door closing recalled that there was danger still below. Doom Castle The birds, forsaking the jungle, in their flight passed over the heads of our adventurers, and by their cries caused such a clangour as to set Fritz off into a prolonged fit of baying. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" The cloud took no form of cloud, and not a sound came through it except for the voice of the water, and the occasional roll and clangour of the trains. Despair's Last Journey All around it, wood and open filled with clangour. The Long Roll The noise and rush and clangour of the Loop had long been familiar to him. Gigolo And now the clangour of cymbals and the roll of drums came up on the breezes from the south, and, with them, a strange uproar of barbarous shouts and cries. The Lion's Brood In this way, with shouts and clangour, the men of the totem surged twice round the mound on their knees. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia He had listened all day for the accustomed clangour of the trains, and had heard nothing. Despair's Last Journey The grey met it with clangour and pushed it back. The Long Roll Just opposite, its clangour filled the whole mansion with a ghostly sound. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Presently the barbarians patrolling around the walls in troops, they heard their yells and the dissonant clangour of their arms. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 As she thought, there was a sudden movement of the light on the church tower; it tossed violently up and down, and a moment later the jubilant clangour of the bells broke out. By What Authority? Day was rendered hideous by the clangour of the instruments which the blunted senses of Chinese have been misguided into believing are musical. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma When the clangour broke out they had their first stupefied moment, after which they turned and ran with all their might toward headquarters. The Long Roll Praise, and immortal praise, is virtue's claim; And virtue's sphere is action: yet we grant Some merit to the trumpet's loud alarm, Whose clangour kindles cowards into men. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 The evolutions of soldiers and clangour of martial music were nothing to him; but he must wait upon his little mistress. Daisy Then, with deep sonorous clangour, Calmly answering their sweet anger, When the wrangling bells had ended, Slowly struck the clock eleven, And, from out the silent heaven, Silence on the town descended. Bruges and West Flanders The gong sounded; its notes died away in a distant murmur, then brayed forth with a stentorian clangour that might wake the dead. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma By contrast with the clangour that had prevailed, the stillness seemed that of a desert waste, a dead world. The Long Roll After the clangour of battle There comes a moment of rest, And the simple hopes and the simple joys And the simple thoughts are best. The Ontario Readers Third Book A tumultuous clangour of bells and booming of guns from St. James' Park and the Tower of London rent the air. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 And the great gates closed behind them with a brazen clangour—metal gates of the moon-rebels. Visionaries The trumpet's loud clangour Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The Hundred Best English Poems The brazen clangour of bells seemed to struggle with the sharp puff of the breeze that sent us in. Romance People began to run hither and thither; all the soldiers forming the escort gaped open-mouthed at the steeple as the clangour continued. Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches With a rhythmic sway of warlike tone the clangour rose and fell, and rose again as the trumpeters came out upon the great staircase and began to descend. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster Some of the keys did not "speak," some gave forth a brazen clangour from the rusty wires. Visionaries Through the halls resounded the cacophonous clangour of a cracked gong announcing dinner. The Day of Days An Extravaganza A new mob had a minute before burst from the eastward into the Rue St. Honoré; and the roar of its thousand voices swelled louder than the importunate clangour of the bells. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France And then she began to mutter an impious address preparatory to the sacrifice, when a loud clangour was heard like the stroke of a hammer upon a bell. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest That was all he said, but all around heard the cutting tone, that neither the voices of the singers, nor the clangour of the trumpets could drown. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster The clangour of the feast was become maddening. Visionaries The clangour was loud, and anxiously did the knight await for some reply to his summons. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Hearing thereof, the lords of Baux came down in wrath with a clangour of armed men. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Scarcely are the words uttered than a terrible clangour is heard. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest A long black line of crows passed, tumbling in the air, with much confusion of chatter and clangour of complaint that their harvest, too, had been disturbed. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Then Oisín rode to the gate and thrice he blew on the great horn which hung by it, and the clangour of it groaned drearily back from the cliffs that overhung the glen. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland The subdued clangour of the gong, sounded for breakfast, gave him an excuse for turning suddenly round and watching the door of the room. A Christmas Garland One could hear the rhythmical, faint clangour of the metal. Simon Called Peter Hear'st thou through all this consecrated ground, The rattling thong's unwonted clangour sound? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 The morning clangour he must know to be a tragedy of foulest import. Ma Pettengill But she remembered that he had had a nervous fever; it was his nerves, then, and his fever that had cried out, a cry covered, made decent almost, by the clangour of the sea. The Divine Fire The air was full of clangour and clamour; above all rose the shrill screams of the women. The Waters of Edera Henley speaks of his "clangours of bronze and gold and scarlet" and admits that "there are moments when his work is as infallibly decorative as a Persian crock or a Japanese brocade." Promenades of an Impressionist It happened that a French regiment of cuirassiers, with the fine clangour of its drums and trumpets, was passing under the window at the moment. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 And early in the morning their dreams were scattered by the harmonious clangour of the church bells. Robert Browning They entered upon a scene of indescribable confusion and clangour. The Divine Fire At Madoc's tent the clarion sounds, With rapid clangour hurried far: Each echoing dell the note resounds— But when return the sons of war! Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 Its clashing and its clangour Proclaim the Godhead's anger-- I shudder, and with langour Turn away; No joyance fills my bosom For that day. Poems The road now winds through a remote country, which once resounded with the clangour of the forge, to Hadlow Down and Butcher's Cross and in seven miles reaches Mayfield. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End The Holy Fair," he less reverently adduces mention of these sacred airs:-- "Now turn the Psalms o' David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangour. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Like great copper pans go the clangour of the rhymes. Confessions of a Young Man The outer door swung wide, letting in a brassy clangour of bugles and a roll of drums, which softened when the door closed with a snap. Ailsa Paige Out from the church tower in the meadows broke with clash and clangour a glad sound of Christmas bells. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life One can only stand and look and listen, till the living, flying letter is lost in the sky; till his ear can no longer catch the glorious, wild clangour of "the going of the geese." Virginia: the Old Dominion The swordblades rose and fell so swiftly that they seemed to be arcs of light; the deafening clangour was pierced by the howls of the dying. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The clangour of the band, the unreal greenness of the foliage, the thronging of the dancers, and the chattering of women—we only knew their Christian names. Confessions of a Young Man The clangour of the band, the unreal greenness of the foliage, the thronging of the dancers, and the chattering of women, whose Christian names we only knew. Confessions of a Young Man Smoke and clangour, and odours not often met with in Wiltshire, are very insistent. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The great valley resounded with the blows of hammers on red-hot metal, and the clangour of steel on steel broke the silence of the tropic wilderness. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Christ emerges from the sepulchre, not in victorious tranquillity, but with the clash and clangour of an irresistible energy set free. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti And the loud clangour of a bell supported the invitation. Trailin'! As great copper pans go the clangour of the rhymes. Confessions of a Young Man They plunge the clangour of billions of vermilion trumpets into the crowd outside, and echo in faint rose over the pavement. Men, Women and Ghosts Perhaps the same fellow who had made so horrid a clangour in the darkness not half-an-hour before, now sent up the merriest cheer to greet the coming day. New Arabian Nights The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished. Ivanhoe Below, the clangour was increasing, the great trunk swinging harder and faster upon the metal gates. The Moon Pool He heard the talk of the bronze-clad invader, and the jar and clangour as stone met steel. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies I The Trumpet-Vine Arbour The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats against the hot sunlight. Men, Women and Ghosts The bell itself was just upon the other side of the wall, it responded to his activity, and scattered an alarming clangour far and wide into the night. New Arabian Nights At this the challenger with fierce defy His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply: With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky. Ivanhoe All through the town rang clangour of arms As for grim fight strong men arrayed their limbs. The Fall of Troy He liked the clangour of the arsenal smithy, where he had first learned his art; and all the busy industry of the place. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography He liked the clangour of the Arsenal smithy where he had first learned his art, and all the busy industry of the place. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers And then, amid the clangour of the machinery, came a drifting suspicion of human voices, that I entertained at first only to dismiss. The War of the Worlds His first incurious thought that the clangour arose from the town band, engaged in an attempt to round off a memorable day in a burst of evening harmony, was contradicted by certain peculiarities of reverberation. The Mayor of Casterbridge To the clangour of the Bell alone he had become abnormally sensitive; every fibre of his being shuddered, responsive to its weird nuances. The Bronze Bell Those narrow metal walls were echoing a clangour of machinery maniacal in character and overpowering in volume. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Stark clangours of forgotten wars, Tumults of primal love and hate, Through crags of song reverberate. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 For a long time I knew how the day went, by the imperious clangour of midday and evening bells striking down upon the houses and the edge of the lake. Twilight in Italy Drum, trumpet, bugle, had uttered their clangour, and were forgotten; with pencil-ray she wrote on heaven and on earth records for archives everlasting. Villette There came to his struggling consciousness the persistent steady clangour of many deep bells. The Gray Dawn Sometimes, amid these sad thoughts of the dying man, the clangour of clarions blared out—there was a call to arms on the ramparts. Saint Augustin In these passages, without any delicacy of modulation, with a limited range of rhythm, his verse has a metallic clangour that stirs the blood like a trumpet-note. Latin Literature The Tenor was about to reply, but his voice was drowned by a sudden clangour of the bells above them. The Heavenly Twins Glory tried to laugh and to return the salutation over the noises of the people and the clangour of the bells. The Christian A Story He shakes Mr. Wolfe's hand, looks at his pale face for the last time, and sees the vessels depart amid the clangour of bells, and the thunder of cannon from the shore. The Virginians Again came the clangour and all eyes were turned towards the unconscious youths, Quincy and Tom. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Morning sleep is out of the question, owing to the tram-cars whose clangour, both here and in Florence, must be heard to be believed. Alone Pallid still,In radiance now their faces shone; and sweetTheir psalms amid the clangour of rough brine.Ten years in praise to God and good to menThat happy precinct housed them. The Legends of Saint Patrick At her command the various passions lie; ��She stirs to battle, or she lulls to peace; Melts the charm'd soul to thrilling ecstasy, ��And bids the jarring world's harsh clangour cease. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas The sharp metallic clangour of a bell went bang, bang, bang, from one roof; not far distant a harsher and deeper note—some Tartar-like bell of universal uproar—hammered away. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The Ear of Heaven was deafened with the din of the great Kurkahs and Drums, and the Earth shook at the clangour of the Trumpets and Clarions. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The silence of space was broken only by the clangour of the sea-birds, which came in muffled croaking tones through the stifling atmosphere of vapour. An Antarctic Mystery With all martial pomp and clangour, Were the salutations made, Where, supported at the window, The dying one was laid. Verses and Rhymes By the Way When did the Welshmen wait to hear the clangour of their trumpets, or the rustling of their silken banners? The Betrothed In the midst of the clangour the hearing settled down to the sighing of the pines, which drew the mind towards it, and soothed the senses to sleep. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies But all day long there comes up to my window an incessant shuffling of feet and clangour of voices. Italian Hours I was walking between the fore and main masts, watching the great flights of birds wheeling about the ship with deafening clangour, and the petrels occasionally perching on our yards. An Antarctic Mystery The once nerve-racking clangour was like the soothing strains of an invisible orchestra to my delighted senses. A Fool and His Money Thus, cheering each his comrades, would they speak, And thus they fought; the iron clangour pierc'd The empty air, and brazen vault of Heav'n. The Iliad Then clash their sounding arms; the clangours rise, And shake the brazen concave of the skies. The Iliad Let your feet not falter, your course not alter By golden apples, till victory’s won!The sword’s sharp clangour, the dart’s shrill anger, Swerve not the hero thundering on. Pike County Ballads and Other Poems Suddenly, above the clangour, rang out close and sharp the two reports of Jack's double-barrel. Stories by English Authors: Ireland Finally the clangour broke his sombre dream and he awoke and sat up in bed, listening. In Secret The clangour of the final strokes yet vibrated through the night's silence when someone set my own door bell loudly ringing. Tales of Chinatown There, 'mid clangour, dirt, and pestilence of crowding humanity, the very spirit of worry and unrest sits embodied. Pagan Papers The deathly stillness was broken only by a clangour of the town clock, tolling the hours into a darkened world. South Wind Consequently when a king dies some 500 persons are put to death, their cries being drowned by the clangour of drums and cymbals. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Careless of the direction, she walked on and on until the last maddening church bell had ceased its clangour; she was far out in the western suburbs, and weariness began to check her quick pace. The Odd Women Temple bells there were in the clangour of the road cars. Tales of Chinatown The air, which encouraged perspiration, was rich with many odours; voices endeavouring to make themselves audible in colloquy, swelled to a tumultuous volume that vied with the Hungarian clangours. In the Year of Jubilee When I opened it there stood a dapper groom, with one hand pressed unflinchingly on the electric bell whilst with the other he raised a ceaseless clangour with the knocker. The Jewel of Seven Stars Sara rang the bell a second time, on this occasion with an irritable force that produced clangour enough, one would have thought, to awaken the dead. The Hermit of Far End In camp before the Quadi he dates the first book of his Meditations, and shows how he could retire within himself amid the coarse clangour of arms. Meditations "My Georgia Belle," which, besides the tuneful voices, introduced a steamboat whistle and a musical clangour of bells. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment People began to run hither and thither; all the soldiers forming the escort gaped open-mouthed at the steeple as the clangour continued. Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) Moving in this desperate guise we hastened up that street and into another—still pursued by the din and clangour of the bell—and then a short distance along a third. The House of the Wolf; a romance He heard the shouts of the enemy, and the clangour of blows, and the sharp intake of breath, but chiefly he heard the beating of his own heart. The Path of the King And presently, with the roar of cannon, the clangour of bells, the sound of music, and the shouts of a great multitude ringing in his ears, the king advanced on his way towards Canterbury. Royalty Restored Into the station it came blustering, with cloud and clangour. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Just then a clangour began; the clocks of the city were tolling the midnight hour. Roads of Destiny Above the strepitant racket of the streets, he heard the harsh chimes of Trinity at noonday—strong jags of clangour hurled against the great sounding-boards of buildings; drifting and dying away down side alleys. Where the Blue Begins Instantly the voices of the crowd broke up into a discordant clangour, like to the counter-currents of an angry sea. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Not without clangour, complaint; subsequent criminal trials, and official persons dying of heartbreak! The French Revolution Stroke by measured and leisured stroke, the old euphonious clangour pervaded Oxford, spreading out over the meadows, along the river, audible in Iffley. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The bell that rings at nine o'clock has ceased its doleful clangour about nothing; the gates are shut; and the night-porter, a solemn warder with a mighty power of sleep, keeps guard in his lodge. Bleak House A clangour like hammers flung about a boiler hastened our steps. The First Men in the Moon When the clangour was done the voice continued. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Or is it the nature of National Assemblies generally to do, with endless labour and clangour, Nothing? The French Revolution More ravenous than famishing lions over dead prey, the multitude, with clangour and vociferation, pounces on them; struggling, dashing, clutching:—to the jamming-up, to the pressure, fracture and probable extinction, of the weaker Patriot. The French Revolution Ah, under that fraternal shine and clangour, what a deep world of irreconcileable discords lie momentarily assuaged, damped down for one moment! The French Revolution Whereupon is clangour and clamour, debate, repentance,—evaporation. The French Revolution Elsewhere you find South or North, nothing but untempered obscure jarring; which breaks forth ever and anon into open clangour of riot. The French Revolution And so there go they, with clangour and terror, they know not as yet whether running, swimming or flying,—headlong into the New Era. The French Revolution The circuit of the Temple is guarded, in these hours, by a long stretched tricolor riband: terror enters, and the clangour of infinite tumult: hitherto not regicide, though that too may come. The French Revolution O, between the clangour of these high-storming tocsins and that snore of Dulness, what a gamut: of trepidation, excitation, desperation; and above it mere Doubt, Danger, Atropos and Nox! The French Revolution |
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