| 单词 | clappers |
| 例句 | People cheer for us, and Rosa waves and clacks her clappers in the air and calls, “Hi!” and “Thank you!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was as if all its little bells had run away and forgotten their clappers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Plus the boys and Rosa have clappers, and Fiona’s got a horn. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z A bell sounds between the explosions, gongs, and metal clappers warning everyone—Gas—Gas—Gaas. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a sudden screeching cry, and a great flapping of wings, like wooden clappers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z His friend who owns the motorcar set off at top speed, full out and going like the clappers, no lights as usual except the waning gibbous moon on the rise. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The singing is accompanied by string and wind instruments, drums and clappers, and Mr. Tan’s recordings of new music and sounds, which emanate almost mysteriously from speakers hidden in the woods. ?The Peony Pavilion? Gets Modern Touches in China 2010-08-17T22:56:00Z Did the mine owner take the clappers out? Bob Stanley's guide to writing the perfect Christmas hit 2010-12-16T22:15:01Z He had begun with Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, intending to continue straight into the Four Sea Interludes without a break, but the compulsive clappers in the audience scuppered that idea. Proms 42 & 43: BBCSO/Gardner; St John Passion 2010-08-18T11:03:00Z The verdict on the French filmmaker Leos Carax’s competition entry, “Holy Motors,” sounded evenly divided, with the clappers trying hard but failing to drown out the vigorous disdainers. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes, Some Jeers for ‘Holy Motors’ and ‘The Paperboy’ 2012-05-24T22:34:45Z "It looks graceful on the top, but it's going like the clappers underneath." Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z And then there are the physical changes: ask the veteran skaters, now shaped like bells with robust, voluptuous clappers. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z Mr. Reich is well aware of the difficulty, saying in a video on the app that performing the piece is “very nervous-making” because it leaves the clappers so exposed. Steve Reich, Game Designer 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In the Middle Ages, we put lepers into asylums and strapped them with bells and wooden clappers so we could hear them approach. Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “This song does mean something to everybody and clearly in a different tempo to everybody in this audience,” Blake Shelton quipped, agreeing with Levine that the audience members were “the worst clappers I’ve ever heard.” 'The Voice' recap: The Top 6 sing for the moms 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Dotaku bells such as this one still puzzle historians, but we know they were made without clappers and buried in earth, probably as part of a ritual designed to bless crops. How the Silence Makes the Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s a warm-up procession of musicians beating drums, clapping wood clappers and piping away on flutes. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z Some lepers were forced to wear a heart on their clothes and don bells or clappers to warn others of their presence. The fashionable history of social distancing 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Happy clappers ... what are your favourite handclap songs? Readers recommend: songs with handclaps 2010-07-08T23:02:00Z But when he recorded the sequel, a dozen clappers turned out. Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Centre of the Mind The best intro of the week, going off like the clappers before taking a step or two down into familiar psychedelia. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z And, propelled by the country's undying obsession with outsiders, it's gone like the clappers at the Japanese box office, having become the top-grossing release of the year so far. Thermae Romae: is Japanese film feeling the heat? 2012-05-29T13:56:02Z Conservative forces were sufficiently worried about the optics, it appeared, that they were eager to pull in "talented clappers" from outside the community. Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The event includes a cedar weaving demonstration, drum song and dance, and craft making traditional clappers. What’s open, closed, and how to celebrate on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z They twirled wooden ratchets and batted plastic hand clappers emblazoned with the Unite Here logo. Column: On the picket line, a telling alliance between hotel workers and screenwriters 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z An electric atmosphere was generated at King Power Stadium by both the home fans with their 'clappers' and the away supporters through their vociferous backing. Leicester & Everton remain in trouble after chaotic draw 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Fans are also provided with sensory bags that include noise-cancelling headphones, weighted lap pads and fidget toys like plastic clappers and gloves. Stadium sensory rooms allow fans World Cup games experience 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Back at the zendo, several minutes passed by until some zen clappers clicked, and the dozen or so people around her in the zendo rose to their feet and began to slowly walk in circles. Anchorage Zen Community seeks awareness sitting in silence 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The music underscoring the monologue is both haunting and jarring, and it mixes in sounds from traditional Japanese theater like wooden clappers and samisen, a traditional stringed instrument. Why Velina Hasu Houston's timely play 'Tea' continues to be staged around the world 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z There was no such discord in the closing ceremony, which had fans waving plastic clappers, making a sound that approximated either rain or a swarm of locusts. Despite containing the coronavirus, Beijing Games could never escape other problems 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Fans rattled the plastic clappers they had been handed — generally obeying pandemic-era instructions not to open their masked-covered mouths to cheer — and watched her every move. Eileen Gu Gets Silver in Freeski Slopestyle, Adding to Her Gold From Big Air 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Parell threw up his hands in victory as his family cheered, waving noisy party clappers. They set out to hike America's three longest trails in less than a year. What could go wrong? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z So, I went on back on the belt, going like the clappers of hell. Gleision: The mining disaster that was quietly forgotten 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The clappers of two bells fell off some time ago, but Rios replaced them with a pair of small keys and a metal lock. L.A. ice cream vendor adapts to life in a COVID-19 world 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z News of Nick Watney’s positive test at the RBC Heritage in South Carolina stopped golf’s happy clappers in their tracks. Watney's Covid case raises questions about PGA Tour's pandemic policy | Ewan Murray 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z In the tower, Dr. McCrady performs with a keyboard made up of a vertical panel of levers known as manuals and a pedal board connected by cables to the clappers that strike the bells. Canada’s ‘Voice of the Nation’ Rings Out in a Capital Quieted by a Virus 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Homo sapiens got where they did by being cooperative and collaborative, and we’ve seen that on a daily basis: the seed sharers, mask weavers, happy clappers, valiant volunteers, community choirs and online orchestras. Has the coronavirus pandemic made us all nicer? 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Fans in Taiwan are notoriously rowdy and devoted, pounding clappers, blaring vuvuzelas and availing themselves of any other noise makers they can find from start to finish. Taiwan Says ‘Play Ball!’ (With Cardboard Fans and Robot Drummers) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But Warren appeared to enjoy the loudest and longest welcome – with her supporters banging clappers together for roughly two minutes as she took to the stage. Warren says Democrats can’t chose nominee ‘we don’t believe in because we’re scared’, in possible slap at Biden 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z But they were also known as bull-dogs, hawks, lurchers and, from the manner in which they escorted debtors, shoulder clappers. 'Is that bum trap missing a flesh-bag?': a guide to Australia’s convict slang 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In order for the bells to work again, they need to be cleaned, tuned and installed with new clappers. Woman seeks to save Irish American parish’s historic bells 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z But he neglected to provide “clappers,” the wooden tools editors use to marry sound to image. Review | The Aretha Franklin concert documentary ‘Amazing Grace’ is nothing short of a miracle 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Then, at midday, bellringers at each tower across the UK will remove the muffles from the clappers and at about 12.30 they will ring open. Bells will ring out: world to mark end of First World War 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Fans wield all manner of noise makers — clappers, pairs of plastic bats, small vuvuzelas — pretty much nonstop for nine innings. Taiwan Baseball? It’s ‘Hot Noisy,’ and Ingrained in National Identity 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Leicester weren’t sure whether their fans would prefer plastic flags or paper clappers, so they got both: Leicester City v Chelsea: FA Cup quarter-final – live! 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z "I was one of biggest clappers when he talked about paid family leave," she said. Tammy Duckworth, senator and war hero, takes on President Trump, aka 'Cadet Bone Spurs' 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Officials from a Dutch bell manufacturer installed new clappers - the piece inside a bell that strikes it to make a sound - at a cost of $63,000 in October. Michigan State University updates memorial bell tower 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Officials from a Dutch bell manufacturer installed new clappers — the piece inside a bell that strikes it to make a sound — at a cost of $63,000 in October. Michigan State University updates memorial bell tower 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z At that point, no doubt, he told the happy clappers that they were cheering for the wrong guy. ‘That’s why he’s Justin’: Playoff superhero Justin Williams can’t stop being clutch 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z They were given a red bowl and spoon, an itchy sack-like uniform, and wooden shoes the prisoners nicknamed “clappers”. 'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z The modern ringers are hand-painted, hang from hemp rope and use reclaimed wood clappers. Ring in the holidays with these gorgeous ceramic bells 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Chelsea, going along like the clappers, unsurprisingly name an unchanged side. Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – live! 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Plastic flags, clappers and mobile phones to be replaced by rattles, flat caps and untipped cigarettes. Premier League 2015-16 review: Our writers’ best and worst 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Separately, the nonprofit parkway trust and the embassy will try to raise $1.7 million for upgrades to the musical equipment, including replacement of the clappers in the bells. A long-ago gift from the grateful Dutch, the Netherlands Carillon now needs saving 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Srivaddhanaprabha pays about $20,000 each home game for fans to rattle their little cardboard clappers while they’re watching the match: it helps make the King Power Stadium one of the league’s noisiest grounds. Leicester City and the greatest underdog story ever told: a primer for Americans 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The clappers, and the screams, were especially loud on Tuesday. Leicester City Tops Liverpool, and Keeps On Dreaming of Title 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z This happened frequently, he said, necessitating improvisation to avoid busted pedals and clappers. The ring cycle: Answer Man checks out the Netherlands Carillon 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In one, women sing traditional Kashmiri songs accompanied by rhythmic brass clappers. Explore the Beauty of Kashmir 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In French theatre, groups of professional clappers, known as "claques", were hired by performers to make them appear more popular with audiences. Why are MPs banned from clapping? - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Students carried paper megaphones and silver wooden clappers that flashed like flag semaphores and magnified the rhythmic applause, a sound of both welcoming and required exuberance. At Marathon in North Korea, Curiosity Goes a Long Way 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The cards, known as clappers, were handed out at a game last season, and after the Foxes won the club’s owners, out of superstition, have purchased them for each game since. Leicester City Tops Liverpool, and Keeps On Dreaming of Title 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Poyet's email also criticised the club's marketing ploy to create more noise inside the stadium by handing cardboard clappers to the home fans. Gus Poyet fuming after excrement found in Crystal Palace dressing room 2013-05-18T18:02:24Z Maybe it's too many shoulder clappers around you. Goal: Klinsmann Explains, and Keeps Explained, His Use of '24/7' 2013-01-24T05:36:31Z Like a Prius in that it combines a petrol engine with an electric motor; but not like a Prius in that this one goes like the clappers. On the road: BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid 2012-12-22T22:59:01Z The atonal violin soundtrack was going like the clappers. London 2012: China has no interest in synchronised swimming and that gives us a chance 2012-08-06T19:08:15Z The hours are 182 marked in the churches by wooden clappers. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z This is owing to the fact that the clappers of the bells do not all break or make contact at the same time, so that intermittent ringing and interruptions take place. Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men 2012-03-06T03:00:25.273Z Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The flounced bell skirts had swung airily on gracious silk clappers. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z There were big clappers of wood which were used to frighten the birds away from the fruit. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Yet regularly, out of a noonday stillness—except for the cries of the butcher boy upon the steps—a dozen clappers of the tower struck their sudden din across the city. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The Blues arrived in several big carryalls with a noisy crowd of “rooters” carrying horns, bells and clappers—anything with which to make a racket. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z A wagon enclosed with canvas, bearing announcements of existing and coming film features, was provided with a big bass drum, bells, huge board clappers and some horns—all operated by pedals under the driver’s feet. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z In the latter they are constantly fired at, if only with blank charges, to alarm them from the seed besides being shouted at and frightened with clappers. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z My heels knocked together like a pair of clappers, an' it seemed to me I could hear my head crack, the same way a whip does when you snap it. Teddy and Carrots Two Merchants of Newpaper Row 2011-01-24T03:00:19.897Z It appeared that at the very moment of the noon, having lagged to the utmost second, the frantic clappers had bolted up the belfry stairs to call the town to dinner. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The organ's base was against the ceiling; the winged cherubs hovered overhead feet upward; the bells swung with the clappers standing upright, and the choir chanted the psalm backward. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z After an incident at my second wedding, we banned clappers from my third wedding. 23 things you should know about sports TV 2010-12-20T00:09:00Z The clappers fell still once and for all. | Silencing the Clappers 2010-06-17T20:45:00Z The clappers fell silent once and for all. World Cup Fans in Queens Make Noise for South Korea 2010-06-18T00:32:00Z Certainly the clappers were brawling in the tower and had come to blows. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z But with malls and department stores shuttered, sales figures are flat at Versace and Prada, while street vendors selling anti-government red T-shirts, bandanas, flags and hand clappers are raking it in. Thailand Tourism Devastated by Political Unrest 2010-04-18T04:35:00Z Among this insolent brood the most zealous guardians of the law were to be found; they easily learnt some of the tricks of their master, and they carried goose wings, wooden clappers, and short pipes. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The bells were all alike, except that from two of them I had removed the clappers. The Speech of Monkeys Larry and Jack for a long time had their eyes and minds on these same bells, and finally they decided to effectually stop the ringing by cutting the ropes off close to the clappers. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 Two small knobs of brass, which serve as clappers, hang by silk strings, one between each two bells. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Is it within the reach of any combination of springs, ratchets and clappers? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. The wires of the bells were distinctly moved, not only the bells and the clappers. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Let's all together make a noise, and shake Our clappers as a sign. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature To attract attention, they would clash their wooden clappers together. The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses Therefore, when the two outer bells communicating with the conductor are electrified, they will attract the clappers and be struck by them. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments She had a flute made from a bamboo cane by piercing holes between the joints, while every god in the great orchestra had a pair of flat hard wood clappers, which he struck together. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan And the seven big beautiful bells in the belfry were left hollow and dark and quite empty, except for the clappers who did not care about the comforts of a home. The Magic World They also make a din by beating empty oil-tins, and use clappers as the country boys at home do. India and the Indians A pair of clappers, a stick, a barrel, and a distinctive dress were given to him. The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses Two heads in little round nightcaps lay on one pillow, two pairs of wide-awake blue eyes stared up at the light, and two tongues were going like mill clappers. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. These clappers were ingenious little contrivances, and from each hung a long and narrow white ribbon. Patty's Summer Days Cursed be the mill that clappers, the carpenter who drives the nails, the teamster who calls to his jaded pair, the laughter of children, the croaking of frogs, the twittering of birds! The Goose Man Only on Holy Friday are the bells abandoned and tin pans and bamboo clappers, sticks and stones, resorted to for purposes of lamentation—functions for which these instruments are perfectly adapted. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia At night the horses were hobbled, and the clappers of their bells were loosened; the ringing prevented the horses being lost. Home Life in Colonial Days I tried holding the clappers still, but that was no good, as there were four of them. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. "The mill-streams that turn the clappers of the world arise in solitary places." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 After this they took tambourines, triangles, drums, and clappers, and made a noise, in perfect time and tune. In and Around Berlin Skinny Bruce is the best one. he has some bone clappers that jest ring. 'Sequil' Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First I began with bird-scaring, and not a penny in my pocket, that wouldn't have held coppers for holes, if I had, and clothes that would have scared of themselves, letting alone clappers. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son No, I couldn't unhook the clappers; they were a fixture. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. A huge cylinder revolves, on which are projecting pegs of brass, which as the cylinder goes round catch against wooden levers which raise clappers that in their fall strike the bells. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey So he shook it a little, just to show that it was growing limber, and the bone clappers on the end rustled with a sharp, angry noise. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. These games were played by torchlight, the local band—harp, dulcimer, two drums and clappers—discoursed at intervals; here the inhabitants, unlike those of Rangoon, were early birds. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma Everything went on with great harmony till they came to the head-dress of the doll; and here they differed so much in opinion, that all their little clappers were going at once.... Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Whenever her fingers moved, a little pretty clapping sound came from them—Maida discovered that she carried tiny wooden clappers. Maida's Little Shop "And I was keeping away the crows," said Nancy, holding out her wooden clappers. The Puritan Twins Rattler opened his sleepy eyes, threw himself on guard with a snap and a buzz, and shook his bony clappers savagely. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Similarly the maanim has been described as a trumpet, a kind of rattle box with metal clappers, and we even have a full account in which it figures as a violin. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University These rafts, which with the figures upon them produced a most picturesque effect, were called "clappers," and were used, especially by strangers and summer guests, for orientation and description of location. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 They asked if the fire-brigade had their engines in order, and wondered if there were clappers in the church bells, if there should happen to be an alarm. Invisible Links According to the old usage their first impulse was to run to the belfries in order to sound the tocsin, but they found that the royalists had removed the clappers of the bells. The Liberation of Italy "In Burma, there are no clappers to the bells," he said to himself. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery The bells he also kept in order, examining the clappers and bawdricks and ropes, and reporting to the churchwardens if they required mending. The Parish Clerk The rattan cord attached to the clappers is fastened to a small raft which is then set afloat in the pool. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe When the afternoon service on Good Friday is over, German children in Bohemia drive Judas out of the church by running about the sacred edifice and even the streets shaking rattles and clappers. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul The strips of rawhide attached to the clappers dropped low enough for me to reach, and often tempted me to make the bells speak. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate What noise of viols is so sweet, As when our merry clappers ring ? The Compleat Angler Upon the crumbling boards the snow Has drifted deep, the clappers hang Prismed with icicles, their clang Unheard since ages long ago. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass All day long they watched the grain and rattled their clappers, or threw clods at the black marauders. The Spartan Twins He slept in an attic, ate in a kitchen, and worked, but was not "responsible;" he was always given "light jobs"—walking with the "clappers," weeding, cleaning sties, "clearing." The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Had he been condemned to sit for eight days in close contiguity to the clappers of a small mill, he would have learnt as much as he did from the witnesses before the committee. The Three Clerks The mill-streams that turn the clappers of the world arise in solitary places. Friends in Council — First Series "Then do you put them plaguy clappers away, and listen to me patiently," says he. A Set of Rogues They sat down with the wooden clappers beside them, and ate their breakfast in the company of the scarecrow. The Spartan Twins The applause which followed his remarks, was not so vociferous as he had expected, partly because there were no "Especially instructed clappers." Purple Springs And he called their attention to the fact that the clappers of the bells of Eulogius and Eucherius were so fastened up that they could not emit a sound, while that of Euschemon vibrated freely. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales See if I don't set their clappers a going, like those of a saw-mill. Nature and Human Nature Also, he and Moll acquired the use of a kind of clappers, called costagnettes, which they play with their hands in these fandangos and boleros, with a very pleasing effect. A Set of Rogues The old elephant leader had to trumpet through his trunk as loudly as he could to be heard above the noise of the guns and clappers. Umboo, the Elephant The waving of the Hall colors, an American flag set in a border of green, came also, with an equal din from horns and wooden clappers. The Rover Boys at School Two brass wires are stretched across the upper and lower breadth, and each is provided with a ring or hinge holding four or five strips of wire acting as clappers. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Do you make a better jest than that At once, or have the clappers cut from them. The Lamp and the Bell For half an hour, five tongues went like mill clappers, and there is no knowing when they would have stopped if the little bell had not suddenly rung with a violence that made them jump. Jack and Jill Into it they rushed, the noise behind them sounding louder and louder now, with more guns shooting and more clappers clapping. Umboo, the Elephant The march brought forth a wild round of applause and a veritable shrieking of tin horns and cracking of wooden clappers. The Rover Boys at School It has a hurdy-gurdy fixed to its waist and a drum strapped on behind, a row of pipes hanging from its face, and bells and clappers from most of its other joints. They and I And the loud laugh of the Russian sounded through the night like the noise of wooden clappers. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Long vine ropes swung from point to point, hung at intervals with such matters as feathers, bones, miniature shields, carved sticks, shells and clappers: either as magic or to keep off the birds. The Land of Footprints Afar, the watchmen of white men's houses struck wooden clappers and hooted in the darkness. Tales of Unrest But the curtain once down, the clappers tried in vain to obtain a call, while the whole house was already up and making for the doors. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola The clappers applauded the scenery, which represented a grotto on Mount Etna, hollowed out in a silver mine and with sides glittering like new money. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Once again the prearranged applause of the clappers alone burst forth; the public, a little out of their depth, sat waiting. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola But the gang of clappers in the foremost rows of the pit applauded furiously. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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