| 单词 | clucking |
| 例句 | Glass broke in three windows and a tile slid off the roof, and then a maidservant ran out, terrified, her clucking hen of a daemon flapping after her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My face burned with humiliation, and I imagined the old women in my hometown shul, clucking their tongues and shaking their heads. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Beneath it the water was clear and still in the shadow, whispering and clucking about the stone in fading swirls of spinning sky. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And it might embarrass Charlie to have his sister clucking over him like an old biddy hen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But today the bleating and clucking was in vain. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z A pinched-face man makes a disapproving clucking sound as he walks by. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z By this time, a crowd of Castle Braid girls had gathered and were watching them with delighted cluckings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Rivka put her hands up to her mouth as if shouting, but instead made a penetrating clucking noise by placing her tongue against the roof of her mouth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She flew off her nest, squawking and clucking, and sped out of the bam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When he looked up and saw the car bearing down on him, despite the desperate clucking from all around, he froze, staring. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Min stood before the display of his wares, shaking his head and clucking with discontent. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Now the hens were also awake, scratching, clucking, laying eggs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid sat to one side clucking his tongue. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Such a pity, such a waste,” Caul said, clucking his tongue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Curious squirrel peered in bright-eyed wonder from a nearby tree, clucking softly to itself. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The chickens were clucking and flying up into the kola nut tree, where they would sleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Cook wondered, walking into the room, making a clucking sound with her tongue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The State called Dr. Seger, who persuaded the jury that there was nothing mentally wrong with George, even as he continuously spit in a cup and made loud clucking noises throughout the trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Speckled Sussex were distracting me, huddled at one end and clucking. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z "Your mother spoils you, letting you stay up this late," Oma says, clucking her disapproval, but she leaves the radio on. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “It is not what you would call the Sight,” Mona said, clucking her tongue again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I figured kids on the baseball field would be calling me “Headless Turkey Boy” and when I ran the bases they’d tease me by making clucking noises. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Working already? That’s a big responsibility for such a little thing,” she said, clucking her tongue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Even the mayor came, clucking over me like he cared, but he was only there to badger me with questions. ‘What were you doing there? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sadie/Penny, and Marigold are clucking, their tiny wings fluttering as they step lively in the coop. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The machinery there can turn a chicken from a clucking, feathered bird into a shrink-wrapped pack of parts in just ten minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “She stood you up,” Moody went on, clucking his tongue. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she’s the one to get the company, the Wives rustling up the stairs, clucking and cheerful; she gets the cakes and pies, the jelly, the bouquets of flowers from their gardens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the narrators had joined the circle around George, as had a few of the barnyard animals, who were supposed to be clucking and mooing onstage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Each of them had gone from clucking animal to oven-ready roaster in ten minutes, give or take. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The little boy started clucking and pecking ’round on the stage then he commenced scratching at the floor with his bare feet and you’d have swored he was digging up worms! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z When he was done, the eunuch made a little clucking sound. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then the others joined in, all fluffing and rolling around, looking like their bones had melted away, like jellyfish chickens, clouds of dust everywhere, clucking their contentment. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z As every day passed you could see the panic on more and more people’s faces, and the rest carefully composed their features to look somber and made clucking noises and said How Awful It Was. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The neighbors nodded and made polite clucking noises as they walked to their iron ponies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They ran up to me, clucking and shoving, and then here came old T.R. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the ferryman made some clucking noises and pushed them away from the shore with his rod. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When she nodded breathlessly, he reached down and lifted the cub out of the cage, talking to him in a clucking, rumbling tone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z One chicken clucked, which got them all to clucking. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Why would I want to wait around till five-thirty?” she answered, making a clucking sound with her tongue. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Ignoring her, Rivka already had her hands to her mouth, making the clucking sound to warn the children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pigeons all clustered up on a ledge clucking away like only pigeons can, but the noise continued even after I opened my eyes in the darkness of night. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z When I wake, the chickens are still cluck, cluck, clucking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She could feel its exhaustion in her own weary muscles, that heaviness a relentless clucking fuss in her mind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He shoveled the bacon out on a plate and broke the eggs in the hot grease and they jumped and fluttered their edges to brown lace and made clucking sounds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the camp guards joined in, alternately clucking and laughing, waving the children on toward the garbage pile. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He circles the model sometimes beaming, sometimes frowning, all the while making weird clucking sounds. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They waded or crept in one after another while the horrible clucking continued and overhead the swallows, alerted to a feast of insects, dipped and soared. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An instant later Taran heard a loud clucking and squawking from the chicken run. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I tried to get God down with my tongue but the priest hissed at me, Stop that clucking and get back to your seat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I go to sleep to the sound of cluck, cluck, clucking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Right on cue, a flock of clucking chickens hobbled toward us from a burned and blackened coop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z So for a time the inn resounded with the rumble of the thunder, the cries of the laboring mother, and the useless clucking of the woman’s husband. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “There he is,” Cate said, clucking like a proud mother hen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Here and there a tyke cried and she could hear the soft clucking of chickens. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And she nestled in a little bit more closely, clucking and cooing and doing her best in Bird to make him feel better. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I could hear the clucking and squawking of chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Bloom lit a cigarette and smoked slowly as they listened to the chickens ruffling their feathers, clucking sporadically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlise says that farm-to-table means that the chicken is supposed to still be clucking when it’s on your plate and the vegetables taste like wet soil. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He savored it, moaned his approval of it, praised it with clucking poultry sounds, and cries of delight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The family hens were attacking the earth, searching for worms and insects, clucking and muttering to one another like proud, fat little abbesses. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Goldilocks strutted over to the corner and started clucking. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z From the clucking sounds of adults I knew that the doll represented what they thought was my fondest wish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, there was only the sound of the two of them breathing, the chickens worrying their feathers, clucking nervously. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Miss Peregrine got right in its face, warbling and clucking. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She hopped down from her perch and clucked her way over to the floor below the window, clucking louder and louder. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He sat and talked more than he ate, and Big Ma kept clucking and fussing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The farm machinery had fallen silent, and I could hear the sounds of songbirds in the trees, and also the low clucking of hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I am feeding the clucking chickens and singing a chicken song and plotting my journey to the Angels, Los Angeles. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Joe ran off a few years later, presumably to one of the combat schools, and so their heartbreak was complete, Auntie Aggie clucking her tongue and saying, “Told you them twins was an ill omen.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But mostly, Apu imprinted himself on the viewer’s psyche with his accent, a clucking singsong that made “Thank you, come again!” a meme before memes existed. He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Girls, clucking loudly and preening, raced to the floor and took up spaces. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Far from ending Ms. Moss’s career, the episode upended the clucking of moralists and her professional reputation soared. A Few Words With Kate Moss, Fashion’s Garbo 2012-11-05T18:07:07Z Like every audience I would sit with throughout my visit, this one was unabashed in its laughter, sighs and clucking tongues. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z At the back, the smallest monk of all, a 3-year-old who sends Sonam into fits of maternal clucking, begins to nod off. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Tell them specifically the pandemic separation has been a relief to you because it put a complete and blissful stop to all their clucking about your weight. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: After the pandemic, body-shaming parents may be the toughest weight to shed 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The consoling scene after Anna's suicide, which is obviously intended to send us all home clucking over the triumph of love over death, is quite banal and vulgar. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z These people may live their jobs, but watching them do so does not have infinite appeal, unless you enjoy clucking at amorality for 100 minutes. Review: ‘Dry Powder,’ a High-Finance Comedy Drama 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, America-the-Collective still — still! — struts around clucking that we are greatest/most resilient/hardest-working/most innovative nation on Earth. How to handle anti-Americanism when you travel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As she watched the birds eat and listened to the gentle clucking, she felt relief. Her pet chickens were a source of emotional support during the pandemic. Then, the predators came. 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Read: More about the accolades Beyond the Hills received at Cannes Without his clucking flock, the priest would. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z Following the whispered name "Renata", I literally intruded on a clucking circle of these reproachful men planning their counter-attacks against her: something must be done. The return of Renata Adler, most quixotic of writers 2013-03-18T14:20:35Z Chicken Maria, leads Ms. Johnston to start a clucking routine whose rhythms send Ms. O’Neill into a flamenco dance. Spare Times for Children for May 2-8 2014-05-01T22:29:43Z A planked pathway led to his site from the river, traversing marshes and grassland, and we found ourselves surrounded by farm animals — clucking chickens, roosters and calves. An Eco-Tour of Guatemala’s Rio Dulce Region 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In a family clucking over his cuckoldry, solitude is the only solace. Review: This Is Where I Leave You: When Papa Gets the Big Chill 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z And he’d also inserted a portrait of Marlene Dietrich—who was definitely not clucking around medieval Germany. How to spot a fake: Art forgery’s secrets revealed 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z If Mr. Abloh’s roots in the street wear universe drew some clucking from the fashion world’s haughtier roosts, few would deny that a meaningful day was unfolding. Playboi Carti Conquers the Paris Runway 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The interviews don't always fly – but the clucking, bullying, bickering characters are irresistible. Ronna and Beverly 2010-08-10T21:01:00Z She pauses to make six clucking noises with her tongue, flipping her head with each one to acknowledge the lamp-posts she's mentally passing. Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z And her hilarious mugging and clucking version of David Yazbek’s “Model Behavior,” from “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” brought down the house. Music Review: Laura Benanti Sings Cabaret at 54 Below 2013-05-21T21:17:43Z The Brewsters are a peculiar bunch, forever dithering over sleeping arrangements, to the clucking disapproval of Little Ray’s sisters. Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, of Course 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z The winners are interviewed, the press photographers growling and clucking, making insane whirring noises with their tongues to get the dogs to look at the cameras. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z At the back, the smallest monk of all, a 3-year-old who sends Sonam into fits of maternal clucking, begins to nod off. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one And clucking women in saturated saris held out their arms to take the children in warm embraces, cradling them like holy objects for cellphone photos as the sun grew huge and red behind them. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z If they were little red hens, I was the chicken, silently clucking Not I. “Who’s got a comedy song?” The Princess and the Poconos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The very idea may sound like a parody of an acting class exercise, but the transitions from walking and speaking to pecking and clucking are sometimes stunning. Review: ‘Chickens in the Yard,’ and Family Conflict, Too 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z She waddles sloppily in, regularly asking the prospective mother-father whether he has been inducted, clucking over her inability to pull out an important drip, beaming about an emergency: "It's a shame when that happens." Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z Opposite him is Sarah Lancashire as the title character, nailing Julia’s vocal and physical tics, the clucking and cooing, lurching movements and sudden gales of laughter. David Hyde Pierce shines behind the chef star in ‘Julia’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z When I turned up at the Library Information office last year, there was much clucking about how I’d graduated so very long ago that they needed a whole other database to find my information. Still Life: Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind 2012-06-26T16:03:23Z Some of the film’s funniest moments occur when customers, fresh from Middle America, gawk at the sights, clucking their disapproval like annoyed hens. Review: The Lobster Scene in ‘Multiple Maniacs’? It Still Startles 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He laughs almost constantly; a high guttural clucking, punctuated by long pauses and apologies and puffs on a breakfast cigarette. Joaquin Phoenix: 'I feel like Santa Claus' 2012-12-13T22:00:33Z Now Mummy and Charles are splitsville, as they say in showbiz, and soon more than the neighbors may be clucking about them. Air-Kisses and Sniping on the Real Housewives of D.C. 2010-06-18T19:20:00Z On Thursday evening, 607 revelers packed a downtown city block and donned chicken beaks, clucking their way to the record for the most people wearing animal noses at a single venue. 607 can crow about setting animal-nose record 2012-03-09T03:44:12Z Macdonald weeps when holding a falcon egg and discovering that if she makes a clucking noise, the chick coiled within, ready to hatch, will respond. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z They lived in homes, not slaughter houses; they spoke, rather than clucking or quacking. Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done 2013-10-31T23:00:09Z Racing toward the border with his family in a car, he saw chickens clucking over the bloodied corpses of those who hadn’t fled in time. Seizing Darfur Region, Paramilitary Forces Are Accused of Atrocities 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine. Cage-free or free range? What labels on egg cartons really mean. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Outside is the towering windmill that helped deliver running water for the first time to the property, standing vigil amid chickens noisily clucking nearby. Jimmy Carter, in his final campaign, is surrounded by friends 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The crow-size, terrestrial birds are known for spring courtship rituals that include flamboyant dances by the males as they make a cacophony of clucking, cackling and booming sounds. Agency delays protections for imperiled bat, prairie chicken 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Williams laughed while saying something else he learned: Usually quiet and genteel, Batum would curse out coaches by wagging his finger and clucking his tongue. At 1,006 games and counting, Clippers' Nicolas Batum is one of NBA's survivors 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Residents in Glasgow housing estates could soon be hearing the sound of mooing cows and clucking hens outside their homes. Cost of living crisis: I'm going on the road to save my butcher's shop 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The crow-sized, terrestrial birds are known for spring courtship rituals that include flamboyant dances by the males as they make a cacophony of clucking, cackling and booming sounds. US gives protections to rare Midwest bird as prairie suffers 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z A little smaller and lighter in color than the greater prairie chicken, the lesser prairie chicken is known for spring courtship rituals that include flamboyant dances by the males and a cacophony of clucking. US sued over lack of protection plan for rare grouse 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z DeepSqueak has been repurposed for other species, including lemurs and whales, while other teams have developed their own systems for automatically detecting when clucking chickens or squealing pigs are in distress. The Animal Translators 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z He will gently grab it and drop it on the ground in front of him while making a distinct clucking sound and shuffling his feet it a bit; a behavioral display known as tidbitting. It’s time to shed our misconceptions about chicken intelligence 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z We take our pleasure being amused and sanctimoniously scandalized, clucking about the need to be better while not being any better. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Burkett wrote about “clucking chickens” in last month’s newsletter, apparently referring to commissioners who disagree with him. Surfside residents fight to keep their town’s character, worry about the future after condo collapse 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the rest of the Republican establishment continues to run around in circles clucking furiously like a brood of barnyard hens, trying to keep Trump and his cultlike following happy. Why Liz Cheney angers Republicans: The GOP must keep Trump's Big Lie alive for the next election 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The illness is Aids and Thembi lives in a rural homestead - chickens clucking in the vast fields outside her home - in the kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa. The woman with HIV helping others have a 'good death' 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z It thrilled his almighty base, people whose entire political world is dominated by fantasies about judgmental liberals clucking phantasmic disapproval in their ears. Give it a rest, Republicans — no one wants to take away Turkey Day 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It pains Radha to see her work diluted and sensationalized for the clucking patrons and self-appointed gatekeepers of the theater world. Review: In Netflix's terrific 'Forty-Year-Old Version,' Radha Blank finds art in all the right places 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The classrooms at Mwea Brethren School, which once resonated to the sound of children learning, are now filled with a cacophony of clucking chickens. Coronavirus turns classrooms into chicken coops 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Lewis spent boyhood days as a make-believe minister, preaching to a congregation of clucking birds at his rural home in Alabama. Religious faith was a lifelong constant for Rep. John Lewis 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The latest iteration is Fifth Macroyan, a cluster of 18-story apartment towers now under construction, featuring balconies and large windows on a flat lot populated by clucking chickens. In Kabul’s Heart, Soviet Towers Harbor Decades of Tales 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z True, he might have rejected the designation bestowed on him in “The Inheritance,” while also clucking over the physiques of the cast and their frequent balletic sex arias. How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z When we first meet Marcos on a 2014 visit to Manila, she is passing money through her car window to children in the street, frowning and clucking her tongue at the poverty she sees. Review: 'The Kingmaker' is a coolly damning portrait of Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of clucking that members of the monarchy should recognize that extreme wealth and privilege come at the cost of being objects of fascination. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Robot Chicken” keeps on clucking for a 10th season. What’s on TV This Week: 'Peaky Blinders,' Taylor Swift and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “A future Alexa will pretend to take orders. But this Alexa will be watching you, clucking her tongue and stamping her foot.” Boris Johnson flies to UK as parliament returns after court ruling – Politics live 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Some kept on clucking and some turned golden. SNYDER: Patience with Haskins now could lead to payoff later 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Horse-drawn buggies were still clucking around in the blackout, aggressively recruiting riders as Uber prices surged. New York City power outage hits thousands in the heart of Manhattan 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z And they ran with it, clucking ceaselessly like so many Chicken Littles. Trump: Democrats collude with Facebook, Google 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z People are clucking their tongues at the theft of an 8-foot-tall rooster statue from a rural San Francisco Bay Area home. The Latest: Stolen giant rooster statue recovered 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z There were horses running through the street, roosters crowing, chickens clucking, cows mooing. From cows roaming Ballard to horses fighting fires, a new book shows dog-friendly Seattle has always been a city of animals 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z From short “reality newscasts” mentioning the enrichment of the prime minister’s family or a party spokesman clucking away dressed in a chicken costume, the opposition is making every broadcast second count. No time to chicken out: Hungary’s opposition gets creative 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z From short "reality newscasts" mentioning the enrichment of the prime minister's family or a party spokesman clucking away dressed in a chicken costume, the opposition is making every broadcast second count. No time to chicken out: Hungary's opposition gets creative 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Netta won last year's contest with the clucking infectious dance number, earning Israel the right to host this year's edition. Australia qualify for Eurovision 2019 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Followed by a bunch of those sad tongue clucking sounds and a few murmured “Oh, what a shame.” Let's Talk about Miscarriage, Baby 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z After the commentators stopped rolling their eyes and clucking about President Trump’s national emergency news conference last week, a sobering realization settled in: Trump may win in court. Opinion | The best way out of our national emergency mess? Let the system work. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Factories now occupy land that once held modest homes surrounded by gardens, fruit trees and clucking chickens. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Factories now occupy land that once held modest homes surrounded by gardens, fruit trees and clucking chickens. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Factories now occupy land that once held modest homes surrounded by gardens, fruit trees and clucking chickens. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The clucking noise he is making is telling me to get away from his lady kangaroos. RIP Roger the enormous kangaroo 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z When militants demanded that Radio Fresh stop playing music on air, because they claimed that it was against Islam, Fares broadcast hours of chickens clucking. The Assassination of Raed Fares, and the Day the Syrian Revolution Died 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But for many backyard poultry ranchers, chickens are a clucking, purring joy in themselves. Learn how to raise backyard chickens in L.A. (without making the neighbors hate you) 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Charlie, who is given to making disturbing sculptures and odd clucking noises with her tongue, seems to have withdrawn into her own world. Review | ‘Hereditary’ is the scariest movie you’ll see this summer — maybe ever. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z She makes funny noises, including a clucking sound like a chicken and barely decipherable words, and uses a looping machine and synthesizer. Say goodbye to gaudy Eurovision, say hello to a new mood 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Representative Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, openly mocked his Republican colleagues, clucking at them like a chicken. How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Be he found his favorite bird clucking beneath the rubble, unscathed. From a besieged Syrian suburb, tales of love, death and survival 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z There is a proper protocol for clucking your way down Main Street: Edison’s annual Chicken Parade draws the real thing and the wannabes 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z At night a screen was rigged up and “the mesmerized refugees watched the glittering productions of Hollywood, murmuring, clucking their tongues and laughing at the international language of slapstick.” An excerpt from 'Road Not Taken' 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z But too much flamboyance in the achieving of it, any straying from a sort of Sidney Crosby “aw-shucks-another-trophy” in response, elicits a chorus of school-marmish clucking. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He walked past a fancy new apartment building under construction, then a long row of ragged homes and chickens clucking freely on sidewalks littered with crushed tall-boy beer cans in brown paper bags. A 10-year-old’s overdose death reveals Miami neighborhood’s intense struggle with opioids 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Needless to say, liberals and news organizations were clucking with alarm over Mr. Trump’s G-20 visit before it even began; squawking followed. Inside the Beltway: While partisans bicker, third parties strategize 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Parry later apologised to officers, telling them he was "clucking for Spice". Jailed Spice addict 'snarling' like animal in attack - BBC News 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z A bird, I learned, could go from clucking to nuggets in less than three hours, and be in your bucket or burrito by lunchtime the next day. Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I hear the ravens clucking on the roof, the light scratch of rain on the window screen. My Daughter’s Silent Virus: Congenital CMV 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Suddenly the airwaves are filled with assorted sounds of tweeting birds, clucking chickens and bleating goats. A sarcastic response to Syria's militants - BBC News 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Her own interest in the birds came after she began keeping some, and she realized they — by providing eggs, clucking around the garden and, well, fertilizing it — were having a “huge influence” on her life. Chickens ‘changed the world.’ So why do we ignore them? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In a behind-the-scenes video published by Disney, Mr. Tudyk can be seen making 10 seconds of dingbat clucking noises into a microphone before turning to the camera with a sheepish expression. Disney Needed a Brainless Rooster for ‘Moana,’ So It Called Alan Tudyk 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet Democrats are clucking that the now-ancient incidents—disputed even then as taken wholly out of context—should disqualify Mr. Sessions from being attorney general. The Racist Smear Against Jeff Sessions 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Sticking with gender for a moment longer, it’s interesting that, in all the clucking over Kardashian’s personal life in these aforementioned columns, one aspect goes almost entirely unmentioned: that she is a mother. To everyone calling Kim Kardashian a bad role model, you're not exactly Gandhi yourself 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “She started playing, and I started singing. We were clucking along, and I got tickled,” Jon said. Kanawha City couple turns old church into home, concert hall 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “Let me translate it into his own language,” the comedian said before clucking like a chicken. Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump a ‘coward’ for not returning to show 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Congress, instead, is clucking about a memorandum written in May by two senior Pentagon officials for Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Playing Pentagon Budget Games 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The fast shift toward uncaged hens is a sign of Americans’ increasing concern about animals, even ones known more for clucking than cuteness. How eggs became a victory for the animal welfare movement 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z One was called the Hotwings, known for walking around and clucking. Girls of Camp Blaze learning confidence, firefighting skills 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The shack, made of eucalyptus trunks and papyrus sticks, offers a cozy secluded spot occasionally visited by a clucking hen or chick. Spirits Are On the Rise in Uganda 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Cage-free eggs, however, do not come from hens pecking and clucking in verdant pastures. The movement to free hens from cages may be going global 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Anyhow, the chickens were cool — they did their clucking thing, left me to do mine, and only ever became belligerent when I invaded their territory too much. The chicken is the most underrated member of the animal kingdom 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z We waited alongside geese, turkeys and clucking chickens until a coffin draped in a flag emerged from her parents’ house, with scores of women ululating and holding up the victory sign with their fingers. Behind the Barricades of Turkey’s Hidden War 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z “Let me get very specific. You’ve got Brussels and like-minded folks morally clucking at what American espionage does because they’re totally ignorant as to what European espionage does,” he says. America’s former CIA chief: ‘If we don’t handle China well, it will be catastrophic’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Ault-Zimmermann was among the riders on that recent Friday, motivating KJM The Prodigal to perfect his trot through a mix of clucking and using her legs to push him forward. Equestrian college gives students, public breadth of lessons 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z And now, Russian warplanes bombing U.S.-allied forces as American officials alternate between clucking reprovingly and insisting bravely that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be sorry in the end. How we got to the Syria mess 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z We won’t join the clucking brigades claiming that President Obama or his inner circle are “manipulating intelligence”—the dishonest and discredited claim endlessly made about the Bush Administration’s mistaken intel on Iraq. Centcom’s Intel Massage 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Their gentle clucking is the soundtrack of the farm, punctuated by the raucous cries of showboating roosters. The choice when a buffalo calf’s mother died: the bottle or the bullet? 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “So, in some ways, despite the clucking I get from European commissioners, the Europeans have become more aggressive than we have when it comes to questions of privacy.” America’s former CIA chief: ‘If we don’t handle China well, it will be catastrophic’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z So instead of watching live birds clucking, cooing and strutting, fairgoers from North Dakota to Maryland are being greeted by docile stand-ins composed of cotton, twigs or leaves. At Fairs This Year, Fake Fowl Play Chicken 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z More and more people in the metro area wake to softly clucking hens, finding value in the eggs they lay and the company they provide. Local backyard chicken keepers enjoying eggs, company 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Assorted polls suggesting that the aforementioned Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the inevitable Democratic nominee has got the media hen house clucking and rustling. Inside the Beltway: Bernie Sanders: Media normalize socialism 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In Parliament, Mr Miliband called him “chicken”, to clucking from the Labour benches. Dodgy Dave 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z She crouched close to the ground and sat in silence, immobile, before inching her way toward Turkey and clucking. Turkey's great escape foils our Thanksgiving plans 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a sweltering day, but the birds were busy roaming the 1,200-square-foot garden, clucking and pecking at the ground, liberating the lettuce and kale of bugs. New York City Backyards Welcome Chickens and Bees 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Laura Sheridan and the residents of a suburban street in Nottingham were kept awake at night by the noise of clucking, crowing and quacking for around six years. Property nightmares 2014-04-24T16:26:02Z In a twist on the normal Nativity story, the Angel needs to choose an animal the possibilities include a clucking flamingo and a roaring lion — that will help Mary and Joseph get to the manger. Bethesda boy stars in “The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me” opera at the Kennedy Center 2013-12-09T22:48:45Z Amid the trees in the height of spring, you hear insects buzzing and hens clucking and pecking; at night, there are the hoots of owls and eerie rustlings. Proteus – review 2013-02-04T15:34:00Z And it all started with eight clucking hens. Chickens Threaten to Divide Park Slope Community 2012-10-22T03:31:26Z For me, at least, it's a vision of clucking hell. The fowl extravagance of Crispin Odey's chicken house 2012-09-26T10:20:22Z The doctor had set the casement window wide open, and the low clucking of the fowls in the farmyard was softly audible. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z A flamingo sounds as if she is clucking by emphasizing the “K” sound when she sings. Bethesda boy stars in “The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me” opera at the Kennedy Center 2013-12-09T22:48:45Z Near at hand, under cover of a vast chestnut tree, were traces of domestic labor: a grindstone, a saw-pit, a woodpile, coops with clucking hens. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z When one left an uphill birdie putt short, Gustafson broke into a chicken dance and made clucking sounds. For the Golfer Sophie Gustafson, Public Speaking Is No Longer a Hazard 2012-03-28T01:41:07Z The great door was shut and, except for a vagrant cat and a clucking hen, there was no sign of life about the place. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The sights and sounds of the farm are in his words—the lost sheep, the fallen ox, the worried flock, the hen clucking to her chickens. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Hence their pronunciation is singular, and has been compared to the clucking of the Turkey, or the harsh and broken noises produced by some other birds. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z From the other homes, which were scarcely visible, resounded the neighing of horses, barking, and the clucking of fowl—the last signs of animal life before it sank to rest. The Last Lion and Other Tales 2012-03-07T03:00:15.607Z Alighting frequently on the ground or on stones or roots, it keeps up a continual but very soft clucking, which is the only note uttered. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z In Java the new-born babe is placed in a hen-coop, and the mother makes a clucking noise, as if she were a hen, to attract the child’s soul. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z She waited until the fowls, with their usual squawkings and cluckings, had gathered about her feet, and addressed them solemnly. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z “Tut, tut, tut!” she said, clucking almost as loudly as Agamemnon himself. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z They can catch the squeak of a mouse at a distance which, for ordinary ears, would make the sharp clucking of a chipmunk inaudible. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z "What a bargain!" he said aloud, clucking his tongue with admiration. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z In the midst of it I made out the woodcock fluttering away, clucking, and trailing now a wing and now a leg, as if desperately hurt. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z She saw the flickering garden, she heard the song-sparrow and the clucking hen, she felt her own scrubbed and earth-stained fingers and her beating heart, but these were not necessary to her. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z But the school’s working farm, replete with clucking hens, beef cattle, acres of vegetables and a prodigious number of earthworms, proved to be even more unfamiliar turf. | On the Farm: Prep Schools Encourage Students to Learn to Farm 2011-11-19T05:47:16Z A peevish scream and peculiar clucking or cackling. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z “Just a little farther, Eve,” said Laura, taking the reins herself, and clucking to the old mare. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z It ain't no mortal use your clucking to that mare, Mr. Tongs, Sir, because she don't understand the langwidge—touch her with your 'eel in the ribs. Voces Populi 2011-10-04T02:00:20.280Z The chancellor uttered a clucking sound in his throat that seemed involuntary. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Under the floor a hen with a brood of chickens was clucking uneasily and flapping her wings in the effort to keep her brood warm. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Finally, she raised the latch of the inner chamber, where she had heard Coccod� clucking. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z This imposing person had, with dramatic quiet, brought up the wine; and now, holding Beppo by one wrist, he listened to Mrs. Pascoe's angry cluckings. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Its master glanced down and addressed some clucking, friendly greeting to it, which threw it into an agony of joy. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z With an ominous clucking noise the expert set down the measurement on a chart in front of him. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z And they heard him, and he heard them—scuttling and clucking in headlong flight. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The Signora drew close to her, and listened with all her ears, for she had distinguished words amidst her cluckings, and immediately jumped to the conclusion that Coccod� believed herself to be addressing her mistress. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z His wife frowned; clucking indignant sympathy, she looked with open championship at the suspected girl. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The westward part of the cottage was a byre: we could hear the lowing of a cow, the clucking of fowls. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Mr. Cortwright made a clucking noise with his tongue and blew his cheeks out like a swimmer gasping for breath. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z In the same work other of his tricks are recorded, as talking to himself, measuring his steps in a mysterious manner, half whistling, clucking like a hen, rubbing his left knee, &c. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z The prime minister later left to the sounds of hecklers clucking like chickens to accuse him of cowardice. UK's Cameron: will mend "broken society" after riots 2011-08-15T13:34:43Z Mr. Parlow made a clucking noise in his throat when he saw the blood. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z They heard a noise, and the sudden flurried clucking of hens. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z In his second week, he took the biggest man in his boat and beat him into a helpless, clucking wreck of bruises. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z Oh! the shrieking of the Cylinder! the Pyramid's base moan, The clucking of the Sector and the cooing of the Cone! Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z I shall be squealing, or clucking pretty soon. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Suddenly, from behind them, came a sound which seemed to be a cross between a steam whistle gone mad and the clucking of an excited hen. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Cupid gasped and opened his mouth to say something, but I nudged him and he subsided, clucking like a nervous hen. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z For answer they uttered a clucking sound, and grinned; but the grin was not a genial one—it was hideous, ghastly, showing rows of filed teeth. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z ‘The whole of this day I have listened to those village hens clucking till I could bear it no longer,’ murmured she as she bounded along, hardly seeming to touch the ground. The Orange Fairy Book 2011-06-29T02:00:31.520Z You can hear the chickens clucking and screaming and the truck guys cursing and carrying on. Greenpoint Journal: A Slaughterhouse in Brooklyn, and Misery Next Door 2011-06-11T02:22:33Z I'd really like to know how many journalists, pundits and activist types clucking with righteous condemnation of Weiner would be comfortable having that standard applied to them. The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation 2011-06-07T15:08:00Z I heard a queer clucking, choking noise behind me, but it was only David Cameron doing his best to keep from laughing out loud. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Yes; an old hen is clucking with motherly satisfaction over two long-legged chickens that are racing for a fat green caterpillar. Nearly Bedtime Five Short Stories for the Little Ones 2011-06-02T02:00:26.960Z Frau Dosch seized the bundle, and with clucking sounds jerked it up and down between the faces of the parents so that its mother's eyes must needs fall upon it. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z From the thatched porch you could hear the rural clucking of poultry and the lowing of cattle, and see the sloping roof of a farm-house beyond the elms. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z In a quiet, meditative way he would begin clucking. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Henny and Cocky had miraculously survived their mother's coddling and clucking, and had kept alive through college and professional training, though looking as if it had been a hard struggle. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z I heard some chickens clucking and cackling under the house. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z She immediately bruits it abroad, attracting all the chickens on the farm, and then such another noise, pecking, grabbing and clucking ensues, until the choice bit is torn to shreds. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z The alternative was lost in a clucking sound with which he accompanied the urging of his horse; for he had formed a plan. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z “There’s no danger,” said Vernon reassuringly, clucking at his horse, and the beast flung up its head in a spasmodic burst of speed, as livery-stable horses will. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z It was more like a hen clucking than anything I can think of. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z The setting sun cast long shadows of the dead trees across the swamp and the chickens were clucking sleepily. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Who dismembered this lumpy, clucking creature and turned it into a geometry lesson?” Lost Boy 2011-01-22T05:45:15Z MacLeod followed, his face red, oaths clucking in his throat. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z It mimics clearly all bush noises, the chopping of trees, sawing of logs, barking of dogs, clucking of hens, the singing of native birds. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z I unstrapped my rug and lit a cigar—of course I had chosen a smoking-carriage—and, delighted at having got rid of my clucking companion, the time passed pleasantly till we pulled up at M——. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z He heard the grouse coming; they were announced by the tiny sounds of their own feet and the mother's querulous clucking as she warned her young to take every care. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Martha tells me often, 'Henry, the sound I'm most lonesome for is a clucking hen.' The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The doctors and nurses began clucking in agreement. Doctor and Patient: Letting Patients Read Their Doctors? Notes 2010-07-22T20:04:00Z A pheasant appeared by the roadside, and the Philosophical Tramp immediately caught up a stone and sent the bird clucking with a viciously accurate shot. The Wonderful Visit At first she flutters to the top of the open barn door, clucking, 'An egg, an egg.' Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster I seated myself among the little children, but was like the clucking hen among the chickens. The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. The chap had been shifting about me in a curve, clucking his tongue contemptuously and muttering, and getting more jolly red-eyed and abusive every minute. The Haunted Pajamas Mrs. Stuvic gave the stranger a seat at the head of the table, and three tired women—hens, worn out with clucking to their boisterous broods—began a whispered comment upon him. A Yankee from the West A Novel Tapping his thin horse with his whip and making a clucking sound between his teeth, he turned his wagon around. The Cottage of Delight A Novel He squeaks out like a hurt chicken, and the hen hurries about with hanging wings and bristling feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom She went out, clucking her tongue in exaggerated dismay. The Year When Stardust Fell "I'm going to have to keep an eye on her," the clerk said, clucking his tongue in dry disapproval. Earth Alert! "Me talk to you," Paul Sam repeated in soft, clucking gutterals. The Land of Strong Men As for the chickens, they flew wildly in every direction, clucking as if they had gone mad. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship The old hen went clucking anxiously about the vessel. The Progressionists, and Angela. He was mumbling and clucking in his throat, gesturing imploringly, trying to stop her swift speech, which might be overheard, but she went on, not understanding. The Broken Gate A Novel It is a deep guttural, below the middle pitch of the human voice, while the clucking element appears much higher in pitch, and the whole sound is marked with a strong tremolo effect. The Speech of Monkeys She announced this to her grandfather in soft, clucking gutturals. The Land of Strong Men Then again, encouraged by the yells of those behind, on they came, but slower, skulking close to the fence, bending low, clucking and dancing to disconcert his aim. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 Then it suddenly occurred to me that the bush was full of clucking pheasants—why the deuce didn’t I shoot one, light a fire and broil him? In the Whirl of the Rising The serviceman had come out and collected it, clucking in dismay at the mess the extinguisher had left. Cue for Quiet Then she went into the house, but saw nothing more than a vast quantity of eggs, and all the while she heard the hen singing or clucking: “‘Coccodé! Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series "We shall never again have such a singing bird among us; he was almost a Chinese," they whispered, and then they wept with such a noisy, clucking sound that all the other fowls clucked too. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Listen!” said the other suddenly, as a chattering and clucking of fowls was audible outside. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland The few calves in the kraal were bellowing impatiently for their defaulting mothers, and some fowls were clucking and scratching about. In the Whirl of the Rising Then they would stand around clucking and chattering desperately. Cue for Quiet The clucking and pecking at crusts of the old woman, as she gradually passes into a hen, is well imagined, and also the finale of the chickens turned to mice, who all run away. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series The coachman made a clucking sound with his tongue and drove noiselessly over the soft grass-grown road. Gertrude's Marriage “Confound those infernal fowls!” he muttered, as the cackling and clucking, mingled this time with some fluttering, arose outside, soon after the extinguishing of the light. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Little clucking sounds came from the lips as he did so. Oogie Finds Love The girl picked up one of his boots and examined it critically, clucking with interest. The Book There was the prairie chicken with a late brood of half-grown clumsy clucking chicks amply able to take care of themselves, but still clinging to the old mother's care. The Story of the Trapper The room he slept in was dark, but in the adjacent room he could hear the Kitch-Hen clucking away contentedly as it prepared breakfast. Tangle Hold She was very proud of her quacking, clucking, feathered family, several of whom boasted descent from prize strains. Loyal to the School In the barnyards was a scurrying of yellow balls of down as the clucking hens told of some juicy tidbit wriggling for their delectation. The Song of the Wolf The old Captain was just as busy as a bee, and just as fussy as a clucking hen, about the last preparations for the party. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure From the garden came sounds of laughter and screaming, the sober clucking of the hens, and the louder calling of Margery's ducks. Better than Play Rosie flew at her sister like an angry little clucking hen. The Rosie World I'm taking a cow with me and a clucking hen. A Canadian Bankclerk The yellow hen strutted off in the direction of her peeping brood, clucking complacently, as if she congratulated herself on solving some problem satisfactorily. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted On the skylight sat Mr. Williams, smiling and clucking in his beard that "he did not know the Stags, indeed!" The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea "Remember an' lay off your shawls when you get there, an' carry them over your arms," said the mother, clucking like an excited hen to her chickens. The Life of Nancy It was not the clucking of a grouse, though perhaps more like that than anything else, but different, somehow, in quality. Bear Brownie The Life of a Bear For ten minutes, perhaps, I had heard from somewhere before me in the wood a strange, continuous noise, as of clucking, cooing, and gobbling, now and again interrupted by a harsh scream. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers And the old hen keeps on scratching and clucking just the same.” Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted Old Martin went about clucking in his beard. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea He set tasks to his divine faculty, which is much the same as trying to make Jove’s eagle do the service of a clucking hen. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Sometimes, if a hen is going to lay just as you come to her nest, she will run off clucking and screaming and lay the egg on the ground. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The clucking, cooing noise that had led me thither was formed by the blending together of countless expressions of individual contentment into one collective expression of contentment, or general grace during meat. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers They have since, for some weeks, been parading the yard, each clucking and manifesting all the anxiety and care of a true mother over this one. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 In the chicken-house the fowls were clucking in a Sunday afternoon ennui. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Through the still air we heard plainly the beat of an axe, and the low, drowsy clucking of hens. Gold “What shall I do?” wailed Katherine, when all her clucking and prodding had been in vain. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars As soon as the parent was satisfied of their safety, she flew a short distance and he soon heard her clucking call to them to come to her again. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 Dr. Morton suited the action to the word by clucking to the team of bays he drove, and the procession started. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Two-legged creatures like those that run about everywhere, a crowing, clucking crowd! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Their comfortable, low conversational clucking and quacking was a pleasure to hear. Gold The song ended and was followed by a chuckle, a care-free clucking of subdued mirth. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The old hen resisted, and pecked furiously at Gardener's legs, and the chickens ran about in frantic terror, chirping wildly in answer to her clucking. The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock The chickens seconded Jilly’s suggestion, coming to the fence and clucking excitedly. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John But there resulted a clucking, which brought the colonel to the portal frowning and alert, warming in the expectation of having somebody whom he might dress down at last. The Rustler of Wind River Somehow they were associated in my mind with Sunday morning and the drawling, lazy clucking of hens. Gold But we knew well enough in our hearts that you were going very near to the edge of death, nearer than you had ever been since first you came clucking into the world. The Passionate Friends How different he looked from the dark-colored frogs which in large numbers make a multitudinous croaking and clucking in the little wild pools in spring! Under the Maples While creeping amongst the branches in search of insects, he utters a soft clucking note. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 The collecting and sheltering are put into the background by that dreadful "cluck," and the reader is forced to imagine Jesus as a clucking hen. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He could hear the flapping of wings, the scuffling and clucking of the frightened hens. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country He made that little clucking sound with his tongue that people do when they want to offer sympathy, and find the matter hard to put into words. The Million-Dollar Suitcase Then he slapped his thigh with an eleven-inch hand and made a noise with his mouth like a man clucking to his horse. The Harbor of Doubt If a sheep bleats, the bird immediately replies to the bleating; the clucking of a turkey, the cackling of a goose, the cry of the toucan are noted and faithfully reproduced. The Industries of Animals Then his lips, which were triangular, rather than straight as those of Earthlings, began again that strange clucking. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Pancakes, grits, home-made sausage, and, before each guest, an egg that had been proudly heralded by the clucking hen but a few hours before––truly a bountiful breakfast, discrediting the latest guest’s anticipations! The Strollers The little man scribbled furiously, clucking like a gravid hen. Teething Ring Making a soft, sympathetic, clucking noise, Norah hurried to get a cup of cool water which the little dog lapped up greedily, standing on his three good legs. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm The clucking hen sat on her nest, She made it in the hay; And warm and snug beneath her breast, A dozen white eggs lay. Pinafore Palace Again, as he thought, that strange, sudden cessation of the clucking of the Gnomes. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 He shaped his lips, as nearly as possible, to make the clucking sounds he had heard, and discovered that it was very difficult to manage the letter n! Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The shrubs which formed the base of this hedge were so ill-grown that the minister's fowls could easily go, clucking and scraping, from one garden into the other. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Then she held out her arms to the proud Fluffikins, who mounted to her shoulder, clucking happily; and, rubbing their cheeks against one another, they gazed ecstatically at the precious egg. The Carroll Girls "Cluck," said the clucking hen, "Now I have you all." Pinafore Palace This time the Gnome managed ingress by a strange clucking sound, with his triangular lips held close to the base-line of the triangle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 His mind went back to the clucking sounds which, among the Gnomes of the Moon, passed for speech. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 "But it happens that I also——" Manders intervened with a clucking noise of the tongue. The Education of Eric Lane On the evening breeze wafted in the scent of mignonette and flowers, and the low sleepy clucking of the hens, about to go to roost. The Carroll Girls "Thank you," said the clucking hen; "I've something else to do; I'm busy sitting on my eggs, I cannot walk with you." Pinafore Palace Instantly Luar began the clucking sound which was the language of the Gnomes, at the same time allowing her thoughts as she spoke to impress themselves upon the brains of the prisoners. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 For five minutes I remained there—the silence of the forest broken only by the clucking of a hazel grouse above my head. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Towards morning the rain ceased, the stars came out over the noise and the terrifying clucking and trickling of the water. The Rainbow “Black lion, maybe,” said Ook-ootsk, in his harsh, clucking voice, dropping his spear and club beside him and setting a long arrow to the string of his massive bow. In the Morning of Time "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck," Said the clucking hen; "My little chicks will soon be hatched, I'll think about it then." Pinafore Palace Another time there was an extraordinary clucking to be heard outside the door, and the next moment Erle entered with a hen under each arm, and very red in the face from suppressed laughter. Wee Wifie Over at a distance was a hen with a brood of chickens, clucking her way along. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia He stood there clucking like an old hen with no family but a brass doorknob. Inside John Barth From the barnyard came the contented sighing of the cows and the anxious clucking of a hen gathering in her belated brood. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Erculio let out a laugh that sounded more like the clucking of a chicken. The Saracen: The Holy War Tilia pushed past him, whistling and clucking to the pigeons and calming them down. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock." Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution “That child’ll wear herself out,” she said, not to herself but to an old blue hen who was scratching around the hollyhocks, clucking loudly. The Comings of Cousin Ann With a yell like the war cry of a clucking hen, she waved her umbrella aloft, and went straight for the hero. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure The old hen was almost crazy at such behavior on the part of her chicks, and flew down to the water's edge, clucking and calling at a great rate. The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers One day he had gone quietly after a Prairie Chicken that kept moving away from him without taking flight, clucking when she clucked, and nodding his head or shaking his "wings" when she did. Wild Animals at Home Weird “cluckings” from his mouth were understood and obeyed without use of spurs. Colorado Jim The poor consumptive began to sing, accompanying each verse with a final clucking which shook his chest and reddened his cheeks. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan She spread out her apron, as a clucking hen spreads out her wing to defend her chickens from injury. Jewish Children On another sheltered slope, green with coarse grass, brown Betty was pasturing peacefully; while in a henhouse beyond there was clucking and cackling, cheerfully suggestive of chickens and eggs. Killykinick The chickens were clucking peacefully in their corner of Uncle Ebeneezer’s dooryard, and the newly acquired bossy cow mooed unhappily in her improvised stable. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Everything kept so still, the loudest noise I heard was the clucking of the wheels of the gun-carriages and caissons as they wound through the woods. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 She heard the little red hen clucking behind her. Clematis "If you find any," he said, swinging the cultivator back into place and clucking to Solomon to go ahead. Rainbow Hill For some time after this, Mrs. Cluck kept her three remaining little ones close to her side, watching over them with maternal care, till they were heartily tired of her anxious cluckings. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag ‘What a big painted clucking fool is a pheasant,’ he said. Puck of Pook’s Hill The hoccos set up their sonorous clucking, and birds of every kind came fluttering round us. Adventures of a Young Naturalist Suddenly he raised his head; his beady eyes glittered; he hurried greedily toward the crumbs, squawking hoarsely, clucking wildly, like a crude fellow who aspires to be a gallant and overdoes the part. Frank of Freedom Hill Rosita made a clucking noise in her throat significant of her sympathy, making likewise the sign of the cross. The Mission of Janice Day The voice somewhat resembles the cackling or clucking of a hen. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 “You’re jest all tuckered out, I can see,” she said, hovering around her like a clucking hen; “but a wash-up and a good dish o’ chicken pie will put you all to rights again.” Patty's Social Season The clucking of a bird of the gallinaceous order, called the hocco—Crax alector—interrupted our discussion, and my two companions carefully proceeded towards a dark-foliaged tree, a little outside the edge of the forest. Adventures of a Young Naturalist At this Pete went crazy; his clucking increased prodigiously; he pawed crumbs into the ground, just to show how grandly careless he could be in the midst of such profusion. Frank of Freedom Hill For fully fifteen minutes he sat thus; then, with a little clucking sound, he leaped to his feet and hurried into the next room. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure "What strange things girls are—and boys!" said Kate with a matronly sigh, burying her face in a nest where a hen was clucking and two downy chicks were peeping from her wing. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Pol would make a clucking sound with her tongue. Blue Ridge Country The clucking suddenly ceased; we heard the report of a gun, and I saw three of them fly away into the forest. Adventures of a Young Naturalist You know how she talks, like a hen clucking. Mufti The thing is, ever since my fight with Nick, she’s been clucking around me like the mother hen. It’s like this, cat When the preliminary arrangements are completed, lighting his cigarette, he cramps himself up in the box, and, maintaining a continual clucking, larrups his skinny pony as the crazy gig goes rocking down the street. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia He spied Denman in his skirt, cloak, hat, and bandage, and, with a clucking chuckle in his throat and a leering grin on his face, made for him. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Its cry—a sort of clucking of which its Spanish name gives an idea—tells the traveller its whereabout, although it is ready enough in making its escape. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The hens scuttled off, clucking as if all the foxes in the county had broke loose; and for a minute or two it seemed as if there was two or three dogs and half-a-dozen cats. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls For he turned when he reached the fence, and stood fluttering his short wings, clucking, and making threatening gestures with his head. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure Shocked, stunned, the major sat in a daze, making little clucking sounds in his throat. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Out in the heavy sunlight, hens fled clucking from the sudden tumult, pigeons circled overhead and cooed distractedly, children were driving dogs away with stones and curses. The Valley of the Kings They went together, clucking through the heather and the Boy who knew what the Birds said followed them. The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Bones made a clucking noise with his mouth, and Henry turned frowningly, regarded his protector with cool indifference, and returned to his scrutiny of the other strange brown animal confronting him. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country The hen uttered a strangely soft clucking kind of noise, as if in reply, and there was a peculiar look of satisfaction about the huge tame creature as she covered the gigantic clutch. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure A fussy old hen, with her feathers all fluffed out importantly, was clucking and scratching for a brood of downy yellow chickens, just out of the shell. Mary Ware's Promised Land Hetty Thompson cried, waving her battered old felt hat at the clucking cluster of hens eddying around her legs as she plowed through the flock towards the chicken house. Make Mine Homogenized In the barn-yards of the little farms scattered around about the town roosters were crowing, hens were clucking, cattle lowing, and horses stamping and neighing, eager for their breakfast. At the Little Brown House Of its curious cries Jerdon likens one to the clucking of a hen which has just laid an egg. Birds of the Indian Hills It seems very fond of ripe walnuts halved, and while picking out the meat, makes a little clucking noise, showing that it is pleased. Charley's Museum A Story for Young People He poked his beak at it, and with a great deal of trilling and clucking, he added Deimos and Phobos to Mars, and then sketched in the earth's moon! A Martian Odyssey A one-hundred-fifty-watt bulb illuminated the interior of the chicken house to the discordant clucking and cackling of the puzzled birds. Make Mine Homogenized Of course, the clucking had been the cockatrice, and the big noise like a large gentleman asleep after dinner had been the big dragon. The Book of Dragons For Mr. Falkirk's attendance seemed to himself not much more valuable or efficient to guard from evil than the said mother-hen's clucking round the pond. The Gold of Chickaree Animal life was already manifesting itself in such goings and comings, such flights and gambols, such bleatings and gruntings and cluckings as had doubtless never been heard of in these parts before. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery He set up a negative sort of clucking and said, 'No, no, no. A Martian Odyssey While eating they made a kind of clucking noise, expressive of contentment. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 "It seems to me," said Edmund to himself, "that the clucking is nearer than the others." The Book of Dragons Then all at once one of the birds uttered a low clucking sound, and stood up with outstretched neck gazing in Jack’s direction. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Presently, when the chickens came clucking, she went to mix their meal as usual, very pale and dolorous. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Tweel saw something, too; he was trilling and clucking away, but I scarcely heard him. A Martian Odyssey He succeeded in turning them back, but, at the moment of his success, heard triumphant cluckings at his rear. Fair Harbor And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could hardly hear the rumbling at all. The Book of Dragons He rose and stood aside unassumingly, as Pillbot bent over the scrawls on his charts, clucking interestedly. The 4-D Doodler Wednesday 2d.—The green hills around were enlivened by the clucking of partridges among the bushes, and the olive-trees by the cooing of doves. Byeways in Palestine As he spoke his father suddenly disappeared, and very soon an ecstatic clucking filled the air. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Very likely the horse knew what they meant, for he came very near breaking from a limp into a trot several times, under the stimulus of all that clucking and "g'lang now." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 But quite suddenly the fire ahead gave a pale flicker and went down; and the clucking ceased. The Book of Dragons From the other homes, which were scarcely visible, resounded the neighing of horses, barking and the clucking of fowl,—the last signs of animal life before it sank to rest. Luna Benamor Partridges were clucking among the bushes; and the bells on the necks of our mules lulled us with their sweet chime, as the animals strolled browsing around in the gay sunshine. Byeways in Palestine There were about one hundred of the little things, all like little balls of down, following clucking mother hens all over the place. Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It This one looked out upon a small woodshed and two clucking hens. Four Meetings The stylist hovered above her for over a minute, muttering and clucking as it conducted an apparently disapproving survey of the job. Legacy So, clucking to the tired horses the train entered upon its last half mile of a long journey. The Eagle's Heart From Hhatteen to ’Eilaboon, a quiet and pretty village, after which we had a long stretch of “merrie greenwood” with furze in golden blossom, birds singing, and the clucking of partridges. Byeways in Palestine You see," she continued, clucking cheerfully to Bogus, "the postman's mail-pouch is almost as interesting as a grab-bag, since my two brothers went away. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor He had seen her clucking with agitation as he had sat with Elma beneath the trees. Flaming June There was silence for a few seconds, except for the startled clucking of the fowls. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Some hens were clucking, hidden in the high grass, and a little ribbon of water which flowed gently along sparkled here and there through the openings in the brushwood. Brazilian Tales Since he could say nothing and she had nothing to say, the pair of them stood hand-clasped, smiling, dim-eyed and red in the face, like two glad children—Amilcare, anxious mothering hen, clucking about them. Little Novels of Italy Hardly had Anna's timid "Here" reached her ears than a series of subdued cluckings came from some small boy's throat. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life You don’t call a dozen old ladies clucking round attention, do you? Flaming June He looked for an omen, and it came in the shape of two ravens, which followed his ships with loud clucking cries. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. Soon every chicken baby was hidden from sight and the chicken mother was clucking less loudly. Stories of Birds There were no barking dogs, no clucking hens, no lowing cattle, no sounds of childish laughter, no sturdy-voiced men or softer-spoken women exchanging greetings. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo He barely realized this knowledge when the power of the quietness and the jugglery were rudely sundered, and the Peruvian, shrieking and clucking in his throat, dived towards them and tried to hide. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories A half-grown chicken, startled by his silent approach, sprang out of the hedge and fluttered in front of his wheel, clucking madly. Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War The boy's smile left his face and clucking to his pony he rode slowly forward toward the angry cowpuncher, meeting the fellow's menacing eyes unflinchingly. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains But Elisabeth seemed entirely contented and made no response to the old gentleman's cluckings and other blandishments. Ethel Morton's Holidays There was scarcely a sound in all the landscape save the regular clucking of the wagon-wheels, the soft, rhythmical tread of the horses' feet, and the snapping buzz of the grasshoppers rising from the weeds. The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota The plump widow stood by shaking her head and making soft clucking sounds in her throat. Where the Sun Swings North "You're the same fine looker!" was all he said, with an appreciative clucking of the throat. Phantom Wires A Novel Tightening the grip on his reins and clucking to the pony, Tad headed for the steers, that were slowly moving off, taking a step with every mouthful or so. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains But when Bunny crept under the currant bush, and reached for his ball, the hen made a funny clucking noise, ruffled up her feathers and looked so angry, that Bunny was afraid. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm The wind heavy, with perfumes of the South, came over the hill and on its crest the wild turkeys were still clucking to each other. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky Under these circumstances what could be done by a woman who was conscious of owning a redly-glowing hearth with a big black pot, fairly well filled, clucking and bobbing upon it? Strangers at Lisconnel Ettinger made little clucking sounds with his mouth, his way of expressing joy unbounded. The Short Cut Maggy Macaur doing her housework, churning or clucking to her hens, was peacefully cheerful and seemed to ask no more of life than food and sleep and comfortable work which could be done without haste. Robin And, all the while, the hen made that queer clucking noise, and fluffed up her feathers so that she looked twice as big as she really was. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm Aunt Aggie greeted her niece with small inarticulate cluckings of affection. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron During the night he delights in active motion, climbing and playing like a kitten, often uttering a loud, clucking noise, which ends with a sharp, shrill call, of astonishing volume. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match The air was filled with the comfortable clucking of hens, the most cheerful of country sounds. The Mayor of Warwick The old hen was clucking in terror to her chicks, her cries having awakened the small boys. The Hills of Hingham She began to strut up and down the edge of the duck-pond, clucking in a most overbearing fashion. The Tale of Henrietta Hen The girls were filled with delight the next morning to hear Sahwah calling for her breakfast in her natural voice and clucking to the chipmunks as of old. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping "And apparently there would be as much clucking and commotion," we slily observed. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Then she comes forward, softly clucking, and soon gathers her chickens under her wings. Some Summer Days in Iowa Anon we hear her softly clucking as she gathers her scattered brood. Some Spring Days in Iowa "Come on, old Hennypennies!" she said, and went out of the coop with the two old hens clucking at her heels. Raggedy Ann Stories "That is no proper name for so marvelous a place," said Ojeda after he had tried to pronounce the clucking many-syllabled word. Days of the Discoverers There was a terrific squawking and peeping and clucking as the absurd bipeds ran about in an utterly bewildered manner. Marjorie at Seacote This time a clucking sound issued from her throat. Visionaries Lady Katherine has a way of marshalling people on every occasion; she reminds me of a hen with chickens, putting her wings down and clucking and chasing till they are all in a corner. Red Hair The mountaineer took a long look through them, and when he handed them back he uttered a clucking sound, significant of satisfaction. The Tree of Appomattox It was a lonely-looking place in that evening light, and the melancholy mooing of the cows, the good-night cluckings of the hens, the bleating of the sheep, seemed to add to the desolateness. Dick and Brownie Suddenly I was answered by a very interesting chuckling and clucking, and I turned to see what had disengaged the attention of Mr. G. Bird from me and my feed-bucket. The Golden Bird On the edge of it stood a hen, clucking and making a great fuss. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus They rowed now without further monition, clucking, each to himself, little prayers for their safe deliverance from the beast. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Their words have all a remarkably guttural sound, and there is nothing which seems to represent the tone of their speaking more exactly than the clucking of a fowl, or the noise of a parrot. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. A clucking hen and her brood, the cot and its ash-tree, sank from sight. Foes Chickens, both white and red, were clucking and working in all the pens, and nowhere among them could I see the Golden Bird. The Golden Bird Indeed, the old mother hen was not clucking so loudly now, nor was she rushing up and down on the shore of the pond with her wings all fluffed up. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus They rushed from the coop and spread over the yard, scratching and clucking happily. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River From the small coops beside the hen-house came an anxious clucking as the fluffy yellow chickens strayed beneath the uneven edges of their pointed prisons and made independent excursions into the world. The Voice of the People Around her the ducks and hens were fighting and squabbling, quacking, clucking, and gobbling, and she flung the corn in golden showers on their heads and backs, making them nearly frantic with greedy anxiety. Queen Hildegarde In fact, the command in his voice had been so forcible that I myself had moved several feet nearer to him until I, too, was in the center of my scrambling, clucking Bird venture. The Golden Bird They ran about in the sun, quacking in their baby voices, and the mother hen followed them about, clucking and scratching in the gravel to dig up things for them to eat. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus The next morning when she fitted the key into the padlock and threw open the door, and no silver hen came clucking out, it was very mysterious. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories "Oh, it's pretty enough," returned Ernest, turning back and clucking to the horse. Jewel's Story Book That his own son should feel a more stirring ambition left him clucking, a bewildered hen on the brink of perilous waters. The Clarion All the other white Birds were clucking excitedly as if issuing hen promissory notes upon their futures. The Golden Bird The little ducks were swimming in the water, and the hen mother was clucking along shore. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Vintages that she felt her father would have poised on his tongue in mystic clucking ecstasy stood untasted in a regiment of little glasses at her elbow. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes A Boer nurse came over and asked us "what nonsense we made one with the other, that we did laugh to ourselves like two hens clucking over one egg." Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front But she pulled out of herself a clucking cry that might have come from some happy mother without a history: "Richard! don't you see it's Roger!" The Judge In her eyes traces of that same terror remained until suddenly the Golden Bird stepped proudly out of the bushes with the Ladies Bird, clucking and scratching along behind him. The Golden Bird Bunny steered the raft over to the shore where the hen was clucking away, calling to her ducklings to come to dry land. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus The fowls were wild with delight, and in their thankfulness they bethought them of a special mark of favour, and every hen came clucking up to him and laid an egg at his feet. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Nella shook her head as she unfolded the fine linen things, and uttered a sort of little clucking sound, meant to show her disapproval of such childish jests. Marietta A Maid of Venice The purplish cabbage roses seemed to be regarding her with clucking approval and reassurance that a group of matrons might give to a young wife. The Judge It was a lovely picture that the kiddie made as she knelt at our feet with the white fluff balls and wings whirring and clucking around her. The Golden Bird He was on the point of turning back to the green abundance of the garden, when a curious clucking sound attracted his attention. Children of the Wild It settled itself here in this north country a few hundreds of years ago, and has been hatching and clucking over its own small affairs ever since. The Melting of Molly It settled itself here in a Tennessee valley a few hundreds of years ago and has been hatching and clucking over its own small affairs ever since. The Melting of Molly Later, she sat on the edge of her darling's bed and patted the curly head resting on her faithful heart, to the accompaniment of little clucking sounds. The Hawk of Egypt He was gazing gravely over the round bald head, and his face wore a funereal expression which contrasted ludicrously with the clucking sounds he was making to the attentive and interested baby. One Man in His Time He paused a moment, while his friend of the military title looked hard at the grate, as if selecting a fair mark, then made a clucking noise, and drenched it completely. Trumps Her clucking when she is impelled to sit on her eggs, or when she is calling her chicks, is no less demonstrative. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 When he reached it he paused to listen to certain sounds within, certain fretful little cluckings. Bowser the Hound The clucking of the old Mausers at long range warns you that it is, and a few bullets kick the dust up. With Rimington He knew from old, past experience that Kit's scoldings didn't amount to any more than the perturbed clucking of a hen. Kit of Greenacre Farm He was not eight feet from the ground before several birds flew out from its leafy recesses, filling the air with shrill clucking. The Wings of the Morning Whenever he appeared in the yard, she would run to meet him, prating and clucking all the time, and impeding his progress by walking between his legs, to his no small annoyance. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader Now and then a traveler met or passed them, clucking to his horses and hurrying to the city with his produce. The Redemption of David Corson I shall find myself clucking presently, I know! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 11, 1892 From the barn there came no gentle lowing of cattle, no homely clucking of chickens. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy With a soft, clucking sound she moved hither and thither. The Goose Girl Ira Ball made a sudden clucking sound with his tongue. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod "She has been like an old hen clucking after her duckling in the water," he replied. The Doctor's Dilemma "Look at the value of the things they've got 'ere, you know," they say to me, clucking, and then depart, after asking Sacristan the nearest way to the Zoo. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 11, 1892 Had I had your looks"; he made a clucking sound in his cheek with his tongue; "and your clothes! Katrine The doctor, apparently regretting his jest, displayed an affectionate warmth of manner, whilst from time to time clucking his tongue by way of encouraging his horse. Abbe Mouret's Transgression A breeze of exclamations came from them, mingling with the yelping, snarling, and clucking of the combatants. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods The only sign of life was a family of hens clucking about the fold. The Doctor's Dilemma |
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