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"The swallows were but just beginning to stir and twitter in their nests under the eaves when I heard the horses' hoofs a-clatter on the high road," said Dame Watt to her neighbour as they stood in close confab in her small front garden.
London was now awake; the streets were a-clatter with cabs; the pick of the navvy resounded; night loiterers were disappearing and giving place to hurrying early risers. In the resonant morning the young men walked together to the Corner. There they stopped to bid each other good-bye. John called a cab, and returned home in intense mental agitation. "It really is terrible," said Mike.
I guess they'd be willing to practice on your porch if we gave them some ice-cream and cake." "My word!" gasped Aunt Nettie. "Music always adds so much e'clat to an affair," pursued Tess, unruffled. "The band practicing 'll add a-clatter, all right," commented Aunt Nettie, adding a syllable to Tess's triumphant word.
I alone remember; I only know. They mock me. But they fear me, also. "Oh, woman!" and, dropping his staff a-clatter to the floor, he stretched out a quivering hand "oh, woman! and oh, man from above speak! Speak, that I may hear the English from living lips!" Stern, blinking with astonishment there in the half-gloom, drew near. "English?" he queried. "Haven't you ever heard it spoken?" "Never!
Do we hear the romance of your concertinas setting thousands of hobnailed boots a-clatter with Terpsichore in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, in Polonceau and Myrrha, or do we hear only your union orchestra soughing through Mascagni in the Café de Paris? Do we know the romance of your peoples or the romance of your restaurateurs? Which? I wonder.
There at sunset in nesting-time one of the rails will begin to call a loud, clapping roll; a neighbor takes it up, then another and another, the circle of cries widening and swelling until the whole marsh is a-clatter. Heading my way with a slow, labored stroke came one of the fish-hawks. She was low down and some distance away, so that I got behind a post before she saw me.
Then, when the steam was sputtering and the smoke smoking and the piston throbbing, and the leathern belt travelling round and round and the complete building a-tremble and a-clatter, and an attendant with clean hands was feeding the sheets at one end of the machine and another attendant with clean hands taking them off at the other, all at the rate of twenty copies per sixty seconds then the staff loved the engine and meditated upon the wonders of their modern civilisation.
Suddenly the wind rushed upon the house with wild violence and set everything in the place a-clatter. He lit the lamp. Then he seemed to collect himself and went over and felt the stove. It was ice cold. The blankets were laid out upon the floor in the usual spread of the daytime. They had not been slept in. Into his eyes there leapt a strange, wild look.
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