United States or Gibraltar ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They trotted away, the brown horse and the gray side by side, the regular clap-clap of their feet sometimes overlapping and sometimes beating in unison, only to break eventually again, to the disappointment of the girl's attentive ear. It was the fashion amid the hunting folk to despise hacking along the road as so much waste of time.
She was listening for the marked rhythm of the great El Rey, the clap-clap, clap-clap of the king of Last's Holding as he singlefooted down the hollow slopes of the lifting eastern range. And as she waited she thought of many things.
"Ha!" exclaimed the giant, who, for all his great size was a simple chap, "little thing go 'tick-tick' and then 'clap-clap! Koku no like Koku t'ink bad spirit in telumfoam Koku come out!" "Well, no wonder I couldn't see any image on the plate!" exclaimed Tom. "There was nobody there. Now, Ned, you try it; will you, please?" "Sure. Anything to oblige!" "Then go in the other telephone booth.
Presently the clap-clap of sabots became audible, and then the smothered footfall of nuns; there was silence but for sneezing and nose-blowing stifled by pocket-handkerchiefs, and then all was still.
In all the City there was not a cheerful sight, and everywhere, above all other sounds, were heard the rumble of wheels, the sharp clap-clap of horses' hoofs upon the pavement, and the steady beat of marching feet. At last, weary and heartsick, the three wanderers turned into a side street and stepped into a little shop where food was sold.
At intervals, too, he was seen to close his mouth the huge jaws coming together with a "clap-clap," the noise of which could be heard echoing far over the lake! He did not go long in one course; but ever and anon kept turning himself, and quartering the bay in every direction. It was a long time before the spectators could find any explanation of these odd manoeuvres on the part of the bear.
Behind the stackyard, in the old trees, the crows were complaining bitterly with their hard clap-clap tongues, and now and then a great crashing warned of the death of some old storm-scarred veteran of the wood. But it was fine, the music of the storm, the blatter of the snow and the wailing cry of the wind, before a great devastating blast came.
Word Of The Day