clock-clock

Updated: May 10, 2025

There was only the clock-clock of hoofs and the chink of bit metal. Warburton did not know whether he was glad or sorry. She dismounted without her groom's assistance, which somewhat disappointed that worthy gentleman. If she was angry, to his eye there was no visible evidence of it.

Harold MacGrath - Man on the Box

But a Bushman a little used to the country soon picks out differences amongst the trees, half unconsciously as it were, and so finds his way about. Mary and I didn't talk much along this track we couldn't have heard each other very well, anyway, for the 'clock-clock' of the waggon and the rattle of the cart over the hard lumpy ground.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates