Word: clatterings
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When of a sudden there came With clash and with clatter, A reindeer and sleigh (But no second class matter...
...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn,' wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street" [TIME...
...They were more amused than awed by civilization, finding telephones and streetcars especially delightful. When Medeiros' phone rang, they would pick it up, listen a while, then let loose peals of gleeful laughter. They spent hours leaning out the window, watching Rio's aged, dark-green streetcars clatter...
...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn," wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde, were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street. Why, then, didn...
...ends of the earth: Japan, Samoa, Ceylon. "Positively everything in Japan laughs. The jinrickshaw men laugh while running at full speed five miles with a sun that visibly sizzles their drenched clothes. The women all laugh, but they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors . . . I believe the Mikado laughs when his ministers have a cabinet council." One Japanese item was no laughing matter for a Bostonian: "I was a bit aghast when one young woman called my attention to a temple as a remains...