Word: clip-clopped
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...seen him watching for the post and had wondered if he were waiting for a letter from another lover. Oddly, the thought did not frighten her. She knew The Stable Boy was no longer enough for her. She was ready to move on.There was a strange clip-clop in the hallway.“Ah,” said Felicity. “It’s about time.”She sprang up and opened the door. There was a whiff of hay and manure, and a large, velvety muzzle poked into the room. Felicity found herself staring...
...inkwell; crumpets toasting on a crackling fire; a half-filled chamber pot hidden under a chaise longue. Unlike most museums there are no cordoned-off areas - visitors are encouraged to roam freely. Hidden tape recordings of a chiming grandfather clock, a muffled conversation in another room and the clip-clop of horses' hooves on the street evoke the historic atmosphere, as do the smells of pipe smoke and candied fruits...
Knox has composed all but one of his poems while in the saddle, with the steady clip-clop cadence of the horse guiding the iambs and a simple rhyme making the words easy to remember. This is crucial, for cowboys tell poems; they don't recite them. They can be found preserving this oral tradition in a dusky bar or a seedy motel. Says Knox: "I've never in my life sat around a campfire and asked somebody to tell a poem...
...Luckily we don't have to use horses," says Eric Idle, the former Python stalwart who penned the book and co-wrote new songs with John Du Prez. As Python fans will recall, Holy Grail begins with the clip-clop sound of knights approaching on horsebackonly to be revealed traveling on foot, knocking coconut shells together for the sound effect. Other memorable scenes from the film may be a little tougher to pull off, like the belligerent knight who keeps fighting and taunting even as his limbs are hacked off one by one. "We've had long and anxious talks...
...change what we could increased. My newfound commitment to the University comes from this awareness of my own potential to change it. But for all the possibilities that I now have, I remain greatly nostalgic whenever I think about the time when I could almost hear the clip-clop of horses on the bricks...