Word: clopped
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...scoffs at the legend and further ruffles burly townsman Brom Bones' feathers by flirting with his girlfriend, Katrina Van Tassel. Riding home after being rebuffed by Katrina at a quilting party one night, Ichabod begins to take the town's superstition more seriously when he hears the clippety-clop of a following horse. His fears getting the best of him, he is eventually reduced to a quivering coward racing for the covered bridge that marks the end of the horseman's haunted territory. Just as he nears the bridge, he turns to see what looks like a headless horseman hurling...
...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...
...once, the movement on the screen feels real. Nudge the stick forward, Mario walks: clump-clump-clump. Press it a bit more, he leans forward and trots: clop-clop-clop-clop. Push it all the way, he runs faster and faster, tiny legs pumping in unison with his body, his rising speeds a seamless gradation of motion...
...YORK, N.Y.After consuming a sumptuous roast beef au jus repast at the Essex House to the clippity-clop of horse and buggies conveying honeymooning couples down Central Park South, the Harvard hoopsters journeyed uptown to the somewhat less-than-splendiferous lavender linoleum floor of Nat Holman Gymnasium, for a wide-open shoot-'em-up game against the City College of New York...
...former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing at first--King Arthur has no horse but his page carries split coconut halves that clop together to sound as if he is galloping--are beaten into the ground by repetition...