As he stood thus a faint sound of clanking armor came to his attentive ears; louder and louder it grew until there could be no doubt but that a number of men were approaching.
The clanking armor, the heavy spurred feet, and the voices above him had awakened the little Prince and with a startled cry he sat upright in the bottom of the skiff.
(for Mr Haredale was his landlord) the long-expected visitor, who strode into the room
clanking his heavy boots upon the floor; and looking keenly round upon the bowing group, raised his hat in acknowledgment of their profound respect.
I have heard upwards of ten score of windlasses spring like one into
clanking life in the dead of night, filling the Downs with a panic-struck sound of anchors being torn hurriedly out of the ground at the first breath of his approach.
He glided silently on one foot half across the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot
clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel against his right, flew round again in a circle.
Presently the sounds of pursuit became audible in the distant
clanking of accouterments and the whistling call to arms of the kaldanes.
In the silence of the night we could hear the panting and
clanking of their machinery.
The
clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time.
His rifle barrel grew so hot that ordi- narily he could not have borne it upon his palms; but he kept on stuffing cartridges into it, and pounding them with his
clanking, bending ram- rod.
At the
clanking of their frightful irons, the unhappy child quivered like a dead frog which is being galvanized.
"Is there an archer here hight Sam Aylward?" asked a gaunt man-at-arms,
clanking up to them across the courtyard.
Just as he finished, the call-boy came; so, haw-hawing like a demon, he went rattling and
clanking out like a crate of loose castings, and I knew nothing more.