clampering

Example Sentences

• "And should any of my readers find their spirits too ethereal, their souls too rapidly mounting on eagles' wings, I recoomend them to try the cooling sedative of six monghs' residence in a manufacturing town, amid the clanking, grinding, droning sound of factory machinery, the hammering of boiler-making, the clampering of clogs, the screeching of railway engines, and the hissing of steam, under the dark, lowering canopy of incessant torrents of smoke; and I think wthey will be effectually cured of any such symptoms."
• "Hush — there's a clampering in the trance. It's the rush o' critics frae the pit o' the theatre."
• "With a swift clampering of feet, Joe's horses pulled the stage ahead and onto the finish line, just in time."
• "John Eaton and Cecily his wife were persecuted by Longland for, inter alia, being noticed by 'certain in the parish' holding down their heads in church, and not looking at the Sacrament, and for saying in a butcher's house at the sound of the bells, 'What a clampering of bells is here!'"
• "He had no sooner lifted up the square board, or door, than the cats all came in a head, leaped over him, put out the candle, and rushing among the affrighted servant's legs, threw one half of them down ; and having gained their liberty, made such a clampering, rattleing, and jingleing noise, as I never before witnessed, or heard tell of."
• "Moreover it was decided by that tiresome Martha, the housemaid, that “Miss Lucy lugged the dirt in shameful 'with them nasty clampering boots, and it was one's work to clean the hall after her.”"