Instead of falling silent at the end, the bell broke into a sudden
clangor. Jurgis raised his head; what could that mean--a fire?
It is produced by the cracked-pot
clangor of the cheap church-bells.
Far away through the forest might be heard its musical
clangor and swell.
The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated, it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods, surpassing the
clangor of the goose and the hooting of the owl; and then imagine the cackling of the hens to fill the pauses when their lords' clarions rested!
This war- worn veteran, being now infirm with age and wounds, and weary of the turmoil of a military life, and of the roll of the drum and the
clangor of the trumpet, that had so long been ringing in his ears, had lately signified a purpose of returning to his native valley, hoping to find repose where he remembered to have left it.
Still the vessel went bounding onward; and now Theseus could hear the brazen
clangor of the giant's footsteps, as he trod heavily upon the sea-beaten rocks, some of which were seen to crack and crumble into the foaming waves beneath his weight.
I accept the
clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies.
As vocalist Sharon den Adel's high, clear soprano and billowing operatic turns meld with the heavy
clangor of instruments, 'Raise Your Banner' cements its status as hymn for the revolution.
To a stranger, the roaring flames, the half-naked men, straining every muscle and perspiring in torrents, the dark recesses of the space now lit up by a sudden glare and suddenly relapsing into their original gloom, the sparks and streams of fire flying angrily in every direction, the horrid and infernal din, the
clangor of tools, and the great hammers falling with tireless, thundering energy, present together a spectacle that seems hardly earthly.
sounding like "the suppressed
clangor of a sewer cover being lifted