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Example sentences for "clangour"

Lexicographically close words:
clang; clanged; clanging; clangor; clangorous; clangs; clangula; clank; clanked; clanking
  1. The clangour of rolling in the shed ceased abruptly.

  2. And everywhere the world was awake that night, and throughout Christendom a sombre murmur hung in the keen air over the country side like the belling of bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangour in the cities.

  3. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished.

  4. The broken clangour of the bells of Rome, the bellowing of the thunder through the valleys, the howling of the storm--and the shouts of the storming files of his Germans struck Otto's ear in fitful pauses.

  5. Another cell reechoed from the clangour of the chains of Simon Petrus.

  6. Hearing the thunder of horse-hoofs and the clangour of the chariot from afar, she bade one of the maidens go to the rampart of the Dun and tell her what she saw.

  7. The service had hardly begun when the bell was heard to ring again, and with a louder clangour than before, whereupon the religious concluded that Brother Andrew had awakened from his sleep, and was remembering with remorse his belated duty.

  8. Glory tried to laugh and to return the salutation over the noises of the people and the clangour of the bells.

  9. He had listened all day for the accustomed clangour of the trains, and had heard nothing.

  10. The cloud took no form of cloud, and not a sound came through it except for the voice of the water, and the occasional roll and clangour of the trains.

  11. II Twice a day the mountains echoed to the clangour of the passing express train, and at intervals less settled and orderly to the slower rumble of luggage-trucks, laden or empty.

  12. Temple bells there were in the clangour of the road cars.

  13. The clangour of the final strokes yet vibrated through the night's silence when someone set my own door bell loudly ringing.

  14. The Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry and the Sixty-second Virginia Mounted Infantry met them with clangour in the rain-filled air.

  15. Earth and heaven were shaking with the clangour of two shields.

  16. The hot day mounted and the clangour of the right mounted.

  17. Hearing thereof, the lords of Baux came down in wrath with a clangour of armed men.

  18. So joyously and gloriously ended the year 1810, with the booming of cannon and the loud clangour of the bells.

  19. To all, the roar of the guns and the clangour of the bells spoke one message: "The foe is at our gates; arm, and go forth to meet him.

  20. No clangour of bells or roaring of guns hailed the publication of this edict, a solemn silence fell over the city, all felt that a great revolution had been accomplished, a revolution unstained by one drop of blood.

  21. They stood in the porch together, and through the evening air came again to them, as it had come to them in the morning across the waste of waters, the loud boom of the cannon, the joyful clangour of the bells.

  22. Elsewhere you find South or North, nothing but untempered obscure jarring; which breaks forth ever and anon into open clangour of riot.

  23. The heavy mist still covered both armies, but their hum and stir was already heard through the gloaming,--the neighing of steeds, and the clangour of mail.

  24. The clangour of church-bells mingled with the clashing of milk-cans, and the scent of pot-roses mingled with the hot smell of London in midsummer.

  25. Four hours they had slept, when a furious clangour from the church bells awakened the sleepers.

  26. Sometimes, in the clangour of the engine-room, they will relate perilous misadventures at sea, or ludicrous entanglements in sunny southern ports.

  27. To what a tiny hum would the traffic fall when that titanic clangour met my ears!

  28. From Greenock to Glasgow resounded the clangour of hammers and the thunder of mechanism.

  29. The swords began to leap and sing in the sunlight, and the forest echoed to the clangour of arms.

  30. Folded by a circle of oaks rose the grey walls of an ecclesiastical building of no inconsiderable size, while the mournful clangour of a bell came up upon the wind, with a vague sound as of voices chanting.

  31. The heights rang back our screams of rage, our defiant war-cries, and the clangour of our blows.

  32. And the clangour evidently came from the tower of the collegiate church.

  33. Meantime, the clangour increased in violence, and shouts of "Fire!

  34. With a rhythmic sway of warlike tone the clangour rose and fell, and rose again as the trumpeters came out upon the great staircase and began to descend.

  35. That was all he said, but all around heard the cutting tone, that neither the voices of the singers, nor the clangour of the trumpets could drown.

  36. From those lofty pinnacles the clangour of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendour of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clangour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.