How To Use Clapper In A Sentence
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Presented with a series of tricky problems, the Scud decided to play safe and run like the clappers, and just belt the ball for all he was worth.
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I had my first good bite, a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line.
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He was carrying his hand bell by its clapper, and he shifted his grip to the handle and began clanging.
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Each section features easily identifiable icons such as a clapperboard to indicate the locations for films and television sets, or a gold star to represent the birthplace of a celebrity to make the guide quick and simple to read.
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Birders can watch migratory species such as endangered clapper rails, dowitchers, and American avocets from the platform at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary.
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Car and simulacrum sounder clapperboard sodomist use the myrmeleon to onwards rook alder and polypropenonitrile mwera to cut osteal pay flagellant.
Rational Review
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Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
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Instantly, he let go of Sam, his free hand stilling the clapper, for a bell gone awry could have disastrous consequences for its wielder.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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I'm certain that, at any moment, somebody's going to snap a clapperboard shut and shout: ‘Madrid - the movie - Scene 82, take 3.’
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A clapper loader, ‘they load the magazines of film’.
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But it's the gutbucket grooves supplied by Rochfords drums and bassist Tom Herbert that really get you in the chest, going like the clappers on ‘Your Eyes The Sea’ while the horns give it both barrels.
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The primary occupant, originally installed on a green bier, was arrayed like a dancer, with bell-like ornaments made of shells and "clappers" made of canine teeth.
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It's just too big,’ says Adam, as he gently pushes the clapper until it just touches the bell, producing a deep, sonorous rumble.
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Their worships, as he called them, were about a score of fusty crack-ropes and gallow-clappers, or rather more, all posted before a bar, and staring at each other like so many dead pigs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Then she heard them, echoing footfalls: she knew it was Vangelis, her heart started to hammer and bang like the clapper of a crazy bell.
COUP D'ETAT
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Perhaps it was a claque: a paid band of willing clappers.
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You'll note the white veil upon the cross, and the use of the "clapper" instead of the bells at the consecration.
Holy Thursday from Ss. Trinita, Rome
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Accordingly, of the subway bury difficult question, nobody dare clappers, bemused all the time decision - making process.
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Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow.
Southern California Coast (Bailey)
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When the gong and clappers on a doorbell unit or the plungers on a mechanical chime unit get dirty and dusty, dip a cotton swab in alcohol to clean them.
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The town crier, in trying to ring out the Prince's arrival, found the clapper of his bell stuck fast.
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Brittany use to do with their clappering clickets, yet better resounding and far more harmonious, and with his tongue contracted in his mouth did very merrily warble it, always looking fixedly upon the Englishman.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The percentage involvement reflects a hierarchy, so the director of photography has more points than the clapper loader.
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Typical species are considered the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia), the bicolored conebill (Conirostrum bicolor), the clapper rail (Rallus longirostris), the great-tailed grackle (Cassidix mexicanus), the spotted tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), the rufous crab-hawk (Buteogallus aequinoctialis), the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and the arboreal snake (Corallus hortulanus).
Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
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The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.
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Mr Grantham said: ‘Our bell is made of bronze, weighs about 25 kilogram and still has its original clapper.’
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~~Attach "clappers" to all the lights in the dungeon just before a paddling
Naysayers Suck
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The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.
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The dream which he dreamed that night was the answer of the skull, which spoke with a clappering noise like that of teeth chattering together.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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He had even locked the front door and was sunk down on a chair, his teeth clappering with vigour and regularity.
Gänsemännchen. English
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He opened the sackcloth which held four bronze bell heads; two were identical figures cast sharp with all their edges and clappers intact.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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With the high level of enthusiasm of most New York burlesque audiences, the "clapper" costumes wouldn't make it through the first 20 seconds of a number!
Archive 2008-12-01
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Philadelphia will on Thursday noon send the clapper of the old bell resoundingly against its cracked sides.
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The bones are one of several types of clappers, all of which are concussion idiophones and are classified as percussion musical instruments.
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At the bottom of the bell, a white silhouette of a boy holds a rope entwined to the clapper.
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I have now been driving this Kia around for about five days and have discovered that it goes like the clappers.
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I'm hoping to go like the clappers the next few days and really break the back of this beast.
Inching along ...
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It would have been asking for trouble, just crazy, to put Last Resort on the clapperboard.
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The St. Peter's bell, 24 tons in weight and with a clapper which alone weighs 16 metric hundredweight, is the largest swinging bell in the world.
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Suddenly he hears what he thinks is a clapperboard.
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But time will tell, and I have to be honest - people on here right to voice an opinion, we dont all have to agree to "clappers".
Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
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We descended among crab apples, sloes and whortleberries, and crossed the brook by a stout old clapper bridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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I drew forth the bell Meryth had given me, and gently let the clapper fall against the bronze wall of it.
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Loggun (Denham and Clapperton), the Fán fleam, the “small piece of iron like an ace of spades on the upper Nile”
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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As if the velvety voices were not enough, the choir members also double as drummers, clappers and high-kicking dancers to ensure that not even the most resolute killjoys could resist the magnificent vocal beauty and power of this choir.
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'The Rising, take one, start,’ Charles said yesterday as he snapped shut a clapperboard to set the camera rolling on the set of the film at a five-star hotel in Mumbai, home of the Hindi film industry.’
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The performer holds two clappers in his left hand and a bamboo chip in the right.
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It was a perfect Great Hall of the People crowd: prominent, well behaved; all clappers, no complainers.
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In fact the clapper extends beyond the mouth of the bell and, rather than a handle, has a pierced peg argent, means that it would originally have been suspended.
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Birders can watch migratory species such as endangered clapper rails, dowitchers, and American avocets from the platform at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary.
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I had my first good bite, a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line.
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‘Hollywood comes to Dechmont,’ one village shopkeeper excitedly scrawled on a sign he put over a window display consisting of a home made clapperboard, cans of film and a projector.
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And yet Clapperton had come up this term determined to lay himself out for his side, and be the most popular prefect in Fellsgarth!
The Cock-House at Fellsgarth
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At the end they gave him a clapperboard signed by cast and crew.
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It was a regimented crowd, wearing identical red jackets, hats and soccer scarves, banging wooden clappers.
Beyond the Horns, A Beautiful Game
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And I recommend maybe getting a "clapper" for your vibrator if you can't buy a bag from Sara.
Fortune Cookie Omen's, a surprise (naughty) gift and dying by fire!
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Hearing the bell, clappers, gong, announcement of the sutras, thinking about when to end or when to strike the big gong-you may think that all this is exotic Zen.
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I'd turn from "foamer" to "clapper" in the blink of an eye.
Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
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The team found bell-like ornaments made of shells and" clappers "made of dog teeth, which were likely placed around the king's waist and legs, Houston said.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
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An actor officially launched the mega-budget flick by sounding the clapperboard for the opening shot last week.
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An '' er tongue, it jes rattle lak a clapper in a bell.
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
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Then a clappering of wings as they came in sight, and the birds flew up, mostly crows, but here and there a huge black raven.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Clips of deleted scenes, bloopers, rehearsals - even just the beginnings and ends of shots, with clapperboard and sound-sync beeps - have the sense of something snatched from a real event, like historical archive footage.
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Instantly, he let go of Sam, his free hand stilling the clapper, for a bell gone awry could have disastrous consequences for its wielder.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Germain's novel opens with the arresting image of Sabine, a middle-class mother concealing a rug impulsively stolen from the Christmas sales: "Her silhouette large and bell-like, her legs like two clappers which despite their brisk to-and-fro produce no sound".
Hidden Lives by Sylvie Germain, translated by Mike Mitchell – review
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At present, so much water is sucked from the Colorado that the river often fails to reach the Sea of Cortez, dooming species like the endangered desert pupfish and the Yuma clapper rail.
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And, last week, two days of filming took place at the school with children having the chance to direct, interview staff and fellow pupils and hold the clapperboard before each scene.
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I hope he didn't, from force of habit, use a clapperboard when he did his online show.
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Her sense of ruin was like lead, but was somehow the cause of exultation in her heart as the clapper is the cause of the peal of a bell.
The Judge
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Then she heard them, echoing footfalls: she knew it was Vangelis, her heart started to hammer and bang like the clapper of a crazy bell.
COUP D'ETAT
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clappers," and were used, especially by strangers and summer guests, for orientation and description of location.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
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So he reached up to the heavy brass ornamental bell and swung the clapper.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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It struck the tier of rock below with clattering echo, displaced another stone twice its size, then bounced -- bounced -- and a slither of slaty rock the size of a house wrenched out -- shot into mid-air with crash and sharp clappering echoes -- Then the Pass was filled with the thundering roll.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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Leonardo, meanwhile, was making notes on a church bell, ‘the way it moved and how its clapper was fastened‘.
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the one same man! you will readily comprehend what a cat-and-dog couple they made! what strife! what clapperclawing!
Tartarin of Tarascon
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He now grasped the bell clapper and began to pull wildly, as though announcing a fire, while shouting, `All hands!
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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Verse without rhyme, is a body without a soul, (for the chief life consisteth in the rhyme) or a bell without a clapper; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor delight.
A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
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Mr. Obama is calling on the Senate to quickly approve Clapper's nomination.
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Each of the winners in the FÍS Film Award receives a commemorative clapperboard, which can be displayed in their school as a mark of their outstanding achievement in film-making.
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[FN#374] Although the Arab's ideal-of beauty, as has been seen and said, corresponds with ours the Egyptians (Modern) the Maroccans and other negrofied races like "walking tun-butts" as Clapperton called his amorous widow.
Arabian nights. English
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You'll have to run like the clappers if you want to catch your train.
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Pilgrims in white scatter rose petals at the foot of four-faced, silver-eyed statues of Brahma, while old people sun themselves in the courtyard, banging clappers and ringing bells.
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A little after 2pm the tide turned and it ran like the proverbial clappers.
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Magister Rumbold Crucible woke up feeling that someone had been using his head as a bell clapper which, he groggily reasoned, probably accounted for the sickening swaying sensation as well.
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But apparently these fish do have one redeeming feature - they grow like the clappers.
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Well, Ben once got into a great frolic ashore, and kicked up such a bobbery that the watchman clapped him in limbo for the night; and the justice next morning gave him such a clapper-clawing with his tongue, and bore down upon him so hard with his
Select Temperance Tracts
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The main instruments used to accompany dagu were drums , clappers and the three - string .
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The clapperboard sounded again, as the director launched the film at a temple at AVM studios on Sunday, cheered by a surging crowd.
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He now grasped the bell clapper and began to pull wildly, as though announcing a fire, while shouting, `All hands!
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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Cannon has an electronic "clapper" in her apartment probably cutting edge high-tech in those days.
From Fred Blosser THE BURGLARS
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The best intro of the week, going off like the clappers before taking a step or two down into familiar psychedelia.
Readers recommend: songs with special guests
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It was unmistakable: the big bell was going as he had never heard it before -- not being rung, but as if someone had hold of the clapper and were beating it against the side -- _Dang, dang, dang, dang_ -- stroke following stroke rapidly; and, half-confused by the sleep from which he had been awakened, Vane was trying to make out what it meant, when faintly, but plainly heard on the still night air, came that most startling of cries --
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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‘Who attended at Lady Clapperclaw’s conversazioni?’ and ‘whether Sir John
The Book of Snobs
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I said it's probably one of those clapper lights - if you clap you turn it on.
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Oh, clappering mill-wheel of words! whats thy adventure to me?
VI. The Pass-Word. Book X
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Among the endemic birds associated with mangroves are the Cuban Green Woodpecker Xiphidiopicus percussus, the Jamaican tody Todus todus, and endemic subspecies of the mangrove warbler Dendroica petechia gundlachi, and the clapper rail Rallus longirostris caribaeus.
Greater Antilles mangroves
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We spend a couple of afternoons lazily drifting along the back roads, past clapperboard farmhouses, vineyards and corn-fields.
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The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.
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The rise of solid-state tapeless shooting has seen a subsequent reinvention of the role we might traditionally have known as the clapper-loader.
Undefined
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So he reached up to the heavy brass ornamental bell and swung the clapper.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The rail of the saltmarshes, the clapper, which is more commonly heard than seen.
Tidal marsh
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In his testament, written at Striviling in his "awin dwelling house," on the 5th of that month, as he nominates Mr. Robert Pont, Provost of Trinity College, to act as oversman, and one of his assignees, we may infer, that Clapperton had embraced the reformed doctrines.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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For Hugo of Saint Victor the clapper is the tongue of the officiating priest, which strikes the two sides of the vase and announces thus, at the same time, the truth of the two Testaments.
Là-bas
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The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.
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They will now be taken to Nottingham, where the bells and the clappers themselves will be refurbished.
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There were no rails or clappers to be found in the heat.
