1. Dishes and plates were clattering in the dining car.

2. She heard him clattering around downstairs.

3. Something heavy came clattering down the stairs.

4. He was clattering away on his old typewriter.

5. Argyll leapt over the clattering boards and rolling stools.

6. Her splayed arms sent the dishes clattering.

7. Her heart was clattering inside her.

8. But when the third chain coma clattering round my club, it smashes against my fingers like an axe.

9. Mrs Chalk was clattering round in the kitchen, and a savoury aroma was wafting from that region.

10. He could remember the suppressed clattering noise of the firing on semi-automatic.

11. She was aware that her heart was clattering inside her, racketing against her ribs like a demented steam train.

12. Amid the clattering trams and the hurrying crowds at the Hackescher Markt, the golden litter bin stands out.

13. I went across the clattering, windy linkage space between the dining and dome cars and stood outside the toilet room.

14. He was monumental in defence, arriving with clattering stealth whenever danger lurked in front of Stefan Klos.

15. The law-machine was clanking and clattering to its own weird rhythm.

16. The steam hammers, the clattering machine shop, the rolling mills and open hearth furnaces are gone.

17. They ran into the hall, Tom's boots clattering on the tiles.

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18. The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment.

19. The leg irons of the white prisoners inside were clattering.

20. These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.

21. The raft shifted uneasily on the sea, the bamboo stiffeners in the sails clattering on the masts.

22. Margaret and a few others seemed relieved to get him down, his canes clattering and his body folding in half.

23. A second pair of windows burst inwards, shattered in unison, glass fragments chiming and clattering to the carpet.

24. He picked out something from the shelves and made a clattering U-turn.

25. We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids.

26. After a moment, her knees gave way and she slithered to the floor in a clattering hail of cutlery.

27. Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile.

28. No sound except the rumble of an invisible train clattering through the night.

29. Grover leaned back, disappearing from view as the gay yellow cab puttered away, its muffler clattering forlornly after it.

30. Rosie at once scrambled to her feet, the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors.

1. Dishes and plates were clattering in the dining car.

31. It usually means clattering over ice and rocks down a three-foot-wide piste, in gale-force winds and horizontal rain.

32. The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.

33. Its arm fell off, clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it.

34. Ask the children to stop clattering about, Father's asleep.

35. She followed him diffidently through the clattering machines.

36. Men and women, boys and girls were clattering home.

37. The typewriter was clattering away.

38. Ask you to stop clattering about, MOther'S asleep.

39. The typewriters were clattering away.

40. Boogie, here since 1959, driving a clattering old van.

41. Nervousness sends my fish fork clattering into my neighbour's steak knife despite his best attempts to improve my dining etiquette.

42. The two double - edged swords crashed and produced a clattering sound.

43. Prow and bouldered sea slugged it out all night, a clattering succession of growlers and bergy bits nudged aside, slowly but surely.

44. An open door, a room, two typewriters clattering and two women making them clatter.

45. My half - awake and sulky men were clattering into shape on the road.

46. Typewriters keep clattering away.

47. The horses shifted , their iron hooves clattering threateningly on the pavement.

48. But none of this seemed to matter to the short, long-faced, middle-aged man who was now behind the focusing cloth, clattering the shutter furiously in tenth-of-a-second bursts, to take her picture.

49. By now my halfawake and sulky men were clattering into shape on the road.

50. At twilight, the stillness was broken by the sound of hooves, clattering on the paved courtyard.

51. At about three in the afternoon, the mini - robot ceased its clattering.

52. Ernest was clattering next door in the kitchen, whistling a few bars of music that Simon recognized as part of a Rossini overture.

53. In Europe, no doubt, you may see in the Unter den Linden avenue or the Champs Elysees a little prince or princess go past with a clattering military guard of honour.