"Clangour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there was a procession which is worth considerable description. Six men with censers of silver lined up before the high altar, and stood there, slowly swinging the fragrant bowls at the end of their long chains. The music died down. One could hear the rhythmical, faint clangour of the metal. And then, intensely sudden, away in the west gallery, but almost as if from the battlements of heaven, pealed out silver trumpets in a fanfare. The censers flew high in time with it, and the ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable
... one, the clattering of horses' hoofs, the other, the clack and clangour of men's voices. Evidently there are several, speaking at the same time, and all in like tone—this of ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... his harp and sang, And loud through the music rang The sound of that shining word; And the harp-strings a clangour made, As if they were struck with ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... for the long deep moan, as I listened, resolved itself into a quick succession of touches, just as you might play with your finger-tips, fifty times a second tattooing on the hollow table. In the midst of the clangour the hearing settled down to the sighing of the pines, which drew the mind towards it, and soothed the ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... passion that is a sham fails to find one fool to buy it; when all the priests and politicians clap in vain together the brazen cymbals of their tongues, because their listeners will not hearken to brass clangour, nor accept it for the music of the spheres; when all the creeds, that feast and fatten upon the cowardice and selfishness of men, are driven out of hearth and home, and mart and temple, as impostors that put on the white beard ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
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