"Clangorous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a clangorous fanfare, and a throng of jugglers, dancers and acrobats poured into the center of the hollow square, frantically juggling, dancing and back-flipping. Black-clad servants swarmed suddenly, heaping mounds of fragrant food on the plates of Yill and Terrestrials alike, pouring a pale purple liquor into ...
— The Yillian Way • John Keith Laumer
... full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire. Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
... March Hath trumpeted His clangorous 'Sleep no more' to all the dead— Beat his strong vans o'er earth and air and sea And they have heard; Hark to ...
— Among Famous Books • John Kelman
... syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation. Completely unnerved, I leaped to my feet; but the measured rocking movement of Usher was undisturbed. I rushed to the chair on which he sat. His eyes were bent fixedly before him, and throughout ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various
... Barbara, and for more than a minute they listened to the clangorous racket of the rails. Then John asked her if it did not have a quality in it almost like music and she brightened up at him ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable |
