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  • GOOD DREAMS, Godowlning said in understandable but oddly accented 'dini and that set both of them clittering and clattering.

    Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • It was making an angry clittering sound, and as it closed the distance, Eddie could see it had a mouth lined with long, sharp points.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • There had been no quarrel now for quite a long time – if you count as time the days spent in the Gunpowder Plot adventure – so the attic was easily found, and once more the children stood among the chests, with the dusty roof, and the dusty sunbeams, and the clittering pigeon feet, and the soft pigeon noises overhead.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • From dawn to dusk, and day by day, did she keep those three keys clicking and clittering, as if her life depended on the result; and so in truth it did, to some extent, for her bread and butter depended on her performances on that very meagre piano.

    Post Haste 1859

  • I am truly fed up of the thing when a thrilling scene is on and you can't see what happened in the last moment because the picture became fragmented along with clittering sounds and you drop the idea to watch it anymore.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

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