clump

• With a heavy clump-clump Mr. Elmer Tree, who rented her second-floor back, edged himself sideways down the staircase. —  EQMM,September-October2007
• No; let's get Nat's stable lanthorn, and then go down here and see where the way out goes I know," cried Scarlett, eagerly Where Why, down there, right away by the old tree clump--right out yonder There can't be a way out there, because we should have seen it Perhaps it's covered up so as to keep it hidden till it was wanted Let's go and see. —  Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story
• When they gained the edge of the clump, and raised their heads over a low bush-covered bank, they beheld a sight which was not calculated to cheer them, for there, in the centre of the bush, encircling a very small fire, sat a war-party of about fifty painted and befeathered braves of the Cree Indians. —  The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
• In some places they have boats in which they can get about: however, every place has its uses, and so has this, you will find out, before you have been here long At length, as the sun was about to sink beneath the long straight line behind their backs, Jack saw before them what looked like a clump or two of trees which stood on a piece of ground a few feet above the dead level which surrounded it. —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
• Occasionally customers came in; but between whiles Janice and the storekeeper's wife could talk The racking "clump, clump, clump," of a big-footed farm horse sounded without and a woman's nasal voice called a sharp Whoa! —  How Janice Day Won

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