clankety

My mother falls asleep as we crawl, in clankety starts and squealing stops, by Starett City, the giant depressing apartment complex that was probably, in its day, a dream come true for aspiring architects.

Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

The machine comes to life; levers start to move inside, things go clankety-clank, and the lights flash like crazy.

THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

Above him, an L train clankety-clanks by, and the embankment is gone.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

Out on the Spiral 1 have force of my own, I like not to use these sparky weirdnesses you drive your clankety machines with - too dangerous!

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

If some magic property which the train possesses -- whether it be the motion or the clankety-clank -- makes me happy even when I am only thinking about

If I May 1919

An uncanny clankety-clankety-clank accompanied his words, and the rods dropped suddenly.

Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Edgar Franklin 1918

Now I heard the clankety-clank that plate-armor makes when the man that is in it is running, and then alongside my head there burst out the most inhuman explosion of laughter that ever rent the drum of a person's ear, and I looked, and it was La

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872

"clankety-clank" of the train adds a very soothing accompaniment.

If I May 1919