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Definition of Clatteringly
1. adv. With clattering.
Definition of Clatteringly
1. Adverb. With a clattering sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clatteringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clatteringly
Literary usage of Clatteringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... the spoon would drop clatteringly to the floor through a hole in the pocket,
or he would drop the spoon on top of his bandana handkerchief, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"Snarly- head, posted as usual in the centre, was all grin and complacency, and
every thing seemed going on clatteringly, ..."
3. New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images. Intimate New York. Certain European Cities by James Huneker (1915)
"Let us mitigate the rigour of this statement, else should we stand shamefaced
before the world, so vile, so vulgar, so clatteringly empty is our popular ..."
4. Strangers at Lisconnel: A Second Series of Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1895)
"Some of the cabins stand so low along the shore that the shingle knocks clatteringly
at their doors when the tide is full and rough; and other some are ..."
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