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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
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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
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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
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"clankety-clank" of the train adds a very soothing accompaniment.
If I May 1919
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