Vocabulary Word
Word: clangor
Definition: loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging
Definition: loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging
Sentences Containing 'clangor'
Night after night the geese came lumbering in the dark with a clangor and a whistling of wings, even after the ground was covered with snow, some to alight in Walden, and some flying low over the woods toward Fair Haven, bound for Mexico.
For a week I heard the circling, groping clangor of some solitary goose in the foggy mornings, seeking its companion, and still peopling the woods with the sound of a larger life than they could sustain.
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