Behind me, I heard the clomping of at least two people's feet.

From behind his back came a hurried clomping of boots down the corridor.

There was a clomping of boots at the far end of the room, and a man entered.

The clomping of the shor'boots had begun again.

The clomping of boots stopped.

The clomping of Yvette's boots on the thin carpet telegraphed her arrival with a tray.

For a few moments, the only thing the players can hear is the clomping of their own cleats and the echoes of their own voices.

A visit to the display is always punctuated by loud clomping, as grinning children strut by wearing anything from Dutch wooden shoes to underwater flippers.

Not only can it execute grotesque, wriggling leaps in pursuit of its prey, but its movements are accompanied on the soundtrack by an ominous clomping.

The liquid foamed and boiled, the castle rocked until he was almost shaken from the niche, the laughter and stony clomping rose to a pandemonium.

The clomping of approaching boots was accompanied by a series of chirps and clicks, indicating that the traveler carried several pieces of noisy equipment.

But the thing I remember most vividly, as a 10-year old boy, was the clomping of two Gestapo men's hard leather boots against the wooden floors of our apartment.

The drawbacks of the living arrangement become apparent when you're visiting one morning and there's suddenly a racket overhead, a vigorous, rhythmic clomping that sounds like a herd of horses doing tap.

The third movement may be a minuet, but there was nothing courtly about Mr. Masur's account: you could practically hear the heavy-footed clomping of Austrian peasants in a hearty folk dance.

HIS SIDE He spins out a saga of unending noise from her apartment and harassment by her, beginning with the clomping of "cowboy boots and motorcycle boots" overhead.

They were powered by what have become two musicians' signature sounds: the drummer Jim Keltner's clomping, sensuous midtempo grooves, and Marc Ribot's loud, staccato guitar gestures with shards of dissonance.

Occupied Villeret - an insular and primitive place, where the clomping of wooden sabots competed with the clatter of cellar looms - takes up more of Macintyre's attention than Digby or his daughter.

At the beginning of the year, the hallways at Far Rockaway High School, one of the 12, echoed with the chatter and clomping of students, who roamed about with impunity when they should have been in class.

His lips tightened before he set down the brush and yoke and scurried into the mill, almost running down the center aisle, the clomping of his heavy boots drowned in the screech of the saw and the thumping of the waterwheels.

They can tell us why we should all go to the Clump.

Half of us want to go see what's in the Clump.

He said the others had been shot dead there, in three clumps.

There was a clump of them in the next house.

She looked about the little clumps of girls playing games.

A man had come out from a clump of trees.

A clump of 18 came up, like money in the bank waiting to be spent.

I saw clumps of officers at different points along the road.

Because our attention had already been drawn to a clump.

Past a clump of trees to his left the view opened.

Families later stood in small clumps, holding on to one another.

They have spread into large clumps and seem to be doing fine.

They went over to the clump of trees and sat down.

A few of the clumps are only one sentence long.

Then he looked around for a large clump of grass.

The red is from matter still falling into those clumps.

He made his way among the trees, also growing in clumps.

I want the tree to move east, back to the Clump.

We need to get you out of the Clump entirely.

Even their hair seemed to fly up in the same clumps.

So they can listen to people clump around making small talk?

He led me into the dark, toward the clump of cars I'd seen from the window.

Then, you can have the whole class run around in the room and show that clumps immediately form.

One of them flashed his strong light into the clump.

I saw great clumps of it lying on the floor at his feet.

They were clumped into four groups of about three men each.

He clumped back into the house and down the front hall.

He clumped the Indian club back hard on the floor.

People were still clumping up and down the deck outside.

Then he turned around and clumped back on down my stairs.

He turned without a sound and clumped back along the pier.

His boots clumped on the floor as he moved toward the door.

Someone clumped down the stairs at the other end of the building.

If a large pirate force moved in, they were clumped too close.

The form has moved from the initial stage of a body clumped on the floor.

But the turning point came as they clumped off the ice after the second period.

She had moved back into the night at the Children's approach, and shadows clumped around her.

I clumped on down the steps and went out in the rain to my car.

In other places, whole stacks of them are clumped together.

Or even of my people clumping about with their big, heavy boots.

They clumped across to where the fish still smoked above the fire.

She could hear them clumping down the stairwell above her.

The frame was hard to handle and it clumped quite a bit.

Moments later, she heard the sound of clumping feet, rushing toward them.

He left the room again, his boots clumping on the stairs.

He turned out the lights on the third floor and clumped downstairs.

We went to stir the noodles, and they just clumped.

They could hear Pilgrim clumping around on the deck above.

I clumped down the stairs again and flung open the door.

He clumped across the deck and in his turn was lowered over the side.