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    clucking


    1. She was the queen of the chicken run with a bevy of hens and cocks clucking around her, hanging on her every insight and word


    2. chicken run with a bevy of hens and cocks clucking around her,


    3. ” but the clucking of the chickens drowned her out


    4. They went into a frenzy of clucking and squawking


    5. She was laid down on the bed, and Anne was leaning over her, clucking at her in weary acceptance


    6. By now I was so drunk that I was staggering around the kitchen, clutching a half-burnt, one legged chicken, making clucking noises between fits of the giggles


    7. sounds of chickens clucking and from deep within, a rooster


    8. The clucking reached an excited crescendo as the chickens surged forwards, pecking ravenously at the fallen grains


    9. Edwin heard the other chickens clucking in amusement


    10. That news set off a chorus of nervous clucking, and Chardonnay led the brood out of the farmyard

    11. “I was just clucking


    12. Hah! Cluck! Hah! Cluck cluck!” Edwin laughed so much that he started clucking again, and flapping his little wings


    13. Then he couldn’t stop clucking and flapping


    14. He was having some sort of clucking and flapping fit…


    15. “Jack Dawes,” said Captain Rathbone, before Edwin could transform his startled clucking into words


    16. “Keep the clucking down,” whispered Stubby


    17. “You were clucking quite a bit,” said Stubby


    18. There was a clucking sound, and Zach turned to see a flock of chickens running excitedly around the yard, led by a plump speckled hen


    19. Alana made a clucking noise and Zoe immediately hated the way it sounded


    20. Another second or two and we’d have had her in a trance, clucking like a chicken

    21. Although Palomita had picked a "table" where no one else was currently dining, she soon had a crowd of fluttering, clucking hens, some with chicks, clustered together in front of her and watching her almost suck in seeds in a stream, so quickly was she eating


    22. With all the clucking going on, and with the rooster still crowing as well, Palomita and Squirrel Girl had both opened their eyes


    23. They said they started crowing and clucking and bawling and squealing not out of fear of the snakes (although Palomita said she had seen their eyes rolling in their heads with fear), but because the crows had come to tell them they had been tricked and now would not have food when winter came


    24. clucking, and then, one by one at first, then in twos and threes they flew up


    25. clucking over him, whispering “It’s a miracle that the man is still alive


    26. The animals of the barnyard were alive with mirth and merriment, a few just as ornery as the day they were born, clucking, oinking, and bellowing, all hungry like they had never been fed


    27. would enter the room clucking like a chicken


    28. “Oh, ye, of little faith,” Lester said, clucking ‘tsk, tsk, tsk


    29. “You saved my life and this is how you are repaid,” Ket said, clucking and


    30. Male voices were crowing like cockerels and girls were clucking like hens

    31. Frau Dosch seized the bundle, and with clucking sounds jerked it up and down between the faces of the parents so that its mother's eyes must needs fall upon it


    32. of roosters running around the road, clucking, pecking, and


    33. The dogs in the yard were given bones to chew and the chickens were happy in the early morning sunshine clucking and eating grain


    34. Near the corn-machines clucking hens passed their necks through the bars of flat cages


    35. I must clean the keys of the piano with milk whatll I wear shall I wear a white rose or those fairy cakes in Liptons I love the smell of a rich big shop at 7 1/2d a lb or the other ones with the cherries in them and the pinky sugar I Id a couple of lbs of those a nice plant for the middle of the table Id get that cheaper in wait wheres this I saw them not long ago I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about that would do your heart good to see rivers and lakes and flowers all sorts of shapes and smells and colours springing up even out of the ditches primroses and violets nature it is as for them saying theres no God I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create something I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas 2 glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red


    36. faint clucking of hens in the warm sun


    37. and give them roses and ribbons and tell them how you’d die for the Cause, and when it “You little fraud,” he said, clucking to the horse


    38. As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being was only that old maid in pants, Frank Kennedy


    39. It was nice to have a man fussing and clucking and scolding, even if it brutal treatment


    40. Although the road was busy with cabs and carriages, the snow muffled the sound, and the only thing he could hear clearly was the clucking of water under the drain beside him

    41. But I am becoming a bit of a mother hen, clucking over my chick, feathers ruffled, all out of sorts


    42. In June the partridge (Tetrao umbellus), which is so shy a bird, led her brood past my windows, from the woods in the rear to the front of my house, clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods


    43. They only utter a clucking sound with their tongues and sigh mournfully, knowing that they will see no more of the steady lads they have reared and trained to help them, that they will come back not the same quiet hard-working laborers, but for the most part conceited and demoralized, unfitted for their simple life


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    Synonyms for "clucking"

    cluck clucking

    "clucking" definitions

    the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)