He heard people running behind him and the metallic clank of buckets.

The deep metallic clank of the shackle being taken off the stall's door.

Suddenly came a dull metallic clank through the passage, strangely echoing.

There was a short metallic clank and then they fell.

The latticed door swung shut with a reverberating metallic clank.

Somewhere in the shadows beyond, there was a hollow metallic clank, and something laughed.

Then Elodin grabbed the handle for the flue and pulled it closed with a metallic clank.

It looked heavy, and when he dumped it on the ground it made a harsh, metallic clank.

There was a heavy metallic clank on the deck and then another gunshot, instantly followed by the same clank.

The closing lines of "The Dunciad"-sostrangely overpraised by Thackeray-withtheir metallic clank and grandiose verbiage, are not truly imaginative.