It was only a nightwatchman, somewhere inland, striking his wooden clappers to signal the time.

Afar, the watchmen of white men's houses struck wooden clappers and hooted in the darkness.

And the loud laugh of the Russian sounded through the night like the noise of wooden clappers.

They sat down with the wooden clappers beside them, and ate their breakfast in the company of the scarecrow.

The incessant chatter and restless movement of the audience almost drowned out the sound of the musicians' wooden clappers.

The march brought forth a wild round of applause and a veritable shrieking of tin horns and cracking of wooden clappers.

"And I was keeping away the crows," said Nancy, holding out her wooden clappers.

"I suppose I could come up behind him with wooden clappers," I said, "and hope to scare him so badly he'd jump out."