clapperclaw
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Said Clapperclaw, 'My kits, approach, And put your noses to my ears: I'm deaf, almost, by weight of years.'
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
The good apostle, Clapperclaw, Then laid on each a well-arm'd paw, And both to an agreement brought, By virtue of his tuskèd jaw.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
"What would the world have said?" cries my Lady Muggins: "my carriage is gone for Sir Alured to the Club; let me stay only ten minutes, dearest Lady Clapperclaw."
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
And Miss Clapperclaw tells me that he often comes over laughing and giggling to her, and pretending that he has brought ME into this condition—a calumny which I fling contemptuously in his face.
From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by Thackeray, William Makepeace
In the race of fashion the resolute and active De Mogyns has passed the poor old Clapperclaw.
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
