He clumped down the stairs into the kitchen and sat at the table rubbing his eyes.
She gaped silently for a moment, then clumped down the hall in her big snow boots.
People clumped down the steps carefully, almost aslant, squinting at the lines that were strangely solid now, though they still seemed to shift beneath their feet.
Swishing through the airlock, clumping down the steps, the hall turns out to be a great, arching, softly lit cavern.
In it, a herd of black and white cows spend the morning in their usual way, clumping down a lane, feeding in a green field.
"Wasn't Zoom Zoom once bigger?" They ascend and Ginny feels the catch of love unbearable: she never imagined this, she thinks, her heart suddenly thudding, as if stepping down a stair or two, hard, and then a pause and then another thump, or a clump, her heart clumping down the stairs caffeine, maybe, or nerves.
"Wasn't Zoom Zoom once bigger?" They ascend and Ginny feels the catch of love unbearable: she never imagined this, she thinks, her heart suddenly thudding, as if stepping down a stair or two, hard, and then a pause and then another thump, or a clump, her heart clumping down the stairs — caffeine, maybe, or nerves.
Watching all the cowboy boots clump down the catwalks, you could construct a theory that, in the era of George Bush and Berlusconi and smiling international co-operation between American and Italian conservatives, some of the more escapist Milanese designers had been dreaming of the American west rather than weekends away at Lake Como.
I see the blood-splattered boots clumping down the hallway and up the stairs; I hear the murmuring of a thousand internal voices panicking in silence, getting their last words in, processing the information before the information processes them.
The security clump down was spread in the six districts of NFD (Whittaker 2012).
Bobbie and the man clumped back down.
