| Growing up, I often heard my father, a professional translator, extol the virtues of a pleasant-sounding keyboard: neither too clackety nor too hollow-sounding, with just the right amount of rebound. |
| Not really waving, you see, but drowning, as the figure in the beaver coat scissor-strode away in clackety peerie heels. |
| Anyone who remembers halcyon summers on the islands readily recalls the clackety clack noise of the looms that punctuated every 100 yards or so of a walk through any village. |
| All he wants her to do is answer the phones and type letters on a clackety old electric typewriter. |
