The sound of boots clomping on the metal decking alerted them all.

He gave a wink, but Rufo, realizing the relatively inoffensive nature of Cadderly's newest invention, only sneered back, brushed his matted black hair aside, and rushed away, his hard black boots clomping on the tiled floor as loudly as a shoed horse on cobblestones.

He jumped from a shiny black Buick LeSabre, his black shiny paratrooper boots clomping on the sidewalk.

"He's down here," said the man, his boots clomping as he took them down a winding lane that snaked back to the farm where he worked.

These last words of his were no sooner spoken than they heard the sound of boots clomping on the ground outside.

She hurried back into the dimness of the shed, holding the hem of her wrapper up with one hand, her boots clomping.

He ran toward the wall telephone, boots clomping.

Sometimes when it rains, Sara thinks she hears Belinda, coming up behind her-cowboy boots clomping on the wet sidewalk.