Crossword-Solution: CLUCKINGS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Little, delicate, sweet-smelling airs floated over the tops of the hedges from the fields beyond, and now and then a few stray notes of a blackbird's song stole out from a plantation near at hand, breaking off suddenly and dying down into drowsy, contented little cluckings and twitterings.

Wullahy, 'twas wondrous!' and he went off again into a roll of cluckings and chucklings and exclamations of delight, crying, 'Need they further proof of the power in Shagpat now? Has he not manifested it? So true is that saying-- "The friend that flattereth weakeneth at length; It is the foe that calleth forth our strength." Wondrous! and never knew earth a thing to equal it in the range of marvels!' Now, ere the last word was spoken by the King, there passed through the sky a mighty flash.

The lazy talking of Rodney and Nan, the cryings and strikings of Gerda and Kay, the noontide chirrupings of birds, the cluckings of distant hens pretending that they had laid eggs, all merged into the rushing of the inexorable river, along and along and along.

Hardly had Anna's timid "Here" reached her ears than a series of subdued cluckings came from some small boy's throat.

Animal life was already manifesting itself in such goings and comings, such flights and gambols, such bleatings and gruntings and cluckings as had doubtless never been heard of in these parts before.