His tools, notably a three-pound ball-peen hammer, clanked in a greasy leather bag suspended from the handlebars.

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With less than a minute left in the period, Ovechkin broke in 1-on-1 against Lundqvist, but the Russian's shot clanked off the post.

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Another rocket, this one off the foot of Miyama from the top of the penalty area clanked off the crossbar in the 34th minute.

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Joao Moutinho, the first Portuguese player up, saw his shot saved by Iker Casillas, and defender Bruno Alves clanked the fourth kick against the crossbar.

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From a Portuguese corner, Pepe clanked a shot off the underside of the crossbar, but the ball bounced down on the goal line and spun away to safety.

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By the time passengers step off at the last stop, chances are that their train will have clanked and jolted its way round a fifth of the circumference of planet Earth.

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It hummed and clanked like an engine in the night.

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Dupuis put them up 1-0 just over 7 minutes in when his shot from the goal line clanked off the post, smacked the back of Nabokov's pad and went into the net.

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Somewhere a cash tray slid open, coins clanked.

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