The smoke from a 21-gun artillery salute was still in the air and the new governor general's horse-drawn landau was clip-clopping from Parliament Hill to Rideau Hall when Canadian reporters started to rave about someone they usually ignore : the representative of the queen.
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The user can set the Rise & amp; Shine light and sound alarm clock for a 15-or 30-minute wake-up cycle, with the choice of eight programmable sounds, including birds singing, a brook babbling or horses'hooves clip-clopping in a country town.
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Some less-prominent governors and mayors were left standing alone, but for aides bobbing their signs in hopes of luring any reporter _ like the hapless squires who ran behind horseless knights in the movie " Monte Python and the Holy Grail, " banging coconuts together to simulate the clopping of hooves.
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Sellers often outfit their horses in full regalia, and it is not unusual for a visitor, strolling through the barns, to look up and see a team of giant Clydesdales in gleaming, plumed harnesses clopping toward him, as though he had wandered into one of those Christmas-card television commercials for beer.
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It was all that a pair of licit lovers could ask : cocooned on a softly lit balcony with flamenco music thrumming and an occasional horse carriage clip-clopping past, we picked our way through a sybaritic menu of vichyssoise with chunk lobster, crab rolls, eggplant and cod, and mango apple sorbet and pickled pear.
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There was the formal, westernized nation with its Scottish-style bagpipers and new, English-accented monarch who invited the world's statesmen to bury the " fallen warrior " on his polished gun carriage, Hussein's Arab steed _ empty boots reversed in the stirrups _ clopping obediently behind the coffin.
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But on this trip I planned to soak up the warmth and generosity of today's Maya in their cosmopolitan city of nearly a million people, with its unrivaled colonial beauty; nightly Yucatecan music, dance and poetry; provocative traditional cuisine; leafy parks; and horse-drawn taxis clopping down clean, cobblestone streets.
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In Nicaragua, a leathery man in a rocking chair told me the correct way to head from the main plaza to the seaside, but a clopping horse-drawn carriage ( and a low level of Spanish comprehension _ did he say " turn right at the mother-in-law ? " ) distracted me, drawing me off the right street.
