The jangle of spurs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They're wrapped up in jangle and glisten in the sun, smelling like a new cassette. From Wordnik.com. [I Must've Spent 30 Rainy Days (Music (For Robots))] Reference
As a result, I’m 95 percent of the way to my goal, and extra coins jangle my pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Can you feel it? America's turning red, white and GREEN] Reference
Laughter, the clatter of dishes, the jangle of silverware. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionaries] Reference
And the streets give back the jangle of meaningless movement. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
The rest of the sentence faded into the jangle of the line, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
I think it will jangle a lot of nerves in international capitals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2005] Reference
But above all, go to practical people, go, jangle their door-bells. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Manfred collapsed to the ground with a jangle of mail and lay still. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Bells jangle when I shove in with the stroller. From Wordnik.com. [Common Trade] Reference
But now, Sir Peter, since we have finished our daily jangle, I presume. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
In the theaters, she says, cell phones jangle throughout performances. From Wordnik.com. [Wasted Youth] Reference
The jangle of little bells -- the goatherds were going out of the city!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
What I do know is the standard words jangle in my head when I hear them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001] Reference
Annais sprang to her feet and the harp gave out a shocked jangle of notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The "Bells of Aberdovey" jangle their sweet chime over the wind-blown scene. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Kurt's foot was bouncing, which made the chains on his pants and jacket jangle. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Little Billy Falstar had roused him two days before and set the world in a jangle. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
"You bid me shut up," she said, with an angry jangle in her naturally soft, full tones. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Kurt's feet landed in the dirt a few inches from his eyes, big boots a-jangle with chains. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Unable to distinguish anything from the jangle of echoes, Wilson cried back, "Are you all safe?". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
Our lives screech and jangle out of tune; Hootie offers us cushy riffs and hunky-dory harmonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Hootie] Reference
Before her face swarms of birds fanned the air, their wrangle and jangle sounding almost in her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
On the whole it was quiet outside, except for the occasional jangle of voices and the sentry's pacing. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
Sir Peter, since we have finished our daily jangle, I presume I may go to my engagement at Lady Sneerwell's. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Down came the sleighs as they carried off the guests, the jangle of the bells Bounding shrilly in the stormy night. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
When colonial Brandon was filled with guests, there must often have been a merry jangle above the old stone bench and. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
A few minutes afterwards, with a jingle, jangle, lurch, and rattle, the stage-coach was swaying its way out of Greenville. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
The clamour of little falls, the solemn suggestion of wind in the pines, the sweet broken jangle of cow-bells, a catbird in. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The Barville crowd gave their players a rousing cheer, although they did not yet venture to blow the horns or jangle the cowbells. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
It started ahead in an opposite direction, and away it went, till the jangle of the bells died out in the distance, amid the storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
And as I waited I heard the thud, thud, thud of horses galloping, and then the jangle of bridle-chains, and I lay down in the heather. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The blackbirds jangle in the oak, the robin is perched upon the elm, the song-sparrow on the hazel, and the bluebird on the apple-tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
With his ears ringing as with the jangle of a thousand bells, with his lungs nearly bursting, and his eyes scarcely seeing, Andy ran on. From Wordnik.com. [Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery] Reference
The sharp, fretful jangle went through shawls and cushions, and the fear of hearing it more distinctly prevented me from rising for matins. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
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