The brass tag chinked as he dropped it on to the carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Crime On the Coast]
Half a dozen people accepted his invitation and coins chinked in his cup. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
With her undamaged hand she produced a rupee from her pocket, where a few coins chinked casually, looked at it, and groped for another. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
A long, lank, leathern purse, far gone in consumption, at the bottom of which a few coin chinked with the trembling of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
The coins chinked dully inside the leather. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
These, very commonly, are not "chinked," or filled up in any way; nor is the wall lined on the inside. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
The house was a hewed log cabin about 18×20 feet, with clap-board roof held down by weight poles, and the walls "chinked" with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings] Reference
"Hello!" he said, and something chinked in his pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
My mother lived in a log house chinked with wood chinks. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference
And when he came back his pockets chinked right merrily. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
The cabins were built of logs and chinked with rock and mud. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives] Reference
The masonry is very rough and chinked only with large stones. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
Ojo Caliente, a modern village 54, 96-97 chinked walls of 142. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
It was built of saplings, eight feet square and chinked with mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Then I saw her, dodging between two of the chinked pebble-houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Brodie and Auld's houses are cold because they only half chinked them. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
She got up and refreshed their drinks, he sat up and chinked glasses with her. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
As I did so the dollars chinked in my pocket, and the sound gave me a wish to play. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
De quarters whar us lived was log cabins chinked wid mud to keep out de rain and wind. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
She held up her tumbler of mineral water, and Beadie chinked his wine glass against it. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
I was bo'n there in a log cabin, it was made of logs, and it was chinked with clay and rock. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives] Reference
The masonry is rather rough, consisting of large stones, pretty well chinked with small spawls. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
Two plates of my necklace chinked together; she stilled them with her hand and made me hold them. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
I chinked the padlock against the gate, the signal for Cassius the Security Guard to come open it. From Wordnik.com. [Grown Man Cries] Reference
Some of the chimneys were made with sticks and chinked with mud, and would sometimes catch on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives] Reference
The logs have not been chinked yet, and, as might have been expected, wind and snow swept through them. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
It was fully dark, but the bridge was lit by torches, so they crossed its chinked logs without difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He was lying on a bed in a small room with walls completely made out of unpeeled logs chinked with white river clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
It was built of unhewn logs, its crevices chinked with clay, and was large enough to seat about two hundred persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The gaps were chinked with seaweed, but Cashel couldn't imagine the place being either dry or comfortable in bad weather. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Their walls were made of wicker woven around vertical posts and chinked with clay and moss, then plastered over for waterproofing. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The man leant down and pulled a big basket from under the seat; it was full to the brim with great fat cockles that chinked musically. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Rubble veneered with casual blocks of friable sandstone dressed on the face only and chinked all around with chips of laminate sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference
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