Sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Later, the bishop led me across his red shag carpet to a white fountain tinkling in the corner of his office. From Wordnik.com. [God’s Country] Reference
Because of the years of subjecting my eardrums to the sounds of high energy dance music, I thought he said "tinkling". From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
'tinkling' of Peter's hammer to know a brief respite. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
A small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies 'education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Where bells kept tinkling while the train delayed. From Wordnik.com. [Abroad] Reference
"Och, the sweet music of its tinkling!" she exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
A tinkling sound showers the outer wall of his office. From Wordnik.com. [The Matrix Makers] Reference
The syringe falls to the pavement, tinkling like icicles. From Wordnik.com. [Spike. Resonance.] Reference
She opened the doors and went in, a bell tinkling as she did so. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The sleigh-bells of some late-comers came tinkling up to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The soft, tinkling ripple of a fountain in that interior court added to. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
Suddenly he noticed that the tinkling music of the fountain had ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
The rustling trees broke the surrounding stillness, then the tinkling of. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest of Happy Hearts] Reference
Sledges and sleighs came tinkling in from the woods and remote clearings. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
"And so I am so silly as to faint!" said Inez, with a little tinkling laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Nan and Phoebe laughed as soft, slivery and bristled as drunken angels tinkling. From Wordnik.com. [NEEDS FROM THE FOREST] Reference
"So I see," came the drawling answer, and it was followed by a faint tinkling of glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
And she buoys her dark and stormy narratives with tinkling pianos and sing-along melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgment: Music] Reference
That afternoon they heard sleigh-bells, clear, tinkling, but never jangling, on the still air. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Lacking this, all outside things are, as the apostle says, "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.". From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
The tinkling of glass and the tremendous sound of metal and body hitting concrete assaulted her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Phantasmagoria] Reference
His ear traced each little inflection, every tiny pause, and each tinkling laugh almost before he heard them. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka] Reference
Then he threw in some piano-tinkling, a stretch or two of uninventive sax-playing and plenty of disillusionment. From Wordnik.com. [‘Magic’—the Album That Isn’t] Reference
There is the tinkling of a cowbell, -- a noise how peevishly discordant were it close at hand, but even musical now. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
There was a great bustle and whispering until Miss Cramp's tinkling bell called the audience as well as the pupils to order. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
School closed at four, but the clock on the library mantel was tinkling five when he opened the door and closed it very softly. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
If patrons prefer, the store will deliver purchases to their homes -- and, yes, tinkling Chinese Muzak plays in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Field Of Dreams] Reference
But in a couple of minutes I heard her coming back with a tinkling sound like a small bell inside a glass that was in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Body Divided, 3] Reference
The waitress weaved and swung her way to the window like a ballerina, humming along with the muzak tinkling from ceiling speakers. From Wordnik.com. [Vitamins] Reference
Once more the sachem in his waving feathers and tinkling ornaments drew the blade from the post and gravely carried it back to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The path ended in concrete, and Duncan's strong hand was suddenly on my shoulder as he pulled me back from the furious tinkling of bells. From Wordnik.com. [Moving Day] Reference
She had been the same age as he, but she had blue eyes and a happy, tinkling laughter and so he had always been older and sadder than her. From Wordnik.com. [Man, Ending] Reference
He stitched in a four-note theme containing his own initials; he riffed on Rossini and Wagner and dusted it with tinkling shards of light. From Wordnik.com. [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference
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