But soon the silence resumed its sway, a deathlike silence, with far off the faint tinkle of water.

At the honest squire's word of command, a male peregrine is forthwith despatched, and, soaring upwards into the air, he is almost lost to sight in the clouds, though the faint tinkling of the bells attached to his feet may yet be heard; then, stooping from the skies, the tiercel-gentle descends from the heavens and strikes his long-beaked adversary.

A bullet came singing up over the low brushwood and a distant tinkle of falling glass told that it had found its billet in a window.

The musical tinkle of a binder working among the corn came faintly down the dale.

At the little tinkle of the bell, there was a swift, light rush above stairs.

Like the wanderer of the desert, When, across the dreary sand, Breathes the perfume from the thickets Bordering on the promised land; When afar he sees the palm-trees Cresting o'er the lonely well, When he hears the pleasant tinkle Of the distant camel's bell: So a fresh and glad emotion Rose within my swelling breast, And I hurried swiftly onwards To the haven of my rest.

Its joyous tinkling calls us to the dining car, and we march in procession toward the place of sacrifice.

The only sound was a slight tinkle of a spoon against the coffee-cup.

She heard, through the open window, several pairs of feet mounting wearily to the front door, and then the long remote tinkling of the bell.

" The sharp tinkle of an electric bell broke in on our conversation.

On some brown bed of pine-needles, or on a friendly gray boulder close by the water-side, where she could give her eyes to its flow and foam, and her ears to its music,music like the muffled tinkling of little silver bells in the distance,she would let herself go out to her dream with the joyous, reckless abandon of falling water.

The beginning of the "Hind and Panther," we need not quote; but it will be remembered, as a good specimen of that peculiar style of running the lines into one another, and thereby producing a certain free and noble effect, which the uniform tinkle of Pope and his school is altogether unable to reach; a style which has since been copied by some of our poetsby Churchill, by Cowper, and by Shelley.

I heard the occasional sleepy tinkle of a cowbell, and the crickets were calling.

I heard the melodious tinkle of the bells on the hobbled horses.

Already, while it was early, the benches were beginning to fill with people of quality, who kept constantly arriving in little carts or upon palfreys that curveted gaily to the merry tinkle of silver bells at bridle reins.

Their unmodulated voices grated on his ear, in contrast with the liquid softness of Rosabella's tones, and the merry, musical tinkling of Floracita's prattle.

Time after time he lowered his line until at length in pulling it up he heard a little metallic tinkle against the side of the well.

Their unmodulated voices grated on his ear, in contrast with the liquid softness of Rosabella's tones, and the merry, musical tinkling of Floracita's prattle.

Whereupon Angelawith a nasty, steely tinkle in her voice, the little buzzardobserved, 'I expect it was Mr. Glossop eating.'

In the dormitory a similar mortification nightly awaited the unconscious sleepers, although "upon uneasy pallets stretching them," in the occasional tinkling of an obtrusive bell, that peremptorily hurried them from their recumbent position to the cold stones of the chapel, where on bended knees they were obliged to pray and meditate.

In fact we did not wake up until eight; everything was snowbound, and even the occasional horse cars that pass the front of the house had ceased their primitive tinkling.

The red waste is scored by countless trains of donkeys carrying water from the springs of Chella, by long caravans of mules and camels, and by the busy motors of the French administration; yet there emanates from it an impression of solitude and decay which even the prosaic tinkle of the trams jogging out from the European town to the Exhibition grounds above the sea cannot long dispel.

Now, after some while, as he walked, Beltane was aware of the silvery tinkle of bells and, therewith, a full, sweet voice upraised in song, and the song was right merry and the words likewise: "O ne'er shall my lust for the bowl decline, Nor my love for my good long bow; For as bow to the shaft and as bowl to the wine, Is a maid to a man, I trow.

I heard the occasional sleepy tinkle of a cowbell, and the crickets were calling.

It was all new to her: the swift passing through the crisp air without any sensation of motion; the sleepy tinkling of the bells on the horses' heads; the noiseless cutting through of the snow-path.