" From one shaft to another, in a bow, high over the horses' necks, extended an arch of light wood, and from this hung a score of little bells, which tinkled merrily as the sledge glided along.

The fairy bells tinkle afar!

The luxuriant fields of herbage on the mountains were spotted with the picturesque chalets of the hunters and Alp-herds; cattle and goats were browsing along the declivities, their bells tinkling most musically, and the little streams fell in foam down the steeps.

Water dripped and tinkled overhead, and from far below came strange, solemn murmurings from currents that were feeling their way through veins and fissures in the dark.

The bells on the horses tinkled distantly.

I sat awhile, too much disquieted to write, listening against my will for the heavy sounds that told how the dead man next door was being carried forth and laid in the cart; but the thing lumbered away at last, its cracked bell tinkling dolefully; and I found courage to take to my work.

" A bell tinkled faintly somewhere away in the house, and Sonia got up off the bed.

When a king had any artistic predispositions, like Fernando VI., instead of tasting the joy of life he nearly died of weariness listening to the airs on the guitar feebly tinkled by Farinelli.

The air was full of the drowsy sounds of evening; cattle returning after their day's freedom in the fields, cow-bells tinkling contentedly.

And ceaselessly the engine-room telegraph tinkled, and the handy little craft, with death and terror written in her workmanlike lines for the seaman, for all her slim insignificance to the landlubber on the towering decks of the great liner, swung smartly through the crowded water-way out to the perils lurking 'neath the seeming smile of the open sea: the guardian angel of our commerce it went, to meetwhat Heaven alone could foretell!

It was a play that took her out of herself, so that the crowd was lost to her from the moment the curtain went up in obedience to a little bell that tinkled mysteriously,either back on the stage or in her own heart, she was not sure which.

A warm breeze sighed in the tree tops, the rill tinkled nearby, and a night bird called in the distance.

Outside, from the church below the farm house, the bell tinkled for service.

They make the most of their midday hour, and tinkle all night thinly under the ice.

This implied flattery tinkled pleasantly on my ears, allaying a doubt which I suffered from.

" He was actually moving toward the door, and she, almost fainting with emotion, was rallying her strength for a last appeal when the bell in the hall tinkled sharply.

A half-hour later the bell in the engine-room tinkled softly once, and then rang savagely again and again to "hoist away."

She heard nothing till the bell discreetly tinkled.