33 collocations for tinkled

But there was one calculation forgotten both by Miss Lucinda and Israel: the pig would grow,and in consequence, as I said before, Miss Lucinda came to grief; for when the census-taker tinkled her sharp little door-bell, it called her from a laborious occupation at the sty,no more and no less than trying to nail up a board that Piggy had torn down in struggling to get out of his durance.

The door tinkled louder music when he touched it, and he pushed his way through, as a bee pushes his way into a flower.

This bell and its other small companions had tinkled their way into his heart at each step she had taken down the long road from Evreux to Alenontinkled merrily at Passy, joyously at VallŽcy, disdainfully at Verneuil, and contentedly at La Mesle.

He was surprised when a little clock tinkled the hour of eleven.

From time to time a philanthropist goes down there to share God's good gifts with his poorer brethren, or to elevate the masses with tinkling sounds or painted boards.

~Ring from the Rim of the Glass, Boys.~ Ring from the rim of the glass, boys, Ripples of tinkling tones; Drink to the heyday of youth, boys, Mindless of after-moans.

But as to me, I could have out-cursed thee in my cradle, thou big-bellied thing of emptinessgo to for a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal!"

The player had drawn a wonderful wealth of tone from the instrument; sometimes it had sounded like tinkling water-drops, like rolling pearls, sometimes like birds twittering in chorus, and then again it went swelling on like the wind through the fir trees.

He took a long pull at a bottle, emptying it and smashing it to tinkling fragments as he hurled it behind him.

He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass, He sings when you tinkle the musical glass; Whene'er you are happy and cannot tell why, The Friend of the Children is sure to be by!

The sound of clattering hoofs and rumbling wheels, of tinkling guitars and gay roundelays, rose out of that obscure distance, seeming far off and plaintive like the dream of a life that is past.

"Chérie," tinkled the visitor, "they have permit' me!" Anna beamed.

Her mother wished her to learn music; and Catherine was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinet; so at eight years old she began.

With it tinkled their laughter.

Her daughter once tinkled a little, I believe; but the prejudices of the ruling monarch were religiously obeyed.

It seemed to deepen the silence about him, an accent on the expectant stillness, a thread of tinkling melody spanning an abyss.

The goose would tell fairy-tales, and in the midst of them the brook would tinkle a ballad; a great heavy stone would caper about ludicrously; the rose stealing up affectionately behind him would creep through his locks, and the ivy stroke his careworn forehead.

She forgot the galop, and the piano tinkled out its gayest notes unheard.

Rare drops fell from the cautious paddle and tinkled on the surface, overshot, not parted by, our imponderable passage.

The ice in the glasses tinkled a brief phrase of music, the tops burgeoned with a luxuriant summer green, and the straws were of a sweetly pastoral suggestiveness.

In rhyme, fine, tinkling rhyme, and flowand verse, With now and then some sense; and he was paid for't, Regarded and rewarded; which few poets Are nowadays.

The little bottle floated along, tumbling over the tiny falls and tinkling ripples and bobbing up and down in the deep, blue, quiet, places until finally it floated to Sally Migrundy's and came to rest in the mass of pretty flowers where Sally Migrundy came each morning to dip her tiny bucket of water.

Sally Migrundy's tiny little cottage stood at the edge of a stream, a beautiful crystal clear stream of tinkling water which sang in a continual murmur all day and all night to Sally Migrundy.

The bullet shattered the glass lamp into a thousand shivering and tinkling splinters.

And one conspirator leaped up Amid the clash of tinkling spoons And poured into a protose cup His helping of stewed prunes; And, blood-red presager of doom, Half a tomato hissed across the room.

33 collocations for  tinkled