795 examples of chiming in sentences

Montigny and Dom Nicolas laughed aloud, even Tabary feebly chiming in.

Shrove-tide, Lord Mayor's Day, and April Fool, next joined in a glee Which is the properest day to drink? in which all the Days chiming in, made a merry burden.

Dennis, the fiercest oppugner of puns in ancient or modern times, professes himself highly tickled with the "a stick" chiming to "ecclesiastic."

All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice, in games Confederate, imitative of the chase And woodland pleasuresthe resounding horn, The pack loud-chiming and the hunted hare.

The sounds of the village street came inlaughter, a touch at a piano, a chiming clock.

Chapter I. "An acorn fell from an old oak tree, And lay on the frosty ground 'O, what shall the fate of the acorn be?' Was whispered all around By low-toned voices chiming sweet, Like a floweret's bell when swung And grasshopper steeds were gathering fleet, And the beetle's hoofs up-rung.

A mind disposed to lunacy would readily be led away by such suggestions, especially if chiming in with favorite preconceived ideas; and then I called to mind the poor fellow's speech about the beetle's being the "index of his fortune."

Or, not tying ourselves to Couplets strictly, we may use the benefit of the Pindaric way, practised in the Siege of Rhodes; where the numbers vary, and the rhyme is disposed carelessly, and far from often chiming.

and so on: and when they have done their peal, they shall tell you that "this is much better than the Harmony of the Spheres!" At other times, I have heard a long chiming only between two words; as suppose Divinity and Philosophy, or Revelation and Reason.

And yet, so sweet is human life, and so dear a respite, be it ever so short a one, that when that murderous hand was taken from my chin I heard a sudden chiming of little bells, and the lamp blazed up into a strange fantastic blur.

Britain, a medley of the twain, As pert as France, as grave as Spain; 10 In fancy wiser than the rest, Laughs at them both, of both the jest. Is not the poet's chiming close Censured by all the sons of prose? While bards of quick imagination Despise the sleepy prose narration.

The Palace Clock in this tower is an eighty-day clock, striking the hours and chiming the quarters upon eight bells.

The chiming of bells, ecclesiastical millinery, attitudes of devotion, insane anticsthese are the pretence, the false show of piety.

Your chiming towers proud and tall

The Chiming of the Clock. 222.

With voices chiming in quaint tune From sun-soaked hulls long wharves adown, The singing sailors rough and brown Won far melodious renown, Here, listening children ceasing play, And mothers sad their well-a-way, In this old breezy sea-board town.

About daybreak a confused murmur reached his ear from the valley below; a distant chiming of bells began to make itself heard; nearer bells took up the peal, until the whole air rang with the sound.

Perhaps it seems a rather melancholy "morning bell" to you, tolling instead of chiming!

The clocks were chiming twelve.

Last of all, final assurance of a new season's advent, by day and by night, swelling, diminishing, unfailingly musical as distant chiming bells, came the sound of all most typical of prairie and of spring.

Ludwig Beethoven and the chiming tower bells, by Opal Wheeler.

Though to-day my feet are climbing Bleaker heights and harder roads, Still the Christ-church bells are chiming, Still the mid-day gun explodes.

It is broken now, this silence, by the church-clock with slow wakefulness chiming twelve.

All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase 435 And woodland pleasures,the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.

Then she closes her eyes with a tired sigh: The bells of heaven are chiming for me; No more may I stay to speak.

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