194 examples of jangled in sentences

Then Beltane ate and drank, and thereafter threw himself upon his narrow couch, but his fetters jangled often in the dark.

The engine room telegraph jangled furiously, the fabric of the Sybarite shuddered and gathered way.

What blessed safety-valve was this through which his jangled nerves might find some outlet.

The bell jerked and jangled unceasingly for a time and then came a crash against the door, as if a stalwart shoulder was endeavoring to break it down.

The hour was near twelve, and it had become a little point of household etiquette for the mulatto and the white man not to be together when old Rose jangled the triangle.

The harmony of things is jangled.

Phr. sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh

As soon as we were entered the turnkey locked the door from the inside, and when he let the key drop to its place, and it jangled with the others on his belt, it seemed to me he had us as his prisoners in a trap.

This involuntary renegade has his character hopelessly jangled and out of tune.

Our guns rattled, the chains clanked and jangled, the howdahs rocked and pitched from side to side.

he said hoarsely, as the keys jangled to the floor.

Just what the deacon might have said or done after the impulse had been set going must remain unknown, for at the crucial moment a sound of militant bells, bells of defiance, jangled up behind them, disturbing their personal absorption, and they looked around simultaneously.

Their rhythmic and leisurely trot jangled a loud but not unmusical bell which hung from some hidden part of the wagon's anatomy, and warned all dwellers on Rural Route No. 1 that the United States mail, ably piloted by Mr. Truman Hobart, was on its way.

This quality rendered him irritable in his dealings with his fellow-men, like an instrument of music, finely strung, and jangled on a slight occasion.

He went past me, staggering and growling, into the sitting-room at the end of the passage, and furiously banged down the lid of the piano, so that every cord in it jangled deafeningly.

Then, because he talked so long, the little girl leaned slowly over against his shoulder and fell asleep, while the boy fingered the knives, jangled the key-rings, clipped grass stalks with the scissors, and wound the watches one after the other.

It could not in any truth be said that Yvonne's orchestra was a symphonic success, for she jangled her mandolin horribly out of tune, and blew her mouth-organ atrociously.

" The captain heaved his shoulders with so great a shrug that the ringlets of his coat of mail jangled and clinked.

This involuntary renegade has his character hopelessly jangled and out of tune.

But, oh! within me lurks a golden beam, A beam celestial, and a silver din, As though imprisoned angels played within; Hushed in my heart my fragrant secret dwells; If thou wouldst learn it, Paul of Tarsus tells; No jangled brass nor tinkling cymbal sound, For in my bosom Charity is found.

It was as though just above you invisible telegraph-wires had jangled, and their rush through the air was like the roar that rises to the car window when two express-trains going in opposite directions pass at sixty miles an hour.

It yielded, flew open, and child and dog together rolled in across the threshold, while a shop-bell jangled madly above them.

The ice quivered under the sun and the snowclouds rose higher and higher into the blue, and once and again a bell chimed and jangled....

So Lady Archfield poured out her troubles: how her daughter-in-law refused employment, and disdained instruction in needlework, housewifery, or any domestic art, how she jangled the spinnet, but would not learn music, and was unoccupied, fretful, and exacting, a burthen to herself and every one else, and treating Lucy as the slave of her whims and humours.

And with a universal bow and smile she nourished her whip, her ponies jangled their bells, and the ladies vanished.

194 examples of  jangled  in sentences