| 单词 | tinkling |
| 例句 | Her tinkling really got on your nerves, too, and she tinkled almost all the time if she didn’t get what she wanted. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z All around him, Seth heard the tinkling of miniature bells. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Piles of gold so high you could climb them like mountains and slide back down, trailing tinkling sounds and flashes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They entered the store, tiny bells tinkling as the door opened. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A flock of fairies twinkles past like floating Christmas lights, their laughter like tinkling bells. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Our host beamed and disappeared back into the kitchen, and I heard a cabinet squeak open and the tinkling sound of glasses being set up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From outside comes a light tinkling, fragments of glass, perhaps, falling into the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Nobody but Uncle Jack, perhaps, who sometimes embarrassed her unmercifully in front of company with a tinkling recitative of her childhood felonies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z From the branches hang hundreds of wind chimes, which account for the tinkling I heard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He laid down his fork and his strong black fingers gripped the edge of the table; there was silence save for the tinkling of his brother’s fork against a plate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a tinkling little melody, and in a few moments it stopped. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walk down the street to the river we hear the women laughing, tinkling and bright in the night air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Laughter burst out from behind my back, and I held in my smile while arms jostled one another and feet ran out the door, setting the shop bell tinkling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The door opened to a complicated tinkling of bells. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There was the familiar sound of a mug clinking against the water jar, then a tinkling crash of broken pottery. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Once the tinkling of the last brick had stopped echoing in the room, I gazed around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He shook his jacket, and Meggie thought she heard a quiet, desperate tinkling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The water trickles back into the bowl, a clean, clear sound, a familiar tinkling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z At night, the trees clapped together in the wind and made a delicate tinkling sound. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A tinkling doorbell rang and both mistress and elf jumped. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There was a ford here and the stream ran tinkling over the dean stones, only a few inches deep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbstruck, I waited in the street while she bought licorice drops, which she selected one by one, with that tinkling laugh of hers, tossing some into her mouth and handing others to her sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the way Chinese offered congratulations on special occasions, and the greeting, as it was repeated, sounded like little bells tinkling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved his bony hands in his pockets, which were tinkling with new dimes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One moment there were solid wooden walls and the next moment it had fallen with the cracking of wood and the tinkling of glass and the screams of people inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A metallic tinkling intermingled with new screams as hundreds of the pitching stakes outside uprooted, unable to bear the tent’s new strain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "And high above the putrid corpse a crystal chandelier is tinkling. It tinkles and twinkles, but not one breath of air stirs in that gloomy tomb of a room." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A tinkling of bells from a horse’s harness floated from the street over. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On that, she walks out, the bell tinkling behind her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of the shop as they stepped inside. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her dangling earring reflected the rays of the streetlight like tinkling glass Chinese ornaments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer came with the sound—an almost quiet moan mixed with a sharp tinkling that he realized was the wind pushing water spray ahead of it in a kind of horizontal frothy rain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Assistant Principal Stephen Jacobs offered a curt smile to Mrs. Torrance, whose head had swung toward him, her beads tinkling again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Above the hiss of shower heads and the slap of feet on tiles, a high, thin tinkling reached my ears, a sound almost like the tapping of champagne flutes before a toast. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I lay down on it, my eyes closed, listening to the sounds around me: matches lighting, glass jars tinkling together, liquid falling into glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes towards the fens of Entwash Vale far away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Just then, Barbarossa pushed himself through the tinkling beaded curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The tinkling sounds are the spoons hitting each other in the breeze. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And the keys off to my right can become morning and sunshine and tinkling laughter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Except for the tinkling of shards, the room is quiet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Or send needles of ice tinkling blue through my brain when he looks in my eyes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tinkling sounded shrill and angry as she flew around him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She heard a gentle splash and a tinkling sound. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “No, no, silly boy,” said Fleur with a tinkling laugh, “I mean next summer, when we — but do you not know?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The inside of the car filled with her tinkling laughter. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There came the tinkling of ice in a glass, the shrill of bells. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have liked to have sat across from her when Fats Waller, tinkling the keys of the piano seductively with his thick, powerful fingers, rolled his big eyes at her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Listening to the tinkling of the drops the hobbits fell asleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Ice crackled off his clothes and fell tinkling onto the floe as the rest of the crew drew the two halves of the floe together again by hauling on a rope. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She pulled out a match, but as she did something else fell out, landing with a tinkling sound before rolling under a nearby bureau. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road, and as he went he whistled, very softly, the tinkling little melody from the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the grass came a soft silvery tinkling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few of them were kind of quick and tinkling, and another was like that smell in the springtime after a rain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The house was dark and a rocking chair added an un-harmonious sound to the delicate tinkling of the chimes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It fell in a tinkling, jangling mass to the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The beads and the bracelets made tinkling sounds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boat sank into the water once more; clanking and tinkling, its chain slithered back into the lake too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And then—flutes and tinkling cymbals, a sounding gong and drums! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And before the thunder followed, in a pause while wind and rain held back for one brief moment, she thought she heard, fading in the distance, the tinkling little melody of the music box. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She strikes tinkling notes at the top of the keyboard and then ones in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The crystal chandeliers swayed with their usual tinkling, but no one so much as looked up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The tinkling sound was getting louder, more prominent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sand road now changed to crystal brick, and BaiMa’s hooves made the sound of tinkling bells. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z You can hear their cars, an occasional shout, and a strange metallic tinkling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The dull tinkling of broken pottery echoed around the barn over and over, until the last milk bottle remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Victoria Forester laughed at the skinny shop-boy, laughed long and loud and delightfully, and her tinkling laughter followed him back over the hill, and away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There’s even an antique cradle with Mister Johnny’s old baby bonnet and silver rattle that I swear I can hear tinkling sometimes on its own accord. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z No ornaments ever graced her body; there was about her no tinkling, no shining, and no softness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Inej was glad she didn’t have time to dwell on the unwelcome familiarity of the silks on her skin, the horrible tinkling of the bells on her anklets. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z An ice cream van drove into the street, and with it a tinkling melody. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Seems perfectly all right, doesn't she? She can fly and scold and make tinkling sounds, all the things those stupid fairies do.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her face had a little color in it now, but, although he spoke three fairy languages, he understood not a word of what she finally said in her faint tinkling voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The ice shattered and fell to the ground, tinkling like pieces of falling stars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He launched one bangle over your head, and as you slowly raised your hands to try to catch it, he sent the other flying so fast, it struck you before tinkling to the floor. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He leans all the way inside, and as he does, he hears a chime, twin bells tinkling both above and below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The sky seemed to reach into the exposition, and somewhere glass shattered, not the gentle tinkling of a window extinguished by a stone but the hurt-dog yelp of large sheets falling to the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Somewhere behind her Marie-Laure hears the tinkling sound of ten thousand keys quivering on ten thousand hooks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A soft, tinkling melody rose from the far end of the room, where a figure in white clothes sat hunched over an old wooden piano. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a womout musical box. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And it’s thinking of that tinkling sound that makes me wonder if those boxes don’t have something to do with her sneaking up to those rooms every other day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Emily heard a tinkling noise she couldn’t put her finger on until James jumped back onto the porch and held out his reindeer antlers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He smelled ether too and heard glass tinkling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "Yes, you're quite right," I said, giving my glass a tinkling twirl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He recalled every detail—an oleander bush with peach-colored flowers, an adobe wall with paloverde trees draped over it, a fountain tinkling into a copper basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold thing in his hand chimed once: a crystalline tinkling like the bells of a tiny glass cathedral. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There was complete silence, but for tinkling glass, crackling fur, and the sudden release of breath. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It made me want to dance and shout, and I could hear tinkling instruments somewhere in the distance as the man stepped into view. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The more the feeling increased, the more I couldn’t get out of my mind a tall plastic tumbler full of club soda, ice tinkling inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She gives me a small shove and disappears, the bells on her ankle tinkling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her voice hung in the air, hung in my ears, dangling, tinkling like a wind chime in an almost nonexistent breeze. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The sound was almost musical, as if we were under a waterfall of tinkling diamonds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her tinkling laughter was somehow stronger than our nervous ones. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few seconds they looked at each other, then the man staggered upright, the many empty bottles at his feet clattering and tinkling across the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her golden dress makes a tiny tinkling melody when she moves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The patio is sex segregated—the men sit to one side, smoking their cigars and tinkling their rum drinks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then in the whirl of dancers, I heard Cristiana’s tinkling laugh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "I guess so," ' she said, and she laughed like tinkling bell s as we watched my big, lumbering buffalo make Iris way to the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They tried to hide it by putting their hands over their mouths, but their laughter escaped through their fingers and fell tinkling onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Once again, the tinkling melody of two bangles filled the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Emily heard a tinkling noise she couldn’t put her finger on until James jumped back onto the porch and held out his reindeer antlers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z With the delicate tinkling of silver on porcelain, she rests her spoon on the saucer and finally looks at Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Every movement set the cups and saucers to tinkling in warning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Like when you feel like the tinkling wind chimes at the beginning of a song or like the squeaking sound when fingers move across guitar strings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then a tinkling sound: it was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I imagine a tinkling sound, the locket striking the glass, even though the fabric in between makes contact impossible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the sudden sharp contrast of quiet sounds, like tinkling crystal. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We had always spent Christmas at home, with bells tinkling in the streets, and warm smells wafting from the kitchen. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z After him came Weary, clanking and clinking and tinkling and hot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I am vaguely aware of tinkling as the mirror disintegrates around us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I almost expected the chandelier to start tinkling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Some buses are honking already, and a few cyclists are tinkling their bells, but the city isn't all woken up yet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Meggie wanted to put her hands over her ears so as not to hear the feeble tinkling sounds the fairy was making. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "Yes, you're quite right," I said, giving my glass a tinkling twirl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z From down the hall came the sound of tinkling silverware and the scrape of a chair being settled in its place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then faintly, as if it was blown away from them by the breeze, they seemed to catch a dim ringing, as of small bells tinkling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He kept pouring the little chain through his fingers, its links making a tinkling sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere a bird cried, and up on the hill the tinkling sound of a cowbell rang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She checked her hair in the reflection in the glass, then marched into the shop, setting the bell tinkling again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her faint tinkling was the only sound to be heard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Each lie they told fell from their lips and scattered on the ground, tinkling and glittering like broken glass. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Yezzan’s name was incised into the metal in Valyrian glyphs, and a pair of tiny bells were affixed below the ears, so the wearer’s every step produced a merry little tinkling sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The instruments come together, haltingly, in a rising scale, and it soon becomes apparent that they will finish out the octave, leaving only a tolling tinkling bell in their wake. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Braids, from Montreal, played rhapsodic songs, with stretches of tinkling Minimalism cresting in rock and surprisingly blunt lyrics, that reward long attention spans. Critic?s Notebook: Bands Dream Globally, Play Locally 2010-10-24T23:00:00Z Gliding on peaceful ocean vistas and plaintive indie ballads, whimsical conversations and tinkling French ditties, “Etienne!” encourages us to brake for sunsets and smell the daisies. | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds 2010-09-02T21:40:00Z Frenetic volleys of percussion rapping, chiming and tinkling seem like animated commentaries on the vocal lines, not intrusive interruptions. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z As the lights dim against the night, truck engine tinkling cool outside, they watch The Hurt Locker, then all the Marvel films, that Bourne one Renner did, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Oh Jeremy Renner, you only have thousands of versions of yourself to blame for your app's failure 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The earthiness of jazz has been replaced by a fey tinkling. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z As she stands watching her inanimate inamorata, you can hear the tiny tinkling sound of scales falling from the eyes of the poor, dear, dim girl. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z The star of the show is the enthralling two-level metal carousel that spins more and more quickly as melancholic, tinkling circus music plays along. Michael Cooper's retrospective, Cathy McClure's 'Midway' at BAM 2011-07-28T19:32:10Z But “Split,” a final quartet set to intermittent tinkling sounds, was suddenly much better. Dance Review: Soaking Wet Is Presented at West End Theater 2010-05-14T22:20:00Z It's not exactly the sweep of ethnic dance in "The Nutcracker," but Hynd's tight little catalog helps the ballet break loose from the tinkling flutes and chandelier sparkle of the story. 'Merry Widow' by turns intoxicating and flat in romantic outing 2011-02-17T14:49:00Z Offended by Tate’s tardiness, Vidal abandons the interview and glides away, stranding the reporter between the tinkling temptations of his minibar and the insistent goading of Villechaize to stay out all night. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “Everyone is sticking the tinkling sound of ukulele under their commercial,” said Jim Beloff, who wrote “The Ukulele: A Visual History.” Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z The simple design, evoking cornfields and wild flowers, and the tinkling piano music are a wee bit tasteful. Skintight – review 2013-07-22T17:49:16Z And that sometimes gave the music a kind of cool, counterintuitive, miniaturized feeling — free jazz as music-box tinkling. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z To a soundtrack of jingling bells and sprightly piano tinkling, Mrs. Trump glides silently through the White House summoning our attention with her gestures. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z All enjoyable enough, with the swelling music, Maggie Smith and tinkling china, but it's difficult to see, nuanced snobbery aside – "What is a weekend?" – what the general thrust is going to end up being. Commonwealth Games 2010-10-02T05:45:00Z But "A Better Tomorrow" still oozes the minor-key menace for which the group is known; it's unmistakably a Wu-Tang project, with tinkling pianos, lumbering grooves and mysterious bits of dialogue lifted from obscure kung-fu movies. Wu-Tang Clan looks to past, future in 'A Better Tomorrow,' more works 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It's not so much a search for a key, Mankell explains, but rather a 'hunting for the slightest sound of a distant tinkling from a bunch of keys.' Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Crafted from humming guitars, tinkling pianos, militaristic drumming and occasional orchestration, their fifth album is beautifully subtle and grows in power with each listen. The National: High Violet 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Slow-motion footage and piano tinkling are not enough on their own to create drama, and worse, the somber narrative tone is at odds with the tense joy created by the interactive play. ‘Watch Dogs,’ an Adventure Game From Ubisoft 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Much like the 8-bit calypso tune that is Mario and Luigi’s constant companion as they dart through their vivid environs, the tinkling, sashaying instrumental leitmotif that accompanies “The Real Housewives” is their trademark. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Will the show's maudlin, tinkling piano chords eventually seem preferable to the ludicrous credits sequence of faux-church paintings set to a swelling orchestra? HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Each of the new songs looms within a larger, obsessively detailed ambience, a realm of magnified creaks and rustles, children’s voices, tinkling music boxes and shadowy orchestras. Playlist: New CDs: From Rye Rye, Maga Bo, Sigur Ros and Cold Specks 2012-05-25T21:06:59Z There's more here than we've heard on TV, but the tinkling bells and cellos of Hungry Face and unsettling guitar intro to The Huts work perfectly over a full-length album. Mogwai: Les Revenants – review 2013-07-25T20:45:00Z You remember that mysterious feeling when the Crumb begins: a glistening piece with tinkling chime-like sounds, eerie spiraling figures and thick, plush chords. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Land of CanAan's best moments are the most straightforward: the simpler, driven Try My Best, which combines dramatic strings and tinkling piano, the ethereally beautiful Find Your Way Back or sublime instrumental Repetition. Marques Toliver: Land of CanAan – review 2013-05-16T21:20:01Z With its tinkling, bell-like sound, you’d think it was a xylophone or marimba, but the celesta is an upright keyboard instrument, about the size of a spinet piano. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z The Impromptu is structured like a Baroque passacaglia, with an insistent chorale-like theme put through myriad tinkling, brash and eerie variations. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Songs range from languid and loungey to defiant — set to subdued electronic beats and the tinkling of piano keys. After grief, Bebel Gilberto recovers her zen with new album 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The oom-pah-pah beats and tinkling timbres keep taking detours into odd syncopations and dissonances. Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z Sunday, however, brought fewer light moments; the atmosphere in the audience seemed less engaged; and, oddly, the counterpoint of numerous audience cellphones tinkling their merry melodies during the show was considerably more extensive. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Spectacularly imaginative royal jewelry dates from this time: belts made from cast-gold cowrie shells; anklets hung with tinkling gold feline claws. An Ancient Egyptian Show That’s Low on Bling but High on Beauty 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The main body of the piece began when players started blowing sustained drones on long tubes; thwacking drums; and playing delicate, tinkling riffs on gongs, among other sounds. Review: A ‘Sonic Great Wall’ Breaks Down Musical Barriers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z For decades, my husband and I regularly consumed a bottle of wine at dinner; now, I’m tinkling ice cubes in a glass. Perspective | I drank every day. What kind of effect was it having on my kids? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z But I associate these ringtones — tinkling fifths, a quieting run of quavers, long trills — with annoyance, not potential for musical development. Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays ‘Ringtones’ 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The music unfolds with strange, angelic tinkling figures in the high strings and upper octaves of the piano, broken up with volleys of rhythmic energy. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z Schubert decorates the slow movement with exquisite tinkling high notes that usually are made to serve as the musical equivalent of illuminating a scene with magical starlight. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z So many people complain about noise in restaurants these days, but here, there was no merry tinkling of ice, no laughter; every footfall was muffled on the carpeted floor. A Taste of Charleston, Old-School and New 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But the designer, 31, opted instead for bells, tinkling on woven straw shoes and suggesting the wandering travel trail of a Parisian girl. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z For the final section, a wondrously strange and tinkling Fantasy on Shakespeare’s “Tempest” for full chorus and orchestra, the scrim was raised, and blinding light filled the stage. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z Both are played by running a mallet along the inside in continuous motion — an action that requires full engagement of the performer’s arm and torso and produces tinkling rushes of sound. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But for all the skill, it's mainly an evening of academic interest: it's extraordinary to see the most humanist of directors commanding a tinkling, anxiety-causing, mechanistic drama. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z Natasha’s romantic delirium is rendered in jarring cuts and tinkling sounds. A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Yet the Dutch duo made their reputation with extraordinary and complex shows, like Russia dolls peeling off layers of clothing or cowbells tinkling in an unlighted room. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z It was an enchanting scene with piglet puppets, waving stars and tinkling chimes. As anti-vaxx dispute rages, attention turns to California's Waldorf schools 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Dairy cattle grazed on the slopes, their bells tinkling madly. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z In “American Dreams,” Julia Alvarez recalls a childhood candy store and its “tinkling bell that tattled I was coming in the door.” Review | How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And I'm taking piano lessons, so you'll see me tinkling the ivory a bit. Michael Douglas looks at life as a "Solitary Man" 2010-05-25T12:34:00Z After the 9am news, Evans told us that another apology was coming and it did, restating how nauseating the morning tinkling of ivories habit seemed. Radio review: Chris Evans 2011-01-31T07:59:01Z “Hoover Dam” starts with a Beach Boys-inspired carousel of tinkling notes before sweeping you over the edge and plunging you into the blaring guitars and drums at the heart of the song. Sugar's Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould's Groundbreaking Album 2012-07-24T14:00:09Z I could already hear the sounds of the Friday night partying, the tinkling laughter, the clinking of glasses. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The more traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked pagoda chimes, all splendidly played. Review: Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z What’s richer is a subsequent dance, presented in four separate windows to a soundtrack of tinkling piano. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The slow middle movement was especially alluring, with a violin-and-flute duo playing a contemplative melody over a drone of bass clarinet and cello, with high tinkling piano sounds above. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z It begins with repetitive chords and tinkling riffs in the high range of the piano, like delicate sounds from a distant pagoda. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble at MoMA’s Summergarden 2012-07-09T22:28:41Z Now a month old, he nurses contentedly in the pavilion near the tinkling of falling water. Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z There are the traditional tinkling pianos building tension in the background as the narrator searches for clues as to where the police went wrong. Could A Very Fatal Murder kill off the true-crime podcast? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s a wintry, melancholic scene made somewhat sadder by the tinkling of some dolorous piano music. Review: ‘12 Days’ and the Rights of the Mentally Ill 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z At dusk, amid the pre-show chatter and the tinkling of thousands of wineglasses, it was almost possible to overlook the choking clouds of dust coughed up by tour buses rumbling nearby. In Israel, Opera Echoes From Rocks and Ruins 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It seems appropriate to find Desiree tinkling a triangle during “A Weekend in the Country,” that great closing number to the first act that has a social and sexual geometry all its own. A ‘Night Music’ of Heightened Harmony, and Pub Theaters That Put Actors First 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z And then, over the box’s strange, mechanical tinkling, you hear a man’s voice—the sweetest you’ve ever known—imploring you to better serve your God: “Lift him up, that’s all.” Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Fall field crickets and tinkling ground crickets may announce their presence. Spare Times Listings for Kids for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it would seem a bit of a contradiction to be tinkling your gold bells at the same time as regularly posing for pictures with surface-to-air missiles. Steven Seagal is now in charge of Russia-US relations. Is there anything this man can’t do? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The sounds Ms. Auster played alternated between droning and tinkling; though not melodic like music, they were pleasant to listen to. So You Think You Can’t Meditate? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Fifty solid minutes of listening to music-box tinkling in a white Chelsea gallery with white padded walls, flickering lights and headless white mannequins hanging from the ceiling. On the Runway Blog: A Contemplation of Insanity at Thom Browne 2013-09-10T00:36:42Z I would give it 10, but for one thing: the tinkling piano. TV Review: Dive 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z She launches herself, backwards, arching, twisting, tumbling downwards and away in slow motion, accompanied by some familiar piano tinkling. TV Review: Dive 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z The very pivot of the film—a mind-control scheme to which Chris is being subjected—involves hypnosis, which Missy accomplishes by way of a distracting object, a spoon tinkling in a fancy teacup. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z As the end approached, the music settled down and thinned out, until there seemed to be only tinkling chimes, like the actual bird calls that had been part of the music all along. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z And she bemoans being separated — even by her own choices — in the torchy “Around the Tree” and in the tinkling march “No Holiday.” 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Before he ambles back through the shambles he turns on the hot plate, starting a pot of water that will boil with a metallic tinkling sound for most of the late afternoon. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z The dinner-table chatter went dead, and I noticed that the portly, jacket-and-tie-clad man next to me kept nervously stirring his vodka stinger, the clink of ice tinkling a counterpoint to the groans from the stage. 2010-02-11T23:23:00Z Near the boardwalk, I heard a tinkling sound. In Wildwood, my final summertime fling The tinkling Another Love has already been used as a BBC trailer. Tom Odell – review 2013-03-04T18:44:20Z It began as a brilliant parade, led by eight warriors, “their saddles glittering with silver ornaments,” Grinnell wrote, “and their bridles tinkling with little bells.” Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z Here a delicate melody is accompanied by a tinkling piano that suggests an heirloom music box, but with slightly off harmonies and hypnotic spiraling riffs. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z In her work, even the sounds of tinkling bells carry unexpected weight. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The event was a celebration of Mr. Buatta’s life, complete with Champagne and a tinkling electric keyboard. Book Party Anxiety, Writ Large 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z At this point, Rogers, in his genial, friendly manner, explained the concept to children, a soft piano tinkling in the background. ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ at 50: 5 Memorable Moments 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The ovation was enormous, so Mr. Matsuev played an encore, showing his delicate side in a gently tinkling account of Liadov’s “Music Box.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic, at 15,000, With Stravinsky 2010-05-06T21:19:00Z “I’d start to hear something like the tinkling of fairy dust, if that makes any sense. Then I’d see little dark spots, going from the outside in, until it was one big black spot.” Martine Rothblatt: She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech. For starters. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Some airlines have experimented with what Spence called “sonic seasoning,” like playing tinkling music or offering plates and glasses that make that sound, because it brings out the sweetness in meals. Airlines aim to trick your taste buds at 30,000 feet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z And then to fall asleep to the summer sounds of the sea: a lullaby of waves lapping against rocky shores punctuated by the rhythmic tinkling of sailboat halyards. For a real taste of Midcoast Maine as it was — and should be — head to Damariscotta 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Bursts of tinkling metal madness somehow mesh with the overall darkness of the slow second movement. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z All the sticky, awkward cubes of ice floating together, tinkling, their frost thrown off to the side of the glass, and the vodka cold and unctuous in her mouth. Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z The score, with its tinkling music box lilt rousing itself with ever more urgency, flowers with originality. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z As Granny O’Toole told my cousins and me, ice tinkling in her G&T as she charmed the drawing room: “If they’d had the pill 50 years ago, there’d certainly be a few less O’Tooles.” In praise of my cousins – all 39 of them 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The book describes how one night, a golden ladder appears at the girl's open bedroom window with her grandmother, hair flowing down her back and silver bangles tinkling on her arms. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Logan Hill: With two ice cubes tinkling in her gin and tonic, while Ted flies her there! ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: The Woman in Room 503 2013-05-13T13:20:23Z Light jumps and rapid barefoot pounding punctuated the curving, gentle bharatanatyam style of classical Indian dance, with its velvet footwork and tinkling ankle bells. Surprises pepper the musical mix in Ragamala’s ‘Song of the Jasmine’ 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z “Hazy Light,” the opening movement, is indeed misty-textured and intriguingly amorphous, with crackling, tinkling orchestral effects and a violin part that shifts between slinky lyricism and rhapsodic bustling. Review: New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall With Anne-Sophie Mutter 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It is a tiny musical box that plays the Internationale, and its fragile tinkling is transmitted through huge loudspeakers. Manifesta 9 – review 2012-08-28T12:59:00Z Then, quietly at first, individual performers started blowing through conches, twirling plastic tubes and shaking boxes of tinkling bells to produce an array of drones and whistles, some of them evocative of bird calls. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Apart from a distant tinkling during the final credits, which might be some sort of folk song, there is no music, just natural sounds. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z “It was pretty magical to see the ribbons waving and hear the bells tinkling,” Ms. Wilson said. ‘The Odds Were Stacked Against Us’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Like the organ in “Positively 4th Street,” the tinkling celeste punctuates another of Dylan’s revenge fantasies. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The soundscape, by Hahn Rowe, charges the action with bursts of static, industrial hums, the accelerating bounce of dropped objects, a tinkling between breaking glass and fire. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The New Museum is alive with the sound of music, as well as talking, chanting, spitting, electronic tics and sputters and, occasionally, the tinkling of 47 small bronze bells. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I found the tinkling music-box recording by Hung I Chan so grating that it was hard to concentrate on the dance. Ben Munisteri Is Back, Out of a Time Warp 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Harry's embittered bluster dissolves almost immediately, and she begins responding to the woman's plight on a human level, and the score signals Harry's thaw by tinkling in our ear. "Harry's Law": Has David E. Kelley finally run out of steam? 2011-01-24T15:01:00Z Vilmos Zsigmond’s roving, impressionistic photography lends the film a dreamlike quality – all tinkling wind chimes and rain-streaked windows and fractured reflections, not to mention some rich exterior scenes in the autumnal Irish countryside. My streaming gem: why you should watch Images 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “Leave the Door Open” is an smooth ’70s era R&B throwback that just hits the right notes, from the tinkling keys to the first lines of the song: “What you doin’? Where you at? Grammy predictions: AP writers debate who’ll triumph Sunday 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z “Two Virgins” offers a cheerful, sometimes goofy, tapestry of sound — whistling, piano tinkling, a Mellotron, an electronic drone enhanced by tape loops, reverb and other effects. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland. Swiss village of Aarwangen in ding-dong over challenge to cowbells 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The brassy tinkling of livestock bells rings out over a vast plain of dry grasses near the community of Rocky Ridge, Arizona, close to the border between Navajo and Hopi lands. Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z “They’re sitting up in that governor’s mansion tonight, I bet you money, tinkling their little glasses, smoking their cigars,” Presley said, imitating someone holding a tumbler of whiskey. Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi’s Republican governor 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Locals and tourists lined the way, snapping pictures of the sheep that wore tinkling bells around their necks. Sheep flock to Madrid's streets on ancient herding route 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z That’s because a couple of ensembles actually did feature what looked like shards of glass artfully adorning a skirt or a top, and leaving a tinkling sound in their wake. At Proenza Schouler, bleached denim, sweaters-as-scarves, echoes of wind chimes: NY FASHION PHOTOS 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z The tinkling of sheep bells floats in the air, announcing the movement of 1,000 sheep and some goats through an ancient Spanish transhumance — or livestock migration — route. AP PHOTOS: A shepherd keeps up the ancient rite of guiding sheep across northern Spain 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z A melancholy, tinkling piano melody served as the soundtrack for Nikki Haley’s announcement that she was running for president in 2024. Perspective | Nikki Haley’s blurry presidential ambition 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Bacharach wrote more than 500 songs, many featuring a tinkling piano and subtly seductive horn hooks. U.S. composer Burt Bacharach dies at age 94 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The sprinkling of stars is conveyed by the tinkling of wind chimes, while the widespread interstellar gas and dust draw out sustained stringed notes. The sounds of science: What scientists can learn by turning their data into sounds 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Even classical music was often “pretty tinkling in the background,” as Wald puts it. Why mood music playlists are the soundtrack to anxious times 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Best to avoid gifting tinkling models that irritate rather than soothe. 12 days of holiday gift-giving ideas for the gardener in your life 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Millions watching - who until then thought a piano was just for tinkling - simply gaped. Obituary: Jerry Lee Lewis 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Two days later, shell casings and shards of shrapnel from the battle remained scattered around the streets, tinkling as the Ukrainian soldiers walked over them. In Southern Ukraine, Signs of Low Russian Morale Amid Retreat 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The young Queen Elizabeth II, not long out of her teenage years, with the glow of youth and a tinkling bell of a voice, pledged her life to duty. Perspective | After a lifetime of vivid symbolism, Queen Elizabeth II faded to gray 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z On the flat, straight highways of middle America, you’ll often see a Chevy go by with a sticker in the window portraying a cartoon scamp tinkling on a Ford logo — or vice versa. Opinion | Ford might have just turbo-boosted our electric-vehicle future 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Life’s soundtrack was the tinkling of bells on cows herded by local shepherds. Women of Lesotho’s garment industry lose jobs, hope in COVID 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Gail is constantly distracted by the tinkling of a bell in the old servants’ quarters of her house. Review: Terrifying racism-in-academia is trapped in the far less frightening horror of 'Master' 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Walking in this area created a tinkling noise, from shorn pieces of metal from the destroyed vehicles, shell casings, broken glass and other debris. In sweatpants and sneakers, civilians get rifles and join the fight 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z At first, things were the same as they had always been — the casual grousing as they set up the tent, the tinkling notes from the ice cream truck, the whistle of bottle rockets. Nathan’s legacy: He got new lungs after covid. Now comes the hard part. Walking up to the airport’s civilian terminals Tuesday meant navigating past razor-wire cordons and overturned vehicles set up as a makeshift roadblock, with dozens of spent bullet casings tinkling underfoot. Taliban declares victory as Afghans assess what's left, what's next, after West's exit 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z When she paused to puff, the sound of tinkling wind chimes scored the silence. How She Transformed a Viral Twitter Thread About Sex Work Into a Sinister Comedy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He eventually delivered a Nobel lecture in the form of a spoken word piece with added piano tinkling and references to the plays of William Shakespeare and Homer's hero, Odysseus. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Also unveiled then was an old Catholic religious medal depicting five saints and a “tinkling cone,” a small copper alloy decoration probably made by Europeans for trade with Native Americans. Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The dogged caretaker, Albert Kothe, regularly labored up the steep hillside with a load of gently tinkling replacement lightbulbs buttoned inside his shirt. Sick of loud noises and bright lights? Sorry, L.A. has always been like that 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In that upper deck, Tresp could just imagine “the tinkling in the glasses, the cigarette smoke, people dressed up. It was just glam.” From its plush upper deck to its 5-star menus, the 747 — now in range for its final approach — defined luxury travel 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z A walk through a hallway is punctuated by tinkling sounds that one staffer identified as expressing “childhood wonder.” After months of lockdown, Artechouse’s cherry blossom show is a breath of fresh air 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z But without power, policies are tinkling cymbals: ahead is the long, hard slog of solid and skilful opposition. With Keir Starmer in charge, Labour can hold the Tories to account again | Polly Toynbee 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z With the sound of teaspoons tinkling on saucers and hissing espresso machines over gentle indie music, you won’t believe it’s not Starbucks. Solitary refinement: a lockdown survival guide 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z In live recordings from the club, like Monk’s playful bebop classic “Nutty,” recorded there in 1958, you can hear the tinkling of ice in cocktails and the hum of conversations. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z A tinkling bell on the worn wooden front door, announces a new customer’s presence. The Hütte: A Melting Pot Of Swiss, Appalachian Culture 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z "There was a tinkling noise. I looked up and saw a hole in the window. I saw this smoking thing on the floor," he said. Pub bomb deaths 'brushed over' without inquest 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That was a thing he loved: Little, tiny tinkling while the suspension was groaning and lurching and the engine was roaring. Filmmakers: Behind the wheel of a very human race in 'Ford v Ferrari' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Embracing its twee touches, including a tinkling playful score by Alex Somers, the film finds its way into an eerie, magical fantasy space that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Review: Shia LaBeouf bares a tortured soul in autobiographical 'Honey Boy' 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The sound of someone tinkling the ivories has become commonplace at UK railway stations. Why do people play pianos at railway stations? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The tinkling of that sweets truck suddenly sounded insignificant. “God’s Caravan” 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Rhoda meets Mary Richards, played by the show’s namesake, when Mary moves into the turreted Victorian house where Rhoda has fashioned a home in the attic, fringe beads tinkling in the doorway. Valerie Harper, actress beloved as the chronically single, irrepressibly funny Rhoda Morgenstern, dies at 80 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Variety magazine compared it to the “lilting tinkling of bells.” Russi Taylor, voice of Disney’s Minnie Mouse and ‘Simpsons’ staple, dies at 75 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The tobacco companies, of course, did not spend half the commercial time listing, with tinkling piano background music, all the possible side effects of tobacco. Opinion | Cancel TV’s prescription drug ads 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It is the tinkling piano riff that gets you. Why is A Thousand Miles the most referenced song in cinema? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Got a handful of change tinkling annoyingly in your pocket? Perspective | Closing the lid on the Treasure Trove, a downtown D.C. jewelry store 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The Mirror Group always had the largest pockets and a reputation for using them vigorously amid the bright lights and tinkling pianos. Observer archive - Fleet Street at closing time, 6 March 1988 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “My best moments in the kitchen are when I hear the tinkling of silverware, people laughing and talking,” Atkinson says. Yup, Seattle’s restaurants have gotten noisier. How to reverse this trend? We’re all ears. 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Interesting features, the newspaper said, included a men’s lounge with a fireplace and “a patio for women with a tinkling fountain, a college section for the youthful male, and in the children’s section a circus.” Historic home of clothier Desmond's is ready for its comeback on Broadway 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z We used to sit in green armchairs and let the images, unaccompanied by piano tinkling, flicker across the screen. “Time for the Eyes to Adjust” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, hanging above us in the trees and tinkling in the breeze, are 172 bells, an airy antidote to all that hard rock. A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In the pause after she pronounces each, Dieter strikes together two palm-size Buddhist meditation chimes, producing a tinkling that quickly evaporates. Hospice workers find peace in helping patients find comfort at the end of life 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Hence the book’s tone, bright, silvery, bracing—tinkling at times. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z And all the swelling, surging, emotional music you’re supposed to be hearing sounds like the tinkling of a faraway ice-cream truck. The Smart Accessory to Make Your TV Sound as Good as It Looks 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Conversations, music, the tinkling of glasses, and the swish of skirts along the floor washed over him like a calming sea. A futurist imagines the Earth populated exclusively by the 1 percent 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z And we look out at the sweetly tinkling bells and the dangling messages of hope written by children, blowing gently in the Maltese breeze. A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z During a lull, when even those guarding the window were nodding off, there came the tinkling of broken glass, and the sound of something falling just outside the room. After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z At times, true to its title, it suggests strange, tinkling celesta sounds. null 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Transitions are not slow dissolves into tinkling piano but abrupt metallic rips, the sound of a sword pulled from a scabbard. Ken Burns Tackles the Vietnam War in New Documentary 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Has the tinkling of keys gone out of fashion? Pop music is rejecting the piano. Why? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z He described her laugh as “like the sounds of water tinkling over a waterfall” and was so enchanted that he wanted to propose, even though both were married to other people. Mistress and muse of James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, dies at 104 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The horses are thunderously huge, the fibre-glass designs on the central cylinder – all gurning clowns and animals twisting to look over their own shoulders in terror – utterly sinister, and the tinkling music oddly transporting. Trump’s great feat? Making Mitt Romney seem the epitome of common sense | Emma Brockes 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z You could hear the tinkling bells of the bullocks driving Persian wells. ‘The wounds have never healed’: living through the terror of partition 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z There was a pause in the wind, and in it, we could hear the faint tinkling of cowbells. Vanishing Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Other than the tinkling of piano keys, the sound that occurs most in “Hearing Is Believing” is the giggle of its subject, Rachel Flowers. 'Hearing Is Believing' displays blind musician's impressive talent 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The vendor switched on the truck’s prerecorded jingle: a tinkling, out-of-tune, rhythmically jittery version of “Pop Goes the Weasel.” An Ice Cream Truck at Carnegie Hall: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Some airlines have experimented with what Mr. Spence called “sonic seasoning,” like playing tinkling music or offering plates and glasses that make that sound, because it brings out the sweetness in meals. Airlines Aim to Trick Your Taste Buds at 30,000 Feet 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z We must say, the sound was less “jingling” and “tinkling,” and more deep-clanging. New York Today: Searching for Poe 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z At one point, there was the sound of tinkling bells, later followed by a low, almost rumbling note on the organ - both showing the new instrument’s range and versatility. Sinai Lutheran Church installing new pipe organ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z She tells us when the Aurora Borealis is at its brightest, you can hear it—and it sounds like crystals tinkling. Emma Thompson: What You Learn From a Week in the Arctic 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z You can hear the tinkling of tiny bells, after which the peacock spreads its tail feathers and the cockerel crows to announce the hour. TRAVEL: ‘White Nights’ of St. Petersburg 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z As were the tinkling, winking headdress decorations, like seahorse antennae. Skin hunger : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But in a spot that acts like it’s got all the time in the world, the tinkling of water might be a more apt background track. 3 new cheap-eats spots you should definitely try 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “I’ve never actually told him that story,” realises Taylor as we carry on tinkling away together. Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor: ‘I like the chords my cat plays’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Schroeder was home when she heard tinkling chimes and a thump on her porch. Watch Moose 'Playing' Wind Chimes 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Its plain-spoken lyrics and tinkling piano are so earnest they are endearing. Songwriter David Barrett's 'Moment' has shone on for 30 years, thanks to NCAA Final Four title game 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z On the other hand she loves to laugh and her laugh is like tinkling bells. The text of a letter written by President Ronald Reagan to wife Nancy on Dec. 25, 1981, their first Christmas in the White House 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s one of those adult-contemporary ballads that has taken up residency in the ether, seeping from the walls of dentists’ offices and tinkling on the phone line while you await a customer-service representative. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Having a piano tinkling in the background while I sip a perfect martini only makes it more relaxing. Who needs other people? These group outings are just as fun for parties of one. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In my version, there were no pools, or patronizing neighbors, or tinkling of cocktail stirrers; there was only my stubborn and whimsical desire. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The first time we went, there was even someone "tinkling the ivories" of a grand piano! American airports: The good, the bad and the ugly - BBC News 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Only two decades ago, Beijing’s streets were ringing with tinkling bells, and bike repair shops were kept busy. A City Choking on Cars Hopes Commuters Will Return to Two Wheels 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Having secured the audience’s attention, Spence asked people to sample a dark Welsh ale: one sip while listening to a light, tinkling xylophone composition, and the second to the sound of a deep, mellifluous organ. The Illusion of Taste 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Grasping a tinkling scetavaiasse, a wooden stick covered with cymbals, Dominico Spinelli, 39, a podiatrist from Capri who had made the trip with the Italian folk band, was marching in celebration of something else entirely. On Columbus Day in New York City, the Party Is No Longer Just for Him 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The surreal delicacy of the experience was heightened by a tinkling, ethereal soundtrack piped into the room for an effect that was equal parts heaven and allergy commercial. Tokyo’s Art Scene Goes High-Tech 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Such optimistic talk, Berman makes clear, is the delusional noise of sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. “America floats between modernity & collapse”: What Japan can teach the U.S. about averting disaster 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Flashing lights, steel-drum versions of Polynesian-esque tunes tinkling from speakers and a riot of bright colors call like a siren song. Shaved ice truck offers Iowans cold, sweet treats 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z With cowbells tinkling in the background, tractors hauled hay in the meadows above. Turkish Eastern Black Sea: The Other Alps (Part One) 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Saint-Saëns' tinkling, undulating piano line, originally written to capture the flickering of underwater light, has now been repurposed to capture the flickering of light through a film projector. The Cannes film festival is as weird as its weirdest movie 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z At one corner was a small Hindu shrine, where people stopped all morning to leave flower garlands and strike a tinkling bell. Ancient Nepali temple town of Bhaktapur left in ruins 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z When I look at the video Ficre made of the children watching the rapacious hawk, I hear the light tinkling bells in Simon’s voice and think, He was so young that April. Mourning a Husband 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Nature lovers will adore the woodland city’s tinkling waterways where herons fish. Would football be richer without small clubs? 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Each time we encountered a cluster of sheep waddling along or across the asphalt, the muted tinkling of handmade copper bells filled the car. Hunting for the Source of the World’s Most Beguiling Folk Music 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The restaurant's pianist was doing his best, tinkling away. The birds that plague the Eternal City 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z The place: Dirksen’s leadership office with the tinkling chandelier that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The Congress: The Covenant 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z These sounds will be familiar from film and TV, where muted thumpings and out-of-tune tinkling denotes "scary". Radical thinking: reviving American music's pioneering spirit 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Replace that with red lighting, curved and bulbous edges and tinkling bells and the drink tastes sweeter. Sweet or sour? Duping our taste buds 2014-04-15T23:00:11Z On a recent afternoon at Patterson, third-graders eagerly volunteered to play the new xylophones, the new tinkling triangles and — especially — the new bongo drum. District schools get new books and musical instruments 2013-12-22T21:31:34Z Carpenter even composed the music for the film, its tinkling piano and doom-laden chords powering it on to become one of horror's most recognisable and enduring film themes. John Carpenter reflects on Halloween 2013-10-24T00:24:42Z The first hole tee box is next to the clubhouse patio, where the tinkling of glasses rings through the air before the first drive of the day. US Open turns into block party for locals 2013-06-15T23:56:08Z Prestige and dignity are the themes struck in every telecast, with a tinkling piano accompanying a montage of magnolias, azaleas and dogwoods and the antebellum plantation clubhouse. The Masters presents a phony, sanitized South 2013-04-11T17:06:00Z It seems we associate higher notes, flutes and tinkling piano, with sweetness - deeper, more resonant tones evoke bitterness. Sweet or sour? Duping our taste buds 2014-04-15T23:00:11Z "I always knew that the company's purpose was to create meaning," says Rafaelian, the cascade of bracelets on her arm tinkling with every gesture. The Least Likely Partnership in Business 2013-04-08T14:00:00Z The only sounds are tinkling harnesses and hooves hitting rich dirt. At War Blog: Victims of Sexual Trauma Harness the Calming Power of Horses 2013-01-22T15:09:34Z We know what the Bible has to say about "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals", and it isn't kind. Al fun and games until someone loses an AAA rating 2012-12-13T20:05:56Z To athletes, those tinkling vials also represented a way to “goose” the oxygen-carrying component of blood, increasing stamina. Op-Ed Contributor: Lance Armstrong and Our Doping Nation 2012-10-12T01:45:10Z Donors may dream of tinkling the keys on the family piano or leafing through private photos, but much of the action will take place in the backyard. White House Memo: Obama’s Birthday Party as Fund-Raising Opportunity 2012-08-03T19:38:00Z At the first stroke of Big Ben, he yelled "Go!" and everyone was tinkling, chiming and dinging. Bells toll across UK as Martin Creed's army of ringers welcome Olympics 2012-07-27T12:11:52Z There was an occasional little tinkling bell to indicate the arrival of - who knows what? Samsung Galaxy S III review: reaching for greatness 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z He had tones of a delicacy that made one think of the almost inaudible tinkling of tiny spangles or the faint explosion of sparks of fire. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Tinker Bell, tinkling excitedly, flew into the room. The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie 2012-05-22T15:16:50.277Z Really tip-top society—social concert-pitch, if compared with the flat tinkling that Enid used to hear at Colonel Salter's. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Sometimes he manifested his presence to Mohammad by stray sounds resembling tinkling bells or the hum of bees, by which he caused Allah's Messenger to suffer more than anything. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Across the valley, on that slope, The huts of Avant shine— Its pines under their branches ope15 Ways for the tinkling kine. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z All sounds are musical in the woods, and the far-off tinkling of a cow-bell is wondrously grateful to the ear. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The Buddhist idea of prayer is not limited to human speech; it may be expressed by an offering of flowers, or the tinkling of a bell. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z From the beginning Sainte-Beuve had possessed that inquisitive passion for the truth, without which all other critical gifts are as brass and tinkling cymbals. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z A horn sounded behind him; and a minute later a four-in-hand passed with tinkling chains and rumbling wheels. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z There was, besides, something singularly touching in the half-consciousness of her freedom, when recalled for an instant to the past by the tinkling bell of a church. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z They heard the tinkling of the engine-room bell when Crouch rang down to tell the chief engineer to let her go. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z Sometimes the tough turf grows clear over, making a verdant tunnel through which “the tinkling waters slip.” The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z I remembered that I had compared Miss Penny's tinkling ear-rings to skeletons hanging in chains. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z A little tinkling bell was heard in the station. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z Just now I don't mind about anything except about the fun of going so fast, with those dear little ponies' bells tinkling all the way. Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z The cheerful murmur of voices came off the shore, and above it, the tinkling of some little bell, calling good folks to early mass. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The piano was worn out, of that there could be no doubt, yet Reynold found enchantment in the shallow tinkling sounds. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Another thing characteristic of the place, the tinkling of many bells, calling to vespers--though I found the sound fall pleasantly on the evening air--was as little to their taste. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z You see there is a good deal doing here, but what is it all if the Spirit of God be absent?—a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z The last bell rang, the huge gangplank swung inward, there was a tinkling signal in the engine room and the propellers began slowly to revolve. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z A rustling stifled noise;— Door-latch and tinkling staples ring;— At length a whispering voice. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z "How?" she asked, her spoon tinkling tremulously against the side of the cup, and her head bent low over it, as though she saw something interesting in the lees. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z It was marvellous how fast they flew; while the notes sounded clearly and distinctly, like the tinkling of bells. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z "Of course I remember Button-Bright," replied the maiden, in a sweet, tinkling voice. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z Now and then a tiny hill was surmounted by a village, and once, as I passed, I heard the tinkling of a bell. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z The two women were silent; and from the little bedroom upstairs, through the open window, came Anne-Marie's voice, like tinkling water. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z The three of them were flung violently to one side of the car amid splintering wood, tinkling glass, and the shriek of steel against steel. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The muræna Helena was educated in their ponds, and rendered so tame that he came to be killed at the tinkling of his master’s bell or the sound of his voice. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Entirely a new mood would be ours, as we should sup in one of those pleasure boats, by the light of fanciful lanterns, or listen to the tinkling of pagoda bells. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z He could hear the sheep bells tinkling around him, and far, far off in the distance he could see the city and the palace he had left. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z The frivolous hotel clock struck four in tinkling chimes. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z I liked to hear the tinkling of the bells, and watch the gambols of the lambs on the hill-sides. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Uneven tinkling, the lazy rain Dripping from the eaves. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z Sweet the lark's wild-warbled lay, Sweet the tinkling rill to hear; But, Delia, more delightful still, Steal thine accents on mine ear. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z A few cows had come to the pond and stood in one section thereof, the embodiment of contentment, leisurely tinkling their bells. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z The silence of our meal was alone broken by the dull clattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the brisk waiter to bring wine and draw the cloth. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z He could even hear now the tinkling of bells not far off, such as oxen wear upon their heads. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z The officers bow up and I bow down, while at this very moment comes that tinkling of silver bells which would, I had supposed, strike all Catholic Spaniards to their knees. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Soon a tinkling fell upon her drowsy ear. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z It was, I think, the sound of the liquor tinkling into the glass more than the words I spoke to him which made Rookley open his eyes. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Tink′ler, a small bell; Tink′ling, a tinkling noise. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The illicit tinkling of a piano came from an open window in the new King's buildings and two men leant idly on the parapet of the bridge and watched him as he paddled slowly underneath. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z All up and down the window-grated street sounded, from midnight to morning, a tinkling of guitars. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z "Let us go out into the sunlight, for God's sake!" said I, and my foot struck against a piece of iron, which went tinkling across the stone floor. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z There was a tinkling sound, and a flash of sparks, as it were, when the glass splintered against the wall. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z The two men had just bathed in a little stream which ran tinkling through the grass beside their camp. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z His opponent said never a word, but carelessly pushed a tinkling pile of coins across the table. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Papa had gone to attend a vestry meeting; the little bell of the church was tinkling out, giving notice of the meeting to the parish. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z The pull of the bell-rope is followed by the tinkling of the distant bell, but the young philosopher is not satisfied with such knowledge, but must learn "what is the particular go of that." Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z "No. I like to hear the brook tinkling, don't you?" he replied. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z But the sound of their chanting and the tinkling of the small bell came to us as we leaned over the city walls. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Aunt Cordelia's playing has a tinkling, running touch, and her tunes have an old-fashioned sound. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z She heard them tolling out from the old clock-tower, clanging loudly from the church steeple, clinking and tinkling from all the timepieces in all the rooms of Peveril Court. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The trick, of course, is trying to remember which rustling, tinkling or clinking sounds stand for pawns, bishops or queens. | New Jersey: Celebrating Fluxus, a Movement That Didn?t Create by the Rules ? Review 2012-01-07T02:11:54Z Marie sat at the little piano—which was put in the dining-room—strumming and tinkling the false, quavering old notes. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z "Accursed! accursed be they!" echoed back from the old walls, while the sound of dagger-blades tinkling together made an ominous music dedicated to the corrupt and licentious rulers of Rome. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z O Edison! don't fritter away your genius on sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z The tinkling sistrum... is replaced by... the bell, taken from Buddhist usages.... Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z He is surprised that the sound of his firm tread is not accompanied by the tinkling of spurs and the metallic scraping of a saber. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z There she went on, tinkling away at "If I built a world for you, dear." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When I looked into your eyes, I saw a garden With peonies, and tinkling pagodas, And round-arched bridges Over still lakes. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z While the conversation was going on we children were munching nuts, when our father made use of a quotation from the New Testament in which the words "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" occur. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Slight bells were used as a sort of ornament, and when the bearer was walking their tinkling was a sort of proclamation that the lady who bore them was in the market as a virgin. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z The procession wound slowly through to the sound of tinkling bells, until the whole caravan had entered the enclosed yard, which now presented a chaotic scene of indescribable crush and dirt. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z When she gained the window she reached up and persuaded the hangings back on gently tinkling rings. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The ground was hard and dry, he found, and a little brook ran tinkling down one side of it into the lake. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z "Come back, Pluto--down, you brute--down!" then there was a heavy "thud," the tinkling of shivered glass, and the bear dropping on its fore feet, shambled back into the room. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z The fountain had a little tinkling, singing sound, and there was a delicious odour of flowers, which mingled entrancingly with the shaded lights and graceful bending ferns. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z The sound of their tinkling bells came faintly across the valley to us; the low, musical tones, the quiet, measured movement, all was in keeping with the towering mountains and the still, clear air. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Here is water—close at hand—a purling, cold brook, whispering and tinkling over its rocky bed—he jumps into it—it moved! Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z When quite dark, the tinkling of the cencerro will be heard, and a ray of light will surround the devoted bustards, charming or frightening them—whichever it may be—into still life. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He seized them, and drawing back the curtains flung them out of the window, where they fell into the court outside, breaking to splinters with a little tinkling crash. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Merrily the company of maidens dancing,— Golden bangles tinkling tunefully,— Now will they sing an amorous air The mode of Spring, more passionate than any other. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z The far-off tinkling of the mule bells in the approaching caravan gave one a sense of distance in a way one would hardly experience by simply gazing at an unapproachable horizon. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z St. Paul tells us that we may "speak with the tongue of men and angels," and yet be no better than sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z But in his wanderings near the clouds, his thoughts of late had often strayed from his flock: other music than the tinkling of their many bells was sweeter to his ear. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The count, who was playing on a tinkling little mandolin, sat beside her. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z A herd of goats feeding near by made music with their tinkling bells. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z But Islam without the halo of time-honoured sanctity that attaches to the name of Mohammed, would sound as but a hollow brass or a tinkling cymbal. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z A young moon shone in at the open windows before the mellow daylight was gone, as Mrs. Hardy, in rustling silk and tinkling jewels, entered to say good-night. A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z The ladies were rustling about in their long trains and tinkling ornaments; the men were trooping in, white-tied and swallow-tailed, rubbing their hands and sniffing the grateful aroma of dinner. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z They got out and ran her up, filled their kettle at a tinkling creek, hewed resinous chips from a fallen fir, and built a fire. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z She saw his figure standing still, and she heard a sound as of the tinkling of a bell moving about, such as natives tie to the necks of their dogs in hunting. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The flutter was interrupted by a dripping of stray notes, an octave lower, dotted, presently, with a tiny tinkling above. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The birds sang blithe; There came a tinkling from the waking fold; And on the hillside from the cot a girl Tripped singing with her pitcher. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Call, a sharp pit; song, a tinkling, unsympathetic, rapid warble, July, July, summer-summer's here; morning, noontide, evening, list to me. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Fans are fluttering everywhere; there is a soft tinkling of guitars. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Silence reigned for a few moments, but it was disturbed by a peculiarly melancholy tinkling. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Tot lay down upon the bed, and at once heard a sweet, tinkling chorus of laughter coming from every part of the room. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z The tinkling of voices reached him at intervals. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Call, a musical, tinkling, too-lay-it, song, "a loud, clear and powerful chant." Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The continued tinkling of the bell, which, on my first entering Russia, grated on my ear, had become agreeable to me, and in a dark night particularly was a pleasing sound. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z She gave a series of low, tinkling sounds that were like a requiem set to laughter. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Every one knows that delicate tinkling sound that a good popover makes when tossed on a china plate. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z His preaching is like a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z Call, a metallic note; song, tinkling and musical often sung on the wing as with No. 529, the song of which it resembles. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Again the house was dark and still, Again I lay in slumber's snare, When down the hall I heard a trill, A tiny, tinkling, tuneful air— His music-box! Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Far away in the wood was to be heard the melancholy tinkling of the bells worn by the sheep round their necks. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z They made him presents when he went away, among them some of the many tinkling bells. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z If Christ were not with him, all his learning, his logic and eloquence, were but a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Call, chimp-chimp, resembling call of Song Sparrow; song, tinkling, rippling, full of trills, runs and grace notes. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The tinkling of a cowbell warned them that they were approaching a human habitation. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The earth was sinking into dusk, and off by the brook the frogs were tinkling like tiny answering silver rattles. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z The barking of dogs and the tinkling of bells resounded among the rocks; the cows were rushing madly to the water, while the poor herdsmen and the dogs sought in vain to gather them. Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway 2011-10-13T02:00:43.280Z She is tramping, as it were, "to the tinkling sound of the ornaments of gold and gems on her person." The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Song, uttered on wing as bird with up-stretched wings floats downward, sweet, liquid, tinkling, of same general character as that of Bobolink, but shorter, less powerful. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities 2011-10-12T02:00:53.650Z Little brooks sang tinklingly as they glided under bridges, and the birds darted here and there in busy, noisy pairs. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Like a queen, this graceful Campanile del Municipio stands, dominating her subjects the other towers, with all the tinkling bells they contain. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z At one turn of the path a peculiar tinkling reached my ear. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z At Hampton Court the tinkling flocks are not provided with an official bellwether, but are left to browse at discretion on the tough herbage of History. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z I could hear the tinkling of guitars, the shuffling of feet, and the music of merry, laughing voices, long before we came near the door. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Oh, tinkling burn, You set my soul to music. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z The tinkling bells: “What am I to call you then?” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Some were tinkling on a sort of guitars, and some were tooting on a kind of flutes, and some were scraping on wretched fiddles. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Miss Sophy was a girl of one-and-twenty, tiny and pretty and lively, with no more maiden shyness than a feminine terrier in a tinkling collar. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z There was a far-away tinkling of cow and sheep bells in the lush-green pastures which stretched out towards the frowning mountain against which the setting sun was levelling its rays. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Her clear voice, tinkling as though with little golden bells, at first soft and hushed, rose throbbing in passion and then broke like a crystal ray and melted in mournfulness and plaintive prayer. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z She laughed, with a laugh like little tinkling bells: “A motor-car?” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z It held the water supply for the whole house, and as the ball inside it rose and sank, its sounds varied from a gentle tinkling to a soft whispering; the sounds never quite ceased. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Gradually the sounds became louder, and I could hear the tinkling of bells and finally the tramp of thousands of little feet pattering past my door. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z It was strange music, a mixture of awkward humming and a delightful tinkling, and I caught a pathetic, foolish, melancholy, bold, bizarre melody of, nevertheless, the most singular simplicity. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z They fell on the desk with a little tinkling clatter, broken; and instantly Mr. Gates flung the letter from him, put both hands over his face and burst into tears. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The shrapnel comes tinkling on to the roofs of the camp, and now and then, with a long, rapidly growing whistle, a "dud" shell or large fragment of steel drops near us. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Aschael kept irregular pace with a far-off amateur voice and the faint tinkling of a piano.... The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z At the blast of a golden trumpet, the procession moved forward with a sound of tripping feet and whirring gauzy wings and tinkling bells most lovely to the ear. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z This time the glass came tinkling down, and it was thought worth while to inquire whether there were any casualties in the kitchen. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z It is in short lines, well managed and effective in their way, but it is a thin tinkling music to accompany the tragic story. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z They were delighted with the gifts they received from the Spaniards, and most of all with the hawks' bells, dancing merrily to the tinkling they made. The Boy's Book of Heroes 2011-09-06T02:00:10.323Z He asserted that he heard the regular beat of the horses’ hoofs on the floor, the tinkling of the scabbards on the stirrup-irons, and the shouts of the rough-riders. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z Yes, he was a big man; even his caybigan, with hair of gold and tinkling spurs, could he have done better? Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The bells were tinkling peacefully for mass as we crossed the little river flowing close behind the backs of the houses, and climbed the grassy height on which the citadel stands bastioned. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z He could hear water tinkling in a fountain, and he reckoned he would stay there till closing time. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z But at the movement the man’s pistol roared, glass tinkling on the floor with the report. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Now he felt a sudden anger that the coarse picturing and the tinkling keys had power to call up, even for an instant, the old slinking, craving ache in his throat. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Now that he was fully awake, however, the night was heavy with silence, only the tide bubbling and tinkling and crooning along the flanks of the boat. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z She slid down a heap of tinkling shale, and her nose led her to the old cart road on the other side, where the grass was tender and beloved by the rabbits. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z What is life, he sings, but a mad jester with tinkling bells? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Sometimes it was like a tinkling; sometimes it laughed; sometimes it was like voices far away. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z "What is that tinkling bell I hear every now and then?" asked Emily. The Pleasures of the Country Simple Stories for Young People 2011-08-10T02:00:18.760Z I would have a fair prince to think tinkling words about me. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The opening scene of Mandalay is oriental; the burst of music and the tinkling of the silvery temple bells and the effect of an extremely blue sea, made Dan “sit up,” as he put it. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Govinda stood looking after the group, till the last wave of their white veils disappeared; and listened till the tinkling of their silver anklets could no longer be distinguished. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z The harp with which David stirred the dead soul of Saul was the prototype of the sweet clavichord, the romantic virginal, the tinkling harpsichord, and the grand piano. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal!" On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z He bore a tray with high, beautifully thin, 85 tinkling glasses of lemonade, with a sprig of mint in each. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z The silence is broken only by the shrill tinkling of a silver bell. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The mouth was a crimson bow, ever ready to break into a tinkling laugh. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z As they neared the Popular sounds of a tinkling piano and drums, mixed with laughing and singing, came to them. Hookers 2011-07-13T02:00:18.540Z As she leaned against the fence she could hear the tinkling of a goat-bell in the distance. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z He filled the pitcher and went tinkling away along the deck with a pleasant, “I ‘ank ye, missy. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Phenomena: the spiritualists’ term for the antics of tables, pats, twitchings, ghostly lights, tinkling of bells, etc., at their séances. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z What is tote?” and the tinkling laugh rang out like glass chimes assailed by a sudden gust of wind. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z And, tinkling in the clover dells, The twilight sound of cattle-bells. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z At the sound of the tinkling glass, she turned, grasped a mint julep, and drank the whole of it at a single effort. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z In this position, we had not remained long, when the faint tinkling of a cow-bell, repeated leisurely, as if the animal were housed, fell on our ears. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z There was silence for a moment or two in the little shady garden, for the tinkling streamlet seemed to be at rest as well. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The tinkling of many bells rose up on the air, and hovered for a while over the crow's nest. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z I am perfectly content as long as the lifting of my finger or the tinkling of my little bell will reduce my subjects to order. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z One of the striking consequences he noticed was that the Swiss mountains were missing their usual melodious tinkling of cowbells. Global Warming and the Science of Extreme Weather 2011-06-29T12:15:00.240Z At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Though tinkling caravans go by Forever over twilight sands, With myrrh and cassia laden high For other shrines in other lands, No weight of grief thereat you know, But softly on your pan-pipes blow. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z The plaintive melody, mingled with the tinkling of the horses' bells, and the motion of the carriage lulled me into a dreamy repose, half way between sleeping and waking. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Across the plateau streamed a bright light from the sitting-room of the house, while the faint tinkling of some native instrument reached my ears from the group of huts beyond. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z And now Captain Ross moved so abruptly against the mantelpiece that he shifted one of the handleless china teacups out of its place and set the prisms tinkling on the candlesticks. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z A yelp; then many yelps,—faint, but clear as a tinkling bell. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z As they passed through the kitchen a pane of glass fell with a tinkling crash as a shell-fragment hit it and a saucepan rattled. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z When she entered, Massingale was in the parlor, and the bamboo curtains at the windows were still tinkling, where he had been posted in watch. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z “Oh, nothing,” began Billie, when she was interrupted by a burst of music played by three negroes on a guitar, a banjo and a triangle which sent a silver tinkling note through the melody. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z She could hear Aunty Luce tinkling the dishes in the kitchen, and Tillie and Miss Margaret, in the next room, cooing over some love-story of dawn they were telling each other. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z The bills had come in for her bracelets and mufflers and tinkling ornaments. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z |
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