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Definition of Tinklings
1. tinkling [n] - See also: tinkling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinklings
Literary usage of Tinklings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fatinitza: A Comic Opera in Three Acts by Franz von Suppé, F. Zell, Richard Genée, Eugène Scribe (1880)
"Silver tinklings, ringing brightly, From our lord and master call; Triping gayly,
... Silver tinklings, etc. A perfect pearl ; a most exquisite girl ! ..."
2. Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception by Edmund Parish (1897)
"These tinklings are images. When the bell rings it sets the tinklings a-going,
and when its ringing is over the tinklings continue, growing weaker and dying ..."
3. A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools by John Mitchell Bonnell (1867)
"In the second example, " tinklings that make one feel drowsy," is surely prosaic
enough. Perhaps it is not necessary in every case to reduce the metonymy to ..."
4. The Bookman (1906)
"For the attenuated tinklings of decadent art he has less than no patience ; not
because they are tinklings, but because they express nothing, ..."
5. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"tinklings. drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: El. 8. Tints. Chastised by
sabler tints of woe; Vic. 42. Tip. Brown sees thee sitting on his nose's tip, ..."
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