Example Sentences

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The telephone rang in my office to-day, as it often has tinkled before.

From Just Folks by Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert)

I never asked a favor from the Press in my life—but its little bell has tinkled for me all the same, and a few of the muttons follow, but not all.

From Thelma by Corelli, Marie

It is the "Bell song," which has tinkled so often in our concert-rooms.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward