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Madame d'Udon's Breakfasts have jingled with a new significance; not even Genevese Dumont but had a word in it.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

He never suspected that had Hilda, not Rychie, first talked with Katrinka upon the subject, the bells would have jingled as willing an echo.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes

Indeed, St. George thought, one might almost have spent the prince's profile at a fig-stall, and the vender would have jingled it among his silver and never have detected the cheat.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona

And I cast moreover down unto thee All my sorrows and sins, And the cap and bells of folly That have jingled so long upon my head.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

"You should n't have jingled your purse—you should n't have flaunted your wealth in my face," laughed the Cardinal, putting away the notes.

From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry