Example Sentences

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“What a delightful cushion you have found for me! and is that a brook, that is tinkling so pleasantly?”

From The Joyous Story of Toto by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

Now it is tinkling in a grey Moravian school, now it dawns upon the Adige and begins in Alsace, now it has reached Madrid, Paris, London.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Still 319 farther away, somebody, in one of the deep-shadowed porches, is tinkling a ukelele, and somebody that I can’t see is somewhere beating a rug.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

The brook is tinkling as it goes, And with the myrtle and the rose Its shady banks adorning; While, from the flowery mead near by, The sheep and shepherd's joyful cry Salutes the early morning.

From Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot

Lloyd is tinkling below me on the typewriter; my wife has just left the room; she asks me to say she would have written had she been well enough, and hopes to do it still.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis