A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Ruth's gay young voice broke into a sweet chime of delighted laughter when the judge seized the airy bit of lace as if it had been the heaviest and hottest of crowbars.
Isn't it like a chime of fairy bells, heard in a dream?
Each hourly chime Proclaims the law that swung the girandole.
It is a bell tower, and in its top hangs a chime of ancient bells.
It is all very fine; but it does not chimewith my notions of right.
It was a catching smile, too, and many times those who saw the same just had to chime in from sheer sympathy.
And there was Billie, ready to chime in and add his entreaties to those of the foot traveler.
The priest muttered a few lines of Latin, made the sign of the cross, and disappeared to another chime of the bells and a last toss of the censer.
The censer-bearer swung his implement vindictively in the direction of the corpse, while the other rang a melodious chime on the bell.
The bells will chime soon as the first ray comes over the hills.
For a chime all of us are needed," she added, sadly.
A murmur ran from one to another, till all agreed to be silent on the morrow, though many of the chime would have preferred to ring as usual.
The man who had presented the bells to the church returned at midnight, after a long journey to his native valley, bringing with him a friend, almost solely to hear the beautiful chime on the morrow.
In the steeple of an old church was a beautiful chime of bells, which for many years had rung out joyous peals at the touch of the sexton's hand upon the rope.
The fire is bright, where hearts are sore The chime to them a mournful knell.
While o’er the snows the seasons chime Their golden hopes to reillume The brief eclipse about the tomb, The year is lapsing into time Along a deep and songless gloom Unchapleted of leaf or bloom.
I like to march sitting, for my part, and without having a chime of blister-bells on the soles of my feet.
No sound but the distant bells of Haarlem striking the hour, and the gay chime sending its muffled notes through the thick air.
And the bells ring out and the chime flings into the air its calm, harmonious notes; it is like the singing of angels over a cemetery.
It may chime with your pleasure to slay him; it cannot chime with your honour to deny me.
They had moored their boat under a weeping willow about the time when the bells for church, begin to chime across the level water-meadows.
And, as a note struck upon one of a chime of bells will set the neighboring bell vibrating, so the strong note of faith and hope sounded by the poet, sets a like note vibrating in the mourner's heart.
Joyce completed her purchases, and left orders for them to be sent to the Swan; and then, just as the last chime was ringing and the old clock struck three, the two girls passed up the nave to the choir.
How do you suppose that such opinions can chime in with all I have witnessed in the interval?
The entirechime is very rich and sweet in tone, and, in this respect, is surpassed by very few bells in the world.
It contains a clock, with three faces, just above the roof of the church, and a chime of bells.
The two organs, the voices of the choristers, and often the chime of bells, all combine to send a flood of melody rolling through the beautiful arches such as is never heard elsewhere in the city.
You are used, my lord, To prate before you act; the very chime Of your own deeds.
Upstairs, at every chime creak goes a step, and his stick comes down between, with his other hand on the baluster.
Everything is at peace; the scheme of colour is soft and quiet, while in the execution there is something recalling Holbein, and the effect is idyllically moving like the chime of a village bell when the sun is going down.
Before that bell shall have ceas'd its chime The year shall have sunk on the ocean of Time!
This church has an exquisite chimeof bells, and they very much amused me every morning.
A cock, on the highest point of the right hand tower, flaps his wings and crows three times; and when he stops, a beautiful chime of bells rings out familiar and very musical tunes.
Another prominent building is the old Greek Church with its emerald green dome, Byzantine spire, fine chime of bells and richly decorated interior.
The whole endeavor in fiction writing generally should be to make the word chime with the substance.
The writer must find for him words that will chimewith the tensity and dramatic value of the situation.
