As he spoke, he pushed a couple of sovereigns across the table to his companion, carefully, as though unwilling that the chinking of money should be heard without.
Enoch did carpenter work, fitting some chinking into the walls where the winter's cold came in during severe weather, and Caleb cut some wood and brought it into the house for fear that to-morrow night he might not be there to attend to it.
The places where the chinking did not fit were numerous, and the way the cold wind poured into the room made the words of an old writer perfectly apparent: "While one side of the inmate was toasting the other was freezing.
Tom Fish likewise had nothing to say except that he stated that he would remain at the cabin while the boys were away, and might be doing some work at chinking the walls.
The chinking had fallen from the stick-and-mud chimney, and it looked like the torso of some giant skeleton.
The sword of yellow light flickered lower and lower, revealing the beech logs to which the bark still clung, and the chinking between them.
At the farther end of the field was a double log-house, whosechinking had been removed; so that it formed a good block house from which the enemy could fire on any person approaching from our quarter.
Waddles was busily engaged in knocking out a patch of chinking and endeavoring to work a loophole between the logs.
The muffled crash of a rifle rolled steadily from the house as Waddles fired at the chinking in an effort to reach the two men outside.
It dawned upon Mr. Ledbetter that this chinking was the chinking of gold.
After an interminable time, there began a chinking sound.
We'll do that by fitting these pieces of chinking into the cracks between the logs, and then 'daubing' the smaller cracks with mud.
In the meantime also the other boys had finished chinkingand daubing the house.
Suppose you go in Harry and knock out three or four pieces of chinking about breast high, so as to give us a port hole to fire through.
Kate perceived her brother's indifference to the girl's welfare, and the brutality of his revenge on the man whose crime was his habit of chinking the gold in his waistcoat pocket.
A sovereign was less to him than a shilling to John Rothwell, and it seemed to the latter that he could always hear the gold chinking when Hayes talked.
He found a train-attendant and spoke with him rapidly, in a low voice, making at the same time a suggestive chinkingof gold and silver with one hand in his pocket.
Yes,' the other man answered, and began fumbling in his waistcoat-pocket, making a chinking sound as he did so.
The dinner drew to a close amidst dense gloom and awful silence, dismally broken by the faint chinking of spoons and jingling of glass.
I can pay yow any day," said Sim, chinking the money in his pocket.
Mr. Roker, looking round with great satisfaction, and gaily chinking the first week's hire in his closed fist.
In many places, the spaces between them are filled with small chinking stones set in adobe mud.
On the outside, the women laid up the well-shaped blocks in regular courses, chinking them with small spalls or potsherds.
Soon we shall hear the intermittent music of the beating flail on the old barn floor, now chinking soft on the broken sheaf, now loud and clear on the sounding boards.
Ojo Caliente, in which the modern method of using the chinking stones is shown.
The upper window is closed with a single large slab and a few smallchinking stones at one side.
XV in the irregularity with which the chinking stones are distributed in the joints of the wall.
The chinking wedges necessarily varied greatly in dimensions to suit the sizes of the interstices between the larger stones of the wall.
The narrow edges of similar stones are visible in the unplastered portions of the house wall, which also illustrates the relative proportion of chinking stones.
Though the masonry of the modern pueblos does not afford examples of distinct bands, the introduction of the small chinking spalls often follows horizontal lines of considerable length.
This church was apparently built by Indian labor, as the walls everywhere show the chinking with small stones characteristic of the native work.
Chinking A log cabin built with hardwood logs or with pitch-pine logs can seldom be made as tight as one built with the straight spruce logs of the virgin forests.
Chinking If your logs are uneven and leave large spaces between them, they may be chinked up by filling the spaces with mud plaster or cement, and then forcing in quartered pieces of small logs and nailing them or spiking them in position.
Tom remembered this with a grin as he slyly crept up to the house, and it was only the work of a moment to draw that knot through the chinking and secure it firmly to a sumach bush that grew near at hand.
He lef' it hid in the chinking o' the wall over yander close ter whar I war sittin' when I fust kem in.
Every man they met stopped them to repeat the story that Coggin's boy had told somebody that it was his father who had robbed the traveler, and hid the empty pocket-book in the chinking of the church wall.
Thus it was that as Jim Coggin sat within the church, the end of his plaid comforter had slipped through the chinking and was waving in the wind outside.
At that moment nothing but the sound that had awakened me, the chinking sound of one glass knocked against another.
In] the intense quiet of the room I had heard a sound like the chinking of glass, and I fancied that Milly had stirred.
Shorty pulled out the moss-chinking from between the logs so as to make peep-holes on every side of the cabin.
The walls of the room were of tiered logs, the bark still on, and the chinking between the logs, plainly visible, was arctic moss.
The cabin was built of logs and the "porces" had gnawed nearly all of the chinking out from between the logs and the mud was all gone from around the chinking.
We put in two days cutting wood and calking and mudding the shanty wherever the chinking and mud had been worked out by squirrels and other small animals.
After the chinking and calking was done, we dug into a clay bank and got clay, which we mixed with ashes taken from the fire then added sufficient water to make a rather stiff mortar.
With these we chinked all the cracks between the logs, striking the axe into the logs, close to the edge of the chinking and then driving a small wedge in the slot made by the axe to hold the chinking in place.
The chinking and mossing had been done from the inside, while we now filled the space between the logs good and full of mortar, or rather mud.
When Mr. Harris returned I had the roof on, the chinking all in and the gable end boarded up with shakes and all ready to begin calking and mudding.
It was still raining in the morning but we continued to work on the camp like beavers all day and we got shakes split from a pine stub to finish the roof and chinking blocks to chink between the logs.
We then split chinking block out of a basswood tree to renew the chinkings that had been gnawed and eaten up by the porcupines.
This made a very good roof but required a good deal of chinking at the ends to keep the cold out, but as moss was plenty, it was not a long job.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: composition; jingle; plaster
