Infinite, too, because it reached the sky, And distant spires arose and distant smoke; The whiteness on the blue went stilly by; Only the clinking forge the stillness broke.
By a bonfire some Betted on red and black for money down, Snatching their clinking winnings, eager, dumb.
Nothing but the puffing of the bellows, the clinking of the hammer on the anvil, and the rasping of files was heard now for forty-eight hours.
A general salute of popping corks and clinking glasses greeted her, and she acknowledged the compliment with the danse du ventre.
Shouts, laughter, the silvery clinking of glasses, a whirling mass of life and color, a bewildering kaleidoscope, a maze of tangled visions in the soft yellow haze that filled the vast hall.
During the intervals between the songs and recitations the room was noisy with laughter, talking, and the clinking of glasses.
In a distant pantry somebody was clinking teacups.
All this was not done easily, for the ground was frozen hard, and in the river behind us we could hear the solid blocks of ice clinking and crunching together as the sullen grey-green current swept them along.
Matteo was in the house of the treasure, and he meant to have his fingers among the clinking pieces.
But Una found it as heavy as so much metal, or stone; and this, with the clinking together of its leaves as they were moved by her touch, revealed the startling character of subterranean botany.
Then, there was a sharp, clinking sound, as if the brittle point of a stalactite had been broken off and had fallen to the ground.
He is singing a little," I replied, "and through the half open door of his cabin one may hear the clinking of bottle against glass.
There were the silvery white lids and the clinking bracelet and the mute laugh, which shook him like a storm each time the red dog with the pointed ears fell from his knees.
They also caught a glimpse of lights and heard talk and laughter and the sound of clinking glasses and, intermittently, a chord, as if someone in the midst of conversation carelessly ran his hand over the keys.
Each time he moved there was a clinking and jingling like delicate dance music played on small bells.
He drew out his watch with the clinking gold chain, and studied the dial.
This clinking became stronger, and turned into an accompaniment of everything that came and went during the uneventful days.
Sat silently, as men will do over a pipe, till a clinking of anklets and a chatter of feminine voices came round the corner, and the foremost woman of the troop on their way to the tank drew her veil close swiftly at sight of a stranger.
Such a clattering of hoofs and clinking of bits and bridles had been heard often before, but never with such gay light-heartedness.
The people pretend to hear the clinking of gold all night in the chamber where the old priest slept, as if he were counting over his money, and sometimes a groaning and moaning about the court.
By little and little he restored it to its former state; the clinking of gold was no more heard at night in the chamber of the defunct priest, but began to be heard by day in the pocket of the living mason.
The mason waited faithfully, amusing himself by weighing the gold pieces in his hand, and clinking them against each other.
The glasses were filled, and the company began clinking them together.
The noise of clinking plates and silver had ceased, and now a dispute was heard going on in the big drawing room, where the voice of the manager grumbled angrily.
Paris and Ostend were ripping places, and you could put in a clinkinggood time at Monte Carlo.
While the sovereigns were stillclinking in his pockets, this was the dark side of the picture--towards Sacramento, the bright one.
Thorne was never sure afterward whether he attempted to offer her any, but he set to work among the sheaves when she took her place in the saddle and the binder wentclinking and clashing on again.
Stooping down behind the buggy she stretched out an arm beneath the seat, and became desperately busy, to judge from the tapping and clinking she made.
I was still at work upon my girth buckles, undoing my harness, when of a sudden there came from the street a shouting and a rushing, with the clinking of blades, and my comrade's voice calling upon me for help.
The first result of my appeal was a sound as of some one bustling rapidly about, with the clinking of metal and noise of the turning of locks.
For three days they toiled with pick and shovel and clinking drill, and the roar of the blasting charges shook the wet hillside, but while the trenches deepened slowly the water rose.
The suspended trunk still oscillated, and a faint clinking came up with a hoarse murmur of voices from the hollow.
It was next morning when he was awakened by the roar of a blasting charge, and lay still with an unusual sense of comfort until the silence that followed it was broken by the clinking of the drills.
Everyone walked on tiptoe, and spoke in whispers, afraid even of coughing or of clinking a teaspoon on the sideboard.
For hollow noises were often heard there, and sounds as of money falling on the floor, and rattling and clinking as of a factory machine.
That moment a rustling of leaves attracted her attention; then the familiar clinking accompaniment of a slow, soft, measured step, and Lassiter walked into the court.
He heard the khansaman go into the dining-room with his clinking vessels.
Even as he stood in a tremor of excitement, he heard the clinking of drinking-vessels from below; the khansaman was returning.
First there had been the clinking and laughter from the dining-room and kitchen where Marise and the children cleared off the table and washed the dishes.
Dishes clicked lightly, knives and forks jingled, cups were set back with little clinkingnoises on saucers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
