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Examples

  • He dropped his nozh with a tinkle tankle on the hard winter sidewalk.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Distant cow bells sounded tankle-tonk among the bushes.

    Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley 1923

  • Distant cow bells sounded tankle-tonk among the bushes.

    Parnassus On Wheels 1917

  • She could hear the _tinkle-tankle_ of the Piper's pipes, the scuff of Puffy's paws, the labored breathing of the little old gentleman as he trudged, the heavy tramp, tramp of the Policeman.

    The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates 1913

  • I could hear the tinkle-tankle of a cow-bell somewhere among the spruces by which the pasture was being walked over and forested from every side; it was likely to be called the wood lot before long, but the field was unmolested.

    Along Shore 1910

  • He was going to show us the maple sugar camp when he came back, and we sat on a felled oak and waited, with a smell of clover coming to us on the warm breeze, and the "tinkle, tankle" of cow-bells in the distance.

    Lady Betty Across the Water Orson Lowell 1889

  • I could hear the tinkle-tankle of a cow-bell somewhere among the spruces by which the pasture was being walked over and forested from every side; it was likely to be called the wood lot before long, but the field was unmolested.

    The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • Get the Chicago Tribune delivered to your home for only $1 a week tankle and the knob grind at 4:23 PM January 06, 2011

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • And every family in the village keeps a cow, and every cow wears a bell, and every bell is on a different key; so that the three things that penetrated the senses of the marquis on this Sunday morning were the high hills that stood sentinels on every hand about the valley in which New Geneva stood, the smell of the superabundant apple blossoms, and the _tinkle_ and _tankle_ and _tonkle_ of hundreds of bells on the cows grazing on the "commons," as the open lots were called.

    Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869

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