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  • The horse-bell was heard everywhere tinkling gaily.

    The Titan 2004

  • Often in the bush it had come to him, lying sleepless at night under the star-lit sky, all alone excepting for the tinkling of his horse-bell:

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • The horse-bell was heard everywhere tinkling gaily.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • But at last he heard the tinkle of a little bell coming towards him: so he stood still and got the hilt of his sword ready to his hand; and the tinkle drew nearer, and he heard withal the trample of some riding-beast; so he went toward the sound, and presently in a clearer place of the wood came upon a man of religion, a clerk, riding on a hackney, to whose neck hung a horse-bell: the priest had saddle bags beside him and carried in his right hand a book in a bag.

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

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