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  • I mean the whole Santa Clause is coming thing. . . sleigh-bells ringing and chestnuts roasting. . . come on!

    Tentacle of the Christmas Thing Warren Smith 2011

  • Otherwise we are going to over-cook our goose, and nobody will be dreaming of a white Christmas because it won't be cold enough for snow, and therefore no sleigh-bells ringing or jing jing jing-a-ling too.

    Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son) Wes Nisker 2011

  • I mean the whole sleigh-bells ringing and chestnuts roasting thing.

    A Christmas Spaghetti 2009

  • The whole country is like one vast road, and the fine, cold, aurora-lighted nights are cheery with the lively sound of the sleigh-bells, as merry parties, enveloped in furs, drive briskly over the crisp surface of the snow.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • These animals which nature had so differenced were equalized by art through the lavish provision of sleigh-bells, without some strands of which no team in Spain is properly equipped.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Frosted shingles smoked against a sky colored like flax-blossoms, sleigh-bells clinked, shouts of greeting were loud in the thin bright air, and everywhere was a rhythmic sound of wood-sawing.

    Main Street 2004

  • There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.

    Walden 2004

  • Three children sledding past shouted a warning in some strange language; he heard them yell at the next bend and a little farther on he heard sleigh-bells coming up the hill in the dark.

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • But except for this, and for the tinkling of the sleigh-bells, the streets were as noiseless as though laid with straw, and especially while fresh snow still formed a soft coating on the crisp layer below.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • A troika was a three-horse Russian sleigh, and you could almost hear the sleigh-bells and the cadence of the horses 'pacing feet in the bounce of the main theme.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

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