twangling

But I was more Hamlet than Caliban, who hears a thousand twangling instruments on a magical island.

Robert David Jaffee: Why The World Is A Safer Place For People With Mental Illness Robert David Jaffee 2011

But I was more Hamlet than Caliban, who hears a thousand twangling instruments on a magical island.

Robert David Jaffee: Why The World Is A Safer Place For People With Mental Illness Robert David Jaffee 2011

Brough was in the drawing-room twangling on a guitar, and singing most atrociously out of tune; but as I entered at the door, I cried

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

He is like a dangling wire, a broken bell-pull, always twangling.

The Waves 2003

With the manderlines twangling all round, and the larf of the gayest of gals

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various

Sometime [429-26] a thousand twangling instruments

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

_Uncle Sam (twangling his patent Reciprocity Banjo) sings_: --

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various

But when the noise of their own laughter had died away they became aware of a small reedy voice singing in the far corner, accompanied by a confused twangling sound.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

"Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices."

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

The strings were struck with quills, and gave a thin, twangling, or rather twingling sound.

The Early Life of Mark Rutherford Rutherford, Mark, 1831-1913 1913