castinets

Notwithstanding some difficulties attending the manipulation of this instrument, Piney Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone castinets.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1917

In the music was the thunder of the hurricane he so often had described to his children, the piercing rattle of the giant castinets

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Alexander heard a continuous piercing note, pitched upon one monotonous key, like the rattle of a girl's castinets he had heard on St. Thomas.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Alexander urged his horse out into the storm again, he heard the rapid agitated clang of the bell mingle discordantly with the bass of the wind and the piercing rattle of the giant's castinets.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

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The luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches 1870

Most negroes are natural valets and hair-dressers; taking to the comb and brush congenially as to the castinets, and flourishing them apparently with almost equal satisfaction.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

They feared that the foundations of the house had been loosened, and that the next blast would turn it over, but the house was one of the strongest in the Caribbees, built to withstand the worst that Nature could do, so long as man saw to its needs; and when the hurricane at last revolved its artillery away into the east, carrying with it that piercing rattle of the giant's castinets, which never for a moment had ceased to perform its part, roof and walls were firm.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

… of becoming a professional castinets player, and now

Mock, Paper, Scissors 2009

"He believed like us in serenades, alcaldes, mantillas, castinets; in all that Italy and that Spain, a trifle conventional, which was brought into fashion by the author of 'Don Paëz,' of 'Portia,' and of the 'Marchioness of Amalgui,' ...

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

The little sprite here took off her opera-hat, and commenced waltzing a few steps, and, stopping midwhirl, exclaimed: "O, do you know we girls have been trying to learn the cachucha, and I 've got some castinets?

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856