chiming

• She pushed the button, heard the distant chiming, and waited again. —  Chapter1
• She heard the watch chiming, then the ding of the microwave. —  Winter Prey
• Steel resounded, chiming, and the light drained back down into the steel box, fluttering briefly against the flat surfaces, limning the sharp corners in a momentary pale glow. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
• Why you would have asked me directly;—if you had wished 'curiously to enquire An excellent solemn chiming, the passage from Dante makes with your 'Sordello,' and the 'Sordello' deserves the labour which it needs, to make it appear the great work it is. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
• It's fine stuff, mind - and once you get over the contrasting musical backdrop Condon's quavering, gorgeous enunciation finds itself atop, periodically superb (see: aforementioned opener 'My Night …', which intones little lyrically yet evokes untold amounts, or the chiming, addictive stabs of 'The Concubine'). —  Drowned In Sound // Feed

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