tinkle

• And the sample bottles went tinkle-tinkle in the carrying case slung over his back. —  BEN BOVA
• Every few seconds I would hear a skree-crash-bang-tinkle, and the crunch of metal and glass under the metal tentacles. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• What a silly tinkle, as of pastoral bells in some Rousseau's Devin du Village_, have the 'principles of 1789,' when the stage rings again with the stern accents of the conqueror, hectoring the senators of the free and imperial city of Augsburg, for example, on his way to Wagram and to victory twenty years afterwards Your bankers are the channel through which the gold of the eternal enemy of the Continent finds its way to Austria. —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
• She jumped out of her luxurious bed at the first tinkle, and was at the shutter watching for them before ever they rounded the angle of the Ponte della Morte. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• They jingled with every step, and the only thing that marred the music of their tinkle was the anxiety lest some officer of the 2nd Tenth should see us thus arrayed. —  Tell England A Study in a Generation

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