tinklings

• “And as he murmured these love endearments of namings, it seemed to him that in them were the ripplings of running waters, the tinklings of silver wind-bells, and the scents of the oleander and the jasmine.”

  THE TEARS OF AH KIM

• “ Ghostly children running through the old house and squawks of wild laughter all walled up with piano tinklings and tears swirled across my eyes.”

  Fictionaut: Magnets of Faith and Knowing

• “Most of the time this sound is unpat-terned, similar to the random tinklings one might hear from a set of wind chimes dangling in a breeze.”

  Simon & Schuster: ENTANGLED MINDS

• “Its crystal tinklings changed into an angry chiming.”

  The Moon Pool

• “Then a rain of tinklings that set the pulses racing with joy and at once checked them with tiny fingers of ice — and ringing through them”

  The Moon Pool

• “Closer it drew and now there came to me sweet, insistent tinklings — like pizzicati on violins of glass; crystal clear; diamonds melting into sounds!”

  The Moon Pool

• “Into the centre of the Veil the light drew itself, grew into an intolerable brightness — and with a storm of tinklings, a tempest of crystalline notes, a tumult of tiny chimings, through it sped — the Shining One!”

  The Moon Pool

• “It hovered for a moment between the woman and the dwarf, as though contemplating them; turned to her with its storm of tinklings softened, its murmurings infinitely caressing.”

  The Moon Pool

• “Indeed, more than half an hour must have elapsed, I calculated, between the moment the moon showed above the horizon and the first delicate onslaught of the tinklings.”

  The Moon Pool

• “It was — an archaic — movement; she seemed to drag it from remote antiquity — yet in it was a strange suggestion of power, Twice she repeated this gesture and — the tinklings died away!”

  The Moon Pool

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