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  • It was in consequence of a physical feeling -- a cold shivering caused by the damp sea-fog -- that Snowball had been disturbed from his sleep; and which, on his awaking, kept him for some minutes oscillating in a sort of ague, his ivories "dingling" against each other with a continuous rattle that resembled the clattering of some loose bolt in a piece of machinery out of repair.

    The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • Could it be gold up, gold up stringing, in it while while which is hanging, hanging in dingling, dingling in pinning, not so.

    Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008

  • Yep, as much as Williams tried to sound un-pussy-like, there's no question the noise we heard all through the little television clip was the dingling of the bell John Risley hung around the Premier's neck.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • Well, up and up and up went Jimmie, pulled by the kite, until he was quite high in the air, hanging dingling, dangling down -- O! by his yellow heels.

    Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • Immediately the dingue, alarmed, began dingling like a cow-bell.

    In Search of the Unknown 1899

  • The sad dingling of their bells sounded musical enough in the distance, and one saw horsemen dashing full gallop towards the city before the gates were closed, every man carrying a gun.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • The camel men had some sad, plaintive songs of their own -- quite melodious and in good tune with the accompaniment of dingling bells hanging from the camels 'necks.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • They had not gone very far, however, before a small grey wolf, that had been hidden in one of the den-like recesses in the rocks, now thoroughly alarmed by the dingling of so many bells and the sounds of so many voices, suddenly sprang from his retreat, which was in the cliffs on the other side beyond the guide.

    Winter Adventures of Three Boys Egerton R. Young 1874

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