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Examples
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They'll be expectin 'us to light out for the home range, not go jinglin' in to wheah they've forted up.
Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958
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Money don't cut no ice this trip, though it _is_ a mighty handy thing to have a jinglin 'in your jeans -- ain't it?
The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald
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Every time de earth commence shakin, dem dish start jinglin.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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"I've hearn him a-jinglin 'it in his room; an' night afore las 'I clim' up-stairs and peeked in, an 'he had a whole pile of gold pieces 'bout that high," measuring with his hands; "but he see me, an 'he said he'd gimme a whalin' ef he catched me at it agin."
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"How come them boys festooned with so much jinglin 'hardware?"
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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"It do wring my 'eart -- ah, that it do! to think o' pore Jarge a convic 'at Bot'ny Bay!" said Old Amos, "a-workin ', an' diggin ', an' slavin 'wi' irons on 'is legs an' arms, a-jinglin ', an' ajanglin 'when' e walks."
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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And I want to say that we sure clattered down from the Butte and the Blue in the old days, with our rein chains jinglin ', thinkin' -- some of us -- that Arizona was ours to fare-ye-well.
Partners of Chance Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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Funny thing -- that bunch of punchers what started me lookin 'for that there hotel that time -- they come jinglin' up last week.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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A high board fence was acrost one end of the room, and from behind it comes a jinglin 'of telephone bells and the sounds of talk.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The driver grins good-natured and stows us into a two-seated sleigh, and off we're whirled, bells jinglin ', for half a mile or so through the stinging mornin' air.
The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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