atinkle
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atinkle (not comparable)
- Making a tinkling sound.
- 1876, Venier Voldo, A Song of America[1], New York: Hanscom, Canto 2, page 33:
- The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings,
And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;
- 1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91,[2]
- […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.
- 1912, Sarojini Naidu, “A Rajput Love Song”, in The Bird of Time,[3], London: Heinemann, page 29:
- O Love! were you the hooded hawk upon my hand that flutters,
Its collar-band of gleaming bells atinkle as I ride,
- 1984, Peter Davison, “Impossible People”, in Praying Wrong[4], New York: Atheneum, pages 8–9:
- Impossibles march gaily for Gay Pride,
ashaming any spectator a marcher would
yearn to be matey with, mincing
atinkle with bangles and lavender marcel
- 1995, Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion”, in Burning Your Boats[5], New York: Henry Holt, published 1996, page 432:
- Somewhere inside a full-mouthed bell tolled; its reverberations set the chandelier a-tinkle […]