Commercial tune

Usage examples of jingle.

She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.

Behind him sat the apish behemoth Jingles with his head swathed in white gauze.

Two pages and three gentlemen were waiting upon him, and Mad Noll, the jester, stood at the head of the bed, now and then jingling his bawble and passing some quaint jest upon the chance of making his master smile.

Ping followed, his bell jingling only once as Birdie carefully shut the door.

After fumbling in his pocket, Dex produced a ring heavy with jingling keys.

A pogue taken from a dizzy shop-girl containing one silver shilling carried the same penalty at law as a dumby lifted from a rich toff stuffed with Bank of England longtails and jingling with gold sovereigns.

I was so taken by the idea I let him go, and he jingled off in an ekka as pleased as Punch.

The very rattle of the shingle under my feet and the jingle of my navy scabbard seemed offensive in the perfect hush, and, too awed to be frightened, I presently turned away from the dreadful shine of those cliffs and felt my way along the base of the wall on my own side.

Their hobnailed boots crashed on the planking and the dangling metal fittings of their armor jingled together.

The Duchess Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders-- of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St.

It jingled and whirred, causing her instinctively to jump to one side, as if she had transgressed upon one of those vipers that vibrate their tails when disturbed.

Hardly were the last of those on their way when most of the Confederation cavalry brigade jingled down from the western mountains to collect the baggage left behind at the commencement of the campaign and spend a few weeks resting and reorganizing.

The man in the cloak stretched his mouth, and jingled the markers in his fist.

She extracted a cloth bag that jingled richly and handed it up to Florian.

Not a single bell of the hundreds he wore had jingled at his approach.