| Fortunately, neither Ked nor Gadrikhor had noticed when she made a hasty grab for it before it chinked at the rim of her plate. |
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| Their byrnies were gleaming, the strong links of shining chain-mail chinked together. |
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| Coins chinked above him as the girls began to count the coins into a lunch box. |
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| The metal chinked, and the door slid open, revealing Blaze, leaning heavily on the wall, panting. |
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| Newsagents' cash registers chinked to the silvery tune of an additional 1.75 million 5p coins hitting the tills. |
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| He threw a small tweed bag at her, and it chinked like stones as it landed at Drachna's crooked and yellowed toes. |
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| The metal planking chinked underneath the boys' boots as the pair stepped onto the sub. |
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| After the winter of 1898, however, the majority of these buildings were made of logs chinked with mud. |
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| As the bone china chinked chastely, the bird-like milksop had a confession to make. |
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| When she lifted herself, awkwardly, through the surface film, the pumice chinked against her flesh. |
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| Her legs now chinked together when she moved. |
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| The morning wore on, up above on the mountain were huge clearings of limestone scree, beneath my feet the same old seabed tinkled and chinked – how metallic can the sound of rocks become? |
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| He picked one out and, with a degree of ceremony, chinked off the mortar before passing it to me carefully, the way one might hand over a sleeping baby or a rising loaf of bread. |
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| My good friend and fellow member of the Convention, Mr Voggenhuber, can rest assured that I well remember the day at the Convention when we chinked glasses, listened to the Ode to Joy and all signed a very large postcard. |
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| I exaggerate – the truth is les jeunes gens were quite adorable, and sweet to chat with as we breached the tree line and chinked up the scree to the summit. |
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