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However, I am not sorry this has happened, for I think their jangling makes excellent sport." "You heard," said Oberon, "that Demetrius and Lysander are gone to seek a convenient place to fight in. I command you to overhang the night with a thick fog, and lead these quarrelsome lovers so astray in the dark, that they shall not be able to find each other.
Bill turned abruptly, and stepped across toward the boiler-house. The whistle sent out a long-drawn, booming call the alarm signal for the mine. In all the stress of the Croix d'Or it was the first time that note had ever been used save in drill. The bells of the hoist arose into a jangling clamor.
Such a mass, drawn through the streets by elephants and accompanied by excited devotees, its hundred bells jangling as it rolled along where there was not another vehicle of any kind with which to compare it, or a house more than one small story high, must have appeared to the ignorant natives something akin to the supernatural; and I can now well understand how wretches, working themselves into a state of frenzy, should have felt impelled to dash under its wheels.
But in ancient India, I take it, you had some such state of affairs as this: classes there would be, according to the natural differences of egos incarnating; but no castes; religion there was, that is to say, an attention to, an aspiration towards, the spiritual side of life; but no religions, no snarling sects and jangling foolish creeds.
A young gallant, lounging down the Theatiner or the Maximilian Strasse, in his shining and snug uniform, white kids, and polished boots, with jangling spurs and the long sword clanking on the walk, raising his hand ever and anon in condescending salute to a lower in rank, or with affable grace to an equal, is a sight worth beholding, and for which one cannot be too grateful.
The next moment, as it seemed, there came the roll of a distant gong, and instantly there burst into life a score of jangling bells, clanging and tinkling over one's very head in a manner calculated to destroy the strongest nerves. Rhoda felt an agonised certainty that the Chase was on fire, and springing up was confronted by the blue walls of her little cubicle.
So at Godby's word, in came two armed fellows and marched out Resolution Day, his head still bowed and his fetters jangling dismally. "You'll never hang her, Adam!" said I, when we were alone. "You cannot, man you shall not!" "Lord, Martin," said he, sitting on his great peruke and looking askance at me, "Lord, what a marvellous thick skull is thine!"
From the back of the house could be heard the jangling of milk-pails, and a feminine voice raised in shrill invective; but no one was in sight, and the conspirators emerged unseen from the door of the inn, and turned to the left, endeavouring somewhat unsuccessfully to appear unconscious of the approaching figure. "Good afternoon! Good afternoon!" cried the stranger, in a full genial voice.
"Yes; jangling wires, every one, jangling every second out of tune," Marta acquiesced. "Marta, my father" her father had been a premier of the Browns "always said that you may enjoy the luxury of fussing over little things, for they don't count much one way or another; but about big things you must never fuss or you will not be worthy of big things.
I said, 'What manner of woman is Miss McTavish? and he said, in a kind of whisper, 'The McTavish, sir, is a roaring, ranting, stingy, bony female." "He said that, did he?" asked the pseudo Mrs. Nevis, tightening her lips and jangling her keys. "But I didn't believe him," said the American; "I wouldn't believe what he said of any cousin of mine." "Is The McTavish your cousin?"
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