ting-a-ting-ting

Updated: May 3, 2025

Ting-a-ting-ting! goes the bell; the curtain rises; and we behold-not, indeed, the Main Street but the track of leaf-strewn forest-land over which its dusty pavement is hereafter to extend.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")

Each bell and their name is legion seemed frantically desirous of drowning its neighbour's voice, the solemn boom of the great one overhead mingling curiously with the sharp, fussy "ting-a-ting-ting" of diminutive rivals.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia