"Chink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but swarthier of skin, sank softly against the logs at the rear of the shack, one ear pressed to a chink. ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... the rain fell so heavily that I closed up tightly every chink and crevice, and the noise and shaking benumbed me, so that I completely forgot in what country I was. In the hood of the cart were holes, through which little streams ran down my back. Then, remembering that I was going for the first time in my life through the very heart of Nagasaki, I ...
— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti
... an hour's slow and careful progress over the soft grassy moor, and then they stopped short, for there was the chink of metal and the sharp stamp ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... wos 'splendiferous, CHARLIE. About arf a mile o' stage front, With some thousands of 'eroes and supers, as seemed all the time on the 'unt. Lor! 'ow they did scoot up and down that there stage at the double, old man, All their legs on the waggle, like flies, and their armour a-chink as they ran! ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 27, 1892 • Various
... will use so vividly and delicately as to throw everything else into definite shade by comparison. And then taking up the gloom, she will use the black hollows of some overhanging bank, or the black dress of some shaded figure, or the depth of some sunless chink of wall or window, so sharply as to throw everything else into definite light by comparison; thus reducing the whole mass of her picture to a delicate middle tint, approaching, of course, here to light, and there to gloom; but yet sharply separated from the ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
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