Much of the clay chinking had dropped out from between the logs.

The roof poles were in place now, and much of the chinking was packed.

There was silence, a chinking, then she heard his boots on the floor as he walked towards her.

When we came back with the mud, everybody pitched in and we finished the outside chinking.

The chinking was from their bridles as they chewed the woman's cloak.

No chinking here, for the logs had been forested flanks.

Following local custom, the log chinking is covered with 1/4 pole strips.

With no more than a faint chinking of bridles we moved off into the starlit night.

Sometimes a wall would collapse under the growing weight of the roof as one season's mud chinking went on top of another's.

The wind shrieked down the chimney and sought the places where the chinking was loose.

Except for the north wind in the trees far above them, and the occasional metallic chinking of gravel, the beach was totally silent.

After a while the chinking was resumed.

Paks heard the faint chinking of the links of the chain.

It felt heavy, and there was an unmistakable metallic chinking as I tilted it.

Next, he will replace the chinking, a mortarlike substance used to caulk the space between logs.

In a minute or two it flitted back again and then the subdued chinking sounded again.

He was re-reading the photocopy 'What's your chinking about this last paragraph?'

Now he heard two drums, not quite together, the shuffle of feet, and the faintest chinking of armor.

I heard the chinking of metal and the hiss of a paraffin heater being turned up.

The interior logs are trimmed with split-pole chinking.

A silence fell between the knight and the enchantress, the world around them quiet too except for the distant chinking from the armorers.

The ends of the pavilion are built from log walls with white chinking, like log cabins.

The curb's chinking was riddled with wasp burrows.

The mud-and-moss chinking had cracked out of the spaces between many of the whitish-gray logs.

The chinking of the legionaries' equipment seemed unnaturally loud to Cato as he marched down towards the settlement.

They fall with a sound like the chink of china.

I think that the little Chink was the last one.

The Chink says it's going to be a long wait.

The poor old Chinks have been at it ever since.

"Do the Chinks really want to take over this country?"

I went through the chink district and did it right.

A the same time one can certainly see a chink of light at this stage.

It began to show chinks after taking a 15-7 lead 6:45 into the game.

What she did see was the door opening, and a chink of light across its top.

There was, indeed, a chink of money in their talk.

He could see through chinks in the walls and the floor.

Maybe there was a chink of light somewhere inside still.

In its standing open, even by so much as that chink, there seemed to be hope.

But he's more interested in my story about the little Chink he sent me to.

He then turned it over on its back, and in so doing, heard the chink of gold.

Not a chink of the outside world belonged in here.

This - today - is the first chink in your behavior.

A few chinks of light showed where other houses were.

You're the only one who can open a chink in her armor.

Certainly they are forever trying to find a chink between their world and this.

In some ways, he even reminded her a little of the Chink.

Want your shirts done right, go to a Chink every time.

Then you can come down and fix it with the chink.

Up close he could see the chinks in the facade.

So this is like the first chink in the armor.

For a moment I chink maybe he is going to kiss her hand.

The night was full of nothing but chinking cups and running water.

This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between them.

He counted out some coins, chinking them in his hands.

Heroes of Earth displayed a different side to chinked out.

I chink you should leave my office and go about the business of putting your life in order."

Have you been chinking like this all the time I've been gone?

The chains chinked and rattled as she turned them over in her hands.

The pot chinked more loudly, then she heard it fall to the ground.

I chinked the coins into my purse again and stood.

He held out in his hand a little purse, and chinked the money it enclosed.

Such a mind might chink very well indeed - but very slowly.

At the sound of the nails chinking together, Daddy looked up from his bottle.

I chink maybe I'll just fix up something quick at my place and get to bed early."

It was chinked open, and all he had to do was burst in.

It was made of logs, and once had been chinked with mud or clay.

Then he raised his glass and chinked it against his brother's.

Where I had yet to chink the light slanted through to cut across the shadowed floor.

Why does he refuse to chink glasses with you?

"Now chink, don't make a sound or it's all over for you, understand?"

Through the old logs, chinked with plaster, he could hear muffled conversation.

Cold as the night was, the house was chinked, and the rooms felt quite warm.

As he placed the tray on the table, the glasses chinked and rattled.

Chinking noises outside drew me to the window instead.

When I had the third row in place, he got up and silently started chinking the gaps with snow.