On a few occasions, Miriam is knocking outside Helga's door, and the sound of ice clinking in a glass can be heard.

Despite the snow outside, you could almost hear the ice clinking in the caipirinhas inside the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night as DanceBrazil began its weeklong run.

"Spalding really wanted to use some sound effects to illustrate the piece," said Mr. Taylor, who used ice clinking in a glass to foreshadow Mr. Grays free-fall plunge into what the writer describes as fear without an object.

He could hear the ice clinking in the kitchen.

Velda handed me my drink, the ice clinking in the glass.

But if you don't start out with liquid water just melt through--you wind up with a cylinder of ice clinking around in it.

As she pranced, showing off, glistening wet and tanned in the sunshine, she'd heard the ice clinking in their glasses, seen them from the corner of her eye sitting in white wicker chairs on the shady porch.

Gabriel heard ice clinking in other glasses, and he gazed around the room at the dozen club members sitting in the lounge, almost all of them men.