Chimes
[tʃaɪmz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of Christmas chimes, denotes fair prospects for business men and farmers. For the young, happy anticipations fulfilled. Ordinary chimes, denotes some small anxiety will soon be displaced by news of distant friends.
Checker: Nanette
Examples
- How do Chimes Strike the Hour? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not an atom,' chimes in Brewer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Do the chimes of the distant church bells lead one to the house of worship? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Pickwick had meditated himself into a doze, when he was roused by the chimes of the neighbouring church ringing out the hour--half-past eleven. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Light broke, movement gathered, chimes pealed--to what was I coming? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checker: Nanette