Chinks
[tʃɪŋks]
Examples
- Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And between them and the white-haired man afar off, was the one small link, that they had once looked in at him through the chinks in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was called Mill Pond Bank, Chinks's Basin; and I had no other guide to Chinks's Basin than the Old Green Copper Rope-walk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mill Pond Bank, and Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, all so clear and plain! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We've got to live in the chinks they leave us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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