How To Use Chink In A Sentence

Make a fortune and have fun Come to the pachinko parlor!
And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
Furthermore I have among a large number of hybrids, two of very high quality between the American sweet chestnut and the chinkapin. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
It puts us in a jeopardous position - it's one more chink in the armor that Reno is not a Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories

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Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Not a chink of light was allowed to be seen and regular street patrols were maintained.
The chinkara scattered into the scrub as we approached but the blackbuck kept appearing and reappearing, leaping across our path as we drove through the desert.
There was a kind of shiver, and Trace heard something go chink on the floor near his boot. Archive 2006-08-01
The CJM's court had convicted him for the killing of two chinkara deer on the night of September 26-27, 1998 at Bhavad village while acquitting seven others.
The effect can be seen in attics under ill-fitting tiled roofs, where the sun's rays are focused through chinks between the tiles.
The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef". How to cook perfect cullen skink
The nuts all came from a type of Castanopsis, or chinkapin tree, modern representatives of which are found in Northwest United States and Asia today.
A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
From the same root common chinkapin will keep on bearing year after year. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
He robs a pore half-breed of a cayuse, and shoots up a Chink who's panning tailings, and generally and variously becomes too pronounced, till he's run outen camp. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
I think of myself as a solidly nonracist person, but if there's a chink in that armor, gypsies are it, because I once tried to sleep on a Eurorail train and had no less than four gypsy urchins come into my car and try to steal all of my belongings. Archive 2009-05-01
Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES 'squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
She lay with him one afternoon, when a scrap of sunlight spearing through a chink in the scuttle's deadlight was scribing an oval shape on the opposite bulkhead, and she mentally added up the number of rooms in her Lincolnshire house. Sharpe's Trafalgar
The authorities have been reluctant to crack down on pachinko for other reasons as well.
It's a vote for a smoother, wittier, more stylish world than the one we've landed up with: the chink of glass against glass, the sharp flare of trumpets, the devastating couplet and the clutch of hand on hip.
Many a rain had beaten against the "chinking" and we had no trouble in finding openings through which we could plainly see all that went forward within. The Jucklins A Novel
The chink of plates and the hubbub of conversation drifting from the pub failed to lure me in.
The grasslands in the park consist of chinkara (the Indian gazelle), nilgai (the blue bull), chausingha (the four-horned antelope) and wild boar.
In 1818, Schinkel erected the State Theatre that, apart from the Greek Ionic portico, displayed the most memorable feature of the frequent use of the functionalist pilaster stripe.
I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
The other wild attractions in the park include nilgai, chausingha, chital, chinkara, wild boar, foxes and jackals.
The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
Do these chinks through which the pollen escapes correspond (as would at first sight seem probable) to the margins of the antheral leaf, or do they answer to the lines that separate the two pollen-cavities on each half of the anther one from the other? Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Bob and Charlotte's paths keep crossing leading to various adventures around the hotel as well as the obligatory visits to sushi bars, karaoke and pachinko.
His chains chinking ominously in the empty house, he found no sign of a coffee maker or coffee beans of any sort.
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Only a small sliver of light shone through a chink in the wall, falling just in front of the lady's feet.
In one of the many shelters, a small rusted bell chinked against the worn door with a piece of cardboard with messy handwriting on it that read ‘OPEN’.
Who knows what other microarthropods are lurking in the sand beneath, interstitial fauna inhabiting the chinks of the world.
Imagine being Thief of Bagdad, title apropos to these times, as a Chinese American at Graumann's Chinese Theatre, then in its Chinarama phase, chock-a-block with faux orientalism, a chinkee apocalypse in plastic and red paper. GreenCine Daily
Pale, subdued daylight was leaking through a chink in the curtains.
Fortunately there is a chink of light in Scotland.
Coins chinked above him as the girls began to count the coins into a lunch box.
Whether you realize it or not, whatever chink is in your limited understanding, doesn't take that away from him. VOTD: Roger Ebert Speaks | /Film
The apartment sits still and flat, dazzling sunlight spearheading it's way through splices in the curtains and chinks in the blinds.
A single chink in our armour at the negotiating table means we could lose out badly.
Sometime ago, there was a mail from a reader about a bad day at office that was made okay by light streaming through chinks between leaves on a tree.
Steam hissed out from the underside of the panels and the rotating slowed to a halt, the poles chinking into place in the cold, metal floor.
The sun came through a chink in the curtains.
He peeped through a chink in the fence.
there was a chink as I dropped the last piece of glass into the bowl.
This position was necessary for it to pass through the glottic chink, and can be maintained because of the yielding of the posterior membranous wall of the trachea. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Opening the door to a chink, Rosalie saw the Miss Pockets, shivering, the permanent decoration on the nose of the elder Miss Pocket very conspicuous and agitatedly swinging, ushered into the study, and presently her father follow his jutty nose into the study after them, and very shortly after that the This Freedom
The coins chinked lightly in his pocket as he walked along.
Ann Chinket and husband Ian, both 34, deny assault.
He was also known to refer to the generalissimo as “a lily-livered Chink” and a “slant-eyed snake.” The Last Empress
The mammal community includes several ungulates of conservation importance such as the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), the chinkara (Gazella bennettii), and the small Indian chevrotain or mouse deer (Moschiola meminna). East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
Modern business has not only widened the chink but has broken down the door and removed the walls when it comes to the exploitation of Santa.
I recently fixed an old favorite - it worked fine, but didn't chink when you opened it.
That is what they called chinking to keep the wind and rain out. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
The chinkapins and the alder-leaved chestnuts on this side hill have been so blight resistant as to require almost no attention, and for that reason I am making hybrids between the chinkapin and the alder-leaved chestnut and the Chinese chestnut in the hope of making an excellent combination of chinkapin quality and Chinese size. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
The catheter should be of a size, relative to that of the glottic chink, to permit a free return-flow. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
The other wild attractions in the park include nilgai, chausingha, chital, chinkara, wild boar, foxes and jackals.
The clink and chink of the glass was soothing and nerve-wracking all at once.
Now, if we'd been a directors 'meeting, no doubt there'd have been questions, and eleventeen holes shot in my specious statement — but prisoners in a cage surrounded by blood-thirsty Chinks don't reason straight (well, I do, but most don't). Flashman and the Dragon
Over the rocky places we could plant the chinkapin and hazel. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck.
The chinking was a simple matter, and when it was all done, including The Master-Knot of Human Fate
On the third day a little Chink doctor visited me with the steward, but he didn't have a word of English, and busied himself impassively examining the sumpitan-wound in my guts - which was fairly healed, and barely ached - while remaining deaf to my demands to see Solomon. Flashman's Lady
‘I see nothing more,’ said Brother Francis, ‘and there is nothing more to see, except the curlpaper bill of the theatre, which was opened and shut last week (the manager’s family played all the parts), and the short, square, chinky omnibus that goes to the railway, and leads too rattling a life over the stones to hold together long. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Waney" is a good word, almost as good as "sensiation"; so when you try to quarter a log with which to chink your cabin or log house don't select a "waney" log. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
Thallus commonly granulose, and often passing into verrucose and chinky conditions, but scarcely ever areolate, sometimes scant and evanescent; apothecia usually minute or small, and commonly adnate, exciple weak and often becoming covered; hypothecium and hymenium passing from pale through shades of brown, the former becoming darker than the latter, this rarely tinged blue or violet above; spores hyaline, 2-celled. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
A chink of light arrived when Adebola headed a consolation on his Turf Moor debut with just five minutes left, reacting first when Robbie Blake's cross cannoned off a Watford knee.
Ricky is somewhere in Japan and seems to be happy without football, mainly because he loves playing pachinko.
This old tower is a complete breeding-place for vagrant birds; the swallow and martlet abound in every chink and cranny, and circle about it the whole day long; while at night, when all other birds have gone to rest, the moping owl comes out of its lurking-place, and utters its boding cry from the battlements. The Alhambra
For though it be true that the most solid bodies have pores, still air or spirit do not easily submit to such extremely fine comminution, just as water refuses to run out at very small chinks. The New Organon
In this position it will be found that the tip of the slanted end is in the center of the glottic chink and will slip readily into the trachea. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor.
Windows had to be blacked out so that they didn't show even a chink of light.
As well as blokes who allow men into their colons, blacks, chinks and 'geet dorty bords' eager to taste soldier's penii. Army Rumour Service
The expectation of the relay squad arrives at a time when there is, at least, a chink of light domestically in the event.
The swallow and martlet abound in every chink and cranny, and circle about it the whole day long; while at night, when all other birds have gone to rest, the moping owl comes out of its lurking place and utters its boding cry from the battlements. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Near the upper end of the Cove, which is nearly a mile long, there stands a house built of squared logs, carefully mortised at the corners, and neatly "chinked" with plaster. The Durket Sperret,
'I see nothing more,' said Brother Francis, 'and there is nothing more to see, except the curlpaper bill of the theatre, which was opened and shut last week (the manager's family played all the parts), and the short, square, chinky omnibus that goes to the railway, and leads too rattling a life over the stones to hold together long. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
He examines the snail trail of viscous fluid by the light from a chink in the curtains.
Only when evening comes does she lift the lid a chink and peer out, checking whether darkness has yet come.
A single chink in our armour at the negotiating table means we could lose out badly.
There was absolute silence as the strange ritual was done, the only sound the muffled chink of coins and the rustle of clothes as each recipient genuflected to the glittering Prince.
Tchink, and by a forced march to surprise the tribes which nomadized on the Sam. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather, that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled.
Pocklington may represent a scene from Casualty at the moment, but while the seniors struggle at the bottom of Yorkshire Two with injuries, there is a chink of light for the future.
The game pachinko became a national obsession .
He threw a small tweed bag at her, and it chinked like stones as it landed at Drachna's crooked and yellowed toes.
Neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in endemism, the ecoregion nevertheless harbors viable populations of chinkara (Gazella bennettii), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Largely because of the legal grey zone in which they thrive, pachinko parlour operators are not listed on the stock exchange. The producers of the machines, however, are tipped to perform strongly.
A chink of light for North and East Yorkshire's hard-hit farming community will be unveiled next week, the Evening Press can exclusively reveal.
The sun came through a chink in the curtains.
They chinked their glasses and drank a toast to the couple.
We chatted like old friends - as indeed we are, having communed together many times on the Naked Blog Tagboard - and even chinked our cans together in a toast to Peter himself.
Half a dozen people accepted his invitation and coins chinked in his cup. A Funeral In Blue
He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.
Through the whole stressful ordeal the employee should also have had time to notice if there were: street, house or office noises in the background, whether there were animal sounds, or even the chink of crockery.
Before they noticed , somebody actually fed into the marketplace $100 million worth of little pachinko credit slips.
Burke and Chinkin set out an expert's code of conduct in an appendix to their article cited at 14.9.2.
Thallus commonly granulose, and often passing into verrucose and chinky conditions, but scarcely ever areolate, sometimes scant and evanescent; apothecia usually minute or small, and commonly adnate, exciple weak and often becoming covered; hypothecium and hymenium passing from pale through shades of brown, the former becoming darker than the latter, this rarely tinged blue or violet above; spores hyaline, 2-celled. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
Ice Age Tool Cache Found in Colorado Yard: Discovery News: Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a 'chink' that didn't sound right. Archive 2009-02-22
Light and air enter through chinks in the walls or holes in the roof.
The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
They will help you determine how much of your cash you want to put into the online Pachinko machine.
The riparian areas surrounding the springs are oases of velvet ash, chinkapin oak, Texas madrone, bigtooth maple, maidenhair fern, and sawgrass. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
The logs were chinked with clay, and the one window, though destitute of glass, and ornamented with the inevitable board-shutter, had a green moreen curtain, which kept out the wind and the rain. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
Some days after the opening of the book of the Gospel, Leo had come at midnight to say aloud, at the door of Francis 'cell, “Domine labia mea aperies,” according to the order he had received; and receiving no reply, he had the curiosity to advance a step further, and to look through the chinks of the door, to see what was going on. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Up at Tannadice Park, after years of fumbling around in the darkness for a chink of light, fans are indeed beginning to dream of a bright, orange future.
Much of this money came from Japan's ubiquitous pachinko parlours, gambling shops frequently operated by ethnic Koreans.
Chinks," said Raft, "Chinee -- they've got their pigtails rolled up, well, they're better than nothing. The Beach of Dreams
Its shape allows its introduction into the vestibule of the larynx, and if desired it may be introduced through the glottic chink for the treatment of subglottic conditions. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Ironically, pachinko was introduced in 1948 as a harmless game for children.
People assumed that Jones was merely being artful when he spoke of a possible chink in the England line, centring around Charlie Hodgson and Henry Paul.
As they came on to the upper part of the beach the "Chinks" noticed them, paused for a second in their labours and then, finding that it was only a solitary man and woman, went on with their work as though the intruders had been a couple of penguins. The Beach of Dreams
This week, when you're chinking your champagne glasses and raising a toast to the neighbours who've become good friends, just remember.
We gaze at the sky from the bottom of a savage granite _barathrum_, whence there is no escape but return through the chinks and over the crags of an Old-World convulsion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
We knew the Kindle's DRM would be cracked the minute we heard about it, and it looks like the first chink in the armor is here courtesy of Igor Skochinsky: he's discovered the algorithm the Kindle uses to turn regular Mobipocket books into Amazon's proprietary. azw format. Archive 2007-12-01
He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather, that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled.
Having a chink of light overhead, provided by a glass sunroof, alleviates any depressive effect.
Then again, she was forced to apologize for using the word "chink" in a joke on Letterman. "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
A chink is a gap in a suite of armor through which an enemy can thrust say a spear. it refers to a potantially fatal vulnerability. reply A Chink In Android’s Armor
What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
The brass tag chinked as he dropped it on to the carpet. Crime On the Coast
Newsagents' cash registers chinked to the silvery tune of an additional 1.75 million 5p coins hitting the tills.
Some of the hybrids do that while others show the resistance of the chinkapin parent. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
The heater hadn't kicked in for quite some time and the room was freezing, so cold he heard ice crackling on the walls, falling from the faucet into the sink, spilling over and chinking onto the marble floor.
The metal chinked, and the door slid open, revealing Blaze, leaning heavily on the wall, panting.
After a fine display against fellow relegation contenders Crusaders, and a 3-0 win, there a chink of light.
Thunderweather, khyber schinker escapa sansa pagar! Finnegans Wake
An enthusiastic letter of thanks has been published in the papers, emanating from these grateful "Chinks," (Swiss for "Dago,") and ending up with "Eviva la Svizzera! The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
Among the Westphalian hams and braunschweigers are tongue-twisting Teutonic mysteries like kasseler rippchen, nuss-schinken and touristenwurst.
The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
This week, when you're chinking your champagne glasses and raising a toast to the neighbours who've become good friends, just remember.
The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
A single chink in our armour at the negotiating table means we could lose out badly.
Mortar work between the logs, also known as chinking, would have originally been of mud and straw. Local News from The Dispatch | Lexington, NC
Who knows what other microarthropods are lurking in the sand beneath, interstitial fauna inhabiting the chinks of the world.
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In the book, he explores various Japanese cultural phenomena including bunraku, pachinko and, haiku.
The Wilderness was second-growth country, gullied and full of scrubby chinkapin and blackjack oaks, scraggy pines, hazel, and every kind of thorn - and bramble-bearing bush known to man. The Guns Of The South
I packed an overnight bag and went and checked the street through a chink in the curtain.
There seems no stopping its growth and there appears no chink in the armour of Fred Goodwin, who was named global businessman of the year by Forbes magazine at the end of last year.
Midmorning sunlight was glowing through the drapes, a sliver finding its way through a chink and splitting a bright line across the ceiling.
The "Chinks" gave evidence that so far from making trouble they were extremely anxious to propitiate and please, and the man who had evidently served Chang appeared in the cabin tidying things and laying out the food, whilst the man who had evidently been mate worked the ship in his own weird way seeming scarcely ever to sleep. The Beach of Dreams
Any chink in the armor is to be avoided at all costs; it will just turn up on YouTube and everyone will laugh at you. "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle.
His scatty style might seem to some carefully contrived, but through the chinks of his eccentricity something else comes through: genuine sweetness and innocence.
There was absolute silence as the strange ritual was done, the only sound the muffled chink of coins and the rustle of clothes as each recipient genuflected to the glittering Prince.
Burke and Chinkin set out an expert's code of conduct in an appendix to their article cited at 14.9.2.
But lying still broade awake, about the dead time of night, he heard the treading of divers persons over his head, who discended downe a paire of stayres by his Chamber, into the lower parts of the house, carrying a light with them, which he discerned by the chinkes and crannies in the wall. The Decameron
Topics such as celebrity gossip, the latest horse-racing developments, and pachinko tips are generally not of interest to our readers.
What little light there was had to fight its way through chinks in the walls.
Just occasionally she lets slip a chink in her emotional armour.
So, if peer at my PC tower in the dark under my desk, it now glows red, green and blue from the chinks in its case.
The chink of a clinking champagne glass and a silver teaspoon drew everybody's attention.
Through chinks in the blinds he could see light shining through, so he assumed it was still daytime.
The sun was filtering softly through a chink in the curtains, as it had yesterday morning.
I still remember when the Pekin teams were called the "Chinks". News from www.pantagraph.com
a long, lank, leathern purse, far gone in consumption, at the bottom of which a few coin chinked with the trembling of his hand. Tales of a Traveller
Nor could I detect my instant of failure, the chink in my armor.
He was the supervisor for the Chinka PV and previously worked on titles such as Baka to Test, Macross Frontier, Saki, Hayate, Kannnagi, Sekirei, Strike Witches and more. Dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan
The next morning following, the breake of day, Ferando recovered his senses, and thorow divers chinkes and crannies of the Tombe, descried daylight, which hee had not see in tenne moneths space before. The Decameron
The existence of chinkara, flying fox, wolf, clawless otter, leopard cat and long-tailed tree mouse is doubtful, says the report.
The first chink of light fell to Blake, who was perfectly placed to receive James Walker's miskick as the keeper came thundering out to the right touchline to clear.
Her acoustic guitar and occasional pianos chink like distant cutlery amid whispered teases and the thrill of confidences shared.
The mammal community includes several ungulates of conservation importance such as the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), the chinkara (Gazella bennettii), and the small Indian chevrotain or mouse deer (Moschiola meminna). East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
His mellifluous deep belly laugh occupies the same low register as his bass and my mind wanders back to the bottles rattling and chinking behind the bar during his sporadic solos the night before.
Dusting off her chinks she picked up her cowboy hat and ran from the bucking bronco that was turning back and running at her.
Thallus commonly granulose, and often passing into verrucose and chinky conditions, but scarcely ever areolate, sometimes scant and evanescent; apothecia usually minute or small, and commonly adnate, exciple weak and often becoming covered; hypothecium and hymenium passing from pale through shades of brown, the former becoming darker than the latter, this rarely tinged blue or violet above; spores hyaline, 2-celled. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
He peered through a chink in the curtains.
The most important evergreen trees of the sclerophyll forest are California live oak, canyon live oak, interior live oak, tanoak, California laurel, Pacific madrone, golden chinkapin, and Pacific bayberry. California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)
The metal planking chinked underneath the boys' boots as the pair stepped onto the sub.
There were always a good many lady's-delights that grew under the bushes, and came up anywhere in the chinks of the walk of the door-step, and there was a little green sprig called ambrosia that was a famous stray-away. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
From the house, the sea can just be glimpsed through a chink at the end of the valley, but its secluded location means no traffic noise and no views of cranes and advertising hoardings, the blights of the Costa.
He endeavored, however, to look cool and unconcerned; and drew from out of his deep pocket a long, lank, leathern purse, far gone in consumption, at the bottom of which a few coin chinked with the trembling of his hand. Tales of a Traveller
There were small scrabbling sounds, the chink of Michael's sword striking the stone, a grunt of effort.
I do declar ', it sets me plumb catawampus ter hev ter listen ter them blacksmiths, up yander ter thar shop, at thar everlastin' chink - chank an 'chink-chank, considerin' the tales I hearn 'bout 'em, when I war down ter the quiltin 'at M'ria's house in the Cove. In the Tennessee mountains,
A rotten hole now, though it was all right when the Flirt drove in the spikes and the Chink pearler traded for them. THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
As he awoke, the wind began to ease and a chink of sun showed.
A chink sounded and Ice appeared from behind the bar with a shotgun.
We must get back of the furnace," Polder continued, indicating a narrow opening between brick walls through the unstopped chinks of which seethed the scorifying blaze. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
They had been the "chinking" between the "mud" of slavery and the "house-logs" of aristocracy in the social structure of the South -- a little better than the mud because of the same grain and nature as the logs; but useless and nameless except as in relation to both. Bricks without Straw A Novel
A considerable area of the anterior part of the nasal septum is also visible by anterior rhinoscopy, and between it and the middle turbinal is a narrow chink -- the olfactory sulcus. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Years ago there was a short-lived craze over the game of pachinko in the United States.
There were always a good many lady's-delights that grew under the bushes, and came up anywhere in the chinks of the walk or the door-step; and there was a little green sprig called ambrosia that was a famous stray-away. From A Mournful Villager
They have again named an unchanged side, albeit one with a few chinks in the armour which West Indies could exploit.
Pachinko is a vertical pinball game where one feeds little steel balls into the top of the machine, and tries to manipulate their passage down the machine by twiddling a knob, in order to win… more balls.
The leather sack containing the required gold coins made a solid chink sound as it landed on the turf.
As a child growing up in the States in the 1970s, I was referred to as "chink" or "slant-eyes" by the other kids at school. Joy Chen: Making Small Talk Is the Hardest Part
Nevertheless, it was deserved in the light of the Hawick pressure and they turned with a chink of light at 15-5.
The chinkara scattered into the scrub as we approached but the blackbuck kept appearing and reappearing, leaping across our path as we drove through the desert.
With a little "chinking" and the addition of a door and perhaps a window, it would have made a much more comfortable place of abode than the miserable bark structure which Godfrey had so long occupied. The Boy Trapper
Fortunately, neither Ked nor Gadrikhor had noticed when she made a hasty grab for it before it chinked at the rim of her plate.
Some days after the opening of the book of the Gospel, Leo had come at midnight to say aloud, at the door of Francis 'cell, "Domine labia mea aperies," according to the order he had received; and receiving no reply, he had the curiosity to advance a step further, and to look through the chinks of the door, to see what was going on. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Then it was time for Wang's signature chink - out segment .
Give the "Chinks" time to lick their wounds and swallow their gruel and they would be right as pie. The Beach of Dreams
And when a pounded away at a shoe, and her young arm going like a flail -- chink, chank -- chink, chank -- and th 'white spatters o' hot iron flying this way and that from th 'anvil, meseemed A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
In addition to its great arks and ziggurats, Gambee seems to have missed few of Wall Street's more picturesque chinks, corners and coigns, and the reader is led to each through angles of vision which by most definitions known to me deserve the name of artistry.
In the gloom they were… terrifying: nightmarish shapes against the slivers of light seeping through the chinks in the shutters, overbearingly huge from my perspective.
It's definitely a chink in the armour for people being able to slag me.

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