... Some far-away and uncertain noise disturbed the stillness of the night, slipping through some of the chinks that cut the immense plain of roofs...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... An old chimney leaned drunkenly against it, raging with fire and smoke, while through the chinks winked red gleams of warmth and wild cheer...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...On beingdisturbed they dart away with a surprising velocity, to concealthemselves in chinks until the return of night...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Like the chelifer, it shunsthe light, hiding in chinks till sunset, but is actively engagedthroughout the night feasting on the acari and soft-bodied insectswhich assail books and papers...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...However many eligible chinks and holesthere may be, the contention is always just as great amongst them, andis doubtless referable to opposing claims to the best places...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The roof does not fit properly onto the walls, and in these latter there are cracks and chinks galore...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...When his time run out he went toShanghai for a rubber-goods house, and learned allthere is to know about Chinks...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...apicalis, who, unversed in the miner's craft, establish their offspring inexpensively in accidental chinks in the walls, or even in the lair of the Spider on whom the larva feeds...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...After waiting and listening awhilewe saw lights glisten in the chinks of theheather walls, and then fumes of smoke beganto creep up them...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...“Although there was not a window in my room, the yellow beams streaming in through the chinks of the log wall told me that it was after ‘sun-up...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Stones, mud,and brush are used liberally to fill the chinks, and ina remarkably short time the dam is complete...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...I throw it through the chinks of the floor in order that I may eatwell...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The roof wasso low that you could almost touch it; the window was no larger than apocket-handkerchief; there were chinks between the slabs of the walls...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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