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  • Bizarre and glittering, her many dingle-dangles forced her to sit stiff and still like a Byzantine ikon, and her pallid face and dead black hair gave decorative effect to the blaze of gold and colour.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Nature's own Christmas trees, with the red-and-yellow dingle-dangles growing upon them.

    Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910

  • Saito, with all his gold braid and dingle-dangles.

    Little Sister Snow Frances Little 1902

  • At last the Tree was stripped of nearly everything but its candles and its bright dingle-dangles.

    Mary Gray Katharine Tynan 1896

  • There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the "bird," as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent on the top, and all manner of dingle-dangles hanging to it -- a perfect Turkish clatter of music.

    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

  • a bunch of line drawing characters ... horizontal bars, vertical bars, horizontal bars with little dingle-dangles dangling off the right side, etc., and you could use these line drawing characters to make spiffy boxes and lines on the screen, which you can still see running on the 8088 computer at your dry cleaners '.

    Public marks 2010

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