Daikoku band: they were to sing the ballads Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

Other girls were provided with a kind of castanets, -- two flat pieces of hard dark wood, connected by a string.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

There was a rattle as of castanets outside the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference

And then after the castanets we get to STOMP our feet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference

The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference

"You've got castanets that clack where you should have feelings.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

(He takes vials from pocket which he makes sound like castanets.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann] Reference

Materials for dancing; as masks, castanets, and a ladder of ten rounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

The teeth of the whole party were chattering like a concert of castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

Some played with pearly castanets of animal bone jangling from each legjoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

I approached the two women walking their dogs while I was practicing my castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference

Won't you come and hear me play the castanets, if Monsieur Enguerrand can spare you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A wagon and a wobble-wheeled buggy, its dry spokes rattling like castanets, went by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

Past the Aztec ruins and the ghosts of our people Hoofbeats like castanets on stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROMANCE IN DURANGO] Reference

She clacked her claws like castanets, flinging drops of venom on the walls and floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

The distant whistling of flutes and rattle of bone castanets marked it as Kidona music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

I held out the castanets to let Dog A see them, cuz i could see said dog was fascinated.    From Wordnik.com.  [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference

It had been my own fault entirely that our teeth were chattering like frenzied castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The knitting needles clicked upon each other in her trembling hands, like fairy castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

And then came the others, on foot: tambourines and wood blocks and parade cymbals and castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

The sheets were jerking at the belaying pins, the blocks rattling in sharp snappings like castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference

Clara was an Andalusian, half gipsy, half Moor, skilled in guitars and castanets, saynetes and boleros.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

We turned blue, and no matter how firmly I tried to shut my teeth they rattled like a pair of castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

So I freely own that my jaws ached with the effort of keeping my teeth from clicking together like castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

The falling water, sleeping in the dam or toiling all day at the mill, gurgles like the tinkling of castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

This next sentence, with its combination of K sounds, clatters like a pair of castanets: 'Though Curio bee as hot as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

Above her head she swung copper bells, castanets or 'crotals,' -- swung them lazily, so that they tinkled very faintly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

A crowd of thrushes go chasing a crow across the sky, making a great to-do, like a clattering confusion of faulty castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference

Drums resounded, clarinets screeched, castanets clattered, and the shrill cries of the dancing girls rose above all the tumult.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

The castanets are made of ebony, and are generally decorated with bunches of smart ribbons, which play a great part in the dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference

It was bitterly cold and snowing hard, and we had scarce left the court-yard when I fell to shivering, my teeth clicking like castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

But where, on the small screen, one hears a pop can hiss, on the large screen one hears black matte ammo clips clackering like castanets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violence In Our Culture] Reference

An attempt was made at amusement when we gave two dances; one with castanets and tambourines and much swirling and swooping; another with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1926 Tatler] Reference

He cleared the crud from his vision just in time to see the boy run off, the rattraps clattering like castanets on the toes of his shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoot]