There was something really romantic in following a fancy into such a lair, and the longer the plaguing clock sounded its tinny march, the more vibrantly alert he felt, in the anticipation of her coming.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
It was being worked by inexpert hands, for the time was something jerky; but it was robbed of its tinny meanness and even majesty by the hugeness of a cavern's roof, as well as by the crashing, swinging march it played- wild -wonderful-invented for lawless hours and a kingless people.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
A tinny voice said with formal cordiality that he did, indeed.
"Operation Terror"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins