When men he has wronged, and on whom he has bestowed his insolence, are getting ready to be hanged, there is a death-bell ringing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I could only see one of the two sights, and therefore naturally preferred the latter, while I only heard tolling at a distance the death-bell of the sacrifice to justice. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Strike the slow death-bell! — weave the sacred verse, ❋ Unknown (2003)
Robin had expected a hollow, booming voice, like the tolling of a death-bell. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell ❋ Various (N/A)
There are eight bells in Saint Helen's tower, but the fifth or sixth is generally used as the Curfew, to distinguish it from the death-bell, for which purpose the tenor is used, and is rung at the same time at night if a death has happened in the course of the day, and for that night supersedes the necessity of ringing the Curfew. ❋ Various (N/A)
Just then the deep tone of the Castle death-bell came swelling across the river from the other side. ❋ I. E. M. (N/A)
Josepha; she even insisted on your resuming that permission; but I rushed from her presence -- I hastened to Messina -- to the Ursuline convent -- as I approached it, the death-bell tolled! the sound echoed to the very bottom of my soul, every stroke seemed to fall upon my heart! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
_ Unfortunate, say you? oh, no! the day of misfortune, the day of despair was that when I heard the death-bell sound, and they told me -- twas for her! when I asked for whom was that funeral bier, and they told me -- twas for her! but from that hour I ceased to suffer. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Can your pupils image the wedding-bells chiming from the cathedral some afternoon in June, when suddenly the ear catches the sound of a death-bell tolling from another church? ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)
One thing was really striking; -- a huge cone of stalactite hung from the roof of the largest apartment, and, on being struck, gave perfectly the sound of a death-bell. ❋ James Gillman (N/A)
She cried aloud as she came -- with a voice that rang like a sudden death-bell through the ring -- ❋ Unknown (1910)
As she was goin 'home to her father's hall, she heard the death-bell ringin' ❋ Unknown (1898)
Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell, the gate is passd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses, ❋ Unknown (1900)
For the death-bell did ring for my true love today ❋ Unknown (1898)
His heart beat in heavy laboured, measured strokes, like the tolling of a death-bell. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
She cried aloud as she came, with a voice that rang like a sudden death-bell through the ring. ❋ Louise Manly (1896)
We have not made the first overture, and there sounds the death-bell of this garrison! ❋ Unknown (1875)
That merciless cry was the death-bell of their own doom. ❋ Unknown (1875)
