belling
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of belling
Example Sentences
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So enter in spirit the sharp contentions Of brothers belling each other at bay; And soften the snout of the menacing cannon With the scent and bloom of a lilac spray.
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At one point, for instance, the hero leisurely lies his length in a lone copse and listens to the belling of his houn' dawg on the ridge.
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The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled.
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Coral Gables, Fla. requires the belling of household cats.
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He wiped his spectacles upon the seat of his trousers, the only accessible piece of doth about him, while the belling and bloody cry arose all round.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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