Example Sentences
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Although their beating hearts with ours kept time, Although their clinging hands we fondly held, We could not walk the path they had to climb, Hardly we heard the death-call when it knelled.
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Reed, Helen Leah
The wind howled around me—I felt impatient and benumbed—and, as I stood irresolute, with a moaning chime the church bell knelled upon my ear.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
The typical, significant sound knelled to her heart.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
But when the trumpet's warring blast Had knelled the fate that tyrants know, They proved no laggards at the last, And sprang to meet their country's foe.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
What disaster it was that was thus knelled forth they knew not, and could hardly believe the tidings when given in articulate words.
From Great Britain and Her Queen by Keeling, Annie E.
