knelling
- present participle of knell.
Example Sentences
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In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore."
From Time Magazine Archive
While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling, For the year; The blithe swallows are flown, and the lizards each gone To his dwelling.
From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton
All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting spear: Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling; Merrily, merrily, mingle they.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
And ever still, its knelling Crashes in upon my dreams.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
