Example Sentences

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Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason—with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by McGovern, John

Friend, a handsome house to lodge a, 139. --, knolling a departing, 62.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John