peal
noun
a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
was pealing
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past progressiveof peal.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The bell of the gate was pealing vociferously.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
In all the organ was pealing, the blaze of light overpowering, the magnificence of jewels and crimson velvet and silver and gold dazzling, the crowd suffocating, the incense blinding.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
The alarm bell was pealing out its hurried sounds through the still air.
From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The organ was pealing softly and plaintively, and the little gray coat seemed to heave as with a sob.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
From the old church clock the midnight hour In hollow tones was pealing, When a slim white ghost to the church porch door Seemed up the footpath stealing!
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
