I left Sir Brian Malpas at the corner of Victoria Street at four minutes to twelve by Big Ben, and walked straight home, actually entering here, from the street, as the clock was chiming the last stroke of midnight.
Then, with the clock chiming the last stroke of midnight, we came out together and I closed my door behind me.
Throughout the latter part of this scene the big clock had been chiming the hour, and now was beating out the twelve strokes of midnight; had struck six of them and was about to strike the seventh.
From one of the rooms upstairs came the shrill, unmistakable summons of a telephone bell, and mingling with it the chiming of a cuckoo clock.
He could hear from the room to which the instrument was connected, the musical chiming of a Swiss clock--the call of a bird--and then silence.
The bell was chiming for service, and as Mr. Dacres ambled across the grass, the Dean, preceded by his verger, was coming out of his gate to the cathedral.
Almost he could hear the chiming of the old stable clock, the clear note of a thrush singing.
The only literature which you really understand is a Blue Book, and the only music you hear is the chiming of Big Ben.
As she rose from her knees the church bells of Rome were chiming one.
The faintly chiming bells, which every other horse of the twenty-three composing our 'caballada' wore, warn us of their whereabouts.
It happened towards the end of that dreadful August that one night he had tossed all through the hours listening to the chiming bells, only falling into a fevered doze a little while before they called him.
While, mingling with both in discordant combination, the strange music of the temple still poured on its lulling sound--the rippling of the running waters and the airy chiming of the bells!
A faint smile drove the wonder away, a faint laugh mingled with the chiming and clashing.
There was no sound save the chiming of a church clock in the distance, followed by the shrill whistle of a locomotive.
Ena, glancing at the old chiming clock upon the mantelshelf, suddenly exclaimed: "Oh!
Time after time she heard the bells of St. Paul's, Hammersmith, chiming the hours, but there was no sound below.
In a moment we were both down the steps and pulling in the boat towards the swimming man, who, we saw, was being rapidly approached by a second boat which had also been in waiting until the chiming of the clock.
As he was speaking the clock from one of the turrets was chiming loudly, the sounds of the bells seeming to quiver in the still air and mingle with the faint strains from the room where the dancing was still going on.
The hour is at hand; the clock has jarred and is silent again, but the gear murmurs on in the darkness, waiting for the silver chiming of the bell.
In a few moments they heard above the tender chiming of the church bells the loud voice of a man giving words of command, at which all the metallic points suddenly shifted like the bristles of a porcupine, and glistened anew.
David, Miller Loveday's man, who also formed one of the company, as the bells changed from chiming all three together to a quick beating of one.
Distant, the baying of an eager pack, Like chiming bells, sweeps thro’ the chilly air Above the scented track.
It was a mellow, golden chimingat the beginning; then it grew stronger, stronger, until it swung through the air like the deep resonant tones of church bells.
In sportive grace she walks the ground And sweet her chiminganklets sound.
The tinkling feet no longer stirred, No chiming of a zone was heard.
In the morning in the silence the first sound Winnie heard was the chiming of the hammer like a bell.
Only in her own body pain rang clear and sharp and chiming sweet.
Emblem,--"I tell thee that Holy Sign is as familiar to my suffering soul as the chiming of bells at sunset!
There was a brief pause, during which the chiming clock rang out the hour musically on the stillness.
While she was speaking the softlychiming clock in the lower hall struck the half-hour.
The single chiming stroke of the quarter-past struck while he was putting the bottle down, and he started as if the mellow cadence had been a pistol shot.
The tiny chiming clock on his dressing-case in the adjoining bedroom had tinkled forth its ten tapping hammer strokes when the man sitting in the dark heard the pounding of hoofs and the rattling of buggy wheels in the quiet street.
While the little ormolu clock on the dressing-case was whirring softly and chiming the hour she stared at the money-block as if the sight of it had fascinated her.
At our meetings he was like a vesper-bell chiming above a battle-field.
