We had been interrupted in our sport by a thunder-storm; the reverberations of which, as peal after peal smote against rock and fell, were very fine.
And what a time they seem to be having," Mrs. Owen added as a merry peal of laughter came from the sitting-room.
A merry peal of laughter filled the chamber as they uttered the name in unison.
There was a gasp of surprise from the maidens, then a peal of laughter followed, so mirthful that Nurse Johnson and her sister joined it.
Then, swept from the course this first peal had taken, the second came to their ears after a long interval muffled and from a distance, followed almost instantly by the third, which went booming past them louder than the first.
Assembling his three assistants, he hurried to the belfry, and in two minutes the little old tower was belching forth the merriest and maddest peal those bells had ever furnished.
And no actor can utter it on the stage without producing a peal of laughter.
All at once there was a vivid flash of lightning and then a peal of thunder, which seemed to shake every cottage to its foundation.
The coarse jest elicits a peal of laughter from the other three.
Again he breaks off with a peal of demoniac laughter, long continued.
As she finished speaking, another long protracted peal of thunder rolled through the heavens and shook the house, and Sophy sank down gasping in her chair.
The quickness of the strokes, and the strangeness of the sound, coming whence such sounds are never heard, seemed the doom-peal of these men.
With a wildpeal of laughter he hurled the second glass into the air.
The hero's exalted words rang far and wide through the forest like a peal of bells.
The Prince heard Teleki burst into a jovial peal of laughter, whereupon all the gentlemen present with one accord followed his example, just as if they were taking part in some intensely amusing diversion.
Kemeny looked first at him and then at the glass he held in his hand, emptied it with the utmost composure, and then burst into a loud peal of laughter.
When the last peal rang out, we were buried alive.
About the time of Pepys's writing, a peal of six remarkably sweet-toned bells was placed in the tower.
There is a peal of eight bells in the old gray tower--the music of the bells was one that our forefathers loved apparently more than other folk.
And a merry peal of laughter rang up the stairs as Dolores, evading Buttons's arm, which that young man had tried to pass about her waist, dashed away into the darkness and out of sight.
So she half closed her eyes, leaned back in her chair, looked languishingly at Buttons, and then burst into a merry pealof musical laughter.
A merry peal of ill-suppressed laughter came from the road-side as he rolled into view.
At Bath no stranger of the smallest pretension to fashion could arrive without being welcomed by a peal of the Abbey bells.
These were tuneable like a peal of bells, each a note above the other, and always two people walked beside them who were skilled in the country music, and struck upon them with something they held in their hands.
The captain and master of the pinnace came to meet us in their skiff, half a league from the road, and on coming aboard, our general welcomed them, with a peal of cannon.
Next morning we got into the road of Bantam, and fired a great peal of ordnance from our two ships, the like of which had never been heard in that place before.
Then he checked himself, and deep down in his soul he seemed to hear a peal of mocking laughter--just such a burst of sardonic mirth as had broken from his lips two nights ago when on his way to Voiron.
That brief moment of introspection had revealed him to himself, and the revelation had fetched that peal of mocking laughter from him.
The bells of Notre Dame peal out; a hundred towers fall into the march of the music; the early journals are shrieked by French newsboys, and folks begin to count the minutes on their watches.
It is seldom brought into requisition but at close quarters, when results are intended; whereas, cannon may peal for a fortnight, and involve no other destruction than that of shell and powder.
A second afterward, the air quivered with the peal of a cannon.
It was with a shudder that I thought how every pealannounced flesh and bone riven asunder.
And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array; And on the tossing sea of steel To and fro the standards reel, And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away.
There are many silent sleepers In our country here and there, Heeding not our restless clamor, Bugle's pealnor trumpet's blare.
The service to the Lord, though, was getting well and truly lost, despite the odd peal of bells.
To me they were as welcome, happy, and lively as a peal of bells on Easter Day.
A peal of thunder seemed to echo in his ears--the thunder which had shattered the temple of Jerusalem, whose priest he was!
A flock of sheep quietly grazing on the hillside gave the place an air of peace, and but for the loud peal of artillery on the right, the men would have scarcely imagined themselves amid scenes of war.
Even this noise was not great; but it seemed to the anxious listeners like a peal of thunder, that was likely to be followed by the crash of the enemy’s muskets.
As he passed under the gorgeous screen, that renowned organ, scarcely surpassed by any of those which are the boast of his native Holland, gave out a peal of triumph.
The carpenter here burst out with an extraordinary peal of laughter.
There was no peal of laughter now from the man clinging to the steel rib.
He laughed--a dreadful peal of merriment that echoed up and down the latticed street.
A peal of hysteric laughter shook her, mixed with strangling sobs.
It dated from a time when, in South America, in an acute crisis of desperate personal hazard, he had laughed the first peal of that strange laughter of which he was to be ever after afraid.
With anotherpeal of laughter she pointed to the knot of her obi.
Barbara laughed outright, a peal of silvery sound that echoed across the garden--then suddenly drew back.
