Hereupon the crew, seeing that nothing could be got from the robbers, went their way with curses and imprecations, to which the knight and his party responded only with peals of laughter.
The thunder roared and rattled with long continued peals from the sky, and the lightning flashed more brightly than ever, darting, it seemed, from cloud to cloud, and then went hissing along the ground like a number of fiery serpents.
Presently, however, loud peals of thunder burst from the sky; the lightning darted along the ground and among the trees with a crackling noise, which made his horse start from side to side.
There was no fathoming the cleverness of women, he said to himself, and for the rest of the day he kept bursting forth into little peals of laughter all by himself.
To the mighty thunder-peals that burst above their heads they listened with awe and wonder.
Low muttering pealsof thunder were now heard; the wind was rising with electric speed.
The solemn murmur that preceded the thunder-peals might have been likened to the moaning of the dying.
This terrible wind and prodigious rain were accompanied the whole night by incessant flashes of lightning and tremendous peals of thunder.
In England the practice of ringing has been reduced to a science, and peals have been composed which bear the names of their inventors; some of the most celebrated of these were composed about fifty years ago by one Patrick.
When Men in Hymen's Bands unite, Our Merry Peals produce Delight; But when Death goes his dreary Rounds, We send forth sad and solemn Sounds.
Peals at Baptism are much rarer, but still there are parishes where it has been from time unknown usual to ring them.
Diderot, to whom algebra was Hebrew, was embarrassed and disconcerted; while peals of laughter rose on all sides.
They were seated at their late repast when the storm began in earnest; tremendous pealsof thunder rolled through the immense hollows of the mountain, and seemed to shake the very rocks from their foundation.
The pealsof thunder, repeated again and again among the towering cliffs, were tremendous.
Nowadays long peals are only considered as feats when the same men--only one man to each bell--ring throughout the peal.
The most remarkable of the records which Barham left behind him were perhaps the 'Veteran' peals in which he took part.
Barham also rang in pealsoccupying over three hours, when eighty-four and eighty-eight years of age.
That was of little importance, provided we reached our place of destination before the bursting of the storm, which announced its approach by distant peals of thunder.
Every evening, however, at the first peals of the Angelus, all noise ceases, as if by enchantment, in the Plaza Mayor.
Thrice did there peal peals at the gate like thunders, thrice did the vaults resound and howl again: then did I go to the gate.
And in the roaring, and whistling, and whizzing the coffin burst up, and spouted out a thousand peals of laughter.
If she had just sat quite still on the kerb, pulled a bit of stuff across her face and pointed way down the street, with peals of laughter, the mob would have swept past her and she would have been safe; but she blindly ran for home.
The entire heavens seemed ablaze at times, and the pealswhich echoed and re-echoed from one point to another appeared to shake the mountain.
Instantly every one sank down with bowed head as if in adoration, and the invisible music, accompanied by the peals of sweet-toned bells, filled the air with melody.
We all followed, with peals of laughter at the strange sight, the ungainly movements of this new sort of dancing-bear, and so much amusement did this afford, that we set to work at once to experiment on all sorts of other inanimate objects.
The cook was of the genuine African type; and when not employed in serious work about the camboose, was throwing off the exuberance of his good humor in peals of laughter.
The lightning was flashing around ne, and the peals of thunder were deafening; the rain was beginning to fall, and the wind to blow with alarming violence, before I could spill the sail and pass the gaskets.
The rain fell in torrents, the lightning kept the atmosphere in a constant state of illumination, and the peals of thunder were truly appalling!
They were respectful in their deportment, exhibited their wares to the best advantage, and with cheerful countenances and occasional jokes, accompanied with peals of merry laughter, seemed happier than millionaires or kings!
The thunder peals burst forth in loud report, the echo resounding down deep into the quiet valley below.
Thus they stood, waiting, while the lightning flashed fiercer and the thunder pealsgrew louder.
But scarce the melancholy sound Has died upon the ear, Before the mournful dirge is drowned By wedding-anthems' glad rebound, That stir the solemn air around With merry peals and clear.
How often, no doubt, had he paced to and fro along the avenue, attuning his meditations to the sighs and gentle murmurs and deep and solemn peals of the wind among the tops of the lofty trees!
That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at nine-pins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Loud rolling peals of thunder reverberated through the heavens, as the work of blood was doing, and drowned the dying groan of the murdered man.
The thunder broke in loud peals over head, and flashes of lightning illuminated the gloom of his small and dark prison, through the bars of the only aperture to give light and air.
Come, we must now take a view of other scenes, hear long speeches, drink repeated bumpers, and shout with lungs of leather till the air resounds with peals of approbation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
