And, ceasing not, death's nearing knell Tolled in a heart that dreamed no more.
And all the time the bell tolled overhead, tolled faster and faster, and louder and louder; and shots and screams, and the clash of arms, and the fall of strong doors began to swell the maelstrom of sound.
Down to the river-level again, where a squalid anchorite, seated at the mouth of a cave dug in the bank, begged of them, and the bell of a monastery on the farther bank tolled slumberously the hour of Nones.
At last seven tolled from the spire, and every stroke reverberated in his heart.
Gray did not reply, for at that moment the castle bell was tolled slowly, and a strange foreboding seized him.
When the hour of ten was tolledfrom the spire of the cathedral (where time was regulated then by great hour-glasses), the curiosity of Douglas and Achanna could no longer be repressed.
Seven was tolled from the college bell of the Canonry close by.
The Vicarage blinds were drawn, the bell tolled again, and Jeanie, weighed down with a dreadful sense of wickedness, lay face downwards on the schoolroom sofa and wept and wept.
She returned to her work with a steadfastness of purpose that even Miss Whalley viewed with distant admiration; working throughout the morning while the minute bell tolled overhead, rendering honour to the departed Squire.
Accordingly, as the loud bell tolled its first note, the immense assembly fell prostrate on their knees.
There was St. Germain L'Auxerrois, the wicked old bell of which tolled the signal for the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
The word "understanding" tolled out across the dreary wastes of her consciousness like a death-bell.
Until, just as the clock tolled the last stroke of four, she heard a low grating sound.
At four o'clock the great clock tolled the hour, and every one in the house heard it.
Sometimes one bell only is tolled until the clock strikes twelve, in other cases the bells are rung muffled, i.
Ordinarily, where there are more than two, the bells are chimed for periods varying from ten minutes to half an hour on Sundays, while on week-days a single bell perforce suffices, tolled haply by the parson himself.
In some places the day of the month is tolled afterwards, as at Cambridge; at Oxford 101 strokes are given, representing the number of persons on the foundation of Christ Church.
The knell with the tellers is sometimes repeated at funerals, but more frequently the tenor bell is tolled at intervals of a minute, becoming more rapid when the corpse appears in sight.
The clock of St. Paul's had tolled the second hour of morning.
While Garth and his two coadjutors were still listening, the great clock--from the tower that overtopped the mansion--tolled the hour of twelve.
Just as he cleared the crossing of the roads, the clock of Chalfont Saint Peter's tolled the hour of midnight.
The moon had sunk, and before they had gone a block the bell of the church tolled the hour of midnight.
And amidst this commotion thundered the field-pieces, whose balls crashed again and again against the bridge; the bells were tolled in the church-steeples, and the musketry of the Bavarians rattled incessantly.
The bell of the cathedral here tolled forth the hour of nine, at that instant the bolt was drawn, and the wretched woman was launched into eternity.
The bell of St. Sepulchre tolled as the prisoner left his cell; and immediately on the drop falling a black flag was raised, announcing that the last dread sentence of the law had been carried into effect.
Between 11 and 12 o’clock the bell of St Peter’s, Mancroft, tolled the death knell of the criminal.
There was also a passing bell, tolled while persons were dying.
As the bell tolled the hour, the tidal train--with Midwinter and his wife among the passengers--was speeding nearer and nearer to Paris.
The belltolled one, again the picture vanished, and again the spectre stood there.
When I lay down, I kept my eyes quite closed, for fear of seeing something; nor was it till the third bell had tolled that I fell asleep.
At this moment the bell of Montmorenci Castle tolled one.
The great bell of the Collegiate Church of St. Martin's tolled the curfew hour when all the gates of the city were to be shut.
Again the passing bell was tolledby invisible hands, but not this time the peal which announced the passing of an emperor.
Strange to relate, as he expired all the bells of Speyer tolled out a funeral peal such as was accorded to an emperor, and that without being touched by human hands.
The church bells still tolled the solemn death tones, otherwise the silence was unbroken.
The clock of the Stiftskirche tolled out nine strokes, and the courtiers murmured angrily that they had been waiting an entire hour.
While they spoke the bell tolled heavily and loudly.
Presently the alarum bell tolled loud--the court swarmed with soldiers.
The bell of the Capitol tolled to arms within ten minutes after the return of the herald.
At this moment," says Diaz, "the bell tolled for the Ave Maria, and all of us fell upon our knees before the holy cross.
Still the death-bell tolled so mournfully that the sunshine seemed to fade in the air.
They raised their eyes, also, to the sun-gilt spire of the church, and wondered that no clang proceeded from its bell, which had always tolled till now when this figure appeared in the light of day.
Just then the village clocktolled eight, and as each deep stroke fell Dominicus gave a fresh bound and flew faster than before, till, dim in the solitary centre of the orchard, he saw the fated pear tree.
At its conclusion the bell tolledfor the funeral of a young lady.
If ever another wedding were so dismal, it was that famous one where they tolled the wedding-knell.
This I know, that the castle bell is not tolled for your equals!
I called him to the door and asked him why the bell had tolled for a whole hour at noon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
