During thick weather, while at anchor on the Banks, in daytime, they kept the bell tolling and fired a shot-gun when steamers were heard blowing in the vicinity.
The tolling of the funeral bell, announcing the setting forward of the train, has brought us also to the window, and in silence we look forth into the yet dark streets.
Only today it is not of the earth's splendour I write under this tolling of bells occasioned by one who is preaching atonement at the church of Saint Sebaldus.
He waited until the last of the mourners had passed into the church, then followed, and as the bell stopped tolling and the organ began to play the familiar, moving chant, he passed in and took a seat near the door.
The deep, sweet, hollow, ghostlike voice of the bell in the steeple, tolling for a funeral, was borne to his ears.
The bell in the white steeple was tolling slowly, solemnly.
Presently the bell ceased tolling and he and Nurse Betty moved up the aisle behind a train of figures in black, with black streamers floating from their sleeves.
The army death reveille, the minute gun, the tolling of bells for the dead, the tocsin, etc.
We all know something of the bell legends of the Middle Ages, how the tolling of a bell was supposed to clear the air of the plague, to calm the storm, and to shed a blessing on all who heard it.
But just at this crisis he hears the town clock tolling six, and voices in conversation under his window.
The great cathedral clock is tolling twelve midnight, and the streets are deserted, the last wooden-heeled soulier having ceased clattering over their cobble-stone pavements.
It went like the tolling of a bell, on and on toward the rear, past the Stonewall Brigade, past the artillery, on to Loring yet climbing Jersey.
There are so many in black, and the church bells have always a tolling sound.
The church bells, which should have beentolling to early devotion, were now loudly ringing the alarm, while their towers were crowded, as were the roofs of most of the houses, with persons gazing towards the scene of devastation.
Solemnly across the water came the sound of innumerable bells, tolling for those who had died of the plague, and were now being borne to their last home.
The bells, that had grown hoarse with tolling funerals, were now cracked with joyous peals.
The bells were continually tolling for burials, and the dead-carts went their melancholy rounds at night and were constantly loaded.
Yes, there could be no mistake--it was the tolling of a bell.
And through the window, which was left open at the top to admit the pure air, came again, wafted by the wind, the low, dreadful tolling of the chapel bell.
Suddenly, he heard from the distance a low, deep sound, like the tolling of a church bell.
The two again fell silent and again heard the quavering voices of the old women telling of witches and hobgoblins, the whistling wind which shook the ogive windows, and the mournful, monotonous tolling of the bells.
In some churches the tolling of the bells must be paid for by the mourners, and sometimes it is the poorest who will insist that the bells be tolled the longest.
In a church in South Chicago it is said that the parishioners paid for the chimes with the definite understanding that the bell-tolling at funerals should no longer be a special charge.
In the midst of it all there would come the clear, metallic clang of a bell--a single stroke, as though someone away out there in the offing were tolling for a funeral.
It might not have been for her wedding; but no doubt at that same hour the bells of some church were tolling the announcement of the ceremony, that was to make her a wife.
I had no desire to linger among the spectators of that tragical tableau; and I was but too glad to find a cue for escaping from it: in the tolling of the steam-boat bell, as it summoned the passengers aboard.
The brother, and co-ruler with the Duke, refused to allow the corpse to be buried in the royal hereditary vault, nay even denied her the usual tolling of the bells for royal personages.
Anthony Ulrich rushed furiously from Frankfort and commanded the tolling and the burial in the royal vault.
Orders and counter orders crossed each other during several weeks; now the tolling began and now it was stopped.
An hour at noon, and then the meetinghouse bells were tolling for the afternoon service.
In the morning, as I began for very weariness to sink into some repose, I was waked by the tolling of the common bell, which called us burghers to the walls; I never heard its sound peal so like a passing knell before or since.
The wild rumours which flew through the town, speedily followed by the tollingof the alarm bells spread general consternation.
Let us finish our flask, then," said the old glover; "for I reckon the Dominican tower is tolling midnight.
Sure it is time enough for decent burgesses to arm at the tolling of the common bell, which calls us out bodin in effeir of war.
He had heard the church clock tolling the hours as he came down the mountain, and he knew it had not struck ten.
In a groping way, hand helping hand, all were at length got up and over, as the tolling of distant church bells, down in the valley below, proclaimed the hour of midnight.
Slow, brief, deep as a bell tolling a dirge, a reply rolled back.
A sudden wild outbreak, fighting men, shots, the clash of steel--again a tolling bell and a requiem for the dead.
At the first signal for the Vesper hour the books were all replaced in the aumbry in the cloister, and the community then waited until the commencement of the tolling of the great bell, when they betook themselves to their places in choir.
On the second tolling of the bell the community proceeded in procession to the church.
The community having entered the choir and taken their places, the senior members nearest the altar, the prior, who was up to this time waiting outside the door of the church, gave the sign for the tolling of the bell to cease.
When the second night-tolling ceased, at a sign from the superior, the hebdomadarian of the week, who had to sing the daily High Mass, began the Office with the usual Deus in adjutorium.
For at that moment the great bell of the Capitol, whose tolling had ceased for a time, began its clamour anew and the shouts of the masses, subdued and hushed during the interval, rose with increased fury.
Profound silence reigned unbroken, save for the slow chime of a distant bell, tolling the hour.
No sound broke the solemn stillness, save the tolling of convent-bells on remote Aventine, or the sombre chant of pilgrims before some secluded shrine.
Whatever hidden message lay in the tolling bells floated past these men unknown.
Tolling the Bell while the Congregation is leaving Church.
Here the tolling is, not as the congregation are leaving the church, but at one o'clock.
Churches in London were to be rebuilt with money paid by funeral rates, rates for tolling the bells, and rates for the use of palls [altar cloths].
