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Knell

noun

The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something.

verb

(past & past part. knelled; pres. part. knelling)

Ring as in announcing death.

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification. Synonym: ring. "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

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"Knell" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sacred ensign was welcomed by the Christians with a shout of "Victory!" which rose high above the din of battle. The tidings of the death of Ali soon passed from mouth to mouth, giving fresh heart to the confederates, but falling like a knell on the ears of the Moslems. Their confidence was gone. Their fire slackened. Their efforts grew weaker and weaker. They were too far from shore to seek an asylum there, like their comrades on the right. They had no resource but to prolong the combat or to ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... newly-born Has mingled with the funeral knell; And o'er the dying's ear has gone The ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... cold tranquillity presided over the place. The screech-owl gave one gloomy shrill and prolonged note, and all was still again. But that sound went thrilling to Theodora's heart, like the death-knell on the mountain blast; while the night wind blew fearfully, and the dismal howling was rehearsed by the echoes ...

— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

... was assailed with innumerable annoyances. Her body was racked with the gout, and her feeble mind was distracted by the contradictory counsels of her advisers. Any allusion to her successor was a knell of agony to her disturbed soul. She became suspicious, and was even alienated from Harley, whom she dismissed from office only a few days before her death, which took place Aug. 1, 1714. She died without ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII • John Lord

... warmth: "I refuse to recognise the divinity of noise; I utterly deny the majesty of monster choruses; clamour and clangour are the death-knell of music as drapery and so-called realism (which means, if it mean aught, that the dress is more real than the form underneath it!) are the destruction of sculpture. It is very strange. Every day art in every other way becomes more natural and music ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

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