But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?-No! 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. From LearnThat.org. [Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 22.]
A single one if the knell is for man, or two for a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
This is of course connected with "knell," though the only Kneller who has become famous was a German named Kniller. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
It is the death knell of civilization and civility. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Anderson: America's Folly] Reference
It had rung through his drunken sleep like a knell. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
The fish rang their own knell as they took the hook. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It's the knell of the mop and the doom of the broom. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
It sounded like a death knell for the counterculture. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Of The Sixties] Reference
Now solemnly their sounds a distant death-knell tolling. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
She dared not speak; it would sound her own death-knell. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
For years, "high cholesterol" has sounded like a death knell. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Chat: Paul Ridker] Reference
I hope these last few weeks were the death knell for the BJP. From Wordnik.com. ['A FEARFULNESS IN THE AIR'] Reference
The words fall like a death-knell on his thoughts and feelings. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
If they continue down this path, "it will be their death knell.". From Wordnik.com. [The Question Remains] Reference
The Gap answered him; and the answer was like the knell of doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
To Myra the clang of the door as it shut seemed like a death-knell. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Yet it is far too early to sound the death knell for Argentine liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Kirchner's Assault on the Press] Reference
The death-knell rang for all time when the sewing-machine was invented. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
'That rings a death-knell,' said Paul 'I have no hope of consent in such. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A knell to the despot, a pæan to the slave, it thundered round the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
The volley which pierced his breast was the knell of the Bonaparte dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
A prologue is a kind of introduction knell prohibition sermon tempest 58 59. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
A crackdown on the Kurds would be the death knell for Turkey's EU aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Backward] Reference
� That kind of ambivalence is the death knell of a counterinsurgency campaign. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Military Uses Local Projects To Win Over Afghans] Reference
Clay's defeat was received by his devoted followers as the knell of their hopes. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It was a sound that he could not bear to hear, for to him it rang a knell of pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of One Syllable] Reference
The engine bell tolled slowly, as if it sounded a knell, and the train wound away. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
That made the crew very mad and sounded the death knell to all the monkeys on board. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
The knell of retreat no longer sounds in our hearts; the tocsin rings there instead. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The knell of popery had been sounded, and nothing remained for the aged bishop but despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He felt it to be the knell of popery, and in writing to Peder Galle he inveighed against it. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The passage of the Union Bill sounded the political death knell of the South African native. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
This signal, which was used only on important occasions, sounded to Madame like a funeral knell. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These words fall like a knell upon the heart of Nausikaa; she is led out fainting by her mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The making of movies was to be the death knell of live theater; recorded music, the end of concerts. From Wordnik.com. [Turning the Page] Reference
The abandonment of scissors from the personal-grooming process was more or less the death knell of my youth. From Wordnik.com. [Political Correctness Has Passed Me By] Reference
File-sharing, once thought to be the death knell for the music industry, has actually helped trigger a spending spree. From Wordnik.com. [Rock's Big Bounce] Reference
And the New France inevitably sounded the death knell for the anti-immigrant, new right movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen. From Wordnik.com. [Can Les Bleus Cure France’s Blues?] Reference
The old-time circus's death knell has sounded prematurely before, such as when Ringling switched to arenas in the '50s. From Wordnik.com. [Circuses: Big Top Presses On] Reference
My view: while it would sound the death knell for the golden age of American consumption, it would in fact be a boon for China. From Wordnik.com. [China Will Eat Our Lunch] Reference
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