Verb (used with object) : to peal the bells of a tower.    From Dictionary.com. 

The loud pealing of cannons is heard in the dark stilly night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference

 His voice was cannon fire in the silence, pealing over our heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroic] Reference

Ten minutes went by and the bells were still pealing, when he heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

White Finger Pointing at the Sky, came the sound of bells -- pealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference

Rowel from the top of the shoulder blade down as far as there is no pealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

There was the report of guns, the cracking of pistols, the joyful pealing of bells.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

Then through the gloom, with clear-pealing voice from across the stream, she called on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

The plea for attention in her eyes made me stop thinking about pealing off her panties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream] Reference

While the cannon was sounding, and bells were pealing in the capital cities of England and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

As Pamina, Ekaterina Siurina displayed a pretty, pealing soprano, especially nice on the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Fe's Busy 'Tales,' Bloody 'Butterfly,' Tinny 'Flute'] Reference

The appointed hour had struck; the cannon and the pealing of bells announced the advent of Napoleon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

He pours her a shot of Bushmills and she smiles as if all the bells of glory are pealing in her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priest in Kilvarnet] Reference

Everywhere addresses and banquets! festoons, pealing bells, children and young ladies strewing flowers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

The pealing tones of the organ resound under the touch of the highest masters of art for his simple ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Visitors] Reference

With vivid lightning and pealing thunder the scene is quickly shrouded in darkness and the curtain falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

At length the pealing of the organ announced the arrival of the affecting moment when the body of Sir William.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

It was not first announced by the booming of the cannon and the pealing of the liberty bell, but when the star of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

He awoke refreshed and lay in snug indolence listening to the rival sextons pealing first bell for Sunday service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

Then, when the pealing organ and the swelling anthem filled the vast dome with majestic harmony, the superb voice of.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

The two emperors made their entry into the decorated city of Weimar amidst pealing bells, and the cheers of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

Smartly taken early goal, pealing off Ivanov and volleying England ahead with what might have been perhaps his first touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [England player ratings v Bulgaria] Reference

"But she may be happy," Lady Engleton suggested when the ceremony was over, and the organ was pealing out the wedding march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Ay! ay! a-rira! which, like the pealing organ through the aisles, swells and floats away between the rocky sides of the glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference

In Manila particularly, amidst the pealing of bells and strains of music, unfeigned enthusiasm and joy were everywhere evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

From the Odeum came the richest music, pealing forth upon the sultry air, and, breaking into softest harmony, melted into the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

To-ke-ah leaped to his feet with Jo-que-yoh in his arms, and pealing his war-hoop, flourished his keen hatchet over the head of the father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

My fragile existence slipped sorrowfully into this world amid the pealing bells of a revolution, into whose whirlpool I was soon to be involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference