gong

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She sat down on the edge of the sofa, and though the gong was about to sound, incited him to dawdle and stay with her.

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  1. noun A rimmed metal disk that produces a loud, sonorous tone when struck with a padded mallet.
  2. noun A usually saucer-shaped bell that is struck with a mechanically operated hammer.
  3. intransitive verb To make the sound of a gong.

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  • There's the second gong, and if we're not at table in our seats before it stops, it'll be a case of pickles With these words, Tom dashed into the passage with me after him; and, after racing up a bare, carpetless flight of stairs, I found myself in a wide large room, which, the evening having closed in, was lighted up only by a single gas-burner. —  On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
  • The captain was asleep and was awakened by an alarm gong--only to find himself floating in a mass of wreckage. —  Skylark Three
  • The Mouse-deer replied: "The Woodpecker came and sounded the war-gong, and I, being Chief War-Dancer, danced; and, forgetting about your children, I trod upon them and crushed them flat On hearing this the Otter went and made complaint unto King Solomon, prostrating himself and saying: "Your Majesty's most humble slave craves pardon for presuming to address your Majesty, but Friend Mouse-deer has murdered your slave's children, and your slave desires to learn whether he is guilty or not according to the Law of the Land." —  Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
  • It will be nice company for the dinner-gong, which it faces. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920
  • Then came the gong, and there was a rustle down of more people, young and old, friends of the family who had come to act, or to see their sons and daughters act. —  The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
 

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