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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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