knell

• The bell tolls out its solemn death-knell, and the sable hearse is moving slowly on to the grave-yard. —  The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning
• "Do not those warlike Austrians see that that is their death-knell, and that it is a bad omen for them that Gentz had to blow the war-trumpet? —  Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
• "I pray God that it may bring them to you some day A line of Browning's came into her mind, and rang like a knell--"Some day, meaning no day She shivered and rose. —  Contrary Mary
• As she thought of it, she shuddered, and the icy fear seemed to run through all her limbs, chilling the marrow in her bones, and freezing her blood suddenly in its mad course Left alone with your lover"--"it is the cry of your fate"--Atossa's words kept ringing in her ears like a knell--the knell of a shameful death; and as she went over the bitter taunts of her enemy, her chilled pulses beat again more feverishly than before. —  Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
• I would go through hell to be with her Tennelly's words rang through the room like a knell, and Courtland could say no more. —  The Witness

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