tollings

The words of their Legate were final, the army attacked the city, and -- as Henri Martin finely writes, -- "neither funeral tollings nor bell-ringings, nor Canons in all their priestly robes could avail, all were put to the sword; not one was saved, and it was the saddest pity ever seen or heard."

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

Southey's 'Inch Cope Bell,' and to this division belong all tollings, fire-alarms, and knells in verse whatever.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

They recur to them again and again; French poems describing the same are those they imitate the more willingly; the tollings of the funeral bell are heard each day in their compositions.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

‘Just so: and you must also have heard some tollings of the bell.

Chapter XXXV 1909

I saw many clever tollings but I did not see a Loon killed.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

American "sleeper," what with stops, starts, hootings, tollings, whizzings round sharp corners, listening to the passage of freight-trains, and listening to haughty conductor-admirals who quarreled at length with newly arrived voyagers at 2 or 3 A.M.!

Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899

And very soon there were ten bells, twenty bells, whose despairing tollings were detected by their ears, which had by this time grown accustomed to the quivering of the darkness.

The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871

It ends with solemn tollings and minute firings, that proclaim a nation's grief.

A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln 1865

But the frenzied bells had sunk into their twelvemonth's slumber, which shall be broken only by decorous tollings at less festive times.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

But the frenzied bells had sunk into their twelvemonth's slumber, which shall be broken only by decorous tollings at less festive times.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866