deathbell

But Obama never will, he is just too young and too connected to dubious things, like Ayers, like his preacher, like Kerry, who is a deathbell when involved.

Poll shows dead heat in Indiana 2008

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of

Ulysses 2003

If and when the crop failures followed on one another as they did in 1846, '47, and' 48, then the deathbell tolled over the land without a break.

Towards Unity 1943

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The news fell upon the household like the tolling of a deathbell.

Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1849

Thus the whole country became a charnel-house; the deathbell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for its dearest relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about, the ghosts of their former selves, among the wrecks of their former homes.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Thus the whole country became a charnel-house; the deathbell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for its dearest relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about, the ghosts of their former selves, among the wrecks of their former homes.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Thus the whole country became a charnel-house; the deathbell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for its dearest relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about, the ghosts of their former selves, among the wrecks of their former homes.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Thus the whole country became a charnel-house; the deathbell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for its dearest relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about, the ghosts of their former selves, among the wrecks of their former homes.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II John Lothrop Motley 1845