dinner-gong

The sun was set, it was growing dark, and the first dinner-gong had rung.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

The Lettish – Croat maid, a powerful woman, beat the dinner-gong.

Babbit 2004

The two girls started downstairs in state when the dinner-gong rang: but they waited till they heard the voice of the men.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

I could see that the unfortunate doctor was in the last stage of indecision, from which he was rescued by the deep, sonorous voice of the red-bearded Duke, which boomed out like a dinner-gong.

The Adventure of the Priory School 1985

It was not a pretty house but it had that mood of comfort and complacency that middle-class owners breathe into the structure of a house along with dinner-gong echoes and cigar smoke.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

Fortunately both the dinner-gong and an elaborate set of chimes rang out through the house, and Mrs Clay, with a nervous start, said hurriedly,

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

As for Great-uncle, he was simply amazed to find what a long time there was before the dinner-gong went!

The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

Then she made a noise like the dinner-gong being beaten for the ship's meals.

The Ship of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1950

She gave a violent start, and looked round to see if Naomi had put out her dress for dinner, and saw, to her surprise, not only that she had not done so, but that it was the dinner-hour, so that either dinner must be late -- an unheard-of thing in that house -- or she had not heard the dressing-bell, and this must be the dinner-gong.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

How long she sat Sarah did not know, until she was startled by hearing the dinner-gong clanging through the house.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin