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  • verb Present participle of knell.

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Examples

  • So let's just stop all the dramatic death-knelling every time one of our beloved heroes is literally caught with his proverbial pants down.

    Tiger Woods: 18 Holes Here I Come! 2010

  • When I entered the room, Arnim was lying flat out on the bed with Gary knelling between his outstretched legs.

    Hitting the Road: Unhooking the BRA BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • So let's just stop all the dramatic death-knelling every time one of our beloved heroes is literally caught with his proverbial pants down.

    Andy Ostroy: Tiger Woods: 18 Holes Here I Come! 2010

  • Looking for taint of evil …. knelling bell of soul dying …. still looking … nope … not there.

    When You Don’t Want to Be Big Business 2008

  • Waking up to the sea crashing all around you is quite different to college bells knelling the morning into action.

    To The Lighthouse Miglior acque 2005

  • Waking up to the sea crashing all around you is quite different to college bells knelling the morning into action.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Miglior acque 2005

  • This was the worst time of night, when fears took over, and the Hussars and Lancers inside their walls would hear the wolves in the hills, the nightjars, and each sound would be a knelling for their death until the senses were blunted, distrusted, and the night merely became a horror to survive.

    Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

  • She heard the words, "You cannot redeem me now!" knelling in her ears, her thoughts flashed back over years of remorse, to the day of her error, and she saw rising up as it were before her, like a spectre from the tomb, seeking retribution, the image of the child she had sacrificed to her vanity.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • Hopes and fears are knelling in the morning, which brings nothing to relieve her anxiety for the absent one; and Mr. Snivel has taken the precaution to have the news of the lost ship find its way into the papers.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • She hears the words knelling in her ears: "A guilty conscience needs no betrayer."

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

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