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  • Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put to him the death-knell question "Where you been?"†   (source)
  • The clatter of his precious pans as they fell down into the dark was like a death-knell to his heart.†   (source)
  • Cannon to the south, and they might be tolling the knell of Atlanta's fall.†   (source)
  • The knell of those words affects my memory of a time when in fact they were not heard at all.†   (source)
  • her niece's trousseau and which she had to keep hidden not only from her father but from the two negresses, who might have told Mr Coldfield—whipping lace out of ravelled and hoarded string and thread and sewing it onto garments while news came of Lincoln's election and of the fall of Sumpter and she scarce listening, hearing and losing the knell and doom of her native land between two tedious and clumsy stitches on a garment which she would never wear and never remove for a man whom she was not even to see alive.†   (source)
  • That is one of the falsifications—that knell I always find myself hearing and transmitting—that one cannot guard against, save by noting it.†   (source)
  • That was I. I was there; something of me walked in measured cadence with the measured tread of Jones and his companion, and Theophilus McCaslin who had heard the news somehow back in town, and Clytie as we bore the awkward and unmanageable box past the stair's close turning while Judith, following, steadied it from behind, and so down and out to the wagon; something of me helped to raise that which it could not have raised alone yet which it still could not believe, into the waiting wagon; something of me stood beside the gashy earth in the cedars' somber gloom and heard the clumsy knell of clods upon the wood and answered No when Judith at the grave's mounded end said, He was a Catholic.†   (source)
  • This wild deep Roo—ooo was the knell of the buffalo.†   (source)
  • When the wind blows a gale in the caves it makes what the rustlers call Oldring's knell.†   (source)
  • But Knell was not there, and most assuredly not Poggin.†   (source)
  • Knell's bullets thudded into the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Knell had cut out with the trenchant call, and stood ready.†   (source)
  • Knell's words cut the air, stilled the room.†   (source)
  • You never can tell what'll come off," continued Knell.†   (source)
  • He thought he pulled a stroke with Knell.†   (source)
  • An' it 'pears I'm the cause of friction between Knell an' Poggy.†   (source)
  • Knell did not even ask for the dates again.†   (source)
  • In that long moment of suspense Knell's body gradually stiffened, and at last the quivering ceased.†   (source)
  • Knell had spoken hurriedly and low, now and then with passion.†   (source)
  • Knell coolly eyed his antagonist, his strange face not changing in the least.†   (source)
  • Knell and Poggin, and then Cheseldine himself, would be persuaded of this fact, so Fletcher boasted.†   (source)
  • Longstreth rose presently and reached for a flask, from which he drank, then offered it to Knell.†   (source)
  • Knell had a record, but as gunman with an incredible list of victims Poggin was supreme.†   (source)
  • Yes," replied Duane, and a flash of insight made clear Knell's attitude.†   (source)
  • When he heard Fletcher's name and faced Knell he knew he had reached the place he sought.†   (source)
  • Then Knell came in and seated himself without any of his chief's ease.†   (source)
  • Knell stood quivering, but his face might have been a mask.†   (source)
  • "Fine wise talk from you, Knell," said Longstreth, scornfully.†   (source)
  • Knell stepped back from the comrade he hated.†   (source)
  • Did you notice Knell wasn't with them?" whispered Duane.†   (source)
  • Knell never had any use fer me, but Poggy's been square, if not friendly.†   (source)
  • Knell laughed a short, grim, hollow laugh.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing silent pause Knell's panting could be plainly heard.†   (source)
  • Knell whispered this last name with more feeling than the apparent circumstance demanded.†   (source)
  • He caught the thought—the breaking of Knell's muscle-bound rigidity.†   (source)
  • If that red-handed Poggin, if that cold-eyed, dead-faced Knell had only been at Ord!†   (source)
  • Strangely Knell did not even look at the man he was about to denounce.†   (source)
  • I only said Knell hadn't no more use fer him than fer me.†   (source)
  • Knell, this heah's—" Fletcher wheeled to the stranger.†   (source)
  • Knell would be leaving the rendezvous about the time Duane turned back toward Ord.†   (source)
  • These words fell like the knell of doom — "All those top-knots must be cut off."†   (source)
  • A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.†   (source)
  • Never did funeral knell, never did alarm-bell, produce a greater effect on the hearer.†   (source)
  • —What death-knell rings in it, that old Ahab shakes as if he were the belfry.†   (source)
  • yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother.†   (source)
  • It was another form of knell, with mockery added to the warning.†   (source)
  • Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the garden.†   (source)
  • Yet, at the moment, from high up in the carved crevices of the arch, floated down the low, strange wail of wind—a knell indeed for all that had gone.†   (source)
  • In the words "as usual," and again in her added, "mine, at all events," there seemed an ominous knell of some evil to come.†   (source)
  • To this fair creation of the great Middle-Age the Dissolution was, as historians tell us, the death-knell.†   (source)
  • Those bitter words of Cleve's, as if he mocked himself, were the last Joan heard, and they rang in her ears and seemed to reverberate through her dazed mind like a knell of doom.†   (source)
  • The gong clanged and knelled.†   (source)
  • Knell, come in heah.†   (source)
  • Chauvelin spoke curtly and to the point, and every word he uttered struck at Marguerite's heart like the death-knell of her fondest hopes.†   (source)
  • What is here told," he laid his hand heavily and gravely on the packet of papers as he spoke, "may be the beginning of the end to you and me and many another, or it may sound the knell of the UnDead who walk the earth.†   (source)
  • I thought of Maud, asleep there in the hut we had reared; I remembered her "Good-night, Humphrey"; "my woman, my mate," went ringing through my brain, but now, alas, it was a knell that sounded.†   (source)
  • She could not see Chauvelin, but she could almost feel those keen, pale eyes of his fixed maliciously upon her helpless form, and his hurried, whispered words reached her ear, as the death-knell of her last faint, lingering hope.†   (source)
  • Then a rushing wind filled his ears like a moan of wind in the cliffs, a knell indeed—Oldring's knell.†   (source)
  • A knell of all upon which it blew!†   (source)
  • OLDRING'S KNELL Some forty hours or more later Venters created a commotion in Cottonwoods by riding down the main street on Black Star and leading Bells and Night.†   (source)
  • The cliffs sang and the caves rang with Oldring's knell, and the lightning flashed, the thunder rolled, the echoes crashed and crashed, and the rains flooded the valley.†   (source)
  • The roar of the wind, with its strange knell and the re-crashing echoes, mingled with the roar of the flooding rain, and all seemingly were deadened and drowned in a world of sound.†   (source)
  • You'll hear Oldring's knell!†   (source)
  • Oldring's knell.†   (source)
  • Knell waited a long moment, and then his face broke its cold immobility in an extraordinary expression of devilish glee.†   (source)
  • Duane could not see any other culmination of this series of events than a meeting between Knell and himself.†   (source)
  • Knell hadn't any use fer you thet day.†   (source)
  • None of us ever seen Cheseldine—an' thet's strange, when Knell, Poggin, Panhandle Smith, Blossom Kane, and Fletcher, they all ride here often.†   (source)
  • But while Fletcher stayed in Ord waiting for Knell and Poggin, or for orders, Duane knew his game was again a waiting one.†   (source)
  • Here they were—Cheseldine, Phil Knell, Blossom Kane, Panhandle Smith, Boldt—how well Duane remembered the names!†   (source)
  • No; there must be a master craftsman behind this border pillage; a master capable of handling those terrors Poggin and Knell.†   (source)
  • Knell claims to know somethin' about you that'll make both the boss an' Poggy sick when he springs it.†   (source)
  • But in striking contrast to this mystery was the person, character, and cold-blooded action of Poggin and Knell, the chief's lieutenants.†   (source)
  • "Knell," began the chief, slowly, as he wiped his lips, "I gathered you have some grudge against this Buck Duane."†   (source)
  • If that terminated fatally for Knell there was all probability of Duane's being in no worse situation than he was now.†   (source)
  • With swift clink of spur and thump of boot the crowd split, leaving Knell and the stranger in the center.†   (source)
  • Invited to start a fight or withdraw, as he chose, Knell proved himself big in the manner characteristic of only the genuine gunman.†   (source)
  • Dodge, I'm in bad with Knell," he said.†   (source)
  • And Knell, who sat there, tall, slim, like a boy in build, like a boy in years, with his pale, smooth, expressionless face and his cold, gray eyes.†   (source)
  • He's waitin' over there on the mountain to give orders to Knell or Poggy, an' neither one's showin' up.†   (source)
  • But Knell's passionate, swift utterance carried the suggestion that the name ought to bring Poggin to quick action.†   (source)
  • Duane did not circle around the idea with doubts and hopes; if Knell knew anything it was that this stranger in Ord, this new partner of Fletcher's, was no less than Buck Duane.†   (source)
  • Hard man to figger, thet Knell.†   (source)
  • Knell stepped up, and it was easy to see, from the way Fletcher relinquished his part in the situation, that a man greater than he had appeared upon the scene.†   (source)
  • Duane concluded to await developments and when the gang rode in to Ord, probably from their various hiding-places, he would be there ready to be denounced by Knell.†   (source)
  • Knell's pale face flashed into Duane's swift sight; then Boldt's, then Blossom Kane's, then Panhandle Smith's, then Fletcher's, then others that were familiar, and last that of Poggin.†   (source)
  • He must ride back to Ord, to intercept Knell, face him be denounced, kill him, and while the iron was hot strike hard to win Poggin's half-won interest as he had wholly won Fletcher's.†   (source)
  • If not hate, then assuredly great passion toward Poggin manifested itself in Knell's scornful, fiery address, in the shaking hand he thrust before Poggin's face.†   (source)
  • It was possible, too, that Knell's manner, the import of his denunciation the meaning back of all his passion held Poggin bound more than the surprise.†   (source)
  • it could not have been Knell.†   (source)
  • Every eye shifted to Knell.†   (source)
  • Where were Knell and Poggin?†   (source)
  • Duane did not see Knell die.†   (source)
  • Damn you, Knell!†   (source)
  • Was that Knell?†   (source)
  • Where's Knell?†   (source)
  • What's wrong, Knell?†   (source)
  • Knell's dead.†   (source)
  • "No!" exclaimed Knell.†   (source)
  • Knell, come on in now.†   (source)
  • But what did Knell know?†   (source)
  • And the clock, in the altar on which Iphigenia was situated, beginning, after a preparatory convulsion, to toll twelve, the mere tolling seemed as if it would last until one—so prolonged was the knell to the anxious spinster.†   (source)
  • One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.†   (source)
  • After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees.†   (source)
  • The sleep into which I now sank refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rang in my ears like a death-knell; they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality.†   (source)
  • He had a singular red cap on, — not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it.†   (source)
  • There was such a shock of apprehension in his face, and he knew Richard so perfectly, and I too had seen so much of his gradual decay, that what my dear girl had said to me in the fullness of her foreboding love sounded like a knell in my ears.†   (source)
  • There was a bell on board; and as the ship rolled and dashed, like a desperate creature driven mad, now showing us the whole sweep of her deck, as she turned on her beam-ends towards the shore, now nothing but her keel, as she sprung wildly over and turned towards the sea, the bell rang; and its sound, the knell of those unhappy men, was borne towards us on the wind.†   (source)
  • refreshments, and a wicker-covered flask or pocket-pistol, containing near a pint of a remarkably sound Cognac brandy, of which she and the Major approved very much; and as soon as the hands of the "repayther" pointed to half-past one, and its interior arrangements (it had a tone quite equal to a cathaydral, its fair owner considered) knelled forth that fatal hour, Mrs. O'Dowd woke up her Major, and had as comfortable a cup of coffee prepared for him as any made that morning in Brussels.†   (source)
  • It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine.†   (source)
  • And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, Fauchelevent went on:— "You must not be found here in this fashion.†   (source)
  • There is the knell.†   (source)
  • So Sir Bors by fortune rode so long till he came to the same chapel where Sir Launcelot was; and so Sir Bors heard a little bell knell, that rang to mass; and there he alighted and heard mass.†   (source)
  • Let us all ring fancy's knell:   (source)
    knell = death bell
  • Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:   (source)
    knell = bell
  • Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.†   (source)
  • — Go, play, boy, play:—thy mother plays, and I Play too; but so disgrac'd a part, whose issue Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour Will be my knell.†   (source)
  • When he was brought again to the bar, to hear His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd With such an agony, he sweat extremely, And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty.†   (source)
  • So Sir Bors by fortune rode so long till he came to the same chapel where Sir Launcelot was; and so Sir Bors heard a little bell knell, that rang to mass; and there he alighted and heard mass.†   (source)
  • Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
    I would not wish them to a fairer death:
    And, so his knell is knolled.†   (source)
  • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
    The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
    The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
    And leaves the world to darkness and to me.†   (source)
  • It cannot
    Be called our mother, but our grave: where nothing,
    But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
    Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air,
    Are made, not marked; where violent sorrow seems
    A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell
    Is there scarce asked for who; and good men's lives
    Expire before the flowers in their caps,
    Dying or ere they sicken.†   (source)
  • Good Griffith, Cause the musicians play me that sad note I nam'd my knell, whilst I sit meditating On that celestial harmony I go to.†   (source)
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