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    In front of it were two yellow buses, our own tormentor and one that brought students from the other direction, and loitering students awaiting the knell of the morning bell.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell rung
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    There was only the solemn, hourly bonging of the great clock in the bell tower of Hurd's Church; especially on the most brittle-cold days of December, and against the landscape of old snow—thawed and refrozen to the dull, silver-gray sheen of pewter—the clock-bell of Hurd's Church tolled the time like a death knell.  (source)
    death knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
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    The death knell of Spencer Lawton's precious gunshot-residue test.  (source)
    death knell = demise
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    The knell has sounded for capitalist private property, Marx would say.  (source)
    knell = death bell
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    "Dad says this is the death knell for him," Ruth said to Ray... Our place is going to be swallowed up in subdivision land.  (source)
    death knell = announcement of the demise or end
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    The gong clanged and knelled.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The sound was a deep-throated bronze booming, coming faster with each knell.  (source)
    knell = ring of a bell
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    The press ran story after story quoting lawyers and scientists saying that a victory for Moore would "create chaos for researchers" and "[sound] the death knell to the university physician-scientist."  (source)
    death knell = demise or end
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    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)
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    The electric-chair knell of the doorbell sounded through the house again.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell ringing
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    That rope might have rung our death knell, signifying, as it surely must, that the American eagle had landed.  (source)
    death knell = figuratively, the sound of a bell rung to announce a death
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    Today it was not just telling us that in five minutes mass would begin, today it was crying the knell of Lupito.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce death or a funeral
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    Knell and Poggin, and then Cheseldine himself, would be persuaded of this fact, so Fletcher boasted.  (source)
    Knell = a character in the story
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    When he heard Fletcher's name and faced Knell he knew he had reached the place he sought.  (source)
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    But Knell was not there, and most assuredly not Poggin.  (source)
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    Knell's words cut the air, stilled the room.  (source)
    Knell = a character in the story
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    He thought he pulled a stroke with Knell.  (source)
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    Knell had cut out with the trenchant call, and stood ready.  (source)
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    Knell coolly eyed his antagonist, his strange face not changing in the least.  (source)
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    An' it 'pears I'm the cause of friction between Knell an' Poggy.  (source)
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    If that red-handed Poggin, if that cold-eyed, dead-faced Knell had only been at Ord!  (source)
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    Knell never had any use fer me, but Poggy's been square, if not friendly.  (source)
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    Knell had a record, but as gunman with an incredible list of victims Poggin was supreme.  (source)
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    Then Knell came in and seated himself without any of his chief's ease.  (source)
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    "Dodge, I'm in bad with Knell," he said.  (source)
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