death knellin a sentence
- "The death knell of Spencer Lawton's precious gunshot-residue test.† (source)
- 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)
- "Dad says this is the death knell for him," Ruth said to Ray, waving the clipping at him as she got into Ray's ice blue Chevy at the end of her driveway.† (source)
- 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)
- That rope might have rung our death knell, signifying, as it surely must, that the American eagle had landed.† (source)
- Instead, he was seized by terror: the fantastic realization that it could just as well have been himself for whom the death knell was tolling.† (source)
- The death knell.† (source)
- But it was the death knell that had tolled over these stooks, and more than thrice.† (source)
- On Old Wyk her uncle's hellhorn had blown a death knell for her dreams, and now Hagen was sounding what might well be her last hour on earth.† (source)
- They had rung the bells when King Robert died, she remembered, but this was different, no slow dolorous death knell but a joyful thunder.† (source)
- His manner was so casual when he was sounding the death knell of Tara.† (source)
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- Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell.† (source)
- For in the banging of the guns she heard the death knell of this multiplicity of beasts.† (source)
- It is the death knell.† (source)
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