Knelling [verb]

A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.

The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.

It is not so now, for when the blacks revolted and drove their masters from the land, the death-knell of civilisation was sounded.

When for mirth's yell earth's knell seemed pleaseSome dumb new grim great whim in him Made Jews take chalk for cheese.

This date this pupil translates by the phrase, “Dock knell all” .

Barnstable listened in deep silence to this unexpected narration, which sounded in the ears of Dillon like his funeral knell.

He might have penned in his prison cell the knell for the tragedy of human life, De Morte.

Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death-knell?

He was extremely perplexed, for to him it was as his death knell, and he commenced setting his house in order.

There was an article on the bookselling affair in the Times of yesterday, which must be the knell of the Association.