In the office it used to be a saying that outside gong-strikes, Bob Brownley did not know he was in the stock business.

The brass gong tree.

Then the gong rang and Lister went back to the platform.

"I'll be here when the gong rings," he told her heartily.

He could estimate the progress of the pursuing wagon from gong sounds and shouts in the distance.

It is ten o'clock when a stroke of the gong announces that the police formalities are about to begin.

If made of gong-metal, so much the better, as the wearer could then ring out signals upon it with his locust far more effectively than by the present ridiculous mode of beating up rowdydow upon the flag-stones.

I then went to look at the musicians and their instruments, the latter consisting chiefly of coffee canes struck by a sort of gong-sticks.

'Twas from them the gong clamour sounded.