Which preposition to use with gongs
" Andy again heard the gong of the repair wagon.
" They worked until the first gong for dinner rang.
" At that moment the gong in the hall sounded for lunch, and I was by no means sorry for the interruption.
Grand Commander, "Let it be recorded, he will lie and steal," and then an immense gong at the far end of the hall would be sounded and the candidate would imagine that the day of judgment had come.
And presently there came the banging of a gong from the hall below, and he started like a war horse at the sound of the bugle.
"You can always tell a Chinese bell from a Chinese gong by the bell-pull attached to it.
You have but to sound the gong beside you, and in a few moments I shall be a dead man.
As for us, we know, when she comes and stands in the doorway and dimples up her cheeks, and then makes those sounds that are more like drops of molasses falling on a gong than anything else I know of, we know that she is telling us in her own way that the next meal, whatever it is, is ready, and we go to it.
Instead of doing such a selfish thing, he loudly summoned his harem with that peculiar clucking sound which is as unmistakable to fowls as is the word dinner or the boom of a gong to us.
At the top was a gong with a spring-hammer, one of the sort that rings its warning whenever the door is opened; and this the investigator examined with care.