The bowmen rushed into the glade, and five muskets from our side took toll of them.

One heard whistles, the rumble of heavy wheels, and the tolling of locomotive bells.

The great bell, which had formerly been the emblem of their citizenship, now tolled for the last time.

It was tolled on all occasions of a public nature, and the people gathered in multitudes at the well-known call.

We listened for the age tolled from the belfry.

With them came news of the rout of the Cherokees, who had been beaten by Nicholson's militia in Stafford county and driven down the long line of the Border, paying toll to every stockade.

All goods paid to his customs a proportionable part of their value [x]: passage over bridges and on rivers was loaded with tolls at pleasure

But presently the huge animal halted, and, with eyes aflame and the solemn air of a patriarch and a judge, repeated thrice, while a bell tolled in the distance: "Accursed! Accursed!

When Parson Jones awoke, a bell was somewhere tolling for midnight.

"As the death-rattle became stronger the priest prayed faster; his prayers mingled with the stifled sobs of Bovary, and sometimes all seemed lost in the muffled murmur of the Latin syllables that tolled like a passing-bell.

Its bells tolled during the whole of that dreadful night.

At length, however, he heard through the hissing uproar of escaping steam a mournful bell somewhere off to port, which he at first took for a buoy, then perceived to be tolling with a regularity inconsistent with the eccentric action of waves.

Send us down a girl or two from up there, can't you?" A girl or two, however, apparently appeared from outside, greetings were called up to Phebe, offerings of flowers and delicacies transmitted via Dick on the stairs to Olly at the top (who took toll by the way), and the liveliest kind of a time went on.

What's fifteen miles to a horse!" "Fifteen miles means thirty to a horse when he has to travel back the same road," said John drily; "and your heavy swells take the toll out of horseflesh quicker than a London cabby.

Within me responds To the dismal knell; Shadows are trailing, My heart is bewailing And tolling within Like a funeral bell.

At intervals the bell tolled after the vanishing train.

These considerations show that an active and strict police ought to be established over the whole road, with power to make repairs when necessary, to establish turnpikes and tolls as the means of raising money to make them, and to prosecute and punish those who commit waste and other injuries.

They had new proceeded twenty miles, and the midnight bell had tolled near half an hour.

The bell was not tolled until Mrs. Willoughby, and her daughters, had got fairly through the still unprotected gateway of the stockade, although the recent discussion of political questions had so far substituted discontent for subordination in the settlement, that more than half of those who were of New England descent, had openly expressed their dissatisfaction at the delay.

Fifty priests and fifty choristers were to pray and sing over her for three days, and the bell was to toll without ceasing.

And the echoes of each bell tolling above his head went on before him whispering to the others.

The bells of the Cathedral had begun to toll, which was very startlingnot ringing in their cheerful way, but tolling as if for a funeral; and no other sound was audible but the noise of footsteps, like an army making a silent march into an enemy's country.

"It is inscribed, 'Richard Phelps made, me, 1716,' and is never used except for striking the hour, and for tolling at the deaths and funerals of any of the Royal Family, the Bishops of London, the Deans of St. Paul's, and the Lord Mayor, should he die in his mayoralty.

Scarce audible now at all was the sound of his heart: it was like a church bell tolling beyond hills for the death of some one unknown and far away.

(The bell is heard tolling in the chapel of the château.) Jan (frightened).What, the bell of the chapel?