2. Verb. (third-person singular of knell) ¹
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Definition of Knells
1. knell [v] - See also: knell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knells
Literary usage of Knells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York by Eliza Gutch (1901)
"For a perse under sixteen years of age, five knells are given on each < the six
bells in succession if a female, and five knells on th four first bells, ..."
2. Churchwardens' Accounts of S. Edmund & S. Thomas, Sarum, 1443-1702: With by Henry James Fowle Swayne, Mary Amy Swayne Straton (1896)
"knells were rung after death and unlike the passing bell were rung for those ...
Entries occur of the knells of " my lord Bishop" who died at Ramsbury in ..."
3. Collected Poems by Grace Denio Litchfield (1913)
"Oh, woe the knells! Oh, joy the bells That sob and shout in chime! They bid to
a marriage and ... Wedding bells and death-knells Ringing forth together. ..."
4. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Bernard Burke (1862)
"1783, Mary, iau. of Richard Ferguson, Esq. of Carlisle, and had issue, JOHN, late
of knells. Richard- Ferguson, deceased. Peter, m. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells,— Of the bells, bells,
bells,— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, ..."
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