Lexicographical Neighbors of Tollings
Literary usage of Tollings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bell: Its Origin, History and Uses by Alfred Gatty (1848)
"Not so, however, were we moved by the tollings of St. Paul's great bell.
They seemed to be charged with a message of irresistible evil: they carried you ..."
2. The Practical Teacher by Joseph Hughes (1882)
"Suppose the intervals were 3, 5, 6, the following table represents the tollings
of each bell, the bells being represented by Roman numerals. ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1846)
"The tollings of the great bell weie usually, as in the case of Lawrence Fletcher, "
afternoon knells;" and why it was " a forenoon knell" for Edmund ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... hath ordained and taxed, That the Sellers thereof shall not take for any of
the said Bibles unbound, above the price of ten •tollings ; aud for ..."
5. I Promessi Sposi: (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (1909)
"Ah 1 it was for this, then, that they were trying to clear the passage.' '
Just so : and you must also have heard some tollings of the bell. ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Among them may be cited LORD CHIEF JUSTICE WHITESIDE, who, referring to the
threatenings, and pii-tollings, ..."
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