...enches, runs to the window, and asks of one passing the street, who the bell toll d for? Dr. Partridge, says he, that famous almanack- maker, who died... ...21 can live by making of graves for nothing? Next time you die, you may e en toll out the bell yourself for Ned. A third rogue tips me by the elbow, a...

...cal and mental forces that were being exerted to bring them for a trifling toll across the channel. So far from pitying the rowers’ distress, they poi...

...ill I had drawn All venom out.—Ah, fearful pawn! For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mi...

..., like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell. ‘It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals... ... seemed to have his eyes fastened on the rising figure. But, there was the toll to be taken, as the gates were now com- plaining and opening. The T’ot...

...nly tone, They seemed to hear a dying groan, And bade the passing knell to toll For welfare of a parting soul. Slow o’er the midnight wave it swung, N... ...s ye sung, Seemed in mine ear a death-peal rung, Such as in nunneries they toll For some departing sister’s soul; Say, what may this portend?” Then... ...ying; While, for his royal father’s soul, The chanters sung, the bells did toll, The bishop mass was saying - For now the year brought round again ... ...id up the mountain come; The whilst the bells, with distant chime, Merrily tolled the hour of prime, And thus the Lindesay spoke: “Thus clamour sti... ...ed, afar, The lofty Bass, the Lambie Isle, The ocean’s peace or war. At tolling of a bell, forth came The convent’s venerable dame, And prayed Sain...

... con- fess; but then, the most silvery of bells may, sometimes, dis- mally toll, as well as merrily play. And as touching the sub- ject in question, i... ...position in me, wife and daughters began a soft and dirge-like, melancholy tolling over it. At length my wife, getting much excited, declared to me, w...

... wide The low sea-level drown – each finds a tongue And all night long the tolling bell resounds: So shine, so toll, till night be overpast, Till the ...

...er with its Tower Substantially distinct, a place for Bell Or Clock to toll from. Many a glorious pile Did we behold, sights that might well rep...

...nnot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls One.’ ‘Couldn’t I take ‘em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?’ h...

...nnot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to morrow, when the bell tolls One.” “Couldn’t I take ’em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?” h... ... the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the 18 A CRISTMAS CAROL bell tolled one. He resolved to lie awake until the hour was past; and, consid...

...in a few feet of their summit, Pea presented me to Waterloo (or an eminent toll taker representing that structure), muffled up to the eyes in a thick... ... course a noble lord preserved it ever more. The treadle and index at the toll house (a most inge nious contrivance for rendering fraud impossible),... ...o know where she wanted to be drove to. However, she paid the man, and the toll too, and looking Waterloo in the face (he thought she knew him, don’t ... ...rloo) while his (the ugly customer’s) pal and coadjutor made a dash at the toll taking apron where the money pockets were; how Waterloo, letting the t... ...n obtuse civil ians, but requiring the further excitement of ‘bilking the toll,’ and ‘Pitching into’ Waterloo, and ‘cutting him about the head with h... ... at the Bridge had more than doubled in amount, since the reduction of the toll one half. And being asked if the aforesaid takings included much bad m...

...ood for the nixen under Rhine, or think you I would acknowledge him with a toll, the hell-dog? Thunder and lightning! if old scores could be rubbed ou... ... under certain events. The land was solitary. A boor passing asked whether toll or trib- ute they were conveying to Werner. Tribute, they were ad- vis...

...Sea. The U- boats run the gauntlet of that long narrow sea and pay a heavy toll to it. If only our Admiralty would tell the German public what that to...

... prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! 60 ... ...e. Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches,—a noted... ...cross my soul With those same boots of lead, again. Then space began to toll As all the heavens were a bell, And Being but an ear, And I and sil... ...nd larks and June Go down the fields to hay! 241 CXXV IF tolling bell I ask the cause. “A soul has gone to God,” I ’m answered in...

...e pursuit. “And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking, as before, That Gilpin rode a race.” The rush, and shout...

...l fail. Yet in these ears, till hearing dies, One set slow bell will seem to toll 10 The passing of the sweetest soul That ever look’d with human eyes...

...saster blinded our minds. 145 H G Wells These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things—taken toll of our prehuman a... ... dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it...

...e audacious should not complain. A mere trader ought not to grumble at the tolls levied by a mighty king. His mightiness was sometimes very over- whel...

...r to remember. Even on the plain of Biere, where the Angelus of Millet still tolls upon the ear of fancy, a larger air, a higher heaven, something anc...

...rom the old simple times. That every night at midnight, when St. Paul’s bell tolls out one, and we may move and speak, we thus discourse, nor leave su... ...s above as they recognised their relatives or lovers in the crowd, the rapid tolling of alarm bells, the furi ous rage and passion of the scene, were...