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death knell Noun something that heralds death or destruction
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Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. When the spectral procession approached the altar, each couple separated, and slowly diverged, till, in the centre, appeared a form, that had been worthily ushered in with all this gloomy pomp, the death knell, and the funeral. |
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