death bell

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death bell - a bell rung to announce a death

death knell

bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

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Totenglocke

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Who knew that on that Wednesday, as the death bell tolled, black birds of change that would affect us all were taking flight.

When the great man died: July 1774, Johnstown, Tryon County, Royal Province of New York

The death bell is indeed tolling for the "religious state.

Confronting idle worship and Idol worship this Ramadan

I have been in the pharmacy business all my professional life, since college, and every two or three years the death bell starts ringing that independent pharmacy is dying," he notes.

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So when death bell tolls for the next person in line, learn something from it.

Learn when the death bell tolls

The piano part echoes the vocal line with its own minor third figures interspersed with repeated notes that suggest the tolling of the death bell.