1 When the Sunday-school hour was finished, the next morning, the bell began to toll, instead of ringing in the usual way.
2 We do not toll for little Kay; we do not know him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 3 Little Beau had cost her her health, and the hard work she had done at Tara since his birth had taken further toll of her strength.
4 The claim on Hunker Creek took toll from its possessors.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 5 And the bell would toll slowly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 6 We crossed the Liffey in the ferryboat, paying our toll to be transported in the company of two labourers and a little Jew with a bag.
7 But Eumaeus called to his men and said, "Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves."
8 He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C... 9 Cannon to the south, and they might be tolling the knell of Atlanta's fall.
10 Oswald the cupbearer modestly suggested, "that it was scarce an hour since the tolling of the curfew;" an ill-chosen apology, since it turned upon a topic so harsh to Saxon ears.
11 Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
12 In the distance there was a church-tower bell that tolled the hours one by one.
13 The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
14 At the hour appointed, Lord de Winter and the four friends repaired to the convent; the bells tolled, the chapel was open, the grating of the choir was closed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK 15 Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls.