Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, Knolling away time.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
Long did it proceed unanswered, till the Knolling of a bell stole in among the intervals of her words, like a clang that had travelled far over valley and rising ground, and was just ready to die in the air.
"From-Twice-Told-Tales"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Stronger it grew and sadder, and deepened into the tone of a death bell, Knolling dolefully from some ivy-mantled tower, and bearing tidings of mortality and woe to the cottage, to the hall, and to the solitary wayfarer that all might weep for the doom appointed in turn to them.
"From-Twice-Told-Tales"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel