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knell sentence examples

  • Knell of stage-coaching.
  • The violent end to the jacobite rising of 1745 also sounded the death knell of highland society.
  • Knell for the quarantine industry in the uk.
  • Were there no ears on which the rude clamor of that noisy mirth struck as a funeral knell?
  • Is norwich union's closure of hill house hammond the death knell of the high street broker?
  • Knell of death with their artillery.
  • Every second the prussians rung the knell of death with their artillery.
  • Knell for any theory regarding leys simply as tracks.
  • Toll on, thou passing bell; ring out my doleful knell; let thy sound my death tell.
  • Knell of the tax avoidance industry.
  • The security breach and the violence in parliament square overshadowed the vote itself which anti-hunting campaigners hope will signal the death knell of foxhunting.
  • Knell for multiculturalist policies.
  • This was the final death knell for the tramways, the last tram running at 4.30pm on 15 february 1930.
  • Incidentally, those who predicted the smoking ban would spell the death knell of the irish pub couldn't have been more wrong.
  • Knell for a business.
  • Changes in finance could be quietly tolling the death knell for property companies anyway, he believes.
  • In this unpredictable, regional evolution can be heard the death knell for mr bush's " greater middle east initiative.

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