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But after years of wrangling over the issue this past summer season proved decisive in sounding the death knell for the Manhattan carriages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some see it as a death knell for solar tiles; others, as an opportunity.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

If “Superman” had opened to critical and commercial failure, it would have been a death knell for the modern superhero genre as we know it.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West’s memoir as millennial feminism’s final death knell.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

These words fell like the knell of doom—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Time magazine tagged her as one of the death knells of feminism, which seems harsh.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2017

They worked for him at Modern Photography, Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country and other publications, most of them gone long before the Internet began sounding its knells for the printed page.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2015

Despite the death knells, Luke Donald spent part of the year at No. 1, and after dropping to No. 3, supplanted Woods at No. 2 by December.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 5, 2012

There are death- knells sounded in every life; those words sounded mine, or would have if he had not immediately added: 'There!

From Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

Death-like knells around are flinging, In the wild, terrific gale.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Rebekah Smith

At the same time the sad "too late, too late," was knelled in my ears, and I thought of the might-have-been, and rode the merry-go-round of regret's banalities.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Of all the strange hours of my life it had knelled none more desperate than this!

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

As I stood there in the pulpit, busying me to teach the commandment of GOD, there knelled a sacring-bell; and therefore mickle people turned away hastily, and with great noise ran from towards me.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

But its huge clocks had successively knelled three hours after midnight, and all continued still and silent as the grave.

From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott

While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night.

From Time Magazine Archive

In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore."

From Time Magazine Archive

Such memories have linked these hills and caves, These woodland paths, and streams, and knelling waves Past to each sad pulsation of my breast, And made their melancholy arms the haven of my rest.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

The looks are bent on the shaking ground, And the heart beats loud with a knelling sound; Swift by the breasts that must bear the brunt, Gallops the major along the front— "Halt!"

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Friedrich Schiller

Death throws no darts through all these parts,   No sextons here are knelling; Come, judge and try, you'll never die,   But live at Ballyspellin.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning