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Smith’s $5,000 donation proved a savvy investment: He owns two brownstones in Brooklyn today, Lee notes, with a peal of laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

For, in case you missed it, a peal of what may or may not have been the archangel Gabriel’s horn cut through the noise a few days ago signaling, ominous, that it’s time.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

The bells of Westminster Abbey will peal at 1 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

It gives Beck room to peal some clarion melodies and then attack them with trills, bent notes, blues licks and dissonances.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical, peal after peal, as though it would never stop.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

One broadcaster from Norway, amid peals of laughter, described the chief ice technician as "scooting" down the sheet.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Far from the subtlety required before a camera, her powerful voice and exaggerated gestures fill the space -- and draw peals of laughter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Her youthful peals of laughter notwithstanding, McDermott is a veteran novelist, and the generational divide she mines in “Absolution,” a novel that one advance reviewer has called “her masterpiece,” is dead-serious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

At Kit’s innocent question her two cousins burst into peals of merriment.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Church bells pealed and cannons thundered when Americans learned that the Continental Congress had adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Westminster Abbey's bells then pealed 80 times to remember the years since the first VE Day.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

Bells pealed over the biblical town of Bethlehem on Friday as crowds holding crosses aloft filed through the rain-soaked streets to mark Orthodox Christmas.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

Hearing about this, both Ms. Drury and Ms. Blain-Cruz pealed with affectionate laughter.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2019

The bell pealed again, and it was time for first period.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Ms. Oropesa’s limpid, flexible soprano brought a heart-tugging vulnerability to Elvira, and her pealing coloratura was both accurate and expressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

It’s no surprise that his most iconic stint in consumerism, the “Tickle Me Elmo” doll, capitalized on his pealing giggle.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024

The handover of the cathedral took many by surprise - an OCU priest, Vasyl Rudnytskyi, looked stunned as he walked towards the building’s gates amid the deafening pealing of bells.

From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2023

They made a noisy, pealing parade back through the Vesuvius Gate and down a dirt road outside the park with Mr. de Martino following closely behind.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

But their pealing had nothing to do with the disaster that had taken place the day before.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler