Flags on the shipping, in the harbor, were at half-mast; and bells tolled from one to three o'clock.
All his former companions grew aweary, and one by one died, and the monastery bells tolled their requiem as they were laid to rest.
Her eye was fixed on the distant village church: the bell had tolled for the evening service; the last villager was lagging into the porch, and everything had sunk into that hallowed stillness peculiar to the day of rest.
And presently the voices of the two speakers were hushed, or were replaced by the gentle but unromantic music of the nose; and save when the church bells tolled the hour and the watchman called it, all was silent at the house of John Sedley, Esquire, of Russell Square, and the Stock Exchange.