knell

The signs, which certainly did look like signs of guilt, struck a knell on the heart of his father.

Still that word, which rang like a knell in his dazed brain!

It sounded the knell of all hope of redress of their wrongs.

How often does the knell of vanished power repeat the lesson!

The dead I knell, the living wake, And the power of lightning break!

The volley which pierced his breast was the knell of the Bonaparte dynasty.

It fell upon my ears like a cry of vengeance—like a knell of death!

The grave, sweet voice sounded on her ears as the knell of hope.

And I laughed aloud—the fool's laughter that was my knell of ruin!

The Gap answered him; and the answer was like the knell of doom.