Word: pealing
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...Scout trumpeters leading mile-long parades down every Main Street. They saw parents and civic leaders of every town & city from Violette, Maine to Sap, Calif, gathered in mass meetings, with all of each town's choirs, orchestras and clergymen massed on the platform. They heard all these peal out "I Love to Tell the Story." In the midst of each assemblage they saw a little band of consecrated folk stand up to chant: "Now we dedicate ourselves anew to this high service, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength...
After standing idle for several years the pipe organ which was long used in the old Appleton Chapel with again peal forth this time in the auditorium of Cambridge's new Rindge Technical High School. Present Conant recently offered the organ to the Cambridge school committee, and yesterday it was accepted by the committee for use in the new building...
...restless inhabitants of Reunion or West turn over in their beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
...bells, it was also learned, are neither a carillon nor a peal. They are merely a set of 18 Russian bells, upon which only Russian music can be played, and by a Russian bell-ringer. This last requirement is due to the fact that the tone of the bells is extremely low, lower than those of any European country, a characteristic of Russian bells. The set was secured in Leningrad, where the Soviet government had collected bells from churches all over Russia to be melted down...
...King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard from the throne-room peal upon peal of schoolboy laughter...