Word: peals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church† planned his Christmas, back home in Boston. Christmas eve he will say farewell to his inseparable companion, the black French poodle Moro, to pay a visit to orphan asylums. Christmas day he visits the hospitals. But at midnight, when the first bells peal their glad tidings, he enters the chancel of his Cathedral of the Holy Cross, vested in stately robes, to pontificate at the midnight mass, oldest of Christmas rites...
Rutgers College boys refused to be suppressed. The bell in old Queens Building did not peal its 8 o'clock summons. Authorities investigated, found the clapper stolen, found also a note: "Ye old tradition...
When West Point Cadets attend chapel, clear and true peal out the notes of the chapel organ. Last week, however, the organ's integrity was seriously threatened. It seemed possible that in the not distant future it would be giving forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
Last week up and down the furze-patched hills of Wales there reverberated peal after peal, echo on echo, of human voices singing in unison, as well as the shrill shrieks. of excursion trains freighting patrons in to the great Welsh singing contest, the Eisteddfod. From the U. S., from China even, and from the pits of the Cornish mines and the backbush of the mountains came the lusty contenders. They thundered for a week in Celtic conflict...
...Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...