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Death knell

noun

An omen of death or destruction.

A bell rung to announce a death. Synonym: death bell.

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"Death knell" Quotes from Famous Books

... attentive, breathing all in unison and careful to make no sound to disturb the talking. At that instant a great burst of firing broke out over the water, so far away that I could only see one or two flashes, and, although that was none too reassuring to us, it seemed to Tugendheim like his death knell. He set his lips and drew ...

— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy

... the same effect was produced by the shots fired at Sarajevo. It became obvious that the signal for the fall of the Monarchy had been given. The bells of Sarajevo, which began to toll half an hour after the murder, sounded the death knell of ...

— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin

Words linked to "Death knell" : presage, prognostication, portent, omen, prodigy, prognostic, bell