gonging

So quiet: the music had stopped when the gonging began, and now there was no one to tell the sound system, "Resume play."

The strident gonging of the General Quarters alarm cut off his last word.

The gonging of the cistern clock in Smith's apartment warren woke him, and he was up and pulling on his coat in very little time.

The spiral struck with a loud gonging and caused the ship to heave when the inertial compensators were momentarily overloaded.

Throughout the ship, the electronic gonging started, followed by a human voice: "General Quarters-General Quarters-all hands man your battle stations."

Only a few more minutes went by before a sound suddenly began echoing through the room, a very low, pleasant gonging that awoke eager movement everywhere it touched.

As the gonging of the General Quarters alarm stopped, I heard the first sounds of the Tomcats turning their engines overhead.

USS NASSAU Edwards was still in the twilight of anesthesia when he heard the electronic gonging of the General Quarters alarm.

In this case, the i-MC speaker system blared forth the opening bars of John Williams' frantic call to arms in Star Wars, followed by the usual electronic gonging.

Except for what little traffic passed in the street, all was quiet, and yet Gormley heard the cacophonic gonging of some great cracked bell from deep inside himself, and knew it was his heart.

Reverend Goohringer, a shy man who usually had not the fortitude to say boo to a goose, had gone around town a few weeks ago telling people he was getting damned tired of all that gonging.

"Here we are, in the darkest moment of the night, on the deck of this icebreaker crunching through 10 feet of ice with the gonging and clanging sound of the ice crunching and breaking.

There was no order to their leaping about nor rhythm to their gonging and pounding, and though no fires save the torches burning on deck, were in evidence, their cauldron sent steam bubbling up into the fog.

It was hollow in the center with numerous apertures, which, as they swallowed and spat with the wind and water, made a bumping and thumping and clashing and bashing that Echo (phenomenon) with the earlier gonging and bonging.

They sailed and pedaled all that day and the next and then did the same the day after that At night they could hear the distant pounding of goblin drums and could barely make out the gonging and cackling that seemed always to begin not long after the sun went down.