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Hardly had all this been accomplished (it had taken no more than several seconds), when the gong sounded, the seconds scuttled through the ropes with their paraphernalia, and Joe and Ponta were advancing against each other to the centre of the ring.

Then he remembered that it was no fun being angry unless he had some one to frighten and make miserable, and he rushed to his big gong and made it clatter as loud as he could.

As I reached the limit of my swing and prepared to rush back on the counter swing, a great gong struck and thundered.

Let us drink!" cried O-Tar and reached for the dagger, the pommel of which he was accustomed to use to strike the gong which summoned slaves, but the dagger was not in its scabbard.

It was an appropriate relief when the gong sounded for prayer meeting.

The clang of the gong pierced his breast like a noise of remembered war.

The train pulled in to Sixteenth Street Station, and the waiting electric car could be seen, the conductor of which was impatiently clanging the gong.

Bertuccio!" cried he, striking a light hammer with a pliant handle on a small gong. "Bertuccio!" The steward appeared at the door.

And the dinner gong sounds to the reversed bottom of my glass.

The conductor clanged the gong, and the two couples separated in a sudden hubbub of farewell.

At the strike of the gong Rivera sensed something impending.

The Book of Army Management says: On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough: hence the institution of gongs and drums.