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Meanings of chime the hour in English
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Usage of chime the hour in English
1
Somewhere in the distance, a bell tower began to chime the hour.
2
He listened to the clock over the bar chime the hour.
3
As the great clock was about to chime the hour of midnight the dancing ceased.
4
The Viennese clock would chime the hour and her Goth patient would rise without saying a word and leave.
5
Nor did it chime the hour of five on the morning of May 31st, 1985.
6
Sitting in his office, staring out the window and listening to Big Ben chime the hour, Mickelson's plan seemed workable.
7
It lacked no more than three or four minutes of noon; soon the courthouse clock would begin to chime the hour.
8
Whatever I might have said in reply was swallowed then as every clock within the castle began to chime the hour.
9
Then the antique grandfather clock, a magnificent old gent of ornate wood and golden trimmings, began to chime the hour loudly.
10
At last the bells all around him chimed the hour of twelve.
11
A clock downstairs chimed the hour, then the half-andthen another hour.
12
In the garden, the queer, off-kilter clock tower began chiming the hour.
13
The minutes passed, and the clock chimed the hour, and then the quarter.
14
The belfry movement could play fixed tunes, for example to chime the hours.
15
The church bell chimed the hours and made her recall the previous evening.
16
They listened to the church clock at Heathermuir chiming the hours and half-hours.