Meanings of toll the knell in English

These silvery bells may toll the knell of our gallant King.

The heavy clang of the closing door tolled the knell of their departure.

It was early September of 1651, the year that tolled the knell of royalty in England.

That tolls the knell for their departed sense.

The ecstasy endured a full five minutes, until a last tap of the bell tolled the knell of the tardy.

'Too late' tolls the knell of the coward heart.

Is it really sacrilegious, they ask, especially now that the disappeared vultures have tolled the knell of the ancient, ordained system?

The change in climate had tolled the knell of all those plants that had withstood heretofore the rigors of the Alaskan summer.

In his ear tolled the knell of all the lost adventurers, his peers, all lost, lost within sight of the dark Tower itself-

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

When the curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the beggars flock to this house, and are admitted on payment of a small fee.

That speech tolled the knell, for the present at least, of the Whig party, and ushered in the reign of General Pierce and the Democrats.

"I remember to have read, though I forget where, that angels tolled the knell when Saint Isidro of Madrid was dying."

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" has immortalised the otherwise unimportant district of Stoke Poges- aparishembracing numerous small hamlets.

"I think, sir, they were something about 'the curfew tolling the knell of parting day,' but I can never recollect more of the poem."