knell-like

The judge, Judith Stein, spoke in a lugubrious, knell-like voice.

Nightmare on Elm Drive Dunne, Dominick 1990

The clock struck one, a knell-like sound in the night!

Beth Woodburn Maud Petitt

It struck with solemn self-importance, as if proclaiming the hour to foreclose a mortgage; and though not given to this sort of reflective speculation, McElwin must have been vaguely influenced by its knell-like stroke, for he nearly always glanced up as if a tribute were due to its promptness.

Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895

She could hear his dry, continuous cough through the closed door of her room, and never had it sounded so dismal, so knell-like before.

The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

As Zelma bent and smiled in modest acknowledgment of renewed applause, led by royalty itself, -- her aspirations so speedily fulfilled, her genius so early crowned, -- even at that supreme moment, the grief of the woman would have outweighed the triumph of the artist, and saddened all those plaudits into knell-like sounds, could she have known that the miserable fiends of envy and jealousy had grasped her husband's heart and torn it out of her possession forever.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various