Her laughter was the most catching I ever heard; it would begin, a low peal in her throat, and would grow louder and louder till her whole vast body shook.
Then, from up above and far away, down the tunnel they had so lately travelled was borne to their ears in a faint musical hum the sound of distant bells ringing a joyful and clangorous peal.
Marilla turned quickly away to hide her twitching face; but it was no use; she collapsed on the nearest chair and burst into such a hearty and unusual peal of laughter that Matthew, crossing the yard outside, halted in amazement.
Then she wanted to go off into a peal of laughter.
Away in the middle of the night a wild peal burst from the village bells, and in a moment the streets were swarming with frantic half-clad people, who shouted, "Turn out!
A deep peal of thunder went rolling and tumbling down the heavens and lost itself in sullen rumblings in the distance.
The signs: • Looking tired • Stressed • Dark circles • Crepey, dull, lacklustre skin • Wrinkles • Saggy cheeks and jowls How to beat it: Twice a week use of a good exfoliant or light fruit acid peal to freshen up the skin and help to get rid of the "winter look" on the surface – choose something with brightening qualities and make sure it's not to harsh.
In 2011, a man living in Sharow, North Yorkshire, was so incensed by a three-hour peal that he locked the bell ringers inside the church belfry.
He was not surprised when he heard a peal of thunder.
Instead, it came originally with allusion to bell-ringing and the different orders in which a peal of bells may be rung.
I could not help joining, and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.
Without stirring from our firesides we may roam to the most remote regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spenser's shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet us, where Milton's angels peal in our ears the choral hymns of Paradise.
" The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length she had control of her voice she cried, "Oh, come, you are making game of me!
My sausage peg was a complete peal of bells.
Very soon they recognized the large town where they lived, and the tall steeples of the churches, in which the sweet bells were ringing a merry peal as they entered it, and found their way to their grandmother's door.
The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.
When she came back, she had hundreds of things to talk about; but the most beautiful, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank, in the quiet sea, near the coast, and to gaze on a large town nearby, where the lights were twinkling like hundreds of stars; to listen to the sounds of the music, the noise of carriages, and the voices of human beings, and then to hear the merry bells peal out from the church steeples; and because she could not go near to all those wonderful things, she lon
The lightning flashed, and the thunder rolled in one long-continued peal all night.
