Dictionary Entry

pealing

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈpiːlɪŋ/Used In Literature ↓

To sound with a peal or peals.

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Common Phrases

organ pealingbells pealing. pealingforth pealingthunder pealingpealing bellspealing camepealing bell

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Poetry examples for “pealing”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The bell is pealing,
And every feeling

Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
But front their silent pipes no anthem pealing
Startles the villages with strange alarms.

The bird-boy’s pealing horn is loudly blow’d;
The waggons jostle on with rattling sound;

Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres--an everlasting tone.

SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;
Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing,

I hide in the solar glory,
I am dumb in the pealing song,
I rest on the pitch of the torrent,

Where thro' the long-drawn Isle and fretted Vault
The pealing Anthem swells the Note of Praise.
Can storied Urn or animated Bust

Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault,
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 40

40. _The pealing anthem_. Cf. _Il Penseroso_, 161:

For last impregnable retreat—a citadel and tower,
For my last stand—my pealing, final cry.