Read full poem →Sound, sweet heavenly chime,
Ring in the unutterable eternal prime.
Dictionary Entry
To make a phone call to (this place).
In a Sentence
“John has just rung in sick. He won't be back til Monday, he says.”
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Poetry examples for “ring in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The blows of my hammer
Ring in the earthquake!
Read full poem →Into the labyrinths of sweet utterance?
Or when serenely wand'ring in a trance
Of sober thought? Or when starting away,
Read full poem →To helpless children! then, O then! he feels
The point of misery fest'ring in his heart,
And weakly weeps his fortune like a coward.
Read full poem →Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails.
Then he shut down the trap door with a ring in it
That jangled even above the general noise,
Read full poem →If, chasing past events with vain pursuit,
Or wand'ring in the wilds of future being,
A single thought now rove, recall it home.--
Read full poem →a bird of prey attains in its flight"; so Shakespeare
{Macb, ii. 4) : "A falcon tow*ring in her ppde of place.*
I follow Dr. Grosart in preferring this reading from Q. i.