Before he even finished the order, the hard, incessant bonging of general quarters filled the ship.

The washer reservoir ran dry and the constant bonging drove me to distraction.

It struck with a muted metallic bonging and spewed hot coffee all over the thing.

Silence stretched out, a silence punctuated by the bonging of a clock somewhere.

For along with the bonging in his head, a dull ache throbbed through his skull.

The noise was overwhelming, almost drowning out the insistent bonging of the General Quarters alarm.

In the distance, a booming, sporadic and ephemeral, rang out, but the sound was different from the earlier bonging in his head.

There began a bonging.

We heard the mellow repeated bonging of the discreet's time alarm, warning the present occupant that his time was up.

The deep bass voices of marsh and edible frogs developed the tone of the amphibian choir, while fire-bellied toads added their bonging, bell-like melody.

Marko suffered along with his captive through another half hour, until the Incredible cast off and put out of the harbor with a great blowing of whistles and bonging of bells.

I saw Monsieur Forez's face change suddenly, as he realized that I wore no veil, and just then the loud bonging of the Vespers bell rang from the adjacent church.

Only then, against the bleeping and bonging of fortune's reversal, does he comment on Oneida casino revenues, which have risen to more than $375 million a year: "Compared to the previous 170 years, it's not a lot of money, and there are still third-world conditions on most reservations."

Outside, beyond the gleeful bonging and beeping of the 2,000 slot machines, an ultramodern racetrack is being groomed for another night of Thoroughbred betting by blue-collar commuters from Ohio searching for merciful odds along a riverfront dotted with snow patches and abandoned factories.