A bell was ringing somewhere far off to the northeast, slowly, a funeral toll.

In the Russian tradition, the funeral toll is called Perebor.

He heard the bellringer whistling "La donna è mobile" as he rang the funeral toll.

Most of these Churches had been razed three hundred years agol How were their giant bells sounding the Old Old World Funeral Toll now?

Near the end of Matins, during the Great Doxology, a solemn procession with the Epitaphios is held, with bells ringing the funeral toll, commemorating the burial procession of Christ.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is a long and complex history of bell ringing, with particular bells being rung in particular ways to signify different parts of the divine services, Funeral tolls, etc.