The driver's hands were both firmly on the wheel when he began to hear the distant, repeated ringing.

Eyes closed, she listened to the distant ringing of the bell.

They started to walk back to the farm, warned by the distant ringing of a bell that supper was about to materialize.

From somewhere, I heard a distant ringing, then an audible click.

There was no sound, nothing but a line, distant ringing in my ears, like tinny bells.

He blinked, hearing a distant ringing in his ears.

The distant ringing was as clear as if the Executioner placed the call himself.

He reached for the phone, tapped a number out and waited as the distant ringing began.

He heard the distant ringing of her phone.

I heard the distant ringing of my phone and decided finally to answer it.