What I said of a peculiar Æolian word-music in William Drummond applies with equal truth to Crashaw; while of our own poets, somehow or other, he reminds me of Shelley, in the silvery shine and bell-like melody both of his verse and his imagery; and in one of his poems, Music's Duel, the fineness of his phrase reminds me of Keats.

Presently, when she had gone some little distance, he heard the dogs start barking again, the crack of her whip rang like a pistol-shot, and her bell-like voice echoed amongst the hills, joined with the troubled baaing of the sheep.

At the sound of that clear, bell-like voice Morse lifted his head to listen better.

When struck, it uttered a bell-like sound, by which the hour of prayer was announced.

She thanked him; Brown heard her, and the crystalline voice began to ring in little bell-like echoes all through his ears, stirring endless little mysteries of memory.

"They say an Italian musician heard her in Andalusia, and was so much charmed with her voice that he adopted her and educated her for the stage; and he named her Campaneo, because there is such a bell-like echo in her voice sometimes.

The sound at a distance was bell-like and not unpleasing.

"Now," he says, "it has a full, bell-like ring that seems to fill the air around; next it is soft and low and inexpressibly tender; now it is clear again, but so modulated that the sound seems to come from a great distance.

At times the silence is broken by a loud, metallic, bell-like cry, very like the yodel you hear in the Alps.

So both Grandma Effingham and Clarissa ordered the fur muffs and hot-water bottles for the feet placed carefully in the sleigh, which Pompey brought to the door just as the night watch went down the street, crying in his slow, bell-like tones, "Eight o'clock, and all's w-e-ll!"

Musical examines, throws her nose into the air, and answers by the rich bell-like note of the true otter hound; and all the woodlands ring as the pack dashes down the shingle to her call.

"I see a name over your head," said a clear, bell-like voice, certainly not Giuditta Astarita's.

He thought he could hear the clear, bell-like voice of the somnambulist telling him that he should be forced to marry Veronica.

Then, without warning, she heard that other voice, clear, deep, and bell-like, which Bosio had heard, and she trembled.

And with them came the clear echo of that bell-like voice she had heard speaking message for message between her and the man she had lost.

One little burn of my acquaintance, which runs through field and dell to join the Till, I have hearkened to again and again for hours, unable to break away from the spell of its ever-varying, yet constant musica sort of wilder, sweeter version of Mendelssohn's Duetto, with the voices of Knight and Lady alternating and intermingling amidst a rippling current of clear bell-like undertones.

There is no more pleasing sound than the long, chattering note of the green woodpecker; it breaks so suddenly on the general silence of the woods, contrasting as it does in its loud, bell-like tones with the soft cooing of the doves and the songs of the other birds.

And then suddenly she began to speak in a full, quiet voice that penetrated the deep hush with a bell-like clearness.

From somewhere on shore there came the sound of a clock striking the hour in clear bell-like notes.

he demanded, in a deep and bell-like voice.

But Una's clear voice, and the deep bell-like tones of the unknown, made up the dialogue.

At a great distance we could hear the ringing, musical, bell-like note, long-drawn and of piercing sweetness, which occurs at intervals in the song; at first I thought this was the song, but when it was possible to approach the singer I found that these far-sounding notes were scattered through a continuous song of great melody.

The bell-like sound of smitten metal, ringing cheerfully from a smithy, outlined against the roar of a blown fire, seemed to set my mind in tune.

THE HORN Hark! is that a horn I hear, In cloudland winding sweet And bell-like clash of bridle-rein, And silver-shod light feet?

"In all things go slowly," Bruce was wont to say in his booming, bell-like tone.