251 examples of bell ringing in sentences

The riot now began to be general, and Iago, who had set on foot the mischief, was foremost in spreading the alarm, causing the castle-bell to be rung (as if some dangerous mutiny instead of a slight drunken quarrel had arisen): the alarm-bell ringing awakened Othello, who, dressing in a hurry, and coming to the scene of action, questioned Cassio of the cause.

There was a distant bell ringing, which we often heard in Fairport, and which always meant fire.

The Sabbath hush was on everything; no milkman's cans jingled down the street; no playing children called or shouted; there was a bell ringing somewhere for early service.

Then after a while he heard a bell ringing, and after he had followed that bell for some distance, he came to where was the dwelling-place of a hermit and where was a small chapel by the wayside.

Toll I have paid at the gates of the world, The sand I know and the sea; I have taken the wide and open road, With steps unhindered and free; Yet, like a bell ringing down in my heart, My home is calling to me.

She was in her sixteenth year, when one day, whilst at work in the fields with her parents and sisters, she heard the bell ringing at the Convent of the Sisters of the Annunciation, at Coesfeld.

At this moment the evening bell ringing for the matins of the Purification was heard.

The bell ringes to mattens.

"How can this bell ringing ever awaken the dead forest?" thought Abbot Hans.

II The train from Pittsburg drew into the Union Depot at Groveland, Ohio, one morning in the spring of 187-, with bell ringing and engine puffing; and from a smoking-car emerged the form of uncle Wellington Braboy, a little dusty and travel-stained, and with a sleepy look about his eyes.

" During the remainder of that morning I saw Mr. Holcombe, at intervals, going from house to house along Union Street, making short excursions into side thoroughfares, coming back again and taking up his door-bell ringing with unflagging energy.

The stillness of the night was broken at intervals by a short, loud boom, as of an iron bell ringing up some terrible domestic from the incomprehensible unseen.

" The school bell ringing put an end to this important conversation, and the boys recommenced their lessons.

The legend also says that those who stand by the pool on St. John's Eve will hear the convent bell ringing.

I had almost decided on rowing the longer distance, however, when I heard a bell ringing somewhere in the direction of Eastern Point.

Finally, in the middle of an interesting conversation, we heard the bell ringing up stairs.

Sahwah wakened with the sound of a bell ringing in her ears.

She was waked from her reveries by the farm bell ringing the labourers' dinner hour.

CHAPTER VII GOING FOR THE DOCTOR One night I was lying down in my straw fast asleep, when I was suddenly roused by the stable bell ringing very loud.

In the riot of their feasting, the caution had been utterly neglected, and the boys were far from being sober when the sound of the prayer-bell ringing through the great hall, startled them into momentary consciousness.

Is that the bar bell ringing?" "Aye, it is; ye'd best be off an' see what's wanted.

Another time I was roused by a bell ringing up and down the street, which passed beneath my window, and a deep masculine voice that enjoined all the people from Mery to hurry to the town hall.

Enter an old Shepherd, with a bell ringing, and the Priest of Pan following. Priest.

" We slipped out behind the platform; turned down the dark long passage, hearing the new speaker's voice like a bell ringing beyond thick walls, and found our way into the open.

One night I awoke suddenly and said to my wife: 'I am sure I hear Mrs. F's alarm bell ringing.'

251 examples of  bell ringing  in sentences