The tank-a-tank of cowbells sounded from homing animals.

As I walked down the lane I heard the soft tinkle of a cowbell, a certain earthy exhalation, as of work, came out of the bare fields, the duties of my daily life crowded upon me bringing a pleasant calmness of spirit, and I said to myself: "Lord be praised for that which is common.

I heard the occasional sleepy tinkle of a cowbell, and the crickets were calling.

I heard a drowsy cowbell somewhere over the hills in the pasture.

One evening Inger stood there listening for the cowbells; all was dead about her, she heard nothing, and then came a song from the tarn.

There he amused himself by ringing the great bells, and it came into his mind that they would serve as cowbells to hang on the neck of his mare, so he carried them off to his lodging.

Never before was there such a hubbub in those parts, for the bells of all the churches sounded all day, and all the people ran about praying at the top of their voices, and forgiving their relatives, and kissing the girls, and blowing whistles and ringing cowbells, because the city now harbored a relic so holy that the vilest sinner had but to touch it to be purified of iniquity.

Cowbells and clover.

Cowbells and clover.