Here you find mats of the curious dwarf willow scarce an inch high, yet sending up a multitude of gray silky catkins, illumined here and there with, the purple cups and bells of bryanthus and vaccinium.

Mary often overslept and did not ring the rising bell in time.

One of your jobs will be to ring the rising bell for morning prayers.

Often his callers overran the dinner hour and my mother would have to jingle the dinner bell at the door to rouse them.

Such was the state of popular feeling when, with the clang of the getting-up bell on Thursday morning, the twelfth of December, a day commenced fraught with unexpected episodes and situations closely affecting the interests of the Triple Alliance.

When she finally went up the brick walk, she thought once that she could not reach the bell with the strength left to pull it.

"You can always tell a Chinese bell from a Chinese gong by the bell-pull attached to it.

"Fatal hour?" "The dear man promised to turn in his answer to our unselfish little proposition at six bells to-night and not later.

He must have been a man of wonderful experience; and foresight, let us add, since from his simple yet wonderfully powerful sketches there is gained an insight into all the mysterious workings of humanity, from the lulling of the babe in the cradle, the ruthless disruption of the apron-string that he is led with, because some naughty little boys laughed at him, to the tolling of the bell by the old sexton over another dead.

The harebell's bed, as o'er we pass, Swings all its bells about; From waving blades of polished grass, Flash moony splendours out.

One pleasant Sabbath morning, as I was passing the house where she lived, on my way to the Presbyterian church, where I was sent to ring the bell as usual, I heard the most piteous cries and earnest pleadings issuing from the dwelling.

How that word rings like a sweet bell through the turmoil of our age.

The mules will listen for that bell like a lot of school children, and will follow its tinkling, with the same instinct.

"Surely," he exclaimed, "they are Chiswick bells!the very bells under the sound of which I received part of my early education, and, as a schoolboy, passed the happiest days of my life!Well might their tones vibrate to my inmost soul, and kindle uncommon sympathies!"

My room was over Nat's, and a cord went up from his bed to a bell over mine, so that he could call me at any moment if he wanted anything in the night.

Ring a bell before offering the meat.

The people of this country are reputed the most virtuous and honest of any in those parts of the world, and pride themselves much on their poverty and chastity; yet have a strange practice of carrying round bells within their foreskins, which is not permitted to the king and priests.

Now it sounded like a far-off hubbub of waters, now swelled up harmonious, like the booming of cathedral bells across some rich old English valley on a still summer's afternoon.

It seems a little while since the camels came to Argun-Zeerith by the iris marshes, the camels with the gold-hung palanquin, and the bells above their heads, high up in the air, the silver bridal bells.

I see you have not yet abandoned all the privileges of the latter, however," he added, as Dick caught Bell round the waist and gave her a sounding salute on the cheek.

" Kinch followed the servant who answered the bell into the dining-room which Mr. Walters had just left.

She was so mean that he feared she would make a cow-bell out of him if he seemed the least bit insubordinate....

At one of these he seated himself and signaled for service with the tiny bell near his hand.

Then Mochuda cursed him and he rang his small bell against him and against his race, whence the bell has since been known as "The Bell of Blathmac's Extinguishing," or "The Bell of Blathmac's Drowning," because it drowned or extinguished Blathmac with his posterity.

So completely was Ben lost in his own gloomy reflections that he did not hear the sound of bells behind him; and it was not until a cheery voice called out demanding the right of way that he stepped aside to let a rapidly approaching dog team pass.