"Warning bell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... short time later that the warning bell was rung. Stewards passed through the crowds calling out, "All ashore, if you please—all ashore." Final embraces were in order on all sides. People shook hands with fervour and laughed a little nervously. Women kissed each other ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... known to travellers, that when the last warning bell rings on board a departing ship all the pretty women and interesting men go ashore, leaving only the dull and fusty ones behind. Diana and April, however, were not depressed by this spectacle, for to the former, in her position of free-lance, ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... found the warning bell suspended on a bough outside his cell; how it came there he never knew, but he was sure that it had been sent to rescue him from the wiles of Satan and he treasured it as a sacred relic. Many came from far ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence |
