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/mˈɪʃən bɛlz/ Listen

Mission bells

noun

Herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green. Synonyms: black fritillary, Fritillaria biflora.

Herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers. Synonyms: Fritillaria affinis, Fritillaria lanceolata, Fritillaria mutica, rice-grain fritillary.

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"Mission bells" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost abandoned. Only a dozen adobe buildings kept in fair repair, and as many more in ruins, mark the site. The little chapel is still used for worship, and from an uncouth wooden frame outside its walls hang two of the old Mission bells which formerly rang out the Angelus over the sunset waves. My guide carelessly struck them with the butt of his whip, and called forth from their consecrated lips of bronze a sound which, in that scene of loneliness, at first seemed like a wail of protest ...

— John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) - Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park • John L. Stoddard

... Mission bells, each suspended in solitary dignity from a rusted iron rod, mark intervals along the dusty way, once a narrow trail worn by the patient feet of that gentle and great padre, Junipero Serra,—a trail from the San Gabriel Valley to the shores of Monterey. A narrow trail then, but, even ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

Words linked to "Mission bells" : checkered lily, fritillary