"Silver bell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all exactly alike, distinguishable only by the ribbons—blue, green, yellow and red—which ornamented their necks and were tied in bows under their chins. The mother had a garland composed of these four colors around her neck, upon which hung a little silver bell. Noel had been watching this pretty sight, with a fascinated gaze, and was so preoccupied with their gambols that he failed to hear a soft footstep approaching, and did not turn to look until Mrs. Dallas was standing quite near him, holding out ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... you a sweet silver bell, To ring up your maidens when you are not well, If you will but walk with me, &c. Sir, I'll not ...
— The Nursery Rhyme Book • Unknown
... the queen was at ease in her mind once more, and measurably happy, her wine naturally began to assert itself again, and it got a little the start of her. I mean it set her music going—her silver bell of a tongue. Dear me, she was a master talker. It would not become me to suggest that it was pretty late and that I was a tired man and very sleepy. I wished I had gone off to bed when I had the chance. Now I must stick it out; ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... gong sounded seven times, and a sort of magnetic thrill seemed to pass throughout the room. There followed a faint, musical sound, like the tinkle of a silver bell. ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... and garnished," replied the master, bowing low, as he took his leave. "Yonder silver bell shall summon ...
— The Well in the Desert - An Old Legend of the House of Arundel • Emily Sarah Holt
... the summit of the isthmus range and looked south over the Bay of Panama, he might have seen the "Silver Bell," which forms the summit of the mighty volcano Chimborazo. Still farther south in the same direction lay the "land of gold," of which he ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... disagreeably affected by aquatic motion, "at sea" savours of bad smells and misery. To him who sings of the intensity of his love for "a ride on the fierce, foaming, bursting tide," "at sea" sounds like the sweet ringing of a silver bell floating towards him, as if from afar, fraught with the fragrance and melody of distant climes—such as coral isles, ...
— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne
... had one of her more ill moods and, presently, having written a little more, she rang a small silver bell that was shaped like a ...
— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford
... to be on the point of saying something else. But, changing his mind, he touched a little silver bell. ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... keenly: he put out his hand to the little silver bell that stood on the table and tapped it sharply. The servant appeared at the door: "Let ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell
... that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy limes; Sweet Hermon's fragrant air: Sweet is the lily's silver bell, And sweet the wakeful tapers' smell ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... disappeared from his features. He walked across the room with a smile, and quickly touched a golden knob, fixed in the opposite wall. After a few minutes he repeated this four times. He then raised his eyes to a small silver bell hanging above him in the most remote corner of the wall, and looked at it steadfastly. While he was doing so, a small side door had opened, and Germain, in the rich costume of a servant of the harem, had entered. Thugut had not once looked ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... silver bell, and audible at every pause of the streets' harsher noises, as though it said, 'I don't care; nothing puts me out; I am resolved to be happy.' Women scolded, children squalled, heavy carts went rumbling by, horrible cries ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... the Emperor, "in that particular, as well as others.—Sound the silver bell, Agelastes, that the officers ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... it matter?' thought she. 'The dwellers in the Tontlawald cannot be worse than my stepmother'; and looking up she saw a little black dog with a silver bell on its neck come barking towards her, followed by a maiden clad ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various
... a voice as sweet as a silver bell. 'That for the third time, you dunce! I'm not going to tell you again. Recollect, or ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... the pride of beauty born, He heard the red lips' words of scorn; And, like a silver bell, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... the lofty nave, far down and out of jarring distance from the over-gorgeous splendour of the modern transept. In Holy Week, towards evening at the Tenebrae, the divine tenor voice of Padre Giovanni, monk and singer, soft as a summer night, clear as a silver bell, touching as sadness itself, used to float through the dim air with a ring of Heaven in it, full of that strange fatefulness that followed his short life, till he died, nearly twenty years ago, foully poisoned by a layman singer ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... and wear the garland," alluding to our old English races; the winner being rewarded with a silver bell, and crowned with a garland: or to the morris dance, in which the leader carried the garland and danced with bells ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... Dutton, daughter of Francis Dutton, a master in His Majesty's Navy," in all the places that it was requisite so to do. Then he affixed the seal, and, folding all the upper part of the sheet over, so as to conceal the contents, he rang a little silver bell, which always stood at his elbow. The outer cabin-door was opened by the sentry, who thrust his ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... His Holiness seized a silver bell which stood on the table, commanded Benedetto by a gesture to rise, and then rang the bell. The same priest as before appeared at the door of the Gallery. The Pope ordered him to summon Don Teofilo ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro |
