Ringing

Examples

• All the while the bell was ringing, and the uncle was anxious to go. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The bells were still ringing when he got to Lowick, and he went into the curate's pew before any one else arrived there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I asked leave to-- He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Now the bell had been ringing all the morning, as workmen, or servantsor _coiffeurs_, or _tailleuses_, went and came on their several errands. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We can soon see, replied the police officer, and ringing a bell he summoned an assistant to whom he issued a few directions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Come the roll of wheels and a violent ringing at the bell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On the very first morning after her arrival she was up and ringing her bell at cock-crow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• All the bells of Sabbath were ringing, and she followed them until she came to the Foundling Church, into which she went. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The packet not reclaimed before the ringing of the bell to-night, you cannot buy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The passion came up in him, stroke after stroke, like the ringing of a bronze bell, so strong and unflawed and indomitable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They gave him a long, loud, ringing cheer, as he concluded: with all his fierceness, he was their favourite professor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Do you mind ringing for Louis to carry the portfolio to your own room? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It's like the blowing of old breezes or the ringing of old bellses to hear YOU say Uriah. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The ringing of the curfew originated in England by William the Conqueror, who directed that at the ringing of the bell at eight o’clock all fires and lights should be extinguished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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