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Handbell

noun
1.
A bell that is held in the hand.





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"Handbell" Quotes from Famous Books



... a most polite bow. "I trust Mrs Handbell is quite well and Miss Handbell—I hardly need ask the question with ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... handbell. A shout mingled with the clang of it. Then came the running of swift feet over the stones of the court, and Davie burst ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... quarto pages, and above six thousand illustrations. Hugo turned solemnly to the exhaustive index, which alone occupied seventy pages of small type, and, running his finger down a column, he read out, Handbells, handbell-ringers, handbills, hand-embroidered sheets, handkerchiefs, handles, handsaws, hansoms, Hardemann's beetle ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... Angela," said Mrs. Luttrell, stretching out her hand to a little handbell which stood upon ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... which was described as a very handy affair, handcuffs, leg-irons, special constables' staves, which were always much needed for the usual riots on Gunpowder Plot Day, and the old primitive fire-engine dated 1745. The town has some remarkable plate. There is the mayor's handbell with the inscription:— ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield


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