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Church bell   /tʃərtʃ bɛl/   Listen
Church bell

noun
1.
A bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church).





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"Church bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... running unheeded down the widow's face. Not even her boys knew how everything was gone, and she left with no money to buy more. And everybody tried not to see the tears and everybody talked faster than ever. Then the first church bell rang out, and old and young turned to go. There came a little lull as one after another gave the widow's ...
— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger
... the smoking room, and the ladies in the drawing-room. She was alone in the upper part of the house, which was so quiet and still that the sound of a clock, in one of the rooms, striking ten was like that of a church bell ...
— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice


Words linked to "Church bell" :   church, bell, church service


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