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School bell   /skul bɛl/   Listen
School bell

noun
1.
A bell rung to announce beginning or ending of class.





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"School bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sabbath school bell put an end to this conversation. The children promptly made themselves ready, and as their father was the superintendent of the school, and their mother one of the teachers, it ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... began in the gardens, housewifely minds turned to fall cleaning, the spicy odor of tomato catsup pervaded the atmosphere, and the sound of the school bell ...
— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard
... rasher began to frizzle, "you may say what you like about education, but mothers ought to thank the Lord for it. Sometimes, as 'tis, I feel as if the whole world was on my shoulders, and I can't be responsible for it any longer; but what would happen if 'twasn't for the school bell at nine o'clock there's no knowing. You'd like a wash, ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "School bell" :   bell


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