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• The President, however, was a match for the jokers and simply announced that as the bell was a convenience which the students did not seem to need, classes would be held henceforth without the usual call. —  The University of Michigan
• But I once heard her throw out, in the heat of conversation, the phrase, "a young old thing like me;" and I thought she touched a truth III Well, then, the footman, in his masterful way, pulled the bell-cord; Lady Blanchemain contemplated the landscape, and had her opinion of a generation that could liken it to the drop-scene of a theatre; and in due process of things the bell was answered It was answered by a man in a costume that struck my humorous old friend as pleasing: a sallow little man whose otherwise quite featureless suit of tweeds was embellished by scarlet worsted shoulder-knots. —  My Friend Prospero
• Campana I strike upon the washout and the bagsang come for help Bell The curved side of the bell is compared to a washed out slope or curve of the bank; the bagsang are small fishes; the bell is the church bell--the little fishes are the people 17 Otin nen laquic Tapal ni baleuet ed corral manaquis, ya agnaecal Pang.) —  A Little Book of Filipino Riddles
• The diameter of the steam-pipe is from ź to ˝ inch according to the size of the bell, and the distance of the clapper from the bell is a little less than the diameter of the corresponding cock. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
• She might have touched the bell, and the button (the bell is an electric one) may have got fixed. —  The Secret Passage

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