bell-bird

If we reinvoke the distinction between two kinds of sound effects, we can note that, with the possible exception of the "Toll ... toll" echo to simulate the sound of the "lone bell-bird" (28), the stanza's way of invoking particular sounds is simply to refer to them.

The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

Toll from thy loftiest perch, lone bell-bird, toll

The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

For what a nest it was which they had found! the air was heavy with the scent of flowers, and quivering with the murmur of the stream, the humming of the colibris and insects, the cheerful song of birds, the gentle cooing of a hundred doves; while now and then, from far away, the musical wail of the sloth, or the deep toll of the bell-bird, came softly to the ear.

Westward Ho! 2007

O mystic bell-bird of the heavenly race of the swallow and dove, the quetzal and the nightingale!

Green Mansions 2004

Then, finally, a bell-bird sang out its three-note call, and the two musicians sighed and opened their eyes.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

"Guinea-fowl rose before them, groves of tamarisk, ringing to the voice of the bell-bird, flanked every open glade, and the fractured branches of the nobletrees gave proof of the presence of the most ponderous of the mammalia."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

As he reined in his horse, to examine these at leisure, how melodiously came on his ear, the clear, ceaseless, silver tinkle of the bell-bird; this sound ever and anon chequered by the bold chock-ee-chock! of the bald-headed friar.

A Love Story A Bushman

It is the wonderful bell-bird, which can make itself heard three miles away, but it is found only where man is not.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

The night is still made noisy with a thousand cries of bird and beast; and the stillness of the sultry noon is broken by the slow tolling of the _campañero_, or bell-bird, far in the deep, dark woods, like the chime of some lost convent.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

Of songs of the bell-bird and wings of the morning.

Bell-Birds 1918