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  • noun A device for signalling a bell by remote via wires and pulleys.

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Examples

  • Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Striding to the bell-pull, he tugged it fiercely, and then marched out into the hall just as a footman came quickly in through the green baize door at the back.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull.

    Sole Music 2010

  • When he arrives at Hundreds Hall in the opening chapter, he describes pulling on the bell-pull and hearing "the ring of it, pure and clear, but distant, as if in the belly of the house".

    The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010

  • He was reaching for the bell-pull when the door to his office opened, and his confidential secretary, Chired Anigrel, entered.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull.

    Sole Music 2010

  • The Mole struck a match, and by its light the Rat saw that they were standing in an open space, neatly swept and sanded underfoot, and directly facing them was Mole's little front door with Mole End painted in Gothic lettering over the bell-pull at the side.

    'Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic 2009

  • MRS. BORKMAN, with the shawl still over her head, enters, in violent agitation, by the hall door, goes up to the window, draws the curtain a little aside, and looks out; then she seats herself beside the stove, but immediately springs up again, goes to the bell-pull and rings.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

  • MRS. BORKMAN, with the shawl still over her head, enters, in violent agitation, by the hall door, goes up to the window, draws the curtain a little aside, and looks out; then she seats herself beside the stove, but immediately springs up again, goes to the bell-pull and rings.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

  • He rushed to the bell-pull, pulled till the bells rang with a strange clamor of din, pulled till the cord gave way.

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

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