bell-metal

Her knees bunched under her chin, her thin, almost translucent hand mixing the rice anddalon the bell-metal plate on the floor, she ate with great relish.

Sunset in the Hills Rumjhum Biswas 2010

Her other hand held a covered bell-metal tumbler of water.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

Her other hand held a covered bell-metal tumbler of water.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

She would race up the stairs at Shyambazaar – those were steep, old-fashioned stairs, dark and undulating – she would run up the stairs two at a time balancing bell-metal plates of food and once even a harmonium – always too impatient to wait for the servants to do their work.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

Her other hand held a covered bell-metal tumbler of water.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

She would race up the stairs at Shyambazaar – those were steep, old-fashioned stairs, dark and undulating – she would run up the stairs two at a time balancing bell-metal plates of food and once even a harmonium – always too impatient to wait for the servants to do their work.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

She would race up the stairs at Shyambazaar – those were steep, old-fashioned stairs, dark and undulating – she would run up the stairs two at a time balancing bell-metal plates of food and once even a harmonium – always too impatient to wait for the servants to do their work.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise and walk their nightly round. —

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal.

Walden 2004

“There, they are tolling for the mass,” said Ignat, listening to the echo of the bell-metal.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003