bell-ropes

When Lizzy and Stockdale reached the gallery and looked up, nothing but the trap-door and the five holes for the bell-ropes appeared.

Wessex Tales 2006

"Take care that marriage won't hang i 'the bell-ropes," said Mother Carke.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

A couple of old ladies in white hoods were tugging and swaying about at two bell-ropes that came down into the middle of the church, and at least five hundred others in white veils were seated all round about us in mute contemplation until the service began, looking very solemn, and white, and ghastly, like an army of tombstones by moonlight.

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

"Take care that marriage won't hang i 'the bell-ropes," said Mother Carke.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The patterns for the slippers, the bell-ropes, the cabas were selected — the slides and tassels for the purses chosen — the whole

Villette 2003

There is a kind of well or flue cut through the rock under the tower into the church below, apparently for the bell-ropes.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

"October store and best Virginia," that when he had no tobacco (and too much drink) he used to cut the _bell-ropes_ and smoke them!

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

"In this year Bredon vicar of Thornton a profound divine, but absolutely the most polite person for nativities in that age, strictly adhering to Ptolemy, which he well understood; he had a hand in composing Sir Christopher Heydon's defence of judicial astrology, being that time his chaplain; he was so given over to tobacco and drink, that when he had no tobacco, he would cut the bell-ropes and smoke them."

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

But the bell-ropes in Mrs. Jenkins's parlours being only ornamental appendages, our privilege was confined to calling upon the landing-place for a red-headed female, who, when she did come, which was seldom, was terrible to look upon, and could only be conversed with by pantomime.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

And between the green woollen bell-ropes on each side of the fireplace and above the cold hideousness of the marble mantelpiece hung

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir