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  • I suppose the Doctor, at last, thought I had had pumping enough, for he rang the school-bell, and the boys were obliged to leave me.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Breakfast being over and mass attended, the school-bell rang and the rooms filled: a very pretty spectacle was presented in classe.

    Villette 2003

  • 'How nice not to have to get up as soon as the school-bell goes,' she said, sleepily, I'm going to have another snooze. '

    Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • All the girls trooped back when the school-bell rang.

    Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • The school-bell was ringing lustily as Harry passed through the iron gates into the playground.

    Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

  • A feeling of awe seemed to pervade the whole household when, at early dawn, the tolling of the school-bell told only too plainly that the beloved spirit had departed.

    Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

  • Haven -- Hampton teachers who first rang a school-bell ten years ago on the old Shelby plantation in Lowndes County, simply desired to get into the Black Belt, to identify themselves with a community of cotton-raisers as neighbours, to know the people at first hand, and then to meet the human need about them in any way possible; above all, helping the people to help themselves ... in the Black Belt of Alabama,

    From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

  • The school-bell was ringing its final summons when he reached the top of the hill, and he paused to look down the steep slope into the yard where the children were marching in double file into the building, smiling as he saw Tabitha's long, lean legs keeping step behind the short, plump ones of little Carrie, and mentally hoping that the day would go well with the little spitfire sister.

    Tabitha at Ivy Hall Ruth Alberta Brown

  • And then the school-bell suddenly began to ring, and the group about him broke away; and Curly

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • One day, just after the school-bell rang to give notice of the recess,

    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society American Sunday-School Union

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