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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. -- Colin Meloy
Yet, the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet, the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. -- Annie Dillard
A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells. -- Philip Kerr
But this spirited little human had him by the balls, and some small part of him liked it.
Hell's bells, as Shade would say, Hell's fucking bells. -- Larissa Ione
Of all sound of all bells ... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. -- Charles Lamb
Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may be waiting there. -- Rachel Field
The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which -- Neal Stephenson
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. -- Earl Warren
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell. -- Redman
Memory is a strange Bell - Jubilee, and Knell. -- Emily Dickinson
Shall they return to beating of great bells
In wild train-loads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to village wells,
Up half-known roads. -- Wilfred Owen
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music. -- George Herbert
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy
"Percy ... Chiron's collection! -- Rick Riordan
Jinglebell jingled his bell -- George R R Martin
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion. -- Charles Lamb
Beyond the hills, a master is who knows our secret names. With bell and bones, he'll call us home, winter, fall or spring. -- Andre Alexis
Hell's bells, irony blows. -- Jim Butcher
The temple bell stops
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers -- Matsuo Basho
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. -- Jodi Picoult
Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. -- Jim Butcher
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings. -- Frances Goodrich
Chapter 11 Bobby Bell -- David Spada
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. -- Edward Young
You see, the lives of servants are not lived by clocks, but by the ringing of their masters' bells. -- Tom Angleberger
The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternity of peace; and Great Tom, tolling his nightly hundred-and-one, called home only the rooks from off Christ Church Meadow. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Heather Vogel Frederick
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. -- George Herbert
Told you to get him a bell. -- Mora Early
With bells on babe Dean purred sexily and hung up. -- J.l. Mccoy
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. -- Samuel Rogers
Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer ... -- Charles Stuart Calverley
What I want is to hold you like a bell holds space between the hours. -- Miguel Murphy
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder -- Bob Dylan
God comes to see without a bell. -- George Herbert
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why ... There must be more -- Andrew Peterson
What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? -- Leo Rosten
Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. -- Henry Rollins
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most. -- Victor Hugo
Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening Royal Mail zeppelin for London. -- Philip Pullman
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Everybody knows what the dinner bell sounds like. -- Bobby Adair
They'd even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. A necessity, but he'd felt like a fool chanting, Bing bong bing bing bong. No, wait, bing bing bong bing bing. -- Leigh Bardugo
Dressed in their red suits and fake beards, they rang their bells like they were going for dog-spit gold at the Pavlov Olympics. -- Christopher Moore
Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver. -- L.m. Montgomery
The doorbell rings, and my heart flips. -- Kasie West
Hell's Bells-Harry Dresden -- Jim Butcher
We'd get out of it." She stared at the huge bell for a moment and then added, "I hate the sound of that bell." A gusty breeze rustled the leaves and threw a lock of hair in her face. She brushed it back and turned away from the oak and the bell. "Over there" - she pointed -- Michael J. Sullivan
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept. -- William Cowper
We are stone enemies when the bell rings -- Muhammad Ali
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon! -- Edgar Allan Poe
Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes. -- Demetri Martin
In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. -- Florence King
FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. -- Don Mclean
Mel, if you're going to go up to the bell, ring it. -- Judd Apatow
In Boston serpents whistle at the cold. -- Robert Lowell
May the sound of this bell penetrate deeply into the cosmos. In even the darkest places, may living beings hear it clearly so that understanding comes to their hearts, and without much hardship, they transcend the cycle of birth and death. or: -- Thich Nhat Hanh
What we weave in solitude is unraveled by the doorbell's ringing. -- Mel Nicolai
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches. -- Paul Engle
Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks. -- Jim Butcher
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! -- Eric Idle
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo. -- Thomas Hood
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws. -- Russell Brand
In springtime, the only pretty ring time
Birds sing, hey ding
A-ding, a-ding
Sweet lovers love the spring - -- William Shakespeare
In the place of the bells, where battle is waged,
The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today.
Dust yellows the air, our houses are smoking,
The sobbing is rising - from the lips of your Chalcans! -- David Bowles
With drooping bells of clearest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew
Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
So lightly trembling. -- Reginald Heber
The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother
and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about -- Fanny Howe
The clasp of the gold chain -- Ernest Hemingway,
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. -- Karolyn Grimes
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music. -- Danger Mouse
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. -- C.s. Lewis
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. -- Aberjhani
Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one's Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time. -- Marlena De Blasi
At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe. -- Chris Van Allsburg
TO my quick ear the leaves conferred;
The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
From Nature's sentinels.
In cave if I presumed to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible. -- Emily Dickinson
Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the ground, And the press'd watch return'd a silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow prest, Her guardian SYLPH prolong'd the balmy rest: -- Alexander Pope
The pendant, girl, give me the pendant. -- Candace Knoebel
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. -- James Shirley
When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul ... it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. -- Truman Capote
She is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles. -- J.m. Barrie
Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue. -- Edmond Rostand
There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes. -- David Coleman
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green. -- William Blake
Where is the coffee emoji where is the coffee emoji aaaah yes in the bell section of course -- Chrissy Teigen
It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little
bells that knew how to laugh ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart. -- Faraaz Kazi
There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed. -- Kate Atkinson
The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour struck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that. -- Virginia Woolf
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell. -- George Herbert
Change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all -- Lewis Carroll
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,
And marigolds all in a row. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
DOST thou not hear the silver bell,
Through yonder lime-trees ringing?
'Tis my lady's light gazelle.
To me her love thoughts bringing,
All the while that silver bell
Around his dark neck ringing. -- Thomas Moore
The bell seemed to have set off an
alarm in my brain, and I glimpsed at the mysterious envelope on my desk.
There was another item I should've gotten from my single-shoe salesman. -- A.e.h. Veenman
The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips. -- L.m. Montgomery
