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"Church bell" Quotes from Famous Books

... church bell ringing," cried Bob suddenly at this point. "It sounds as if it came ...

— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... artisans, and their mechanics. The mantua-maker and the tailor arrive in the same boat with the carpenter and mason. The professional man and the printer quickly follow. In the succeeding year the piano, the drawing-room, the restaurant, the billiard-table, the church bell, the village and the city in miniature, are all found, while the neighboring interior is yet a wilderness and a desert. The town and comfort, taste and urbanity are first; the clearing, the farm-house, the wagon-road and the improved ...

— Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone • Cecil B. Harley

... to church in the morning and again in the evening. Prayer-meeting night saw them always on their way to the place where the church bell ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... on my ear like the tone of a church bell. "That will do, my friend" thought I. But I said ...

— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 2 • George MacDonald

... sure, must have felt, as you heard it, how grand was the very sound of the words. Some one once compared the sound of St. John's Gospel to a great church bell: simple, slow, and awful; and awful just because it is so simple and slow. The words are very short,—most of them of one syllable,—so that even a child may understand them if he will: but every word is ...

— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

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