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Telephone bell

noun

Electric bell that rings to signal a call.

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"Telephone bell" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the corner of the room, and I was going to it to call up Christopher Quarles, convinced this was a case in which I should need all the assistance I could get, when the telephone bell rang. ...

— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner

... from which one might look across the lawn and in at the open study windows. It was during one of these tours of inspection and whilst I was actually peering through a gap in the hedge, that I heard the telephone bell. Dr. Stuart was in the study and I ...

— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer

... came in a prolonged, imperative ring of the telephone bell. So insistent was the call that the nurse's hand closed over the transmitter long before the burr ceased. The office was notifying Ward B that an emergency case had been brought in and ...

— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice

... ringing of the telephone bell. It was Gannette. "What?" shouted Ames, "you say the girl insulted your wife last evening? I don't believe she could—Yes, yes, I mean, I don't think she meant to—certainly not, no aspersion whatever ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... The telephone bell in the outer office rang sharply. An instant later Miss Mathewson knocked, and gave a message to Burns. He read it, nodded, said "Right away," and turned ...

— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond

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