"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
... chair and strode up and down the room. Then the telephone bell tore through his nerves. ...
— The Invaders • Benjamin Ferris
... finishing a solitary dinner and attempting to find interest in a novel when his butler came with news that the telephone bell was ringing in the gun-room. Thwaite, being tired and cross, told him to answer it himself, expecting some frivolous message about supplies. The man returned in a little with word that he could not understand it. Then Thwaite arose, blessing ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... The telephone bell in the hall jangled its peremptory summons, and Mr. Frank answered it. In a minute he returned, a ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... her home. She had spent part of the day with Carolina and Hope Langdon and in the evening had attended the musicale at their house. But she had been forced to leave early owing to a severe headache. Now, after an hour or two of rest, she felt better and was about to retire. Suddenly the telephone bell rang at a writing-table near a window. She had two telephones, one in the lower hall and one in her boudoir—to save walking downstairs unnecessarily, she explained to her woman friends. But the number of this upstairs telephone was not in the public book. ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... who had been waiting for years for somebody to make an offer for her books. Nobody, apparently, had ever come, and she had to put up with me, who only wanted Doctor West. I was just asking about him when we tumbled back into the Twentieth Century. The telephone bell rang in the office. ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... solitary breakfast the next morning when the telephone bell rang. It was from a call office, and presently she heard Cobalt's voice. "Just a word, miss. He leaves by the ten-twenty-five train for Huddersfield," said the voice, "and the person he is going to see is Lady Sybil somebody, and there's ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... a handsome man," she said to herself, "an aristocratic-looking man." Then the telephone bell close beside her divan rang, and she took up the receiver carefully, not moving her head, sat up, and put her delicate lips ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... of Linder's rooms in town; it was likely Linder had remained in town, but it was a question whether the telephone bell would waken him. He had recollections of Linder as a sound sleeper. But even as this possibility entered his mind he heard Linder's phlegmatic voice ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead
... he did not hear any step in the hall nor the jingling of any telephone bell. Both Mr. and Mrs. Grayson waited expectantly, curious to see what he ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... adjusted her cuffs with an air of patience. 'Is there anything else?' she asked, as the telephone bell rang. ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... morning Mark had an appointment round the corner in Beaumont Street. Mr. Randolph Messeter had a serious operation to perform at a nursing home, and Mark was to administer the anaesthetic. All had gone well; he had returned to Weymouth Street, and was in the act of putting away his apparatus, when the telephone bell rang. ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... they thought of leaving the table. A very perplexed waiter brought them coffee and watched them light cigarettes. Then the telephone bell rang. They both stared at the instrument. Philip would have taken off the receiver, but Elizabeth ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the floor of his bedroom one afternoon, picking up the fragments of his mirror—a friend had advised him to practise the Walter J. Travis lofting shot—when the telephone bell rang. He took up the receiver, and was hailed by the comfortable voice of McCay, ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... telephone bell on his writing-desk rang. His room was now connected with Melrose's room, at the other end of the house, as well as with Pengarth. He put his ear to ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... gone—no one knows how or where," announced Craig as he leaped out of bed that morning to answer the furious ringing of our telephone bell. ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... pen at 10.45 after completing my chapter, the telephone bell suddenly rang. The maids had gone up to bed, so I went into the hall to take the call, or to put it through to Percy's study, for the late calls are usually, of course, for him, from one of the offices. But it was not for him. It was Jane's ...
— Potterism - A Tragi-Farcical Tract • Rose Macaulay
... they had not been at work ten minutes before the newly-acquired telephone bell rang, and the freight agent announced that their goods were at the station, and asked whether they wanted them sent up to-day, for he wanted to get the car out ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... manager could reply the telephone bell rang sharply. Underwood started. An expression of fear came over his face. Perhaps the firm had already sworn out a warrant for his arrest. He picked up the ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... rang up the lift, but no lift came. She rang again and again. Nothing happened. Evidently something had gone wrong, and she saw people walking upstairs to the flats below. Just as she was explaining the mishap to her guest, the telephone bell ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... fainted. The first bullet had pierced her arm; it was only a flesh wound. He lifted her gently and placed her on a couch, after which he disappeared into another room. In a little while there came the cheerful ting-a-ling of a telephone bell. ...
— Elusive Isabel • Jacques Futrelle
... ring of the telephone bell interrupted Rosemary's recital. Doctor Hugh answered it. He came back to the dining-room frowning, ...
— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence
... tinkling of the telephone bell, the book-agent arose and made his way to the little office. As he passed Barnes, he winked broadly, and said, out of the corner ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon |
