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How To Use Church bell In A Sentence

  • The church bells keep me from sleeping.
  • In the square the church bells chimed.
  • The church bells were still ringing, pealing off their notes of joy across the city.
  • The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
  • church bells were ringing all over town
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  • John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day would be a day of history that would be marked with bonfires, church bells ringing and "illuminations" -- or fireworks. Kenneth C. Davis: Don't Know Much About the Declaration? A Refresher On Our Freedoms
  • I should also be interested to know what value of donation on my part would ensure that the church bells remain unrestored and forever silent.
  • As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
  • I do not profess to be a campanologist or a bell hunter, but I have a loving ear for a sweet-toned church bell, and can think of few belfries whose contents surpass St. Martin's, Birmingham. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
  • Noise predicts the orderly passing of life in much the same way church bells toll the hours.
  • A peal of church bells rang out in the distance.
  • When the church bells began to toll, the girls started to walk through the streets toward the cathedral.
  • Irritatingly, somewhere across the constant six-lane thrum of traffic, church bells were ringing. TICKLED PINK
  • Almost every child grew up in an environment that included the call to prayer from the minarets of the mosques and the ringing of the church bells from church steeples.
  • On a day of mourning on both sides of the Atlantic, church bells tolled as millions attended special services to mark a sickening atrocity that has brought the world to the brink of war.
  • At midnight the church bell rang out to welcome in the new year and carol singing took place.
  • In the air, the church bell sings at 7 pm.
  • In the distance, church bells rang out as a team of ringers sought perfection through incessant practise.
  • the rhythmic chiming of church bells
  • All you can hear is birdsong and church bells. Times, Sunday Times
  • A peal of church bells rang out in the distance.
  • The church bell clashed its melancholy note.
  • The hand-crafted wooden pews and pulpits, the hanging lamps and church bells, and the silver communion chalices and patens brought the material glory of Christianity home to the worshipers in the wilderness.
  • At noon the bell on the guardhouse tower and several church bells began tolling for two hours.
  • As Bella Vista's shovelers work into the late-afternoon twilight, the faint chiming of church bells wafts over from the nearby town center.
  • The most surreal presence was a black-and-white monitor of the conductor, there for the benefit of the backstage conductress to direct a chimer who had to ape the sounds of church bells.
  • An unskillful new pilot might be dangerous and historically an unskillful new church bell ringer—if not dangerous—was potentially annoying.
  • Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
  • Fifteen minutes later the great bell of St. Peter's Basilica began tolling and all the church bells in Rome chimed in, leaving no doubt that a pope had been elected.
  • Yes, he was officially antireligion, but with the ringing of a nearby church bell, Stalin could smile and show that the government unofficially tolerated worship. Ahmadinejad's Media Breakfast Echoes of Stalin's
  • The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
  • This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • Specially created foliage, flowers and trellising will recreate a classic English country garden with added sound effects such as church bells, buzzing bees and bird song.
  • All you can hear is birdsong and church bells. Times, Sunday Times
  • The metal of the gun is forged from a combination of Irish church bells, cold iron from crucifixes, blessed silver, and other mystic metals-wiki Samaritan Gun | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
  • In the square the church bells chimed.
  • Today church bells rang in Norway, as they had done for a lifetime or more in Denmark, yes, above that halidom of the Mother where he and the garland girl had offered flowers ... The Boat of a Million Years
  • This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • The church bells began to toll, calling the parishioners to mass.
  • Vaguely, he heard church bells from the city strike their hours, their clear sound muted by the snow and by the rose curtain draped partially over the study window.
  • Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
  • This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
  • All you can hear is birdsong and church bells. Times, Sunday Times
  • The church bells are made of bronze.
  • Church bells came in handy also when I worked in the meadow as a lad, holding my pike and walking around it in circles while the men pitched the hay at my feet and the rick of golden threads steadily rose to its conical fullness.
  • This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • All you can hear is birdsong and church bells. Times, Sunday Times
  • The church bell tolled the hour.
  • Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named Là-bas
  • Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.
  • The church bell tolled the hour.
  • the distinctive ring of the church bell
  • Presently, the Church bell began to toll, signalling that the nightly curfew was about to begin.
  • The church bells pealed out at the end of war to celebrate victory.
  • As Sunday worshippers filed into St Mary's, the faint peal of church bells could be heard above the driving rain.
  • Again, the word campana, which even in the early Middle Ages undoubtedly meant a church bell and nothing else, occurs first, if The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Only church bells ringing, and the walk of church-goers and the faithful going on daily prayers added any dull excitement to the Sunday.
  • It was at one time the custom to consecrate church bells in the expectation that their chimes would drive away thunderstorms and ensure safety from lightning.
  • It was joined in chorus by the thunder of the warships' guns pounding the redoubts and the peals of church bells tolling eight o'clock.
  • she heard the distant toll of church bells
  • After some moments, the church bells tolled midnight in the distance.
  • Most of us have visions of the perfect English summers day: hours by the river, picnics, riding creaking bicycles while church bells chime softly in the distance.
  • The church bells rang out as families with bonny babies filled the church for a baptism service.
  • It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
  • Lying in bed this morning, in my slumbery-fog, I COULD COUNT THE RINGING CHURCH BELLS OF NOTRE DAME to know what time it was. La Coquette:
  • Irritatingly, somewhere across the constant six-lane thrum of traffic, church bells were ringing. TICKLED PINK
  • The church bells ring as people file out of the church. Christianity Today
  • The shocks set church bells aquiver in Boston, 1,600 km from the epicenter.
  • Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
  • My parents fled Eastern Europe to escape pogroms which began with the ringing of church bells.
  • In the distance he heard the church bells signal the awakening of a new day.
  • The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
  • Godparents would bring gifts for the child, and, in the past, for the mother and the church sexton, who would ring the church bells to mark the occasion.
  • Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour.
  • Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.
  • Church bells can be heard pealing through its streetside windows.
  • Leonardo, meanwhile, was making notes on a church bell, ‘the way it moved and how its clapper was fastened‘.
  • She heard a peal of church bells.
  • The church bells rang out to welcome in the New Year.
  • With no church bell summoning us to worship, we have to decide what to do with our time - and depressingly most of us are spending it on the number one modern pastime: shopping.
  • Church bells, laser lights, fireworks and a town crier announced the beginning of the festive season in Leigh.
  • It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
  • The church bells pealed out at the end of war to celebrate victory.
  • In her article on the last days of Byzantium, Judith Herrin emphasises just how noisy they were, with drums and trumpets and church bells sounding over the roar of cannon and the clash of steel.
  • And before I had ceased wondering — for if such things go on, we might ring the church bells, while sitting in our back-kitchen — little Gwenny Carfax came, with a grave and sullen face. Lorna Doone
  • The church bells ring as people file out of the church. Christianity Today
  • I was sure anyone within five miles would have heard it the way they hear a church bell's knell or a train's whistle.
  • I've woken at dawn to a sleeping village, nursed a mug of coffee in the chill of the open cockpit, watched a moorhen scutter across the smoking water, heard church bells chime the hour and felt—as it's so easy to do on the canals—at one with England. The Best Way Through England Is Wet
  • Alpine valleys resonant with the sound of church bells.
  • Past Four Court dominant as church bells.
  • The church bells rang out to welcome in the New Year.
  • The church bells pealed out at the end of war to celebrate victory.
  • He partook of a leisurely breakfast, paid his reckoning, had the ostler bring his horse, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air.
  • The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
  • We walked outside, chased by the echo of jingle bells, church bells tolling ten.
  • I've woken at dawn to a sleeping village, nursed a mug of coffee in the chill of the open cockpit, watched a moorhen scutter across the smoking water, heard church bells chime the hour and felt—as it's so easy to do on the canals—at one with England. The Best Way Through England Is Wet
  • He partook of a leisurely breakfast, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air.
  • Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.
  • Off in the distance, the University Church bells began to toll the late afternoon hour.
  • What's more, the chord sequence, which gently reveals itself to be church bells pealing in the distance, is completely and devastatingly the emotional heart of the thing.
  • Here a total sense of calm prevails and only church bells disturb the peace.
  • The church bells are made of bronze.
  • My brother, Neville, was born on a Sunday, when all the church bells were ringing.
  • As she arrived at the abbey all the church bells in the city were ringing out in a clamour of celebration. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
  • I found the bat and pounded the kettle until it bonged like a church bell. Semiprecious
  • The church bells ring as people file out of the church. Christianity Today
  • The church bells pealed for the morning nuptial mass and a reception followed.
  • Huge crowds packed the streets, many weeping as rice showered down from balconies and church bells rang out to mark the passing of the funeral cortège.
  • The service will begin at 7.15 pm, and will be accompanied by the sound of the newly installed peal of church bells at St Andrew's Church.
  • It used to be that church bells fulfilled the same function in an auditory sense as did church spires in a visual one.
  • As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
  • After three days of preparation, the statue is carried shoulder-high along the streets of the city or village in a parade like procession, including bands and church bells.
  • Moscow is one of the main centers for the manufacture of the church bells in which the Russian peasant takes such delight; and, being much interested in campanology, I visited several of the principal foundries, and was delighted with the size and workmanship of many specimens. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
  • They were hurling cans resoundingly about us like a peal of church bells.
  • It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
  • This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • My brother, Neville, was born on a Sunday, when all the church bells were ringing.
  • We heard the peal of church bells.
  • He says the Islamic" muezzin "cry should be ­allowed to ring out just like Christian church bells. UP Pompeii
  • The church bell tolled the hour.

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