alarm bell

Example Sentences

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And the grateful children often looked up as they passed beneath, and said, "Had it not been for our good Alarm-bell we might all have perished!"

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

So the Alarm-bell learned what it was made for, and was content to wait another hundred years, or more, before its voice was heard again.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

We have lived a long time here together," said the ponderous Alarm-bell to the little brisk bell in the clock-tower of the Orphan-house, "and a useful life yours has been!

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

At eight the Clock-bell called the children to their morning prayer; whilst the Alarm-bell had relapsed into silence, perhaps for another century.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle