bell-ringer
Example Sentences
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Grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo saves Gypsy Esmeralda from a mob and a corrupt priest in medieval Paris.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019
Wednesday was a bell-ringer for the U.S. stock market, marking 3,453 days in a bull market rally — the longest on record.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2018
And playing Quasimodo, the much-maligned Notre Dame Cathedral bell-ringer, is the fresh-faced young actor Joshua Castille.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2018
As Page wove his way through the holiday crowd, he talked about his troubles, raising his voice to be heard above a Salvation Army bell-ringer.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2017
The bell-ringer, Samuel Bevis, who took his place in the witness-box, was a kind of elderly Bacchus, with permanently trembling hands.
From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
