bell punch

How to use bell punch in a sentence

• And he took a nickel from one pocket of his great-coat and dropped it in another, ringing his bell punch to record the transfer.

  The Shape of Fear | Elia W. Peattie

• But now he is merely a registering machine,—a sort of bell-punch to the hand of his party convention.

  Congressional Government | Woodrow Wilson

• Suddenly he said: "'Ere, suppose you do it, then," and pushed the bell-punch at her.

  This Freedom | A. S. M. Hutchinson

• The bell punch on the street car and the burglar proof safe with its combination locks are other suggestions in the same line.

  The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. | Edward W. Byrn

• This is a self-acting bell-punch, and it will ring whenever you say ‘Oh, dear!’

  The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories | Laura E. Richards