bell-ringer

Historical Examples

• Alberoni was born in a gardener's cottage, and as a child he was the bell-ringer.

  The Conspirators

  Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

• Perkins was the Cathedral bell-ringer, and the gaoler of Alice Benden.

  All's Well

  Emily Sarah Holt

• The bell-ringer had come down, and followed me curiously about among the graves.

  Glimpses of Three Coasts

  Helen Hunt Jackson

• The bell-ringer could not tell; it was so old nobody knew anything about it.

  Glimpses of Three Coasts

  Helen Hunt Jackson

• All means of egress from the palace were guarded; the bell-ringer forbidden to stir.

  Venice and its Story

  Thomas Okey