hand bell
Americannoun
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Under an unforgiving sun during a heat wave in July, Peter Schumann, the 89-year-old artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater, rang a hand bell on a rolling hillside in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Moments later, he emerged with something in return: a tiny hand bell.
From The Verge ● Sep. 3, 2016
Down below, Todd Monsell, music director of the 270-year-old congregation, led a hastily assembled hand bell choir of seven adults and seven children.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
Delyth Morris-Jones, from Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, will toll a hand bell and one of Wales' oldest pubs, the Skirrid Inn, Llanfihangel Crucorney in Monmouthsire, will chime its old ship's bell.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2012
He would ring the bell to summon the servants, and if there was no bell rope in the room, find and use the hand bell with equal facility.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
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