From Middle English bellen, to bellow, from Old English bellan.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

View in context He soon reached a lovely spot, whose golden halls were bright with jewels, which sparkled brightly, and threw many-colored shadows on the shining garments of the little Spirits, who danced below to the melody of soft, silvery bells.

View in context Poes poem of the Bells stands incomplete to this day; but it is well enough that it is so, for the public reciter or reader who goes around trying to imitate the sounds of the various sorts of bells with his voice would find himself up a stump when he got to the church-bell-- as Joseph Addison would say.

View in context But so many weddings have been ushered in with the merriest peal of the bells, and yet turned out unhappily, that I shall hope for better fortune under such different auspices.

View in context But just when they expected to make the shoals by the Virgin the fog shut down, and they anchored, surrounded by the tinklings of invisible bells.

There was not much fishing, but occasionally dory met dory in the fog and exchanged news.

View in context Whenever I look at my watch and its hands point to ten, I hear the bells of the neighboring church; but because the bells begin to ring when the hands of the clock reach ten, I have no right to assume that the movement of the bells is caused by the position of the hands of the watch.

View in context He saw the tower, whither his charmed footsteps had brought him, swarming with dwarf phantoms, spirits, elfin creatures of the Bells.

He saw them leaping, flying, dropping, pouring from the Bells without a pause.

View in context Mates Voice from the Quarter-Deck Eight bells there, forward View in context Half-past six was no longer half-past six to these pilgrims from New England, the South, and the Mississippi Valley, it was seven bells; eight, twelve, and four oclock were eight bells; the captain did not take the longitude at nine oclock, but at two bells.

They spoke glibly of the after cabin, the forrard cabin, port and starboard and the focastle.

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