Bow Bells

City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices were not drowned by the uproar in the streets, yet were there hints of adventurous and romantic story to be observed in some of the adjacent objects.

Dombey and Son 2007

Besides that, Sir Isaac's talk was more a pedantic than ever and much more Cockney-flavored-the voder was mixing aspirates with abandon and turning the theta sound into "f"; Don felt sure that the Earthman who had taught him to speak must have been born in earshot of Bow Bells.

Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951

Just then the sound of Bow Bells reached him, and to his youthful fancy seemed to call him back: --

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

Nor was there anything even conventionally French about the girl _Remnant_, who might have been born next-door to Bow Bells.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Various

I have since lived much in this wondrous city and in many parts of it between Hyde Park Corner, the heart of May Fair, to the east end of Bloomsbury under the very sound of Bow Bells.

Marse Henry : an autobiography, 1919

Mr. Thornton was an Englishman, born within the sound of Bow Bells, and, like a true Briton, intensely proud of the fact, and though he was as liberal in his general views as he was in politics, and had delivered many a fine speech on Imperialism, yet some stubborn latent prejudice arose in his heart and threatened to overflow every St. Andrew's Sunday.

The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

The most bumptious and self-satisfied Cockney who ever heard the ringing of Bow Bells, would have found resentment impossible after

The Message 1912

And Amber gave over, in amazement unbounded, seeing the starlight glinting down a dozen levelled rifle-barrels, glowing pale on the spiked, rounded crowns of pith helmets, and striking soft fire from burnished accoutrements; while a voice, thick with a brogue that was never bred out of hearing of Bow Bells, was hectoring them to surrender.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

And came to Mother Goose's farm before Bow Bells could ring,

Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk Various 1897

The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, face of the man who has absorbed the sound of Bow Bells with his mother's milk.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896