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Oxford street, and six times carried away every bell-handle in Bloomsbury square, besides turning off the gas in various thoroughfares.
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Oxford street, and six times carried away every bell-handle in Bloomsbury square, besides turning off the gas in various thoroughfares.
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Dinny pulled a chased bell-handle, and a faint tinkle sounded, as from some errant sheep.
Over the River 2004
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He used the wrong name, and did not notice it in his evident vexation at not finding the bell-handle.
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She was standing before an arched doorway over which were the words Queen Alice in large letters, and on each side of the arch there was a bell-handle; one was marked
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The bell-handle was fixed to the wall, on the side of the bed by which the table stood.
The Haunted Hotel 2003
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His hand was out for the bell-handle, and he had pulled it, before he was sure that he was unhurt.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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She cast a despairing glance across the room at the bell-handle, which was utterly beyond her reach.
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron
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A lane with high banks, now covered with ferns and wild flowers, and furrowed with ruts which were more like crevasses, ran up to the house; but they left this and went round the orchard to the back of the yard, in the wall of which there was a little door with a bell-handle beside it.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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She pulled the bell-handle which was second from the top in a row of handles at the side of the door, and put her basket down to rest herself, summoning up a kindly smile with which to greet her sister-in-law, Mary Mitchell.
Littlebourne Lock F. Bayford Harrison
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