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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.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • Oxford street, and six times carried away every bell-handle in Bloomsbury square, besides turning off the gas in various thoroughfares.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • Dinny pulled a chased bell-handle, and a faint tinkle sounded, as from some errant sheep.

    Over the River 2004

  • He used the wrong name, and did not notice it in his evident vexation at not finding the bell-handle.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • 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

    Through the Looking Glass 2003

  • The bell-handle was fixed to the wall, on the side of the bed by which the table stood.

    The Haunted Hotel 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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