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Through the gently sloping passes which the Kirghizes call "bels," viaducts, bridges, embankments, cuttings, tunnels had to be made to carry the line.

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866

"That suffragans used to baptize bels under pretence of driving away divels and tempests; and for this purpose did invite many rich godfathers, who were to touch the rope while the bell was exorcised, and its name invoked (unto which all the people must answer).

Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

A decibel is literally one-tenth of a bel -- the number of bels (named after Alexander Graham Bell) being the common logarithm of the ratio of two powers.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: When Power Snoring Exceeds A Power Saw 2009

Part of the Davis formula for dominating music included financing smaller la - bels launched by shrewd entrepreneurs, including 10-year-old Atlanta-based LaFace.

The Day The Music Stopped 2008

The euening now approaching, the Generall commanded to carry aboord the ships, such goods as they had there found, and digged out of the ground, which was accordingly done and accomplished, among which things were three brasse peeces, some bels and other goods.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Hollandia came before Amsterdam: where they were ioyfully saluted with the sound of eight trumpettes, with banqueting, with ringing of bels, and with peales of ordinance, the Generall and other men of command being honourably receiued and welcommed by the citty.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

To see whether they haue any ample vse there for it, for that we may lade whole nauies of it, and haue no vse of it vnlesse it be for some small portion in founding of bels, or a litle that the

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

At the doores of their churches, they vsually build some entrance or porch as we doe, and in their churchyardes they erect a certain house of woode, wherein they set vp their bels, wherein sometimes they haue but one, in some two, and in some also three.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And also that himselfe for pleasure had beene so drawen, the horses being brauely adorned with bels and cymbals.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Failing that, he hoped for la-bels, or some evocative name that would tell him what the things were used for.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002