cow-bell

She reached the cow-bell and lay down on her face as she had been told, with feet in the air, crossed.

The White Monkey 2004

A humming bee hummed, a cow-bell tinkled, while some suspicious cracklings told of a secretly reconnoitering squirrel.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

Victorine saw him slide away behind a screen, and looked at the little cow-bell.

The White Monkey 2004

Bill Sharpe, who has spent eighty-two summers in the valley -- and the winters, as well -- with seeming innocence started a discussion as to how far a cow-bell could be heard.

Sergeant York And His People

To the right leg of each man a cow-bell was tied; with their brooms swinging a preparatory flourish, the six stood ready to commence the game.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At the top of the arch, thus formed, was attached a large cow-bell, the motion of which, while walking the streets, made it necessary for the slave to hold his hand to one of its sides, to steady it.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

A rabble marched out of the city to the walls of Bouvignes, a town of Namur, loyal to Burgundy, carrying a stuffed figure with a cow-bell round its neck.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

Now and then there comes the soft, faint clank of a cow-bell, different from its sound as the cows run the road or feed in the pasture.

Sergeant York And His People

Descending into the valley, we travelled along a small stream two or three miles, and were continuing on in the twilight, when we heard the tinkling of a cow-bell on the opposite side of the stream.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

It was compared to the measured tinkling of a cow-bell, or regular strokes upon a piece of iron, quickly repeated.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various