dinnerbell

The dinnerbell that had summoned them was standing on the console table in the foyer - a cast brass handbell with a coiled serpent for a handle.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

At Lawrence, the objective point of all the Free State immigration, where I spent six weeks in assisting my sons to make a home for the winter, I mingled freely with the incoming population, and gave several lectures to audiences of from two to three hundred, the entire population coming together at the ringing of the city dinnerbell.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863