Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bell placed on an anchored vessel, buoy, headland, rock, or shoal, rung by the motion of the waves or the force of the wind, and serving as a warning to mariners in foggy weather.
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Examples
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Whatever the boasted beauties of Lake Champlain were, they veiled themselves from English eyes in a thick fog, through which we steamed at half-speed, with a dismal fog-bell incessantly tolling.
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Sometimes a distant fog-bell; sometimes a distant sound across the face of the deep, like the falling of cataract waters.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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From somewhere out along the river, probably from the lighthouse at Jordan's Point, came the tolling of a fog-bell.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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It has a fog-bell, which rings in very stormy weather, and may be heard five miles off.
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It puzzled me a little, till I remembered there was a fog-bell as well as a light-house on the Point.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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As succeeding blasts sounded nearer, the Commodore became anxious and, without waiting to turn out the crew, he started for the fog-bell.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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"And here's the compass, and here's the whistle, and here's the fog-bell," said the girl, unloading her burden with a sigh of relief.
Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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No fog-bell on a rock-bound coast might warn mariners more ominously than these battalions of adventurers on the
The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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No fog-bell on a rock-bound coast might warn mariners more ominously than these battalions of adventurers on the Perce
The Battle of the Strong — Volume 6 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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No fog-bell on a rock-bound coast might warn mariners more ominously than these battalions of adventurers on the Perce
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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