hour-bell

In space other worlds might have crumbled into ruin; on earth the stories of empires might have been written and the lives of men grown old in those first century-long seconds in which John Aldous held his breath and waited after the chiming of the hour-bell in the watch on the cavern floor.

The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

The hour-bell of St. Giles was rung, and the sunset bugle blown in the

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Ye may let Bill Sexton toll an hour-bell for me, for I'm an old standard, if I never were good for much.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Ye may let Bill Sexton toll an hour-bell for me, for I'm a old standard, if I never were good for much.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863