bell

HEAR the sledges with the bells —

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.

I’ll give you a bell later.

In a cowslip's bell I lie.

He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.