An ordinary belljar such as is used for covering ferns or for aquaria makes a very useful 'larva glass.
Another form of larva glass can easily be made out of a large glass jar if you know how to cut off the bottom, or of a chemist's bell jar which is open both at top and bottom.
Another plan is to float the pinned specimens on corks in a shallow vessel of water, and cover them over with a bell glass.
II Two hours later Bindle's ring at the Heartys' bell was answered by Millie.
That cough of 'is is as good as a bell round 'is neck.
The bellman with his hand-bell still survives in Dingle.
The ringing of a hand bell through the streets of Dingle to summon the people to mass is many years gone out of practice.
After the priest had read the sentence, the bell was rung, the book closed and the candles extinguished.
The fancy pleased her, and she smiled at her own conceit; but it faded in a moment when the door-bell rang.
And then the door-bell rang, and Jemima entered with profuse apologies at her tardiness.
Every now and then an odd boyish voice, with a crack in it, chimed in like a jangling bell out of tune.
And then, as the old grand-father's clock in the hall struck ten, Doreen rang the bell for prayers.
If you are sure that I shall be back by seven," she said; and then Miss Harford rang the bell and ordered the carriage.
I was mixing father's salad for supper and thinking how he would enjoy it with the cold pheasant when the door-bell rang, and the next minute Ann brought in a big box--one of those cardboard boxes that always look so tempting.
As Mollie rushed into the kitchen the front door bell rang, and Ann, with her hat on, admitted a visitor.
Ah," as thebell rang, "that is Ann, so please will you go upstairs.
At that moment Sainte-Croix heard an adjacent bell sound the hour at which he had appointed the guard to arrive.
Well, Buttons appears in the presence of the dogs with his great bell, and the sensible brutes, conscious of the pain they are about to endure, immediately set up a howl of quadruple agony, to which the bell tolls its awful accompaniment.
Their gaiety was at its height, when suddenly the sound of a distant bell stole with milky gentleness on the ear.
The same order includes the well-known Blue-bell or Wild Hyacinth (Hyacinthus nonscriptus or Scilla festalis), which is occasionally confused with the Harebell of the order Campanulaceae.
Our last example of this genus--the Bell Heather or Fine-leaved Heath (E.
The words were on her lips, when they were interrupted by the loud sound of a bell from the house.
The last guest had taken leave, and her mother being on the edge of a comfortable nap in the shaded drawing-room, she was just stealing away to her garret, when the bell rang.
The bell stopped, and the succeeding silence was harshly broken by the shrill whistle of a train.
First he rang the bell as if the house were on fire, and then he asked her to receive a visitor in the exceedingly critical state of her health.
That old rogue runs things down all over the markets, and he often waits till the last peal of the bell before spending four sous in purchase.
A large bellat the corner of the fruit market, just over Florent's head, now began to ring.
The far-spreading voice of the markets was become more sonorous, and every now and then the peals of a bell ringing in some distant pavilion mingled with the swelling, rising clamour.
While Morton and Weissmann were considering this the girl again became silent as a stone, and a moment later a clear, sweet sound pulsed through the air as if an exquisite crystal bell had been struck.
He was about to touch the bell when the door opened and a porter softly greeted him.
Three measured strokes upon, the tiny bell replied, and with their pulsations the room seemed to stir with a new and different throng of winged memories.
The trouble with Betsy is that she wants to meander along the road with a loaded wagon as her mother and grandmother before her wandered through the woods wearing a bell to attract the deer.
He had finished breakfast when the telephone bell rang, and the expressman told him there was a package for him from Philadelphia.
I merely meant that most men would not see or hear the blue bell at all----and as for the poem and prayer!
Near dawn he heard the tinkle of the bell and went to receive his message and order a car for morning.
Anywhere the blue bell rings its call it is Sunday in the woods and in your heart.
As the name indicates, the flowers are bell shape and I can't begin to describe their grace, beauty, and delicate blue colour.
Father used to say that her mother was the smartest bell mare that ever entered the forest.
He is tolling his little brass hand-bell just as though everyone was here.
It's a bell I rigged up one day when you were gone to the Junction," exclaimed Willie hurriedly.
Maybe Bell Brown might get it; her pa bought her lots of things.
For us thebell upon the Old Red School-house calls in vain.
I believe one morning he didn't get there until after the last bell was done ringing, but otherwise his record of attendance compares favorably with Sister Boggs's.
The great bell of the cathedral was rung for the actual birth.
He heard her fingers groping along the wall; then the silvery tinkle of a bell faintly heard through the thick oak panels.
She stepped across the room and put out her hand as though to the bell on the table.
And he used to make the Sunday begin at twelve o'clock on Saturday; and to ring the bell then for the workmen to go home.
A Captain Decourbes had been fishing, and, coming in after curfew bell had tolled at 8 p.
The hand that controlled the market so frequently shook strangely as Richford pressed the bell of No.
Down below he could hear the sharp purring of the electric bell and the shuffle of Sartoris's chair over the floor of the hall.
There is silence; but the bell is heard still ranging.
The church bell has stopped slow ringing, and begun its five minutes' hurrying note.
The bell for church has begun to rang, the sun is down, and it is getting dusk.
