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Example sentences for "bellringer"

Lexicographically close words:
bellow; bellowed; bellowing; bellowings; bellows; bells; bellum; belly; bellyful; bellying
  1. According to what he heard from the bellringer and saw with his own eyes, the provost dined at nine and supped at four by the clock.

  2. There, not daring to scratch, move, or speak, the poor bellringer shut his eyes devoutly.

  3. There he had for his companion a bellringer called Pompilius Numan, a coward of the deepest dye, who at night took his own shadow for the devil and his shirt for a ghost.

  4. The bellringer looked at them piteously, and in spite of himself, made grimaces with his nose.

  5. Bellringer of Notre-Dame," replied Quasimodo, supposing that what was required of him was to explain to the judge who he was.

  6. Master Quasimodo, the bellringer of my brother, monsieur the archdeacon of Josas, a knave of oriental architecture, who has a back like a dome, and legs like twisted columns!

  7. The bellringer retreated several paces behind the archdeacon, and suddenly hurling himself upon him with fury, with his huge hands he pushed him by the back over into the abyss over which Dom Claude was leaning.

  8. The bellringer allowed him to turn the corner of the street, then he ran after him with his ape-like agility, shouting: "Hey there!

  9. As the only eye of the bellringer peered into that horizon of mist and night, he felt within him an inexpressible uneasiness.

  10. A bellringer carrying off a wench, like a vicomte!

  11. It was evident that the bellringer was to serve the archdeacon for a given time, at the end of which he would carry away the latter's soul, by way of payment.

  12. The unhappy bellringer fell upon his knees on the threshold, and clasped his large, misshapen hands with a suppliant air.

  13. Marie had a rival in the heart of the bellringer of Notre-Dame, and that the great bell and her fourteen sisters were neglected for something more amiable and more beautiful?

  14. The bellringer saw him still endeavor to cling to a gable with his nails; but the surface sloped too much, and he had no more strength.

  15. There is nothing which can be compared with the empire of the archdeacon over the bellringer; with the attachment of the bellringer for the archdeacon.

  16. When the poor bellringer became deaf, there had been established between him and Claude Frollo, a language of signs, mysterious and understood by themselves alone.

  17. It was his own repast, it was his own bed, which the bellringer had gone in search of.

  18. I went straight from Fulham to Bellringer Street.

  19. Bellringer Street was less than a mile away, she said.

  20. As soon as the deed was secured, I had my patient removed from Bellringer Street to some apartments in Fulham, near to Dr.

  21. Mrs. Foster had been to Brook Street every day since her return, to inquire for me, and to leave an urgent message that I should go to Bellringer Street as soon as I was again in town.

  22. I followed Simmons's cab up Bellringer Street, and watched Johanna alight and enter the house.

  23. Charles Joseph and the bellringer fell upon the prisoner, who, awaking with a start, saw at a glance what this midnight visit meant.

  24. Charles Joseph then fixed the dead man's belt round his neck, the bellringer helped to raise his lifeless body, and the chancellor slipped the other end of the belt through a ring fixed in the wall.

  25. Immediately after, the conscience-stricken Charles Joseph got on horseback and rode from the city; the bellringer left the cathedral and hid himself: the crime dispersed the criminals.

  26. The emperor of the country heard of it, and declared that he who would really find out where the sound came from should receive the title of "Bellringer to the World," even if there was no bell at all.

  27. He was appointed "Bellringer to the World," and wrote every year a short dissertation on the owl, but by this means people did not become any wiser than they had been before.

  28. The old bellringer shaded his eyes with one trembling hand, and peered down the valley.

  29. For the old bellringer was not alone in his ignorance.

  30. The light of a lamp carried by the bellringer showed the dreary extent of the vault, and the enormous thickness of its walls.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bellringer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.