When the rope is pulled and they find the bell doesn't ring, they simply fork out a new clapper and climb up and fasten it on, and then start in to ringing as though nothing unusual had happened.
The Hero of the Bell-Clapper 70 Lee was one of the most prominent and popular men in the class.
Some genius has rigged a line to the clapper of the ship's bell on the forecastle-head and clangs it horribly in the big foo-foo crises, though Bombini can be heard censuring him severely on occasion.
A few jolts of the needle has put a clapper to his eternal moanin'.
Think'st thou we need a new clapper to our church bell, that thou set'st thy twopenny clapper wagging so?
The object of the Clapper is to hit the one running on the right side of the line, which, if he succeeds in doing, makes him the Clapper, and the Clapper takes his place.
Tongue when she talks like the clapper of a bellows.
The lacquey, aware of comment, shook the lolling clapper of his bell but feebly: --Bang!
It hung directly before the helmsman's window, and it had a short rope attached to the clapper of it.
For the purpose of causing the metal filings to fall apart, or decohere, the tube is tapped lightly, and this is done by a little object like the clapper of an electric bell.
If two bells are placed on the base with the clapper mounted between them, both bells will be struck by the swinging motion of the armature.
Then finding the clapper of the bell somewhat in his way, he detached it and used it as a staff; and as he stepped across the great drawbridge which led from the monastery it bent and groaned beneath his weight.
And at the sound of her gentle voice Vasily dropped his arms, the bell clapper fell from his hands upon the lap of moist Mother Earth, and he said in a gentle voice: "Lady mother, you are a cunning old woman and a wise one too.
And how was it that the clapper seemed to strike so fast?
That night, as on the night before, the old man's sleep was broken and fitful and disturbed by dreaming, in which he heard a metal clapper striking against a brazen surface.
Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.
A peculiarity of the flowers is, that their petals are partially welded together into little bells, with the clapper (alias the straight green pistil) protruding, and the stamens united around its base.
So long as we press the button this process continues producing what sounds like a continuous jingle; in reality the clapper strikes the bell every time a current passes through the electromagnet.
As soon as the current flows, the coils become magnetic and attract the soft iron armature, drawing it forward and causing the clapper to strike the bell.
It is the history of a young person who goes to sleep under the clapper of a church bell, and is awakened by its tolling for a funeral.
These large bells are either not moved at all, or only slightly swung to enable the clapper to touch their side; in some cases they are struck by a hammer or beam from outside.
Between the two, I suspended a little clapper by a silk thread, which clapper was attracted by the electrified glass and then repelled to the grounded one, giving rise to a sound as it struck each glass.
As the clapper adhered somewhat to the glasses, the effect on the whole was not agreeable.
I thought I should have snorted right out two or three times, said the Clockmaker; I had to pucker up my mouth like the upper eend of a silk puss, to keep from yawhawin in her face, to hear the critter let her clapper run that fashion.
He looked at the motionlessclapper of his transmitter signal-bell, where he had discreetly muffled the little gong with a linen handkerchief.
If that’s all you’re swingin’ your clapper about, you may as well get wise.
At one time the clapper rail was very plentiful in certain localities in California and furnished abundant sport, though rather of a tame nature, to those who hunted them.
The clapper is only a straggler south of San Francisco bay.
The mould is now complete, except for providing for the cannons or metal loops which attach the bell to the stock, and the loop to which the clapper is suspended inside.
Now, this gives the clapper very little play, and it strikes continually on one place at very short intervals.
Clocking" consists in tying the clapper to the rope in order to make the bell sound more easily and with little effort on the ringer's part.
It is clear that in the course of each revolution the clapperwill strike the side twice.
The man who has spent twelve days, as I have, under theclapper of a bell, without any other sustenance than broccoli--is there any more brandy in the flask?
A dull sound as of the clapper of a large bell boomed overhead.
