All my recollections of childhood, all I knew of fairyland, clustered around the old Abbey and its curfew bell, which tolled at eight o'clock every evening and was the signal for me to run to bed before it stopped.
By that curfew bell I had been laid in my little couch to sleep the sleep of childish innocence.
But the oldest and best custom is the ringing of the curfew bell, which still peals out to St. Anne's Hill and over Chertsey Mead from September 29 to March 25.
King Henry's funeral is history; another tale of the Chertsey curfew bell is legend.
But the knell for the death-stroke never sounded; Blanche had climbed the curfew tower and held the clapper of the great bell.
Dost remember how, when we were boys at school, and the curfew long rung, we yet knelt at our window and saw the stars come up over the moorland?
The custom was still observed in many places, and we often heard the sound of the curfew bell, which was almost invariably rung at eight o'clock in the evening.
The curfewbell was formerly sounded at sunset, to give notice that all fires and lights must be extinguished.
The curfew was tolled on "Great Peter" every night at eight o'clock, and after that hour had been sounded and followed by a short pause, the same bell tolled the number of strokes correspending with the day of the month.
Although the old custom of ringing the curfew is gradually dying out, in several places in Cumberland and Westmorland the practice is kept up still.
In 1590, the Queen issued a proclamation enforcing curfew for London apprentices, who had been misruly.
The last major riot in London was aroused by a speaker on May Day in 1517 when a thousand disorderly young men, mostly apprentices, defied the curfew and looted shops and houses of aliens.
It was a superstition that ghosts left the world of spirits and wandered on the earth from the hour of curfew (see Temp.
Curfew Bell, which is generally supposed to be of Norman origin, is still rung in some of our old country villages, although it has long lost its significance.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea; The ploughman homeward wends’—wends?
The Curfew Bell is rung, and not tolled, as Reginald states: therefore, what he heard, I suppose to have been the death bell.
Curfew is tolled in Corfe daily, from October to March, at 6 A.
The curfew is still rung at eight o'clock at Lyme Regis.
The curfew originated in the fear of fire when most cities were built of timber.
In 1848 the curfew was still rung at Hastings, Sussex, from Michaelmas to Lady-Day, and this was the custom too at Wrexham, N.
In early Roman times curfew may possibly have served a political purpose by obliging people to keep within doors, thus preventing treasonable nocturnal assemblies, and generally assisting in the preservation of law and order.
The ploughman, then, does not return "two or three hours before the curfew rings.
Now the ploughman returns two or three hours before the curfew rings; and 'the glimmering landscape' has 'long ceased to fade' before the curfew.
The Curfew 'toll' is not the appropriate word--it was not a slow bell tolling for the dead.
The curfew tolls, and the ploughman returns from work.
In the first place, Mr North, when does the Curfew toll, or ring?
Come, stir the fire And warm your dear old hands; Kind Mother Earth we love so well Has pleasant stories yet to tell Before we hear the curfew bell; Still glow the burning brands.
They were so afraid of fire there, because the village stands close to a thick wood--at least it did then--that the Curfew bell was rung there long after it had been given up in many places.
Sometimes we read of his pleasuring trips with his wife to the Greyhound Tavern in Roxbury, his gala dinner of boiled pork and roast fowls, and his riding home at curfew in "brave moonshine.
Before curfew rang in Old North at the close of that day, the whole college was talking about it.
Before curfew rang in Old North at the close of that day the whole college was talking about it: "Big green Freshman .
Before curfew rang in Old North at the close of that day the whole college was talking about it.
The master was almost as much delighted as the scholar, and it was not till the curfew was beginning to sound that Ambrose could tear himself away.
The curfew sounded, and though attention to its notes was not compulsory by law, it was regarded as the break-up of the evening and the note of recall in all well-ordered establishments.
The curfew rang, but there were special privileges on May Eve, and the game went on louder than ever.
While we gab here," went on Amelia, "curfew time approaches.
At Durham the curfew is rung (on the great bell of the cathedral) at nine o'clock.
The curfew is still rung at Kidderminster at eight o'clock.
This person had lost his way on his return from Bridgenorth Fair, and when (as he afterwards discovered) on the point of falling from a great height, the sound of the Kidderminster curfew caused him to retrace his steps and regain the road.
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