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Example sentences for "ringers"

Lexicographically close words:
ringdove; ringe; ringed; ringen; ringer; ringes; ringgit; ringing; ringleader; ringleaders
  1. She took them from Miss Barnet's trembling ringers and curved them about her ears.

  2. First, when you do into the bellhouse come, Look if the ringers have convenient room, For if you do be an hindrance unto them, Fourpence you forfeit unto these gentlemen.

  3. One Christmas Eve the ringers of Witham-on-the-Hill left the bells standing for the purpose of partaking of refreshments at a tavern that stood opposite the church.

  4. Under the year 1604 we have "Item to the ringers on the Coronation Day (James I.

  5. In the following year is "Item to the Ringers the 5th day of August, when thanks was given to God for the delyvering of King James from the conspiracye of the Lord Gowyre, 5s.

  6. You gentlemen that here wish to ring, See that these laws you keep in everything; Or else be sure you must without delay The penalty thereof to the ringers pay.

  7. The villagers who are waiting--the poor things he has worked for--the very ringers themselves, are all pouring forth the same thoughts.

  8. But it was the ringers who made me feel as if all really was over.

  9. The ringers of St. Giles's rang a peal for three days running.

  10. And with that father and mother must have gone away, and the other ringers stood talking a bit.

  11. This was the belfry, where the ringers came.

  12. Besides, the ringers may be there, and have forgotten to shut the door.

  13. The buildings on those inner sides were low and humble and, as it were, withdrawn from the world, the chief of them being the ancient Duck Inn, where the hand-bell ringers used to meet.

  14. One of the ringers lived in my youth, whom I have oft heard to verify the same to be true.

  15. The ringers were in the belfry in the evening, and from behind a column he watched them go out.

  16. After the ringers left, Martin went into the belfry and struck a light.

  17. It is a giddy height to fall from down to the stone pavement below, where the ringers stand.

  18. The subscribers whose ringers are latched are, therefore, locked out in more ways than one.

  19. This defect may in some measure be reduced by making the ringers of low impedance.

  20. Although no ringers of this type are being made at present, yet a large number of them are in use and they will consequently be described.

  21. When any generator is operated, its current divides and passes over the line wires and through all of the ringers in multiple.

  22. Ringers of this kind were always made with but a single gong, it being found difficult to secure uniformity of ringing and uniformity of adjustment when two gongs were employed.

  23. This is the general practice with series telephones, the ringers ordinarily having short cores and a comparatively small number of turns, the resistance being as a rule about 80 ohms.

  24. Accordingly the ringers conducted themselves in the belfry as they saw fit.

  25. At the usual time for the practice to begin the ringers arrived, and he heard them discuss him and his doings in the churchyard.

  26. There was some excuse for the ringers to conduct themselves in a free and easy manner in the belfry when it was shut off from the body of the church by a screen of boards against which the west gallery was erected.

  27. And now, in the same place, there is as well-conducted a set of ringers as may be found anywhere, and some of the old lot are still there.

  28. There still remain in some places certain forcible evidences that the ringers regaled themselves in the belfries, and these have taken the shape of ale-jugs.

  29. In a certain place that I know the ringers had been allowed their own way under an indifferent rector, and the worst possible condition of affairs had resulted.

  30. The ringers considered that they had done quite sufficient when they had rung a peal before Divine Service.

  31. There is a tradition that the bells of All Hallows were rung on this occasion with such energy, that the queen presented the ringers with silken ropes.

  32. Smiling still, she bent over him, and pressed her warm, delicate ringers lightly on his brow and lips.

  33. Hearest thou how great a clamor the ringers of the Temple make to-night?

  34. Some prefer the quieter sound of chiming as an introduction to divine service, but where a band of ringers is available and change-ringing is practised the bells as a rule are rung.

  35. Many practical ringers know little or nothing of the principles of composition, and are content with performing compositions received from composers, or published in ringing books and periodicals.

  36. Thus until the last change of a peal is struck, it is never safe for the ringers to congratulate themselves upon its performance.

  37. Nauwelaerts won an international competition of bell-ringers organised by the city of Bruges in 1911.

  38. Toon Nauwelaerts, a native of Lierre, where his ancestors have been bell-ringers for more than a hundred years.

  39. The bells had been ringing, and the ringers had shut up the belfry-door.

  40. She was due on a Sunday night, and the bell-ringers of the cathedral stood ready to ring a peal in honor of the new Minister.

  41. The steamer did not arrive that night, and the bell-ringers went to bed.

  42. In vain the ringers were urged to remedy their mistake: they protested with many whispered expletives that they would see themselves further first.

  43. The ringers were ready with their hands on the ropes to ring out the merry peal as the bride and bridegroom should come out.

  44. A thrill of horror at so foolish a jest from the ringers passed through us all.

  45. But the ringers themselves dropped the ropes and fled like rabbits out into the sunlight.

  46. In th' first place, they've got four or five more ringers than we know about.

  47. Strong ringers seized it, and dry, burning lips kissed it again and again--lips parched with fever.

  48. Then I heard the eight ringers down below.

  49. My father died while training his bell-ringers in the Oxford triple bob--broke a blood-vessel somewhere.

  50. But for bell-ringers there must be bells; and who cast those that have been in past years and are still pealed so merrily?

  51. Parties of ringers went about from parish to parish and rang on the church bells, very generally for a prize--"a hat laced with gold.

  52. At Launcells, where the bells are of superior sweetness, the ringers who rang for the accession of George III rang for that of George IV, there not having been a gap caused by death among them in sixty years.

  53. Come all you ringers good and grave, Come listen to my peal, I'll tell you of five ringers brave That lived in Egloshayle.

  54. At ten o'clock the bell-ringers came tramping up the stone steps from the road, and the Sexton woke up.

  55. Five minutes before the half hour the ringers change the chime for a single bell.


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