dinner bell

And the dinner bells ring for all the species that live here."

Everyone is expected at the dining hall when the breakfast, lunch and dinner bells ring.

And there were dinner bells in many of the farm yards with a rope pull from the kitchen window.

Earlier ADDs had short-term effects at best and were even thought to act as "dinner bells."

Dinner bells, around for 200 years, come in all shapes and sizes for big and little ears.

Just to look at you is worth a hundred dinner bells," said the Jinn, smothering a chuckle behind his fat hand. "

Porcelain raccoons vanished, followed by ceramic cats, bird dinner bells and sports figurine savings banks.

There is much more: pot hangers, shovels, dinner bells, towel racks, wooden dressers and porcelain handles.

THERE were no mock dinner bells ringing at Baltimore Ravens camp yesterday afternoon.

The plethora of "I Love Pittsburgh" souvenirs attests to this - shirts, mugs, ceramic dinner bells, gold thimbles, dishes.

There, a few shelves stood as a concession to the tourist trade, filled with tacky souvenirs - thimbles, bookmarks, dinner bells, platters with Diana's face on them.

Andrea Cottman, 62, a retired school principal in Washington Heights, collects objects like 1930's dinner bells in the shape of Aunt Jemima or other rotund servant figures.

And not to be outdone, we are also a "bear safe" community as well as a minor producer of "bear bells" or "dinner bells" as the locals refer to them.

We intuitively associate large objects with deep tones, comparing -perhaps subconsciously - the respective size and sound of dinner bells and cathedral bells, of trumpets and tubas, fiddles and contrabass.

Categorized by function, the collection includes pencil holders, cachepots, wall pockets, stamp moisteners (desiccated sponges intact); pin dishes, salt-and-peppers, cream-and-sugars, dinner bells, egg timers, toast racks, flower frogs, vases, toothpick holders, perfume vials, sake decanters, toothbrush holders and pincushions.