"Ship's bell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the tempest and the shouts of the crew, was heard the dismal tolling of the ship's bell—almost as large as that of a village church—which the violent rolling of the ship was occasioning. Imagination cannot conceive the horror of such a sound ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... drifted off into various channels as topics suggested themselves until the ship's bell sounded the luncheon hour. Miss Blake went to join her sister and brother-in-law, but John had some bread and cheese and beer in the smoking room. It appeared that the ladies had better success than in the morning, for he saw them later on in their steamer chairs with Mr. ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... forecastle head of the Rosan stood a youth tolling the ship's bell. The windlass grunted and whined as the schooner came up on her hawser with a thump, and overhead a useless jib slatted ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... when this story opens the sound of the ship's bell—upon which "four bells" had just been struck—was still vibrating upon the wet, fog-laden air; the steerage passengers were all below, and most of them in their bunks; while the cuddy people, with one solitary exception, were in the brilliantly ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... of the state-room. With a view to a proper regard to both delicacy and watchfulness, however, Winchester had directed that the angle of the canvas nearest the cabin-door lantern should be opened a few inches, and that the sentinel should look in every half-hour; or as often as the ship's bell told the progress of time. The object was simply to be certain that the prisoner was in his room, and that he was making no attempt on his own life; a step that had been particularly apprehended previously to the respite. Now, the whole of the ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... the third afternoon, there was such an extraordinary hullabaloo on the deck that our hero was roused out of his long torpor. The ship's bell was ringing and the seamen's heavy boots ran ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet |
