Handbell Quotes

A small brazier glowed near the monk's left hand. On a lecturn before him lay pots of paints, brushes, a quill, a pen, a knife, a sizeable handbell, the tooth of some animal--and a piece of parchment. It was the parchment that commanded the room. Until he saw it Len didn't realize how starved he had been of colour. Villagers dressed in various shades of brown and beige, like their furniture and fields and now, here, was an irruption of the rainbow, as if a charm of goldfinches had landed on the manuscript and been transfixed.

 I have always been of the type that rather than being improved by ornamentation, is left looking shorter and rounder. MallenIve style does me no favours. “I feel like an enormous idiot.” “Only you look rather like an enormous hand-bell.

It will come back to you,” cried the Rector, feverishly. “It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

One smiles often when reading incidents in their labors. A string of packhorses is so driven as to break up a congregation, and a fire-engine is brought out and played over the throng to achieve the same purpose. Hand-bells, old kettles, marrowbones and cleavers, trumpets, drums, and entire bands of music were engaged to drown the Preachers' voices. In one case the parish bull was let loose, and in others dogs were set to fight. The preachers needed to have faces set like flints, and so indeed they had. John Furz says,: "As soon as I began to preach, a man came straight forward, and presented a gun at my face; swearing that he would blow my brains out, if I spake another word. However, I continued speaking, and he continued swearing, sometimes putting the muzzle of the gun to my mouth, sometimes against my ear. While we were singing the last hymn, he got behind me, fired the gun, and burned off part of my hair." After this, my brethren, We ought never to speak of petty interruptions or annoyances. The proximity of a blunderbuss in the hands of a son of Belial is not very conducive to collected thought and clear utterance, but the experience of Furz was probably no worse than that of John Nelson, who coolly says, "But when I was in the middle of my discourse, one at the outside of the congregation threw a stone, which cut me on the head: however, that made the people give -greater attention, especially when they saw the blood run down my face; so that all was quiet till I had done, and was Singing a hymn.

Each man, occupied with his own impulses and ambitions, would rush to the rostrum, jostling his fellows aside to pour forth on the Assembly streams of fluent but often irrelevant rhetoric. The din of conversation was continual, and the Speaker’s hand-bell did little to quell it. Fights often took place, and the more responsible members would intervene to prevent revolvers being brandished, faces slapped and insults exchanged. On important occasions the deputies would be subdued by the spectacle of Kemal’s own henchmen and drinking companions, glaring around the Chamber with ugly looks and hands straying towards holsters. Years later, when the Grand National Assembly had become a more seemly institution, an American senator, after a sight-seeing tour of Angora, expressed to Kemal his disappointment that he had not seen it at work. Kemal turned to his guide and said, ‘What? Did you not show him our Zoo?

Each man, occupied with his own impulses and ambitions, would rush to the rostrum, jostling his fellows aside to pour forth on the Assembly streams of fluent but often irrelevant rhetoric. The din of conversation was continual, and the Speaker’s hand-bell did little to quell it. Fights often took place, and the more responsible members would intervene to prevent revolvers being brandished, faces slapped and insults exchanged. On important occasions the deputies would be subdued by the spectacle of Kemal’s own henchmen and drinking companions, glaring around the Chamber with ugly looks and hands straying towards holsters. Years later, when the Grand National Assembly had become a more seemly institution, an American senator, after a sight-seeing tour of Angora, expressed to Kemal his disappointment that he had not seen it at work. Kemal turned to his guide and said, ‘What? Did you not show him our Zoo?

The gnome held up some rather small handbells and waved them nervously. They went glingleglingleglingle, in a very sad way. ‘Good, eh? That was me. I’m the Glingleglingleglingle Fairy.’ ‘Get out.