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soul bell, soul-bell
[f. soul n.]
The passing-bell. Also fig.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuff Wks. (Grosart) V. 214 The..Bishop of Norwich..meant not to forsake them till the soule Bell towld them thence. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 394 It is as it were the soule-bell of your Priestly and un-virginly virginity. 1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists xliv. 107 We call them soule-bels, for that they signifie the Departure of the soule. 1725Bourne in Brand Pop. Antiq. (1777) i. 1 Of the Soul-Bell, its Antiquity, the Reason of its Institution. 1777Brand Ibid. 18 Distinction of Rank is preserved here in the tolling of the Soul-Bell. 1893Tablet 27 May 819 The great Soul Bell of St. Swithun's was sobbing in the winter wind for the death of the bishop. 1906Raven Bells 112, Persons recovered after their soul bell had sounded. |