The phrase "around the bell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to time, such as indicating a specific moment or event that occurs near the time a bell rings.
Example: "The meeting will start around the bell, so please be ready by then."
Alternatives: "near the bell" or "close to the bell".
Not only that, but these woody vines, which had so gracefully grown around the house and around the bell, were now sending runners under the roof line.
Flames from construction scaffolding around the bell tower, which has been under renovation, rose high above the Moscow skyline as firefighters struggled to protect one of the city's most beloved landmarks.
Enraged, she transforms herself into a great serpent; he hides within a bell in the Dojoji temple; she, coiling herself around the bell, scorches him to death with her fiery breath.
The telecommunications act opened a path through many of the regulatory barriers that were placed around the Bell companies when they split from the old American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984.
It exemplifies his odd spirit of soberly deliberated abandon: "There is a ship foundering — a sun, a moon, two triangles, clouds — a shark pushing up out of the mad waters — and at the right corner — a bell with '8' on it — symbolizing eight bells — or noon when he jumped off — and around the bell are a lot of men's eyes — that look up from below to see who the new lodger is to be".
In the story a woman named Kiyohime, the spurned mistress of a Buddhist priest named Anchin, traps her lover inside the temple's bell and then kills him by turning into a snake, coiling around the bell, and cooking him in it.
We were told to expect medium-rare chateaubriand and exotic fondues and white linen antimacassars gentling our dreamy heads and fancy French wine all around and the bell ring of sterling flatware.
Now back to the sheep-with-the-bell- around-its-neck analogy, with Eden- Monaro as national litmus test.
But really it was the TV crews which were burblingly, ecstatically happy, more things happening around them – the bells, the gondolas, the shrubbery on the deck of the Spirit of Chartwell, the Maori war canoe, Boris Johnson waving regally – than they had time, or in the case of Chris Hollins mouthing silently into the wind, microphone to talk about.
-THOMAS FULLER Sing louder around to the bells' cheerful sound, while our sports shall be seen on the echoing green.
At around 3AM, the bells of the local community college began to ring and Casey had a revelation that he should go back to school.
