As I left the museum a church bell rang out midnight.
At 5 15 p.m. on a fall Sunday, a bell rang out softly in the convent announcing the call to vespers, the evening prayer service.
"A library should be a palace for the people," he said, as the building's 5 o'clock closing bell rang out with earsplitting finality.
When the New York Stock Exchange bell rang out the year on Wednesday, it tolled for virtually anyone with money in the stock market.
"Now is the time for all good men now is the time," the woman typed on the black lacquered machine, and when the bell rang out, happily ratifying what she'd written, she squealed and clapped her hands.
The bell rang out, as it has every March 25, in remembrance of Nettie Rosenthal, Julia Rosen, Sophie Salemi and the 143 other people -- mostly women, mostly immigrants -- who died at the building 92 years ago.
Now and then, too, customers walked in off the street, a stream of curious shoppers who simply wanted to touch the machines, tapping the keys and slapping back the carriage when the bell rang out, leaving a couple of sentences behind.
A loud bell rang out for each completed adoption.
A church bell rang out and the worshippers retrieved bolos, machete-like knives used for clearing vegetation, from the coffins.
