Cowbells

Yet we are also drawn to workaday items such as cowbells, noodle-makers, and a cleverly designed rattrap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At that point, Caitlin and I both heard a new noise -- the cheers and cowbells of the crowds lining First Avenue. ❋ Emily Faherty (2011)

Hulton Archive/Getty Images Prince and Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst in Austria, 1958 At Guillaume Henry's spring show for Carven in Paris, one could hear what sounded like cowbells as models walked down the runway. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The Swiss had cowbells, the French had horns, and everyone had guttural or high-pitched screams in their native languages. ❋ Johnny Weir (2011)

A mystic group called the Cowbellian de Rakin Society took to the streets that year, and noisily celebrated with cowbells and rakes they plundered from a hardware store. ❋ Yvonne Yorke (2011)

We're planning a winter vacation right now and this one restaurant sounds awesome but they ring cowbells between courses and it's a super-busy place, so we can't check it out. ❋ Lisa Belkin (2012)

His recitation of Dame Edith Sitwell's poetry about eternally beautiful Ganymede singing and drinking, and cowbells "drowned in waiters dreams," made the evening's sublime bullshit perfectly complete. ❋ Laurence Vittes (2011)

The building formerly known as Arco Arena provided one of the most notorious home-court advantages in the league, a place where fans clanked cowbells so loud opposing coaches and players pleaded to have the noisemakers banned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Watching intently as eggs are collected, cows receive their cowbells, and livestock is moved from one pasture to another, the dogs never tire of monitoring the local spectacle. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

Here the cowbells play Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and busty women in over-tight dirndls repair the roads. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Still, the Bocuse d'Or has far less resonance here than in Europe, where thousands of spectators flock to Lyon with cowbells, horns and marching bands. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2012)

Long lines or down riggers. .spoons or peanuts with cowbells or body baits walleye/lakers/salmon or bouncing crawler harnesses for walter and cats and bass! occasional whitefish! ❋ Unknown (2010)

I set down thesac à doson the cobbled sidewalk in time to reread the curlicue announcement but no sooner had I translated the first word than the shop door flew open setting off a commotion of cowbells. ❋ Unknown (2010)