Gong Bell

He did not like the new order of things, but he was without a party, and helpless to do more than neglect the gong-bell when he had reason to think Lemuel had sounded it. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

She answered the door when Bartley turned the crank that snapped the gong-bell in its centre; and the young man, who was looking at the street while waiting for some one to come, confronted her with a start. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

If you should ever have good and sufficient reason to enter the house, -- pushing open that lantern-slide of a door which sets a gong-bell ringing to announce visits, -- you might be able to see ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

There was a gong-bell close beside the deputy-pasha, and one tap on this sufficed to bring a whole mob of armed men into the room. ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)

I fancied I felt the throb of the engines, and the whirr of the shaft, as it raced when the stern rose at some dive down of the prow; and the sharp "ting-ting" of the engine-room gong-bell struck on my ears above the yelling of the storm, for wild shrieks at times came mingled with the one tremendous overpowering roar. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)