Again the shrill bell, now steady.

Marie leaped out of the chair at the shrill, jangling bell of the telephone.

But before Kurt could produce an explanation, the shrill bells of the airship were ringing to quarters, and he had to go.

The phone started ringing, a shrill bell that cut through the air like a knife.

She went into the hall to telephone - and almost as she touched the receiver, the shrill bell rang out.

A shrill bell was ringing somewhere in the ship.

The house was locked firmly front and back, the shrill bell echoing through an ominously vacant property.

It was twenty past three in the morning, a time when even the most disciplined person would be shaken by the shrill bell of a telephone.

Then he cautiously pulled at a rusty chain and a shrill little bell tinkled briskly inside the door.

At that moment, a shrill bell jangled into strident life somewhere beyond the door.