What is "bell jars"

Usage examples of "bell jars".

There were others who presented her with cards inside envelopes, told her to read their contents, and strapped her in a chair before feathers and weights in bell jars and ordered her .

There were others who presented her with cards inside envelopes, told her to read their contents, and strapped her in a chair before feathers and weights in bell jars and ordered herto move them whilst they discussed whether her powers might be increased through the removal of her sight.

Once my eyes focussed in the weird light I could see bell jars of root ginger standing in shadowy rows like pharaohs' statues lining the route to the tombs in some silent city of the dead.

I went, sensing the three of them stiffening back into their bell jars, and upstairs knocked on Roland de Brescou’.

I had to get Dawson to let me in because the lock had indeed been changed, and I went up to the sitting room, opening the door there on the princess, Litsi, and Beatrice Bunt, all sitting immobile in private separate silences, as if they were covered by vacuum bell jars and couldn’.

This was all in the Third, or Sheet-Metal, Age of Lower Middle Earth, and the lands of that age have long since dropped into the sea and their inhabitants into bell jars at the Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not Odditorium.

On the mantel there'd be a clock as well as a vase with artificial flowers, both contained in bell jars.

Here a school of transparent bell jars, nearly invisible, opened and closed to jet themselves along.

There were stuffed birds in glass bell jars, a brass astrolabe, a globe that would have made Nero W olfe turn green with envy.