What is "telephone bell"

Usage examples of "telephone bell".

Sipping her own brew in her neat sitting room next to the old-fashioned kitchen, she heard the telephone bell ring and hoped the call was from friends and would cheer him up.

They were all deep sunk in their own private thoughts, Reynolds was thinking, almost inevitably, perhaps, of the long dead English poet who had said centuries ago almost exactly what Jansci had been saying then, when the interruption came, the harsh strident ringing of a telephone bell, and it came so pat with Reynolds' thoughts, the bell tolled.

They were interrupted by the tinkling of the telephone bell in the next room, then for a long time the subdued hum of the scientist's irritable voice as he talked over the 'phone.

Crandall says she did not go back to sleep after she was awakened by the ringing of the telephone bell in Moxley's apartment.

The radio was turned up, the volume loud, to be made louder with the first ring of a telephone bell.

A muted telephone bell rang close to him, behind long silk drapes that bordered the very high lancet windows.

I remember once, while Guy had gone uptown for a short time, that I heard the telephone bell ring in the device at my ear.