 | Robert Southey - England - 1808 - 274 pages
...not by striking, but by swinging them : no bell however which approaches nearly to the size of this is ever moved, except this ; it is swung on Whitsunday,...prisoners, —another fit occasion' would be at executions, t» Only one coach passes through Lincoln on the way to London, and that early in the morning, we were... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 410 pages
...not by striking, but by swinging them : no bell however which approaches nearly to. the size of this is ever moved, except this ; it is swung on Whitsunday,...to try the prisoners,— another fit occasion would te at executions, to which it would give great solemnity, for the sound is heard far atid wide over... | |
 | Lincoln (England) - 1816 - 262 pages
...not by striking, but by swinging them ; no bell, however, which approaches nearly to the size of this is ever moved, except this; it is swung on Whitsunday,...would be at executions, to which it would give great solemniiyr for the sound is heard lar and wide over the fens. On other occasions it was disused, because... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Great Britain - 1825 - 426 pages
...which the girth of it equalled the size of its middle. The hours are struck upon it with a hammer. It is swung on Whitsunday, and when the judges arrive to try the prisoners. The weight of this surprising bell is nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-four pounds. It has been... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1830 - 478 pages
...not by striking, but by swinging them; no bell, however, which approaches nearly to the size of this is ever moved, except this; it is swung on Whitsunday, and when the judges arrive to try the prisoners,—another fit occasion would be at executions, to which it would give great solemnity, for... | |
 | William John Thoms - English literature - 1858 - 374 pages
...not by striking, but by swinging them ; no bell, however, which approaches nearly to the size of this is ever moved, except this ; it is swung on Whitsunday, and when the Judges arrive to try prisoners — another fit occasion would be at executions, to which it would give great solemnity,... | |
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... circumference, and it would be a large tree of which the girth equalled the size of its middle. The hours are struck upon it with a hammer. I should tell you that the method of sounding bells in England is not by striking, but by swinging them ; no... 