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/krˈɪsməs bɛlz/ Listen

Christmas bells

noun

Any of several plants of the genus Blandfordia having large orange or crimson flowers.

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"Christmas bells" Quotes from Famous Books

... Conqueror, a custom still kept up in many of the towns and hamlets of England, and some of our own towns and cities; and until recently the nine-o'clock bell greeted the ears of Bostonians, year in and year out. And who does not remember the sweet carol of Christmas Bells? ...

— Bay State Monthly, Volume I, No. 2, February, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

... day, he heard something far away that sounded like the ringing of Christmas bells. It was the children laughing and singing, as they ran over ...

— The Story Hour • Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin

... on Christmas Day, Love, as awake I lay, And heard the Christmas bells ring sweet and clearly, My heart stole through the gloom Into your silent room, And whispered to your ...

— Robert F. Murray - his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang • Robert F. Murray

... I are looking at each other ruefully in the face at this dash to our knavish project, she bursts into a merry peal of laughter, like a set of Christmas bells chiming, whereupon we, turning about to find the cause of her merriment, she pulls another demure face, and, slowly lifting her skirt, shows us a white napkin tied about her waist, stuffed with a dozen delicacies she had filched from Don Sanchez's ...

— A Set of Rogues • Frank Barrett