“4948. They agree like Bells; they want nothing but hanging.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A bell is clanging, people sway
Hanging by their hands.”
— Elinor Wylie, book Nets to Catch the Wind
Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
Context: The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray
Sharp as golden sands,
A bell is clanging, people sway
Hanging by their hands.
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