Meaning of mule bell | Babel Free

Definitions

A bell hung on a mule.

Examples

“The sounds of Moslem life are still; / No mule-bell tinkles down the hill; / Stretched in the broad court of the khan, / The dusty Bornou caravan / Lies heaped in slumber, beast and man […].”

“There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate, accompanied, as they are, by the occasional jingle of the mulebell.”

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