ding-dong-ding

Updated: May 10, 2025

This they do with clumsy wooden pestles, held as they stand erect round a sort of trough, the ding-dong-ding of the pounders carrying far and wide through the forest, and, at the sound, all wanderers from the camp turn their faces homeward with the eagerness born of empty stomachs and the prospect of a good meal.

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford - In Court and Kampong: Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula

"It's too early to get up," murmured Bunny. "Yes," muttered Sue. "Much too early. I can sleep more." And off to sleep she promptly went, Bunny doing the same thing. "What's the matter with those children?" asked Uncle Tad, who was ringing the bell. He waved it through the air all the faster so that it seemed to sing out: "Ding-ding-dong! Ding-dong-ding! Ding-ding dingity-ding-dong ding!"

Laura Lee Hope - Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods