A division bell is a bell rung in or around a parliament to signal a division and thus call all members of the chamber so affected to vote in it.
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Famous quotes containing the words division and/or bell:
“The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)