Above the babel of the hotel criers, and the slow, muffled puffs of the inert engine, a new sound now throbbed through the air-the clanging, tumultuous notes of a sharp-toned bell, rung with fury.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
By the time the whole procession got lined up and under way, there really was no need of criers, but it was all part of the act.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
Cogitating these things the Grand Vizier returned to his palace, and immediately gave orders that the public criers should make proclamation in every part of the city, that a reward would be given to any one giving information leading to the capture of the Emir Bargash ibn Beynin, namely, two thousand pieces of gold if he were taken alive, and one thousand pieces on the recovery of his body if he were dead.
"Tales of the Caliph"
H. N. Crellin