Thoreau use the imagery of bells in the excerpt is when the bells represent festivity. Thank you for posting your question here at brainly. I hope the answer will help you. Feel free to ask more questions.
By making the way characters speak sound authentic
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While John was lying on his bed, Jack was outside playing soccer.
Sentence 2 where it says " Was president George Washington, The first elected leader of the United States.