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...of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock you may see the last of us hiving from the college gates, in the glar... ..., not alone with the deliberate series of the seasons, but with man-kind’s clocks and hour-long measurement of time. And thus there was no leisure for... ...es the process as well as the result, the works as well as the dial of the clock. Withal he has his hours of inspi- ration. Apt words come to him as i... ...d Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtain, pipes, spittoons, and eight-day clock; and there again is that impressive dungeon with the chains, which wa... ...f somewhat swollen passion, cuts the knot by the derangement of the hero’s clock. Such personages and incidents belong to the novel of character; they...
... with us After the tree is decorated we dress ourselves for mass. At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to attend mass. When ... ... was supposed to meet my dad at a store called Grandpa Tony’s, at twelve o’clock. I found someone sober enough to drive and talked him into driving me... ...and talked him into driving me to Grandpa Tony’s. I met my dad at twelve o’clock and he took me home. I’m not sure if he knew I was drunk because he d... ...orner near the golf course and take a look at the time. It is now twelve o’clock on the nose. I flick on the blinker, turn onto Greenfield Road and ha...
... as soon as we got out of the creek, and arriv’d there about eight or nine o’clock on the Sunday morn ing, and landed at the Market street wharf. I h... ... breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. I thought it a detest... ...he whole street clean, and I would give her a shil ling; this was at nine o’clock; at 12 she came for the shil ling. From the slowness I saw at firs... ...ng; for, in walking thro’ the Strand and Fleet street one morning at seven o’clock, I observ’d there was not one shop open, tho’ it had been daylight ... ...ere near our port, but a thick fog hid the land from our sight. About nine o’clock the fog began to rise, and seem’d to be lifted up from the water li...
...e of progress may be compared more justly to the hand upon the dial of the clock, which continues to advance as it indicates, than to the stationary m... ...h a priest called Gilles and a woman of the name of Isabeau. It was nine o’clock, a mighty late hour for the period, and evi- dently a fine summer’s n... ...cion it was Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk) hurried them away. It was ten o’clock when they mounted the ladder; it was about midnight before T abary be... ...my window, as I was writing of this very line, and cried, `Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morn- ing.’” Such passages are not to be m... ...s,” says he, “I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o’clock it was an hundred times.” T o go to Vauxhall, he says, and “to hear t...
...r happiness, like a veil, which it is useless here to raise. It was nine o’clock; the merchant and his wife were reading their evening prayers; sudden... ... thousand more on his word. He was gay as a man who swam in gold. Eleven o’clock sounded; the night was superb. Montefiore may have felt, like Diard, ...
...y changed, making the body susceptible to disease and death. Not many people lived beyond three thousand years; it was as if the body had an internal clock that stopped when it reached a certain age. The only organ that had to remain human was the brain, but this and whatever part of the original body remained always fell susceptible to disease, killing the host. Grai...
...o use them according to its desires, needs and policies. *****************< *****************< Chapter-2 Dr Jabran and Robot Sunny It‟s three o‟ clock in the morning. Dr. Jabran is sleeping in his bed room. The moment clock strikes three, a computer is switched on automatically. This is a talking robot computer named Sunny, and its digital voice says Bismillah (All...