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...nce to this exercise as Lord Byron did in his later days. Then, at three o’clock he came home, ad- mired on horseback by the grisettes and the ladies ... ...ession was fixed for Sunday morning at half-past seven, before the eight o’clock Mass. She committed herself to a dozen fibs in order to find herself,... ... of them; she was talking to Miss Lovelace in Italian. It was now eleven o’clock at night. The stillness was so per- fect on the lake and around the d... ... of Rodolphe’s heart, and he observed this touching care. At about eight o’clock the old man left the young people without any sign of uneasiness, and... ...leaving, he was shown to the door by Gina, the so-called mute. At eleven o’clock no one was astir in the village, there was no fear of listeners; Rodo... ...omise the future, had she not confessed that she loved him? At last nine o’clock struck; Rodolphe could get into a car- riage and say with an emotion ... ... to look at the fascinating gleam which shone through Albert’s nights. The clock struck one; he was still asleep. “I shall see him when he gets up; pe... ...re no companionship. He walked through the streets alone, between eleven o’clock and midnight. At one in the morning, Albert, to whom sleep had been u... ...addling clothes of power. Next evening, as may well be supposed, by nine o’clock Ma- dame la Baronne de Watteville’s rooms were crowded by the aristoc...

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...at all events, a very curious circumstance. It was now a little past ten o’clock, when some of the com- pany , who had been standing in a balcony , de... ...ovidence in its operations on man’s spirit.” While they stood talking, the clock in the neighboring ca- thedral told the hour, with twelve reverberati... ...EDICTION WHEN THE LAST of the twelve strokes had fallen from the cathedral clock, Kenyon threw his eyes over the busy scene of the market place, expec...

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...there is the child to whom we gave the medi cine,’ he said, about three o’clock in the morning, when the lama, also waking from dreams, would have fa...

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...lly now that the company had left it, looked vast, and it offered to the girl?s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley?s fortune also large, to account for so many immensities? Of this Adela could know nothing, but it struck her, while she smiled sweetly back at their entertainer, that she ...

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...rl’s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley’s fortune also large, ... ... right,” he said as if he wanted to get on with his work. He looked at the clock on the man- tel-shelf; he would have to put in another hour. “All rig... ... Her mother was dead but it killed her again. So one morn- ing at eleven o’clock, when she knew her father was writ- ing letters, she went out quietly... ...—an order for dinner and a vehicle; he and Godfrey were to arrive at six o’clock. Adela had plenty of occupa- tion for the interval, since she was pit...

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...N NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the ... ...ere they were to dine; for one answer led to many other questions, as what o’clock it was? or, how soon should we be there? and he could not afford to... ...e incessant chirp of grasshoppers – a noise like the winding up of countless clocks and watches, which began after a while to seem proper to that land... ... up in the wagon so that we could get at them in a minit. It was about two o’clock in the afternoon; droave the cattel a little way; when a prairie ch... ...that was in it. 27 Robert Louis Stevenson “We traveld on till about eight o’clock, We caught up with one wagon with too men with it. We had traveld w... ...he earth with us, but it seems they must be of different clay. They hear the clock strike the same hour, yet surely of a different epoch. They travel ... ... business at that moment was to seek for straying cattle. I asked him what o’clock it was, but he seemed nei- ther to know nor care; and when he in hi... ...ow. There you were free to dream and wander. And at noon, and again at six o’clock, a good meal awaited you on Siron’s table. The whole of your accomm... ...echal-des-logis looked at his watch. “You may leave,” said he, “by the ten o’clock train for Paris.” And at noon the next day the travellers were tell...

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... it bores me. I sat in the court of the Grand Hotel last night until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knockin... ... tane? Go into Madame de Cintre’s drawing-room some af- ternoon, at five o’clock, and you will see the best pre- served specimens. I say go, but no on... ...d in various light shades of satin, and chiefly furnished with mirrors and clocks. Newman thought them magnificent, thanked Tristram heartily, immedia... ...ay valet de place this after- noon. They were to have met me here at two o’clock, and I have been waiting for them twenty minutes. Why doesn’t she arr... ...the rain were distinctly audible. Newman sat perfectly still, watching the clock, deter- mined to stay till the stroke of eleven, but not a moment lon... ...ncement that this lady would be at home on the 27th of the month, at ten o’clock in the evening. He stuck it into the frame of his mirror and eyed it ... ...ing you for once that you are right. Pity a poor woman who is married to a clock-image in papier- mache!” Possessing, however, in default of a compete... ... the inn, and I beg you to let me know as soon as possible. Say by three o’clock. A simple yes or no on paper will do. Only, you know, in case of a ye... ...s he imagined it, his shot might bring them down. It did bring, by three o’clock, a note, delivered by a footman; a note addressed in Urbain de Belleg...

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...at all events, a very curious circumstance. It was now a little past ten o’clock, when some of the com- pany , who had been standing in a balcony , de...

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...ow in everything, whether in rising, going to bed, or eating: seven of the clock in the morning is early for me, and where I rule, I never dine before...

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...r in him; let him not die; For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. [Clock strikes .] BRUTUS: Peace! count the clock. CASSIUS: ... ...s .] BRUTUS: Peace! count the clock. CASSIUS: The clock hath stricken three. TREBONIUS: ’Tis time to part. CASSIUS: ... ...o much your enemy As that same ague which hath made you lean. What is ‘t o’clock? BRUTUS: Caesar, ’tis strucken eight. CAESAR: I t... ...thou been? Soothsayer: At mine own house, good lady. PORTIA: What is’t o’clock? Soothsayer: About the ninth hour, lady. PORTIA: I... ...; let us to the field. Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on: ’Tis three o’clock; and, Romans, yet ere night We shall try fortune in a second fight. [...

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...at the dear part ner of his sorrows died in his arms last night at nine o’clock! I despatched a trusty messenger to comfort the bereaved mourner and ... ...were a new idea. We have a faint remembrance of an unearthly collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly ... ...ting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly bilious faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, with their pendulums dangling l... ...e to walk down either of its three well paved main streets, towards five o’clock in the afternoon, when delicate odours of cookery fill the air, and i... ...rs both in bathing life and in private life, his little boats that rock by clockwork, and his other ornamental posses sions. 44 Reprinted Pieces The... ... of the main line Pavilionstone Station (not a junction then), at eleven o’clock on a dark winter’s night, in a roaring wind; and in the howl ing wil... ...my most promising attitude, and dipped my pen in the ink, when I found the clock upon the pier—a red faced clock with a white rim—importuning me in a ... ...t up with watering place time as a sufficiently accurate article. The pier clock, however, persisting, I felt it necessary to lay down my pen, compare... ... off where it happened, along with a friend of mine, which his name is Mr. Clocker. Mr. Clocker is a grocer over yon der.’ (From the direction in whi...

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... hoop! What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife! A woman, that is like a German clock, Still a repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, bein... ...ied ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their...

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... master and mistress of the house.” At this time, therefore, perhaps ten o’clock on Sunday morn- ing, you see that Spinosa was alive, and pretty well.... ...which they learnt, with much surprise, that Spinosa had died about three o’clock, in the presence of L.M., who took his departure for Amsterdam the sa... ...e—a fash- ion which is very irritating to my desires. Precisely at eight o’clock in the evening, I observed that he regularly shut up his windows. One... ... I, “nunquamne reponam?” And I went down stairs in search of T om at one o’clock on a dark night, with the “ani- mus,” and no doubt with the fiendish ... ...everywhere, the ancients went to bed, like good boys, from seven to nine o’clock. 3 The T urks and other people, who have succeeded to the stations a... ...“Everywhere the ancients went to bed, like good boys, from seven to nine o’clock.”—As we are perfectly serious, we must beg the reader, who fancies an... ... exact is he, that he assumes the day to lie exactly between six and six o’clock, and to be divided into thirteen equal portions. So the time will be ... ...er; and, thirdly, for this dinner he never waited longer than up to four o’clock. 146 Christian breakfast—hot rolls, eggs, coffee, beef; but down, do... ...hich language had accommodated itself, the two prelu- sive meals of nine o’clock, A.M., and of one, P .M., so far from being ratified by the public se...

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... years nor voyages can go on for ever. It is to her like the striking of a clock, and in the pause which follows she seems to take count of the passin... ...f Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’clock as if in honour of our arrival. It would have been a fine performance... ...eling seems contained in one single moment. Thus there is a certain four o’clock in the morning in the con- fused roar of a black and white world when...

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...at arches, colourless, indifferent, shoulder- ing between them an unlovely clock, were fit por- tals for some eternal adventure, whose issue might be ... ..., but aren’t particularly rich. The town isn’t interest- ing, except for a clock that rolls its eyes, and the view of the Oder, which truly is somethi... ...in bed, and must make up for lost time. Margaret accepted, and at eleven o’clock one cheerless morning they started out in a brougham. “First of all,”... ...time of the train, she 84 Howards End strained her eyes for St. Pancras’s clock. Then the clock of King’s Cross swung into sight, a second moon in th... ... the emo- tional content was minimised, and all went forward smoothly. The clock ticked, the coals blazed higher, and contended with the white radianc... ..., for all the conventional colouring of life had been altered. Inside, the clock struck ten with a rich and confident note. Other clocks confirmed it,... ...ed to London with a more peaceful mind. The following morning, at eleven o’clock, she pre- sented herself at the offices of the Imperial and West Afri... ...air when compared with the preparations for it. Everything went like one o’clock. Mr. Cahill materialised out of space, and was waiting for his bride ... ...down on their hunting expedition to Howards End. He called at about four o’clock. The weather had changed, and the sun shone gaily on the ornamental s...

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...oods, sombre and heavy , in nooks and corners of the building. The steeple-clock, perched up above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the co... ...d sits upon the coffins. And now comes bright day , burnishing the steeple-clock, and red- 31 Charles Dickens dening the spire, and drying up the tea... ...ally among the women: not one of whom has had a wink of sleep since four o’clock, and all of whom were fully dressed before six. Mr T owlinson is an o... ... 34 Dombey & Son to go. But Cousin Feenix, getting up at half-past seven o’clock or so, is quite another thing from Cousin Feenix got up; and very dim... ... of time; everybody conceiving that it ought to be, at the earliest, ten o’clock at night, whereas it is not yet three in the afternoon. A shadowy ide... ...ut it, and are so repentant over their early tea, at home, that by eight o’clock or so, they settle down into confirmed serious- ness; and Mr Perch, a... ... his hand, and then drumming thought- fully on the table, ‘we go on in our clockwork routine, from day to day, and can’t make out, or follow, these ch... ...ond, that you will allow me sometimes, say every Monday morning, at nine o’clock—habit again—I must be businesslike,’ said the gentleman, with a whims... ...wed her to the door. He sat in his shadowy corner so long, that the church clocks struck the hour three times before he moved that night. All that whi...

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...d, half undressed. I felt very much exhausted; it was by then about eleven o’clock. She went on sitting in the same place, not stirring, for another h... ... FOR A TERRIBLE REMINISCENCE… . I woke up, I believe, before eight o’clock, and it was very nearly broad daylight. I woke up completely to ful... ..., it happened suddenly and abruptly. It happened towards evening, at five o’clock, after dinner… . Chapter II The Veil Suddenly Falls TWO WORDS FIR... ...lush to humility (the veil!). And so, a month later, in April, at five o’clock on a bright sunny day, I was sitting in the shop making up my ac c... ...ose commandment is that? The pendulum ticks cal lously, heartlessly. T wo o’clock at night. Her little shoes are standing by the little bed, as thoug...

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...’s house, sir? ESCALUS: To my house. Fare you well. [Exit ELBOW .] What’s o’clock, think you? Justice: Eleven, sir. ESCALUS: I pray you home to din... ...ess. Provost: You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe to morrow four o’clock. ABHORSON: Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow... ...soever you may hear to the contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction, let m...

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... drama, who were at present scattered through the rooms. At about eleven o’clock, just as the dancers were returning to their seats, the company had o...

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... compete together, the performance would have been regulated by the water- clock,—as indeed we are told was formerly done. But the limit as fixed by t...

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...ir business like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust or the cottage-clock pendulum teaching the infant hour over midnight simple arithmetic. Th... ...re, I’d go down after him. I mean to learn. We’re both of us here at six o’clock in the morning, when it’s 67 George Meredith light, and have a swim.... ...is low rich flute-notes that shocked him. He glanced at the gold cathedral-clock on the mantel-piece, and proposed a stroll on the lawn before dinner.... ... of men or of physicians.” Dr. Middleton said this rising, glancing at the clock and at the back of his hands. “‘Quod autem secundum litteras difficil... ...hen, before the dinner-bell. I cannot tie myself to the minute-hand of the clock, my dear child. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you... ...hter and his host was at an end. He left the table a little after eleven o’clock. A short dia- logue ensued upon the subject of the ladies. They must ... ...ntry people call roemancing. For, Colonel De Craye, I had a bun at seven o’clock. Miss Middleton forced me to go and buy it” “A stale bun, my boy?” “Y... ...he day together,” he said. Clara bowed. At the breakfast-table she faced a clock. De Craye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too ... ...ye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too slow by that clock, Willoughby.” “The man omitted to come from Rendon to set it last wee...

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...mberlain as a fox by Francis Carruthers Gould. At twenty minutes to five o’clock on a summer afternoon in 1904, the room is empty. Presently the outer... ...I hope you slept well. NORA. Did anything wake yup with a thump at three o’clock? I thought the house was falling. But then I’m a very light sleeper. ...

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......11 10 For shame! deny that thou bear?st love to any, ........12 11 As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are ..........13 14 Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; ...........14 15 When I consider every thing that grows ..................14 1...

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...ast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but... ...ore, not let that copy die. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; W... ...or dare I chide the world without end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid...

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... on the floor for Osbert. Meals were taken in public, and it was now one o’clock—just dinner-time; so after a hasty toilette the three gentlemen desce... ...g. ‘You must have made great speed,’ said Elisabeth; ‘it is scarcely two o’clock.’ ‘T ruly we did, Madame; two of our horses even died upon the road; ... ...the apartments of ladies, whence Eustacie was to descend at about eleven o’clock, with her maid Veronique. Landry Osbert was to join them from the lac... ...d to take away the token of this false love, as she believed it. The great clock struck the hour for her to go. ‘Leave him quiet,’ said Cecily, gently... ...practice of lumping together the entire night and forenoon hours at nine o’clock in the morning, and all the evening ones at Compline, so that the sis... ... become known to the Queen-mother. The poor King had been wakened at two o’clock in the morning, and car- ried to his litter, when Pare and his old nu... ... knows that the family burial-place is Bellaise? Well, to-morrow, at ten o’clock, all the household, all the neighbourhood, will come and sprinkle hol...

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...IUS. Y ou have deceived me. Y ou are my rival. I brook no rivals. At six o’clock I shall be in the drilling-ground on the Klissoura road, alone, on ho... ... example. Y ou owe me an apology. (Sergius immedi- ately, like a repeating clock of which the spring has been touched, begins to fold his arms.) BLUNT...

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...illed with masqueraders) before making their appearance. No sooner had the clock ceased striking, however, than they rushed, or rather rolled in, all ... ... until I had satisfied myself in some measure respecting him. A loud-toned clock struck eleven, and the company were fast deserting the bazaar. A shop... ...played a formidable array of labelled bottles. It was here, about twelve o’clock one night during the se- vere winter the comments of his neighbours u... ...is instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past two o’clock. Hereupon it was agreed to postpone the internal examination until th... ...d to him stiffly, and took leave. Upon getting home I found it past four o’clock, and went immediately to bed. It is now ten A.M. I have been up since...

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...rsions of the past few days, and by an irruption of French troops at six o’clock, know that the French commander has quartered himself in this room, a...

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... or ten years are dragged from their squalid beds at two, three, or four o clock in the morning and compelled to work for a bare subsistence until ten... ... light-hearted gai- ety, but only of a kind of solemn jollification by the clock at the appropriate hours. The advice to “become as little chil- dren”...

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... came and clicked their tongues. ‘Ah, Russ! Ah, Iván!’ Abdul had a Russian clock, which was broken. He called Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “A Priso... ...ith the knife, sorted the pieces, and put them together again, so that the clock went all right. The master was delighted, and made him a present of o...

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...to the bed lately occupied by Captain Famish and fell asleep. It was ten o’clock when he woke up, and the ruddy-headed youth brought him, with conscio... ...or way-worn sinner. Rawdon left her and walked home rapidly. It was nine o’clock at night. He ran across the streets and the great squares of V anity ... ...the family. Punctually, as the shrill-toned bell of the black marble study clock began to chime nine, Sir Pitt made his appearance, fresh, neat, smugl... ...s written on it, and say that Colonel Crawley would be all day after one o’clock at the Regent Club in St. James’s Street—not at home. The fat red-fac... ...essed herself and went away unmolested this time, but alone. It was four o’clock. She went swiftly down the streets (she had no money to pay for a car... ...t shirt frill, in which, in his Sunday suit of mourning, he sat from six o’clock in the morning awaiting the arrival of his son. However, when the pos...

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...irs was insidiously got over. The word “another” did it. At about eleven o’clock of a nice London night, Edward and I walked along in- terminable stre... ...nging back again smartly into the greenish gloom of broad lamp-shades; the clock ticked methodically; the unmoved Chinaman continuously repeated the s... ...ulla most of them went home; only the big people remained. Towards three o’clock Sahamin crossed alone in a small canoe. I went down on our wharf with... ...gard was in Sambir Almayer’s watch was going. He would set it by the cabin clock, telling himself every time that he must really keep that watch go- i...

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...st to the watch. IAGO: Not this hour, lieutenant; ’tis not yet ten o’ the clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona; who l...

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...Castle rock, An’ beaten drums wi’ dowie shock, Wauken, at cauld-rife sax o’clock, My chitterin’ frame, I mind me on the kintry cock, The kintry hame. ... ...th wad return him the service again, An’ the mune was shinin’ clearly! The clocks were chappin’ in house an’ ha’, Eleeven, twal an’ ane an’ twa; An’ t...

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... of dinner forsooth, and remains locked up for a couple of hours. At two o’clock afternoon (I was over a tan- kard), out comes the little she-devil, h... ...e ebon countenance of the latter; and the air grew colder; and about two o’clock the moon appeared, a dismal pale-faced rake, walking solitary through... ...of his nose, a vile plot was laid against him; and when about seven of the clock he woke, he found, on sitting up in his bed, three gentlemen on each ... ...as garnished with a tremendous number of oaths); and he was, about eight o’clock, carried up to the house of Squire Ballance, the neighbouring justice... ... way, and the rope stretches tight, the poor wretch before St. Sepulchre’s clock dies. Only with us, clear-sighted mortals as we are, we can’t see the... ...ndship and table: all returned, smiling and rosy, at about half-past ten o’clock, from a walk which they had taken to Bayswater. Many thousands of peo... ...y, and just cutting off Holofernes’s head, stood an enormous ominous black clock, the spoil of some other usurious transaction. Some chairs, and a dis... ...t the bed of the feverish sleeper. It was just upon six, and presently the clock began to utter those dismal grinding sounds, which issue from clocks ... ...no danger for him to apprehend. He entered the house about dusk, at five o’clock. Mrs. Hayes was absent with Mr. Billings; only Mr. W ood was smoking,...

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...ange hubbub, con- sidering it was in so narrow a passage, till Bishopsgate clock struck eleven, and then the ghost would seem to start, and, as if he ... ... take the key with him; and the watchman by day to attend until ten of the clock at night, and the watch- man by night until six in the morning. 37 D... ...e into any tavern, ale-house, or coffee-house to drink af- ter nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city,... ... of which by itself. As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight o’clock there was a great noise. It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd... ...‘What is that to you? Stop the dead-cart.’ This, it seems, was about one o’clock. Soon after, as the fellow said, he stopped the dead-cart, and then k... ... avern, resolving to inquire what became of him. It was by this time one o’clock in the morning, and yet the poor gentleman was there. The truth was, ... ...y , and that these were generally women. It was one morning about eleven O’clock, I had walked out to my brother’s house in Coleman Street parish, as ... ...but an ignorant, weak, poor man, and usually walked his rounds about ten o’clock at night and went piping along from door to door, and the people usua...

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... music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the clock-tower, and out into the terrace, where was a fine prospect of sunset ... ...h the estate came into the present family; how the Roundheads attacked the clock-tower, which my lord’s fa- ther was slain in defending. “I was but tw... ...ross; and pretty small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white pantofles with red heels; and an odor of... ...lace was taken and stormed. The besiegers entered at the terrace under the clock-tower, slaying every man of the garrison, and at their head my lord’s... ...it seemed to him as if the day never would come. It might have been four o’clock when he heard the door of the opposite chamber, the Chaplain’s room, ... ...home. We rode on towards Newbury; we heard firing towards midday: at two o’clock a horseman comes up to us as we were giving our cattle water at an in... ...that figure, with the brocade dress and the white night-rail, and the gold-clocked red stockings, and white red-heeled shoes, sitting up in the bed, a... ...ut ill. Our messenger found the good priest already at his books at five o’clock in the morning, and he followed the man ea- gerly to the house where ... ...t Springbock, I couldn’t squeeze out a single tear, but danced till five o’clock the next morning. ’Twas the Count—no, ’twas my Lord Ormond that playe...

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...ly in town and went out on business. It was a sunny morning and by eight o’clock it was already hot. “A good day for harvesting,” thought Alpatych. Fr... ...From beyond the town firing had been heard since early morning. At eight o’clock the booming of cannon was added to the sound of musketry. Many people... ...ed by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o’clock. The people did not at once realize the mean- ing of this bombardment... ...egiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond. It was past one o’clock. The sun, a red ball through the 30 War and Peace – Book Ten dust, b... ...ording to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen. It was about eleven o’clock. The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him and brightly lit u... ...ess of the evening, he went into the large division of the tent at three o’clock in the morning, loudly blowing his nose. He asked whether the Russian... ...nchments…. We shall see!” He looked at his watch. It was still only four o’clock. He did not feel sleepy. The punch was finished and there was still n... ...e slope of the trench, he observed the faces of those around him. By ten o’clock some twenty men had already been carried away from the battery; two g... ...and which he felt was flaming up in the same way in his own soul. At ten o’clock the infantry that had been among the bushes in front of the battery a...

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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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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...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...