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...say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp....

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...hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. As if the clock ... ...d fell, flashing and gleaming on the little Haymaker at the top of the Dutch clock, until one might have thought he stood stock still before the Moor... ...asms, two to the second, all right and regular. But, his sufferings when the clock was going to strike, were frightful to behold; and, when a Cuckoo ... ...n. Nor was he startled without reason; for these rattling, bony skeletons of clocks are very disconcerting in their opera tion, and I wonder very muc... ...g for their own lower selves; and they might know better than to leave their clocks so very lank The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 4 and u... ...bject to that — lighted a candle, glanced at the Haymaker on the top of the clock, who was getting in a pretty average crop of minutes; and looked o... ... The bright fire, blazing up again, acknowledged it! The little Mower on the clock, in his unheeded work, ac knowledged it! The Carrier, in his smoot... ... And as he soberly and thoughtfully puffed at his old pipe, and as the Dutch clock ticked, and as the red fire gleamed, and as the Cricket chirped; th... ... any combination of cir cumstances. CHAPTER III Chirp the Third The Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten, when the Car rier sat down by his firesi...

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...From the Back Cover: Envision for a moment, the following nonsensical sportscast: “Only seventeen seconds remain on the clock as we near the end of the sixth inning. The soccer ball is caught by Right End Tom King, only 9 yards from home plate. “To keep from being called for ‘Traveling,’ King dribbles the ball but still manages to get past t...

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...by observing it was ‘time to go to business. ’ He always went out at ten o’clock in the morning, and returned at five in the afternoon, with an exceed... ... Mr. Tibbs bobbed up and down to the three ladies like a figure in a Dutch clock, with a powerful spring in the middle of his body, and then dived rap... ...rtisement And she will Do Herself the plea- sure of calling On you at 12 o’clock to-morrow morning. ‘T. I. as To apologise to I. T. for the shortness ... ... carpet before noticed, and up ran Mrs. Tibbs ‘to make herself tidy. ’ The clock of New Saint Pancras Church struck twelve, and the Foundling, with la... ...xt morning, being Sunday, breakfast was laid in the front parlour at ten o’clock. Nine was the usual time, but the family always breakfasted an hour l... ... ‘He was whistling “The Light Guitar,” in the next room to mine, at five o’clock this morning. ’ ‘He’s very fond of whistling, ’ said Tibbs, with a sl... ...s—’the next time you feel disposed to whistle “The Light Guitar” at five o’clock in the morning, I’ll trouble you to whistle it with your head out o’ ... ...d went round in circles. He was observed to close one eye, and to assume a clock-work sort of expression with the other; this has been considered as a... ...m-street was hushed into a state of pro- found repose: it was nearly two o’clock. A hackney-coach now and then rumbled slowly by; and occasionally som...

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...dchildren; turned numberless wicked people into beasts, birds, millstones, clocks, pumps, boot jacks, umbrellas, or other absurd shapes; and, in a wor... ...hen you can go to bed, Betsinda. Mind I shall want my cup of tea at five o’clock in the morning.’ ‘I suppose I had best warm both the young gentlemen’... ...have Prince Bulbo staying with us!’ And they all went to get ready. Nine o’clock came, and they were all in the breakfast-room, and no Prince Bulbo as... ...adually revived her. His Maj- esty looked at his watch, compared it by the clock in the parlour, and by that of the church in the square opposite; the... ...at he should be carried to Newgate, and his head taken off before twelve o’clock. But the coach was out of the Paflagonian dominions before two o’cloc... ...n’t touch them: he sat down and began writing an adieu to Angelica, as the clock kept always ticking, and the hands drawing nearer to next morning. Th... ...ked him away, and went on writing a few words to Princess Angelica, as the clock kept always ticking, and the hands hopping nearer and nearer to next ... ...the top of his table, and looked out to see whether he might escape as the clock kept always ticking and the hands drawing nearer, and nearer, and nea... ...looking out of the window was one thing, and jumping another: and the town clock struck seven. So he got into bed for a little sleep, but the gaoler c...

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...erminable provincial din- ners, where you sit at table from five to nine o’clock. Ma- dame Tiphaine had introduced into Provins the Parisian cus- tom ... ...es. Yes, I prefer my old Sevres vases in royal blue, mounted on copper, my clock with those impossible flowers, that rococco chan- delier, and the tap... ...ains, red; furniture, red; mantelpiece, red, veined yellow, candelabra and clock ditto mounted on bronze, common and heavy in design,—Roman standards ... ... common and heavy in design,—Roman standards with Greek foliage! Above the clock is that inevitable good-natured lion which looks at you with a simper... ...of the Left. Perhaps it is meant as a constitutional myth. The face of the clock is curious. The glass over the chimney is framed in that new fashion ... ...ach was not to be dreaded by them. They managed to get along till twelve o’clock by reading the “Bee-hive” and the “Constitutionnel.” The cost of subs... ...nd who counted the votes at elections to suit themselves, etc. About two o’clock Rogron started for a little walk. He was quite happy if some shopkeep... ...last, after he had gone twenty times to the kitchen and back, compared the clocks, and opened and shut all the doors of the house. So long as the brot... ...a case of goods. Four days after her depar- ture from Nantes, about nine o’clock of a Monday night, a kind old conductor of the Messageries-royales, t...

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...lled, was an assemblage of all the Court in the grand saloon, from seven o’clock in the evening until ten, when the King sat down to table; and, after... ... attention to my private affairs, for on the above-mentioned day, at ten o’clock in the morning, I had the misfortune to lose my father. He was eighty... ...iled. It was ulti- mately agreed that upon an early day, at about twelve o’clock, they should meet at the Porte St. Honore, then a very de- serted spo... ...ailles, and sought a private interview with M. de Beauvilliers. At eight o’clock the same evening he re- ceived me alone in the cabinet of Madame de B... ...hout waiting for a reply hastened away. I had the next evening, at eight o’clock, an interview with Madame de Beauvilliers. I argued with her with suc... ...d, so great had been the confusion, that the first troops arrived at one o’clock at night, and the last late in the morning of the next day. I thought... ...Simon despatched with the intelligence; but he did not arrive until five o’clock in the morning of the 26th of September. He had amused himself by the... .... The day passed wearily. The King and Queen of England came about seven o’clock in the evening, and some time afterwards supper was served. Upon risi... ... turn behind them, and the dresses of all beautiful. It commenced at six o’clock. The King came at the end, and led all the ladies into the saloon nea...

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... the landlord to prophesy that the night would certainly clear at eleven o’clock precisely,—which by a remarkable coinci dence was the hour at which ... ... warm blaze, said, looking round upon his guests: ‘It’ll clear at eleven o’clock. No sooner and no later. Not before and not arterwards.’ ‘How do you ... ...long been poorly, deceased, and an order came to me at half after twelve o’clock at night to go and toll the pass ing bell.’ There was a movement in ... ...stacles hid them from the sight. Then, sounds arose—the striking of church clocks, the distant bark of dogs, the hum of traffic in the streets; then o... ...he got downstairs, he looked steadily at the boiler for ten minutes by the clock, and all that time never once left off shaking his head; for which st... ...e her evil spirit; following her when she reappeared. It was nigh eleven o’clock, and the pas sengers in the streets were thinning fast, when she tur... ... after we went up stairs to bed, and when it was midnight, striking one o’clock, we came down to your door to see if you were well. You were on your ... ...ce the echoing stones from hour to hour, count ing the dull chimes of the clocks; to watch the lights twin kling in chamber windows, to think what h... ...e; and so went off into a slumber likewise, and dreamed of Dolly, till the clock of Chigwell church struck two. Still nobody came. The distant noises ...

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...lf in a manner more easily to be conceived than described, when he hears the clock strike five, and suddenly sees an old gentleman with a telescope in... ... months ago, I derived from this source, the knowledge that precisely as the clock struck five this afternoon a stranger would present himself the d... ... five minutes, twenty seven seconds, and five sixths of a second past nine o’clock, a.m., on that day two months. ‘Gentlemen, I leave you to judge wha... ...t Tom is not the man.” And she says, “Don’t you remember, Sir, that when the clock struck five this afternoon, you gave Master Galileo a rap on the he...

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...with no scant irony. “He hasn’t yet made up his mind, and we sail at ten o’clock!” “What does it matter when my things are put up?” the young man said... ...d in again at that moment. His mother at once challenged him: it was ten o’clock; had he by chance made up his great mind? Apparently he failed to hea... ... “She was first one thing and then the other— but only about up to three o’clock yesterday.” “Excuse me—won’t you take something?” Jasper in- quired o... ...which was pulled out from under the berth to accommodate me. It was nine o’clock but not quite dark, as our northward course had already taken us into... ...p as she had an- nounced, but the day was half over: it was nearly three o’clock. She was accompanied by her son, who estab- lished her on deck, arran... ...re had been no ring. The stewardess had gone in all the same about eight o’clock and found the cabin empty. That was about an hour previous. Her thing...

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...ave themselves, for he would be kept in Lisbon doing business until five o’clock that afternoon. At about that hour he reappeared, carrying his case, ... ...is brain was still rising and falling like the sea on the stage. At four o’clock he woke from sleep and saw the sunlight make a vivid angle across the... ...ike a field-glass of increasing power, became streets of houses. By nine o’clock the Euphrosyne had taken up her position in the middle of a great bay... ...leep presumably, since a snore came with the regularity of a great ticking clock. Thirty-nine was a corner room, at the end of the passage, but late t... ...pstairs to write a letter for the mail. The paper lay directly beneath the clock, the two to- gether seeming to represent stability in a changing worl... ...g blinds were pulled down with a shriek, turning all the light yellow. The clock now had a silent hall to tick in, and an audience of four or five som... ...sting in the dimness for a minute, they went upstairs. Simultaneously, the clock wheezed one, and the gong sounded, beginning softly, working itself i... ...ic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Towards four o’clock the human spirit again began to lick the body, as a flame licks a bla... ...ur. “One of my nephews the other day asked for a glass of sherry—at five o’clock! I told him he could get it at the public house round the corner, but...

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...s breaking, Mr. W—— gone, and Mr. Bixby at the wheel again. So it was four o’clock and all well—but me; I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of ... ...o sound the crossing at the head of 21. This would occur about nine or ten o’clock at night, when the passengers would be still up; it would be Mr. Th... ...half twain! half twain!” until it become as monoto nous as the ticking of a clock; let conversation be going on all the time, and the pilot be doing ... ...e to hire you; get your trunk aboard right away. I want to leave at twelve o’clock.” “I don’t know about that. Who is your other pilot?” “I’ve got I. ... ... “I will detail a pilot to go with you, and he shall be on board at twelve o’clock.” “But if I discharge S——, he will come on me for the whole season’... ...YS THE CUSTOM for the boats to leave New Or leans between four and five o’clock in the afternoon. From three o’clock onward they would be burning r... ...table from port to port. Left New Orleans, Thursday, June 30th, 1870, at 4 o’clock and 55 minutes, p.m.; reached D. H. M. Carrollton ... ...verywhere. I waited at the Planter’s from six yester day evening till two o’clock this morning, without rest or food; my wife says, ‘Where have you b... ...to remember it by,—I’ll borrow that money and pay it over to you at twelve o’clock sharp, tomorrow! Now, stand so; let me look at you just once more.”...

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...rmula. If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven o’clock and midnight on their way home from the Ambigu Comique, I used to amu...

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...ds them trooping to water- ing-places? What keeps them dancing till five o’clock in the morning through a whole mortal season? What causes them to lab... .... When she went to sleep, Rebecca chose that one to dream about. At four o’clock, on such a roseate summer’s morning as even made Great Gaunt Street l... ... visitor, he came forward and seized my candle. “No candles after eleven o’clock, Miss Becky,” said he. “Go to bed in the dark, you pretty little huss... ...s’ hall; the allies poured into France, and the dinner-belI rang at five o’clock just as usual. I don’t think poor Amelia cared anything about Brienne... ...awing-room was only interrupted by the alarmed ticking of the great French clock. When that chronometer, which was surmounted by a cheer- ful brass gr... ... familiar house of which the lights used to shine so cheerfully at seven o’clock, of which the hall-doors opened so readily, of which the obsequious s... ...He had tried all the papers, but could not read them. He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering... ...f that was prodigiously scented. He shook hands with Dobbin, looked at the clock, and told John, the waiter, to bring him some curacao. Of this cordia... .... They were both so silent that the ticktock of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia clock on the mantelpiece became quite rudely audible. “What a nice party it...

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...ast-bell rang. I resumed my occupation an hour later, and wrote till one o’clock. In all, fifteen pages of writing, which I carefully folded and addre...

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.... Thus the mornings passed without our thinking of them; at two or three o’clock we took some refreshment. V enture then went to his various engagemen... ...hile warmly pursuing the interests of others. Gauffecourt was the son of a clock-maker, and would have been a clock-maker himself had not his person a... ... which I had learned and forgotten a hundred times. Every morning at ten o’clock, I went to walk in the Luxembourg with a Virgil and a Rousseau in my ... ...e she had already given it some attention. Perceiving it to be about one o’clock, I prepared to take my leave. Madam de Beuzenval said to me: “You are... ...nd minutes; and so scrupulously adhered to this distribution, that had the clock struck while he was reading a phrase, he would have shut his book wit... ...tate of my finances not permitting me to pay for hackney coaches, at two o’clock in the afternoon, I went on foot, when alone, and walked as fast as p... ...e d’ Aumont sent to desire me to be at the palace the next day at eleven o’clock, when he would present me to the king. M. de Cury, who delivered me t... ...ic the com- plete success of the first. T wo days afterwards, about nine o’clock in the evening, as I was going to sup with Madam D’Epinay, I perceive... ...d shall remain so until we meet. If you are not here this evening at six o’clock, I set off to morrow for the Hermitage, let the weather be how it wil...

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...pull across to Havre or Dieppe. The doctor promised to bring Rose at ten o’clock to meet him on the beach and bid him farewell. As to the horse, Fletc...

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...ood in the heart of a king-opal. A little before sundown, as punctually as clockwork, a big bristly wild boar, with all his family following, trots th... ... being blind.’ ‘So I find it. When does this armoured train go?’ ‘At six o’clock. It takes an hour to cover the seven miles.’ ‘Are the Fuzzies on the ...

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...I placed my foot on the first notch of the zigzag next night, as the distant clocks were striking eleven. He was waiting for me at the bottom, with hi... ...ooms to which their wires were conducted: as “Picture Room,” “Double Room,” “Clock Room,” and the like. Following Master B.’s bell to its source I fou... ...o other explanation could ever be drawn from her), before nine, and by ten o’clock had had as much vinegar applied to her as would pickle a handsome s... ...feelings, when, under these untoward circumstances, at about half past ten o’clock Master B.’s bell began to ring in a most infuriated manner, and Tur... ...fectly true; the individual in question having retired, every night at ten o’clock, to his bed over the coach house, with no other company than a pit... ... I never could have left her endearing and bright face behind. They drew the Clock Room. Alfred Starling, an uncommonly agreeable young fellow of eigh... ...s my preparation needless, for, waking from an uneasy sleep at exactly two o’clock in the morning, what were my feelings to find that I was sharing my... ...f the trial, after evidence had been taken for two hours (I heard the church clocks strike), happening to cast my eyes over my brother jurymen, I foun...

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... up the woollen muffler round his throat with both hands. “At past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning! So!” He spoke to himself. There was no one ... ... to what quarter I turn my face.” Thus, at Mugby Junction, at past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning, the traveller went where the weather drove ... ...ot drink which he had stood upon the chimney-piece, when he heard the town clocks striking, and, referring to his watch, found the evening to have so ...

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...d gentleman with a staff and silver spectacles. But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with every minute; until a great 7 The Inland V... ...ere no beds to be had in the neighbourhood. Nothing for it but to lay the sails aside and address ourselves to steady paddling in the rain. Beautiful ... ...s, on the impetuous stream of life. ‘The merchant bows unto the seaman’s star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes.’ And we must all set our p... ...perturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or fright- ened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own pr... ... rides for ever, on the front of the town-hall, the good king Louis XII., the father of his people. Over the king’s head, in the tall centre turret, a... .... There is something highly absurd in the exposition of such toys to the outrages of winter on a housetop. They would be more in keeping in a glass ca...