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...fficient, and with it a master’s house with a tower to con- tain a village clock, which was given out of the savings of Mrs. Smith and her sister and ... ...rious brilliant flowers and stems fit for chains be passed by, or for the “clocks” that furnish auguries! (L. autumnalis).—Is this a separate species,...

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... anon; Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. [Exit. Hell disappears.—The clock strikes eleven .] FAUSTUS. O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare ho... ...l! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d. O, I’... ...ustus – Marlowe 73 But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven! [ The clock strikes the half hour. ] O, half the hour is past! ‘twill all be pa... ...elf, curse Lucifer That hath depriv’d thee of the joys of heaven. [The clock strikes twelve .] It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, O...

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...all Caroline, and to go to bed herself, for it was a good deal past nine o’clock. She had been aware, she could hardly tell how, that her father had b... ...eard of the result of it was ‘So,’ and then lessons went on until twelve o’clock, when it was the custom that the girl should have an hour’s recre- at... ... uncle and the young man got in after her, saying something about eleven o’clock. She was more awake now, and knew that they were driving through ligh... ... like scream- ing, only then she might have been heard; and a great horrid clock went on making a noise like a church bell, and striking so many odd q... ...ss, and a mother! It was all for the sake of depreciating her. At twelve o’clock, to her further indignation, she found there was to be an hour of rea... ...hold drudges, so that her reading did not become more intelligible. As the clock struck one, a warning gong was heard; everybody jumped up, the work w... ... dinner? Or there is the amusing shelf. Books may be taken out after one o’clock, and they must be put back at eight, or they are confiscated for the ... ... the next day, and then would follow amusements, evening toilette, seven o’clock tea, 39 Yo n g e and either games or reading aloud till bedtime. As ... ...sister, who tore herself away from the arrangements, being bound to five-o’clock tea elsewhere, Mysie was discovered with a face still rather woe-bego...

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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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...t feel sure of the revenue of a new Republic. Night came on. Toward nine o’clock, the doctor returned quietly and alone to the mayor’s resi- dence, pe... ...e wind is strong or light. What a delicious morning it was! About eleven o’clock, a long line of boats drawn by a steam-tug, as big a fly, and which s... ...d and irresistible fear, a fear of sleep and a fear of my bed. About ten o’clock I go up to my room. As soon as I have entered I lock and bolt the doo... ...!” But the doctor said to her authoritatively: “You will get up at eight o’clock to-morrow morning; then you will go and call on your cousin at his ho... ...*Frog-island. 67 Selected Writings I have seen it! I was walking at two o’clock among my rose- trees, in the full sunlight—in the walk bordered by au... ...over me and these thoughts in my mind; I shall go away. August 1 2. T en o’clock at night. All day long I have been trying to get away, and have not b... ... night! And yet it seems to me that I ought to rejoice. I read until one o’clock in the morning! Herestauss, Doc- tor of Philosophy and Theogony, wrot... ...n beings, vague phantoms born of fear. Having, therefore, read until one o’clock in the morning, I went and sat down at the open win- dow, in order to... ...f the sun, and descry in the distance the little village, with its pointed clock-tower, which sounds the hour of midnight. “Y ou sit down by the side ...

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...so its manner of working. Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only differ ence—there is no frontier. Y.M. It look... ...ld not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As t... ...pany of Susy and Langdon. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o’clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor or phan! My room will b... ...ears and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. FIVE O’CLOCK.—It is all over. WHEN C LARA WENT AWAY two weeks ago to live in Eur... ...to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away. The third picture, as you easily perce... ...reet were there by his will. It is so strange, so unrealizable. At three o’clock the carriages were still streaming by in single file. At three five a... ...as been creeping out well to the rear of the face west of it—and at five o’clock has as sumed a shape that has rather a poor and rude semblance of a ... ... Virgin’s front, the most stupendous dial I am acquainted with, the oldest clock in the world by a couple of million years. I suppose I should not hav... ...ble as a face, which was evidence that the picture was taken before four o’clock in the afternoon, and also evidence that all the photographers have p...

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...HE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY What o’clock is it? —Old Saying. EVERYBODY KNOWS, in a general way, that the fines... ...ng tolerable out of V ondervotteimittiss:” and— “That we will stick by our clocks and our cabbages.” Above the session-room of the Council is the stee... ...as existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village—the great clock of the borough of V ondervotteimittiss. And this is the object to whi... ...gentlemen are turned who sit in the leather-bottomed arm-chairs. The great clock has seven faces—one in each of the seven sides of the steeple—so that... ...this duty is the most perfect of sinecures—for the 8 Poe in Five V olumes clock of V ondervotteimittis was never yet known to have any- thing the mat... ...by the big bell. And, indeed the case was just the same with all the other clocks and watches in the borough. Never was such a place for keeping the t... ...ping the true time. When the large clapper thought proper to say “Twelve o’clock!” all its obedient followers opened their throats simul- taneously, a... ...burghers were fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respe... ...th a stare of dismay upon the phenomenon, still keeping the other upon the clock in the steeple. By the time that it wanted only three minutes to noon...

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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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...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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...e fire hot, but I was slowly losing the battle. I figured it was around six o’clock, but it was hard to tell in the dark. The good news was that the... ...’ll let you know one way or another.” “It’s worth a try,” he said, “but the clock’s ticking.” “Mr. and Mrs. Baker, I know how important getting... ...t I considered north enough, we changed to a more western heading. By five o’clock it was near dark and we were still a long ways from the Bozeman ...

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...isitor with a stop- watch if we can, and if we cannot, we use a fair-sized clock with a second-hand: the player not moving says “Go,” and warns at the... ...t thirty seconds. But I think it would not be difficult to procure a cheap clock—because, of course, no one wants a very accu- rate agreement with Gre...

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... cleverly led up to by Solonet and Madame Evangelista. Like the hands of a clock turned by mechanism, Paul came faithfully up to time. “Madame!” he ex... ...as on a tip- toe of expectation for this scene of fairyland. About eight o’clock, as the last discussion of the contract was taking place within the h... ...ously attached.” “What is it?” “The ‘Discreto.’” Paul arrived about four o’clock. Though he endeavored to meet his mother-in-law with a gracious look ... ..., went to walk in the little garden till his guest should awake. At nine o’clock supper was served, for Mathias took supper. The old man was not a lit...

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... to Wet a Widow's Eye 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love to Any 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane So Fast Thou Growest 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time 13: O That You Were Yourself But Love You Are 14: Not from the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows 16: But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way 17: Who Will Be...

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... for him, but didn’t want to impose if he didn’t plan on staying. By six o’clock she was frantic. She phoned. “Hi, Mrs. Brock, is Roger there?” “Sorry... ...ck ached and 31 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE her back was stiff. She looked at the clock. Omigosh! After four! She raced up the stairs, grabbed Lisa’s laundry... ...acey busy. I could go now, thought Jake. But something held him. By five o’clock the lineup dwindled. “What a wonderful, successful afternoon, Ms. Wil... ...as cleared and the waiter brought the bill. Then she realized it was ten o’clock. Where has the time gone? “My dear,” Jake said. “This had been deligh... ...affic was thick, slowing the car so she could study Old City Hall with its clock tower, turrets and exquisitely detailed façade, and further along, th... ... ended and Jake gave her a peck on the cheek and stepped back. “It’s ten o’clock. I’ll call a car for you.” Lacey took a couple of deep breaths to reo... ...y fell asleep then, as darkness enveloped the cabin. Jake awoke at eight o’clock. He took a moment to enjoy his happiness before he reached over to ki... ... read, and a stack of mail yet unopened, and it was already nearly three o’clock. She hadn’t had lunch, but decided to plug away at the report she had... ...ced in her imagination for what could come afterward. Now, she watched the clock creep toward five, when she could leave work. She looked out the wind...

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...the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping houses and the b... ...ing the devil. POINS: But, my lads, my lads, to morrow morning, by four o’clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going to Can terbury with ri... ...aith in thee? [Enter GADSHILL.] GADSHILL: Good morrow, carriers. What’s o’clock? First Carrier : I think it be two o’clock. GADSHILL: I pray thee l... ...ce the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o’clock at midnight. [Re enter FRANCIS.] What’s o’clock, Francis? FRANCIS: A... ... is good morrow, is it not? Sheriff: Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o’clock. [Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier.] PRINCE HENRY : This oily rascal is kn... ...ner time. [Exit Peto.] Jack, meet me to morrow in the temple hall at two o’clock in the afternoon. There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive... ... he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valor ...

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...In Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduction of Pendulum Clocks; thinking it had some- thing to do with the Gabelle. Paris requires ... ...n at such distance would like to affirm: at the same time, as it was two o’clock in a May Afternoon, and these royal Stables must have been some five ... ...m from the cloud of witnesses, by declaring ‘his head deranged.’ At four o’clock, the signa- tures are all appended; new meeting is fixed for Monday m... ...elting away in that manner, has not the smallest humour to fire! At five o’clock this morning, as he lay dreaming, oblivious in the Ecole Militaire, a... ...lie, half-pay Hulin rage in the midst of thousands. How the great Bastille Clock ticks (inaudible) in its Inner Court there, at its ease, hour after h... ... shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker’s apartment; no longer me... ...of it flies, with a velocity of sound, to the outmost Barriers. By seven o’clock, on this raw October morning, fifth of the month, the Townhall will s... ...e day; Usher Maillard shall stay by him to repress the women. It is four o’clock, of the miserablest afternoon, when Mounier steps out. O experienced ... ...lingers Mounier; returns not with his Deputation? It is six, it is seven o’clock; and still no Mounier, no Acceptance pure and simple. And, behold, th...

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... Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduc- tion of Pendulum Clocks; thinking it had something to do with the Gabelle. Paris requires to... ...at such dis- tance would like to affirm: at the same time, as it was two o’clock in a May Afternoon, and these royal Stables must have been some five ... ...rom the cloud of witnesses, by declar- ing ‘his head deranged. ’ At four o’clock, the signatures are all appended; new meeting is fixed for Monday mor... ...elting away in that manner, has not the smallest humour to fire! At five o’clock this morning, as he lay dreaming, oblivious in the Ecole Militaire, a... ...e, half-pay Hulin rage in the midst of thou- sands. How the great Bastille Clock ticks (inaudible) in its Inner Court there, at its ease, hour after h... ... shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker’s apartment; no longer me... ...of it flies, with a velocity of sound, to the outmost Barriers. By seven o’clock, on this raw October morning, fifth of the month, the Townhall will s... ...e day; Usher Maillard shall stay by him to repress the women. It is four o’clock, of the miserablest afternoon, when Mounier steps out. 229 Thomas Ca... ...ngers Mounier; returns not with his Deputa- tion? It is six, it is seven o’clock; and still no Mounier, no Acceptance pure and simple. And, behold, th...

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...On Monday and Tuesday he had to get up and reluctantly leave towards ten o’clock. Sometimes he stayed at home on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, or w... ...mornings, the men are seen trooping home again at ten, eleven, or twelve o’clock. No empty trucks stand at the pit-mouth. The women on the hillside lo... ...orning Morel rose early. He was in good spirits. Quite early, before six o’clock, she heard him whistling away to himself downstairs. He had a pleasan... ... awake, in the bright early morning, happy in his man’s fashion. At nine o’clock, while the children with bare legs and feet were sitting playing on t... ...e-pins, and won half a crown, which re- stored him to solvency. By seven o’clock the two were in good condition. They caught the 7.30 train home. In t... ...ntion, and the flies were teasing. The children were put to bed at seven o’clock. Then she worked awhile. When Walter Morel and Jerry arrived at Bestw... ...26 Sons & Lovers listening to their mournful singing, went indoors. Nine o’clock passed, and ten, and still “the pair” had not re- turned. On a doorst... ...iday, and then he could not remain at home. But he was back again by ten o’clock, almost quite sober. He always made his own breakfast. Being a man wh... ...y of time he did not, as some miners do, drag his wife out of bed at six o’clock. At five, 32 Sons & Lovers sometimes earlier, he woke, got straight ...

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...such or such a corner of a street, certain that they can see the face of a clock; they tell a friend whose tobacco- pouch is empty, “Go down that pass... ... die unknown—’tis the saying of women and of authors. At half-past eight o’clock one evening, in the rue Pagevin, in the days when that street had no ... ... Descartes is a politeness with which we should always honor virtue. Ten o’clock sounded. The Baron de Maulincour re- membered that this woman was goi... ... too unpleasant to go out.” It was raining in torrents. At half-past two o’clock Mon- sieur Desmarets reached the T reasury. At four o’clock, as he le... ... with painted designs, the sofa, the little moquette carpet, the alabaster clock and candlesticks (under glass cases), the yellow bed- room, the eider... ...can tell you about him; didn’t she go there this very afternoon at three o’clock? I know she did, for I waited in the street, and saw her,—all because... ... known, it is regular; whereas madame goes out nearly every day at three o’clock, Heaven knows where.” “And monsieur too,” said the maid, taking her m... ... louder but more equable and continued murmurs are not distinct. At four o’clock the sound ceased. Clemence rose, anxious and trembling. Then, with ba... ...Think of me then, Jacquet.” “I shall be at your house to-morrow at eight o’clock. We will go together; I’ll wait for you, if you like, in the street. ...

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...ed in the fashionable world—woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bed- room, but on the leather-cover... ...as Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock. Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald wa... ....” And his eyes were laughing during the reading of the report. Till two o’clock the sitting would go on without a break, and at two o’clock there wou... ... the place where he had been told he might find Kitty. Chapter 9 At four o’clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledg... ...uched the pillow, fell into a sound sleep. Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway... ...s to be here from Petersburg today.” “I was looking out for you till two o’clock last night. Where did you go after the Shtcherbatskys’?” “Home,” answ... ...ad forgotten his offense. 90 Anna Karenina – Part One At half-past nine o’clock a particularly joyful and pleas- ant family conversation over the tea... ...you by Seryozha,” she added, with a mother’s smile of pride. Towards ten o’clock, when she usually said good-night to her son, and often before going ... ...m, and so understand him,” Levin resolved to himself, as, towards eleven o’clock, he reached the hotel of which he had the address. “At the top, 12 an...

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...f Denmark did, Messrs. Idle and Goodchild rode away from Carlisle at eight o’clock one forenoon, bound for the village of Hesket, Newmarket, some four... ...hands stealthily one over the other. ‘As sober as a judge, and as regular as clock work in his habits. It hasn’t struck nine, not ten minutes ago, and... ...id the landlord, composedly. ‘Yes, he’s dead, sure enough. He died at five o’clock to day.’ ‘How did he die? Who is he?’ asked Arthur, staggered, for ... ... looking vacantly into the black darkness outside, he heard a distant church clock strike ten. Only ten! How was he to pass the time till the house wa... ... he could begin read ing the riddles printed here, the sound of the church clock stopped him. Eleven. He had got through an hour of the time, in the... ...tion of walking up and down the room; persevering in it, this time, till the clock struck again. Twelve. As the sound of the clock bell died away, it ... ...nt again before he had left in the morning. I returned to the Inn at eight o’clock, purposely ab staining from waking Arthur, who was sleeping off th... ...r a sound. His sense of hearing, how ever, was acute, and he could hear the clock strike Two. No sooner had he heard the clock strike Two, than he sa... ... fitfully haunted then. At One in the morning. I am what you saw me when the clock struck that hour—One old man. At Two in the morning, I am Two old m...

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...ht, when all was lost, and said to me: ‘I came near being killed at four o’clock. I was aimed at by one of the insurgents, when a young man, with a lo... ...latonic discourses, d’Arthez grew bolder, and arrived every day at three o’clock. He retired at six, and returned at nine, to remain until midnight, o... ...ofound observer of hu- man nature. “How ought I to treat her?” Until two o’clock in the morning they spent their time in saying to each other the sill... ...e of trying to get Daniel away from here I’ll send him to her.” At three o’clock, or a few moments after, d’Arthez arrived. In the midst of some inter...

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... at the place where he had laid the paper-knife in it, and read till one o’clock, just as he usually did. But from time to time he rubbed his high for... ...n?” he murmured in a whisper, gazing in ecstasy at her. “Tonight, at one o’clock,” she whispered, and, with a heavy sigh, she walked with her light, s... ...letely absorbed in his feeling for Anna, that he did not even think what o’clock it was, and whether he had time to go to Bryansky’s. He had left him,... ...rious import. Alexey Alexandrovitch only just managed to be back by five o’clock, his dinner-hour, and after dining with his sec- retary, he invited h... ...o that evening, and to make haste home in time for maman’s tea at twelve o’clock. She went indoors, collected her music, and say- ing good-bye to ever...

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...st bird is not missed, the day will be lucky, turned out correct. At ten o’clock Levin, weary, hungry, and happy after a tramp of twenty miles, return... ...stead the most friendly disposi- tion to him. Chapter 14 Next day at ten o’clock Levin, who had already gone his rounds, knocked at the room where Vas... ...onsky, whom the lat- ter praised very highly, Darya Alexandrovna, at ten o’clock, went on again. At home, looking after her chil- dren, she had no tim... ...ble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all... ... se separe. Everyone does as he pleases till dinnertime. Dinner at seven o’clock. Stiva did very rightly to send you. He needs their support. You know...

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...and the fire was in the middle of the room. At dinner-time, about twelve o’clock, the lord and lady of the house sat upon cross-legged stools, and the... ... grumbled about very much was, that as soon as a bell was rung, at eight o’clock every evening, everyone was to put out candle and fire, and go to bed... ...eicester’s castle of Kenilworth, but he could quite afford it. He kept the clock’s hands at twelve o’clock all the time, that it might always seem to ...

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...ery Friday; not eating or drinking anything from Thursday evening to six o’clock on Fri- day evening. Then, again, he would fast two nights and three ... ...r course for that place. She ar- rived at Springfield one evening at six o’clock, and im- mediately began to search for a lodging for the night. She w...

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...d nothing that could be used as clothing for the eight-kilometre walk home. The bastards had taken everything, even his sandals! It was about nine o’clock, so as the only road home crossed the bridge in the centre of town he’d have to wait at least three hours for the streets to be quiet enough to risk it. A slow smile softened his face and he relaxed. It felt as if he’d ...

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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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...the hands of the public executioner.) * * * TWO MINUTES BEFORE the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the prep... ...-room on the first floor, and a tabble-doat at eighteenpence peredd at 5 o’clock; and the landlord, who kem into Jools’s room smoaking a segar, told t... ...ust to be hup with the sunrice. I coodn’t sleep that night. By abowt six o’clock in the morning I was drest in my full uniform; and I didnt know how t... ...norable the Earl of Bareacres, was ordered on Friday afternoon at eleven o’clock to fetch a cabriolet from the stand in Davies Street. He se- lected t... ...onday Evening. “The mystery is at length solved. This afternoon, at four o’clock, the Hymeneal Blacksmith, of Gretna Green, celebrated the marriage be... ...upper, and he’s at Paddington by this time. Y es,’ says he, looking at the clock, ‘he’s been there these ten minutes.’ “But seeing my poor wife’s dist... ...to fail be- 137 Burlesques fore, and the circumstance occurred at seven o’clock.* I could continue, almost ad infinitum, an account of the wars which... ...tism; I simply mean that my advice to the General, at a quarter past two o’clock in the afternoon of that day, won this great triumph for the British ... ...I have the honor to inform you that I arrived before this place at eight o’clock P .M. with ten thousand cavalry under my orders. I have burned, since...

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... is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock- face for it. Y et those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced a... ...ng nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch. It was three o’clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his... ...e of the small work-table with an air of more entire placidity, until, the clock again giving notice that it was going to strike, she looked up from t... ...ish 91 George Eliot you would come down earlier. Y ou can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so diffi- cult... ...e from other callers. But a visitor had come in at one 111 George Eliot o’clock, and Mr. Bulstrode had so much to say to him, that there was little c... ..., is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not ... ...is face, which was a striking mixture of the shrewd and the mild. At ten o’clock supper was brought in (such were the customs of Middlemarch) and ther... ...should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. But as it was not eleven o’clock, he chose to walk in the brisk air towards the tower of St. Botolph’s... ...ll to meditation.” —2 Henry VI. THA T NIGHT after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone’s room, and sat the...

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...s a drugget of thick fibre matting. The only other piece of furniture is a clock with a wooden dial about as large as the bottom of a washtub, the wei... ...HOP . What is she reading? LESBIA. Some pamphlet that came by the eleven o’clock post. She wont come out. She wont open the door. And she says she doe...

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...er, to bring lords and leddies, and a host of folk behint them, and twal o’clock chappit?” Then approaching the Master, he craved pardon for having pe... ...asily ascertained; for Caleb had been in the village one morning by five o’clock, to borrow “twa chappins of ale and a kipper” for the messenger’s ref... ...her master’s son once more, and renew her warn- ing.” She died just as the clock in the distant village tolled one; and Ravenswood remembered, with in... ...ains out!’ and, to be sure, I blew sic points of war that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.” “Well, sir, cut all this short,” said Raven...

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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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...s toe in his first walk across the room, smashes his too persistent alarum clock in a fit of nerves, and cuts his throat while shaving. All patriotic ... ...ied this once when he carried on the Pickwick Club into “Master Humphrey’s Clock.” That experiment was unsatisfactory, and he did not attempt anything...

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...ay to the culture of the newsroom. During the 1990s, the rise of round-the-clock news shows and the Internet reinforced pressure on analysts to pass a... ...lians and city, state, and federal employees devoted themselves around the clock to putting New Y ork City back on its feet. 189 9.3 EMERGENCY RESPONS... ...ilities. NEADS files are time-stamped as accurate to the Naval Observatory clock.We also compared audio times to certified transcripts when available....