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..." I fear ." said Wabbit, pouring the contents of the clock onto his plate. " That all is not well." Pack took a slice of toast and began to butter it. " Was that the clock with the mouse in it." Pack looked at the contents of the clock scattered on the table. " Repaired i...

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...ght,’ said Caroline. Mr. Adister consulted his watch and the man- telpiece clock for a minute of difference between them, re- marking that he was a pr... .... Mistress Adister O’Donnell’s head rounded as by slow at- traction to the clock. Her disciplined husband signified an equal mixture of contrition and... ...dith me that you may count on him for what the great Napoleon called two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage; not too common even in his immortal army:—whe... ... her husband’s proffered arm unhesitatingly at the appointed stroke of the clock. She said: ‘Yes,’ in agreement with him, as if she had never heard hi... ...s genial, if you remember the whisky and the fumes of our tobacco at one o’clock!’ ‘I shall recollect the evening with the utmost pleasure. You were k... ...But you are in the air! exposed! My head makes me stupid. It is now five o’clock. The air begins to chill. Con will never forgive me if you catch a co...

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... and telling a story he has heard some years earlier from a friend, George, about the Death-Cart, and how a person who dies on New-Years eve when the clock strikes Midnight will have to take over the Death-Cart as driver. The Death-Cart is a beaten-down horse-drawn carriage, drawn by a very old, one eyed horse, which travels the earth to pick up the souls of the dead and t...

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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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... 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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...er roasting in a bonfire. He heard voices of he and his sister counting 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock rock. 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, twelve o'clock ... ...n period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his excesses his underwear was stolen ... ... pillow she leaned toward the end table with the idea of picking up an alarm clock to look at the time when she saw a handkerchief belonging to one of... ... am a female," she told herself, "but I'm no lowly woman." She picked up the clock. It was 3:00 in the morning. She told herself that if a client was... ...ghts and at another time like twirling maelstroms of dirt and trash flicking clockwise or counter-clockwise according to the caprice of winds. Each t... ...re in all human pursuits. He walked around the living room. He looked at the clock. It was now 5:30. He stared out of the window onto the traffic of S... ...piqued shadow, the cast away reunited with she who cast him out, leaving the clock and going into the yard to waste some time; the hunting of birds wi... ...e kitchen to again watch the incessantly slow turn of the second hand of the clock; still no sounds from above so deciding to burn bacon and to turn d... ...replace dying cells was a collection that was the body. She listened to the clock. It too was an ephemeral device that seemed to hum as incessantly ...

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... a very pretty little room—without any carpet, but with seven mirrors, two clocks, and five curtains. I was rather disappointed after I arrived to fin... ... the petit salon, with the curtains half-drawn, beginning at about three o’clock, when every one is a la promenade. She is admirable, this little one;...

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...of those in Lamb’s situation, began at ten in the morning and ended as the clock struck four in 133 Thomas de Quincey the afternoon. Six hours compos... ...where I could say as little or as much as I pleased. We dined about five o’clock, and it was one of the hospi- talities inevitable to the Lambs, that ...

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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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...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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...g what they may devour. And so to sleep, despite fleas and fire-alarms and clocks chiming the hours out of neighbouring houses at all sorts of odd tim... ...tting out of bed and into their horrid cold tubs by the light of a seven o’clock candle, with the dismal seven o’clock frost-flowers all over the wind... ... to engineer, who has been very jolly and useful to me, and hope by five o’clock on Saturday morning to be driving Modestine to- wards the Gevaudan. M... ...write you this with the other. I reached N.Y . Sunday night; and by five o’clock Monday was under way for the West. It is now about ten on Wednesday m... ...e books was answered that same night, and the answer left Davos by seven o’clock next morning. Perhaps the snow delayed then; if so, ’tis a good hint ... ...II. ‘What the Wreck had brought to Aros.’ Eh, boy? what had it? Silver and clocks and bro- cades, and what a conscience, what a mad brain! Chapter III...

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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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...m of Baden-Baden, to the grounds of the Conversation-house. It was eight o’clock, and Longueville, after removing the stains of travel, sat down to di... ... was often good, a great many people assembled under the trees, at three o’clock, to listen to it. This was not, as a regular thing, an hour of re-uni... ...e Conversation-house until the evening. Bernard, one afternoon, at three o’clock, directed his steps to this small world-centre of Baden, and, passing... .... They cer- tainly affected Angela’s—putting it into her head, at eleven o’clock, to come out to walk.” Angela did nothing whatever to defend herself ... ...h Gordon had bequeathed to him. “I supposed people went to bed at eleven o’clock,” he said. Angela glanced about her, without meeting his eye. “They s... .... “Do you know what I shall tell him? I shall tell him that about eleven o’clock at night you become peculiarly attractive.” She went on again a few s... ...n’s hand—a note of which the following proved to be the contents. “Seven o’clock, A.M. “My dear Bernard: Circumstances have determined me 87 Henry Ja... ...st no time in learning that his friend had in fact departed by the eight o’clock train—the morning was now well advanced; and then, over his breakfast... ... his just privilege. The project of leaving Blanquais-les-Galets at nine o’clock in the morning dropped lightly from his mind, making no noise as it f...

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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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...he overseas numbers clicked into place. He checked his watch it would be ten o’clock at night in Rome. Antonio hoped fervently that Pope Francis was ... ...f paper. "If you're interested, meet me tomorrow at this address, about two o'clock. We'll have lunch and see if we have common issues." Cardona got... ... a campaign to run. I'm having a meeting with your wife and Walter at three o'clock," Brand said, and left the table. Alex just said, "Hmm," to him... ... his uncle could handle the American Capos. He doubted it. At around 5:00 o'clock, the kitchen had turned into pandemonium. The servants hustled a... ...n a good Roman. The first of the American Capos began arriving about seven o'clock. By eight, they had all arrived. Marco had been greeting them, o... ...chopsticks, while Gallucci used a knife and fork on his steak. About nine o'clock, the phone rang. Gallucci answered it. "Si," and listened for a ... ...en told him where to get a hold of him, and hung up the phone. About seven o'clock, they heard a knock on the door. "Careful, Antonio," Gallucci wa... ...ust sat, staring up at the ceiling. Brand looked at his watch. "It's three o'clock. If I call Radcliff now, we just might be able to reach him." ... ...damantly. Just then, Gallucci heard a knock on the door. "It must be seven o'clock. So, open it, Antonio," he said, impatiently. Ky entered and b...

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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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