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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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...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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... 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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...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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... 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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...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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... upon one of which two persons may perform at the same time. X. A piece of clock-work, an Ethiop riding upon a rhinoc- eros, with four attendants, who... ...ale, and immediately mounted post-horses, and arrived about two or three o’clock in the morning at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dan- g...

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...iil. Then I had better go. But I must have an answer from you before two o’clock—yes or no. If it is no, the shares go to a charity, and that this ver... ...to say to you, you see. Morten Kiil (in a whisper). Yes or no—before two o’clock. Aslaksen (glancing at HOVSTAD). Aha! (MORTEN KIIL goes out.) Dr. Sto...

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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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...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 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...

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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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..._____ 28 THE ARGUMENT ___ 28 PARAPSYCHOLOGY 28 NAIL ON NAIL ______ 28 VIGILANCE ________ 28 ORDER ____________ 28 PATOMIME ________ 28 CUCKOO CLOCK (I) _ 29 CUCKOO CLOCK (II) 29 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS ______________ 29 APHORISM _________ 29 DISGUST ___________ 29 CLASSIC ___________ 29 HEROISM __________ 29 BAGATELLE _______ 29 PRODUCER ________ 30 INTRODUCT...

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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...