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...or all of us; to me It was a time of rapture: clear and loud 460 The village clock toll’d six; I wheel’d about, Proud and exulting, like an untired ho... ...f sharp command and scolding intermixed. 50 Near me was Trinity’s loquacious clock Who never let the quarters, night or day, Slip by him unproclaimed,... ...r. The second night, In eagerness, and by report misled 625 Of those Italian clocks that speak the time In fashion different from ours, we rose By moo... ...r own size, than any outward light— The breathless wilderness of clouds, the clock 650 That told with unintelligible voice The widely parted hours, th... ...visible girl, The bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes, The waxwork, clockwork, all the marvellous craft Of modern Merlins, wild beasts, puppe...

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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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...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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...ooth quiet Sea, I made such Sail that I believe by the next Day at Three a Clock in the Afternoon, when I first made the Land, I could not be less than... ...ours if it did not rain, then employ’d my self to work till about Eleven a Clock, then eat what I had to live on, and from Twelve to Two I lay down to... ...ndle; so that as soon as ever it was dark, which was generally by Seven a Clock, I was oblig’d to go to Bed: I remembred the Lump of Bees wax with wh... ...ep, and wak’d no more ’till by the Sun it must necessarily be near Three a Clock in the Afternoon the next Day; nay, to this Hour, I’m partly of the O... ...r the Island, tho’ not making such fresh Way as I did before. About four a Clock in the Evening, being then within about a League of the Island, I fou... ...said above, not to have made any Attempt till it was Dark: But about Two a Clock, being the Heat of the Day, I found that in short they were all gone ... ...ad to hear, having sat watching upon the Shore for it till near two of the Clock in the Morning. Having thus heard the Signal plainly, I laid me down;...

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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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...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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...ce, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney piece (you know you can only see the back of it in... ... the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud: — ‘Tweedledum an... ...eat girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come to day. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!’ Alice could not help l... ...pty interrupted: ‘there are plenty of hard words there. “Brillig” means four o’clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for di...

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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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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... lodgings, and we did not send to tell her till the morning; but by nine o’clock she was in the house. We had crept down to breakfast, Jaquetta and I,... ... he came in about five or six; but the half-past twelve dinner and eight o’clock supper were at the long table, our three selves and Baby at the top—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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... . . . 292 ALTERNATIVE SONG FOR THE SEVERED HEAD IN ‘THE KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR TH... ... sober ear; It may be all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock. Horton’s the first I call. He loved strange thought And knew that swe... ... sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock. Such thought — such thought have I that hold it tight Till meditatio... ...p. The moon in a silver bag. I thought it out this very day. Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and si... ..., old man. ALTERNATIVE SONG FOR THE SEVERED HEAD IN ‘THE KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER’ SADDLE and ride, I heard a man say, Out of Ben Bulben and Knoc... ...ulben and Knocknarea, 296 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? All those tragic characters ride But turn f... ... their home. Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam, What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass That sa... ... his Countess; Hanrahan That seemed but a wild wenching man; What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? And all alone comes riding there The King t... ...t candles in your room,’ That lovely lady said, ‘That I at midnight by the clock May creep into your bed, For if I saw myself creep in I think I shoul...

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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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... is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock face for it. Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced aga... ...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... ...for breakfast, I wish you would come down earlier. You can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so difficult to ... ...he was usually free from other callers. But a visitor had come in at one 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... ...se; And let us all to meditation.” —2 Henry VI. T hat night after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Feath erstone’s room, and sat t...

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... in other words, tell the Universe, which so often forgets that fact, what o’clock it really is. Not unfrequently the Germans have been blamed for an ... ... Father Andreas, I entered the main street of the place, and saw its steeple clock (then striking Eight) andSchuldthurm (Jail), and the aproned or dis...

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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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...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....