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... Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a smal... ...ock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size. This instrument being several years older than Oak’s gran... ...d Cassiopeia’s chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs. ‘One o’clock,’ said Gabriel. Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that... ...smile an inclination to laugh distinctly: ‘it flew away last night.’ ‘One o’clock this morning?’ ‘Well — it was.’ She was surprised. ‘How did you know?... ...usic. To the shepherd, the note of the sheep bell, like the ticking of the clock to other people, is a chronic sound that only makes itself noticed by... ...a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o’clock that same day — another instance of the untoward fate which so often ... ...gle with the Pole star, and Gabriel concluded that it must be about nine o’clock — in other words, that he had slept two hours. This small astronomica... ...r sound with difficulty through the fluffy atmosphere. It was a neighbouring clock striking ten. The bell was in the open air, and being overlaid with s... ...om the cart horse stables, where they had been busily engaged since four o’clock that morning. ‘And how is she getting on without a baily?’ the maltst...

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...t; the gentlemen being out, they had in fact nothing to do elsewhere. When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go; and very unwill i... ...ly with her stay, and bring back a supply of clothes. Chapter VIII A T FIVE o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six Elizabeth w... ... you and your family, Monday, November 18th, by four Pride and Prejudice 53 o’clock, and shall probably trespass on your hospitality till the Saturda... ... lady and daughters, your well wisher and friend, WILLIAM COLLINS.” “At four o’clock, therefore, we may expect this peace making gentleman,” said Mr. ... ... Pride and Prejudice 157 then began it. It was dated from Rosings, at eight o’clock in the morning, and was as follows: — “Be not alarmed, Madam, on ... ...ere in that parish. And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven o’clock. My uncle and aunt and I were to go together; and the others were...

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...hepheards pipe on Oaten strawes, 2870 And merrie Larkes are Ploughmens clockes: 2871 When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, 2872 And Ma...

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...nd the howre I thinke is come, 136 To giue him hearing: Is it foure a Clock? 137 B.Ely. It is. 138 B.Cant. Then goe we in, to k... ...5 arme: come, shall we about it? 1786 Orleance. It is now two a Clock: but let me see, by ten 1787 Wee shall haue each a hundred Englis... ...e dreadfull note of preparation. 1804 The Countrey Cocks doe crow, the Clocks doe towle: 1805 And the third howre of drowsie Morning nam’d, 1...

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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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...thither walke on foote, 2170 Let’s see, I thinke ’tis now some seuen a clocke, 2171 And well we may come there by dinner time. 2172 Ka... ... 2177 I will not goe to day, and ere I doe, 2178 It shall be what a clock I say it is. 2179 Hor. Why so this gallant will command the s...

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...ion out of bed. Daylight was yet three hours away, though it was already six o’clock; and in the darkness Henry went about preparing breakfast, while ... ...to one another and answered back. Conversation ceased. Daylight came at nine o’clock. At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose color, and marked ... ... color swiftly faded. The gray light of day that remained lasted until three o’clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended ... ..., and lapsed into silence. The day was like all the days. Light came at nine o’clock. At twelve o’clock the The She Wolf 13 southern horizon was warm... ...de eyed from want of sleep. He cooked breakfast in the darkness, and at nine o’clock, when, with the coming of daylight, the wolf pack drew back, he s... ...ns he calmly ignored. So far as he was concerned they did not exist. At four o’clock he executed a running jump, gained the roof of the chicken house ... ...ild. And don’t forget what I told you about temperature. I’ll be back at ten o’clock again.” White Fang received the nursing. Judge Scott’s suggestion...

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...s were rigid. Silas asked himself if he had been asleep, and looked at the clock: it was already four in the morning. How was it that William had not ... ...ld have met William to know the reason of his non appearance. But at six o’clock, as he was thinking of going to seek his friend, William came, and wi... ... You’ll get more bids than one.” “I dare say, and get back home at eight o’clock, splashed up to the chin. I’m going to Mrs. Osgood’s birthday dance.”... ...hoosing the unprecedented course of walking home. It was now nearly four o’clock, and a mist was gathering: the sooner he got into the road the bet t... ...in dictive purpose could not keep her spirit from failing. It was seven o’clock, and by this time she was not very far from Raveloe, but she was not ... ... time to spare most days, for when one gets up betimes i’ the morning, the clock seems to stan’ still tow’rt ten, afore it’s time to go about the vict... ...h, and divided the morsel between them. But at last Eppie, glancing at the clock, checked the play, and said, “Oh, daddy, you’re wanting to go into th... ...t the Stone pits.” 134 SILAS MARNER CHAPTER XIX B ETWEEN eight and nine o’clock that evening, Eppie and Silas were seated alone in the cottage. After...

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...a “refined” Irishman. What had happened was that shortly before, at three o’clock, his fate had practically been sealed, and that even when one pretend... ...already as if he were married, so definitely had the solicitors, at three o’clock, enabled the date to be fixed, and by so few days was that date now di... ...so few days was that date now distant. He was to dine at half past eight o’clock with the young lady on whose behalf, and on whose father’s, the Londo... ...gar omen we’re neglecting. On Saturday, please, at the Oratory, at three o’clock—before twelve assistants exactly.” “Twelve including me?” It struck h... ...he had come, all responsibly and deliberately, as on the clear show of the clock face of their situation, to make. The whole demonstration, none the l... ...te had already with a start and a warning hand turned from a glance at the clock. She sailed away to dress, while he watched her reach the staircase. ... ...lapse of time before dinner—dinner which had been so late, quite at nine o’clock, that evening, thanks to the final lateness of Amerigo’s own irruption... ... hope, by incontestable intrinsic merit. She had glanced repeatedly at the clock, but had refused herself the weak indulgence of walking up and down, ... ... with which he had opined that at that rate they would n’t dine till ten o’clock and that he should go straighter and faster alone. Such things, as I ...

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...ound Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books...

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...er weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in full sea rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a tw... ...ed there through the day and a part of the night. My watch began at eleven o’clock at night, and I received orders to call the captain if the wind cam... ... heard the captain say that he expected to be in the Gulf Stream by twelve o’clock. In a few minutes eight bells were struck, the watch called, and we... ...h on deck from four till eight, this morning. When we came on deck at four o’clock, we found things much changed for the better. The sea and wind had ... ...strong, cold, salt beef from the cook, I kept gnawing upon it until twelve o’clock. When we went on deck I felt somewhat like a man, and could begin ... ...d could begin to learn my sea duty with considerable spirit. At about two o’clock we heard the loud cry of ‘‘Sail ho!’’ from aloft, and soon saw two ... ...ter upon the regular duties of a sea life. About six bells, that is, three o’clock P. M., we saw a sail on our larboard bow. I was very anxious, like ... ...hours; but our ship, like most merchantmen, had ‘‘all hands’’ from twelve o’clock till dark, except in bad weather, when we had ‘‘watch and watch.’’ ... ...dlass or lying on the forecastle, smoking or telling long yarns. At eight o’clock, eight bells are struck, the log is hove, the watch set, the wheel ...

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...anger significantly tapped his revolvers. “When ’d yeh leave Dawson?” “Twelve o’clock.” “Last night?” — as a matter of course. “To day.” A murmur of su... ...rade. Trade! trade! all the time was it trade! One winter we sold our meat for clocks that would not go, and watches with broken guts, and files worn s... ...atch, the while resting his weight on one leg. It was four Love of Life 179 o’clock, and as the season was near the last of July or first of Au gust,... ...patiently with a hope greater than knowledge and defying experience. At nine o’clock he stubbed his toe on a rocky ledge, and from sheer weariness and... ...he day dawned in that quarter, for the sun was hidden by gray clouds. At six o’clock he awoke, quietly lying on his back. He gazed straight up into th... ...de the tobacco pouch and oil paper. He looked at his watch. It marked eleven o’clock and was still running. Evidently he had kept it wound. He was cal... ...e trading post to lay in extra ammunition. The first salmon was caught at ten o’clock in the evening, and at midnight the auction began. It took place ... ...nd shrieking, brought both of them to their feet. She glanced at the tin alarm clock on the shelf. The hands stood at half past five. The rest of the f... ...d to perform certain tasks. It was the same with the overseer. But at eleven o’clock there was excitement in the room. In an ap parently occult way t...

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...I remember last Christmas, at a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o’clock till four, without once sitting down.” “Did he indeed?” cried Mar... ...but the event was still more unfortunate, for they did not go at all. By ten o’clock the whole party were assembled at the park, where they were to br... ... to the park, to call on Lady Middleton.” He engaged to be with them by four o’clock. Chapter 15 M RS. DASHWOOD’S visit to Lady Middleton took place t... ...g salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets. They reached town by three o’clock the third day, glad to be released, after such a journey, from th... ...oo low to reach her ear, hurried into the carriage. It was then about twelve o’clock, and she returned to her sister’s apartment to wait for the arriv... ...ld not come, for some other advice, when the former — but not till after five o’clock — arrived. His opinion, however, made some little amends for his ... ...nd left her no moment of tranquillity till the arrival of Mr. Harris at four o’clock; — when his assurances, his felicitations on a recovery in her si... ...amination, that every symptom of recovery continued, and saw Marianne at six o’clock sink into a quiet, steady, and to all appearance comfortable, sle... ...time was now drawing on, when Colonel Brandon might be expected back. At ten o’clock, she trusted, or at least not much later, her mother would be rel...

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...mmediately, and only waited for courage to say so, when the sound of the great clock at Mansfield Park, striking three, made her feel that she had real... ...id Sir Thomas, producing his watch with all necessary caution — “it is three o’clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours.” “Well then,... ... she will have her orders in a day or two. And Mr. Campbell was here at four o’clock, to ask for you; he has got one of the Thrush’s boats, and is goi... ...ed if he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o’clock to half past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog...

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...ly followed the trail of an ancient Indian carry round these falls. By two o’clock we, who had walked on before, reached the river above the falls, no... ...! hear our prayers, O grant us cool heavens and favoring airs!” About nine o’clock we reached the river, and ran our boat into a natural haven be twe... ...iety to my mind, and the minds of my companions, who had joined me. By six o’clock, having mounted our packs and a good blanketful of trout, ready dre... ...r near our camping ground, we gradually swerved to the west, till, at four o’clock, we struck again the torrent which I have mentioned, and here, in v... ... had purposely impressed on our memories, and, quickening our pace, by two o’clock we reached the batteau. 7 Here we had expected to dine on trout, bu... ...ehind them, and gilding the whole scene with its parting rays.” About four o’clock, the same afternoon, we commenced our return voyage, which would re... ...the confused din and clink of a hundred saws, which never rest, and at six o’clock the next morning one of the party was steaming his way to Massachus... ...rippled. The passengers went singing on the deck, as in a parlor, till ten o’clock. We passed a vessel on her beam ends on a rock just outside the isl... ...d a chronometer. At length an African prince rushed by, observing, “Twelve o’clock, gentlemen!” and 9 Chapter first published in Atlantic Monthly, 1858...

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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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...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;...