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...nitch On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o?clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, ...

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... when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o’clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head wi... ...ed himself for an injury dealt him. By this time it was a quarter to one o’clock, but Karl Ivanitch never thought of releasing us, He merely set us a ... ...ollowing letter: “Petrovskoe, 12th April. “Only this moment (i.e. at ten o’clock in the evening) have I received your dear letter of the 3rd of April,... ...m-chair, and let my knitting slip from my hands. Sud- denly, towards one o’clock in the morning, I heard her say- ing something; whereupon I opened my... ...d awoke with my tears dried and my 90 Childhood nerves restored. At ten o’clock we were summoned to at- tend the pre-funeral requiem. The room was fu...

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......11 10 For shame! deny that thou bear?st love to any, ........12 11 As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are ..........13 14 Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; ...........14 15 When I consider every thing that grows ..................14 1...

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...ast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but... ...ore, not let that copy die. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; W... ...or dare I chide the world without end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid...

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...e the monuments Discuss the late events, Correct our watches by the public clocks. Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks. II Now that lilacs a... ...The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The g... ...ind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four and five and six o’clock; And short square fingers stuffing pipes, And evening newspapers, and... ...nt women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Rhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o’clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whisperin... ...garettes in corridors And cocktail smells in bars.” The lamp said, “Four o’clock, Here is the number on the door. 26 T. S. Eliot – Poems Memory! Y ou... ...mely provided for, But shortly afterwards the parrot died too. The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece, And the footman sat upon the di...

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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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... not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o’clock the bell rang, the master was obliged to tell him to fall into line w... ...quay to look at the boats, and then brought him back to college at seven o’clock before supper. Every Thursday evening he wrote *A devotion said at mo... ...ittle more love. 12 Madame Bovary Chapter Two O NE NIGHT TOWARDS eleven o’clock they were awakened by the noise of a horse pulling up outside their d... ... show him the way to the farm, and open the gates for him. T owards four o’clock in the morning, Charles, well wrapped up in his cloak, set out for th... ... his whiskers before the looking-glass. One day he got there about three o’clock. Everybody was in the fields. He went into the kitchen, but did not a... ... had been thrown back; the hook was still swinging. The next day by nine o’clock he was at the farm. Emma blushed as he entered, and she gave a little... ...ight away home. Monsieur and Madame Charles arrived at T ostes about six o’clock. The neighbors came to the windows to see their doctor’s new wife. Th... ...ung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candle... ... saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers. He came home late—at ten o’clock, at midnight sometimes. Then he asked for something to eat, and as th...

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...ther at work in one of the furnaces. Often I began work as early as four o’clock in the morning. The first thing I ever learned in the way of book kno... ...hat I was to rise early in the morning and work in the furnace till nine o’clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at l... ...rom the furnace, 29 Booker T. Washington and as I had to work till nine o’clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty. Schoo... ...t anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact. There was a large clock in a little office in the furnace. This clock, of course, all the hun... ...I got the idea that the way for me to reach school on time was to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o’clock mark. This I found ... ...ill the furnace “boss” discovered that something was wrong, and locked the clock in a case. I did not mean to inconve- nience anybody. I simply meant ... ...o work late into the night, while at the same time I had to rise by four o’clock in the morning, in order to build the fires and have a little time in... ...an old, abandoned house to spend the remainder of the night. About three o’clock in the morning my brother John found me asleep in this house, and bro... ... all that the young people of that town needed. I began my work at eight o’clock in the morning, and, as a rule, it did not end until ten o’clock at n...

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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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...eary, still evenings when even the dogs are too bored to bark and even the clocks seem weary of ticking, and any one who on such evenings has been tro... ...ained sitting in the dark till the dawn. VI I WENT TO THE STATION at ten o’clock in the morning. There was no frost, but snow was falling in big wet f... ...night he woke the labourer, and told him to have the horse ready at five o’clock in the morning for him to drive to the station; he undressed and got ... ... wonder, she slowly made the cross over him, shaking nervously . At five o’clock in the morning he said good-bye to them all affectionately, and even ... ...ine to twelve he saw patients and was busy in his ward, and after twelve o’clock he went by tram to the other hospital, where he dissected. His privat... ... young people had a very charming little home. When she got up at eleven o’clock every morning, Olga Ivanovna played the piano or, if it were sunny , ... ...n the early morning a light mist had hung over the Volga, and after nine o’clock it had begun to spout with rain. And there seemed no hope of the sky ... ... that the V olga had its charms even in bad weather. On the wall the cheap clock went “tic- tic-tic.”… The flies, feeling chilled, crowded round the i... ...don’t mope, but work. You are such a splendid fellow, Ryabovsky!” At ten o’clock Ryabovsky gave her a farewell kiss, in order, as she thought, to avoi...

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...e Bols,” Kitty said to her husband, when he came in to see her at eleven o’clock before going out. “I know you are dining at the club; papa put down y... ...for her, and afraid that Vronsky did not fully understand her. At eleven o’clock, when Stepan Arkadyevitch got up to go (Vorkuev had left earlier), it... ...tion, eating and drinking, he was degener- ating. They talked till three o’clock in the morning. Only at three o’clock were they sufficiently reconcil... ..., and the wine he had drunk, his sleep was sound and untroubled. At five o’clock the creak of a door opening waked him. He jumped up and looked round.... ...rring, in anticipation of the greatest event in a woman’s life. At seven o’clock he 45 Tolstoy was waked by the touch of her hand on his shoulder, an... ...ked him to light a candle behind a screen, and he found that it was five o’clock in the afternoon. If he had been told it was only ten o’clock in the ... ...superfluous, to which he could not accus- tom himself. Chapter 16 At ten o’clock the old prince, Sergey Ivanovitch, and Stepan Arkadyevitch were sitti... ... the footman came in again. “Madame Borozdina? Tell her, tomorrow at two o’clock. Yes,” she said, putting her finger in the place in the book, and gaz... ... boxes to be brought up for packing their things for the country. At ten o’clock Vronsky came in. Chapter 24 “Well, was it nice?” she asked, coming ou...

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...ken) to a pink horse (with green wings) that went, in a violent manner, by clock- work, and was wound up with an indigo key. With this history the kin... ... us—my two brothers and myself—had crossed over to the islands about two o’clock P. M., and had soon nearly loaded the smack with fine fish, which, we... ...to tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. It had run down at seven o’clock! We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Ström was... ...mar would die about mid- night on the morrow (Sunday). It was then seven o’clock on Saturday evening. On quitting the invalid’s bed-side to hold conve... ..., no farther perceptible effect was induced until some minutes after ten o’clock, when Doctors D— and F —called, according to ap- 74 Poe in Five V ol... ...es remained. We left M. V aldemar entirely undisturbed until about three o’clock in the morning, when I approached him and found him in precisely the ... ...leep-waker’s state at this epoch. Other nurses were procured; and at ten o’clock I left the house in company with the two physicians and Mr. L — l. In... ...his apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonou... ..., and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, bu...

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...ce with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It mat ters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and la bors of men. Morning is when I am awake... ...hen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that “for yest... ...i sion, and their whistle can be heard so far, that the farmers set their clocks by them, and thus one well conducted institution regulates a whole ... ...lden 109 plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three o’ clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but w... ... of the house. They would begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, referred to the setting of... ... so that we were worse weary of our lodging than of our journey.” At one o’clock the next day Massasoit “brought two fishes that he had shot,” about t... ...er mined to know beans. When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o’clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day abou... ...ture of the pond water which had stood in the room where I sat from five o’clock in the afternoon till noon the next day, the sixth of March, 1846, th... ... Mexico. Several times, when returning from the village at ten or eleven o’clock at night, I heard the tread of a flock of geese, or else ducks, on th...

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...tue—their drag they call virtue! And others are there who are like eight-day clocks when wound up; they tick, and want people to call ticking— virtue.... ...icking— virtue. Verily, in those have I mine amusement: wherever I find such clocks I shall wind them up with my mockery, and they shall even whirr th... ...o their fingers un- derstand: thus do they make the hose of the spirit! Good clockworks are they: only be careful to wind them up properly! Then do th... ...know thou thinkest of soon leaving me. There is an old heavy, heavy, booming-clock: it boometh by night up to thy cave:— —When thou hearest this clock... ...ious round about; from the depth however there came up slowly the sound of a clock-bell. Zarathustra listened thereto, like the higher men; then, howe... ...etting on to midnight: then will I say something into your ears, as that old clock-bell saith it into mine ear,— 280 Thus Spake Zarathustra —As myste... ...athustra —As mysteriously, as frightfully, and as cordially as that midnight clock-bell speaketh it to me, which hath experi- enced more than one man:... ... burrow? There approacheth, there approacheth, the hour,— —There boometh the clock-bell, there thrilleth still the heart, there burroweth still the wo... ...h come unto me thy tone, from the distance, from the ponds of love! Thou old clock-bell, thou sweet lyre! Every pain hath torn thy heart, father-pain,...

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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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...d above it, on two arches, rose a belvedere where a watchman stood; a huge clock-face was let into the roof. The square seemed deserted, but Andrii th... ...han the Northern cold, al- though it is said to be very healthy. At nine o’clock in the morning, at the very hour when the streets are filled with men... ...felt things grow livelier. Still, he could not forget that it was twelve o’clock, and that he should have been at home long ago. In order that the hos... ...ugh. No one had yet sat down to the table, although it was long past two o’clock, an hour before which in Mirgorod, even on ceremonial occasions, ever... ...aid the artist, forgetting himself. “No, it is time to stop. Lise, three o’clock!” said the lady, taking out a tiny watch which hung by a gold chain f... ...ng to their collections, and who have no other occupation between twelve o’clock and one; and noble gentlemen, with garments very threadbare, who make... ...ter, a taciturn, quiet, some- times pretty creature; an ugly dog, and wall-clocks which strike in a melancholy fashion. Then come the actors whose sal... ...ing more loudly than ever. She recollected that he had come home at four o’clock, and not wishing to awaken him, got up alone, and put on her slippers... ...nner?” “But haven’t I ordered a dinner?” “A dinner! You got home at four o’clock in the morning and you did not answer a single word to all my questio...

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...as there are no hats or coats on them. On the other side of the window the clock hangs on a nail, with its white wooden dial, black iron weights, and ... ...its white wooden dial, black iron weights, and brass pendulum. Between the clock and the corner, a big cupboard, locked, stands on a dwarf dresser ful... ...erplate of Raphael’s St. Paul preaching at Athens, a rococo presenta- tion clock on the mantelshelf, flanked by a couple of minia- tures, a pair of cr... ...ady, warm, 26 The Devil’s Disciple windless downpour of rain. As the town clock strikes the quarter, Judith comes in with a couple of candles in eart... ... to Judith.) Now! (She flies into his arms.) I am not late, am I? The town clock struck the quarter as I came in at the front door. And the town clock... ...ICHARD (amazed—divining the truth). Mrs. Anderson!!! (The bell of the town clock strikes the quarter. He collects him- self, and removes her hands, sa... ... the sooner he is hanged the better. SWINDON. We have arranged it for 12 o’clock. Nothing remains to be done except to try him. BURGOYNE (looking at h... ...rt on the table.) SWINDON (aghast). Since yesterday! BURGOYNE. Since two o’clock this morning. Perhaps we shall be in their hands before two o’clock t... ...jection to the rope. Hang me, by all means. BURGOYNE (smoothly). Will 12 o’clock suit you, Mr. Anderson? RICHARD. I shall be at your disposal then, Ge...

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...ons hell 52 to ears polite. 150 But hark! the chiming clocks to dinner call; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall: The rich... ..., This way is for his Grace’s coach: There lies the bridge, and here’s the clock, Observe the lion and the cock, The spacious court, the colonnade, An... ..., lead itself can fly, And ponderous slugs cut swiftly through the sky; As clocks to weight their nimble motion owe, The wheels above urged by the loa... ...atchman, that just gives a knock, And breaks our rest, to tell us what’s a clock. Yet by some object every brain is stirr’d; The dull may waken to a h...

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... most of the driest season to get their hay, working sometimes till nine o’clock at night, sedulously paring with their scythes in the twilight round ... ...er for this season. He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays so long. Many of this species inhabit our Concord water. I... ...e clay, talking aloud as if it were broad day, until at length, by three o’clock, we had completed our preparations and were ready to pursue our voyag... ...pproach by that peculiar alarum of his, like the winding up of some strong clock, in the top of a pine tree, and dodged behind its stem, or leaped fro... ...ch we spend in this waking sleep, the hand stands still on the face of the clock, and we grow like corn in the night. Men are as busy as the brooks or... ...r over against Souhegan upon the 22 day of this instant, about tene of the clock in the morning, he discovered 15 Indi ans on this sid the river, whi... ...s been applied to to do work when on a journey; to do tinkering and repair clocks, when I had a knapsack on my back. A man once applied to me to go in... ...ut the wagon, and which for so long a time I had not seen, is greeted. The clock and bell jingling of the crickets is altogether lovely, penetrat in... ...n the wet sand around it, the fairies all gone or concealed. Before five o’clock we pushed it into the fog, and, leaping in, at one shove were out of ...

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...ime in such fashion, that ordinarily he did awake betwixt eight and nine o’clock, whether it was day or not, for so had his ancient governors ordained... ...ons and rear-suppers. Then did he sleep, without unbridling, until eight o’clock in the next morning. Chapter 1.XXIII. How Gargantua was instructed by... ...ime in learning and honest knowledge. Gargantua awaked, then, about four o’clock in the morning. Whilst they were in rubbing of him, there was read un... ...ather to be a concert of organ-pipes, or mutual concord of the wheels of a clock, than an infantry and cavalry, or army of soldiers. Touchfaucet immed... ...hours, it was de- creed that in this new structure there should be neither clock nor dial, but that according to the opportunities and inci- dent occa... ...st all the theologians or divines, for the space of six weeks, from four o’clock in the morning until six in the evening, except an interval of two ho... ...nificence to be there; it shall be at the great hall of Navarre at seven o’clock in the morning. When he had spoken these words, Pantagruel very honou... ...em or sacring bells hanging at your chin, and that I had at mine the great clocks of Rennes, of Poictiers, of Tours, and of Cambray, to see what a pea... ...e never so well winded up as that my needle could mount to ten or eleven o’clock, till now that I have it hard, stiff, and strong, like a hundred devi...

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...bbles unbreakable upon a windless sea. A costly hymn tune announced five o’clock, and in the distance the more lovable note of St. Mary’s could be hea... ...in com- mon. He continued his narrative, how in the night he had heard the clocks, how at daybreak, instead of entering the city, he had struck eastwa... ...ve me a lift towards Andover, who said I was a blot on God’s earth.” One o’clock struck. It was strange that neither of them had had any summons from ... ...ld him who stopped in the village tonight. Leighton was pleased. At nine o’clock the two young men left the house, under a sky that was still only bri...

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...low marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as i... ...nd would let her know everything on the following Sunday, between eleven o’clock and midnight. When the time grew near, she ran to meet her lover. But... ...epare the table and heat the foot-warmers. They arrived at exactly eight o’clock and departed before eleven. Every Monday morning, the dealer in secon... ...ingled with the sharp sound of wheels on the cobble-stones. About twelve o’clock, when the market was in full swing, there appeared at the front door ... ... kept pouring through the holes of the dam with a deafening roar. The town clock struck two. The parlour of the convent would not open until morn- ing... ...n ex- pressly forbidden to go But Felicite went there every day. At four o’clock exactly, she would go through the town, climb the hill, open the gate...