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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...longer compelled to foot it on the masculine side of the figure. The church clock struck, when suddenly the student said that he must leave — he had be... ...ss; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one handed clocks sufficiently subdivided the day. IV R olliver’s inn, the single aleho... ... I shall be all right in an hour or two,’ said Durbeyfield. It was eleven o’clock before the family were all in bed, and two o’clock next morning was t... ...eir bundles and baskets were gathered up, and half an hour later, when the clock chime sounded a quarter past eleven, they were straggling along the l... ... the Trantridge track. She was inexpressibly weary. She had risen at five o’clock every morning of that week, had been on foot the whole of each day, a... ... quarrel, till, with the slow progress of their steed, it was nearly one o’clock. Only once, however, was she overcome by actual drowsiness. In that m... ..., though the other women often gaze around them. Her binding proceeds with clock like monotony. From the sheaf last finished she draws a handful of ear... ...t none the less surely. In her misery she rocked herself upon the bed. The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside re... ...rrived, but the ordinary an nouncement of milking time — half past four o’clock, when the dairymen set about getting in the cows. The red and white h...

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Aria Da Capo a Play in One Act 1920

By: Edna Saint Vincent Millay

...onality … Vivace senza tempo senza tutto …. Title: Uptown Express at Six O’Clock. Pour me a drink. COL COL COL COL COLUMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBI... ...her little tricks; and the house will love you. You’ll be a star by five o’clock … that is, 6 Aria da Capo If you will let me pay for your apartment.... ...t, then, For Heaven’s sake, and stop your silly noise! I haven’t heard the clock tick for an hour. P P P P PIERR IERR IERR IERR IERRO O O O OT T T T T...

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The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony, In Eight Fits

By: Lewis Carroll

... That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five o’clock tea, And dines on the following day. “The third is its slownes...

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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

..., how to use them? Piscator. My honest scholar, it is now past five of the clock: we will fish till nine; and then go to breakfast. Go you to yonder s... ...shoals. in the summer time, in a hot afternoon, about three or four of the clock; and watch their going forth of their deep holes, and returning, whic... ...d returning, which you may well discern, for they return about four of the clock, most of them seeking food at the bottom, yet one or two will lie on ... ...t is near cold, take it down to the water side, about eight or nine of the clock in the evening, and not before: cast in two parts of your ground bai... ...e sporting place all night; and in the morning, about three or four of the clock, visit the water side, but not too near, for they have a cunning wat... ...t will spoil your evening sport that day, which is this. About four of the clock in the afternoon repair to your baited place; and as soon as you come... ...the morning. You will find excellent sport that evening, till eight of the clock: then cast in the residue of your ground bait, and next morning, by f... ... cast in the residue of your ground bait, and next morning, by four of the clock, visit them again for four hours, which is the best sport of all; and... ...lling. And I pray let’s meet there the ninth of May next, about two of the clock; and I’ll want noth ing that a fisher should be furnished with. Pisc...

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Floor Games

By: H. G. Wells

...ibe in greater detail; (2) BRICKS; (3) BOARDS and PLANKS; and (4) a lot of CLOCKWORK RAIL WAY ROLLING-STOCK AND RAILS. Also there are certain minor ob... ...a broken piece of some toy whose nature I have long forgotten, the station clock is a similar fragment, and so is the metallic pillar which bears the ... ...vided in our minds between the merits and attractiveness of either ward. A clockwork train comes clattering into the station, we take our places, some... ...we shall pick up the roofs and shove them away among the books, return the clockwork engines very carefully to their boxes, for engines are fragile th... ...cilitate hill- 18 Floor Games climbing. Now, sometimes an engine gets its clockwork out of order, and then it is over and done for; but sometimes it ... ... bent, the body twisted. You remove the things and, behold ! you have bare clockwork on wheels, an apparatus of almost ma- lignant energy, soul withou... ...ve, by the by, known a very serviceable little road ‘lectric made out of a clockwork mouse.) Well, when we have got chairs and boxes and bricks, and g...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an ... ...re. “Before that,” said Miss Archer. “She’s coming down to dinner—at eight o’clock. Don’t you forget a quarter to seven,” she added, turning with a sm... ...return of her other niece as long as she thought reasonable, but as at six o’clock Mrs. Ludlow bad not come in she prepared to take her departure. “Yo... ...for a long time, in a stillness broken only by the ticking of the big bronze clock, she passed them in review. It had been a very happy life and she h... ...t her good humour to the test. Mr. Touchett went to bed at half past nine o’clock, but his wife remained in the drawing room with the other members o... ...uence, left his room earlier than usual and made his appearance at the two o’clock repast. This was by no means an act of vigilance on his part, but t... ...a should come and dine with them in their lodgings in Jermyn Street at six o’clock on the morrow, and she now bethought herself of this engagement. Sh... ... “You may do what you please,” said Isabel, “if you’ll amuse me till seven o’clock. I propose at that hour to go back and partake of a simple and soli... ...ad caused her to dispense with her cousin’s attendance. Seated toward nine o’clock in the dim illumination of Pratt’s Hotel and trying with the aid of...

...scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one?s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o?clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the interval could be only an eternity of pleasure. The persons concerned in it were taking their pleasure quietly, and they were not o...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ual opportunity university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE... ...tments, where his valet changed his dress, and as Madame had not yet sent orders respecting breakfast, Monsieur stretched himself upon a chaise longue... ...nd conduct her from the salon to the refectory. This formality being accomplished with great ceremony, the husband and wife breakfasted, and then sepa... ...or a lover. That is the cause of this embarrassment; that is the cause of this hesitation; that is the cause of this order — ‘Mon- sieur the lieutenan... ...an two hours, possessed by the sleeplessness of love, opened his shutters himself, and cast an inquiring look into the courts of the sleeping palace. ... ... on the other side of the carriage, saw and heard all without being observed. The king offered his arm to Mademoiselle de Mancini, and made a sign to ... ... man unloosed from the tightest bounds, and said in a low voice: “Now, then, my officer, I hope that it is over.” The king summoned his gentleman. “Pl... ...“Ah, but we have monsieur le surintendant,” said he. “And you laugh at the king, then?” Bazin made no reply; his smile was sufficiently eloquent. “My ... ...usand livres down, and deposited the three thousand with a Bur- gomaster, after which he brought on board without their being seen, the ten men who fo...

...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, ...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...ome wards, but these interruptions were not frequent and soon ceased. The clocks struck one. Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every t... .... A cheerful fire was blaz ing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm... ... without requiring the assistance of a candle. Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness... ...anack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight day clock which hadn’t gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minut... ...een so tormented, so worried, that it’s a mercy we were not here at four o’clock in the after noon. Alick has been in such a state of impatience to c... ...believe that he was dressed before dinner time and has been looking at the clock and teas ing me ever since. It’s all your fault, you naughty thing. ... ...tomed to sit. If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in ... ...e time went on, he mani fested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At leng... ...re frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At length, the clock was hidden from his sight by some envious shutters, then the church s...

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Virginibus Puerisque, And Other Papers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...l ves- sels he forced to luff and fall under his lee; until, about three o’clock of the afternoon, a great ship of three decks of ordnance took the wi... ...e. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more... ... end only when you are drowsy. I know a village where there are hardly any clocks, where no one knows more of the days of the week than by a sort of i... ...e out of London, Liverpool, Paris, and a variety of large towns, where the clocks lose their heads, and shake the hours out each one faster than the o... ...ery along with him, in a watch- pocket! It is to be noticed, there were no clocks and watches in the much-vaunted days before the flood. It follows, o... ... a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes, and haunted, even at night, by flaming dial-plates. For ...

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Hunting Sketches

By: Anthony Trollope

...ill more vague; but, nevertheless, there are delights. Getting up at six o’clock in November to go down to Bletchley by an early train is not in itsel... ...In such a position, is it possible that a man should like it? About four o’clock in the afternoon, when the other men are coming in, he turns up at th... ...ost cried, and that he had drained his flask to the last drop before one o’clock? No one need know the extent of his miseries. And no one does know ho... ...llow him on an ordinary day. His groom comes to his bed-chamber at seven o’clock, and tells him that it has frozen during the night. If he be a London... ...ts and breeches, and who then 12 Hunting Sketches finds himself, by one o’clock, landed back at his starting- point without employment? Who under suc... ...hat our friend has fallen into so deep a bathos of misfortune. At twelve o’clock Tom appears, with the hounds follow- ing slowly at his heels; and a d... ...ly at him with assurances that there has been no sign of frost since ten o’clock. “ Ain’t there?” says Tom; “ you look at the north sides of the banks... .... It is supposed to be like the Cider Cellars or the Haymarket at twelve o’clock at night. The old ladies know that the young men go to these wicked p...

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The Invisible Man a Grotesque Romance

By: H. G. Wells

...ime of it that afternoon. The visitor remained in the parlour until four o’clock, with- out giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion. For the mo... ...MPRESSIONS FIRST IMPRESSIONS FIRST IMPRESSIONS FIRST IMPRESSIONS AT FOUR O’CLOCK, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to... ...o go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, T eddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar. “My sakes! Mrs. Hall,” said he, “but this ... ...Now you’re here, Mr. T eddy,” said she, “I’d be glad if you’d give th’ old clock in the parlour a bit of a look. ’Tis going, and it strikes well and h... ...d, had tricked her. “Would you mind, sir, this man a-coming to look at the clock, sir?” she said, recovering from the momentary shock. “Look at the cl... ... my own private use.” “I thought, sir,” said Mrs. Hall, “you’ d prefer the clock—” “Certainly,” said the stranger, “certainly—but, as a rule, I like t... ...rule, I like to be alone and undisturbed. “But I’m really glad to have the clock seen to,” he said, seeing a certain hesitation in Mr. Henfrey’s manne... ...e and put his hands be- hind his back. “And presently,” he said, “when the clock- mending is over, I think I should like to have some tea. But not til... ... mending is over, I think I should like to have some tea. But not till the clock-mending is over.” 10 The Invisible Man Mrs. Hall was about to leave ...

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Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I.

By: William Wordsworth

...oss timber of an out house hung; How dismal tolled, that night, the city clock! At morn my sick heart hunger scarcely stung, Nor to the beggar’s... ...BOY The IDIOT BOY The IDIOT BOY The IDIOT BOY The IDIOT BOY ’Tis eight o’clock,—a clear March night, The moon is up—the sky is blue, The owlet i... ... both be here before eleven.” Poor Susan moans, poor Susan groans, The clock gives warning for eleven; ’Tis on the stroke—“If Johnny’s near,” ... ...Betty “he will soon be here, As sure as there’s a moon in heaven.” The clock is on the stroke of twelve, And Johnny is not yet in sight, The m... ...o say If she must go or she must stay: —She’s in a sad quandary. The clock is on the stroke of one; But neither Doctor nor his guide Appear ... ...or Betty! it would ease her pain If she had heart to knock again; —The clock strikes three—a dismal knell! Then up along the town she hies, No... ...oo he the moon had seen; For in the moonlight he had been From eight o’clock till five. And thus to Betty’s question, he, Made answer, like a ... ...ON 52 Thelittlehedge-rowbirds 24 Thereisathorn;itlookssoold, 35 Tiseighto clock, aclearMarchnight, 61 U Up!up!myfriend,andclearyourlooks, 23 W Why,W...

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Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks

By: Rudyard Kipling

...s deserted. “Mornin’—Good afternoon, I should say . Y ou’ve nigh slep’ the clock round, young feller,” was the greeting. “Mornin’,” said Harvey . He d... ...or his head was still singing, to the cabin steps where the little ship’ s clock hung in plain sight of the wheel. Troop, in the chocolate-and-yellow ... ...ible strings, and the little black fig- ures in the tiny boats pulled like clockwork toys. “They’ve struck on good,” said Dan, between his half- shut ... ... rope’ s end, punishing the dories as often as he hit Harvey . At last the clock in the cabin struck ten, and upon the tenth stroke little Penn crept ... ...g-down, attended by three or four blowing grampuses. It lasted till nine o’clock, and Disko was thrice heard to chuckle as Harvey pitched the split fi... ...th flickering masts waiting for a lead. Not a dory was hove out till ten o’clock, when the two Jeraulds of the Day’ s Eye, imagining a lull which did ... ...he remorseless August heat, was making her 115 Rudyard Kipling giddy; the clock-hands would not move, and when, oh, when would they be in Chicago? It... ...’t move the ‘Constance’ to-night, how’ll you fix it?” Harvey looked at the clock, which marked twenty past eleven. “Then I’ll sleep here till three an... ... twenty past eleven. “Then I’ll sleep here till three and catch the four o’clock freight. They let us men from the Fleet ride free as a rule.” “That’ ...

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The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

...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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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...sin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty ... ... the Paris cab- horse; rising every morning, summer and winter, at seven o’clock, and setting out after breakfast to give music lessons in the boardin... ...mbitious effort. Pons, as a rule, only went to his theatre towards eight o’clock, when the piece in favor came on, and overtures and accompaniments ne... ...levard du Temple; how he had come thither he could not tell. It was five o’clock, and, strange to say, he had com- pletely lost his appetite. 40 Cous... ...ry, was amazed beyond ex- pression to see Pons, good man, return at five o’clock in the evening. Such a thing had never happened before; and not only ... ...hat Schmucke had always thought fit to call on these great ladies at ten o’clock in the morning!)—still, his pension was paid quarterly through the me... ...even times since the friends had lived together, Pons had exchanged a good clock for a better one, till at last he possessed a time- piece in Boule’s ... ... Schmucke never could see the slightest difference between the magnificent clock in Boule’s first manner and its six predecessors; but, for Pons’ sake... ...hed the London doctor who is said to have invented it. It was nearly ten o’clock before they rose from table. The amount of wine, German and French, c...

...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, ...

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Eugene Pickering

By: Henry James

...l and take a dose in a glass of water before lunch; and every day at two o’clock, half an hour before the rest of us were liberated, an old nurse with... ...d gloves, and be sent to bed, after a supper of bread and milk, at eight o’clock. School-life, on experiment, seemed hostile to these observances, and... ...e was horrible!” … “I give you ten minutes,” she had said, pointing to the clock. “Make your scene, tear your hair, brandish your dagger!” And she had...

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll

...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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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ll That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle I T WAS SEVEN O’CLOCK of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up ...

...Excerpt: It was seven o?clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day?s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wol...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...tj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, and fortified with iioinan candles and colored... ...>eiileria WutcticH, Cloi-ki, Jewvlry, StHltoiienr, A Spff'iilty »i Wiitth, clock mill Jewelry llepafr- inR. All wt>rlt ilrictly llr»t-cliiini. sprintf... ...rchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to B.30 o'clock Excelsior Printing Co. Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass. With the ... ...rchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto ... ...ing moot ever hold at WilliRiiiH touk place in tliu f^yiiinnHiiiin iit H o'clock .Saturday evening. On aoi^ount of the aiiiall BJ/.o of the (loul room... ...York oily, were married at the Church of the Ascension in that city at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Murch 20, Lewis Scjuires '01, brother of the brid... ...rchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell& Son The Auto S... ...rchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Surid'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto... ...fore an audience of medium proportions iu Harmony Hall last evening at 8 o'clock. Each of the three brunches of the combined clubs rendered its select...

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At the End of the Dance

By: Cory Cason

...r 33 Charlie Brown 35 Say It 36 Another Letter 37 Just a Little Badass 38 A Conniving Bastard 39 You Me Learning to be Us 40 Christmas 40 The Clock Strikes Down 42 Brain Drain 43 Moaning my Name 44 Manic 46 The Edge of the Pool 89 Domesticated 91 Don't Give the Girl Jager Shirt 93 Dead Mice 93 Million Dollars/Someone Forgot 95 Victory is Mine 97 The Peace...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

... things, an’ de heavy freight movin’ down fer de Boston boat ‘bout t’ree o’clock of an August afternoon, in de middle of a hot wave when de fat Kanuck... ...ll cabin and pantry lamps; galley-fittings en bloc; flags and flag-locker; clocks, chronom- eters; the forward compass and the ship’s bell and belfry,... ...e Scott his orders for the coming campaign. It was very late—nearly nine o’clock. “Jim, you’re a brute,” said his wife, that night; and the Head of th... ... down every few minutes, and I couldn’t get ‘em over the ground till ten o’clock that night. I wanted to come awfully. Y ou knew I did, didn’t you?” “... ...just about as mad as they make ‘em on account o’ being called out at ten o’clock at night) took hold and snapped her into Boston in seventeen min- ute... ...o amend the Constitution. The first stroke of twelve is—” “Boom!” went the clock in the big yard-tower, and far away 007 heard a full, vibrating “ Ya... ...uth with her seven vestibuled cream-white cars, you will hear, as the yard-clock makes the half-hour, a far-away sound like the bass of a violoncello,... ...just come back to England when Mrs. McPhee invited me to dinner at three o’clock in the afternoon, and the notepaper was almost bridal in its scented ... ...w thing after another -the new vine-pattern carpet, the new chiming rustic clock between the models of the Colombo outrigger- boats, the new inlaid si...

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Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

...hen sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour, or four o’clock in the after noon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of ... ...er. I know not what manner of stuff they are of—sitting there now at three o’clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o’clock in the morning. Bonap... ...s if it were three o’clock in the morning. Bonaparte may talk of the three o’clock in the morning courage, but it is nothing to the courage which can... ...of sympathy. I wonder that about this time, or say be tween four and five o’clock in the afternoon, too late for the morning papers and too early for...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...f literature that can compare with this paragraph: “Yesterday, at four o’clock, a young woman threw her- self into the Seine from the Pont des Arts.... ...were con- cealed by tapestried curtains, and the paneling by hangings; the clock and the pattern of the carpet were made to harmo- nize with the gothi... ...lept. “‘Ah, ha!’ cried Rastignac, as he saw me enter his lodging at nine o’clock in the morning. ‘I know what brings you here. Foedora has dismissed y... ...o arrange the affair?’ “‘Oh, well! Come and dine here to-morrow at seven o’clock.’ “We rose. Rastignac flung some money to the waiter, put the bill in... ...t when I found myself alone with her, my courage failed. Every tick of the clock alarmed me. It wanted only a quarter of an hour of midnight. “‘If I d... ...ord,’ I exclaimed, seeing her about to speak, and I went away. “At eight o’clock one evening towards the end of May, Foedora and I were alone together... ... our feet, for I see corpses of that kind about everywhere. It is twelve o’clock. Allow me to go to bed.’ “‘And in two hours’ time you will cry to you... ...rotesque interpretation of the sort of life I was about to enter upon. The clock on the chimney- piece was surmounted by a Venus resting on her tortoi... ...p everywhere, like grasshoppers, be- fore my eyes. There were my debts, my clock, my armchairs; my debts were inlaid in the very furniture which I lik...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... I soon recovered from its effects. The Penguin got into port about nine o’clock in the morning, after encountering one of the severest gales ever exp... ...licted, no doubt, by the sharp teeth of the animal. It was now about one o’clock in the morning, and the wind was still blowing tremendously. The brig... ...hing to relieve his sufferings, which appeared to be great. About twelve o’clock he expired in strong convul- sions, and without having spoken for sev... ... for the hills. The day passed, and still he did not return. About eight o’clock at night, having become seriously alarmed at his protracted absence, ... ... is said, shall have an end, and there came an end to this long delay. The clock struck. As the last echo ceased, I stepped into B—’s and inquired for... ... rascal routes. —Buckhurst’ s Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex. ABOUT TWELVE O’CLOCK, one night in the month of October, and during the chivalrous reign o... ...r, yet their escape was at length happily effected—and half after twelve o’clock found our heroes ripe for mischief, and running for life down a dark ...

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Lady Hester : Or, Ursula's Narrative

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... 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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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

... years. No one has ever been able to say for certain. It occurred at six o’clock on the summer morning. Count- ess Fanny must have known him,—and not ... ...apel W ay XIX. The Girl Madge 83 George Meredith CHAPTER X SMALL CAUSES A CLOCK SOUNDED one of the later morning hours of the night as Gower Woodseer... ...n the round of the month, if not the sec- ond enumeration of twelve by the clock! Fleetwood had heard certain candid seniors talk, delivering their mi... ... They drove us to the house she ‘s locked in, and me, too, up till three o’clock this morning.’ ‘You’ve seen nobody, Madge?’ ‘He ‘s fixed she ‘s to le... ...steps of the dissimilar pair on the detonating pavement, and eyed a church clock shin- ing to the sun. She was sure of the direction: ‘Out Camden way,... ...ag- ers were sadder by sympathy than the two whom they were leaving to the clock’s round of desert sameness. About ten at night Chillon and Mr. Wythan...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...s: textiles and clothing, tourism, electronics, plastics, toys, watches, and clocks Shortages: industrial raw materials Electric power: 6,383,000 kW c...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...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 ...

...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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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...d - would help to resolve that mystery. The slowing of certain kinds of clocks under increased gravitation and acceleration fields, as predicted b... ...eed of light is slowed in such fields; but note that a pendulum-regulated clock would run faster under increased gravity; and the assumption that "t... ...nder phase two of the grand experiment, then under general relativity all clocks on the ship would be expected to keep pace with those on Earth; and... ... (4) the general relativity environment can truly affect the running of clocks which depend on atomic processes for their timekeeping and in that ... ...er increased gravitation fields, biological processes, pendulum-regulated clocks and balance-wheel-regulated clocks would not be affected in the same... ...al field. Time distortion under general relativity is reminiscent of the clock problems faced by early transoceanic navigators; those problems were... ...d by early transoceanic navigators; those problems were finally solved by clocks designed and built in the particular tradition proven by John Harri... ...imultaneously" at any given place: the time our perennial Wells sees on a clock external to the time machine and the time metered by the flow of his ... ...of relativistic time dilation begs for attention. One scenario called the clock hypothesis, clock effect, or twins paradox, deals with the aging of ...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...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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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...l at one sitting. We began immediately after tea, and stayed up till two o’clock. The old man frowned at first. He was expecting something infinitely ... ...d sent me a note the day before, begging me to come this evening at nine o’clock, and so I had not intended to come and see them that evening. Nikolay... ... but had only asked me to come this evening, and had fixed the hour-nine o’clock. And so I was bound to go, and as quickly as possible. “Go, my dear b... ... and he had no tea; he took up his hat and went out. He went out at five o’clock. I didn’t dare question him: he’ d have shouted at me. He’ s taken to... ... in a husky choking voice, “never! never!” CHAPTER XIV IT WA S LATE, ten o’clock, when I got to Natasha’s. She was living at that time in Fontanka, ne... ... he thought us worth laughing at! Probably he didn’t. CHAPTER III AT TEN O’CLOCK next morning as I was coming out of my lodgings hurrying off to the I... ...ispered, as though pondering and struggling with herself. At that moment a clock somewhere struck. She started, and with an indescribable look of hear... ...” said Masloboev, when he rejoined me, “look me up this evening at seven o’clock, and I may have something to tell you. By myself, you see, I’m no use... ...r curiosity; and she had expected me much earlier in the morning, by ten o’clock at the latest. By the time I turned up at two o’clock in the afternoo...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...y through endless whining and “he said/she said” fights. As soon as five o’clock rolled around it was time to eat. Denny’s, Big Boy’s, and Friday’s we... ...nd the weekend is already looking bright. A minute later there is an alarm clock blast and Richard quickly turns it off. His room is always cold but f... ...akfast?” “Yeah, I’ll just finish my cup of coffee.” It is now close to 8 o’clock and Richard goes and wakes Michael and asks him. Michael replies, “No... ... later.” As Michael is saying this, he reaches over to make sure his alarm clock is off, and as he does, his sleeve comes up on his arm, clearly show-... ...ter all. Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, she says. It is six o’clock in the evening. The sun has already started to set, the temperature o...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

... . . . 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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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... 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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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... 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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Best of Four

By: David Retz

...Chris Serra Besto of Four IT WA S A HOT summer day in August, about six o’clock in the morning, and we were all sitting on the airplane ready to take...

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

By: George Bernard Shaw

...t with him. LADY CICELY. But it’s arranged already. We’ll start at eight o’clock to-morrow morning, if you please, Captain. Never mind about the Itali...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...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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My Dear Sister-in-law

By: Manohar Asija

...had so transpired that during the very second class of the day, the lecturer (teacher), suspending the lesson, announced that it was going to be 11 o’clock in a while; therefore , the class will stand up and observe two-minute silence to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. By this time, the turn to the left for entering the bazaar had been reached, the Professor stopp...

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My Dear Sister-in-Law

By: Manohar Asija

...had so transpired that during the very second class of the day, the lecturer (teacher), suspending the lesson, announced that it was going to be 11 o’clock in a while; therefore , the class will stand up and observe two-minute silence to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. By this time, the turn to the left for entering the bazaar had been reached, the Professor stopp...

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Jarek

By: Rigby Taylor

...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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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

... 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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