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...EAR’S DAY of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sug- ared almonds, four o’clock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-hou... ... were irresponsive, and the tin bottle-stand remained empty. It was nine o’clock in the evening. A handsome Italian, the Principessa Massimilla De Var...

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... till a horn was sounded as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the entire household, and all made their way down—Jean first, in... ... vocation to be a nun. So effectually did she bestir herself that by six o’clock the next morning the various packages were rolled up for be- 22 Two ... ...ept and wakened again, her full self, upon Jean coming up to bed at nine o’clock—a very late hour—escorted by sundry of the ladies to inquire for the ... ...hapel of St. James, close to the great shrine of St. Martin, at six of the clock in the morning, so as to be private. You might find him there, and wh...

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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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... of dinner forsooth, and remains locked up for a couple of hours. At two o’clock afternoon (I was over a tan- kard), out comes the little she-devil, h... ...e ebon countenance of the latter; and the air grew colder; and about two o’clock the moon appeared, a dismal pale-faced rake, walking solitary through... ...of his nose, a vile plot was laid against him; and when about seven of the clock he woke, he found, on sitting up in his bed, three gentlemen on each ... ...as garnished with a tremendous number of oaths); and he was, about eight o’clock, carried up to the house of Squire Ballance, the neighbouring justice... ... way, and the rope stretches tight, the poor wretch before St. Sepulchre’s clock dies. Only with us, clear-sighted mortals as we are, we can’t see the... ...ndship and table: all returned, smiling and rosy, at about half-past ten o’clock, from a walk which they had taken to Bayswater. Many thousands of peo... ...y, and just cutting off Holofernes’s head, stood an enormous ominous black clock, the spoil of some other usurious transaction. Some chairs, and a dis... ...t the bed of the feverish sleeper. It was just upon six, and presently the clock began to utter those dismal grinding sounds, which issue from clocks ... ...no danger for him to apprehend. He entered the house about dusk, at five o’clock. Mrs. Hayes was absent with Mr. Billings; only Mr. W ood was smoking,...

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...ange hubbub, con- sidering it was in so narrow a passage, till Bishopsgate clock struck eleven, and then the ghost would seem to start, and, as if he ... ... take the key with him; and the watchman by day to attend until ten of the clock at night, and the watch- man by night until six in the morning. 37 D... ...e into any tavern, ale-house, or coffee-house to drink af- ter nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city,... ... of which by itself. As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight o’clock there was a great noise. It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd... ...‘What is that to you? Stop the dead-cart.’ This, it seems, was about one o’clock. Soon after, as the fellow said, he stopped the dead-cart, and then k... ... avern, resolving to inquire what became of him. It was by this time one o’clock in the morning, and yet the poor gentleman was there. The truth was, ... ...y , and that these were generally women. It was one morning about eleven O’clock, I had walked out to my brother’s house in Coleman Street parish, as ... ...but an ignorant, weak, poor man, and usually walked his rounds about ten o’clock at night and went piping along from door to door, and the people usua...

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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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... 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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... as soon as we got out of the creek, and arriv’d there about eight or nine o’clock on the Sunday morn ing, and landed at the Market street wharf. I h... ... breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. I thought it a detest... ...he whole street clean, and I would give her a shil ling; this was at nine o’clock; at 12 she came for the shil ling. From the slowness I saw at firs... ...ng; for, in walking thro’ the Strand and Fleet street one morning at seven o’clock, I observ’d there was not one shop open, tho’ it had been daylight ... ...ere near our port, but a thick fog hid the land from our sight. About nine o’clock the fog began to rise, and seem’d to be lifted up from the water li...

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...e of progress may be compared more justly to the hand upon the dial of the clock, which continues to advance as it indicates, than to the stationary m... ...h a priest called Gilles and a woman of the name of Isabeau. It was nine o’clock, a mighty late hour for the period, and evi- dently a fine summer’s n... ...cion it was Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk) hurried them away. It was ten o’clock when they mounted the ladder; it was about midnight before T abary be... ...my window, as I was writing of this very line, and cried, `Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morn- ing.’” Such passages are not to be m... ...s,” says he, “I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o’clock it was an hundred times.” T o go to Vauxhall, he says, and “to hear t...

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...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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...rs. “Come, my dear! You don’t mean to say he has not been home since six o’clock this morning?” Saying these words, Lieut. D’Hubert opened with- 138 ... ...nrad “that you have been held up like this in the Villa at half-past ten o’clock, within a stone’s throw of a thou- sand people!” He nodded several ti...

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...eight this evening, then,’ said Nevil. ‘I’ll be there at the stroke of the clock, sure as the date of a bill,’ said Timothy. And it’s early to guess w... ...edith further separable within her bosom than one tick from an- other of a clock; they changed places, and next his friend was fearing what his foe ha... ...e. The untiring young candidate chose to walk down to Bevisham at eleven o’clock at night, that he might be the readier to continue his canvass of the... ...ut short the preliminaries of the interview by saying that he was a four-o’clock man; i.e. the man who waited for the final bids to him upon the closi... ... with others a penance. He danced with none other. He led her to a three o’clock morning sup- per: one of those triumphant subversions of the laws and... ...almet brought back word from Beauchamp that he had an appointment at ten o’clock in the town. ‘I want to see him,’ she said; so Palmet ran out with th... ...o a black mass of prostrate timber, saying: ‘It fell in the storm at two o’clock after midnight, and you on the sea!’ CHAPTER XXIV HIS HOLIDAY A SINGL... ...lusive of electoral auspices; and it proved so. A little later than four o’clock in the afternoon of the election-day, Cecilia received a message from... ...was overtaken in her flight in the night, and the duel followed at eight o’clock in the morning; but her brother insisted on fighting for Cap- tain Be...

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...e vivid piping sound tickled the darkness. He played on till about seven o’clock; he did not want to go out too soon, in spite of the early closing of... ...ed Aaron. “Yes, you are late, I should think.” She Looked up at the little clock. “Close on nine.” “I did some shopping,” said Aaron, with a quick smi... ...will. Self-righteous bullying, like poison gas! The landlady looked at the clock. “Ten minutes to, gentlemen,” she said coldly. For she too knew that ... ...was surprised, but he and his wife got the spare room ready. And at four o’clock Lilly went off to the station. He was a few minutes late, and saw Jim... ...talking. So he got up to look after his visitor, though it was not seven o’clock, and the woman was busy.—But before he went down, he heard Jim come u... ...it’s happened so, and so we’ll let be.” “What time is it?” “Nearly eight o’clock.” “Oh, my Lord, the opera.” And Aaron got half out of bed. But as he ... ...y quietly left the room on his errand. The doctor did not come until ten o’clock: and worn out with work when he did come. “Isn’t there a lift in this... ...olks, before time kills you.” Lilly did not answer. It was not yet seven o’clock, but the sky was dark. Aaron sat in the firelight. Even the saucepan ... ...ore of you, apparently.” He turned quickly to the taxi. “What is it on the clock?” The taxi was paid, the two men went upstairs. Aaron was 111 D. H. ...

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...ple on the look-out for him, in spite of all his clamour, when about six o’clock one summer morning the doors of the big shed in which he had been put... ...y and well. Scotland was agape for his coming. Glasgow he reached by one o’clock, and it is related that scarcely a ship-yard or factory in that busy ... ...eather was fine, and though they were on their way southward before nine o’clock, there was already a great multitude of holiday people abroad upon th... ...to the issue of warfare was like driving a crowbar into the mechanism of a clock. And the fish-like shoal of great airships hovering light and sunlit ... ...ard and fell, detonating loudly, in the wilderness below. And about four o’clock in the afternoon upon a wide and rocky plain within sight of snow-cre... ...ert and the sun and was followed by another. A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears. Instantly he forgot the zenith. ... ...ing of Asiatic swordsman. The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus... ...rved wings on either side flapped disconcert- ingly, flapped again’ click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock! Stop! The thing was heading for the wat... ...s heart and struggled to re- store the lever to its first position. Click, clock, clitter-clock, he was ising! The machine was lifting its dripping wh...

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...d child — kiss me. Now, then, sit up in that chair, and set your eye on that clock. There — that’s right. If you stir — if you so much as wink for f...

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... 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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... to Wet a Widow's Eye 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love to Any 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane So Fast Thou Growest 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time 13: O That You Were Yourself But Love You Are 14: Not from the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows 16: But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way 17: Who Will Be...

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...r happiness, like a veil, which it is useless here to raise. It was nine o’clock; the merchant and his wife were reading their evening prayers; sudden... ... thousand more on his word. He was gay as a man who swam in gold. Eleven o’clock sounded; the night was superb. Montefiore may have felt, like Diard, ...

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... hoop! What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife! A woman, that is like a German clock, Still a repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, bein... ...ied ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their...

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...s no special reason beyond the heat and worry to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o-clock and the machines spun their fly-wheel... ... “There is no use your waiting,” said Dravot, politely. “It’s about four o’clock now. We’ll go before six o’clock if you want to sleep, and we won’t s... ...venture. Don’t set the office on fire,” I said, “and go away before nine o’clock.” I left them still poring over the maps and making notes on the back... ...it had been two years before, and I felt the heat more acutely. At three o’clock I cried, “Print off,” and turned to go, when there crept to my chair ...