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...s by his side, divergent. I thrust into my bulging pocket a ball of ruby paper. There is a clock in here that ticks the seconds. They used to sound... ... our shadows at each other. A tiny wooden bird sprang forth, recounting time from a cuckoo clock my father gifted to my grandparents. Still silent... ...e, straddling the edge of a recliner. Thus, they circled one another wearyingly. A longcase clock ticked minutes and then hours before my aunt got u... ... Eli taught me and donned a jacket. Bathed in a springtime sun, I headed towards the flower clock near the marina by the lake. It ticked away its sc... ... the Poet by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. The poet succumbed at eight o'clock AM. Five minutes prior to his death, he made use o... ...es, and trotting towards the rumbling, cornered appliance. The following morning, at six o'clock, the warden bawled our names, marking those presen... ...ed note to the baffled waitress and we went to my place to fuck. In the silence after (the clocks ticking louder that usual), Jezebel lit a smoke a... ...he of amputated innocence. You, the stirrings of a curtain, dust settling on sepia cukoo clocks covers obscuring. Perhaps one day you will becom...

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... for whom your services are required. You will groom him promptly at five o’clock each evening, while the hands from the stables are caring for your... ...ot close, but he made such kind gestures from time to time. I glanced at the clock: it was nearly time for me to be in the stable to warm up the hors... ...“Erik does not make promises lightly, dear.” She then looked up at my mantel clock. “I must be away. I’m sure Jammes will take me with her in the b... ...ing in June, stating that Zareh and Antoinette would collect me at eleven o’clock on the following Saturday morning for the drive to Montfermeil-sur... ... drive to Montfermeil-sur-Mer. His composition would be performed at two o’clock that afternoon. I was consumed with curiosity about Erik’s work, a... ...” I agreed to the plan, asking to be taken to London Hospital around three o’clock the next day. That would allow for a pleasant visit with my new a...

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...es dances on the wall. Time to read or write, to knit or crochet; and at four o’clock, time to take a nice cup of Winter delight tea with honey or j...

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...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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...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...

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...of what signs are written across it, like the figures on the face of the clock. It industriously imitates this way of looking on living beings, wit...

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... quite a body of quiet sounds from the interior; doubtless there were many clocks ticking, and people snoring on their backs. And thus, as I fancied, ... ..., the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their rest- ing Gr... ...hung suspended in this manner on the brink of their diversions. From ten o’clock on Sunday night, my friend heard them tuning their instruments: and a...

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...e ax.” And we walked down Holborn at about thirty-seven minutes past six o’clock. If there is anything in the above statement which astonishes the rea... ...alsehood impossible. And I ordered her to go to sleep.” At this moment the clock (after its previous convulsions) sounded twelve. And as the new Edito... ... in Duke Street. It seemed to me as if I actually flew as I walked. As the clock struck ten I was at the counter and laid down my check. The gentleman...

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...he sage was very frequently consulted, To the last moment, when the palace clock struck eight, Lady Bothwell earnestly watched her sister, in hopes th...

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...too late in preferring their claim to be included. About the hour of ten o’clock, the whole plain was crowded with horsemen, horsewomen, and foot-pass...

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...k. During long silences, while I am thinking, composing, I hear the water clock outside my door. Drop after drop, it fastens itself to my memory. T... ...d I oc- cupy myself, until Phaon and I sailed? It was a question for water clocks and gulls, spindrift and wind, thought unfolding in my room, scuddi...

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...mbered that he had quitted his lodgings on this dark errand about eleven o’clock P . M.; not that he meant to begin so soon: but he needed to reconnoi... ...uiet or stormy, all shops were kept open on Saturday nights until twelve o’clock, at the least, and many for half an hour longer. There was no rigorou... ... limits of Sunday. At the very worst, the Sunday stretched over from one o’clock, A. M. of one day, up to eight o’clock A. M. of the next, making a cl... ... perhaps ordered as the likeliest article to be had at all, after twelve o’clock should have struck. And yet, upon this trivial circumstance depended ... ...ad she been sent abroad for supper at the ordinary time of ten or eleven o’clock, it is almost certain that she, the solitary member of the house- hol... ...ixty minutes; indeed, she had heard, at a distance, the cry of past one o ’clock, which, commencing a few seconds after one, lasted intermittingly for... ...9 Thomas de Quincey lished rule at Mr. Williamson’ s, that, exactly as the clock struck eleven, all the company, without favor or exception, moved off... ...the misty background, athwart the pomps of the regal banquet. Meantime the clock struck eleven; the company broke up; the door of entrance was nearly ... ...f stairs above the level of the street), had been fast asleep since nine o’clock; lastly, the journeyman artisan had retired 30 The Note Book of an E...

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... dinner, every one sat down to whist, and re- mained so seated until two o’clock in the morning. On this occasion Chichikov made the acquaintance of, ... ...he list of forced payers of obrok, while himself leaving his bed at nine o’clock in the morning, and, when the samovar had been brought, drinking his ... ...r a letter or an old pack of cards or a stocking, while on the wall hung a clock with a flowered dial. More, how- ever, Chichikov could not discern, f... ...covered his composure, for he perceived the sound to be emanating from the clock, which appeared to be in a mind to strike. To the hissing sound there... ...gs such as were worn in the days of the Emperor Paul**. At this moment the clock uttered its usual hissing sound, and struck ten, while a woman’s face... ...l hungry once more— was enabled to gather that it would be at least five o’clock before a meal of any kind would be available. On his re- turn, Nozdre... ...is companions to inspect his es- tablishment—even though as early as two o’clock he had to announce that nothing more was to be seen. 88 Dead Souls T... ...n name. 91 Gogol they sat down to table—the time being then nearly five o’clock. But the meal did not constitute by any means the best of which Chich... ...ble kind of furniture. On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs. Against a wall le...

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...g what they may devour. And so to sleep, despite fleas and fire-alarms and clocks chiming the hours out of neighbouring houses at all sorts of odd tim... ...tting out of bed and into their horrid cold tubs by the light of a seven o’clock candle, with the dismal seven o’clock frost-flowers all over the wind... ... to engineer, who has been very jolly and useful to me, and hope by five o’clock on Saturday morning to be driving Modestine to- wards the Gevaudan. M... ...write you this with the other. I reached N.Y . Sunday night; and by five o’clock Monday was under way for the West. It is now about ten on Wednesday m... ...e books was answered that same night, and the answer left Davos by seven o’clock next morning. Perhaps the snow delayed then; if so, ’tis a good hint ... ...II. ‘What the Wreck had brought to Aros.’ Eh, boy? what had it? Silver and clocks and bro- cades, and what a conscience, what a mad brain! Chapter III...

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..., type reports, and search the Internet. The lab is only open until nine o clock at night during the week and weekends. There are only about fifty com... ...can use them for as long as they want. They do not have to leave at nine o clock like they do in the lab. Overall, if the new computer plan worked at ... ... lunch buffet kicks off at eleven in the morning and continues until two o clock, and the dinner buffet runs from five until eight o clock in the even... ...k night in No- vember of the following year. It was somewhere around one o clock in the morning when we arrived at the bridge. My friend, Joe, was dri... ...arly to finish the milking and chores so we can be in the woods by eight o clock. When we finally have the morning chores done and finish eating break...

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...ter’s. Suppose she were to do, or had already done, some- thing. “Eleven o’clock, midnight, one o’clock. … I did not 60 Tolstoy sleep. I did not go t... ...anxiety about her, and of hatred because of this anxiety. “Toward eleven o’clock in the morning came her sister, her ambassadress. Then began the usua... ... no longer saw the stupidity and baseness of my situation. “Toward three o’clock she came. I thought that she was appeased, or admitted her defeat. I ... ...lf numerous things for the dinner, and had chosen the guests. Toward six o’clock they arrived, and after them Troukhatchevsky, in his dress-coat, with... ... might not see my contradictions. All night I did not sleep, and at five o’clock, when it was not yet light, I decided that I could stand this strain ... ...n no longer, and that I would leave directly. There was a train at eight o’clock. I awakened the keeper who was acting as my servant, and sent him to ... ...t I begged them to substitute for me a member of the Committee. At eight o’clock I got into a tarantass and started off. 75 The Kreutzer Sonata & oth... ...ward noon she died. As for me, I was arrested before her death, at eight o’clock in the morning. They took me to 89 The Kreutzer Sonata & other stori... ...st unfortunate exploits in the matter of stealing was in connection with a clock which belonged to the estate of his mistress. The clock stood in the ...

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...ght,’ said Caroline. Mr. Adister consulted his watch and the man- telpiece clock for a minute of difference between them, re- marking that he was a pr... .... Mistress Adister O’Donnell’s head rounded as by slow at- traction to the clock. Her disciplined husband signified an equal mixture of contrition and... ...dith me that you may count on him for what the great Napoleon called two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage; not too common even in his immortal army:—whe... ... her husband’s proffered arm unhesitatingly at the appointed stroke of the clock. She said: ‘Yes,’ in agreement with him, as if she had never heard hi... ...s genial, if you remember the whisky and the fumes of our tobacco at one o’clock!’ ‘I shall recollect the evening with the utmost pleasure. You were k... ...But you are in the air! exposed! My head makes me stupid. It is now five o’clock. The air begins to chill. Con will never forgive me if you catch a co...

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...id and ineffi- cient, that he could not distinguish the hour upon the town-clock. Johnson, upon the first violent attack of this disorder, strove to o... ...d I should. A few days after- wards I met him near Temple-bar, about one o’clock in the morning, and asked if he would then go to the Mitre. ‘Sir, (sa... ...e; and when I asked him the reason, he said, ‘It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps in his closet; but to have it upon his watch which ... ...ife, during my acquain- tance, seemed to be pretty uniform. About twelve o’clock I commonly visited him, and fre- quently found him in bed, or declaim... ...uld leave him; and when I looked at my watch, and told him it was twelve o’clock, he cried, What’s that to you and me?’ and ordered Frank to tell Mrs.... ...ere we had lain the preceding night, we arrived at Birmingham about nine o’clock, and, after breakfast, went to call on his old schoolfellow Mr. Hecto... ...on is quite monosyllabical: and when, at my last visit, I asked him what a clock it was? that signal of my depar- ture had so pleasing an effect on hi... ...lattery in a maid of honour in France, who being asked by the Queen what o’clock it was, answered, ‘What your Majesty pleases.’ He admitted that Mr. B... ...ou he has a great respect for you, and will call on you to-morrow at one o’clock, and com- municate all he knows about Pope.’—Here I paused, in full e...

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...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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...so its manner of working. Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only differ ence—there is no frontier. Y.M. It look... ...ld not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As t... ...pany of Susy and Langdon. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o’clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor or phan! My room will b... ...ears and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. FIVE O’CLOCK.—It is all over. WHEN C LARA WENT AWAY two weeks ago to live in Eur... ...to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away. The third picture, as you easily perce... ...reet were there by his will. It is so strange, so unrealizable. At three o’clock the carriages were still streaming by in single file. At three five a... ...as been creeping out well to the rear of the face west of it—and at five o’clock has as sumed a shape that has rather a poor and rude semblance of a ... ... Virgin’s front, the most stupendous dial I am acquainted with, the oldest clock in the world by a couple of million years. I suppose I should not hav... ...ble as a face, which was evidence that the picture was taken before four o’clock in the afternoon, and also evidence that all the photographers have p...

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...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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...asons that cannot be helped: because the leaves fall, the water flows, the clock ticks with that horrid pitiless solem- nity which you must have obser... ...tiless solem- nity which you must have observed in the ticking of the hall clock at home. For reasons like that. Yes! It recedes. And this was the cha... ...inspired a few years ago to write a short story, Under the Knife. Out of a clock-dial, a brass rod, and a whiff of chloroform, he has conjured for us ... ...to have the phantom as his accom- plice in an enterprise which has set the clock of peace back for many a year. He had his way. The German Empire has ... ...m out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off the diminishing minutes of peace. It was the hour of the ... ...dows; early Geor- gian grime clung to its sombre wainscoting. It was one o’clock in the afternoon, but the day was gloomy. By the light of a single ga... ... when 138 Notes on Life and Letters seen at a certain angle, their abrupt clockwork nod- ding in a sea-way, so unlike the soaring lift and swing of a... ...own from the Florian Gate. It was in the winter months of 1868. At eight o’clock of every morning that God made, sleet or shine, I walked up Florian S... ...my hotel of a few men of mark whom I was asked to join. It was about one o’clock in the morning. The 152 Notes on Life and Letters shutters were up. ...

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...d of him. The Awakening – Chopin 5 III III III III III IT WA S ELEVEN O’CLOCK that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Klein’s hotel. He was ... ...th no sleepy shadows, as they looked into his. “Do you know it is past one o’clock? Come on,” and he mounted the steps and went into their room. “Edna... ...l manner of tender names, soothing him to sleep. It was not more than nine o’clock. No one had yet gone to bed but the children. Leonce had been very ... ...as if he were cross questioning a criminal in a court of justice. “At four o’clock this afternoon, Monsieur Farival,” Robert replied, in a high voice ... ...he play. Mr. Pontellier left his home in the mornings between nine and ten o’clock, and rarely returned before half past six or seven in the evening—d... ...ter. Monsieur Ratignolle was the first to break the pleasant charm. At ten o’clock he excused himself. Madame Ratignolle was waiting for him at home. ...

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...illed with masqueraders) before making their appearance. No sooner had the clock ceased striking, however, than they rushed, or rather rolled in, all ... ... until I had satisfied myself in some measure respecting him. A loud-toned clock struck eleven, and the company were fast deserting the bazaar. A shop... ...played a formidable array of labelled bottles. It was here, about twelve o’clock one night during the se- vere winter the comments of his neighbours u... ...is instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past two o’clock. Hereupon it was agreed to postpone the internal examination until th... ...d to him stiffly, and took leave. Upon getting home I found it past four o’clock, and went immediately to bed. It is now ten A.M. I have been up since...

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...lessedness? Granted that the great Life Force has hit on the device of the clockmaker’s pendu- lum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history o... ...our own taste; and I hereby give notice that the seven or eight travelling clocks, the four or five dressing cases, the salad bowls, the carvers and f...

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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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...s ready and awaiting the signal, which was to be given by cannon at five o’clock in the morning. The signal, however, was not given for two hours late...

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...o use them according to its desires, needs and policies. *****************< *****************< Chapter-2 Dr Jabran and Robot Sunny It‟s three o‟ clock in the morning. Dr. Jabran is sleeping in his bed room. The moment clock strikes three, a computer is switched on automatically. This is a talking robot computer named Sunny, and its digital voice says Bismillah (All...

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..._____ 28 THE ARGUMENT ___ 28 PARAPSYCHOLOGY 28 NAIL ON NAIL ______ 28 VIGILANCE ________ 28 ORDER ____________ 28 PATOMIME ________ 28 CUCKOO CLOCK (I) _ 29 CUCKOO CLOCK (II) 29 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS ______________ 29 APHORISM _________ 29 DISGUST ___________ 29 CLASSIC ___________ 29 HEROISM __________ 29 BAGATELLE _______ 29 PRODUCER ________ 30 INTRODUCT...

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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...