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... own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o?clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up....

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...e and delighted to be found there any after- noon in the year, from five o’clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Brooksmith was... ... and impayable, as improbable, as impossible, as delightful at the eight o’clock dinner—she appeared to keep these immense hours—as she had overwhelmi... ...d to keep these immense hours—as she had overwhelmingly been at the five o’clock tea. She was in the most natural way in the world one of the oddest a... ...eathing and visibly flushing, marking strange hours in the tall ma- hogany clocks that were never wound up and that yet audibly ticked on. All the ele... ... my asking you if you’ll kindly go now?” she went on after a glance at the clock. “I’m expecting a friend, whom I must see alone, on a matter of great... ... Work me in.” On her sharply presenting her back he stared a little at the clock. “If I come at seven may I stay to dinner?” It brought her round agai...

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...ommemorated the hapless British victims of the ‘Black Hole’, the tragedy that occurred at eight o’clock on the night of June Twentieth, 1756, after ... ...t us? Tell me something about him and his family, Gavin.’ ‘I have ordered our carriage for six o’clock to-morrow evening. This banquet is a twofold...

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...er-time was in full dreariness when I left my chambers for ever, at five o’clock in the morning. I had shaved by candle-light, of course, and was mise... ... snowing. All night long we went on in this manner. Thus we came round the clock, upon the Great North Road, to the performance of Auld Lang Syne by d... ... the snow lay thick- est. When we came within a town, and found the church clocks all stopped, the dial-faces choked with snow, and the inn-signs blot... ...t the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometimes of birds. At nine o’clock at night, on a Yorkshire moor, a cheerful burst from our horn, and a ... ...d, the horse-bells jingling merrily up and down the street beyond, and the clocks of all descriptions in all the rooms, which are never right, unless ... ... clipping in the course of the day , and that to-morrow morning at eight o’clock the pheayton would be ready . Boots’s view of the whole case, looking... ... my Bill to be upon the table, and a chaise to be at the door, “at eight o’clock to-morrow evening.” It was eight o’clock to-morrow evening when I buc...

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...e sounds, and the air had a late feel, and a late smell, too — about a two o’clock feel, as near as I could make out — T om said the professor was so ... ...Mark Twain 15 CHAPTER III. TOM EXPLAINS WE WENT TO SLEEP ABOUT FOUR O’CLOCK, and woke up about eight. The professor was setting back there at h... ...ument. He told us to shut up, and maybe we’d feel better. Then he see a town clock away off down yonder, and he took up the glass and looked at it, an... ...lass and looked at it, and then looked at his silver turnip, and then at the clock, and then at the turnip again, and says: “That’s funny! That clock’... ...ock’s near about an hour fast.” So he put up his turnip. Then he see another clock, and took a look, and it was an hour fast too. That puzzled him. “T... ...ays. “I don’t under stand it.” Then he took the glass and hunted up another clock, and sure enough it was an hour fast too. Then his eyes began to sp... ...degrees of longitude since we left St. Louis yesterday after noon, and them clocks are right. We’ve come close on to eight hundred miles.” I didn’t b... ...rking his mind and studying. Pretty soon he says: “Mars Tom, did you say dem clocks uz right?” Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 19 “Yes, they’re right.... ...ifteen of ‘em’s an hour, thirty of ‘em’s two hours, and so on. When it’s one clock Tuesday morning in England, it’s eight o’clock the night before in ...

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... this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monoton... ...ce, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a The Masque of the Red Death 4 sound which was clear and loud and... ...as a brief disconcert of the whole gay company; and, while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more... ... , and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should pro- duce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the la... ...ndred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulous- ness and meditati... ...estra to seem as the echo of their steps. And, anon, there strikes the ebony clock which stands in the hall of the velvet. And then, for a moment, all... ...nd then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock. The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. But the The Masque of t... ...and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reach... ...lingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock. And then the music ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of t...

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

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...ut on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous stre... ...re and full shape of her well-turned leg, in its red cotton, gray and blue clocked, stocking. At three paces from her, seated in a chair which he bala... ...length of the house. And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient ... ...ished. His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-c... ...have purchased permission to waive the usual delay; and at half-past two o’clock the mayor of Marseilles will be waiting for us at the city hall. Now,... ...fair. Arrived here only yesterday morning, and mar- ried to-day at three o’clock! Commend me to a sailor for going the quick way to work!” “But,” aske... ... re- sponded by a look of grateful pleasure; while Mercedes glanced at the clock and made an expressive gesture to Edmond. Around the table reigned th... ...hall we not set forth?” asked the sweet, silvery voice of Mercedes; “two o’clock has just struck, and you know we are expected in a quarter of an hour... ... the prison, — a sombre edifice, that from its grated windows looks on the clock- tower of the Accoules. After numberless windings, Dantes saw a door ...

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...ed his ‘We will expect the honour of seeing you in Brown Square at three o’clock,’ could not deceive any one, and did not impose upon the old laird. I... ...; ‘but she asked when you wad be at hame, and I appointed her for twelve o’clock, when the house wad be quiet, and your father at the Bank.’ ‘For sham... ...x pointed to noon. Five minutes elapsed, which. I allowed for variation of clocks— five minutes more rendered me anxious and doubtful—and five minutes... ... this maid of the mist, Who, with no face, as ‘twere, outfaced me. —Four o’clock. Plague on her green mantle, she can be noth- ing better than a fairy... ...t of the gout, because he 116 Redgauntlet did not appear before twelve’ o’clock. It wasna a’thegether for sake of the money, Dougal thought; but beca... ... he was asked, told them, that a ruinous turret, lang disused, next to the clock-house, only accessible by a ladder, for the opening was on the outsid... ...rd Ordinary,’ continued Peter, once set a-going, like the peal of an alarm clock, ‘the Ordinary to the Inner House, the President to the Bench. It is ... ... wary and suspicious in ob- serving the motions of others. Punctual as the clock of Saint Giles tolled nine, the neat dapper form of the little hale o... ...her he went thither, or in a different direction. Betwixt eight and nine o’clock, when it began to become dark, we walked on the terrace to enjoy the ...

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...able of the students’ ordinary, where he was accus- tomed to eat his two o’clock dinner. But this rumour was made up of mere whispers, and this was Ru... ...room was like the silence of the grave; perfect, measureless, for even the clock on the mantelpiece made no sound. Filling a corner, on a black ped- e... ...re we are done with him.” The grave-like silence of the room with its mute clock fell upon the polite modulations of this terrible phrase. The Prince,... ...table. He leaned on it heavily, listening to the faint sounds of some town clock tolling the hour. Haldin, already at the door, tall and straight as a... ...He had never, as far as he could remember, heard the striking of that town clock in his rooms before this night. And he was not even sure now whether ... ...k,” he thought. He felt ready to swoon. The faint deep boom of the distant clock seemed to explode in his head—he heard it so clearly… . One! If Haldi... ...he looked at the watch on his table he saw both hands arrested at twelve o’clock. “Ah! yes,” he mumbled to himself, and as if beginning to get roused ... .... In the calm of the hard frost outside, the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting off midnight penetrated the quietness of his suspended anima...

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...I know. Instead of that, you have kept me running like a hare since four o’clock this morning, and all I’ve had for breakfast is a cup of milk. Now, i... ...ir extinguished fires, without a thought of France. It was not until ten o’clock that night that Marechal Victor reached the bank of the river. Before... ...elves to perish in those flames rather than rise and move on. It is four o’clock, Philippe! In two hours the Russians will begin to move. I assure you... ...lculated, Stephanie crossed the fictitious plain of the Beresina at nine o’clock in the morning, when she was awakened by a can- 46 Adieu non shot no...

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...efore him without adding the address. The second letter, begun at eleven o’clock, was not finished till mid-day. The four pages were closely filled. “...

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... sign of the Cat and Racket commanded that they should be home by eleven o’clock, the hour when balls and fetes begin to be lively. Thus their pleasur... ...on the knee-straps of his ample satin breeches; and then, at about seven o’clock, while all were still sleeping in the house, he made his way to the l... ...s, and her housekeeping, so as not to sit idle, that is enough. At seven o’clock, when the shop is shut, I shall take my plea- sures, go to the play, ... ...ings, and told each other old stories of the Saint-Denis quarter. At two o’clock old Guillaume went to cast an eye on the business at the Cat and Rack... ...re immoral. And at what time of night do you say he comes home?” “At one o’clock—two—” The old folks looked at each other in utter amazement. 43 Balz... ... felt too keenly not to shiver at every sound, even the low ticking of the clock, which seemed to aggravate her terrors by doling them out to her. She... ...woman not so young as Augustine would have ascribed to madness. At eight o’clock next morning Madame Guillaume, sur- prising her daughter, found her p...

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... village in the mountains, about a league hence. We ar- rived about four o’clock: Charlotte had taken her little sister with her. When we entered the ... ... but had not power to move; and in this situation he remained till eight o’clock, his uneasiness and discontent continually in- creasing. At length th... ...he threw himself on the bed, where he was found by his servant at eleven o’clock, when the latter ventured to enter the room, and take off his boots. ... ...tears in his eyes, rode away from the place. He returned home about five o’clock, ordered his servant to keep up his fire, desired him to pack his boo... ...hed: a dark cloud obscured her men- tal vision. It was now half-past six o’clock, and she heard Werther’s step on the stairs. She at once recognised h... ...d ex- pose to her my inmost heart. Your mother—your image!” About eleven o’clock Werther asked his servant if Albert had returned. He answered, “Yes;”... ... some detached thoughts and maxims, some of which I have perused. At ten o’clock he ordered his fire to be made up, and a bottle of wine to be brought... ...having informed him that the post-horses would be at the door before six o’clock. “Past eleven o’clock! All is silent around me, and my soul is calm. ... ...ould journey this road. But peace! I pray you, peace! “They are loaded—the clock strikes twelve. I say amen. Charlotte, Charlotte! farewell, farewell!...

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...atch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does your watch ... ...nly kept on good terms with him, he’ d do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just ti... ...begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half past one, time for dinner!’ (‘I only wish it... ...r went on in a mournful tone, ‘he won’t do a thing I ask! It’s always six o’clock now.’ A bright idea came into Alice’s head. ‘Is that the reason s...

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...g in without a word of apology. I had sat very silent, with my eyes on the clock; Aurora amused herself with a false admiration of the room,—a wonderf... ...ir own often to a lively tune enough. Mr. Antrobus arrived here at eight o’clock in the morning; I don’t know how he managed it; it ap- pears to be hi... ...rd the begin- ning of last summer, when, as I re-entered my hotel at ten o’clock, the little reptile of a portress handed me your gracious lines. I wa...

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...s hand was a glit- tering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparen... ...It’s true—every word of it, all the same. I was in my laboratory at four o’clock, and since then … I’ve lived eight days … such days as no human being... ...de; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o’clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave i... ...or a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. Then I noted the clock. A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past t... ...deed to-day, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o’clock. I heard your voices and the clatter of plates. I hesitated—I felt so...

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...th now, and so the widow wouldn’t know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom — boom — boom — twelve licks; and all... ...self, I can fix it now so nobody won’t think of following me. About twelve o’clock we turned out and went along up the bank. The river was coming up p... ...e things he had said in his time. I heard one man say it was nearly three o’clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn’t wait more than about a week longer... ...VIII. The sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o’clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about thing... ...ound out the nigger was gone; they found out he hadn’t ben seen sence ten o’clock the night the murder was done. So then they put it on him, you see;... ... I didn’t want no blinders on then. When I was about the middle I heard the clock begin to strike, so I stops and listens; the sound come faint over... ...d still — never saying a word. CHAPTER XII. It must a been close on to one o’clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go ... ... but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o’clock that still night. There warn’t a sound there; everybody was asleep.... ...e; everybody was asleep. Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o’clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents’ worth of meal...

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...d then he took his arms and his horse and rode on his way. Then he heard a clock smite on his right hand; and thither he came to an abbey on his right...

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... 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 t... ...he 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:— ‘T we... ...t 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... ...nter rupted: ‘there are plenty of hard words there. “ Brillig” means four o’clock in the afternoon—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner...

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...s were rigid. Silas asked himself if he had been asleep, and looked at the clock: it was already four in the morning. How was it that William had not ... ... have met William to know the reason of his non-ap- pearance. But at six o’clock, as he was thinking of going to seek his friend, William came, and wi... ... Y ou’ll get more bids than one.” “I daresay, and get back home at eight o’clock, splashed up to the chin. I’m going to Mrs. Osgood’s birthday dance.”... ...hoosing the unprecedented course of walking home. It was now nearly four o’clock, and a mist was gather- ing: the sooner he got into the road the bett... ... vindictive purpose could not keep her spirit from failing. It was seven o’clock, and by this time she was not very far from Raveloe, but she was not ... ...ime to spare most days, for when one gets up betimes i’ the morn- ing, the clock seems to stan’ still tow’rt ten, afore it’s time to go about the vict... ...h, and divided the morsel between them. But at last Eppie, glancing at the clock, checked the play, and said, “O daddy, you’re wanting to go into the ... ...verything’s quiet at the Stone-pits.” CHAPTER XIX BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE O’CLOCK that evening, Eppie and Silas were seated alone in the cottage. After...