...The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-thief, as main character. The eight stories, even though independent, have a leading thread: ...

..." I fear ." said Wabbit, pouring the contents of the clock onto his plate. " That all is not well." Pack took a slice of toast and began to butter it. " Was that the clock with the mouse in it." Pack looked at the contents of the clock scattered on the table. " Repaired i...

...was in the act of doing one cold day, when the last drowsy sound of Twelve o’clock, just struck, was humming like a melodious monster of a Bee, and no... ..., bring up your family on next to nothing, pay your rent as regularly as the clock strikes, be punctual in your dealings (I set you a good example; yo... ...lf with chains and weights, to retard his. He saw some putting the hands of clocks for ward, some putting the hands of clocks backward, some en dea... ..., some putting the hands of clocks backward, some en deavouring to stop the clock entirely. He saw them repre senting, here a marriage ceremony, the...

...nge, and when we got there, walked up and down at the back of it where the Clock T ower is. We walked an hour and more, for he had much to say to me. ... ...l found in all respects, we parted with our pilot at a quarter past four o’clock in the afternoon of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred ... ...d to John in answer, “Well, well, John! Let us wait till the turn of one o’clock, before we talk about that.” I had just had one of the ship’ s lanter... ...ours after dinner (I always issued the allowance I have mentioned at one o’clock, and called it by that name), as well as our song at sunset. The prop...

... Iul. Romeo. 974 Rom. My Neece. 975 Iul. What a clock to morrow 976 Shall I send to thee? 977 Rom. By the hou... ...apace. Exit Nurse and Peter. 1310 Enter Iuliet. 1311 Iul. The clocke strook nine, when I did send the Nurse, 1312 In halfe an houre s... ...econd Cocke hath Crow’d, 2546 The Curphew Bell hath rung, ’tis three a clocke: 2547 Looke to the bakte meates, good Angelica, 2548 Spare ...

...ame absence, he writes to his wife on a Sun- day: ‘It is now about eight o’clock with me, and I imagine you to be busy with the young folks, hearing t... ...ave breakfasted late, I shall afterwards take a walk, and dine about six o’clock. I do not know who is the clergy- man here, but I shall think of you ... ...st; and that she would even turn a half-penny if laid upon deck.’ By two o’clock on the morning of the 15th July this purgatorial vessel was moored by... ...ting twenty-four in number, em- barked on board of the Smeaton about ten o’clock p.m., and sailed from Arbroath with a gentle breeze at west. Our ship... ...reeably to an arranged plan of operations, all hands were called at five o’clock a.m., just as the highest part of the Bell Rock began to show its sab... ...curately of the state of the weather for the follow- ing day. About five o’clock, on coming upon deck, the sun’s upper limb or disc had just begun to ... ...rock barely made its appearance at this pe- riod of the tides till eight o’clock, yet, having now a full mile to row from the floating light to the ro... ...m different arrange- ments; breakfast was accordingly served up at seven o’clock this morning. From the excessive motion of the floating light, the wr... ... it became necessary to take this meal before leaving the ship. At eight o’clock all hands were assembled on the quarter-deck for prayers, a solemnity...

...rs she was bring- ing home from Canada. The accident happened about five o’clock in the morn- ing, as the day was breaking. The officers of the quarte... ...pass there, “that he was too big for that!” The 6th of July, about three o’clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south,... ...ould only fear, not hope it. But at seven minutes to 27 Jules Verne one o’clock in the morning a deafening whistling was heard, like that produced by... ...lives of my men.” “And mine too,” simply said the harpooner. Towards two o’clock in the morning, the burning light reappeared, not less intense, about... ...mself with sharpening his harpoon—a terrible weapon in his hands. At six o’clock day began to break; and, with the first glimmer of light, the electri... ...mmer of light, the electric light of the narwhal disap- peared. At seven o’clock the day was sufficiently advanced, but a very thick sea fog obscured ... ...ady 28 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea perched on the mast-heads. At eight o’clock the fog lay heavily on the waves, and its thick scrolls rose little b... ...y broke from everyone! At noon we were no further advanced than at eight o’clock in the morning. The captain then decided to take more direct means. “... ...e collision of the frigate with the cetacean had oc- curred about eleven o’clock in the evening before. I reck- 34 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea oned ...

...ieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain ... ...nding sweep with his gigantic scythe in flying over the city. What is this clock lower than most of the rest, and nearer to the ear, that lags so far ... ... so far behind to-night as to strike into the vibration alone? This is the clock of the Hospital for Foundling Children. Time was, when the Foundlings... ...ober, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, half-past one in the afternoon. The clock of the Hos... ...tion was beginning to wander at the very outset of the interview. “Eight o’clock is my breakfast-hour,” he resumed. “It is one of my virtues to be nev... ...f a substantial house, whose ground story was devoted to the sale of Swiss clocks—he passed at once into domestic Switzerland. A white-tiled stove for... ...lowery carpet by the sofa, and the velvet chimney-board with its capacious clock and vases of artificial flowers, contended with that tone, as if, in ... ... to domestic purposes. Mimic water was dropping off a mill-wheel under the clock. The visitor had not stood before it, following it with his eyes, a m... ...ish, peeped out of the fanciful bodice she wore, and lurked in the curious clocked red stocking, and in its little silver-buckled shoe. As to the elde...

... up the woollen muffler round his throat with both hands. “At past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning! So!” He spoke to himself. There was no one ... ... to what quarter I turn my face.” Thus, at Mugby Junction, at past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning, the traveller went where the weather drove ... ...ot drink which he had stood upon the chimney-piece, when he heard the town clocks striking, and, referring to his watch, found the evening to have so ...

...or all of us; to me It was a time of rapture: clear and loud 460 The village clock toll’d six; I wheel’d about, Proud and exulting, like an untired ho... ...f sharp command and scolding intermixed. 50 Near me was Trinity’s loquacious clock Who never let the quarters, night or day, Slip by him unproclaimed,... ...r. The second night, In eagerness, and by report misled 625 Of those Italian clocks that speak the time In fashion different from ours, we rose By moo... ...r own size, than any outward light— The breathless wilderness of clouds, the clock 650 That told with unintelligible voice The widely parted hours, th... ...visible girl, The bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes, The waxwork, clockwork, all the marvellous craft Of modern Merlins, wild beasts, puppe...

...ated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Martinez de la Rosa. THE CLOCK of the little town of Menda had just struck mid- night. At that momen...

... all went to church, and then sat round the fire chatting until the four o’clock dinner was ready. The Coverdale girls thought it was rather more dull...

...of smoking (in which act he was discovered by his fainting aunt at three o’clock one morning)—in one word, when John Perkins arrived at manhood, he di... ...stival. He would have stayed away if he could, but he dared not. At nine o’clock, he in general’s uniform; his wife in blue satin and diamonds; his da...

...iately, and only waited for courage to say so, when the sound of the great clock at Mansfield Park, striking three, made her feel that she had really ... ...Sir Thomas, producing his watch with all necessary caution; “it is three o’clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours.” “Well, then, Fa... ... will have her orders in a day or two. And Mr. Campbell was here at four o’clock to ask for you: he has got one of the Thrush’s boats, and is going of... ...f he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o’clock till half-past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog. ...

...fficient, and with it a master’s house with a tower to con- tain a village clock, which was given out of the savings of Mrs. Smith and her sister and ... ...rious brilliant flowers and stems fit for chains be passed by, or for the “clocks” that furnish auguries! (L. autumnalis).—Is this a separate species,...

...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...

... anon; Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. [Exit. Hell disappears.—The clock strikes eleven .] FAUSTUS. O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare ho... ...l! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d. O, I’... ...ustus – Marlowe 73 But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven! [ The clock strikes the half hour. ] O, half the hour is past! ‘twill all be pa... ...elf, curse Lucifer That hath depriv’d thee of the joys of heaven. [The clock strikes twelve .] It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, O...

...all Caroline, and to go to bed herself, for it was a good deal past nine o’clock. She had been aware, she could hardly tell how, that her father had b... ...eard of the result of it was ‘So,’ and then lessons went on until twelve o’clock, when it was the custom that the girl should have an hour’s recre- at... ... uncle and the young man got in after her, saying something about eleven o’clock. She was more awake now, and knew that they were driving through ligh... ... like scream- ing, only then she might have been heard; and a great horrid clock went on making a noise like a church bell, and striking so many odd q... ...ss, and a mother! It was all for the sake of depreciating her. At twelve o’clock, to her further indignation, she found there was to be an hour of rea... ...hold drudges, so that her reading did not become more intelligible. As the clock struck one, a warning gong was heard; everybody jumped up, the work w... ... dinner? Or there is the amusing shelf. Books may be taken out after one o’clock, and they must be put back at eight, or they are confiscated for the ... ... the next day, and then would follow amusements, evening toilette, seven o’clock tea, 39 Yo n g e and either games or reading aloud till bedtime. As ... ...sister, who tore herself away from the arrangements, being bound to five-o’clock tea elsewhere, Mysie was discovered with a face still rather woe-bego...

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