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...oric 42-line Bible almost four centuries earlier. In Ottmar‘s youth, the clock in his village‘s Lutheran church bell tower had stood still for year... ...in his village‘s Lutheran church bell tower had stood still for years. No clock maker had been able to repair it. One evening, however, its bells ra...

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...ogies in-stride, while many of their parents still flounder at setting the clock on the VCR - because the kids simply know no other rate of change. ... ...ed in what Nobert Wiener once said: "In Newton's times automatism was a clock-machinery with music and rigid statuettes spinning up over the lid. ... ... SOUND OF THE TIMES. From the sound of bells, the "tic-tac" of mechanical clocks to the hum of atomic clocks and computers. It is the sound of speed... ...his affected our young boy, who looked fascinated by his map and his time-clocks and pushed the buttons of his switchboard. When the tempest ended, ...

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...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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...heir hearts but they will effect. God be praised for my jealousy! Eleven o’clock the hour. I will prevent this, de tect my wife, be revenged on Falst... ...UGBY .] DOCTOR CAIUS : Jack Rugby! RUGBY: Sir? DOCTOR CAIUS : Vat is de clock, Jack? RUGBY: ’Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to mee... ...taeon; and to these violent proceedings all my neigh bors shall cry aim. [Clock heard .] The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me search: ... ...9 MISTRESS PAGE : We will do it: let him be sent for to morrow, eight o’clock, to have amends. [Re enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVA... ...r ‘budget?’ the white will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o’clock. PAGE: The night is dark; light and spirits will become it well. Hea... ...ries use flowers for their charactery. Away; disperse: but till ’tis one o’clock, Our dance of custom round about the oak Of Herne the hunter, let us ...

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... beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such... ...sts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already: it had no... ...up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve! He touch... ...ve! He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped. “Why, it isn’t po... ...n once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon his listening ear. “Ding, dong!” “A quarte... ... Fezziwig alive again!” Old Fezziwig laid down his pen, and looked up at the clock, which pointed to the hour of seven. He rubbed his hands; adjusted ... ...wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger. When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Fezzi wig t... ...y core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming... ...is own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likenes...

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...o circulate among the people a re- port that troops had only been stationed on the quays and on the Pont Neuf, on account of the ceremonial of the day... ...nd to the guns, the firing of which resounded through that room. All at once he raised his head; his brow slightly contracted like that of a man who h... ...t. “At your service, sir,” said Planchet, overwhelmed with joy; “if I were still capable of serving you.” “Perhaps so,” replied D’Artagnan. “But why t... ... of age whom he fancied he had seen not twenty minutes before under the guise of a chorister. He questioned him, and as the boy had no interest in dec... ...om Paris, on the road to Meaux. He began his day by breakfasting substantially—a bad beginning when one wants to employ the head, but an ex- cellent p... ... and was at that time the abode of his niece the Duchess of Longueville; the other 69 Dumas was a convent of Jesuits and was the property—a by no mea... ... neighing of a horse struck his ear, coming through darkness and space. “There are men somewhere about, but that’s of no con- sequence to us,” said D’... ...e he was, while he, Planchet, remembering her in- continence of tongue, would die of anxiety if she did know. This reasoning seemed to D’Artagnan so s... ...ing for him. It need not be said that Planchet in resuming his former functions resumed also his former humility and was not ashamed to make his break...

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...e back on the afternoon you receive this. Will hit the town on the three o’clock boat. Get seats for the best show going—my treat—and arrange to assim... ...clothes in the fo’c’sle) for his watch. He drew it out. It was just nine o’clock. All at once an idea oc- curred to him. He fumbled in another pocket ... ...h screwed to the bulkhead. A roll of charts leaned in one corner, an alarm clock, stopped at 1:15, stood on a shelf in the company of some dozen pa- p... ...e tropical heat the shark livers almost visibly melted away, and by four o’clock in the afternoon the tubs were full of a thick, yellow oil, the reek ... ...inamen foregathered in the fo’c’stle head, smok- ing opium, and by eight o’clock the routine of the day was at an end. So the time passed. In a short ... ...diately occupied their attention. They regained the schooner toward five o’clock, to find the Chinamen perplexed and mystified. No explanation was for... ... All on board lis- tened intently. The water dripped like the ticking of a clock from the “Bertha Millner’s” stern, which with the rising of the bow h... ...e. Once beyond the heads, however, they were sure of a breeze. About ten o’clock that night, the same uncanny trem- bling ran through the schooner aga... ...f provisions on board, and Moran cooked breakfast. Fortunately, by eight o’clock a very light westerly breeze came up. Moran and Wilbur cast off the g...

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...had cast to have been again with King Arthur at the furthest by ten of the clock, and so was that time her purpose. Then there was a knight that hight... ...t be espied; and so the queen lay long in her bed until it was nine of the clock. Then Sir Meliagrance went to the queen’s chamber, and found her ladi...

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...e dark, dust stained walls, and the scant and crude furniture of her home. A clock, in a splintered and battered oblong box of varnished wood, she sud...

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... from this source. I was wavering at the time whether or not to wind up my Clock, and come and see this country, and this decided me. I felt as if it ... ... do that when the glass slipper of my chairmanship shall fall off, and the clock strike twelve to night, this hall will be turned into a pump kin. I ... ...lst he was working twelve hours a day before the furnace, got up at four o’clock in the morning to learn drawing. “The thought of my lads,” he writes ... ...my heart upon any lass in particular, I should positively get up at four o’clock in the morning with the determination of the iron moulder himself, an... ... lation of the blood of the nation and of the country standing still,—the clock of the world. Why, even Mr. Reuter, the great Reuter—whom I am always... ...known from our earliest infancy that when the giants in Guildhall hear the clock strike one, they come down to dinner. Similarly, when the City of Lon... ... as I heard a discontented gentleman remark—last Friday night, about ten o’clock, when he was baiting a very small horse in the Strand—he was one of e... ...he proceedings took place in the Town Hall: Mr. Dickens entered at eight o’clock, accompanied by the officers of the Institute, and was received with ...

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...ir business like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust or the cottage-clock pendulum teaching the infant hour over midnight simple arithmetic. Th... ...re, I’d go down after him. I mean to learn. We’re both of us here at six o’clock in the morning, when it’s 67 George Meredith light, and have a swim.... ...is low rich flute-notes that shocked him. He glanced at the gold cathedral-clock on the mantel-piece, and proposed a stroll on the lawn before dinner.... ... of men or of physicians.” Dr. Middleton said this rising, glancing at the clock and at the back of his hands. “‘Quod autem secundum litteras difficil... ...hen, before the dinner-bell. I cannot tie myself to the minute-hand of the clock, my dear child. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you... ...hter and his host was at an end. He left the table a little after eleven o’clock. A short dia- logue ensued upon the subject of the ladies. They must ... ...ntry people call roemancing. For, Colonel De Craye, I had a bun at seven o’clock. Miss Middleton forced me to go and buy it” “A stale bun, my boy?” “Y... ...he day together,” he said. Clara bowed. At the breakfast-table she faced a clock. De Craye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too ... ...ye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too slow by that clock, Willoughby.” “The man omitted to come from Rendon to set it last wee...

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...r in him; let him not die; For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. [Clock strikes .] BRUTUS: Peace! count the clock. CASSIUS: ... ...s .] BRUTUS: Peace! count the clock. CASSIUS: The clock hath stricken three. TREBONIUS: ’Tis time to part. CASSIUS: ... ...o much your enemy As that same ague which hath made you lean. What is ‘t o’clock? BRUTUS: Caesar, ’tis strucken eight. CAESAR: I t... ...thou been? Soothsayer: At mine own house, good lady. PORTIA: What is’t o’clock? Soothsayer: About the ninth hour, lady. PORTIA: I... ...; let us to the field. Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on: ’Tis three o’clock; and, Romans, yet ere night We shall try fortune in a second fight. [...

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...only an hour into a code yellow." Atlas glanced up at the antique digital clock on the wall, calculating the time left before running a code red. "W... ... one wore watches in the complex; the old station and platform electronic clocks were synchronised and displayed the time for all to see. If his mem... ... arrogant and 101 needlessly treading on toes. "We're working around the clock as it is." Shaun's eyes remained fixed on David. "Then we need to ta... ...uth. With thoughts of consequences, his steps hastened. Manned around the clock, the on duty shift of four sat at the console within the radio room.... ...plex and with her mother when Patricia was alive. In all the years, she'd clocked up twenty-three days in what she referred to, as time out. To subs... ... charge?" He hoped the Techtronic was battle ready. Stephen looked at the clock above the service area. "Almost two hours now." Stephen slightly smi... ... quarters with several bunk beds. Evidently, people had worked around the clock and he 178 questioned to their whereabouts. Undisturbed, he sat, fo...

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...ey exiled the plasmoids to the most distant and isolated world they knew.... (Summary from book jacket) Originally published in 1962 as A Tale of Two Clocks. James Henry Schmitz lived from October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981. Gutenberg Project states: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the United States. (addition by km)...

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...” “This is Wednesday. She’ll be back Saturday, in the evening—about nine o’clock, likely.” I felt a sharp sense of disappointment. “I’m sorry, because... ...ed, I’m getting right down worried. I know she’s not due till about nine o’clock, and yet some thing seems to be trying to warn me that something’s h... ... she was 127 Mark Twain well, didn’t it? And said she’d be here by nine o’clock, didn’t it? Did you ever know her to fail of her word? Why, you know ... ...I did. Henry was served last. He had hardly swal lowed his drink when the clock began to strike. He listened till it finished, his face growing pale ... ...st you go? Well, good by. Pause. Yes, I think so. Good by. Pause. Four o’clock, then—I’ll be ready. Good by. Pause. Thank you ever so much. Good b... ...ate of the telegram, Rome, November 24, ten minutes before twenty three o’clock. The telegram seems to say, “The Sovereigns and the Royal Children ex... ... expect themselves at Rome tomor row at fifty one minutes after fifteen o’clock.” I do not know about Italian time, but I judge it begins at midnight... ...I was lying there trying the India rubber rings. I remember looking at the clock and noticing that in an hour and twenty five minutes I would be two w... ...t ’tis God that has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. Funeral at 2 o’clock sharp. There is something very simple and pleasant about the followin...

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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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... living cells. Biology, once thought too complicated to be engineered like a clock, computer or microwave oven, has proven to be open to manipulation ...

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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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...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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...y changed, making the body susceptible to disease and death. Not many people lived beyond three thousand years; it was as if the body had an internal clock that stopped when it reached a certain age. The only organ that had to remain human was the brain, but this and whatever part of the original body remained always fell susceptible to disease, killing the host. Grai...

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...ic 42-line Bible almost four centuries earlier. In Ottmar‘s youth, the clock in his village‘s Lutheran church bell tower had stood still for year... ...in his village‘s Lutheran church bell tower had stood still for years. No clock maker had been able to repair it. One evening, however, its bells ra...

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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...