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...lly now that the company had left it, looked vast, and it offered to the girl?s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley?s fortune also large, to account for so many immensities? Of this Adela could know nothing, but it struck her, while she smiled sweetly back at their entertainer, that she ...

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...rl’s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley’s fortune also large, ...

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...ught her to a great hall full of the buzzing and boom- ing of thousands of clocks. Whichever way she looked, clocks stretched away from her in glitter... ... looked, clocks stretched away from her in glittering interminable vistas: clocks of all sizes and voices, from the bell-throated giant of the hall- w... ...l-throated giant of the hall- way to the chirping dressing-table toy; tall clocks of mahogany and brass with cathedral chimes; clocks of bronze, glass... ... office vanished from Ann Eliza’s sight, and the cackle of the innumerable clocks came to her like the yell of waves in a storm. She tried to speak bu... ..., and she wrote down her address; then she walked away blindly between the clocks. XI MR. LOOMIS, TRUE TO HIS WORD, wrote a few days later that he had...

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...I had questioned him and demanded to see his papers.” At that instant, the clocks of Carentan struck half-past nine; the lanterns were lighted in Mada...

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...f a huge pendulum, such as we see on an The Pit and the Pendulum 9 tique clocks. There was something, however, in the appear ance of this machine w...

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... 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... ...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 ...

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...ordially welcomed to a grand outer chamber , and a smaller one within, all clocks and draperies, and hearths, and bra- zen dogs, and tiles, and cool d...

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...5 Than most that sleep outside. And naked to the hangman’s noose The morning clocks will ring A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a strin...

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...e. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more... ... end only when you are drowsy. I know a village where there are hardly any clocks, where no one knows more of the days of the week than by a sort of i... ...e out of London, Liverpool, Paris, and a variety of large towns, where the clocks lose their heads, and shake the hours out each one faster than the o... ...ery along with him, in a watch- pocket! It is to be noticed, there were no clocks and watches in the much-vaunted days before the flood. It follows, o... ... a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes, and haunted, even at night, by flaming dial-plates. For ...

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...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.... ... if he had thought of one thing; and when we asked him what, he said: “These clocks. They’re chronometers. You always read about them in sea voyages. ...

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...t trees. It ’s like the morning,— Best when it’s done,— The everlasting clocks Chime noon. 137 XCIX A DEW sufficed itself And satisf... ... the bodice, danced T o the immortal tune,— Till those two troubled little clocks Ticked softly into one. XXX IN lands I never saw, they say... ...orhoods of pause; Here was no notice, no dissent, No universe, no laws. By clocks ’t was morning, and for night The bells at distance called; But epoc...

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...n. Nor was he startled without reason; for these rattling, bony skeletons of clocks are very disconcerting in their opera tion, and I wonder very muc... ...g for their own lower selves; and they might know better than to leave their clocks so very lank The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 4 and u... ...e Fairy Cricket stood. The night — I mean the real night: not going by Fairy clocks — was wearing now; and in this stage of the Carrier’s thoughts, t...

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...I placed my foot on the first notch of the zigzag next night, as the distant clocks were striking eleven. He was waiting for me at the bottom, with hi... ...f the trial, after evidence had been taken for two hours (I heard the church clocks strike), happening to cast my eyes over my brother jurymen, I foun...

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...garden and half house; But scarce could hear each other speak for noise Of clocks and chimes, like silver hammers falling On silver anvils, and the sp... ...e tendance in the all-weary noons, And watches in the dead, the dark, when clocks Throbbed thunder through the palace floors, or called On flying Time...

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...eive how men could resist them. Tightly fitting white stockings with green clocks, short skirts, and the pointed, high-heeled slippers of Louis XV.’s ...

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...th wad return him the service again, An’ the mune was shinin’ clearly! The clocks were chappin’ in house an’ ha’, Eleeven, twal an’ ane an’ twa; An’ t...

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... I say, will have taken down all that holly stuff and non- sense about the clocks, lamps, and looking-glasses, the dear boys will be back at school, f...

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...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...

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...elf with chains and weights, to retard his. He saw some putting the hands of clocks forward, some putting the hands of clocks backward, some endeavour...

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...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 ...

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...ring which the dealer seemed to weigh this statement incredulously. The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rus... ...from a cathedral turret, another ringing on its treble notes the prelude of a waltz-the clocks began to strike the hour of three in the afternoon. The... ...udly like a bell; and alarmed by the bigness of the ticking, he was tempted to stop the clocks. And then, again, with a swift transition of his terror... ...unted by an incessant echoing, which filled the ear and mingled with the ticking of the clocks. And, as Markheim approached the door, he seemed to hea...