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...ghboring church; but because the bells begin to ring when the hands of the clock reach ten, I have no right to assume that the movement of the bells i... ... was finishing his savory dinner. They waited for him from four till six o’clock and did not begin their deliberations all that time talked in low ton... ...a soft, confidential voice, as though afraid of being overheard. At nine o’clock the countess woke up, and Matrena Timofeevna, who had been her lady’s... ...hem as possible. 56 War and Peace – Book Eleven CHAPTER XVII BEFORE TWO O’CLOCK in the afternoon the Rostovs’ four car- riages, packed full and with ... ...elf had driven round by side streets to the other side of Moscow. By ten o’clock in the morning of the second of September, only the rear guard remain... ...off. CHAPTER XXI THE RUSSIAN TROOPS were passing through Moscow from two o’clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounde... ...ged yet?” shouted Rostopchin. “Bring him to me!” CHAPTER XXV TOWARD NINE O’CLOCK in the morning, when the troops were already moving through Moscow, n... ...uts to drive on the carts that blocked the way. CHAPTER XXVI TOWARD FOUR O’CLOCK in the afternoon Murat’s troops were entering Moscow. In front rode a... ...this kept him in a state of excitement bordering on insanity. It was two o’clock in the afternoon. The French had already entered Moscow. Pierre knew ...

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...d to anybody but himself and his little gray mare. It being nearly seven o’clock, he was as eager to hold a morning gos- sip as a city shopkeeper to r... ...Mr. Higginbotham, of Kimballton, was murdered in his or- chard, at eight o’clock last night, by an Irishman and a nigger. They strung him up to the br... ...istant in a straight line; the murder had been perpetrated only at eight o’clock the preceding night; yet Dominicus had heard of it at seven in the mo... ... no colored man! It was an Irishman that hanged him last night, at eight o’clock. I came away at seven! His folks can’t have looked for him in the orc... ... has excited this singular uproar. We passed through Kimballton at three o’clock this morning, and most certainly should have been informed of the mur... ...ich was delivered me from that gentleman himself. I find it dated at ten o’clock last evening.” So saying, the lawyer exhibited the date and signature... ...nd jogged on; for wher- ever he goes, he must always be at home by eight o’clock.” “So they tell me,” said Dominicus. “I never saw a man look so yello... ... of the wood-lot as if Old Nick were chasing behind. Just then the village clock tolled eight, and as each deep stroke fell, Dominicus gave a fresh bo... ...windows of which were rat- tling in the breeze; the regular vibration of a clock, the crack- ling of a fire, and the tinkling of the embers as they fe...

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...rd the sound of a scuffle and Sonya’s disapproving voice: “It’s past one o’clock.” “Oh, you only spoil things for me. All right, go, go!” Again all wa... ..., very nice. Only not quite my taste—he is so narrow, like the dining-room clock…. Don’t you understand? Narrow, you know—gray, light gray…” “What rub... .... They were to call for her at her house in the Taurida Gar- dens at ten o’clock, but it was already five minutes to ten, and the girls were not yet d... ...s’ toilets. They praised her taste and 49 Tolstoy toilet, and at eleven o’clock, careful of their coiffures and dresses, they settled themselves in t... ...athering of Speranski’s intimate acquaintances already assembled at five o’clock. There were no ladies present except Speranski’s little daughter (lon...

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...tain- ment would have been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. “... ...our word of honor not to go?” “On my honor!” CHAPTER IX IT WA S PAST ONE O’CLOCK when Pierre left his friend. It was a cloudless, northern, summer nig... ... to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” The princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There will just be time.” And like a practical ... ... went into the sitting room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played... ...of the table, making signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door by which the prince was to enter. Prince An- drew was loo... ...n- ners with the strict formality of his house. At that mo- ment the great clock struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing ... ...these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest him. “At what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the Em- peror. “I cannot inform Y our Ma... ...ttle begin?” asked the Em- peror. “I cannot inform Y our Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at the front, but at Durrenstein, where I was, our a... ...ot been supplied to the extent...” The Emperor interrupted him. “At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?” “At seven o’clock, I believe.” “At seven...

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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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... is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock- face for it. Y et those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced a... ...ng nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch. It was three o’clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his... ...e of the small work-table with an air of more entire placidity, until, the clock again giving notice that it was going to strike, she looked up from t... ...ish 91 George Eliot you would come down earlier. Y ou can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so diffi- cult... ...e from other callers. But a visitor had come in at one 111 George Eliot o’clock, and Mr. Bulstrode had so much to say to him, that there was little c... ..., is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not ... ...is face, which was a striking mixture of the shrewd and the mild. At ten o’clock supper was brought in (such were the customs of Middlemarch) and ther... ...should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. But as it was not eleven o’clock, he chose to walk in the brisk air towards the tower of St. Botolph’s... ...ll to meditation.” —2 Henry VI. THA T NIGHT after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone’s room, and sat the...

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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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...own. Thither he always walked, starting punctually from the bank at four o’clock, and from thence he always walked in the morning, reaching the bank p...

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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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...example, men leave a factory for dinner when the hooter sounds at twelve o’clock. Y ou may say the hooter is the cause of their leaving. But innumerab... ...able other hooters in other factories, which also always sound at twelve o’clock, have just as good a right to be called the cause. Thus every event h... ...sations. When we are listening for a faint sound—the striking of a distant clock, or a horse’s hoofs on the road—we think we hear it many times before... ...y,” i, p. 604). Everyone knows the experi- ence of noticing (say) that the clock has been striking, when we did not notice it while it was striking. A...

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... or ten years are dragged from their squalid beds at two, three, or four o clock in the morning and compelled to work for a bare subsistence until ten... ... light-hearted gai- ety, but only of a kind of solemn jollification by the clock at the appropriate hours. The advice to “become as little chil- dren”...

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...er, to bring lords and leddies, and a host of folk behint them, and twal o’clock chappit?” Then approaching the Master, he craved pardon for having pe... ...asily ascertained; for Caleb had been in the village one morning by five o’clock, to borrow “twa chappins of ale and a kipper” for the messenger’s ref... ...her master’s son once more, and renew her warn- ing.” She died just as the clock in the distant village tolled one; and Ravenswood remembered, with in... ...ains out!’ and, to be sure, I blew sic points of war that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.” “Well, sir, cut all this short,” said Raven...

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... came and clicked their tongues. ‘Ah, Russ! Ah, Iván!’ Abdul had a Russian clock, which was broken. He called Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “A Priso... ...ith the knife, sorted the pieces, and put them together again, so that the clock went all right. The master was delighted, and made him a present of o...

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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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...ay to the culture of the newsroom. During the 1990s, the rise of round-the-clock news shows and the Internet reinforced pressure on analysts to pass a... ...lians and city, state, and federal employees devoted themselves around the clock to putting New Y ork City back on its feet. 189 9.3 EMERGENCY RESPONS... ...ilities. NEADS files are time-stamped as accurate to the Naval Observatory clock.We also compared audio times to certified transcripts when available....

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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...