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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...t feel sure of the revenue of a new Republic. Night came on. Toward nine o’clock, the doctor returned quietly and alone to the mayor’s resi- dence, pe... ...e wind is strong or light. What a delicious morning it was! About eleven o’clock, a long line of boats drawn by a steam-tug, as big a fly, and which s... ...d and irresistible fear, a fear of sleep and a fear of my bed. About ten o’clock I go up to my room. As soon as I have entered I lock and bolt the doo... ...!” But the doctor said to her authoritatively: “You will get up at eight o’clock to-morrow morning; then you will go and call on your cousin at his ho... ...*Frog-island. 67 Selected Writings I have seen it! I was walking at two o’clock among my rose- trees, in the full sunlight—in the walk bordered by au... ...over me and these thoughts in my mind; I shall go away. August 1 2. T en o’clock at night. All day long I have been trying to get away, and have not b... ... night! And yet it seems to me that I ought to rejoice. I read until one o’clock in the morning! Herestauss, Doc- tor of Philosophy and Theogony, wrot... ...n beings, vague phantoms born of fear. Having, therefore, read until one o’clock in the morning, I went and sat down at the open win- dow, in order to... ...f the sun, and descry in the distance the little village, with its pointed clock-tower, which sounds the hour of midnight. “Y ou sit down by the side ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...so its manner of working. Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only differ ence—there is no frontier. Y.M. It look... ...ld not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As t... ...pany of Susy and Langdon. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o’clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor or phan! My room will b... ...ears and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. FIVE O’CLOCK.—It is all over. WHEN C LARA WENT AWAY two weeks ago to live in Eur... ...to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away. The third picture, as you easily perce... ...reet were there by his will. It is so strange, so unrealizable. At three o’clock the carriages were still streaming by in single file. At three five a... ...as been creeping out well to the rear of the face west of it—and at five o’clock has as sumed a shape that has rather a poor and rude semblance of a ... ... Virgin’s front, the most stupendous dial I am acquainted with, the oldest clock in the world by a couple of million years. I suppose I should not hav... ...ble as a face, which was evidence that the picture was taken before four o’clock in the afternoon, and also evidence that all the photographers have p...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...HE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY What o’clock is it? —Old Saying. EVERYBODY KNOWS, in a general way, that the fines... ...ng tolerable out of V ondervotteimittiss:” and— “That we will stick by our clocks and our cabbages.” Above the session-room of the Council is the stee... ...as existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village—the great clock of the borough of V ondervotteimittiss. And this is the object to whi... ...gentlemen are turned who sit in the leather-bottomed arm-chairs. The great clock has seven faces—one in each of the seven sides of the steeple—so that... ...this duty is the most perfect of sinecures—for the 8 Poe in Five V olumes clock of V ondervotteimittis was never yet known to have any- thing the mat... ...by the big bell. And, indeed the case was just the same with all the other clocks and watches in the borough. Never was such a place for keeping the t... ...ping the true time. When the large clapper thought proper to say “Twelve o’clock!” all its obedient followers opened their throats simul- taneously, a... ...burghers were fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respe... ...th a stare of dismay upon the phenomenon, still keeping the other upon the clock in the steeple. By the time that it wanted only three minutes to noon...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... of dinner forsooth, and remains locked up for a couple of hours. At two o’clock afternoon (I was over a tan- kard), out comes the little she-devil, h... ...e ebon countenance of the latter; and the air grew colder; and about two o’clock the moon appeared, a dismal pale-faced rake, walking solitary through... ...of his nose, a vile plot was laid against him; and when about seven of the clock he woke, he found, on sitting up in his bed, three gentlemen on each ... ...as garnished with a tremendous number of oaths); and he was, about eight o’clock, carried up to the house of Squire Ballance, the neighbouring justice... ... way, and the rope stretches tight, the poor wretch before St. Sepulchre’s clock dies. Only with us, clear-sighted mortals as we are, we can’t see the... ...ndship and table: all returned, smiling and rosy, at about half-past ten o’clock, from a walk which they had taken to Bayswater. Many thousands of peo... ...y, and just cutting off Holofernes’s head, stood an enormous ominous black clock, the spoil of some other usurious transaction. Some chairs, and a dis... ...t the bed of the feverish sleeper. It was just upon six, and presently the clock began to utter those dismal grinding sounds, which issue from clocks ... ...no danger for him to apprehend. He entered the house about dusk, at five o’clock. Mrs. Hayes was absent with Mr. Billings; only Mr. W ood was smoking,...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...ange hubbub, con- sidering it was in so narrow a passage, till Bishopsgate clock struck eleven, and then the ghost would seem to start, and, as if he ... ... take the key with him; and the watchman by day to attend until ten of the clock at night, and the watch- man by night until six in the morning. 37 D... ...e into any tavern, ale-house, or coffee-house to drink af- ter nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city,... ... of which by itself. As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight o’clock there was a great noise. It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd... ...‘What is that to you? Stop the dead-cart.’ This, it seems, was about one o’clock. Soon after, as the fellow said, he stopped the dead-cart, and then k... ... avern, resolving to inquire what became of him. It was by this time one o’clock in the morning, and yet the poor gentleman was there. The truth was, ... ...y , and that these were generally women. It was one morning about eleven O’clock, I had walked out to my brother’s house in Coleman Street parish, as ... ...but an ignorant, weak, poor man, and usually walked his rounds about ten o’clock at night and went piping along from door to door, and the people usua...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

... 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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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... 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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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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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Ten Short Stories for Children

By: Vibhu Tewary

...sound repeat again and again and you adjust how fast it ticks according to your liking, you can study with the sound which will be like a tick of the clock every second"....

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... her yearning for her tormentor’s return, of her wistful caprices for the clock to retreat to that time when she had a job as a paralegal -a time he... ...k had become her and, each day, she flipped and sizzled from the points of clocking in and clocking out. Among other stories, she had heard this one ... ... transients found out where we lived and began banging on our doors at 2 o’clock in the morning because the food pantry was closed. This is the life,... ...e every few seconds and reverberating off an empty shampoo bottle --with clocks confiscated (egg timer I don't know where) this tracks the seconds e... ...Listens to the dripping]. He removed computer and telephone long ago, clocks for whatever reason (maybe just to find out if I would comment on th...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...an early start." Dagny looked up at the kitchen's big-faced, yellow-framed clock over Tyler's head. "It's not even seven yet. I'd say that's early." S... ...e Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 185 Kelly glanced at the bedside digital clock. The LCD glowed six a.m.. He'd been out here with the Diazes for a we... ...eeds to cool down." Kelly nodded and sat, counting the seconds on the wall clock above Camilla's head. In sixty seconds, she would be out of there too... ...eaned down and threw her arms around his neck as he glanced up at the wall clock behind her. "Going to miss me?" "Every second." Kelly touched her lip... ...in the dumps all the time. Tyler was spending so much time away from home, clocking all this OT on assignments and just pretty much ignoring you. You ... ... I said, please." "Oh ... okay, sure." Kelly slanted a look at the digital clock beside the phone. The red display clicked over to eleven p.m. just as... ...r fear. She wrapped her arms around his waist as she peeked at the bedside clock. Tyler didn't stir and Kelly kissed his bare shoulder, nuzzled her ch...

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Signature for Sunshine

By: Christine Jones

...ashing up the afternoon tea dishes. Chris kept a close eye on the digital clock sitting on a shelf above the crowded notice board of children’s draw... ...girl. You know who’ll come off second best.” Bill saw Chris glance at the clock. Three twenty five, this was her cue to make tracks. “Back soon Pop.... ...e soon changed, trying to convince herself that he was only attempting to clock up brownie points. How heroic he would look to Bill, Paul, and Sandy... ... up his knife and fork and began eating. Though feeling animated, he soon clocked it up as another break through. Seeing the funny side, it was also... ...or the occasion, having even cleaned his Ute, inside and out. The sense of clocking up another victory had left Rick; having come so far without gett... ...ith one swipe, she cleared the top of the dressing table; the glass-domed clock hit him in the knee. Grasping her wrist, he did haul her into his ar... ...in the kitchen. “I wouldn’t have worried about it, but it’s also my alarm clock.” The candle flickering on the mantelpiece implied he hadn’t got Chr... ... the idea, she raced to get dressed with intensions of catching the ten o’clock bus into town. Decked out in modern furnishings, Paul’s office had th...

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Battle at Bighorn

By: John Richman

...e fire hot, but I was slowly losing the battle. I figured it was around six o’clock, but it was hard to tell in the dark. The good news was that the... ...’ll let you know one way or another.” “It’s worth a try,” he said, “but the clock’s ticking.” “Mr. and Mrs. Baker, I know how important getting... ...t I considered north enough, we changed to a more western heading. By five o’clock it was near dark and we were still a long ways from the Bozeman ...

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The Emerald Dagger

By: Barbara M. Hodges

...tle of Zinfandel wine, and her soon-to-be-fiancé, Duncan. She glanced at the clock. Six-thirty. He was due at seven, and he’d be here right at the str... ...bration. She was getting engaged. The doorbell chimed. Kelsey glanced at the clock. It was six-forty-five. Duncan? Early? She smiled. “I guess he want... ...aring the dishes from the table. “When’s your flight out?” “Tonight at ten o’clock.” 10 The Emerald Dagger “Tonight? Damn. I’ve got the interview wit... ...ainst her lips before releasing her. Over his shoulder Kelsey glanced at the clock. It was eight forty-five. Did she dare mention it? Duncan motioned...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...er roasting in a bonfire. He heard voices of he and his sister counting 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock rock. 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, twelve o'clock ... ...n period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his excesses his underwear was stolen ... ... pillow she leaned toward the end table with the idea of picking up an alarm clock to look at the time when she saw a handkerchief belonging to one of... ... am a female," she told herself, "but I'm no lowly woman." She picked up the clock. It was 3:00 in the morning. She told herself that if a client was... ...ghts and at another time like twirling maelstroms of dirt and trash flicking clockwise or counter-clockwise according to the caprice of winds. Each t... ...re in all human pursuits. He walked around the living room. He looked at the clock. It was now 5:30. He stared out of the window onto the traffic of S... ...piqued shadow, the cast away reunited with she who cast him out, leaving the clock and going into the yard to waste some time; the hunting of birds wi... ...e kitchen to again watch the incessantly slow turn of the second hand of the clock; still no sounds from above so deciding to burn bacon and to turn d... ...replace dying cells was a collection that was the body. She listened to the clock. It too was an ephemeral device that seemed to hum as incessantly ...

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ll That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle I T WAS SEVEN O’CLOCK of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up ...

...Excerpt: It was seven o?clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day?s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wol...

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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare : The Reader's Library

By: William Shakespeare; Neil Azevedo, Editor

... to Wet a Widow's Eye 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love to Any 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane So Fast Thou Growest 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time 13: O That You Were Yourself But Love You Are 14: Not from the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows 16: But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way 17: Who Will Be...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...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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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...eas drifted and took shape. But foreign sounds kept intruding: the hum of the clock radio, the slam of a car door, water swooshing through pipes. S... ...is words. “Lazer definitely liked the track,” Kurt said. “We'll see what the clockers say. Did you feel anything when he passed that horse in front... ... leaving his arm so close he could feel her heat. “You work both sides of the clock.” She swiveled on her stool, and he could smell her skin again ... ...t locked his door and did a quick inspection of the room. Television, mirror, clock—everything was replaced. Otto’s visit was like a bad dream. “W... ...d, looking absurdly satisfied. “They're harrowing anyway, so it’s our eight o’clock break. Cody here has been voted trainer of the week. He brought ... ...ngs could get any worse. Chapter Twenty-Three The numbers on the clock radio changed, chipping away another piece of dawn. Kurt pressed... ...ding. Then she drives to the track.” Kurt winced. She worked both ends of the clock, making herself available to any trainer for morning gallops and... ...hasn’t left the apartment, and we picked up another call confirming his two o’clock meeting with Friedman tomorrow. Three quick-response teams are on...

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