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...erminable provincial din- ners, where you sit at table from five to nine o’clock. Ma- dame Tiphaine had introduced into Provins the Parisian cus- tom ... ...es. Yes, I prefer my old Sevres vases in royal blue, mounted on copper, my clock with those impossible flowers, that rococco chan- delier, and the tap... ...ains, red; furniture, red; mantelpiece, red, veined yellow, candelabra and clock ditto mounted on bronze, common and heavy in design,—Roman standards ... ... common and heavy in design,—Roman standards with Greek foliage! Above the clock is that inevitable good-natured lion which looks at you with a simper... ...of the Left. Perhaps it is meant as a constitutional myth. The face of the clock is curious. The glass over the chimney is framed in that new fashion ... ...ach was not to be dreaded by them. They managed to get along till twelve o’clock by reading the “Bee-hive” and the “Constitutionnel.” The cost of subs... ...nd who counted the votes at elections to suit themselves, etc. About two o’clock Rogron started for a little walk. He was quite happy if some shopkeep... ...last, after he had gone twenty times to the kitchen and back, compared the clocks, and opened and shut all the doors of the house. So long as the brot... ...a case of goods. Four days after her depar- ture from Nantes, about nine o’clock of a Monday night, a kind old conductor of the Messageries-royales, t...

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...reads in the Parliamentary Debates of this Wednesday evening ‘past seven o’clock,’ the scene with the military fugitives from Longwi. Wayworn, dusty, ... ...after his kind. Huge Placards are getting plastered to the walls; at two o’clock the stormbell shall be sounded, the alarm-cannon fired; all Paris sha... ...talics. (Biographie des Ministres (Bruxelles, 1826), p. 96.) At two of the clock, Beaurepaire, as we saw, has shot himself at Verdun; and over Europe,... ... a Day black in the Annals of Men.— The tocsin is pealing its loudest, the clocks inaudibly striking Three, when poor Abbe Sicard, with some thirty ot... ...hrough above the hundred-and-first, for want of a better. ‘Towards seven o’clock’ (Sunday night, at the Abbaye; for Jourgniac goes by dates): ‘We saw ... ... themselves. They were all butchered there, as we shortly gathered. ‘Ten o’clock: The Abbe Lenfant and the Abbe de Chapt- Rastignac appeared in the pu... ...ical of these Pamphlets; and stands testing by documents: ‘Towards seven o’clock, ’ on Sunday night, ‘prisoners were called frequently, and they did n... ...rt, ’ and also ‘on religion. ’ Finally, however, between seven and eight o’clock in the morning, enter four men with bludgeons and sabres!—’to one of ... ...sion made. Till an hour after sunset, the few remaining 55 Thomas Carlyle Clocks of the District striking Seven; at this late time of day Brunswick t...

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...tering umbrellas, and the coarsest tallow candles. About half past seven o’clock in the evening, some ten days or a fortnight after Mr. Pickwick and h... ...he window, and noise enough made to bring the fire engines here, at two o’clock in the morning?—Turn them wretches away.’ ‘You ought to be ashamed of... ...Mr. Perker’s chambers and back again, from and between the hours of nine o’clock in the morning and two in the afternoon, both inclusive. Not that the... ...out, wot then?’ ‘Why then,’ said the boy, ‘you was to come to him at six o’clock to our ‘ouse, ‘cos he wants to see you—Blue Boar, Leaden’all Markit. ... ...o whose hands they might fall. Let me read the first: “Garraways, twelve o’clock. Dear Mrs. B.—Chops and tomato sauce. Y ours, Pickwick.” Gentlemen, ... ...ed to the White Horse Cellar, to take five places by the half past seven o’clock coach, next morning. There were just two places to be had inside, and... ...boxes, for the solitary confinement of travellers, and is furnished with a clock, a looking glass, and a live waiter, which latter article is kept in ... ... moderate number of mouths could have eaten it in the time. And at seven o’clock P .m. Mr. Pickwick and his friends, and Mr. Dowler and his wife, resp... ...nguished visitors in Ba ath will be at the Pump Room this morning at two o’clock,’ replied the M.C. ‘Will you guide our friends to that splendid build...

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...ut on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous stre... ...re and full shape of her well-turned leg, in its red cotton, gray and blue clocked, stocking. At three paces from her, seated in a chair which he bala... ...length of the house. And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient ... ...ished. His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-c... ...have purchased permission to waive the usual delay; and at half-past two o’clock the mayor of Marseilles will be waiting for us at the city hall. Now,... ...fair. Arrived here only yesterday morning, and mar- ried to-day at three o’clock! Commend me to a sailor for going the quick way to work!” “But,” aske... ... re- sponded by a look of grateful pleasure; while Mercedes glanced at the clock and made an expressive gesture to Edmond. Around the table reigned th... ...hall we not set forth?” asked the sweet, silvery voice of Mercedes; “two o’clock has just struck, and you know we are expected in a quarter of an hour... ... the prison, — a sombre edifice, that from its grated windows looks on the clock- tower of the Accoules. After numberless windings, Dantes saw a door ...

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... after.” All hands worked on in silence for some minutes, until the church clock began to strike six. Before the first stroke had died away, Sandy Jim... ... can’t abide to see men throw away their tools i’ that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i’ their work and was a... ...reckon. I hate to see a man’s arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock’s fairly struck, just as if he’d never a bit o’ pride and delight in ... ...oice that you hear, as Lisbeth says, “Well, my lad, it’s gone seven by th’ clock. Thee’t allays stay till the last child’s born. Thee wants thy supper... ...ing supper when here’s a coffin promised to be ready at Brox’on by seven o’clock to-morrow morning, and ought to ha’ been there now, and not a nail st... ... always silenced. So the hours passed, to the loud ticking of the old day- clock and the sound of Adam’s tools. At last he called for a light and a dr... ... Seth comes. He wonna be long now, I reckon.” It was then past nine by the clock, which was always in advance of the days, and before it had struck te... ... no sound was to be heard in the house but the loud ticking of the old day-clock and the ringing of Adam’s tools. The night was very still: when Adam ... ...he night was very still: when Adam opened the door to look out at twelve o’clock, the only motion seemed to be in the glowing, twinkling stars; every ...

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... and take possession of my house, which I vacate for her this day at one o’clock, P .M.,” and then with the utmost seriousness, and in the most emphat... ...e weathercock, or in the barking of the dogs, or in the slow striking of a clock. So, encountering presently a sweet smell of limes, whose rustling I ... ...xt day’s light awoke me, it was gone. My dear girl was to arrive at five o’clock in the afternoon. How to help myself through the intermediate time be... ...d conversation with me. I proposed to walk with him in the park at seven o’clock, and this was arranged. Mr. Skimpole soon afterwards appeared and mad... ...onde scension to the boys, was a sight. And thus we danced an hour by the clock. When the practice was concluded, Caddy’s husband made himself ready ... ... appointment for our fetching away your things. There goes the hour by the clock! T ony”—Mr. Guppy becomes mysteriously and tenderly eloquent—”it is n... ...s many moments as you please. Time is no object here. We never know what o’clock it is, and we never care. Not the way to get on in life, you’ll tell ... ... draw is near its journey’s end and drags over stony ground. All round the clock it labours up the broken steps, shattered and worn. Not many times ca... ...ut is inclined to doubt it by a minute or thereabouts. There is a splendid clock upon the staircase, famous, as splendid clocks not often are, for its...

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... of All. F. N. NEW YORK June 4, 1901. 5 Frank Norris I I I I I AT EIGHT O’CLOCK in the inner vestibule of the Audito- rium Theatre by the window of t... ...he whole neighbourhood was alive, and this, though it was close upon one o’clock in the morning! “Why, what is it all?” she murmured. Corthell could n... ...l be right down and see to it so soon as I’m dressed.” It was nearly ten o’clock before breakfast, such as it was, was over. They ate it on the kitche... ...these curtains afterward. Inwardly I’m a ravening wolf.” It was past one o’clock by the time that luncheon, “picked up” though it was, was over. By th... ...of wife or mother, or daughter or sister—they passed every day from nine o’clock till evening? It was a life in which women had no part, and in which,... ...er foot and looking into the fire. For a long time neither spoke. A little clock of brass and black marble began to chime, very prettily, the half hou... ...of the Board of Trade Building, only a few steps away. It was about nine o’clock; the weather was mild, the sun shone. La Salle Street swarmed with th... ...elf in the corridor on the ground floor of the Board of Trade about nine o’clock. He had just come out of the office of Gretry, Converse & Co., where ... ...vous, fastidi- ous taps of their yellow beaks. Landry cast a glance at the clock beneath the dial on the wall behind him. It was twenty-five minutes a...

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...lled, was an assemblage of all the Court in the grand saloon, from seven o’clock in the evening until ten, when the King sat down to table; and, after... ... attention to my private affairs, for on the above-mentioned day, at ten o’clock in the morning, I had the misfortune to lose my father. He was eighty... ...iled. It was ulti- mately agreed that upon an early day, at about twelve o’clock, they should meet at the Porte St. Honore, then a very de- serted spo... ...ailles, and sought a private interview with M. de Beauvilliers. At eight o’clock the same evening he re- ceived me alone in the cabinet of Madame de B... ...hout waiting for a reply hastened away. I had the next evening, at eight o’clock, an interview with Madame de Beauvilliers. I argued with her with suc... ...d, so great had been the confusion, that the first troops arrived at one o’clock at night, and the last late in the morning of the next day. I thought... ...Simon despatched with the intelligence; but he did not arrive until five o’clock in the morning of the 26th of September. He had amused himself by the... .... The day passed wearily. The King and Queen of England came about seven o’clock in the evening, and some time afterwards supper was served. Upon risi... ... turn behind them, and the dresses of all beautiful. It commenced at six o’clock. The King came at the end, and led all the ladies into the saloon nea...

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...ere were French-polished tables, chairs, bed- steads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made,... ...or a horse’s tramp, or the rattling of a chain. Or else, there is a turret-clock, which, at the midnight hour, strikes thirteen when the head of the f... ...ay-time, unless poorly; and which I usually leave in the morning at nine o’clock, on pretence of going to business. I take my breakfast—my roll and bu... ...es Dickens pens to be cold. I get through the day in this way until five o’clock, and then I dine: at a cost, on the average, of one and threepence. H... ...e my cup of tea, and perhaps my bit of toast. So, as the large hand of the clock makes its way round to the morning hour again, I make my way round to...

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... 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 ...

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... the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went 28 Dombey & Son along. It was soon gone again to return n... ...sion, he would have believed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he... ...the state of the weather, it often blew great guns. It is half-past five o’clock, and an autumn afternoon, when the reader and Solomon Gills become ac... ...ter, and said, without any introductory remark: ‘I suppose he could make a clock if he tried?’ ‘I shouldn’t wonder, Captain Cuttle,’ returned the boy.... ...e, making a species of ser- pent in the air with his hook. ‘Lord, how that clock would go!’ For a moment or two he seemed quite lost in contemplat- in... ...eys to Banbury Cross and back, took sharp note of the furniture, the Dutch clock, the cupboard, the castle on the mantel-piece with red and green wind... ...City; also to wait at the street corner where she would be left, until the clock struck three. These directions Mrs Brown enforced with assurances tha... ...udible. Pointing out this gate- way , and informing Florence that when the clocks struck three she was to go to the left, Mrs Brown, after making a pa... ...n the street, and more and more bewildered by it; and in the meanwhile the clocks appeared to have made up their minds never to strike three any more....

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...e, that the old lady always produced at dinner, and with the tray at ten o’clock, and which I dared not refuse; though upon my word and honour it made... ...urself what you please with it.” With this the old lady bade me adieu. The clock was striking twelve as I walked down the village, for the story of Mu... ... quick that, if the thing had been possible, I should have overtaken ten o’clock that had passed by me two hours ago, when I was listening to Mrs. H.’... ...r’s. And if any of you gents like a glass of punch this evening at eight o’clock, Bob Swinney’s your man, and nothing to pay. If Mr. Brough would do m... ... One day Gus Hoskins and I asked leave from Roundhand to be off at three o’clock, as we had particular business at the West End. He knew it was about ... ... her carriage, and asked me if I would accept it; and positively, at two o’clock in the morning, there was I, after setting the ladies and my Lord dow... ...the best sermon. On week-days Mrs. Titmarsh would take a walk about five o’clock in the evening on the left-hand side of Lamb’s Conduit Street (as you... ...ng that worthy gent,—he was drinking warm brandy-and- water, Sam, at two o’clock in the day, or at least the room smelt very strongly of that beverage... ... man, it is to think that his children and widow will receive, at eleven o’clock next Saturday, 5,000£. from my friend Mr. Titmarsh, who is now head c...

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...Castle rock, An’ beaten drums wi’ dowie shock, Wauken, at cauld-rife sax o’clock, My chitterin’ frame, I mind me on the kintry cock, The kintry hame. ... ...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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...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...

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... a bit,” was his comment. “I suppose I may call myself that—since eleven o’clock,” I said. Hamilton had stopped eating at the sound of our voices. He ... ... well. Solemnly he lowered it down again and only then said: “Just three o’clock. Y ou will be in time—if you don’t lose any, that is.” “In time for w... ...est her captain officially to give me a passage and wait for me till ten o’clock. Then he rose from his office chair, and I got up, too. My head swam,... ...long, sir! We have been delayed three hours for you… . Our time is seven o’clock, you know!” I stepped on the deck. I said “No! I don’t know.” The spi... ...ded day-dreaming state? I would have been more disconcerted if, having the clock set in the top of the mirror- frame right in front of me, I had not n... ...o raise my voice it was with a pang of remorse and pity. Then about four o’clock in the morning a light would gleam forward in the galley. The unfaili... ...r murmur of any kind, and all our hearts would cease to beat like run-down clocks. It was impossible to shake off that sense of finality. The qui- etn...

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...rouble enough to get you to it! Joe!” “Halloa!” the guard replied. “What o’clock do you make it, Joe?” “T en minutes, good, past eleven.” “My blood!” ... ...ng in Hang ing sword alley, Whitefriars: the time, half past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty. (... ...rowling over it like any four footed inmate of a menagerie. Towards nine o’clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and bu... ...at he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity. “Ten o’clock, sir,” said the man at the tavern, whom he had charged to wake him “t... ..., sir,” said the man at the tavern, whom he had charged to wake him “ten o’clock, sir.” “What’s the matter?” “T en o’clock, sir.” “What do you mean? T... ..., sir.” “What’s the matter?” “T en o’clock, sir.” “What do you mean? Ten o’clock at night?” “Yes, sir. Your honour told me to call you.” A Tale of Two... ...nistered to the lion in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning. “And now we have done, Sydney, fill a b... ...e?” “Guess.” “Do I know her?” “Guess.” “I am not going to guess, at five o’clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. if y... ...t for you.” Accordingly, when Mr. Lorry called that night as late as ten o’clock, Mr. Stryver, among a quantity of books and papers littered out for t...

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...ectric shock Dislinked with shrieks and laughter: round the lake A little clock-work steamer paddling plied And shook the lilies: perched about the ... ...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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...ance; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towards three o’clock, the sun beams out again: the remaining evolutions can be transacted ... ...rrects the proofs; ‘sets out on foot from Auxonne, every morning at four o’clock, for Dole: after looking over the proofs, he par- takes of an extreme... ...his hand, adaman- tine resolution clouding his brows: for two hours by the clocks of Metz. Moody-silent stands Salm, with occasional clangour; but doe... ... as promised, he rolls his drums, and again takes the road. Towards four o’clock, the terror-struck Towns- men may see him face to face. His cannons r... ..., in this point of Space where thou now standest, in this moment which thy clock measures. Or apart from all Transcendentalism, is it not a plain trut... ...ng, like ‘ignes fatui in foul weather, which lead no whither. About ‘ten o’clock at night,’ the Heredi- tary Representative, in partie quarree, with t... ...ocession of a league in length, under the level sun-rays, for it is five o’clock, moves and marches: with its sable plumes; itself in a religious sile... ...g at Saint- Cloud; the King’s Dinner not far from ready there. About one o’clock, the Royal Carriage, with its eight royal blacks, shoots stately into... ...V olume Two three-quarters; ‘seven quarters of an hour, ’ by the Tuileries Clock! Desperate Lafayette will open a passage, were it by the cannon’s mou...

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...ween each name; ‘and all the bileing. Ketches off their bon- nets or shorls, takes a run, and headers down here, they doos. Always a headerin’ down he... ...at Charles Dickens 24 the amount of work was likely to be increased. It certainly was not heavy then, for one Refractory had already done her day’s t... ...y felt a little impatient of it, as a figure of speech not justified by anything the eye could discover. The time appointed for the conclusion of the ... ...s was eight o’clock. The address having lasted until full that time, and it being the custom to conclude with a hymn, the preacher intimated in a few ... ...head police office (on the whole, he seemed rather complimented by the proceeding), and I had been on police parade, and the small The Uncommercial T... ...inglands looked in at a cold and floury baker’s shop, where utilitarian buns unrelieved by a currant, consorted with hard biscuits, a stone filter of ... ...r- land, looking forward and not backward, and so we parted company. Welcome again, the long, long spell of France, with the queer country inns, full ... ...excited; trotted to the foot-lights with his tongue out; and there sat down, panting, and amiably surveying the audi- ence, with his tail beating on t... ... on that direction. The north wall of Burlington House Gardens, between the Arcade and the Albany, offers a shy spot for appointments among blind men ...

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...RN of old Sauviat Graslin paid his first evening visit at half-past nine o’clock. Veronique was expecting him, dressed in her blue silk gown and musli... ... blazed on the hearth. On the chimney- piece, at either side of an antique clock, the value of which was wholly unknown to the Sauviats, six wax candl... ...e chandeliers was calculated; the gilding of the walls, the figures on the clocks, all were discussed; the jardi- nieres, the caloriferes, the objects... ...rawn by Limousin horses chosen by Monsieur Grossetete, drew up at eleven o’clock before the shop of the iron-dealer, bringing, to the great excitement... ... (immense for Limousin) given by the Sauviats to their daughter. At nine o’clock the old iron-dealer returned home and went to bed, leaving his wife t... ...y day, and the two women remained for hours in consultation. It was nine o’clock, and the card tables were still without players, for every one was ta... ...le of March (the date of the murder) daylight dawns between five and six o’clock. To whatever distance the gold had been carried, Tascheron could not ... ...on Graslin, being detained in the court-room, did not come in till eight o’clock. She went into the dining-room as usual, and was present at a discuss... ...of the ceiling were of chestnut which had turned as black as ebony. A tall clock in a green case painted with flowers, a table with a faded green clot...