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...n the kitchen covered with strange brocade; curtains of brocade hung from the window; a clock stood silent on the dresser; a lamp of brass was swingin... ...ted to that rough sea-side farm. ‘She cam’ ashore Februar’ 10, about ten at nicht,’ he *Clock **Enjoy. 13 Merry Men went on to me. ‘There was nae win... ...in the chimney, wailing with flutelike softness round the house. It was perhaps eight o’clock when Rorie came in and pulled me mysteriously to the doo... ...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... ...been ar- rested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock. So he reasoned in vain; he could rise to no more remors... ...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... ...les in the dining-room cupboard; and behold, when he rose again, as he did about four o’clock, the cupboard had been broken open, and the valuables in...

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...d gentleman with a staff and silver spectacles. But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with every minute; until a great 7 The Inland V... ...ere no beds to be had in the neighbourhood. Nothing for it but to lay the sails aside and address ourselves to steady paddling in the rain. Beautiful ... ...s, on the impetuous stream of life. ‘The merchant bows unto the seaman’s star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes.’ And we must all set our p... ...perturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or fright- ened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own pr... ... rides for ever, on the front of the town-hall, the good king Louis XII., the father of his people. Over the king’s head, in the tall centre turret, a... .... There is something highly absurd in the exposition of such toys to the outrages of winter on a housetop. They would be more in keeping in a glass ca...

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...ome wards, but these interruptions were not frequent and soon ceased. The clocks struck one. Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every t... .... A cheerful fire was blaz ing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm... ... without requiring the assistance of a candle. Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness... ...anack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight day clock which hadn’t gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minut... ...een so tormented, so worried, that it’s a mercy we were not here at four o’clock in the after noon. Alick has been in such a state of impatience to c... ...believe that he was dressed before dinner time and has been looking at the clock and teas ing me ever since. It’s all your fault, you naughty thing. ... ...tomed to sit. If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in ... ...e time went on, he mani fested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At leng... ...re frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At length, the clock was hidden from his sight by some envious shutters, then the church s...

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...l ves- sels he forced to luff and fall under his lee; until, about three o’clock of the afternoon, a great ship of three decks of ordnance took the wi... ...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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...kely the dinner is not half cooked, for it is not two yet. Saint Michael’s clock has only just struck half-past one.” “Then why has the master come ho... ...of his character, and I was prepar- ing for a violent outbreak, when two o’clock struck by the little timepiece over the fireplace. At that moment our... ...ng left in the house. Still I held out; I made it a point of honour. Two o’clock struck. This was becoming ridiculous; worse than that, unbearable. I ... ...enditure of vital power, he sank back exhausted into his armchair. “What o’clock is it?” he asked after a few moments of si- lence. “Three o’clock,” I... ...“Tomorrow morning at six precisely,” my uncle decreed “we start.” At ten o’clock I fell upon my bed, a dead lump of inert matter. All through the nigh... ...with a little bathing house, and moving about and grumbling, at last ten o’clock came. The heavy coils of smoke from the Ellenora’s funnel un- rolled ... ...venant that his wages should be counted out to him every Saturday at six o’clock in the evening, which, according to him, was one indispensable part o... ... seemed to pay very little attention to his energetic directions. At six o’clock our preparations were over. M. Fridrikssen shook hands with us. My un... ...into a ‘pingstaoer’ or parish called Ejulberg, from whose steeple twelve o’clock would have struck, if Icelandic churches were rich enough to possess ...

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...lamp to gas-lamp in a night without end; and the drowsy ticking of the old clock on the landing became dis- tinctly audible in the bedroom. Mrs V erlo... ...to-night,” she murmured, after a pause which lasted for three ticks of the clock. Mr V erloc cared nothing for Stevie’s excitement, but he felt horrib... ... do you know?” “They have been yelling the news in the streets since two o’clock. I bought the paper, and just ran in here. Then I saw you sitting at ... ...untroubled as- surance. While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man’s back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scr... ...well,” he said, and paused, as if in deliberate con- tempt of the official clock. “But what first put you in motion in this direction?” “I have been a... ...ook `ere, young feller. `Ow’d you like to sit behind this `oss up to two o’clock in the morning p’raps?” Stevie looked vacantly into the fierce little... ...was changing slowly into dread. “Y ou may well look! Till three and four o’clock in the morn- ing. Cold and `ungry. Looking for fares. Drunks.” His jo... ... erloc. All was so still without and within that the lonely ticking of the clock on the landing stole into the room as if for the sake of company. Mr ... ... woman here all day. I shall do very well with Stevie.” She let the lonely clock on the landing count off fifteen ticks into the abyss of eternity, an...

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... quite a body of quiet sounds from the interior; doubtless there were many clocks ticking, and people snoring on their backs. And thus, as I fancied, ... ..., the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their rest- ing Gr... ...hung suspended in this manner on the brink of their diversions. From ten o’clock on Sunday night, my friend heard them tuning their instruments: and a...

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...N NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the ... ...ere they were to dine; for one answer led to many other questions, as what o’clock it was? or, how soon should we be there? and he could not afford to... ...e incessant chirp of grasshoppers – a noise like the winding up of countless clocks and watches, which began after a while to seem proper to that land... ... up in the wagon so that we could get at them in a minit. It was about two o’clock in the afternoon; droave the cattel a little way; when a prairie ch... ...that was in it. 27 Robert Louis Stevenson “We traveld on till about eight o’clock, We caught up with one wagon with too men with it. We had traveld w... ...he earth with us, but it seems they must be of different clay. They hear the clock strike the same hour, yet surely of a different epoch. They travel ... ... business at that moment was to seek for straying cattle. I asked him what o’clock it was, but he seemed nei- ther to know nor care; and when he in hi... ...ow. There you were free to dream and wander. And at noon, and again at six o’clock, a good meal awaited you on Siron’s table. The whole of your accomm... ...echal-des-logis looked at his watch. “You may leave,” said he, “by the ten o’clock train for Paris.” And at noon the next day the travellers were tell...

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... audience; and the hour, I think, is come To give him hearing: is it four o’clock? ELY: It is. CANTERBURY: Then go we in, to know his embassy; Whic... ...t. Now is it time to arm: come, shall we about it? ORLEANS: It is now two o’clock: but, let me see, by ten We shall have each a hundred Englishmen. [... ...rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation: The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of their...

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...trousers showed below her petticoats. After dinner till nine 6 Honorine o’clock, when a collation was served, though the conversa- tion had been gay ... ... event of God’s taking me to Himself. I shall have finished mass at nine o’clock; you have three-quarters of an hour before you. Be ready.’ “ ‘What, u... ...riars have been waiting in the drawing-room for two hours.’ “It was nine o’clock. “ ‘Well, gentlemen, you find yourselves compelled to dine with pries... ...round floor, which the unavowed propri- etor had had regilt. “It was ten o’clock. The twilight of July and a glorious moon lent us their misty light. ... ...ing, “his wife was listening! Unhappy man!” Eleven was striking by all the clocks, and the guests went home on foot along the seashore. “Still, that i...

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...as a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o’clock, I was trying to get home. But somehow I was lost, Though really keep... ... or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with clocks And little engines with tracks to run on And telephones of cans and ... ...ss a part of the question Of what the drama means. Zilpha Marsh AT four o’clock in late October I sat alone in the country school-house Back from the... ...dy voters, and the cries of chieftains Who manned the battle. But at ten o’clock The liberals bellowed fraud, and at the polls The rival candidates gr... ...d something— 93 At first you will know not what they mean, 114 At four o’clock in late October 117 B Back and forth, back and forth, to and from th...

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...ver, and my godmother and I were sitting at the table before the fire. The clock ticked, the fire clicked; not another sound had been heard in the roo... ...ide. I was reading aloud, and she was listening. I had come down at nine o’clock as I always did to read the Bible to her, and was reading from St. Jo... ... than Greenleaf. There was a time for everything all round the dial of the clock, and ev erything was done at its appointed moment. We were twelve bo... ... capacity. We have arrngd for your being forded, carriage free, pr eight o’clock coach from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Pi... ...ings, that I felt quite ashamed to have thought so little about it. “Six o’clock!” said Mrs. Jellyby. “And our dinner hour is nominally (for we dine a... ... that they made me laugh in the most ridiculous manner. Soon after seven o’clock we went down to dinner, care fully, by Mrs. Jellyby’s advice, for th... ...er mouth. She mentioned, as she passed us, that she had been to see what o’clock it was. But before we met the cook, we met Richard, who was dancing u... ...fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her. At one o’clock an open carriage arrived for us, and a cart for our luggage. Mrs. Jel... ...ether. It was late before we separated, for when Ada was going at eleven o’clock, Mr. Skimpole went to the piano and rattled hilariously that the best...

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...out a kind of sallow warmth in her skin, and although it was nearly four o’clock in the after- noon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domest... ...hree. Mrs. Larkins had to sit down in the windsor chair by the grandfather clock (which was dark with dirt and not going) to laugh at her ease at his ... ... “They’ll have to do without you,” said Mr. Polly, sticking to his guns. A clock in the town began striking. 85 H G Wells “Lor’!” said Miriam, “we sh... ... watchmaker, left things to his wife while he went about the world winding clocks, but Mr. Polly had none of these arts, and wouldn’t, in spite of Mir... ...was the good of going through it now again? It was over and done with. The clock in the back parlour pinged the half hour. “Time!” said Mr. Polly, and... ... Man. There’s no going back to it.” III III III III III IT WAS ABOUT TWO O’CLOCK in the afternoon one hot day in high May when Mr. Polly, unhurrying a... ...or credit, and three very bright red-cheeked wax apples and a round-shaped clock. But these were the mere background to the really pleasant thing in t... ...k, whitewashing gen- erally, plumbing and engineering, repairing locks and clocks, waiting and tapster’s work generally , beating carpets and mats, cl... .... Punting he found was difficult, but not im- possible, and towards four o’clock he succeeded in convey- ing a second passenger across the sundering f...

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...t Vierzon than at the hotel at Bourges, which, when I reached it at nine o’clock at night, did not strike me as the prince of hotels. The inns in the ... ...had my dinner at the inn, I went and waited for the train which, at nine o’clock in the evening, was to convey me, in a couple of hours, to Nantes,—an... ...fied aperture just mentioned; one of them, an old gray arch beneath a fine clock-tower, I had passed through on my way from the station. This pictur- ... ..., bandied high-voiced compliments with the voyageurs de commerce. At ten o’clock in the morning there was a table d’hote for breakfast,—a wonderful re... ... taste of the early years of the present century, the period that produced clocks surmounted with sentimen- tal “subjects.” Stendhal does not admire t... ...s surmounted with sentimen- tal “subjects.” Stendhal does not admire these clocks, but he almost does. He admires Domenichino and Guer- cino, and priz... ...eal. Nothing could be more provincial than the situation of Arles at ten o’clock at night. At last I arrived at a kind of embankment, where I could se... ...ack to Isle- sur-Sorgues in the fading light. This village, where at six o’clock every one appeared to have gone to bed, was fairly darkened by its hi... ...joy the spectacle. It exhibited a certain sameness, however, and by nine o’clock there was considerable ani- mation in the Place Crillon, where there ...

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... I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began... ... the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen s Head in a Dutch clock, un- til they reached my mother. Then she made a frown and a gesture ... ... This was in part confirmed by his aunt, who saw him at half past twelve o clock, soon after his release, and affirmed that he was then as red as I wa... ...ully clean inside, and as tidy as possible. There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of draw- ers there was a te... ...third evening of our visit, and by Mrs. Gummidge s looking up at the Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and say- ing he was there, and that, what wa... ...th great bitterness. Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o clock, this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very... ...out upon himself with boiled beef. We had started from Yarmouth at three o clock in the afternoon, and we were due in London about eight next morning.... ... sleep. Mr. Barkis the carrier was to call for me in the morning at nine o clock. I got up at eight, a little 131 David Copperfield Vol. I giddy fr... ...vol- ume of my life, will never pass out of my memory. It was almost ten o clock before we heard the sound of wheels. We all got up then; and my mothe...

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... 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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...morning to do some shopping for me, and was to go on to Bellomont at one o’clock, and my aunt’s house is closed, and I don’t know a soul in town.” She... ...oth laughed for pure pleasure in their sudden intimacy. She glanced at the clock. “Dear me! I must be off. It’s after five.” She paused before the man... ... an intermediate space between the butler and the man who came to wind the clocks. Even to the eyes of infancy, Mrs. Hudson Bart had appeared young; b... ...ive stroke which finally, after a lapse of time recorded in minutes by the clock, in hours by the precipi- tate beat of her pulses, put her in possess... ...me from Paquin.” Mrs. Peniston rose abruptly, and, advancing to the ormolu clock surmounted by a helmeted Minerva, which throned on the chimney-piece ... ...ll right, then: that’s a go. Will you come tomorrow? To- morrow at three o’clock, at the end of the Mall. I’ll be there sharp, remember; you won’t go ... ...It was the loneliness that frightened her. Her eyes fell on an illuminated clock at a street corner, and she saw that the hands marked the half hour a... ...rd; I believe I had a card from her.” He glanced at the foolish pink-faced clock that was drumming out this hid- eous hour. “A quarter past ten? I mig... ...med like some cruel creature experimenting in a laboratory. The pink-faced clock drummed out another hour, and Gerty rose with a start. She had an app...

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...ir base and broadening at the middle. The main building is sur- rounded by clock-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or le... ...ge church, which is nothing more than a tumble-down building with a wooden clock- tower which appears to hold up a roof of broken tiles. One comfortab... ...rs; a Parisian is there- fore compelled to be alone from eight to eleven o’clock, the hour chosen in all country-houses for breakfast. Now, hav- ing g... ...ry nature, the gardens of Conches are seen, with the village roofs and the clock-tower and the outlying fields. There are the two paragraphs, but the ... ... court is up.’ If he had wanted to find the cows he’d have gone at seven o’clock in the morning. But that didn’t suit Michaud, and Brunet has had to b... ...et- tee, the high-backed chairs covered with tapestry, the con- soles, the clocks, the tall embroidery frames, the tables, the lustres, hidden away in... ...opy to which embroidered mus- lin curtains are fastened—stood an alabaster clock between 150 Sons of the Soil two candelabra covered with gauze and f... ...ket fastened to the wall opposite to the window was a common but excellent clock. The curtains, which squeaked upon their rods, were at least fifty ye... ...ural, the other whetted by his training in a cloister. It was about four o’clock when Vaudoyer left the tavern of the Grand-I-Vert to consult the form...

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...breath. There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute-... ... not understood what he was there for, and thought it might be to wind the clock—of which he perceived that the only visible specimen had stopped. He ... ...not like. And so I have just told Sillerton Jackson.” With a glance at the clock he rose and added: “But Louisa will be waiting. W e are dining early,... ...gnation, or at least a brief cry of denial. None came. A little travelling clock ticked purringly at her elbow, and a log broke in two and sent up a s... ...t on being asked to dine, and sent back to the station to catch the nine o’clock train; but more than that he would certainly not get, for it would be... ...dinary things that foreigners invent about us. They think we dine at two o’clock and countenance divorce! That is why it seems to me so foolish to ent... ...inating discovery of the Direct Contact? But no; I see it is nearly nine o’clock, and we have no right to detain you while so many are waiting for you... ...ed his ponderous gold time-piece with Ma- dame Olenska’s little travelling-clock, he reluctantly gathered up his mighty limbs for departure. “I shall ... ...ts, the watchful servants, the perpetually re- minding tick of disciplined clocks, the perpetually renewed stack of cards and invitations on the hall ...

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...fresh the feebler sort. Pilgrim’s Progress. A CAMP IN THE DARK THE NEXT DAY (T uesday, September 24th), it was two o’clock in the afternoon before I g... ...helf four yards long and garnished with lanterns and reli- gious statuettes, its array of chests and pair of ticking clocks, was the very model of wha... ...ys. They were intelligent and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine, until the state of the clock fright- ened us to rest. Th... ...afar off by the glint of the moon 84 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne on his extinguished lantern. Before ten o’clock we had got in and were at s...