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... 1455 King. Is it good- morrow, Lords? 1456 War. ’Tis One a Clock, and past. 1457 King. Why then good- morrow to you all (my Lo... ...he Trumpets haue sounded twice. 3209 1.Groo. It will be two of the Clocke, ere they come 3210 from the Coronation. Exit Groo. 3211 En...

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... for Falk had taken away the Diana at half-past five, and it was now two o’clock. Schomberg wished me to observe that neither of these men would spend...

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...In Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduction of Pendulum Clocks; thinking it had some- thing to do with the Gabelle. Paris requires ... ...n at such distance would like to affirm: at the same time, as it was two o’clock in a May Afternoon, and these royal Stables must have been some five ... ...m from the cloud of witnesses, by declaring ‘his head deranged.’ At four o’clock, the signa- tures are all appended; new meeting is fixed for Monday m... ...elting away in that manner, has not the smallest humour to fire! At five o’clock this morning, as he lay dreaming, oblivious in the Ecole Militaire, a... ...lie, half-pay Hulin rage in the midst of thousands. How the great Bastille Clock ticks (inaudible) in its Inner Court there, at its ease, hour after h... ... shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker’s apartment; no longer me... ...of it flies, with a velocity of sound, to the outmost Barriers. By seven o’clock, on this raw October morning, fifth of the month, the Townhall will s... ...e day; Usher Maillard shall stay by him to repress the women. It is four o’clock, of the miserablest afternoon, when Mounier steps out. O experienced ... ...lingers Mounier; returns not with his Deputation? It is six, it is seven o’clock; and still no Mounier, no Acceptance pure and simple. And, behold, th...

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...6th of April, such as I have described it, that 6th of April, about nine o’clock in the morn- 19 Thomas de Quincey ing, we were seated at breakfast n... ... of this the final morning of what mer- its to be called my life. Eleven o’clock, I remember, was strik- ing when Agnes came into my study, and said t... ...she went out—her last words being that she would return at half-past one o’clock; and not long after that time, if ever mimic bells—bells of rejoicing... ...f my earthly happiness—its final hour had sounded. * * * One o’clock had arrived; fifteen minutes after, I strolled into the garden, and b... ... had all retired for the afternoon, and would not reassemble until eight o’clock in the evening. Some clerks only or officers of the court remained, w... ...au- 46 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers tion, I asked her simply what o’clock it was. ‘Eleven in the forenoon,’ she replied. ‘And what day of the m... ... appointed for the first day’s interview was eight 53 Thomas de Quincey o’clock in the evening. On the outside of the jail all was sum- mer light and... ...of obtaining an interview of persuasion. The night was wet; and at seven o’clock, the hour fixed for the inter- view, we were seated in readiness, muc... ...f course, under more restrictions with regard to the criminal class. Ten o’clock came—the hour at which we had been instructed to hold ourselves in re...

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... Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduc- tion of Pendulum Clocks; thinking it had something to do with the Gabelle. Paris requires to... ...at such dis- tance would like to affirm: at the same time, as it was two o’clock in a May Afternoon, and these royal Stables must have been some five ... ...rom the cloud of witnesses, by declar- ing ‘his head deranged. ’ At four o’clock, the signatures are all appended; new meeting is fixed for Monday mor... ...elting away in that manner, has not the smallest humour to fire! At five o’clock this morning, as he lay dreaming, oblivious in the Ecole Militaire, a... ...e, half-pay Hulin rage in the midst of thou- sands. How the great Bastille Clock ticks (inaudible) in its Inner Court there, at its ease, hour after h... ... shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker’s apartment; no longer me... ...of it flies, with a velocity of sound, to the outmost Barriers. By seven o’clock, on this raw October morning, fifth of the month, the Townhall will s... ...e day; Usher Maillard shall stay by him to repress the women. It is four o’clock, of the miserablest afternoon, when Mounier steps out. 229 Thomas Ca... ...ngers Mounier; returns not with his Deputa- tion? It is six, it is seven o’clock; and still no Mounier, no Acceptance pure and simple. And, behold, th...

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...oods, sombre and heavy , in nooks and corners of the building. The steeple-clock, perched up above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the co... ...d sits upon the coffins. And now comes bright day , burnishing the steeple-clock, and red- 31 Charles Dickens dening the spire, and drying up the tea... ...ally among the women: not one of whom has had a wink of sleep since four o’clock, and all of whom were fully dressed before six. Mr T owlinson is an o... ... 34 Dombey & Son to go. But Cousin Feenix, getting up at half-past seven o’clock or so, is quite another thing from Cousin Feenix got up; and very dim... ... of time; everybody conceiving that it ought to be, at the earliest, ten o’clock at night, whereas it is not yet three in the afternoon. A shadowy ide... ...ut it, and are so repentant over their early tea, at home, that by eight o’clock or so, they settle down into confirmed serious- ness; and Mr Perch, a... ... his hand, and then drumming thought- fully on the table, ‘we go on in our clockwork routine, from day to day, and can’t make out, or follow, these ch... ...ond, that you will allow me sometimes, say every Monday morning, at nine o’clock—habit again—I must be businesslike,’ said the gentleman, with a whims... ...wed her to the door. He sat in his shadowy corner so long, that the church clocks struck the hour three times before he moved that night. All that whi...

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...g what they may devour. And so to sleep, despite fleas and fire-alarms and clocks chiming the hours out of neighbouring houses at all sorts of odd tim... ...tting out of bed and into their horrid cold tubs by the light of a seven o’clock candle, with the dismal seven o’clock frost-flowers all over the wind... ... to engineer, who has been very jolly and useful to me, and hope by five o’clock on Saturday morning to be driving Modestine to- wards the Gevaudan. M... ...write you this with the other. I reached N.Y . Sunday night; and by five o’clock Monday was under way for the West. It is now about ten on Wednesday m... ...e books was answered that same night, and the answer left Davos by seven o’clock next morning. Perhaps the snow delayed then; if so, ’tis a good hint ... ...II. ‘What the Wreck had brought to Aros.’ Eh, boy? what had it? Silver and clocks and bro- cades, and what a conscience, what a mad brain! Chapter III...

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...horsehair-covered chairs, a table cov- ered with a green cloth, a trumpery clock between a couple of candle sconces, growing tarnished under glass sha... ..., he has a fancy; and be- cause he is sixty-nine, he is as methodical as a clock face. Every day at five o’clock the old gentleman goes to dine with h... ...ne with her in the Rue de la Victoire. (I am sorry for her.) Then at six o’clock, he comes here, reads steadily at the papers for four hours, and goes... ... here, reads steadily at the papers for four hours, and goes back at ten o’clock. Daddy Croizeau says that he knows M. Denisart’s motives, and approve... ... am Mme. Croizeau, I shall have four hours to myself between six and ten o’clock.’ “Maxime looked through the directory, and found the fol- lowing rea... ...ssels carpets, a mediaeval bedstead worth three thou- sand francs, a Boule clock, candelabra in the four corners of the dining-room, silk curtains, on...

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..., type reports, and search the Internet. The lab is only open until nine o clock at night during the week and weekends. There are only about fifty com... ...can use them for as long as they want. They do not have to leave at nine o clock like they do in the lab. Overall, if the new computer plan worked at ... ... lunch buffet kicks off at eleven in the morning and continues until two o clock, and the dinner buffet runs from five until eight o clock in the even... ...k night in No- vember of the following year. It was somewhere around one o clock in the morning when we arrived at the bridge. My friend, Joe, was dri... ...arly to finish the milking and chores so we can be in the woods by eight o clock. When we finally have the morning chores done and finish eating break...

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...f Denmark did, Messrs. Idle and Goodchild rode away from Carlisle at eight o’clock one forenoon, bound for the village of Hesket, Newmarket, some four... ...hands stealthily one over the other. ‘As sober as a judge, and as regular as clock work in his habits. It hasn’t struck nine, not ten minutes ago, and... ...id the landlord, composedly. ‘Yes, he’s dead, sure enough. He died at five o’clock to day.’ ‘How did he die? Who is he?’ asked Arthur, staggered, for ... ... looking vacantly into the black darkness outside, he heard a distant church clock strike ten. Only ten! How was he to pass the time till the house wa... ... he could begin read ing the riddles printed here, the sound of the church clock stopped him. Eleven. He had got through an hour of the time, in the... ...tion of walking up and down the room; persevering in it, this time, till the clock struck again. Twelve. As the sound of the clock bell died away, it ... ...nt again before he had left in the morning. I returned to the Inn at eight o’clock, purposely ab staining from waking Arthur, who was sleeping off th... ...r a sound. His sense of hearing, how ever, was acute, and he could hear the clock strike Two. No sooner had he heard the clock strike Two, than he sa... ... fitfully haunted then. At One in the morning. I am what you saw me when the clock struck that hour—One old man. At Two in the morning, I am Two old m...

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...m of Baden-Baden, to the grounds of the Conversation-house. It was eight o’clock, and Longueville, after removing the stains of travel, sat down to di... ... was often good, a great many people assembled under the trees, at three o’clock, to listen to it. This was not, as a regular thing, an hour of re-uni... ...e Conversation-house until the evening. Bernard, one afternoon, at three o’clock, directed his steps to this small world-centre of Baden, and, passing... .... They cer- tainly affected Angela’s—putting it into her head, at eleven o’clock, to come out to walk.” Angela did nothing whatever to defend herself ... ...h Gordon had bequeathed to him. “I supposed people went to bed at eleven o’clock,” he said. Angela glanced about her, without meeting his eye. “They s... .... “Do you know what I shall tell him? I shall tell him that about eleven o’clock at night you become peculiarly attractive.” She went on again a few s... ...n’s hand—a note of which the following proved to be the contents. “Seven o’clock, A.M. “My dear Bernard: Circumstances have determined me 87 Henry Ja... ...st no time in learning that his friend had in fact departed by the eight o’clock train—the morning was now well advanced; and then, over his breakfast... ... his just privilege. The project of leaving Blanquais-les-Galets at nine o’clock in the morning dropped lightly from his mind, making no noise as it f...

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...” “This is Wednesday. She’ll be back Saturday, in the evening—about nine o’clock, likely.” I felt a sharp sense of disappointment. “I’m sorry, because... ...ed, I’m getting right down worried. I know she’s not due till about nine o’clock, and yet some thing seems to be trying to warn me that something’s h... ... she was 127 Mark Twain well, didn’t it? And said she’d be here by nine o’clock, didn’t it? Did you ever know her to fail of her word? Why, you know ... ...I did. Henry was served last. He had hardly swal lowed his drink when the clock began to strike. He listened till it finished, his face growing pale ... ...st you go? Well, good by. Pause. Yes, I think so. Good by. Pause. Four o’clock, then—I’ll be ready. Good by. Pause. Thank you ever so much. Good b... ...ate of the telegram, Rome, November 24, ten minutes before twenty three o’clock. The telegram seems to say, “The Sovereigns and the Royal Children ex... ... expect themselves at Rome tomor row at fifty one minutes after fifteen o’clock.” I do not know about Italian time, but I judge it begins at midnight... ...I was lying there trying the India rubber rings. I remember looking at the clock and noticing that in an hour and twenty five minutes I would be two w... ...t ’tis God that has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. Funeral at 2 o’clock sharp. There is something very simple and pleasant about the followin...

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...ght,’ said Caroline. Mr. Adister consulted his watch and the man- telpiece clock for a minute of difference between them, re- marking that he was a pr... .... Mistress Adister O’Donnell’s head rounded as by slow at- traction to the clock. Her disciplined husband signified an equal mixture of contrition and... ...dith me that you may count on him for what the great Napoleon called two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage; not too common even in his immortal army:—whe... ... her husband’s proffered arm unhesitatingly at the appointed stroke of the clock. She said: ‘Yes,’ in agreement with him, as if she had never heard hi... ...s genial, if you remember the whisky and the fumes of our tobacco at one o’clock!’ ‘I shall recollect the evening with the utmost pleasure. You were k... ...But you are in the air! exposed! My head makes me stupid. It is now five o’clock. The air begins to chill. Con will never forgive me if you catch a co...

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... drama, who were at present scattered through the rooms. At about eleven o’clock, just as the dancers were returning to their seats, the company had o...

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...id and ineffi- cient, that he could not distinguish the hour upon the town-clock. Johnson, upon the first violent attack of this disorder, strove to o... ...d I should. A few days after- wards I met him near Temple-bar, about one o’clock in the morning, and asked if he would then go to the Mitre. ‘Sir, (sa... ...e; and when I asked him the reason, he said, ‘It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps in his closet; but to have it upon his watch which ... ...ife, during my acquain- tance, seemed to be pretty uniform. About twelve o’clock I commonly visited him, and fre- quently found him in bed, or declaim... ...uld leave him; and when I looked at my watch, and told him it was twelve o’clock, he cried, What’s that to you and me?’ and ordered Frank to tell Mrs.... ...ere we had lain the preceding night, we arrived at Birmingham about nine o’clock, and, after breakfast, went to call on his old schoolfellow Mr. Hecto... ...on is quite monosyllabical: and when, at my last visit, I asked him what a clock it was? that signal of my depar- ture had so pleasing an effect on hi... ...lattery in a maid of honour in France, who being asked by the Queen what o’clock it was, answered, ‘What your Majesty pleases.’ He admitted that Mr. B... ...ou he has a great respect for you, and will call on you to-morrow at one o’clock, and com- municate all he knows about Pope.’—Here I paused, in full e...

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... compete together, the performance would have been regulated by the water- clock,—as indeed we are told was formerly done. But the limit as fixed by t...

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...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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... music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the clock-tower, and out into the terrace, where was a fine prospect of sunset ... ...h the estate came into the present family; how the Roundheads attacked the clock-tower, which my lord’s fa- ther was slain in defending. “I was but tw... ...ross; and pretty small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white pantofles with red heels; and an odor of... ...lace was taken and stormed. The besiegers entered at the terrace under the clock-tower, slaying every man of the garrison, and at their head my lord’s... ...it seemed to him as if the day never would come. It might have been four o’clock when he heard the door of the opposite chamber, the Chaplain’s room, ... ...home. We rode on towards Newbury; we heard firing towards midday: at two o’clock a horseman comes up to us as we were giving our cattle water at an in... ...that figure, with the brocade dress and the white night-rail, and the gold-clocked red stockings, and white red-heeled shoes, sitting up in the bed, a... ...ut ill. Our messenger found the good priest already at his books at five o’clock in the morning, and he followed the man ea- gerly to the house where ... ...t Springbock, I couldn’t squeeze out a single tear, but danced till five o’clock the next morning. ’Twas the Count—no, ’twas my Lord Ormond that playe...

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...hom I saw at Bologna yesterday, arrived at Cremona in the morning at two o’clock, but by this time his Majesty’s headquarters must have removed more t... ... to penetrate. One thing, however, is certain, and it is this, that as the clock of Victor Emmanuel marks the last minute of the seventy-second hour f... ...ur squadrons of the Wurtemberg hussar regiment, having ad- vanced at six o’clock this morning on the right bank of the Mincio, met the fourth squadron... ...om being a disastrous or irreparable one. The Italians fought from three o’clock in the morning until nine in the evening like lions, showing to their... ...register one of the striking episodes of that memorable day. It was five o’clock p.m. when General Bixio, whose division held an elevated position not... ...mportant fact I have to report to-day is, that whilst I am writing (five o’clock a.m.) three corps of the Italian army are crossing the Oglio at diffe... ... at Torre Malamberti, as it was also this morning between ten and eleven o’clock. Borgoforte is a fortress on the left side of the Po, throwing a brid... ... points, i.e., Carbonara, Carbonarola, and Follonica. Beginning at three o’clock in the morning, he had finished crossing upon the two first pontoon b... ...direc- tion of Ponte Lagoscura. Y esterday guns were heard here at seven o’clock in the morn- ing, and up to eleven o’clock, in the direction of Legna...

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...y through endless whining and “he said/she said” fights. As soon as five o’clock rolled around it was time to eat. Denny’s, Big Boy’s, and Friday’s we... ...nd the weekend is already looking bright. A minute later there is an alarm clock blast and Richard quickly turns it off. His room is always cold but f... ...akfast?” “Yeah, I’ll just finish my cup of coffee.” It is now close to 8 o’clock and Richard goes and wakes Michael and asks him. Michael replies, “No... ... later.” As Michael is saying this, he reaches over to make sure his alarm clock is off, and as he does, his sleeve comes up on his arm, clearly show-... ...ter all. Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, she says. It is six o’clock in the evening. The sun has already started to set, the temperature o...

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...the hands of the public executioner.) * * * TWO MINUTES BEFORE the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the prep... ...-room on the first floor, and a tabble-doat at eighteenpence peredd at 5 o’clock; and the landlord, who kem into Jools’s room smoaking a segar, told t... ...ust to be hup with the sunrice. I coodn’t sleep that night. By abowt six o’clock in the morning I was drest in my full uniform; and I didnt know how t... ...norable the Earl of Bareacres, was ordered on Friday afternoon at eleven o’clock to fetch a cabriolet from the stand in Davies Street. He se- lected t... ...onday Evening. “The mystery is at length solved. This afternoon, at four o’clock, the Hymeneal Blacksmith, of Gretna Green, celebrated the marriage be... ...upper, and he’s at Paddington by this time. Y es,’ says he, looking at the clock, ‘he’s been there these ten minutes.’ “But seeing my poor wife’s dist... ...to fail be- 137 Burlesques fore, and the circumstance occurred at seven o’clock.* I could continue, almost ad infinitum, an account of the wars which... ...tism; I simply mean that my advice to the General, at a quarter past two o’clock in the afternoon of that day, won this great triumph for the British ... ...I have the honor to inform you that I arrived before this place at eight o’clock P .M. with ten thousand cavalry under my orders. I have burned, since...

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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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... of death, the English either fire or candle in their houses after eight o’clock; whether was this to prevent their nocturnal meetings, or only to try... ...tion; a lord, powdered in the tip of the mode, who knows exactly at what o’clock the king rises and goes to bed, and who gives himself airs of gran- d... ... one another. We must, says he, make an experiment to see whether the same clock will go faster on the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; w... ...res the soul to be virtuous, whatever substance it may be made of. It is a clock which is given us to regulate, but the artist has not told us of what...

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...e of tobacco, and a certain other proportion in looking at the sky, or the clock, or try- ing to recall an air, or in meditation on his own past adven... ...rounded Sir James Turner’s lodging. Though it was between eight and nine o’clock, that worthy, being unwell, was still in bed, but rose at once and we... ... the evening of Monday the 26th, the wearied army stopped. But at twelve o’clock the cry, which served them for a trumpet, of ‘Horse! horse!’ and ‘Mou... ... was, all was darkness and silence, save the dry monotonous ticking of the clock that came cease- lessly up to my ear. The final crown of it all, howe... ...s and some whispered con- versation, in the howling river of the wind; the clock had not yet ticked a score of times since Paradou’s appearance; and n... ...for respectability. She pursued the pair of them for twenty minutes on the clock with wonder- ful animation and detail, something of the pulpit manner...

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...r happiness, like a veil, which it is useless here to raise. It was nine o’clock; the merchant and his wife were reading their evening prayers; sudden... ... thousand more on his word. He was gay as a man who swam in gold. Eleven o’clock sounded; the night was superb. Montefiore may have felt, like Diard, ...

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... in other words, tell the Universe, which so often forgets that fact, what o’clock it really is. Not unfrequently the Germans have been blamed for an ... ... Father Andreas, I entered the main street of the place, and saw its steeple clock (then striking Eight) andSchuldthurm (Jail), and the aproned or dis...

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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...