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... but he had reckoned without his guest. On the following morning at five o’clock D’Artagnan arose, and descending to the kitchen without help, asked, ... ...leep of the brave. This sleep, provincial as it was, brought him to nine o’clock in the morning; at which hour he rose, in order to repair to the resi... ...l, situated in the Rue du Vieux- Colombier, resembled a camp from by six o’clock in the morning in summer and eight o’clock in winter. From fifty to s... ... presently,” cried the latter, “when you haven’t your cloak on.” “At one o’clock, then, behind the Luxembourg.” “V ery well, at one o’clock, then,” re... ... had passed; they were numerous and inauspicious. It was scarcely eleven o’clock in the morning, and yet this morning had already brought him into dis... ...m only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be pru- dent. At two o’clock I shall have the honor of expecting you at the hotel of Monsieur de T... ... of the monastery, Athos had been waiting about five minutes, and twelve o’clock was striking. He was, then, as punctual as the Samaritan woman, and t... ...is with him I am also going to fight,” said Porthos. “But not before one o’clock,” replied D’Artagnan. “And I also am to fight with this gentleman,” s... ...man,” said Aramis, coming in his turn onto the place. “But not until two o’clock,” said D’Artagnan, with the same calmness. “But what are you going to...

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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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...he was not put down. A stranger entering his own poor house at about ten o’clock P .M. might have been surprised to find him sit- ting up to supper. S... ...Wilfer household, where a monotonous ap- pearance of Dutch-cheese at ten o’clock in the evening had been rather frequently commented on by the dimpled... ...cold weather, pick- ing up a living on this wise:—Every morning at eight o’clock, he stumped to the corner, carrying a chair, a clothes-horse, a pair ... ...were, who exhibited, when occasion required, the greatest docility. On the clock’s striking ten, and Miss Abbey’s appearing at the door, and addressin... ...t’s at half after four. I’ll call Charley at six. I shall hear the church- clocks strike, as I sit here.’ Very quietly, she placed a chair before the ... .... ‘Charley’s hollow down by the flare is not there now. Poor Charley!’ The clock struck two, and the clock struck three, and the clock struck four, an... ...de the door of the Six Jolly Fellowships, towards a quarter after twelve o’clock at midnight—but I will not in my conscience under- take to swear to s... .... The wind carried away the striking of the great multitude of city church clocks, for those lay to leeward of them; but there were bells to windward ... ...teed is willing, but, at the last moment, for want of some special thing—a clock, a vio- lin, an astronomical telescope, an electrifying machine—they ...

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...: “It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight,when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will havefull sw... ...ow whether to call it breakfast of dinner, for it was between five and six o’clock when I had it, I looked about for something to read, for I did not ... ... we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together. There is the ten o’clock bell ring ing. Goodbye. Your loving Mina Tell me all the news whe... ...hale fishing in the old days. He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said, 79 Chapter 6... ...ees, for there be a many of ‘em, and miss, I lack belly timber sairly by the clock.” He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he co... ...ans all run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble field. There’s the clock, and’I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!” And off he hobbled. ... ...etter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan. The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights scattered all over the town... .... “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Shortly before ten o’clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive,and the silence was ... ...ation for sleep walking then. CHAPTER 8 MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL Same day, 11 o’clock P.M.—Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a...

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...his stupid tradesman’s face. He looked at himself in the glass over an old clock of the Empire, and was contem- plating the general effect, when the r... ...d the daughter on the point of robbing her cousin of her lover. AT SEVEN O’CLOCK the Baron, seeing his brother, his son, the Baroness, and Hortense al... ... he pleases. Now, come to dinner; I have been waiting for you since four o’clock.” Pretty—very pretty—Madame Marneffe, the natural daughter of Comte M... ...s as belonging to a pretty woman—and indeed suggested the kept mistress. A clock in the fashionable style stood on the velvet-covered mantelpiece. The... ...who sometimes worked into the night when business was good, at about one o’clock one morning perceived a strong smell of carbonic acid gas, and heard ... ...ession, the group he had placed with the curiosity dealer, and a beautiful clock to which he was putting the last touches, screwing in the last rivets... ...was putting the last touches, screwing in the last rivets. 67 Balzac This clock represented the twelve Hours, charmingly per- sonified by twelve fema... ... statue! Monsieur, it is less difficult to execute a statue than to make a clock like this, which my friend here has been kind enough to bring,” said ... ... model of the twelve Hours that the Loves were trying to delay. “Leave the clock with me,” said the Baron, astounded at the beauty of the sketch. “I s...

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...rtrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. At half-past three o’clock the funeral car began to move, preceded by a chorister bearing the cr... ...vancing very slowly, and surrounded by the other boats. At half-past six o’clock it reached the ‘Belle Poule, ’ all the men being on the yards with th... ... was pronounced by the Abbe Coquereau the same evening. Next day, at ten o’clock, a solemn mass was celebrated on the deck, in presence of the officer... ...ival of the “Belle Poule” at Cherbourg, on the 30th of November, at five o’clock in the morning. A telegraph made the glad news known at Paris, where ... ...he Quay, examined by some few shivering people on the shore. It was five o’clock when we reached home: the stars were shining keenly out of the frosty...

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...I was com- ing home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town wher... ... by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would... ...is toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and beseiged by questions. Six o’clock stuck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr.... ...haken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o’clock, when the shops were closed the by-street was very solitary and, in s... .... At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted. It was two o’clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was ... ...e- volver, that I might be found in some posture of self-defence. Twelve o’clock had scarce rung out over London, ere the knocker sounded very gently ...

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...all Caroline, and to go to bed herself, for it was a good deal past nine o’clock. She had been aware, she could hardly tell how, that her father had b... ...eard of the result of it was ‘So,’ and then lessons went on until twelve o’clock, when it was the custom that the girl should have an hour’s recre- at... ... uncle and the young man got in after her, saying something about eleven o’clock. She was more awake now, and knew that they were driving through ligh... ... like scream- ing, only then she might have been heard; and a great horrid clock went on making a noise like a church bell, and striking so many odd q... ...ss, and a mother! It was all for the sake of depreciating her. At twelve o’clock, to her further indignation, she found there was to be an hour of rea... ...hold drudges, so that her reading did not become more intelligible. As the clock struck one, a warning gong was heard; everybody jumped up, the work w... ... dinner? Or there is the amusing shelf. Books may be taken out after one o’clock, and they must be put back at eight, or they are confiscated for the ... ... the next day, and then would follow amusements, evening toilette, seven o’clock tea, 39 Yo n g e and either games or reading aloud till bedtime. As ... ...sister, who tore herself away from the arrangements, being bound to five-o’clock tea elsewhere, Mysie was discovered with a face still rather woe-bego...

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... dinner, every one sat down to whist, and re- mained so seated until two o’clock in the morning. On this occasion Chichikov made the acquaintance of, ... ...he list of forced payers of obrok, while himself leaving his bed at nine o’clock in the morning, and, when the samovar had been brought, drinking his ... ...r a letter or an old pack of cards or a stocking, while on the wall hung a clock with a flowered dial. More, how- ever, Chichikov could not discern, f... ...covered his composure, for he perceived the sound to be emanating from the clock, which appeared to be in a mind to strike. To the hissing sound there... ...gs such as were worn in the days of the Emperor Paul**. At this moment the clock uttered its usual hissing sound, and struck ten, while a woman’s face... ...l hungry once more— was enabled to gather that it would be at least five o’clock before a meal of any kind would be available. On his re- turn, Nozdre... ...is companions to inspect his es- tablishment—even though as early as two o’clock he had to announce that nothing more was to be seen. 88 Dead Souls T... ...n name. 91 Gogol they sat down to table—the time being then nearly five o’clock. But the meal did not constitute by any means the best of which Chich... ...ble kind of furniture. On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs. Against a wall le...

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...y lodgings in Bury Street, and bring the papers with him to-night at ten o’clock. And the next time you see me, you’ll know me, and be civil, Mr. Kemp... ...arture as Ambassador to Paris, had sent an excuse to General Webb at two o’clock, but an hour before the dinner: nothing but the most immediate busine... ... part of that first night at Castlewood, lying awake for many hours as the clock kept tolling (in tones so well remembered), looking back, as all men ... ...e the coach and sleep at Hounslow, and reach home to-morrow. ’Tis twelve o’clock; bid the coach, cousin, be ready at one.” “For shame!” burst out Beat... ...en the fellow was gone, and the watchman again sang his cry of “Past ten o’clock, and a starlight night,” 128 Henry Esmond – Book Three Esmond spoke ... ...astlewood had arrived? He said on the previous evening, about eight of the clock.—”And what then?”—His lordship supped with his sister.—”Did the man w... ..., with some delays in procuring horses, we got to Hammersmith about four o’clock on Sunday morning, the first of August, and half an hour after, it be...

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...erior. The telescope is supported upon a stone pillar in the centre, and a clock- work arrangement compensates for the earth’s rotation, and allows a ... ..., moved the roof a little more, made some further adjustments, and set the clockwork in motion. He took off his jacket, for the night was very hot, an... ...direction, and the whispering stillness became more and more profound. The clockwork ticked steadily. The shrill hum of a mos- quito explored the plac... ...nd many things else distinct and clear. And the circle was the face of the clock, and the rod the rail of my bed. Haddon was standing at the foot, aga... ...he rail, with a small pair of scissors on his fingers; and the hands of my clock on the mantel over his shoulder were clasped together over the hour o... ... clichés in stock. Ours is a live paper, not a bag of tricks. None of your clock- work professional journalism in this office. And I can rely on your ... ...h- class marionette. He went from attitude to attitude. He might have been clockwork. Directly after this I made an ineffec- tual attempt to resign my... ... Presently, faint through the closed windows came the sound of the Oratory clock striking the hour of eleven. The click- ing of the microtome ceased, ... ...o had shifted the slide? He looked up at 192 The Country of the Blind the clock. There were fifteen minutes in which to make up his mind. He gathered...

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... till a horn was sounded as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the entire household, and all made their way down—Jean first, in... ... vocation to be a nun. So effectually did she bestir herself that by six o’clock the next morning the various packages were rolled up for be- 22 Two ... ...ept and wakened again, her full self, upon Jean coming up to bed at nine o’clock—a very late hour—escorted by sundry of the ladies to inquire for the ... ...hapel of St. James, close to the great shrine of St. Martin, at six of the clock in the morning, so as to be private. You might find him there, and wh...

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...the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 28 ‘T was, as the watchmen say, ... ...t would come on to blow, And carry away, perhaps, a mast or so. At one o’clock the wind with sudden shift Threw the ship right into the trough... ...cal:— Their preservation would have been a miracle. At half past eight o’clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been... ...y hat and gloves still lying on the table, I heard a shot — ‘t was eight o’clock scarce past— And, running out as fast as I was able, I found ... ...ke like brow Is ruffled by a wrinkle, or the sun Of life reach’d ten o’clock: and while a glow, Hectic and brief as summer’s day nigh done, ...

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...uberks, and wounded either other. But Sir Gawaine, fro it passed nine of the clock, waxed by the space of three hours ever stronger and stronger. And... ... of pilgrims and smoked out a batch of hermits and started them out at two o’clock to meet him. And that was the sort of state he arrived in. The abbo... ... and I hurried away. I fell to ciphering. In half an hour it would be nine o’clock. Knights and horses in heavy armor couldn’t travel very fast. These... ...nds were, there were no vacant spaces in them outside of the lists, at ten o’clock on the morning of the 16th. The mammoth grand stand was clothed in ...

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...e latter to great admiration. They had not fought many minutes by the forest clock, the sun; and had as yet done each other no worse injury than that ...

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... and as no more than my equal. “W ell,” said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, “she’s been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pi... ...udding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. I tried it with the load upon my leg (and that made me think afresh ... ...ctations Something clicked in his throat, as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike. And he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over... ...eart. “However,” said Joe, rising to replenish the fire; “here’s the Dutch-clock a working himself up to being equal to strike Eight of ‘em, and she’s... ... trade engaged his attention. Mr. Pumblechook and I breakfasted at eight o’clock in the parlour behind the shop, while the shopman took his mug of tea... ...rging and gormandising manner. For such reasons I was very glad when ten o’clock came and we started for Miss Havisham’s; though I was not at all at m... ..., and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine. “Look at me,” said... ...understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago. I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel ex-... ... belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery. There was a clock in the outer wall of this house. Like the clock in Miss Havisham’s ro...

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...s first able to tell the time upon a dial plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles’s Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripp... ...lexed him. But they were passing the church now, and as his eye caught the clock, he quickened his pace. He was going to his work? the old woman said,... ... three. Hush! I hear the bells.’ The wind brought the sounds of the church clock to the window. They listened, and it struck three. Stephen looked at ... ...sponge. To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coff... ...ur favourable consideration.’ Silence between them. The deadly statistical clock very hollow. The distant smoke very black and heavy. ‘Father,’ said L... ..., which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any faster, or any slower, than at other seasons. The deadly stat... ...his room were heer afore I coom, an’ will be heer when I am gone. Put that clock aboard a ship an’ pack it off to Norfolk Island, an’ the time will go... ...t a wall under an archway, strolled up and down, lis tened for the church clock, stopped and watched children playing in the street. Some purpose or ... ...xpected under the fatiguing cir cumstances; and came riding back at six o’clock. There was a sweep of some half mile between the lodge and the house,...

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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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...emorable and meritorious of all that we did and saw at Halifax. At seven o’clock on the morning but one after that we were landed at Boston. At Boston... ...the hotels, and to this the bath- ers are carried in omnibuses. Till one o’clock ladies bathe, which operation, however, does not at all militate agai... ...he young girls in the streets coming home from their tea parties at nine o’clock, many of them alone, and all with some basket in their hands, which b... ...id not seem to be very closely bound as to time; but they are regulated by clock-work in comparison with some of them in the United States. “Are you g... ...sitting down, thoroughly enjoyed our victory. It was then half-past five o’clock, and the sun was not yet absolutely sinking. It did not seem to give ... ...drawing-rooms of the big hotels. There was supper there precisely at six o’clock—beef-steaks, and tea, and apple jam, and hot cakes, and light fixings... ...re happier when they are made to obey orders, and are sent to bed at six o’clock, than when allowed to regu- late their own conduct; that bread and mi... ...le table whose outside rim was curved into fan- tastic shapes; that a gold clock in my bed-room which did not go would give me no aid in washing mysel... ...ude to actual household furniture—to chairs, tables, and detest- able gilt clocks. The taste of America is becoming French in its conversation, French...

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...red, and they opened and shut. So far, and waiving their use to himself, a clockmaker could have made a better pair. He had a hook nose, hand- some af... ...d looked round the prison-room, as if for certain information. ‘Y ou are a clock. How is it that you always know?’ ‘How can I say? I always know what ... ...ich the tract had found him galloping. There was the large, hard- featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bend- ing its figured brows up... ...‘No more of busi- ness on this day,’ and then added, ‘Affery, it is nine o’clock.’ 40 Charles Dickens Upon this, the old woman cleared the little tab... ... had a short nap.’ ‘I have had a short nap,’ said Double. ‘Half-past two o’clock in the morning,’ muttered Jeremiah. ‘Where’s your hat? Where’s your c... ...winch thanked him and crept into bed. CHAPTER 5 Family Affairs AS THE CITY CLOCKS struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clennam was wheeled by Jeremiah F... ...tential manner on a shrunken cloth at an end of the dining-table, at two o’clock, when he dined with Mr Flintwinch, the new partner. Mr Flintwinch inf... ...house once to try a new piano for him. Played it, I understand, like one o’clock—beautiful! As to languages—speaks anything. 67 Little Dorrit We’ve h... ...before he left to a few select friends among the collegians, that at six o’clock on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard—t...