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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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...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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...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 – Book ... ...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...

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...his best to disentangle the question, but Bobus was not satisfied till the clock chimed his doom, when he went off with Jock, who was walking on his h... ...ked at each other in amused dismay, then at their watches. It was twelve o’clock! T wo hours had passed like as many min- utes, and the boys would be ... ... completed their arrangements so well that when Jessie looked in at five o’clock, with a few choice flowers covering a fine cucumber in her basket, sh... ...y, do you know, she sometimes is up and out with her children before six o’clock in the morning; and then Colonel Brownlow went in one day at twelve o... ...lock in the morning; and then Colonel Brownlow went in one day at twelve o’clock, and found the whole family fast asleep on different sofas.” “The sen... ... am afraid we are not very regular,” said Carey. It was by this time ten o’clock, and the two younger chil- dren were still to be heard shouting to on... ...one of the laws of the place was that everything left there after twelve o’clock on Saturday was, as Babie’s little mouth rolled out the long words, “... ... a wealthy house among our set. Any of us were welcome to drop into five o’clock tea, or at nine at night, and the pleasantness and good influence wer... ...the next day, which was Sunday, she ascended to the Folly, at about four o’clock in the afternoon, and found the family, including the parrot, spread ...

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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...

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...On Monday and Tuesday he had to get up and reluctantly leave towards ten o’clock. Sometimes he stayed at home on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, or w... ...mornings, the men are seen trooping home again at ten, eleven, or twelve o’clock. No empty trucks stand at the pit-mouth. The women on the hillside lo... ...orning Morel rose early. He was in good spirits. Quite early, before six o’clock, she heard him whistling away to himself downstairs. He had a pleasan... ... awake, in the bright early morning, happy in his man’s fashion. At nine o’clock, while the children with bare legs and feet were sitting playing on t... ...e-pins, and won half a crown, which re- stored him to solvency. By seven o’clock the two were in good condition. They caught the 7.30 train home. In t... ...ntion, and the flies were teasing. The children were put to bed at seven o’clock. Then she worked awhile. When Walter Morel and Jerry arrived at Bestw... ...26 Sons & Lovers listening to their mournful singing, went indoors. Nine o’clock passed, and ten, and still “the pair” had not re- turned. On a doorst... ...iday, and then he could not remain at home. But he was back again by ten o’clock, almost quite sober. He always made his own breakfast. Being a man wh... ...y of time he did not, as some miners do, drag his wife out of bed at six o’clock. At five, 32 Sons & Lovers sometimes earlier, he woke, got straight ...

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...such or such a corner of a street, certain that they can see the face of a clock; they tell a friend whose tobacco- pouch is empty, “Go down that pass... ... die unknown—’tis the saying of women and of authors. At half-past eight o’clock one evening, in the rue Pagevin, in the days when that street had no ... ... Descartes is a politeness with which we should always honor virtue. Ten o’clock sounded. The Baron de Maulincour re- membered that this woman was goi... ... too unpleasant to go out.” It was raining in torrents. At half-past two o’clock Mon- sieur Desmarets reached the T reasury. At four o’clock, as he le... ... with painted designs, the sofa, the little moquette carpet, the alabaster clock and candlesticks (under glass cases), the yellow bed- room, the eider... ...can tell you about him; didn’t she go there this very afternoon at three o’clock? I know she did, for I waited in the street, and saw her,—all because... ... known, it is regular; whereas madame goes out nearly every day at three o’clock, Heaven knows where.” “And monsieur too,” said the maid, taking her m... ... louder but more equable and continued murmurs are not distinct. At four o’clock the sound ceased. Clemence rose, anxious and trembling. Then, with ba... ...Think of me then, Jacquet.” “I shall be at your house to-morrow at eight o’clock. We will go together; I’ll wait for you, if you like, in the street. ...

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...ed in the fashionable world—woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bed- room, but on the leather-cover... ...as Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock. Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald wa... ....” And his eyes were laughing during the reading of the report. Till two o’clock the sitting would go on without a break, and at two o’clock there wou... ... the place where he had been told he might find Kitty. Chapter 9 At four o’clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledg... ...uched the pillow, fell into a sound sleep. Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway... ...s to be here from Petersburg today.” “I was looking out for you till two o’clock last night. Where did you go after the Shtcherbatskys’?” “Home,” answ... ...ad forgotten his offense. 90 Anna Karenina – Part One At half-past nine o’clock a particularly joyful and pleas- ant family conversation over the tea... ...you by Seryozha,” she added, with a mother’s smile of pride. Towards ten o’clock, when she usually said good-night to her son, and often before going ... ...m, and so understand him,” Levin resolved to himself, as, towards eleven o’clock, he reached the hotel of which he had the address. “At the top, 12 an...

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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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...ht, when all was lost, and said to me: ‘I came near being killed at four o’clock. I was aimed at by one of the insurgents, when a young man, with a lo... ...latonic discourses, d’Arthez grew bolder, and arrived every day at three o’clock. He retired at six, and returned at nine, to remain until midnight, o... ...ofound observer of hu- man nature. “How ought I to treat her?” Until two o’clock in the morning they spent their time in saying to each other the sill... ...e of trying to get Daniel away from here I’ll send him to her.” At three o’clock, or a few moments after, d’Arthez arrived. In the midst of some inter...

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...ows that gave upon the Place du Murier were curtainless; there was neither clock nor candle sconce nor mirror above the mantel-shelf, for Mme. Sechard... ... ing together by the window that looked into the yard. It was nearly two o’clock, and the four or five men were going out to dinner. David waited unti... ...monkeys” and “bears” were grotesquely busy among types and presses. Five o’clock struck, but the friends felt neither hunger nor thirst; life had turn... ...gain.” David brushed the tears from his eyes, and wrung Lucien’s hand. The clock struck six. “Eve must be anxious; good-bye,” Lucien added abruptly. H... ...their minds to it, and accept the fact that great men had upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers for their fathers. She said that genius was always ... ...a looking-glass, and a few walnut wood chairs completed the furniture. The clock on the chimney- piece told of the old vanished days of prosperity. Wh... ... door; he could have wished the evening to last for ever, and it was one o’clock in the morning when Lucien and his future brother-in-law reached the ... ...osopher of the school of Pythagoras. He reached Stanislas’ house at nine o’clock, bowed silently to Amelie before a whole room full of people, and gre... ...econd. My father-in- law, M. de Negrepelisse, will wait upon you at four o’clock to-morrow morning. Both of us may as well make our final arrangements...

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... at the place where he had laid the paper-knife in it, and read till one o’clock, just as he usually did. But from time to time he rubbed his high for... ...n?” he murmured in a whisper, gazing in ecstasy at her. “Tonight, at one o’clock,” she whispered, and, with a heavy sigh, she walked with her light, s... ...letely absorbed in his feeling for Anna, that he did not even think what o’clock it was, and whether he had time to go to Bryansky’s. He had left him,... ...rious import. Alexey Alexandrovitch only just managed to be back by five o’clock, his dinner-hour, and after dining with his sec- retary, he invited h... ...o that evening, and to make haste home in time for maman’s tea at twelve o’clock. She went indoors, collected her music, and say- ing good-bye to ever...

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...st bird is not missed, the day will be lucky, turned out correct. At ten o’clock Levin, weary, hungry, and happy after a tramp of twenty miles, return... ...stead the most friendly disposi- tion to him. Chapter 14 Next day at ten o’clock Levin, who had already gone his rounds, knocked at the room where Vas... ...onsky, whom the lat- ter praised very highly, Darya Alexandrovna, at ten o’clock, went on again. At home, looking after her chil- dren, she had no tim... ...ble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all... ... se separe. Everyone does as he pleases till dinnertime. Dinner at seven o’clock. Stiva did very rightly to send you. He needs their support. You know...

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...ant together, in spite of a little fencing with edge-tools, and at three o’clock the cortege of carriages started for Barchester, that of the bishop, ... ... cathedral, ’ said Harold Smith, jumping up from his chair as he heard the clock. ‘If the people have come it would not be right in me to keep them wa... ...for Mark Robarts, that he did not go to that supper party. It was eleven o’clock before they sat down and nearly two before the gentlemen were in bed.... ...Lufton on horseback, and Lucy stand- ing beside him. It was already five o’clock, and it was getting dusk; but as she approached, or rather as she cam... ...to attend at Lord Lufton’s rooms; but at last it did come, and just as the clock struck he turned out of Piccadilly into Albany. As he was going acros... ...ilding, he was greeted by a voice just behind him. ‘As punctual as the big clock on Barchester tower, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘See what it is to have a sum... ...ll carry me there to-morrow. Will you say that I’ll be over about twelve o’clock?’ ‘You had better say earlier, as he is always out about the parish. ... ...oodness to tell Mr Robarts that I shall be here at the school, at eleven o’clock to-morrow?’ And then he bowed, taking off his hat to them, and they d... ...e wrote a line to her daughter, and Griselda reached Mount Street at two o’clock in Lady Lufton’s carriage, which during the interview, waited for her...

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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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...and the fire was in the middle of the room. At dinner-time, about twelve o’clock, the lord and lady of the house sat upon cross-legged stools, and the... ... grumbled about very much was, that as soon as a bell was rung, at eight o’clock every evening, everyone was to put out candle and fire, and go to bed... ...eicester’s castle of Kenilworth, but he could quite afford it. He kept the clock’s hands at twelve o’clock all the time, that it might always seem to ...

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...ir business like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust or the cottage-clock pendulum teaching the infant hour over midnight simple arithmetic. Th... ...re, I’d go down after him. I mean to learn. We’re both of us here at six o’clock in the morning, when it’s 67 George Meredith light, and have a swim.... ...is low rich flute-notes that shocked him. He glanced at the gold cathedral-clock on the mantel-piece, and proposed a stroll on the lawn before dinner.... ... of men or of physicians.” Dr. Middleton said this rising, glancing at the clock and at the back of his hands. “‘Quod autem secundum litteras difficil... ...hen, before the dinner-bell. I cannot tie myself to the minute-hand of the clock, my dear child. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you... ...hter and his host was at an end. He left the table a little after eleven o’clock. A short dia- logue ensued upon the subject of the ladies. They must ... ...ntry people call roemancing. For, Colonel De Craye, I had a bun at seven o’clock. Miss Middleton forced me to go and buy it” “A stale bun, my boy?” “Y... ...he day together,” he said. Clara bowed. At the breakfast-table she faced a clock. De Craye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too ... ...ye took out his watch. “You are five and a half min- utes too slow by that clock, Willoughby.” “The man omitted to come from Rendon to set it last wee...

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...ery Friday; not eating or drinking anything from Thursday evening to six o’clock on Fri- day evening. Then, again, he would fast two nights and three ... ...r course for that place. She ar- rived at Springfield one evening at six o’clock, and im- mediately began to search for a lodging for the night. She w...

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... upon one of which two persons may perform at the same time. X. A piece of clock-work, an Ethiop riding upon a rhinoc- eros, with four attendants, who... ...ale, and immediately mounted post-horses, and arrived about two or three o’clock in the morning at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dan- g...

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...iil. Then I had better go. But I must have an answer from you before two o’clock—yes or no. If it is no, the shares go to a charity, and that this ver... ...to say to you, you see. Morten Kiil (in a whisper). Yes or no—before two o’clock. Aslaksen (glancing at HOVSTAD). Aha! (MORTEN KIIL goes out.) Dr. Sto...

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... lodgings, and we did not send to tell her till the morning; but by nine o’clock she was in the house. We had crept down to breakfast, Jaquetta and I,... ... he came in about five or six; but the half-past twelve dinner and eight o’clock supper were at the long table, our three selves and Baby at the top—B...

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...th, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o’clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less tha... ...ours, if it did not rain; then employed myself to work till about eleven o’clock; then eat what I had to live on; and from twelve to two I lay down to... ...ndles; so that as soon as ever it was dark, which was generally by seven o’clock, I was obliged to go to bed. I remembered the lump of beeswax with wh... ...p, and waked no more till, by the sun, it must necessarily be near three o’clock in the afternoon the next day – nay , to this hour I am partly of opi... ...the island, though not making such fresh way as I did before. About four o’clock in the evening, being then within a league of the island, I found the... ...said above, not to have made any attempt till it was dark; but about two o’clock, being the heat of the day , I found that they were all gone straggli... ...ry glad to hear, having sat watching upon the shore for it till near two o’clock in the morning. Having thus heard the signal plainly, I laid me down;...

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... years. No one has ever been able to say for certain. It occurred at six o’clock on the summer morning. Count- ess Fanny must have known him,—and not ... ...apel W ay XIX. The Girl Madge 83 George Meredith CHAPTER X SMALL CAUSES A CLOCK SOUNDED one of the later morning hours of the night as Gower Woodseer... ...n the round of the month, if not the sec- ond enumeration of twelve by the clock! Fleetwood had heard certain candid seniors talk, delivering their mi... ... They drove us to the house she ‘s locked in, and me, too, up till three o’clock this morning.’ ‘You’ve seen nobody, Madge?’ ‘He ‘s fixed she ‘s to le... ...steps of the dissimilar pair on the detonating pavement, and eyed a church clock shin- ing to the sun. She was sure of the direction: ‘Out Camden way,... ...ag- ers were sadder by sympathy than the two whom they were leaving to the clock’s round of desert sameness. About ten at night Chillon and Mr. Wythan...

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...or- dered that the Court do now adjourn until to-morrow morn- ing at ten o’clock. The Hon. Stephen T. Logan, the Hon. Norman H. Purple, the Hon. David... ...ipulate with the audi- ence to meet me here at half-past six or at seven o’clock. It is now several minutes past five, and Judge Douglas has spoken ov... ...ill take me as long as it has taken him. That will carry us beyond eight o’clock at night. Now, every one of you who can remain that long can just as ... ...dience signified their assent to the arrangement, and adjourned to seven o’clock P.M., at which time they reas- sembled, and Mr. Lincoln spoke substan...

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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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...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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... is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock- face for it. Y et those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced a... ...ng nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch. It was three o’clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his... ...e of the small work-table with an air of more entire placidity, until, the clock again giving notice that it was going to strike, she looked up from t... ...ish 91 George Eliot you would come down earlier. Y ou can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so diffi- cult... ...e from other callers. But a visitor had come in at one 111 George Eliot o’clock, and Mr. Bulstrode had so much to say to him, that there was little c... ..., is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not ... ...is face, which was a striking mixture of the shrewd and the mild. At ten o’clock supper was brought in (such were the customs of Middlemarch) and ther... ...should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. But as it was not eleven o’clock, he chose to walk in the brisk air towards the tower of St. Botolph’s... ...ll to meditation.” —2 Henry VI. THA T NIGHT after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone’s room, and sat the...

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...er, to bring lords and leddies, and a host of folk behint them, and twal o’clock chappit?” Then approaching the Master, he craved pardon for having pe... ...asily ascertained; for Caleb had been in the village one morning by five o’clock, to borrow “twa chappins of ale and a kipper” for the messenger’s ref... ...her master’s son once more, and renew her warn- ing.” She died just as the clock in the distant village tolled one; and Ravenswood remembered, with in... ...ains out!’ and, to be sure, I blew sic points of war that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.” “Well, sir, cut all this short,” said Raven...

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... came and clicked their tongues. ‘Ah, Russ! Ah, Iván!’ Abdul had a Russian clock, which was broken. He called Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “A Priso... ...ith the knife, sorted the pieces, and put them together again, so that the clock went all right. The master was delighted, and made him a present of o...

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...s toe in his first walk across the room, smashes his too persistent alarum clock in a fit of nerves, and cuts his throat while shaving. All patriotic ... ...ied this once when he carried on the Pickwick Club into “Master Humphrey’s Clock.” That experiment was unsatisfactory, and he did not attempt anything...

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