"Clock on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she gave Linda quite a complete history of her own family, and told her a number of entertaining stories about Johnny and Johnny's father, and about the deacon when he was a boy. Finally, she looked at the queer old clock on the kitchen ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various
... Campbell's lips, and he shivered all over. The ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece seemed to him to be dividing Time into separate atoms of agony, each of which was too terrible to be borne. He felt as if an iron ring was being slowly tightened round his forehead, as if the disgrace with which he was threatened had already come upon ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde
... o'clock on palm-sunday morning the Cardinals, Prelates and others assemble near the chapel of the Pieta at S. Peter's, as at present the solemn service takes place in that basilica, and not as formerly in the Sixtine chapel. The crucifix over the altar is veiled, in token ...
— The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs
... classes are published in the Senate House at nine o'clock on the Friday morning, and you ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... Just before eleven o'clock on the following morning two sisters of the Order of Saint Agnes, one of the religious Orders which devote themselves to nursing the poor, were passing through the Tuileries Gardens, sombre figures in their ample plain, black habits, black head-dresses, and deep, white collars, their ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux
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