"When the clock strikes, then," said Landis, and flung himself down in a chair, setting his teeth over his rage.

At the top, in front of the clock works, stood a woman, who began at once to tell us the statistics of the pendulum, to which recital I did not choose to listen.

" "I am happy where you are," she said, lovingly; and then my lord began to describe what was before them to his wife, and what indeed little Harry knew better than heviz., the history of the house: how by yonder gate the page ran away with the heiress of Castlewood, by which the estate came into the present family; how the Roundheads attacked the clock-tower, which my lord's father was slain in defending.

On July 27th he went down to the Greenwich Parish Church at 9 p.m., to be present at the illumination of the church clock face for the first timea matter of local interest which had necessitated a good deal of time and money.

And should they mention Trove or a certain clock tinker that travelled from door to door in the olden time, send your horse to the stable and God-speed them!it is a long tale, and you may listen far into the night.

"If I got to sit and listen to that white-faced clock ticking for many more evenings of this winter, you'll find yourself with a raving maniac on your hands.

It is a little ode, written to be set on a clock-case.

'Tis to be at Casterbridge jail to-morrowthe man for sheep-stealingthe poor clock-maker we heard of, who used to live away at Shottsford and had no work to doTimothy Summers, whose family were a-starving, and so he went out of Shottsford by the high-road, and took a sheep in open daylight, defying the farmer and the farmer's wife and the farmer's lad, and every man jack among 'em.

" Barney groped angrily about the table, on the clock-shelf, knocking down a tin dish, that fell with the clatter of a bursting magazine in the dense stillness of the night.

" Although the guests had been invited to a two-o'clock dinner, yet when the clock hands pointed to nearly three, the meal had not been announced.

These remarks apply more or less to a jewellery, watch and clock shop next door, kept for many years by Mr. L.N. Hobday.

It must have been the clock striking, I concluded, presently; and was commencing to doze off, when a sudden noise brought me back, once more, to life.

and in a clock-tick the heavens are raining shreds of sacking and particles of straw.

Moonfleet peal was known over half the county, and the finest part of it was the clock bell.

I saw in one place the hands of a clock dial in the form of snakes.

It is to be understood that we had one detached pendulum swinging in front of a clock pendulum above, and another similarly mounted below; and that the clocks were compared by chronometers compared above, carried down and compared, compared before leaving, and brought up and compared.

But when the clock chimes, we draw our guns and shoot each other through the heartthe brainwherever we have chosen.

The Big clock book.

Co. (PWH) <pb id='148.png' n='1952h2/A/0702' /> GOLDSMITH, SOPHIE L. Wonder clock plays, adapted for children from Howard Pyle's The wonder clock; illustrated by Howard Pyle.

The tell-tale clock mystery.

When through the mantle of the sky No cheering moonbeams delve, And the far village clock hath told The midnight hour of twelve.

In their colossal fatigue they slept the clock round; their watches run down, their sense of the very date blurred.

" "Well, if that was the case here," Billy told him shortly, "I've got dislike enough for him to wind my judgment up like a clock spring.

As regards the Westminster Clock on the Parliamentary Building: in May I examined and reported on Dent's and Whitehurst's clock factories.

In the brief pauses of his song the old clock, from which Rudolph had removed the pendulum on the night of Agatha's death would interpose an obstinate slow ticking; and immediately the clock-noise would be drowned in melody.