An alarm-clock on a small shelf edged in scalloped white oilcloth ticked with spick-and-span precision into a kitchen so correspondingly spick and span that even its silence smelled scoured, rows of tins shining into it.

An alarm-clock crashing through the stuff of dreams.

He lay with his eyes wide open, watching the hands of the alarm-clock that hung in the cabin, and thinking how quickly event had followed event in the last twelve hours.

It was about two o'clock in the morning,bright starlight,so light that I could make out the time on my alarm-clock,when I woke up trembling and very moist.

And I've worked for twenty-two years with everything in me just set, like an alarm-clock, for the time when that kid would step off on his own.

Then and there, however, her caller qualified as a salesman; he smiled and he chatted in a free and easy way that had the lady roped, thrown, and lashed to his chariot in three minutes by her alarm-clock.

"'Wishing to arise at an early hour each morning, a gentleman purchased an alarm-clock.

"Poor kid, but she's grit, clear through!" Dan walked to the window, looked out at the lessening storm, then at the tiny alarm-clock on the cupboard.

ALARM CLOCKS MIKE (in bed, to alarm-clock as it goes off)"I fooled yez that time.