And, in the same instant, my gaze dwelt upon the face of the clock in the opposite corner.

They looked at the clock on the mantel.

At that moment the clock of the Hôtel-de-Ville, striking five, was heard.

Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to Michaelmas, after 6 of the clock in the morning; nor out of his bed after 10 of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till our Lady-day, in bed after 7 in the morning, nor out after 9 at night, without reasonable cause, on paine of 2d.

"'There,' I replied, 'that dog there, in the clock with his great staring, glassy eyes; drive him out!'

When he bought himself a watch, he would buy a new clock for the dining-room down-stairs, too,a clock with no such asthmatic strike as the present one possessed.

The big clock over the castle boomed out the hour, and at the same instant there arose a roar like the voice of the surf on a Malabar shore.

It would be perfectly easy, if needful, to regulate all clocks by mechanical control through the electric network extended all over the face of the planet; but the perfect accuracy of each individual timepiece renders any such check needless.

She had as many rings on her fingers as the old woman of Banbury Cross; and pretty, small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white slippers with red heels; and an odour of musk was shaken out of her garments whenever she moved or quitted the room, leaning on her tortoise-shell stick, little Fury, the dog, barking at her heels, and Mrs. Tusher, the parson's wife, by her side.

Maria sets down an' looks at the clock from half past eleven on.

" The cold, clear air was filled with the musical chimes from that city of clocks as Burger, wrapped in an Italian overcoat, with a lantern hanging from his hand, walked up to the rendezvous.

The hours passed and the old banjo clock above the mantel wheezed eleven, twelve; then one, two.

At one time he would stand poring on the town clock without being able to tell the hour.

He held his electric glove to the glass of the small clock before him.

I sit here like a decayed minute-hand (I lie; that does not sit), and being myself the exponent of no time, take no heed how the clocks about me are going.

There was a table under the window, a dresser with racks for plates, etc., set up against the opposite wall, and an eight-day clock between the window and the fireplace.

I've got a clock like yours.

The construction is perfectly successful; the chronometer remains in coincidence with the Transit Clock through any length of time, with a small constant error as is required by mechanical theory.

It is looked after by a gentleman learned in the deep mysteries of horology, who won't allow its fingers to get wrong one single second, who used to make his own solar calculations in his own observatory, on the other side of Jordan (street), who gets his time now from Greenwich, who has drilled the clock into a groove of action the most perfect, and who would have just cause to find fault with the sun if antagonising with its indications.

A clock across the avenue, visible beneath the reverberating ironwork of the elevated, seemed to have stopped at the half hour.

The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled up the interval of silence.

"I'll set the alarm for eleven-forty-five and put the clock under my pillow so Miss Lacey won't hear it.

They're to carry the clock up to your house for a quarter apiece.

Mrs. Damer glanced at the clock after greeting them.

One of these People told a Gentleman who said he saw Mr. such a one go this Morning at nine a Clock towards the Gravel-Pits, Sir, I must beg your pardon for that, for tho' I am very loath to have any Dispute with you, yet I must take the liberty to tell you it was nine when I saw him at St. James's.