"Clock on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... At nine o'clock on Monday morning a company of Japanese soldiers was drilling on the campus. A number of students from the college and academy were on the top of a bank, looking on at the drill. Suddenly the soldiers, in obedience to a word of command, rushed at the students. The latter ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie
... obliged to leave town till Friday, and added, "As you profess a friendship for me, do me this last favour, I entreat you, live till I return." Lord Sc—— believed this to be a pious artifice to gain time, but nevertheless agreed, if he should return by four o'clock on that day. Mr. Anson did not return till five, and found, by the countenances of the domestics, that the deed was done. He went into his chamber and found the corpse of his friend leaning over the arm of a great chair, with the pistol on the ground by him, the ball ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... breakfast, about eleven o'clock on the morning after his return, one of his English servants entered with the message that a person, calling herself Miss Horn, and refusing to explain her business desired to see his lordship for a few minutes "Who is she?" asked the marquis. ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald
... to tie an alarm clock on you," chuckled the manager. "The gang stopped work a quarter of ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
... At four o'clock on Thursday afternoon Rosalind went upstairs and put on an extra coating of powder and rouge. She also blackened her eyelashes and put on her lips salve the colour of strawberries rather than of the human mouth. She wore ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
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