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Hour   /ˈaʊər/  /aʊr/   Listen
Hour

noun
1.
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.  Synonyms: 60 minutes, hr.
2.
Clock time.  Synonym: time of day.
3.
A special and memorable period.
4.
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it.  Synonym: minute.  "Its just 10 minutes away"



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"Hour" Quotes from Famous Books



... changed her evening gown for a teagown, and then said she would sit up for an hour or so and write letters, ...
— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells
... ceremony actually took place at twelve. It had been stated to the town on the preceding day by a man dressed as Fame, with a long horn, who had been driven about in a gilt car, that this would be done at ten. But peeping through the iron shutters at that hour, the gentlemen of the firm saw that the crowd was as yet by no means great. So a huge poster was ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope
... I haven't put in an hour of solid work for a month, Bob I ought to be ashamed, and I am." He paused. "But there's no use jumping all over myself if I haven't," he resumed, shifting to a more sprightly tone. "I've said I was going to take a spurt soon and I mean ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... then to whirl madly forward while he stood rooted to his square of carpet, with his useless hands hanging helplessly at his sides. It was the supreme instant his life that was before him, and yet he was as powerless to meet it as the infant in the womb to avert the hour of its birth. Dumb and petrified by very force of the will within him, he waited immovable on the spot of carpet, while his eyes saw only the visible wreck of the woman who stood upon his threshold. His dreams ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
... apostles."[3] His charge against the ministers of his day is one now very familiar to us: "You preach to people what you have studied out of books and old authors, and what you have noted down you preach by an hour-glass and not as the Spirit of God gives you utterance. You preach other men's words which you have collected."[4] The "call" to ministry, he urges, is based upon learning acquired in schools, colleges, and ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones


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