"Alarm clock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a Monday morning in late April (remember, nothing's going to happen) Rose smothered her alarm clock at the first warning snarl. She was wide-awake at once, as are those whose yesterdays, to-days and to-morrows are all alike. Rose never opened her eyes to the dim, tantalising half-consciousness of a something delightful or a something harrowing in store for her that day. For one to whom ...
— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber
... trainer. The daily practice began at 4:30 in the morning, and was kept up until noon; then ensued an hour's rest. At one, they were again practicing, and no break occurred until long after dark. During the days that we were there, a single piece only was being practiced. It was our alarm clock in the morning, beat time for our work throughout the day, and lulled us to sleep when we retired for the night. Senor de Butrie insists that during the year and more than he has lived in the village, several boys have ...
— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr
... full rod before him, and he stepped upon the narrow platform before the kitchen door, and stood there a minute listening. He heard the mantel clock in the living-room ticking with the resonance given by a room empty of all other sound. Because his ears were keen, he heard also the little alarm clock in the kitchen tick-tick-tick on the shelf behind the stove where Jean ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... his alarm clock the next morning, Morgan jumped promptly out of bed. After awakening his mother so that she could get his ...
— The Sheridan Road Mystery • Paul Thorne
... what we commonly call the "spirit of destruction" in a child is the same as the constructive impulse will not be so much grieved when her baby takes the alarm clock apart as the mother who looks upon this deed as an indication ...
— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
... twelve, will you, ma?" called Jerry, in his most wheedling voice. His mother only laughed, but Jerry felt sure she would. Besides, there was his dollar alarm clock. ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart
... gayly, when all was finished, and fortunately without attracting attention, not even Celeste being in the secret; "now, Quimby, we can dispense with that alarm clock we were intending ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer |
