"Clock on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of adhering vigorously to the rules you lay down for yourself. I will come for you about eleven o'clock on Saturday. Hurry the making of your gown, and also your redingcote. You will go with me some day next week to dine at the Marquis Fayette. ...
— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed
... At six o'clock on that morning we discovered upwards of twenty sail of war canoes, crowded with armed warriors, coming into the bay. What their intentions were we could not imagine; but for fear of the worst, the ships in the harbour shotted their guns, and when ...
— A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 • Augustus Earle
... she asked, and when I answered that it was not she did not seem to hear, so I stopped talking, and for some time there was silence in which I heard nothing but the ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece, the barking of a sheep dog a long way off, and the husky ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... clock on the mantel struck the half after one, and the sound appeared to awake him. He yawned, glanced at the clock, then took the lamp from the table and went up to bed. But never so much as a glance toward ...
— With Links of Steel • Nicholas Carter
... girls you seem to know, Freddie. Are these all the ones you've loved and lost?" She sat down at the piano and touched the keys. The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half hour. "I wish to goodness they ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
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