"Clock on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eyes were peering first at the clock on the mantel-piece, and then out at the window and down ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... how he WILL take—But, lan' sakes, this ain't gettin' my breakfast," she ejaculated with a hurried glance at the clock on the little shelf ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... of wind from east until the 28th, with violent squalls, attended with rain: the air in general thick and hazy, and a high hollow sea running. At one o'clock on the 28th, we perceived a great alteration in the sea, which was become so smooth, that at four o'clock it was, comparatively speaking, smooth water: at half past five, the man who was stationed at the mast-head, saw breakers in the south-east, which were found to be a shoal, ...
— An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter
... Maldon had taken her first meal as mistress of a house. Her husband had carved mutton at it, and grumbled about the consistency of toast; her children had spilt jam on its cloth. And when on Sunday nights she wound up the bracket-clock on the mantelpiece, she could see and hear a handsome young man in a long frock-coat and a large shirt-front and a very thin black tie winding it up too—her husband—on Sunday nights. And she could simultaneously ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... About six o'clock on the morning of the 15th there was a ring at the door-bell. Keyser jumped out of bed, threw up ...
— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
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