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1 When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up.
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2 He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock.
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3 Old Fezziwig laid down his pen, and looked up at the clock, which pointed to the hour of seven.
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4 He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
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5 The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock.
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6 The City clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already--it had not been light all day--and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
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7 He looked about in that very place for his own image, but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and, though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
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8 She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of her children in their play.
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