Use clock in a sentence
Sentences ending with clock
- Everybody will show you the clock. [5]
- One of you will die to-morrow week; another of you will die to-night; the third has but five minutes to live--and yonder is the clock! [5]
- The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
- The wheels work upon one another as they do in the Emperor's best Nuremberg clock. [10]
- Now, then, sit up in that chair, and set your eye on that clock. [5]
- But our Madelinette there"-- he turned towards the Cure now--"she is never in a temper, and every one always knows she means what she says; and she says it as even as a clock. [11]
- Now I noticed the time yesterday evening when the sun went down, and it was half-past five o'clock by the Grinnage clock, and half past 11 A.M. by my watch and the other clock. [5]
- The faces of the crowd blanched, and turned mechanically toward the clock. [5]
- The Moors of Tangier have so degenerated that it has been long since there was an artificer among them capable of curing so delicate a patient as a debilitated clock. [5]
- All of a sudden Lancy swings, and looks at the clock. [11]
Short sentences using clock
- Presently a clock struck twelve. [9]
- The clock struck eleven. [10]
- She watched the clock. [11]
- And the clock! [5]
Sentences containing clock two or more times
- The Manor clock strikes the time for the world, and this watch is set by the Manor clock. [11]
- When we left St. Louis it was four in the afternoon by my watch and this clock, and it was ten at night by this Grinnage clock. [5]
- But when the old clock on the stable was striking twelve, he opened his eyes wide, and when it had stopped, he said: 'It is always twelve by the clock that stops at noon. [11]
- And also here and there a town clock with only one hand--a hand which stretches across the dial and has no joint in it; such a clock helps out the picture, but you cannot tell the time of day by it. [5]
- Then he see a town clock away off down yonder, and he took up the glass and looked at it, and then looked at his silver turnip, and then at the clock, and then at the turnip again, and says: "That's funny! [5]
More example sentences with the word clock in them
- The wooden clock with the round face and quaint landscape below--the family's most cherished heirloom--though long familiar, was not so bad; but the two yellowed engravings on the wall offended her. [9]
- A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. [9]
- She arrived just when the clock struck noon in the big living-room of the Manor. [11]
- I tell you what--it's plain that the old man an't in his right mind--' 'If you haven't got anything newer than that to say,' growled Mr Codlin, glancing at the clock, 'you'd better let us fix our minds upon the supper, and not disturb us. [12]
- At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it. [5]
- Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour! [4]
- And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
- A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
- As the clock was about to strike eleven he had before him three thousand eight hundred dollars. [11]
- For a while voices came up to him from the street, but at length the groups dispersed, one by one; and a distant clock boomed out eleven solemn strokes. [9]
- His manner was usually decisive, abrupt and self-reliant, but now he seemed to her like a clock that points to one hour while it strikes another. [10]
- When I woke up an hour ago and heard the clock strike 4, I said "I seem to have been asleep an immensely long time; I must have gone to bed mighty early; I wonder what time I did go to bed. [5]
- The clock struck two as he wrote the date, as though to remind him that he had written it wrong. [9]
- The clock struck twelve, the nurse told me, as he drew his last breath, and then, without any known cause, stopped, with both hands upon the hour. [6]
- As the silent troops reached the neighborhood of Allertssohn's house, the clock in the church-steeple slowly struck twelve, and directly after the alarm-bell began to sound from the tower of Pancratius. [10]
- His back was toward them, but the fingers of his left hand--working convulsively caught Wetherell's eye and held it; save for the ticking of the clock and the chirping of the crickets in the grass, there was silence. [9]
- No one comes to the house; nothing disturbs the deep repose; hardly a voice is heard; you catch the ticking of the clock in the kitchen, or the buzzing of a fly in the parlour, all over the house. [14]
- Dismayed, she turned to the clock in the hall. [9]
- Wilhelm, who, according to his friend's advice, appeared in the uniform of an ensign of the city-guards, seated himself at the empty board just after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. [10]
- When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he heard the clock strike ten! [5]
- It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out. [5]
- But as the time went on, he manifested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. [12]
- She'll never wake till it's all over, and there goes the clock again! [12]
- You can alter this by muscular power, as you can take hold of the pendulum of a clock and make it move faster or slower; but your ordinary gait is timed by the same mechanism as the movements of the solar system. [6]
- As they proceeded, they lost sight of the church whose clock they had heard, and of the small village clustering round it. [12]
- If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention. [12]
- Hodder plainly heard the ticking of the clock on the mantel . [9]
- The clock in the steeple struck ten. [10]
- The hands of the old dining-room clock pointed to quarter of eight, and Lise had already made her toilet and departed. [9]
- And there is the old clock and watch tower, which for eight hundred years has enabled the Augsburgers to keep the time of day and to look out over the plain for the approach of an enemy. [4]
- The clock on the mantel struck three; his train was to leave at five. [9]
- The clock tolled the half-hour after midnight. [9]
- We looked, and the Grinnage clock was so close to twelve the difference didn't amount to nothing. [5]
- At that moment the great clock struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing room. [2]
- By and by the great clock struck 11. [5]
- By and by the great clock struck 11 again. [5]
- She looked at the clock, then went to the fire to light it, for it was almost time to get her grandfather's tea. [11]
- By eight of the clock we had crept into Kirkcudbright Bay and anchored off St. Mary's Isle, the tide running ebb, and leaving a wide brown belt of sand behind it. [9]
- I sat by the clock to watch the leap from one day of the week to the next. [6]
- In this hour the clock of time fills all the space between earth and heaven. [11]
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. [5]
- At two of the clock every afternoon he would dive through School Street to the Coffee House, where the hostler would have his bony mare saddled and waiting. [9]
- The ticking of the clock began to bring itself into notice. [5]
- The ticking of the ancient clock only served to intensify the silence. [9]
- Is it possible that this clock is humbugging again? [5]
- Right there in that small spot, and in ten minutes by the clock, the fate of France, for all time, was to be decided, and was decided. [5]
- The old clock that Marmaduke Storr made in London more than a hundred years ago was clicking the steady pulse-beats of its second century. [6]
- You'd hardly believe that he was dressed before dinner-time and has been looking at the clock and teasing me ever since. [12]
- Will the cracked Teacup hold together, or will he go to pieces, and find himself in that retreat where the owner of the terrible clock which drove him crazy is walking under the shelter of the high walls? [6]
- He had hardly swallowed his drink when the clock began to strike. [5]
- Whenever the clock struck, it seemed as if years had gone by since I had heard it last. [5]
- The clock now struck two, and a tall figure in a Spanish cloak stood outside the door of the house. [10]
- Now the clock struck half-past ten, and Malfalconnet exclaimed, half to the young knight, half to himself, "If only the wild bird does not yet escape our snare! [10]
- Twice the clock struck again, at the half-hour and midnight, and the noises in the house--the banging of doors and the jangling of keys and the hurrying of feet in the corridors--were hushed. [9]
- When the clock strikes twelve, on the best horse in the country aw'll ride to Theddlethorpe, straight for the well that's dug you know where, to find your smuggled stuff, and to run the irons round your wrists. [11]
- It will soon strike twelve: and then it will be twelve of the clock for me always--always. [11]
- He invented a stove that would smoke your head off in four hours by the clock. [5]
- I give the story as transcribed from the original manuscript:-- The clock was bequeathed to me by an old friend who had recently died. [6]
- There isn't a station in Europe that's got such a clock. [5]
- When the stage starts, the hand of the clock is turned toward the 0. [5]
- The tightly coiled spring was released, the clock began to whirr and the chimes to play. [2]
- Before they had spoken many words together, the church clock struck the hour of school, and their friend withdrew. [12]
- There was no sound save the ticking of the clock on the mantel above her head, the dog's slow breathing, the snapping of the log on the fire, and a soft rush of heat up the chimney. [11]
- It will strike soon-- the awful clock. [11]
- At length, when some half dozen of the wine was gone, and the big oak clock had struck two, the talk lapsed. [9]
- With a faint smile at his own past insolent self, he glanced at the clock. [11]
- They sat in silence, which the old tall clock counted out in long seconds; but it was silence which meant more than any words they had ever spoken. [6]
- Her laughter rang shrill and clear as Honora entered the hall by the rear door, and the big clock proclaimed that the hour was half-past eleven. [9]
- The reason would seem to be, that as a rat cannot tell the time of day by a clock, he won't stay where he cannot find out when dinner is ready. [5]
- Hitherto his greatest satisfaction had been to hear the clock strike five when he had imagined that it was only four. [10]
- There was a room, dining-room in summer, and kitchen dining-room in winter, as clean as aged hands could scrub and dust it, hung about with stray pictures from illustrated papers, and a good old clock in the corner "ticking" life, and youth, and hope away. [11]
- The clock was right, after all. [5]
- With the clock right before him, and with his ready flow of words, this had been no difficult matter as long as he could see. [14]
- The silver-tongued clock remorselessly tinkled the quarters, and Hylda lay and waited for them with a hopeless strained attention. [11]
- Say--I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted --otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist. [5]
- The knife and pistol were at my hand, and when the clock struck ten, I set my toys to wailing. [11]
- Their faith is peace, and for me, you--" She covered her face with her hands for an instant, but turned quickly and looked him in the eyes: "For me you put your hand upon the clock of a man's life, and stopped it. [11]
- I'll take thine own benison, lady--but on my cheek, not on my hand as this day before at four of the clock. [11]
- When we came outside, it was just one, as I could tell by a clock striking in a chamber near. [11]
- If he might only put back the clock! [11]
- A clock of one of the Austen grandfathers stood obscurely at the back of the hall, and the measured swing of its pendulum was all that broke the silence. [9]
- The old clock on the tower of St. James's would still give the time to his step as he went to and from the Foreign Office, and there were quiet places like Kensington Gardens where the bounding person would never think to stray. [11]
- The gilt clock on the mantel pointed to a quarter of seven. [9]
- Then the clock on the inn stairs struck two, and the noise of harsh laughter floated up to us from below. [9]
- Cawley stood leaning on the foot-board; the woman's face was cowled in the quilt with hungry eyes; and Gaston's voice went on in a low monotone, to the ticking of the great clock in the next room. [11]
- But she looked often at the clock, as they remembered afterwards, and studied over a copy of the Farmer's Almanac which was lying in the kitchen, with a somewhat singular interest. [6]
- He was one of those men who never force an issue; he never put forward the hands of the clock. [11]
- I became aware of the ticking of a great clock in the corner. [9]
- In the front of the stage is a thing like an office clock, with figures from 0 to 40, marked on its face. [5]
- It is that of the middle-aged man, who assured me that he could never pass a tall hall clock without an indefinable terror. [6]
- The luminous face of the city hall clock reminded me that midnight was long past.... [9]
- A middle-aged visitor, noticing it as he entered the front door, remarked that he should feel a great unwillingness to pass that clock. [6]
- Actual time has nothing to do with the clock. [11]
- Why did you not say noon--noon--twelve of the clock? [11]
- You watch for noon, all of you, and we'll stand up, and when we can't cast a shadow we'll find that this Grinnage clock is coming mighty close to marking twelve. [5]
- That sort of nonsense went on a week or two, then the expert came up and put in a new clock. [5]
- His clothes, usually neat, were awry, and his arms were full of various things, not the least conspicuous of which was a magnificent bronze clock. [9]
- It was now near six of the clock, but instead of going direct to the Governor's I made my way down Church Street toward the water. [9]
- The head butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door by which the prince was to enter. [2]
- I put on my best blue clothes that I had brought with me from Richmond, and repaired expectantly to the tavern about eight of the clock, pushed through the curious crowd outside, and entered the big room where the company was fast assembling. [9]
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