Then after halting an hour, continued to the Little Sandy, making twenty-five and a quarter miles today, but it was nine o'clock before some of the wagons arrived.
Our horses were missing and we were detained till ten o'clock before we could start.
However, we soon came into sight of the camp but it was six o'clock before we got there, having traveled about seven miles.
It was almost noon when we left Gray Corners, and it was after three o'clock before we reached Westbrook, five miles out of Portland.
We had only the axe and our jackknives to work with, and it was nine o'clock before we had built a rude sled and loaded the geese on it.
It was nine o'clock before we were ready to eat our own supper of bread and Shaker apple sauce.
Indeed, it was after six o'clock before I returned to my house, where I expected to find Max awaiting me.
It was considerably after ten o'clock before my father and Marquart joined us in the drawing-room.
That afternoon, at the last moment, I was detained at the barracks for some little time; in consequence, it was considerably past four o'clock before I entered the gates of Marlborough House.
It was nearly six o'clock before we were confirmed in our belief that there was something more in his absence than met the eye.
It was ten o’clock before we separated, and found our way back to London.
It was eleven o’clock before we turned in, and I could not but contrast our present mode of travel with that of a few days back, and it seemed almost like a dream as I thought of our advance from the first summit.
Before starting their blankets had to be dried, so it was nearly eight o’clock before we got off.
In consequence of all these delays it was after eight o'clock before we really started.
It was fully six o'clock before we reached Oravicza; the drive of twenty-five miles had taken eight hours instead of four, as the Wallack had profanely promised.
We took care to give no pourboire in advance; but what with the inevitable dilatoriness of the people down in these parts, it was after seven o'clock before we left the Hercules-Bad, and we had fifty miles to drive.
It was nearly three o'clock before we got to the forests where we hoped to give Bruin a rendezvous.
So home by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home.
By reason of my Lord and my being busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four o'clock before we could begin sermon again.
We waited for him from an early hour, but it was nearly ten o'clock before we saw him.
We left Workum at twelve o'clock with a strong head wind, but it soon became calm, so that it was six o'clock before we passed Enckhuysen.
After breakfast we went on board, but it was ten o'clock before we got off.
It was twelve o'clock before we found him, and we then proceeded up the river, whilst one man and myself went to a clear hill in the range of Mount Byng, and from which we expected a good prospect.
The watering our horses took us up so much time, that it was ten o'clock before we set forward to the northward.
At nine, again set forward on our return up the river, and it was near four o'clock before we arrived at a convenient halting-place on its banks, the river presented a most singular phenomenon to our astonished view.
The horses having strayed, it was nearly eleven o'clock before we could set out, and between four and five o'clock we stopped at our halting-place of the 3d.
You know, Captain, it was eleven o'clock before I received orders to post the guard," said Stevens uneasily.
It was one o'clock before the roar of the cannon told him that the battle had opened, and then he found he was marching in the wrong direction, and it was nearly four o'clock before he reached the field.
Calling back his men and paying no more attention to the force in front, Blunt marched to the relief of Herron, but it was nearly eleven o'clock before he got under way.
The boat returned at ten o'clock while we were getting underweigh; but the wind being at South-East it was one o'clock before we weathered Point Cunningham, when the tide was urging us forward rapidly.
We had many visitors to breakfast to-day, and it was nearly two o'clock before we could set off for the shore en route to Tijuca.
It was twelve o'clock before we found ourselves among the men-of-war and steamers lying near the port of Yokohama, and two o'clock before the anchor could be dropped.
It was after two o'clock before we reached the green field, and, just below it, Tenango del Doria, and made our way to the jefatura.
It was nine o'clock before we started on our journey in the morning.
It was long after 10 o'clock before we had supper and secured a resting-place.
It was one o'clock before Julius, searching the field with a lantern, came on him huddled against the tree with Ned's body still in his arms, staring into the dead face.
Saturday night, the 20th, orders were issued to John's regiment to be in readiness to advance against the enemy at two o'clock before day on Sunday morning.
It was not five o'clock before I was aroused by a loud din of voices and splashing of water under my balcony.
It was one o'clock before I got through the mineral kingdom; and another hour passed before I could quit with decorum the regions of stuffed birds and marine productions.
It was almost nine o'clock before my kind adviser ceased inspiring me with terrors; then, finding myself at liberty, I retired to bed, not under the most agreeable impressions.
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