For three hours longer, from nine o'clock to midnight, the battle was fought in the darkness, only relieved by the unceasing flashes from the guns, whose sharp reports mingled with the deep and monotonous roar of the great falls.
Gladwyn refused, whereupon the Canadians departed; and soon after some six hundred Indians began a brisk fusillade, which they kept up till seven o'clock in the evening.
They pushed on all day, and reached Venango at one o'clock of the following night.
All was quiet throughout the following night; but about two o'clock on the morning of the twelfth, the sentinel on duty saw a glowing spark of fire on the surface of the river, at some distance above.
By degrees the waves grew high; and at eleven o'clock it blew a hurricane, and we expected every moment to be swallowed up.
I was so fortunate, however, as to prevail with them to embark; and at six o'clock in the evening we again encamped.
Yet such was the scene which met my gaze as I returned from breakfast at nine o'clock in the courtyard of the Hotel Belle Vue at Buitenzorg.
This is a serious meal, and must carry you on till eight o'clock in the evening.
About five o'clock the red roofs of the plantation came in sight.
Soekaboemi was only thirty or forty miles away, but I left Buitenzorg at eight o'clock in order to escape the discomfort of travelling in the middle of the day.
By five o'clock next morning we had each drunk a cup of delicious Brazilian coffee, and the boats were under way.
It was nearly four o'clock before we were again ready to start, having been delayed by a rain- storm so heavy that we could not see across the river.
The cool, bare houses of poles and palm thatch contained little except hammocks and a few simple cooking utensils; and often a clockor sewing machine, or Winchester rifle, from our own country.
At about three o'clock I was in the lead, when the current began to run more quickly.
About 5 o'clock a friend came to us and and said we had an opportunity to go over to New England in a boat that had just landed with four Tories, that had stolen the boat at Fairfield, Conn.
At nine o'clock the steward and his assistants would take their places at the window in the bulk head in the steward's room, and ring a bell.
It was about eight o'clock in the evening when we reached Providence.
Soon after I was out of town I heard the eight o'clock gun, which * * * was the signal for the sentinels to hail every man that came by.
This order not being fully complied with, at about nine o'clock the gratings were removed, and the guards descended among us, with lanterns and drawn cutlasses in their hands.
The hours for performing the work were between eleven and three o'clock at night.
At eight o'clock they were permitted to ascend on deck, and he found some of his friends.
Edward Dunscomb, Adjutant Hoogland, and two volunteers were made prisoners by a detachment of British troops at three o'clock a m.
It was not until ten o'clock in the forenoon that the gratings were at last removed.
Last evening between 7 and 9 o'clock five of the officers in a separate prison, who had agreed with the sentry to let them go, made their escape and took two sentries with them.
Last Wednesday morning about one o'clock made their escape from the Good Hope prison ship in the North River, nine Captains and two privates.
Cambridge about one o'clock today, and since has made proposals to General Washington to attack the transport stationed at Charles River.
A singularly daring and successful escape was effected from the Jersey about 4 o'clock one afternoon in the beginning of Dec.
He promised to be here this evening at five o'clock sharp.
Time passed unnoted, although the tiny French clock had tinkled musically the midnight hour.
Then gently disengaging herself from his arms, and still busy with her tumbled hair, she looked up at the dial of the ancient clock which glimmered red in the firelight.
One o'clock sounded heavily from Saint Hilda's as she left her house; the half hour was striking as she stooped in the dark hallway outside the studio and fitted the key she held--the key that was to unlock for her the mystery of the world.
He said: "Shall I call you up at one o'clock when I get into town?
The alarm clock woke her and she was plucky enough to get up--and I only yawned and thought of you, and I was so sleepy!
Suddenly it struck him that it would be one o'clock before he could get to the studio and call up Valerie.
Shirley Townsend in a blue serge at four o'clock in the afternoon is an extraordinary sight.
The clock already indicated the end of the working-day in the Townsend office.
I think the mere thought of going to an office every morning at nine o'clock would be too much for you.
Oh, ye shall walk in silk attire," breaking off to glance at the clock and start hastily for the door, with Peter and Rufus after him.
By three o'clock in the afternoon the storm had passed.
At about nine o'clock the same evening the two constables re-appeared at Gangoil, and asked for hospitality for the night.
At seven o'clock the sun was down, though the gloom of the tropical evening had not yet come.
At six o'clock she came into the parlor with a budget of news.
The time at which I determined to be there was one o'clock in the morning, and I also had a strong intention of making my presence perceptible.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, or an hour after her death, another photograph was taken.
Darget was in my office, lying on my sofa, about ten o'clock in the evening.
Common or in Ashridge Park, after which work would begin again before four o'clock and continue, with only a nominal break for tea, till well after eight.
On the very day after they arrived she wrote: "I have had a great pleasure to-day, for at three o'clock arrived a note from Jowett saying that he was in Oxford for a day and would I come to tea?
From five o'clock onwards they were used to the uttermost, but all the morning and early afternoon they stood tenantless, asking for occupation.
If you arrive at four o'clock in the afternoon you'll not get your supper before nine or ten.
We reached Strassburg at about nine o'clock in the forenoon and were pretty well entertained there, especially as Schürer furnished the wine.
Besides, it wants five minutes to twelve and the clock is slow.
Just then the clock struck one, and my mother-in-law made her appearance.
And there is Louise, who is to meet me at five o'clock at the dressmaker's.
But that is not the question at all," continued my aunt; "ten o'clock is striking.
At work on the fossils; at 2 o'clock I gave the first of my course of lectures at the University, the room was more than full, several standing all through the hour, and there were several Professors and the Dean there.
I was wakened at about 5 o'clock by a tremendous sensation among my walls and floor, as though they were all striving to part company.
The power of the Bishop is clear, if one only knew that he got all those hundreds of Japanese out at midnight, while for social functions they find 9 o'clock too late.
This morning by ten o'clock I had taken a house and garden of my own and engaged a maid!
After the glowing sun sinks from the cloudless blue sky, the stars spring out at once, and by 6 o'clock the heavens are crowded.
After riding for a couple of hours the sun drove it all away, and by 10 o'clock I was streaming with perspiration from every pore as I went up the hills toward the little coal mine I had come out to see.
At 1 o'clock I sallied forth with a long calling list.
Each morning at ten o'clock all the flowers that have bloomed that day are picked off, so as to ensure the next day's blooms shall not be deprived of any nourishment.
We all went for a picnic all day on the hills, looking out over the sea on three sides: and we had a sleep on the hill-top at noon, and came back as it grew cold at 4 o'clock for tea.
All the time I ploughed along I remembered the part I was to act by 4 o'clock in Tokio, clad in white samite (I mean muslin), gracefully dispensing tea and small talk to a distinguished visitor.
Till 3 o'clock in the afternoon that tree and the wood made me blissfully happy, but the hours between 3 and 5 seemed terribly long, and by night I was sated with the delights of bed.
Suddenly he raised his head; five o'clock was striking.
Most people are disinclined to write a dozen letters at the end of a hard day's work; but Sir Andrew often came home at eight o'clock with the knowledge that letters would occupy him until after midnight.
At that moment the clock of the Hôtel-de-Ville, striking five, was heard.
The clock was still striking; my uncle raised his arms as if to curse me.
At first there was silence and complete darkness, but soon after one o'clock I heard the very slight but unmistakable tick-tick, which told me that the apparition was about to appear.
It is a clock and musical-box combined, giving out a variety of twenty-seven tunes.
At three o'clock Rose went into the country, whence she was not to return until dinner-time, in the evening.
At four o'clock the shopping begins again in the Escolta.
China ponies will be harnessed ready to drive him to the office, and at four o'clock the carriage calls for him to take him home.
Five o'clock is the fashionable hour for visiting, as earlier in the afternoon the family is liable to be in négligée.
I was awakened as the clock struck twelve by unfamiliar noises,--nothing but the lizard croaking in the bonga-tree.
At eight o'clock the chandelier is lighted and the evening meal is served.
I rather miss the rock thrown at my blinds at 4 o'clock A.
He looked in at his own door; the furniture seemed stiffer than usual and the tick of the clock more deliberate.
He walked along by the sea, and as the church clock struck the three-quarters turned into the alley and looked eagerly round for the old steward.
But at nine o’clock the keeper came with a look of disappointment on his countenance.
At two o'clock the shells come whistling over us again.
At one o'clock in the morning we find ourselves at Charny.
We do not go down to the village, however, until four o'clock in the afternoon.
It must be seven o'clock now; the sun is sinking into a bed of virgin gold.
Eight o'clock in the morning and nothing before us but a day of rest.
It is along that road that the Captain and Porchon appear towards ten o'clock accompanied by a handful of men.
It almost seems to me that the pendulum of the clock on the mantelshelf is going to start again, steadily and rhythmically marking the flight of the minutes.
Speaking of the witnesses returning to the Whitmer home after seeing the plates, she says: "When they returned to the house, it was between three and four o'clock p.
Early on the morning of the 5th, say at 1 o'clock a.
At 10 o'clock we met an attentive congregation at Brantford; and the same evening a large assembly at Mount Pleasant, at Mr. Nickerson's.
The next morning about 10 o'clock the court was organized.
The greater part of the Schloss now existing is the work of Meister Wenzel of Klosterneuburg, begun in 1350, but the date of the keep and of the foundations generally are much earlier, and the prisons and clock tower are Romanesque.
When, I should like to know, have you for years reached twelve o'clock at night without being conscious of it?
I went up and loafed round until it wos dark, and then slipped through that side passage at eight o'clock to see Krill.
I heard the policeman pass, and the church clock strike the quarter.
Then I made an appointment with Tray for eleven o'clock at the corner of Gwynne Street.
He arrived there at twelve o'clock and was greeted by Paul.
It was five o'clock when Paul arrived at the door of the stairs leading to his attic, and here he was touched on the shoulder by no less a person than Mr. Billy Hurd.
And that, from what Miss Sylvia says," ended Deborah, "was just before the church clock struck the hour of twelve.
It was in Oxford Street at five o'clock on a June afternoon that Paul met Grexon Hay.
It's only six now," said Paul, looking over his shoulder at a church clock which could be seen clearly in the pale summer twilight.
As the observatory was a mile and a half from the hotel in the town, and uphill, it was uncomfortable to arrive there at three o’clock in the morning, the hour when at that season Mars came in sight.
In order to leave nothing to chance, since eight o'clock in the morning I had had men heaving the lead, so that we might know the moment we reached the outer edge of the bank.
At five o'clock next morning, before taking out my half-flotilla on patrol for the last time, I assembled the men and talked to them.
The eight o'clock observation gave us one degree of west longitude.
Moreover, in view of the overcast weather, it was pretty certain that by eight o'clock it would be already growing dark.
About two o'clock we were some five miles east of the island of Anholt, and at this point we had to make a critical decision.
It was eight o'clock when he left us, after keeping us company for exactly an hour.
Moreover, it is cold and wet on deck, and at eight o'clock the watch will be changed.
As midnight drew near, it became noticeably brighter--no wonder, for towards one o'clock the moon would rise.
Eagerly we listened for the tower-clock to strike.
Towards ten o'clock the wind jumped round to the south-west, and freshened.
By two o'clock in the afternoon we were on our way down the Jade.
We had worked our way so far that we were hanging almost in the middle of the entanglement when the tower-clock struck twelve, and we heard the approaching footsteps of the relieving sentries.
Perhaps not, but I must speak out some time--only I had better wait till the clock has stopped.
Ethelinda could not move, could not cry out to her, she was quite helpless, and all the time the wicked old man on the clock went on steadily swallowing sausage after sausage, as if he had nothing at all to do with it!
Then he bent towards Ethelinda and whispered: 'You didn't believe what the old man on the clock told you about me, did you?
The wooden magician himself was bolting his sausage a minute on the top of the clock just as usual, only the jester fancied his cunning eyes rolled round at them with a peculiar leer as a cheerful whistle was heard on the stairs outside.
The clock in the adjoining room tolled twelve, and from without the distant steeples proclaimed in faint peals and chimes that it was Christmas morn.
Can you tell me what o'clock it is, Mr. Humphries?
They performed it in one day; there was no hardship in early rising those fine summer mornings, and it was not six o'clock when they arrived at Wardenscourt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
