She watched and watched, and at last when she returned to the house and looked at the dining-room clock, it was half-past nine, and she completely gave up all hope of her father having come on that train.
She hurried about her household tasks, and at exactly half-past nine, for she was obedient as a child, she went into the den and got from the case the third volume of the Dutch Republic.
He looked at his watch: "A quarter-past nine," he said to himself.
Be back at half-past nine exactly, in time to load the car unless the whole business falls through.
Every merchant, in consequence of this regulation, was obliged to keep an account with the bank, in order to pay his foreign bills of exchange, which necessarily occasioned a certain demand for bank money.
But certain it is that instead of reaching the office at half-past nine, we found ourselves there a few minutes before nine.
It was half-past nine when we finally abandoned the search and turned our faces Citywards once more.
On arrival go at once down to Maldon and call at half-past nine o'clock to-morrow night at that house to which you took old Mr. Tarrant.
Stop there at half-past nine, and, leaving Madame in the car, go in and have a drink.
A said he would jine us by half-past nine o'clock," said one.
A told us he'd jine us on bridge when church-clock strook half-past nine.
Well, we shall know about that at half-past nine, when Mr. Narkom comes.
But it seems she was to leave Philadelphia on Wednesday, and will be at that forlorn little station of Asquith at half-past nine to-night.
But he ordered the motor at half-past nine, and at ten o'clock precisely the clerk at the Ripton House was bowing to him and handing him, deferentially, a dripping pen.
I'll go to your room at half-past nine to-night, if that's convenient.
Last evening I used it at drill and practice on Blewer Heath, and came home when it grew dusk, getting in at about half-past nine.
I cannot tell exactly, but it was later than half-past nine when I came in, and he was a good while bringing out the money.
Recovering from fever, and still fasting at half-past nine!
And observe, one o'clock in Indiana is half-past nine with us.
Promptly at half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday morning Crookes began to sell May wheat short, and instantly, to the surprise of every Pit trader on the floor, the price broke with his very first attack.
Through the veils of flying dust he made out some one, and a moment later identified not Tump Pack, but the gangling form of Jim Pink Staggs, clad in a dark-blue sack-coat and white flannel trousers with pin stripes.
It clung to Peter's mind longer than to any other person's in Hooker's Bend, and it presented to the brown man a certain problem in casuistry.
These barn-storming expeditions reached down into Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
In that case, he will arrive before eight; and all else falling as I now confidently expect, we shall be able to reach the hunting-lodge by half-past nine.
Till half-past nine, when a warm welcome awaits you, from one of the dramatis personae.
Drive as fast as he might, he could not reach the place before half-past nine; still, he would go, and the Chancellor should go with him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past nine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
