As a specimen of his powers in this mood, I refer my readers to the extract from the clock-case which follows this paper: he brought it to me not long ago at midnight, and informed me that the main incident had been suggested by a dream of the night before. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is enough to say that I replaced in the clock-case the record of so many trials, — sorrowfully, it is true, but with a softened sorrow which was almost pleasure; and felt that in living through the past again, and communicating to others the lesson it had helped to teach me, I had been a happier man. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But, still clinging to my old friend, and naturally desirous that all its merits should be known, I am tempted to open (somewhat irregularly and against our laws, I must admit) the clock-case. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This solemn question determined, we returned to the clock-case (where we have been forestalled by the reader), and between its contents, and the conversation they occasioned, the remainder of our time passed very quickly. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The ways go upstairs and downstairs, by winding passages and side gates; a pretty domed staircase starts from the central hall, where stands that old clock-case which Maria wound up when she was over eighty years old. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was my grand-aunt (whose portrait we still have in the family) who got into the clock-case at the Royal ❋ Unknown (2006)
Betty thought I had something hid in the closet beyond the clock-case, and she was the more convinced of it by reason of my denial. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The master of the farm was lately dead, and had left, inside the clock-case, loaded, the great long gun, wherewith he had used to sport at the ducks and the geese on the shore. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Surely nowhere else could an oak clock-case and an oak table have got to such a polish by the hand: genuine “elbow polish,” as Mrs. Poyser called it, for she thanked God she never had any of your varnished rubbish in her house. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But an exemplary lady named Wilcocks, who had stowed away gold and silver in a pickle-pot in a clock-case, a canister-full of treasure in a hole under her stairs, and a quantity of money in an old rat-trap, revived the interest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried, “Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find. ❋ Unknown (2003)
One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The huge pendulum peeped out every moment from beneath the glass of the clock-case, and flashing dimly, was hiding with a weary sound now on the right side, now on the left. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Box mattress, clock-case, Chinese vase, sink-cupboard, cistern, gas geyser - the telephone rang and persisted and I waited and the room was quiet again and I went on working - pelmets, toolbox, sideboard base, cutlery cabinet, blank every time a blank and the deadline one minute away and I began sweating. ❋ Hall, Adam (1978)
At high noon the twelve apostles come out from the famous horologe and take up their march, and chanticleer, on one of the summits of the clock-case, opens his brazen throat and crows loud enough to fill the farthest recesses of the church with his harsh alarum. ❋ Various (N/A)
