I figure I learned a good lesson, and set my alarm clock early for the next day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after synchronizing my wristwatch with the clock in the latrine, I walked down the long, wet cobblestone hill into town. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Revolution would depend on the skills of such men, skills that would have been familiar to the craftsmen who built the first Strasbourg Cathedral clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The house settled into an eerie postmortem quiet broken only by the hiss of gas lamps and the weary tick of clocks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The mermaid hung below my heart like a pendulum on a grandfather clock. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

With a vague sense of foreboding, Mrs. McCullough checked the clock. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered; I kept checking the clock, desperate to escape. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“He was a clockmaker. He made the clock inside the gates.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Long after Dovid and Haskel had gone to bed that night, I lay awake, listening to the leaden tick of the brass clock. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I knew it when I arrived at work and approached the time clock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street a neighbor’s sprinklers come on, hissing loud enough to drown out the ticking of the clock. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As you say, it is too late to turn back the clock. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back in my room, I stare at the old alarm clock that ticks too loud at night. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The dial of the clock was luminous and it shed a very soft green light. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the king had them carved when he built the clock tower, or did they predate it? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a sad sort of clanging From the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, I am listening to the rain fall, listening to the wind whistle, to Shirley’s breaths and Jimmie’s snores, to Juanita’s tossing and turning, and to the tick tick tick of the clock. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stand up and quickly turn one of the clocks around. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ghost bird twittered and the clock ticked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the clock clang and the same song began to play. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the Doorman home, make my way to the Vacant lot, and clock on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But in Fenoglio's kitchen it was so quiet you could hear the tick of the clock on the wall by the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fifth period: “If I don’t look at the clock for five minutes, class will end early.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was something sane and comforting about the ticking of the clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered two Russian soldiers who had looted a clock factory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This windowless little room, which also houses the time clock for the entire hotel, is where we stash our bags and civilian clothes and take our half-hour meal breaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been restless, waking up often, and when I glanced at my clock I saw the hands had scarcely moved. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the time clock with everyone else, then noticed on the chalkboard that a meeting of the union local was to begin in about half an hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there were still eight minutes left on the quiz clock, so I decided to use the extra time to take a peek at the coding,” he says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truly high-level artificing such as sympathy clocks or gear- wins were still beyond my reach, but I knew that it was just a matter of time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma simply got up to pick up the pieces of the clock she’d been fixing for Earl Baker. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Atoms and corpuscles are not machines, but their interaction is determined by size, shape and hardness, just as the interaction of the parts of a clock are. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Boyles was a die-hard booster, one of those who set his life each fall to the clock of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge table is set up in Hilly’s antebellum- style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I would never be able to give my father a proper burial, but by honoring the dead, I felt like I was rewinding the clock. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a high-backed leather armchair in Grandpa Sorenson’s study, Kendra wondered if grandfather clocks got their name because only grandparents owned them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The ticking of the clock seemed to taunt her, as if it was marking out the time she had left. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the distant clock with his walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her watch is sitting there ticking loud as a clock. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The two of them stared at the clock, and then they put away all the toys, including the little mouse, and closed the booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He climbed into his car and drove it out from under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward they sat together, and Charles watched “the clock as the hand travels sadly too fast to half past eleven—Then to my study & work till 2 o’clock luncheon time.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craning their necks, they peered up at the dusty orange bricks of city hall, to the tall clock tower that marked the time at exactly 10:04. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Beside her, Edward yanks himself upright, glances at the clock in panic, and slumps back over his booklet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She looked at the clock and watched the seconds disappear. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as they were concerned, clocks were merely delightful but useless luxury objects—rather like musical boxes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the old digital clock on the dresser every few minutes, waiting for ten o’clock. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

X-Ray always said that he’d sleep until noon every day once he was released, but his internal clock was permanently out of whack. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mama looked at the wall clock, a gift from a charity Papa donated to, oval shaped and embossed with his name in gold lettering. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if every living creature had an invisible radioactive clock in its cells. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clock went on ticking its solemn double note. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It took a fair amount of searching, but in 1 IF, he located a travel alarm clock. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nights she sat up to work on her tinkering, fixing clocks, pots, hand tools. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere they go they are like a magician-made clock with hands the same size so you can’t figure out what time it is, but you can hear the ticking, tap, snap. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy first,” said Mrs. Weasley, looking nervously at the clock overhead, which showed they had only five minutes to disappear casually through the barrier. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The clock was sitting there in the box. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ariana looked at the clock on the wall and then back at me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Which was exactly when Petey clocked him hard in the nuts, cackling as he ran away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kit jumped as the square clock in the corner twanged eight o’clock. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The only motion was the minute hand and the agitated red star-shaped time indicator on Fischer’s clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The clock radio in the room—the only thing in the room, other than our beds—was on, a piece of hand-me-down technology donated to the home from a Goodwill center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard a church clock striking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big blackjack and poker games went on in there around the clock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is quiet except for the wall clock’s ticktock. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He makes arrangements with his clients, finishes his clocks in progress in record time, and secures a short-term flat rental in Dresden. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And, at the far end of the shed, Billy saw pink arches with azure draperies hanging between them, and an enormous clock, and two golden thrones, and a bucket and a mop. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all the tests had been turned in, the pencil woman stepped out of the room, leaving the children to bite their nails and watch the clock. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rocked lightly from left to right in the chair and pretended that the fake bird chirping her clock made when it struck six hadn’t scared me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We sat in soothing silence, listening to the leaden tick of the hallway clock and the barking of a nearby dog. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Today again he waited, eyes glued on the big church clock that loomed high overhead. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and moved on, her feet walking in rhythm with the clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They end each year with failure, but hope that when the clock strikes twelve, they can begin the new year with a clean slate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Ms. McCrea says her goodbyes, and we’re back to the starting lineup. It’s been a pretty slow lunch, and the shot clock is ticking.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mechanical clocks give us a valuable chance to think comparatively, because we can see how other cultures responded when they were introduced to them by European travellers in the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I glance at the clock—three minutes until he closes it and I have to face the music. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My parents devoted all their energies to working around the clock to find another shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every few minutes, glance at the clock on the wall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It slips and clangs to the floor, then spins like a clock hand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The electric clock on the wall had whirred, for a very long time, and Kingshaw had just lain there. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We have folks who keep a watch at the perimeter around the clock,” Max continues. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why did the moron throw the clock out the window? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over my head at the clock on the wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the clock between my voice. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its self-winding clock told the time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, from a face seven feet in diameter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That was why Emma had been working on her mother’s code as close to around the clock as she could. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry fumbled for his alarm clock and looked at it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This makes accurate clocks indispensable on ocean voyages, but it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that accurate clocks became a reality. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She shrugs, gestures at her phone, and then points at the clock on the cars dashboard. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could see the white cupola, the round stupid assertion of the clock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, he’d make his move on the board, punch his clock, and record the move on the score sheet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He heads directly over to my clock collection on the far wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall tick-tick-ticks in a brisk, even beat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma’s precious clock, hanging over the mantelpiece, the pendulum swinging back and forth, back and forth, like it was getting on with its own, private life, not caring about Conor at all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Accurately measuring parallax was far from easy, particularly as it required a more exact measure of time than any sixteenth-century clock could provide, but showing that there was no measurable parallax was much more straightforward. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His father had said no but helped him set an alarm clock so he’d be the first to awaken. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was natural therefore to claim that, since a clock models the heavens, the heavens are like a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He came through like a clock,” the other man said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s invention of a new chess clock that operated differently from those traditionally used in tournaments had to be specially manufactured for the match, and Vasiljevic had it made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The pendulum swings on and on in the old grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, each observer would have his own measure of time as recorded by a clock that he carried: clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the Customs House looking down, like a great-uncle, on us all. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Westerkerk clock strikes; it's half past eleven. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stumbled out to the hallway, picked up his suitcase, and leaned for a moment against a tall old clock. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He took out his clock and he was trying to hide it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was after four, Bigger,” she said, turning and straining her eyes to look at an alarm clock above her head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But without the use of both hands, he could barely wind them, and so he oiled and observed as much as possible and anxiously compared the clocks with his railroad watch. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She licked her lips and darted her eyes to the clock on the dresser. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Guess they just need to let off some steam,” said Greene with a grin as we stood on R-and-W, still gazing at all the little fires as the clock approached 1 A.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall reads 11:20, but I don’t tell my grandmother that. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a dead silence while the electric clock chimed eleven times, and then the robopsychologist said, “Very peculiar,” and the corners of her lips moved downward. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The entire circus is doused in color as the clock tolls, twelve deep chimes reverberating through the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"We've got fifteen minutes to get home. I'm sure Ma's watching the clock." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eyes closed, head tilted to the side, he listened to the clocks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But there isn’t a clock time for this kind of just-right moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock had always been my enemy at home—stealing my sleep in the morning when all I wanted to do was hide under the blanket. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It's still dark, 4:30 a.m. by my alarm clock. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pulsing certainty, this knowledge, as sure and steady as the gears of a clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Now that nobody’s clocks are running too well.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She starts quietly singing some funny little song, about a mouse running up a clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it kind of clanged like an alarm clock somebody had knocked to the floor one too many times. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the sofa and listen to the clock cutting up moments so that time stretches out forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was the clock ticking on the wall that brought me to reality again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Doris was known for having spies on the block, clocking my every move whenever I was on punishment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he yelled it so often that I would dream it; it woke me like an alarm clock, requiring more of me than I could provide. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was seven a.m. by the kitchen clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the bank clock and decide to give her until 11:22. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had finished with the clocks on the roof, he climbed down the ladder and the long staircase. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Someone saw him wrapping up an alarm clock in a towel and burying it in the straw of a filly’s stall, letting her get used to the ticking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police were not yet monitoring us around the clock and it was easy to disappear for a day or two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ship were to travel at the speed of light, every tick of the clock on board would equal infinite seconds on the ground. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schmid stopped the clock, walked to the front of the stage, and announced the first forfeiture of any game in World Championship history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The desk clerk ignored the boys, who did not stop to remove their jackets before they knelt in front of the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every wooden leg was broken, the upholstery ripped to shreds, hunks of stuffing strewn across the floor, along with the remains of the clock, flung from the wall and broken to almost unrecognizable bits. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

This clock, like all the others, had weights, too, but much smaller ones, which disappeared into the floor. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Heidi has to wind the cuckoo clock continually to keep it running continuously. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was eating I heard a clock strike the hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was dusting the grandfather clock in the front hall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction, too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spit it out! The clock is ticking, fool!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One a clock come and I make sure I got my ironing all set up in front a Miss Leefolt’s tee-vee, tuned to Channel Three. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The clock says it’s long after therapy group, but sometimes Carlyle hangs in the dining area, talking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“That clock was made by someone outside the circus? Really?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Always precisely at midnight, at the moment the grandfather clock in the foyer begins to chime, the first plates are placed on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was almost about to start crying because the alarm clock wouldn’t leave me alone. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was the office of the timekeeper, who was in charge of the town clock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is a beautiful piece, more sculpture than clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed the cart path and the sounds of the clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hoodhood,” she called from her desk as the school clock clicked to noon, “I have a quick job for you. Everyone else, enjoy your recess.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mostly he fusses with piles of clothes the way he usually does, muttering under his breath, and glancing up at the clock. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, and then she caught me sneaking a peek at the glowing kitchen clock which was in the shape of a giant Bayer aspirin. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Smith thought his eyes were failing him, the clock in his head winding out of time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock began to strike somewhere close at hand: the chimes of midnight, and they came. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His scuffling woke me as dependably as any alarm clock, my five o’clock possum. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She brought me the old clock her grandfather built. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Only react once we realize the clock is ticking.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He waves vaguely at one of the waiters and as the clock in the hall begins to chime a low, heavy sound that reverberates throughout the house twelve times, the first course is brought out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Leah went first as always, Goddess of the Hunt, her weasel-colored pixie haircut springing with energy, her muscles working together like parts of a clock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I thanked my clock by throwing it on the floor. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No, girl, I’m on the clock right now. Just dropping off some parts to a guy up the block.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She made her way round the stable block and stopped under the arched entrance, beneath the clock tower. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Naomi checked the clock in the kitchen and then went back to dusting. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three men have a brief yet engaging conversation about clocks and the nature of time before Mr. A. H— makes a polite excuse and fades into the background again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even with his weighted blanket, the ticking clock, and the hawk’s eyes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen has a constant stream of custom work and tells Mr. Barris as much, indicating a shelf of variants on the traditional cuckoo clock that range from simple to ornate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are pyramids of imported chocolates, an ice cream counter, aisles and aisles of fancy cookies and canned gourmet food, ticking away like little clocks toward the obsolescence dates stamped on their packages. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at a line of clocks on the wall and seemed confused. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock chimed three times in the dark. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A white dresser, pale purple wallpaper, a flashing alarm clock, a mirror on the opposite wall, and our reflections there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Curses and sex stories sounded round the clock and blue smoke choked the air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes jumped from the digital clock—my return flight was in a few hours—to the mailbox numbers on the tree-lined suburban street. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was coming in through the vent near the ceiling, not far from where a clock used to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When Hollis spoke, it seemed to break a long quiet, the way alarm clocks do. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Wish Hamilton would swallow a clock so I could hear him creeping around. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Bilbo took out the envelope, but just as he was about to set it by the clock, his hand jerked back, and the packet fell on the floor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At another meet, he clocked a mile in 4:58. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The second hand on Fenoglio's kitchen clock was dividing time into painfully small segments. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I joined Mom and Dad at the dining room table, the second hand of the wall clock chiming in with their conversation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At the center stood a clock tower, the tallest of the interior structures, rising to a height of 120 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In one corner an imposing grandfather clock ticks loudly, and when it chimes the hour, I nearly slide off in surprise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The duration of each lesson was measured by the clock, which at last struck twelve. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The courthouse clock creaked, strained, said, “Phlugh!” and struck the hour. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He oughtn’t be late. Every time somebody’s late, things go wrong. Look at the big guys. You don’t ever hear of them being late, do you? Naw! They work like clocks!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The tides today will be low at eleven o’ clock in the evening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on her grandfather clock ticks another notch toward the top of the hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But later, alone in his room, and while he scurried through the walls fixing the clocks, Hugo thought about the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

This must be another weapon of the clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And you brought it to my attention, barely”—he glanced at the clock—“two hours ago.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me go clock out and then the night is ours.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The clock was only about a foot taller than she was, and she stared up into its face as if to have a conversation. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Vondie grabs the rebound, a fresh twenty-four on the shot clock. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Still isn’t, but now he has his things, his sleep things, the hawk eyes and his weighted blanket and the sound of the clock that hangs on the wall. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She has four hanging from the ceiling of her room and a disco ball lamp/clock contraption. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the clock, there is an unobtrusive silver plaque. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mace was probably aware of Galileo's research, which included the design - not made in his lifetime - of a pendulum clock that pre-dates Huygens by fourteen years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The repaired alarm clock rang at six o’clock the next morning. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I heard the clock, down in the parlor, striking every hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in her kitchen, Kathy looked at the clock and gasped. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was one of the first ones to school; I hadn’t even checked the clock in my hurry to get outside. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The beating of his hoe against the earth made a soft, yielding sound, as if a clock had begun to count a familiar piece of time. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

No, she would never take Doug's medals, and she would never sell that wonderful clock with the mouse who wears gloves and points to the time. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I awake to the sound of my alarm clock, blaring rhythmically, and it seems as loud as an air siren, shouting at me with such ferocity that it sort of hurts my feelings. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing that sticks in my head is that it has a clock, and we must be back inside 13 by the designated hour or our hunting privileges will be revoked. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And the letter is more personal than most, delving into thoughts on his own writings, observations about his Wunschtraum clock containing a level of detail that would require observing it for hours on end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The cages around the doves and the clock begin to quiver. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My first twelve years as a student were spent in Catholic schools where I could look up to the front of the room and see a crucifix hanging over the clock. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the dashboard said 1:14 a.m. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A few of the kids have decided to kick off their weekends by hurling volleyballs at the giant clock. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I kept looking up at the clock, praying the minute hand would strike 1:40 and the bell would ring. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock next to my bed glows red with the time: 4:47 a.m. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the morning of July 6, 1865, the clock began ticking on one of the most dramatic events in the history of Washington, the climactic event of the manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to fix things with his hands; it made him feel peaceful and calm and daydreamy, and he was patient with a jammed clock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes — first external contact,” he said, and Dr. 09-01, standing near the pendulum clock, noted the time. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes fluttered open and zeroed in on the glowing green digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For once, I went a few minutes without looking at the clock, so I was surprised by the bell ringing, and took longer than everyone else to get my backpack packed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was six three and weighed 190 pounds and had once been clocked in the forty in 4.37 seconds, an astounding time for someone of his size. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the clocks on the train would seem to be running at only four-fifths of their normal speed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most large early clocks are driven by a weight which slowly descends: grandfather clocks had to be tall in order to give the weight space in which to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ignoring him, I switch off the alarms and hang the clocks in their rightful spots. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The walnut linen chest that Madam had fussed over at the dock was set in front of the clock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s 6:55 a.m., his ticking clock tells him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the square clock on the wall over the stove. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a rocket in his saddle and wings on his sides Grog couldn’t possibly have clocked such a time, but the reporters weren’t sure of that, given what Smith had done for Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes out the mug, plops in a tea bag that smells like lemons, glances at the clock, and says, “Come, on, Lia. Upstairs.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She looks at the clock on the mantel. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My legs had pretty much clocked out, but instead of letting me just sit down and rest, Coach told me to walk it off. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She checks the clock and pulls the plate away from me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When this solution was relayed to Fischer; he demanded that his clock be set back to its original time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After several days, it is no longer noon when the clocks say twelve. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There will be a lot of talk about "turning back the clock," most of it done by people whose clocks will not be affected one way or another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe the face of that clock set in the gray building across the street hid a pair of searching eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up, stretched, and checked the time on the luminous alarm clock on his bedside table. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His response to the mounting demands was not to reorder priorities to give his staff and graduate students some breathing space, but to add a late-night shift to keep the cyclotron running around the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This explained the mechanics of HeLa’s immortality: telomerase constantly rewound the ticking clock at the end of Henrietta’s chromosomes so they never grew old and never died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When he woke it was with the sensation of having slept for a long time, but a glance at the old-fashioned clock told him that it was only twenty-thirty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Should I keep the kitchen light on?” she asks, shaking an old travel clock, distracting herself with an object like adults always do. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The clock is running—the crowd is counting—ten seconds, nine, eight... Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock chimed eleven and Celaena stretched, but then stopped as pain seized her stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I see his eyes—both the live one and the dead one—in the numbers of the ticking clock, in the motivational posters on the walls. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of the months he spent absorbed in working on the clock itself, the circus feels familiar, comfortable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hugo attached a crank to the back of the clock and, using all of his strength, turned it as far as it would go. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A banjo clock that would never again keep time but had a tiny cupboard where I kept the other trinkets I’d found. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I watch 15 seconds tick by on the clock. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the digital clock radio and tuned it to a jazz station. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Except for the low tick of the wall clock and June’s soft breathing, the room was quiet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t read too many words, but I can read a clock just fine. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The woman glances at the clock on the wall, and says, “Yed,” again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“We have people working around the clock attempting to broker a new deal with various agencies.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This prediction was tested in 1962, using a pair of very accurate clocks mounted at the top and bottom of a water tower. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the clock read ten thirty-five, and Finn couldn’t wait anymore, he folded the sheet of paper and slipped it into the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Granny’s clock on the mantelpiece struck the hour. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, my alarm clock tells me it's 11:37 p.m., so from the time I lay down on my bed to now is almost four hours. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Run the clock down all the way to the end. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We knew that the body has its own internal “clock” that tells it when to become tired and when to wake up. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may be like the genetically different lines of mice, or like Hayflick’s different tissue-culture lines, programmed to die after a predetermined number of days, clocked by their genomes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock ticking and searched for it with his eyes; it was at the head of Mary’s bed, its white dial glowing in the blue darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Celia wishes she could freeze time as she listens to the steady beat of Marco’s heart against the ticking of the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she thought it was the clock radio by her bed. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not hear her feet scraping down the broad stairs, or the courthouse clock laboriously strike two-thirty; she did not feel the dank air of the first floor. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Another round cage, sitting on a table rather than hanging from above, contains an elaborate clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was pretty tired, but I stayed up reading a skateboard magazine and kept one eye on the clock. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the clock—6:02, half an hour late. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo was exhausted, but it was time to check the clocks again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She went back into the kitchen and I checked the clock. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock on the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She woke up and Tea Cake still wasn’t there and the clock said it was getting late, so she got up and washed her face and hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He glanced over her shoulder at the clock, and I knew he was ready to kick us out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The steady rhythm of the clock lulled Hugo to sleep, but he dreamed of fire and woke up with a start. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The difference in the speed of clocks at different heights above the earth is now of considerable practical importance, with the advent of very accurate navigation systems based on signals from satellites. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only distraction was staring at the clock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes travel to the clock on my nightstand as another minute ticks by. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I close my eyes, the clock radio says 3:16 A.M. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a serious clock on the wall, exactly the same make as the serious clocks on the walls at school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The glowing green numbers on the digital clock glowed 3:12 a.m. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I looked at the clock in the checkroom and it was twenty-five of one. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the clock on the shelf over the refrigerator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ralph dreaded the sound, even though it was the reason he lived under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“May I ask you something?” he says as she looks at a collection of detailed figurines waiting patiently amongst curls of wood to be housed in their proper clocks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I knew that they did this with great regularity, as though moved by some unseen cosmic clock. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Bigger heard a clock ticking somewhere behind him and he had a foolish impulse to look at it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He glances at the wall clock and waits until the minute hand wobbles forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We stood there in silence, watching the clock and waiting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall had just chimed midnight when the portrait hole burst open. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The place was full of ticking, like crickets in September grass, and I could hear a big clock on the wall above his head. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the clock, listen for the final bell, and dash. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I watch the clock, electric and round, at the front over the green blackboard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the little red broken-line numbers on her alarm clock cut the darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She glances at the clock on the microwave and then goes into the living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No. His internal clock doesn’t work that way. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled over into a 7-Eleven parking lot and held my finger to my jugular vein while watching the : in the digital clock blink every second. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before this new language, clocks could be used to understand the heavens but not terrestrial physics or biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I walk into the apartment and see the clock on the microwave flashing 12:05 A.M. and laugh out loud. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I waited a full hour, until the clock struck eleven, then slipped out from under the blanket and put my skirt back on. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at a clock at exactly 11:11 is on my list. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quarter to six by the clock inside the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harry looked at the grandfather clock by the door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He watches the clock on the wall, donated, along with the rest of the furnishings in the room, by the loving family of someone named Eugene Arthur. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes the better part of those months for Herr Thiessen to complete the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She forgot the names of the servants and even of her own children, yet she always managed to be present, like a cheerful, beneficent spirit, at whose slightest footfall clocks began to wind themselves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, a very precise clock has been observed to slow down ever so slightly when flown in an airplane at great speed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Frustrated and sad and finished with the clocks, he finally returned to his room and tried to sleep. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My alarm clock, which was no larger than the palm of my hand, sat under my pillow so when the alarm went off, it would be loud enough for me, and only me, to hear. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Besides his workbench and chair there was a heavy safe in the corner, a lavatory with a greenish mirror, and shelves full of boxes and worn-out clocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I have to set these watches exactly right,” Zack explains, busily twisting the watch dials to match the time on my synchronized clocks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He could hear the mechanism of the clock complaining as the first b of the interrupted bong hovered in the air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I run to the door, glancing at the clock. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In the Palace the boys sat restlessly watching the black hands of the alarm clock. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock had indeed struck eleven and there, standing in the doorway, were Rab and Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about Churchill was that, like the stopped clock that’s right twice a day, he occupied one position and waited for the world to come to him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I have exactly four minutes before I have to get back to the store and clock in. Want to walk me back?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dicey looked at a clock—only ten minutes until the bus left. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock tick and the far-off rattle of dishes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Next to the clock on the mantel, Henry’s ring still sits. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The clock with the glowing dial stood on the small dresser. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The clock tower,” he said, his bronze eyes shining with amusement, as the clock finished its war cry. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I know he is a good one,” added Mrs. March, with decided approval, as she wound up the clock. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair seemed to be turning gray, a cruelty upon cruelty; there were too many clocks running. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment I was no longer in a clock tower in Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, went in the house and came back without the clock. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She tensed as Cain came to stand nearby, half-hidden in the shadow of the clock tower behind them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The red numerals on the bedside clock told him the time was 1:03 A.M. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There, laboring around the clock, workers cook and clean the bubbling liquid so that the sweetest syrup turns into the sweetest sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Remembered the time on the bank clock in the mall, flashing 3:31, then the temperature, 82, and die date. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced over at the clock on the bedside table. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He sighed, glanced at his father to see if he had heard above the ticking of the clock, and settled in to write about seeking divinity. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head, looking over at the clock hanging above the OR doors. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When the clock passed 5:00 p.m. without any news, I allowed myself to become cautiously hopeful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He found his attention being drawn to the clock across the hall. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And last of all, he wanted the new clock that he’d invented to be used in all games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d cut my last two classes to clock an extra hour on my shift card after my boss texted that a lot of people had called in sick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I said something about my clock being slow, about having been too long in the bath, but he did not listen, he was looking down at a letter, frowning at something. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looks at the clock on the microwave. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The old church clock showed a few minutes before ten as the contestants positioned themselves directly beneath the long banner that stretched across the street. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gargoyle leapt aside at the mention of toffee eclairs, and Harry took the spiral staircase two steps at a time, knocking on the door just as a clock within chimed eight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at the grandfather clock guarding the study’s corner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She painted them very plain, with great big block letters and a picture of a clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While she stood there the clock above the cupboard struck ten times. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were no Swiss clocks, but the lions could be counted upon to roar their heads off between five- thirty and six every morning. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the clock strikes twelve and the king yawns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Past the clock where semi-bad kids're made to stand, past the secretary's office where form captains fetch the registers, past the storeroom, a long passageway leads to the staff room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A bundle of gilded cattails stood in one corner and a sheaf of peacock feathers was nailed to the wall beside the grandfather clock. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear my mother’s breathing, and the ticking of the clock. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a little over a minute on the clock and no time-outs left, Winchell works the sideline brilliantly, the team as precisioned and disciplined as anything in college. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the hammer hit a metal plate on the clock, electricity would flow from the batteries through the clocks to the fuses, igniting the explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expensive rugs, clocks, china, chairs, they have brought it all. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the clock and realized I only had thirty more minutes before my first bout, and I was sitting on the ground feeling like a sloth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow,” said Ron in a muffled voice, “I’d rather you set the alarm clock.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But then the three months were up, and just before the flag fell on the immigration clock, Bobby would scoot off to the Philippines. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I made it back to the kitchen, the clock on the microwave read a cool 9:26. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I stare at the rocket clock in the office, and the second hand has stars on it that go around and around. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

As long as they feared the clock, Ralph’s motorcycle was safe. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock said just before five, and Meggie was going to turn over and go back to sleep when she suddenly sensed someone else in the room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad said that if Mom wanted someone in the family to be punching a time clock, then she could get a job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself not to look at the clock. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Granny’s clock had just chimed midnight when Miss Love came back in, her eyes dark-circled, her green print dress wrinkled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I'd been asleep for just about thirty minutes when my alarm clock went off at 6:32. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do I look like a clock?” inquired the warrior. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She felt the cold stone of the clock tower behind her back. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table and watched the clock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“If your face were a clock,” Lazlo reasoned slowly, “I wouldn’t ask you what time it was. I’d just look at you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy watched the lime-green alarm clock on June’s bedside table tick over to 9:33. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That is, each event could be labeled by a number called “time” in a unique way, and all good clocks would agree on the time interval between two events. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the task of making a seagoing clock or watch was far from solved: such a timepiece had to remain accurate despite changes in temperature and humidity, and despite the movement of the waves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The tick of the chess clock was the only sound heard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the clock sounded seven more times, the messengers scattered in all directions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Badenhorst attempted to turn back the clock to the way the island was in the early 1960s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes. You’d better be back in five minutes. I’m watching the clock.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo lit his candles to help him see and began with the clock that overlooked the ticket booths. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The hands of the clock pointed to twenty minutes past nine. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Without the grandfather clock to mark the hours, the night seemed endless. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the music grew wilder as two alarm clocks had a fight. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“A great big clock and a bronze statue.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes by the small clock built into die dashboard he tried to radio with a simple message: “I need help. Is there anybody listening to me?” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, the clock struck midnight, and as the chimes died out, we heard a cacophony of pots and pans being beaten in the streets all over town. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was not sure what a clock radio was. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, statutes governing electronic surveillance were nebulous, and Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph—a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Raymie looked up at the sunburst clock on the kitchen wall. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She bought an extra alarm clock, which she set to go off two minutes after her original one; then a third clock, to go off after the second. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since five hours—the official adjournment time—hadn’t yet been reached, he took a loss of thirty-five minutes on his clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the clock begins to chime near the gates, the first archer lets his arrow fly, soaring over the crowd and hitting its mark in a shower of sparks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two gargoyles, wings spread for flight, perched on each of the four clock faces, soundlessly roaring at those beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The clock over the entrance read 2:15 as they went down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I could see Erik lurking behind me, in the shadows of the clock. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must have. The clock was blinking this morning. I slept through the whole thing.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pick up the basket, go through the kitchen door and along the hall towards the grandfather clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And only then do I realize: That sound is not my alarm clock. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The referee blew his whistle, the clock started to tick, and Lake Windsor’s big center snapped the ball. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d timed his bathing session once, to maintain the sanctity of indisputable facts, and clocked an entire five minutes of him picking away claw jam with his teeth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won’t stop. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bed—without canopy—dresser, closet, electric light, television, radio, electric clock, books. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She bit her lip and glanced at the clock. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then more staring, more clock checking, more drumming. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"It's already seven o'clock" he told himself at the latest striking of the alarm clock, "already seven o'clock and still such a fog." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook the clock to see if it would tick, which triggered a violent explosion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said— and calendars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now all the clocks angrily think that it’s 12:00! Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The clock struck ten, loudly, and before the sound of the last stroke had died away Stuart saw two gleaming yellow eyes peering out from behind the sofa. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She got out of bed and looked at the oval travelling alarm clock On the wardrobe door, the cream-coloured linen suit hung, showing palely through its polythene. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Instantly awake, he glanced at the alarm clock’s luminous face. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls shifted in their seats and sneaked glances at the clock above the chalkboard. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Besides smoking, I was drinking around the clock. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am nervous, but the clock is ticking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Emily went to grab her notebook from her backpack when she saw the time on the Lees’ grandfather clock. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was an easy step to the proposition: as a clockmaker or millwright is to a clock or mill, so is God to Nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His hands, which were so confident and skillful at taking apart clocks, probed the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tournament began, Bobby made his first move and pressed his clock, which then started counting down against his invisible opponent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop put his hand on Genie’s shoulder—which was still such a surprise to Genie, that Grandpop could know where it was—as the old clock repeated itself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Possibly for several hours if the clock is right. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I check the clock in the hall and sigh. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Malaria feeds the hungry clocks, the feverish hands spin and stop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of real emotions, it’s worse than you think, but not by the clock. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then she pointed to the clock over the desk, which read almost eleven. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Occasionally,” Hector says, inspecting the clock as it turns within its cage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She allowed herself to be dragged from the garden, away from the shadow of the clock tower and into the marble halls of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

George sat on the bench by the teachers’ old-time clock, her feet dangling below her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I count the number of rotations we have left in “Volleyball!” before it’s my serve and then glance at the huge clock in its protective cage on the wall. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But that Saturday morning at home, as he laid out his tools and the pieces of an antique clock that needed fixing, he could not stop thinking about the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him remove a heavy engineer's watch from his breast pocket and squint at the dial importantly, then turn to check it with an electric clock that glowed from the wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys fidget, try to keep their eyes from the clock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today, few people know about Huygens’s work on clocks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture— must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock that was probably worth more than his mum’s whole beaten-up car. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need a clock. Think. At the beginning of the book, that girl walks through the vegetable garden—” “Meg.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the third time this week I’m late because of that clock. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He watched the clock until it ran down to ten seconds and then he passed the ball off and held two fingers up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mirabelle usually woke them at sunrise, crying for breakfast, for a new diaper, and she knew as soon as she saw the red numbers on the clock that something was very wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is wearing down—like a clock needing to be rewound. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We sat at the kitchen table and stared at the clock, until I went and got a deck of cards. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check the clock on the dashboard—it’s only two fifteen. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kleinsasser signaled that she was ready and she started a clock. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“That clock’s way wrong but I forget which way.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put holes like where clock numbers go. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But I was thinking about him when Mom came into my room a few minutes after I turned off my alarm clock. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I turn to the clock, it’s 10:50. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And just like that, she could barely remember the word at all—and was only aware of a pulsing sensation in her skull, like the ticking of a clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If he is self-destructive, I shouldn’t be around him—he might actually be the reason I’m about to clock out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And that fading snapshot on her sill, the kid in the swing, the clock in the frame ticking away. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock in the recess yard, and it was only twenty to twelve, so I had quite a lot of time to kill before I met old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At school the next day, Miss Robins is barely finished with our lesson when I start watching the clock. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His efforts introduced an unprecedented accuracy in astronomical and other nautical clocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub my eyes and look at my wall clocks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Celia wanders past the desk and stops in front of the fireplace, watching the miniature pages turning through time on the clock upon the mantel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Checking the clock on his computer, he shook his head. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The countdown clock showing on the screen was now closing in on two minutes and counting. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the boy could run that far and that fast carrying fifty pounds of clock and bronze, but the prisoner nearly got away. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock gets louder and the silence gets heavier. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He asked Lazzaro if he planned to feed the Blue Fairy Godmother clock springs and steak. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands on her kitchen clock were just as useless to her as her own two hands. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw turned his head and then opened his eyes, to look at the clock. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

You can only tell exactly what is going on if you can take the clock apart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on my way in and sighed in relief. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey looked at the clock hanging on the kitchen wall. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the meter is defined to be the distance traveled by light in 0.000000003335640952 second, as measured by a cesium clock. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the clock on the wall. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matt hastily returned to his chair by the front door while Ralph quickly and skillfully drove his car under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The body of the clock, which has been methodically turning itself inside out and expanding, is now entirely subtle shades of white and grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The clock by the tunnel to the staff room where kids are made to stand as a punishment through their lunchtimes told me I had eight minutes to live. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They knew that his defection was real, and they worked around the clock to contain the fallout. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was clocking around to the northwest. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

You know this, because there’s a battery-powered clock on your bedroom wall that ticks so loudly you sometimes have to smother it with a pillow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was crusted between my nostrils and lips, as if someone had clocked me right in the honker. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My little bedside clock ticked out the minutes one by one. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his visitor’s band lifted the tent flap, the silent drops coursed down his nose and fell on the parchment with regular ticks, like an ancient clock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hour hand on a clock moves about ten thousand times faster than the "flowing" rocks of the mantle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Mancinis don’t have an electric clock in their bedroom because it would never tell the right time anyhow. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It’s 5:48 in the morning, I’m thinking of making an outfit for my clock radio, and I’m so full of caffeine that my scalp itches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had owned a clock shop and worked part-time in an old museum taking care of the clocks there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The bell rang a second time, and he looked at the digital alarm clock glowing beside him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As the clock went past midnight I was becoming more and more pleased. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

"Where you been you need the alarm clock?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and again he glanced at the clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chester looked around at the newsstand—the box of Kleenex, the alarm clock, Papa’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The library is majestic with its glowing white clock tower. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to look at my clock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The clocks ticked on, the fires crackled, the translucent candles dripped. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were fewer birds; and after that there was grass of an unearthly green, so bright it glowed far into the twilight, like a luminescent clock dial. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock in Dr. Fox’s office said that it was 9:47. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock inside the Owl’s Nest and was surprised to see that it was well past midnight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With your ticket in hand, you follow a continuous line of patrons into the circus, watching the rhythmic motion of the black-and-white clock as you wait. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He kept staring at me, though, checking the clock, staring at me, drumming his fingers on the display case, rattling the gear inside. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Certainly time had as much to do with the tragedy as the weather, and ignoring the clock can’t be passed off as an act of God. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was so quiet that the ticking of a clock on the wall could be heard. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My clock said 9.02, which meant he had gone to work. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the comer of the room, attached by ropes, hung huge weights that kept the clocks running. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I listened in silence to the steady ticking of her kitchen clock. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the game progressed, Bobby had only twenty minutes remaining on his clock to make the required forty moves, and he’d so far completed just sixteen of them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old clock stared at me from the dresser like a worm-eaten stump, all useless and dead. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

To the left of the clock stood the flag of the United States, with all forty-eight stars brilliant against a navy field. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Conor just sat at his desk, chin in hand, looking at the clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He says that the way to wake up at night without using an alarm clock is to drink two glasses of water before you go to bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flopped down on her shaggy pink wall-to-wall carpeting, glanced at her digital clock, and reached out automatically to turn on the TV. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A digit changes on the clock at the upper comer of the computer screen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock ticks heavily through the pause that follows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She stiffened at the sound of his footsteps on the back porch and glanced at the clock. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she pulls out a ticket he inquires, first in French and then in English when she does not catch his meaning, if she might know whom he could contact about the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kendrick would walk up on someone, clock them, and lay them out in one hit. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantel is a Herr Thiessen creation, adorned with tiny books flipping through their pages as the seconds tick toward three o’clock in the morning. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a minute and twenty-two seconds—I watched the time tick by on the clock on the wall—my mom said, “Well, what if you don’t find anything?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And on he excavated, around the clock, babbling incoherently as he searched for his melodious bell that never for a moment stopped BONGING! The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock said eight, just fourteen hours since he’d left Naomi on the porch the afternoon before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed looked up at the clock over the doorway, the second hand snapping in rhythm. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A sixty-second clock popped up at the bottom of the screen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

‘Come to me at one o’ the clock sharp this noon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Each room had the usual desks of battered oak, a platform and square teacher’s desk, one Seth Thomas clock and one picture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a clock on one wall, but the room is otherwise bare. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at a large clock that was perched awkwardly on top of a pile of sheets in the washing basket at the end of the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Home,” “school,” and “work” were there, but there was also “traveling,” “lost,” “hospital,” “prison,” and, in the position where the number twelve would be on a normal clock, “mortal peril.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Laughter escapes my mouth as I check the clock, go to the bathroom, and have a cold shower. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Thirty minutes, Commander. Count the seconds if your clock’s stopped. I’m waiting. But not for long.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the bottom right of the computer screen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the clock, miserable, whiney. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were two dogs, one black and one white, and a grandfather clock, in the centre of the picture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood under the clock in the cold, the wandering boy playing in a mound of snow near his feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to take me to the waxworks, the flower clock, the Maid of the Mist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My last birthday we saw a movie with a man hanging from the arms of a giant clock.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She stared at the wall clock for a while, the one with the broken second hand, before she turned to me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve got this down to a system, Natalie and I. In some ways she is very predictable, more like a clock than a human being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lit a candle, set and wound the clock, and sat for a few minutes thinking what I must do tomorrow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had always brought home broken clocks for his son to play with, and by the time he was six, Hugo was able to fix just about anything. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Backwards and forwards went the swaying crowd, keeping time together, swinging like the pendulum of a clock. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a clock on the wall in the major’s room.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite far from completion. I need to send the finished plans to Friedrick so he can start construction on the clock. I suspect it will be much more impressive when built to scale.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I hear the ticking of a plastic clock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall pointed to seventeen minutes before midnight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wait for the day to unroll, for the earth to turn, according to the round face of the implacable clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got the position, she turned up on the same day to thank the people who hired her and forgot about the clock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the garden, the queer, off-kilter clock tower began chiming the hour. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That’s why she knew something was wrong even before she looked at the clock and saw that he was fifteen minutes late. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They’re playing with the clocks again,” said Montana, rising, preparing to put the baby into its crib. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has half an hour left on the clock when Richard makes a show of looking at his watch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It takes him a moment to realize he is standing next to the Wunschtraum clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The boys began thinking of it as an ACK!-ronym, because it meant back to alarm clocks, and homeroom, and homework. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without looking at the clock, never letting her eyes drift from mine, Schmidt said, “I guess that’s all the time we have today.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There were certain events in Odessa that had become time- honored traditions, essential elements in the biological clock of the town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he stopped to roll a cigarette, and then the mute nodded his head in the direction of the clock, smiled in that hidden way of his, and got up from the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I try to resist looking at the clock again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Pretend there are six seconds left on the clock!” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone could see it was three thirty—the peak of the witching hour—but Gen stared at the clock blankly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By this time Gale will have clocked in at the mines, taken the stomach-churning elevator ride into the depths of the earth, and be pounding away at a coal seam. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three men left, and Brian looked at the digital clock on the table in the entryway. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was food in the wagon, and wine—and a camera, and a stamp collection, and a stuffed owl, and a mantel clock that ran on changes of barometric pressure. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the clocks in her house were slow. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every five minutes she glanced at the clock. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I adjusted my yellow headband and glanced up at the large clock on the airport wall. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kitchen clock flashed its pendulum behind its glass skirt, and it ticked like a little wooden hammer striking on an empty wooden box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By writing worthless checks right around the clock, he expected to haul in three, maybe four thousand dollars within a twenty-four-hour period. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metronome clicked on dreamily; the clock ticked querulously. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hopped down and went back to the barn, where he gathered up some redwood planks, a phone, and an alarm clock. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ticking of the big clock became so loud that President Washington and President Lincoln, who occupied the wall space to either side of it, exchanged a look of shared displeasure. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

At ten by the kitchen clock, the Fitzgibbons went to bed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He loaded the filly in the gate, set off the clock alarm, and let her rip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters’ also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back inside the dark passageways, he checked the other clocks in the station, all of which were made of brass and could be maintained from inside the walls. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The clock was always punishing, but feeling like I was closer to unraveling the knots made time seem to stop entirely on Tuesday. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a double bed with a clock- radio on a table beside it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day at school, it seemed like the clock had stopped and the day was stuck in a never-ending torture of math and social studies and gym. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was only the hushed sound of their breathing, and, from somewhere in the room, the ticking of a clock, which must have been hidden by books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My radar clocked you going seventy-five miles an hour in a sixty-mile zone,” he said laconically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cloud of white hair made him look rather like an aged dandelion clock and was topped by a moth-eaten fez. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As she came back, she glanced at the large clock in Knipe’s Drug Store, and noted that it was nearly half past ten. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the cabinet, the clock ticked on and on. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Victor had chased all the children out of the house as soon as the hand on Ida's kitchen clock had struck three. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dudley’s eyes moved to the clock on the shelf over the stove. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world spun black and mist and blue as Cain grabbed her and shoved her against the clock tower once more, her face smashing into the stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were watched around the clock, our visits supervised, even food vendors had their baskets checked at the gate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning, blood rain, fog, monkeys—those are the first four hours on the clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from my clock that the earth was about to reappear, and right on schedule it popped into view, rising like a blue and white jewel over the desolate lunar horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You hesitate before you exit, pausing to watch the intricate, dancing clock as it ticks down the seconds, pieces moving seamlessly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The electric clocks on street corners are dismantled, public phones are stripped down to the last wire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock tolled the hour, chiming three times after the introductory melody. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The room I’m in is pitch black and quiet, except for a clock that’s tick, tick, ticking away. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantelpiece shaved minutes into seconds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Only a clock will do: indeed, only a pendulum clock, since earlier clocks were constantly in need of adjustment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s possible I could hoard my pills and then knock myself off with a lethal dose, except that I’m sure I’m being watched round the clock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It happened again in mid-May, despite the alarm clock I borrowed from O’Dell. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clearing was about the size of the first floor of Hazel’s house, and at the very center of it was a clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Emily went to grab her notebook from her backpack when she saw the time on the Lees’ grandfather clock. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Why does the clock in the corner say fifteen?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I can feel the clock ticking away, but stop for just a few moments to stuff pockets with food and first-aid supplies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the clock tower, the legions of Clock Watchers scrambled, panicked. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Something decorative and permanent and occasionally useful, yes, but I found it dull and quiet work, suitable for a rainy day with only the monotonous ticking of the parlor clock for company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I have put everything I can into my one suitcase—clothes, shoes, a good wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and found his overalls and searched for the legs, and then the clock in the other room struck two. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard the clock strike at least a half an hour ago. She ought to be home by now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center of her mind was filled with the image of the great, white clock at the railway station, on which the hands did not cease to move. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As though the clock is falling apart, slowly and gracefully. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Were they really going to allow Jews to hear the clock strike twelve? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom looked at the clock on his wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed through a thousand tocks of the unseen clock, and another thousand, and the bonging of his heart. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

One of them—a girl, maybe fourteen—keeps flicking her eyes toward the clock. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

During this time, Father lined up extra repair jobs— clocks and things to fix in his spare time—until his table was cluttered. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To answer these questions, we need to turn the clock of embryological development backward. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before the clock was set in motion for the first game, Bobby was receiving criticism for even considering playing in a war-ravaged country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was reading Mr. Milton when he heard the clock chime three with a weary, halfhearted chime. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was his right hand that had been injured, and there was no way he could take proper care of the clocks without it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He listened to the mantel clock chime the quarter hours and to the house tightening itself against the cold. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock on the phone: it's 9:42. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I checked the clock every few minutes from ten until eleven, then every few seconds until midnight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ticking of the clock on his desk was loud and the sound jarred his nerves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Several kids smiled, and a few peeked at the clock. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't keep track of time anymore and I don't count, but I saw the clock on the stove when he walked out the door. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the house the voice- clock sang, “Time, time, time, time ...” ever so gently, no more than water tapping on velvet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of making his fifty-sixth move, Fischer stopped the clock and offered his hand in resignation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence he could hear the clocks strike downstairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A clock stands dead without glass on its face. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No more birds or buzzing flies or grandfather clock marking time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a time clock to punch at various checkpoints on my rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You got...what...fifteen minutes left on your shift? You can go ahead and go. I’ll clock you out regular.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Same day—Monday, January 7,1935 Back home, I check the clock Quarter to five. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time was at a standstill, except for the relentless ticking of the wall clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And so the clock clicked down to the end of the school day. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The game clock read one minute and ten seconds. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Where does the time go?” cried Mother as the ancestor clock in the hall announced that it was eight-thirty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The motors and gears of these clocks were the biggest in the station, and Hugo was often afraid that his hand was going to get caught. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When a subatomic particle travels very fast, it survives longer than expected before it decays, because its clock is slow. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It seems they left town after four-thirty, since the truck that preceded them up the mountain clocked out of the local Public Works building at four thirty-five. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so quiet I could hear a clock ticking in another room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad life doesn’t allow us to turn its gears, like a clock, when we need more time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why”—she looked at the clock—“I believe he’s at Julian’s office.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s possible I’m gonna die at the hands of my foster father; if you’re not his alarm clock, you shouldn’t wake him up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo, as he walked through the station, watched the clocks begin to break down. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He switched on his lamp and glanced at his clock. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The clock moved, but never in Marly’s remembrance had it moved so slowly. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see the clock tower from here, but it was probably not quite four o’clock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the living room of the old house it was cool, and a grandfather clock ticked high and long and bronzed in one corner. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head seemed to be missing that invisible clock. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why it is that when the clock strikes, you feel all the more the absence of someone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only as he fell the last five hundred feet, as he heard the clock strike twelve, that he realized two things. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The inevitable pause, the glance at the watch unnecessary, as her drawing-room clock chimed four in shrill tones, and my rise from the chair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi glanced back at the clock on the wall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept staring at the clock, but it felt as though the minute hand were bathed in syrup. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The clock said four forty-eight when the clerk came back and sat down without even looking her way. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The clock chimed five, and Kaltain fought the urge to rub her eyes as the opium oozed through every pore of her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I look around until I find the clock on the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She smoothed her hands down the front of it, looked at the clock on the stove, and reached for an old white vinyl purse of May’s that she’d inherited. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city sparkled below, and the only sound was the steady rhythmic pulse of the clock’s machinery. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the clock above the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My dance ended as the clock struck the quarter before ten. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stare at the clock that sits just inside the gates that no one can properly describe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had meant to sleep only a few hours, but I woke with a start the next morning to find sunlight pouring in and the clock reading five of nine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I guess someone at school said something bad about her family, so she clocked them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dad said and went back to the clock, but Brian kept looking over at me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The players were aware of nothing, the frantic yells of the crowd, the clock, the dwindling light, the gray sadness of it all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is silent except for the clock ticking on the mantel, the sound of sweeping and the clink of china pieces as my father drops them in the metal trash tin. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he pushed in the box so its sides were even and then slid it over beside the alarm clock. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her eyes still closed against the summer-morning brightness in the room, she fumbled for the button on her clock and sank back into her pillow, and then it came back to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the clock on the dashboard blinks to 5:26, a question pops into my head. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The clock struck eleven and made me jump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the clock beyond the gates makes any motion, slowly ticking by the afternoon hours. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The clock over the stove say eight thirty-five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nearly five decades later, the clock—in unmoving silence— tells the story to worshipers and to pilgrims who walk through the church doors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance a clock was tolling, “Be pure in heart, be pure in mind!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A black-and-white clock on the wall said six. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hugo set to work on the clocks, but no matter how he tried to distract himself, he kept seeing the handkerchief filled with ashes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I'm not running, but when I glance at a wall clock, I feel like I should start. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, the question on Axel’s mind tonight, without the ticking clock, without the hawk eyes, is about the other side. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then they heard the clock again, and Dilsey slow on the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Then my dad leaned over, flipped the clock, and put it back on the table. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good,” she said, and glanced at the clock on the wall next to her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to tell whether the sound came from behind the alarm clock, or from the Kleenex box, or from the cash register drawer. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living rooms of listeners, clocks won’t reach this time until thirty-six minutes in the future. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were approaching the clock tower—black and menacing, as always. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For the next several years, he sat there, day after day, looking out over the lake, listening to the clock tick, waiting for the telephone to ring, hoping some business would materialize. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had a nickel alarm clock and a battered metronome. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beads clicking in time with my steps, like a clock ticking in my ears. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Each clock had a little metal hammer that rang its alarm bell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no clocks in the village, but the bell tower rang at intervals, and the midafternoon bell had sounded some time ago. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I quickly made my way into the sanctuary, I glanced at the large antique clock that hung on the church wall. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had jumbled my internal clock, thanks to our late-night marathon of Doctor Who—my favorite episodes with the brilliant and brave Martha Jones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But I pointed at the clock and interrupted with, “We’re gonna be late,” and went to wait for him in the car. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They tried to keep ahead of the animal, but when the clock ran out, they had nothing to show for their efforts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The door on the clock had burst open and a tiny room full of people was coming out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire still burned in the old stone fireplace, and the grandfather clock and television set were right where they had always been. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Earl looking up and down the street, with one eye on the clock, because I couldn’t see the door from here. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock and saw that it was 12:30. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock in front of the place where Mister Singer used to work pointed to seven. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The clock was missing from the mantle; the pewter candleholders were nowhere to be found. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he’ll be able to broadcast his recordings around the clock,” said Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ten-year-old niece was drawn to the odd bag with a clock on it and picked up the device. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sitting on my bed was four night-lights and an alarm clock. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Celaena hit the ground and flipped, over and over and over, until she slammed into the clock tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The cleaning, decorating, and cooking proceeded around the clock. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Water deprivation in hundred-degree heat doubles, maybe triples the dehydration clock. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ma said, “I’s so happy! After I got Missy to bed I told Mrs. Wright and she look at a clock and say, ‘You got fifteen minutes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When you’re planning to go to the carnival after school, the clocks in every class practically run backward, and the school day lasts for about three weeks. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll over and check the clock; check the chair. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The play was like a clock, every word spoken was another tick of the second hand. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for my family, I stared at the clock in my room. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mama and I stared at the picture until the grandfather clock in the hallway bonged and we both sniffed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stay that way, not speaking, for what seems like years, but the clock ticks only minutes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She just looked at the clock on the wall and when it was exactly nine o’clock, she tinkled a bell that was like the one my mother used to call the servants. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I glance up at the clock. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the three empty judges’ chairs, a great round-faced clock with Roman numerals was embedded into the wall. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The clocks closest to the windows are already in motion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And he looked over at the alarm clock ticking away by the chest of drawers. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barris returns to his drafting table, scratching pencil and ticking clock in harmony once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the center is a tower with the round face of a clock. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s a clock in the unitarial steeple. You can find out the time from that. Haven’t you got a watch on that chain?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table feels shorter and shorter with each tick of the clock. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the shelf and clock and everything. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance, a church clock began striking ten. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then they entered the clearing with the clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the wall and went outside to get fresh air. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The ten o’clock chime rang out from the clock in the kitchen. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I swear a clocks got more pieces than a watermelon’s got seeds. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining almost around the clock, and the temperature had finally climbed above zero. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock on the wall. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You spend so much time working with the tiny pieces of a clock that your eyes get to seeing the finest things. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, Hugo headed first to the big glass clocks on the roof, because they were the hardest to reach. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Even after this, he thought up an idea for an escapement for a pendulum clock, which he described to his son Vincenzio, who actually built such a clock after Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

On that thirtieth day, Grace had huddled in bed and watched the clock tick down. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling asleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Garret Charles comes back, and when I turn to see him enter, I catch sight of the clock. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He serves dinner on a round plate and describes the locations of different foods by the hands of a clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The clocks were connected by wire to four flashlight batteries. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock and wonder what cop at the Mount Pitts police station would be willing to sit down and deal with this. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

November was mere months away; the clock was ticking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sat up in bed and checked the clock: 8:00 a.m. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Either by his internal clock or Chubs’s excited squeaks, Liam woke first. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed to be moving half as fast as a regular clock; perhaps Snape had bewitched it to go extra slowly? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Called the circadian rhythm, this clock is geared to the place where you have been living recently. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spassky had made his first move precisely at five, and Schmid had started Fischer’s clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He sits opposite her a while, silent, till she looks up at the clock and says, ’Tis time to go. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s enough time, though, to explain the clock theory to them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the clock on the dashboard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were tables, a grandfather clock without dial face or works. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss sat in his biology class, not far from Rawiya, who glanced at the clock every so often while taking notes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was thus nothing automatic about the widespread adoption of the clock which took place in medieval Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Twelve of the fire performers quietly enter the courtyard with small platforms that they set up along the perimeter like numbers on a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Trying to turn back the clock to the dark ages has really worked out for you, hasn’t it? When we get here, you’ll see how people are supposed to settle.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Celaena awoke the next morning to the wretched booming of the clock tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Which meant he needed to bring Trina into the picture before another ten minutes ticked off the clock. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The clock in the tower began to chime. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then she smiles and walks into the dining room, leaving Marco alone in the hall, just as the clock begins chiming midnight and the first course is served. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A clock sat on a white runner crocheted with red phoenixes and red words about how lucky and bright life is. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes a letter to M. Lefèvre upon his return, to thank him for giving his clock such a wondrous home and for the experience of the circus itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was silence, save for the slow ticking of a large clock on a white wall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The glowing green numbers of my alarm clock crawled toward seven o'clock, by which time I couldn't take it anymore. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

What was happening was that the clock was still running, like Goldy had said it would, and we had to keep on keeping on the best way we could. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Next he moved through the hidden passageways to the ring of clocks around the train platforms, and then to the backs of the smaller clocks that faced the interior offices, including the Station Inspector’s. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s head started going back and forth fast like a pendulum in a clock that the weight’s fell off. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the clock on the wall. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Harry’s stomach started rumbling when the clock showed half past twelve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Imagine a traveler going west with two clocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Marly was glad for the silence and the warmth; it was cozy to sit with Mother in the night with the clock ticking and ticking and the fire crackling and the kettle slowly steaming. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rafik tried to set his watch by a giant clock on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look over at the clock and see it’s 4 p.m. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Across the campus a clock struck the quarter hour and something inside me seemed to muffle its sound. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself all wound up inside like the innards of a clock. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The clock ticks with its pendulum, keeping time; my feet in their neat red shoes count the way down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the glowing numbers on her clock: it was only 11:48. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

You could set your clock by Lydia’s being twenty minutes late. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

With an inked brush he marked everything with its name: table, chair, clock, door, wall, bed, pan. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I shut the book and glanced at the clock. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I made a little hole through the pile of pillows and stuffed animals and peeked at the clock on my wall. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. Alarm clock that goes off sometimes. Just turning it off.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Aimee looked at the clock radio glowing next to her bed: 5:31 in the morning. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Madam wore a groove in the floor pacing back and forth awaiting news of the final British victory, her footsteps tipping and tapping in measure with the ticking of the clock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed taking apart clocks and putting them back together again, cooking experiments, and horticulture, especially growing bonsai trees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Virgil glanced down at the clock on his phone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever told Booth about the president’s plan to attend the play that night had unknowingly activated in his mind an imaginary clock that began ticking down, minute by minute. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia looks at the clock on the stove. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The war had taught him to tell time without clocks, and even at night, waking from sleep, he could usually place it within ten minutes either way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed a basketball around his back, around his back, around his back, like a clock. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Set off by lightning, wildfires reset the ecological clock, dialing the array of plants and animals back a few successional stages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An early scene from the Wells’s novel also included a steadily ticking observatory clock. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I counted my way around that circle of branches like numbers on the face of a clock, slowly, one deep breath for each number. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seven rooms the sound of a midnight clock brought everything to a halt. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some multiple-choice questions take up most of my laptop, but the clock though. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed there wasn’t, as a glance at the wall clock confirmed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were playing with confidence, and with the clock on our side. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we saw that he was serious and was watching the clock, our pencils hit the paper. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Why did the clock’s second hand have to move so slowly? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bedside clock was frozen at half past three. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I want to grab my precious clocks off the wall and hurl them across the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The digital clock over the subway read 2:20 when the taxi landed outside Resthaven Gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cuckoo clock was stopped on the wrong time, the bird out of his little brown house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

None of us have watches, and I don’t see a clock, so I don’t know how she expects us to keep time. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He does stuff like changing the hands on the clock so that Mrs. Brown will be all confused and let us out for recess early. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That clock was more than likely the last thing in the world the kid who hanged himself saw. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sound I had been waiting for broke through; the low roar of Master Lockton’s snores, starting up just as the grandfather clock chimed midnight. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute hand of the clock was a terribly slow lever, pushing the hour hand imperceptibly forward. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When my friends come over to play, they all like our cuckoo clock. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He made me a clock that looks like the Carousel,” Lorena says, looking wistful. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course it looks to Terry like Molly is just twiddling her thumbs, letting the time slide like a government worker punching a clock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looked back at Luna and pictured the mechanism inside that girl—rhythmically ticking its way toward her thirteenth birthday, as even and inexorable as a well-tuned clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She lay in bed and stared at the clock. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He says it into the night air without the ticking clock or the hawk’s eyes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I would pack up everything very neatly, drop it in my pack, and hike again till it was time to clock off and go home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything, he wanted to turn back the clock to before the beard and the suspicion it brought into focus. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wish the ref could stop the clock of my life. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Like most people who live close to the land, and who have neither clock nor calendar, they measured time by the sun, dividing it roughly into sunup, sunhigh, sundown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be reached in about eight years as measured by clocks aboard the ship; the center of the Milky Way, in twenty-one years; M31, the Andromeda galaxy, in twenty-eight years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert clears his throat and glances at the clock. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

As the clock ticked toward zero, neither could find enough time or open space to take a clean shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I saw the clock on the wall and with a sinking heart realized that in twenty- four hours it would be Monday morning. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a box of Kleenex and a little clock next to the couch where Annabelle sits, but Dr. Mann sits back in her chair as if she has all the time in the world. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of the sergeants came out with a clock in his hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantelpiece struck ten o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t say anything when she got home and I didn’t ask her but I kept my eye on the clock. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, the old man glanced quickly at the clock across from the toy booth and headed out under the great iron ribs of the train station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He checked the time on the glass clocks against the time on his uncle’s railroad watch, which he kept with his tools and wound diligendy every morning. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A noise in the kitchen startles me from my reading and I check the clock. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nina and the bald man sat, unspeaking, as the minutes ticked by, and when the hour on the clock chimed, he rose and kissed her hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, he was locked in his room around the clock. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was 10 p.m. exactly—Finn had watched the numbers change on the digital clock in his room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, the chimney clock chimed the quarter hours—and I heard a lot of them —until once I woke and the dent was gone and I jerked up and looked across the room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Although the clocks in Barrow would say it was time to get ready for bed, she was getting up, for she was on wolf time. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil wasn’t great with numbers in the first place, and he certainly wasn’t great at telling time, with or without a clock. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We do all we can to run down the clock. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He waits, a plump young man with the eyes of a hurt puppy, glancing from his watch to his newspaper to the clock on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He found that bits of his old nest still remained under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

A clock stood at 2:00 A.M. over the entrance to a subway. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a clock on the wall above the window behind her. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a huge digital clock on the wall of the dining hall, bought sometime in the seventies as the latest in technology and never replaced, even though it was older than Conor’s mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The clock now says two fifty-three—just seven minutes to showtime. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I kept looking at the clock, waiting and waiting for the big hand to crawl up and meet the little hand at Twelve. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can tell you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The jeweler who gave him overflow work to do at half price sent in a couple of clocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every guy in this place has a ticking clock hanging around his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That was just long enough to make Mom and me have to go around the entire house resetting all of the alarm clocks, VCRs, computers, and stereos. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coin’s eyes have flickered to her arm, the clock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was filled now with people who chatted and laughed to an orchestral background and a clatter of plates, and glancing at the clock above the door I saw that it was two o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the clock, antsy with despair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Curious gazes cut back and forth between me and the clock. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A clock somewhere began to strike the hour, and Bod counted along with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was quiet except for the whirring of the machines, the beeping, the dripping, the ticking of the big clock on the wall. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Were there contractors and laborers working around the clock on a prison days after the hurricane? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now I have a better system; I have an alarm clock I set; I keep it right on the calendar, and when it goes off I check the day. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those details of typewriter, clock, and calendar design have not affected the competitive success of the societies adopting them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The judge looked at the clock and called it a day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a tall standing clock with a gold-trimmed face at the top like a head, supported by two steel beams. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And in the black room was an ebony clock which struck the hour loud. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long, two stories high, and crowned with a giant clock tower at its center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On top of his other responsibilities, Barack lived with a ticking clock, one that incessantly reminded him of the minutes and hours remaining before the March primary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a ticking like the sound of a clock, yet not quite the same, it sounded like a human tongue imitating a clock: tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clock and the roof and Caddy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that information, longitude is within reach—assuming accurate clocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Werner repairs a neighbor’s sewing machine, the Children’s House grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mom looked over her notes and then up at the clock a few times. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was piled high with books and papers, along with an old brass clock, a small bust of Shakespeare, and some half-used candles in candleholders. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The cupola sank slowly beyond the trees, with the round face of the clock far enough yet. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in this past day, Christmas Eve, while the clock made two complete rotations of its own, I watched over three tiny creatures whose lungs struggled like the flat, useless wings of butterflies prematurely emerged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter speaks highly of the clock, and mentions that should there be any kind of problem with it, Herr Thiessen will be contacted immediately. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So she led Jack along the cart path, following the sound of the clock and pulling away from the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The clock read two in the morning, and his body begged for sleep, but Finn was having none of that. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

So paranoid he even felt like every clock was actually a giant eye, and every time the bell rang he imagined it was the building laughing at him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Susie Spencer, whose tardiness could set clocks, rushed in, her face long with excuses. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

His mouth was drying out quickly, and whenever he glanced up at the clock, it made him nervous. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At 5:30 p.m., with Fischer’s clock still running, Chester Fox’s lawyer in Reykjavik agreed to the suggestion that the cameras be removed just for the one game, pending further discussion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought of her as one of those people who suddenly whooshes into being at the sound of the first bell in the morning, and winks out again when the clock strikes three-thirty. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

At first, all I could see were the red numbers on our alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A glance at the hallway clock reminded me that if I didn’t get to the dance soon, Manuel might think I wasn’t going at all. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The shot clock is winding down, and I need to say something. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On her nightstand, her clock glowed green, the numbers already inching toward the time she had to get up for school, but she had a good hour at least. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen is amazed at how well his clock fits the circus, and how well the circus fits his clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere outside the museum, a clock struck twelve. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As the clock ticks closer and closer to midnight, I watch Will, fast asleep on the other side of my laptop screen, his face calm, peaceful. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I look at my clock and I do the math. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Majidi is on the attack! The shot clock is winding down, the game is tied up, he’s on a fast streak to the hoop, and BANG! He’s won the game for the Boston Celtics!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I know it’s late, but I don’t know how late it is until I turn on the car and look at the clock. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Later, when he visited his father at his clock shop, Hugo watched him carefully, and then when he grew restless he made little mechanical animals out of the extra bits and pieces lying around. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether after all he and Julia had mistaken the time—had slept the clock round and thought it was twenty-thirty when really it was nought eight-thirty on the following morning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The clock ticked loudly, a jangling, arrhythmic tick. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Ewo, I am late for a chaplaincy council meeting,” he said, looking at the clock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The clock numerals glowed in white: 9:45. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Earl was back closing the safe, and then the clock begun to strike. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock hands pointed to ten minutes after five. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The reception area was quiet and claustrophobic, with a brown marble floor, three elevators to one side, and above the desk, a row of clocks showing the time in every major world city. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did the clock make any of the whirring, ticking sounds it usually made as it ran, its hands now frozen solidly in place. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was then that she realized that the tick took sound of the clock had never quieted—it was as if she was still standing next to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wished he could avoid this clock, but he knew he couldn’t skip any of them. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

With the clock ticking down to the primary, Malia and I hardly saw him at all, though he called us every evening to say good night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Miles began setting the alarm clock on the bedside table. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, 5:00 a.m.—The sound of my alarm clock woke me to a dark room this morning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And heaven help the sleepy traveler trying to set the alarm clock in his hotel room who must interpret “alarm function” and “second display mode.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I tried to wait up for you, but I couldn’t. When I heard you come in, I looked up at the clock and it was after four.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the clock continues to turn its pages, pushing stories too minuscule to read ever onward. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Four clock,” she reminded me as if it were any other day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, the alarm clock buzzed him awake like an angry rattlesnake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the microwave. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His parents’ grandfather clock still ticked away after all these years with a maniacal endurance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a vest that displayed a bunch of digital clock faces. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Richard is looking at the kitchen clock, waiting for the second hand to get to the twelve. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He forked another bite into his mouth and glanced up at the clock. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up at the kitchen clock on the wall by the back door I realized it was much later than I thought, so I went to talk to the girls. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked at the message, then he looked at the clock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before the clock had finished striking, the telephone rang. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes Mom set her bag down and looked over at a bank clock. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the face of the grandfather clock another swipe with the dust rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the cabinet was ticking off the last few seconds to seven o'clock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clocked out and left without no good-byes and stomp down the street like I was squashing bugs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Angkar says the ownership of cars and electronics such as watches, clocks, and televisions created a deep class division between the rich and the poor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew by the mileage she was clocking right then that she was probably not in the head space to really listen. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They had a horse-drawn wagon full of clocks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel chewed on her lip, and then reached up and moved the clock’s arms so it read 7:00, and switched the picture of the sun to the moon. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing attracted her attention except the music of the clocks, which she would look for every half hour with her frightened eyes as if she hoped to find it someplace in the air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Conor made an exasperated sound and looked back at the broken clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He glanced over at the clock his mum had put on his bedside table. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At first glance it is simply a clock, a rather large black clock with a white face and a silver pendulum. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, Hugo put down his bucket of tools and sat next to the clock he had been checking. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Every minute that ticks off the clock feels like a belt tightening around my gut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning I found Mama, the clock beside her bed said 7:44. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Martín followed my eyes and pointed to the clock. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I clocked six full minutes, but it might have been longer. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I should have left the clock out, it’s in one of those crates.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, she was replying to my question about why we turned the clocks back in the fall. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could rewind the clock, but I know that’s impossible. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the streetlamp outside the window went out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Fine time to think of that,” she said, looking at the kitchen clock. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But it was one of those clocks with a battery backup, since we lose power so much in that old dorm, and it kept Screaming-Nedding at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The pendulum clock provided an objective measure of a subjective experience—the passage of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was they who suffered most from the cold, standing watch around the clock in far-flung reaches of the park where no shelter existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I craned from behind my resting spot and looked at the clock above the TV; somehow it was 2:07 A.M. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The small golden clock standing upon Slughorn’s desk chimed eleven o’clock behind him and he looked around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The clock is ticking toward midnight, the harlequin juggler at the top balancing eleven balls amongst the twinkling stars and moving pieces. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We were high-school seniors, and the clock was ticking: once out of high school all American males faced two years of compulsory military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No one notices me, though, because they’re all gathered at a television screen at the far end of the room that airs the Capitol broadcast around the clock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Well crafted, obviously, with intricately carved woodwork edges and a perfectly painted face, but just a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their teacher looked up at the clock and capped his dry-erase marker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Blore looked over his shoulder at a small travelling clock by his bedside. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantelpiece says it’s not even seven, and there’s a violent rain lashing against the big picture window, half-revealed by parted curtains. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel went up to look at the clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

What a mess I have made of his beautiful Games with the clever ticking clock and the field of victors. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they entered the waiting room, Hugo noticed someone standing very still, looking up at the main clock, taking notes on a clipboard. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A giant lobby clock hangs above the scattered people, the crowds scramming either to something or away from it—I can’t tell. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The clock continues to chime, but she feels the stillness fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She held on to the phone and stared at the sunburst clock and thought about Mrs. Sylvester’s gigantic jar of candy corn. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He smiles and introduces himself, explains that he is stepping in while our previous nurse clocks out for the night, and hands the paperwork over to my parents. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We both woke up at the same time to the buzzing jangle of the alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock — it was five-thirty in the morning. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The house is silent, except for a clock chiming in the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I have a meeting in”-she glanced at the kitchen clock—“thirty minutes. I left my notes for the Carlson School project here.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stares at the faces of my clocks as if they have a message for him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We still have to write a report for today’s findings,” he said, and glanced up at the clock. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He missed the reassuring tick of the rasping old clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of them is a real clock; the other looks like a clock but is really a weather vane, and the hands swing in the wind. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over the stove the old electric clock was five minutes early. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is as if I told you that it is the year 462853 sec. It is nothing and more than nothing! Where is the clock to show us how the stars stand?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock says it’s five in the morning. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So that night, as dishes were passed around a silent table, and as the clock on the breakfront chimed the quarter hours, Turner decided he would dare the silence and ask. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I kept going to the kitchen, checking the oven clock. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed that the clock on the mantelpiece said nine, meaning twenty-one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A wooden clock on the wall above him read 8:43. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Through the hole in Elijah’s earlobe I can see the crescent moon and stars painted on the wall under the clock. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh your father’s coming!” she said suddenly, looking up at the clock again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, I heard the soft chiming of the old clock. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie yelled as he got clocked on the forehead by a metal bracket. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I gripped the bottom of my chair and held tight and watched the second hand on the clock sweep around and around. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several minutes, the only sound in the classroom is pencils scratching against paper, and the ticking of the clock on the wall. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’ll glimpse the hour on a dusty Canada Dry clock, or look at the sun low in the sky, and realize she cannot account for her time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park noise was her clock: It was late afternoon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He asked people what time it was, and each person pointed at the clock on the wall. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He heard the hum of the refrigerator and the ticking of the clock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A single shot from Mr. Flux’s camera could freeze them all, so Otto made sure to approach the clock tower from an angle where they couldn’t be seen from some high window, easy targets. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Waking up to a phone call at dawn was more jarring than an alarm clock interrupting my dream. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Miss Peregrine’s clock is running out and we’re touring a carnival! Why not get some sweets and make a day of it?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if a clock had begun to tick again. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cold is an effective alarm clock, and I was up before the sun. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

August looked at the clock, announcing we’d done so good with our time we had a whole hour left before lunch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bump into a waist-high table while eyeing an antique clock on top of a bookshelf, knocking over their display copies of back-to-school books. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

While many of the clocks are wood, this one is predominantly dark, oxidized metal. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced again and again at the large clock ticking on the wall. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In fact Maddie didn’t fly at night for a while after she’d clocked the hours and had her logbook stamped, and she had a difficult time keeping in practice because she used it so little. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

After a while Widget goes off in search of something else to eat and Poppet waits by the gates alone, occasionally glancing over her shoulder to check the time on the clock behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

An empty bag of Goldfish crackers on the desk, next to a nonfunctioning Curious George alarm clock, my laptop, and a plastic robotic arm. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Almost three minutes. I watched the clock. But it seemed to be longer.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Still another few seconds on the clock," he said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the clock on the stereo lit up, it said 7:07. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry put the Pocket Sneakoscope on his bedside table, where it stood quite still, balanced on its point, reflecting the luminous hands of his clock. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it that the corporation had slowed the clocks to squeeze even more minutes out of the long summer shift. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, however, all four of us were w'orking frantically, watching the clock. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if there’s any positive to the jabberjay attack, it’s that it let us know where we are on the clock face again. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the floor and drew pictures of clocks and gears, imaginary machines and magicians on stage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

More and more competitors were arriving, and soon the clock would strike nine—the time when the Test would begin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I looked at the red numbers on the digital alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Also present are gunpowder, the clock, silk weaving, distillation and the saddle with stirrups. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the offices, Hugo followed a long, hidden tunnel to the back of the clock opposite the old man’s toy booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

This rule held even in the comparatively short hop of a mile: In the three fastest miles ever run, the winner’s final lap had been clocked at 61.2, 58.9, and 59.1 seconds, respectively. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ushered his mother into her seat at dinner, turned in at seven, and tucked his alarm clock under his pillow so as not to wake Louie, with whom he shared a bed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Long, two stories high, and crowned with a giant clock tower at its center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was next day by the sun and the clock when they reached Palm Beach. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know,” he answered, looking at the clock by his bed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones made her a bed in the grandfather clock but Darling never used it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he said as the dashboard clock clicked off another minute. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But there was no sound save the clock and the fire. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day the newspapers are filled with reward notices for the return of stolen typewriters, Persian rugs, electric clocks, fabrics, etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock, and it’s almost time for me to get ready for school. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I check the big clock over the door. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then he looked up and saw the clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The modern cuckoo clock is a simplified version of these ‘automatic’ mechanisms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The app has a blue interface with an animation of a gray clock as two silhouettes approach each other and high five. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They needed to get their act together, learn how to wind an alarm clock, get out there and get to work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Houseman watched the electric clock on the studio wall, fretting that Welles had slowed down the beginning of the program too much. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The hall clock began chiming, and she counted twelve strokes before it fell silent. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dashboard clock beside him said 7:25 a.m., and when he turned to face us, it was with an expression of determination I had never seen someone wear so early in the morning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I heard the refrigerator hum, a poink poink from the shower dripping, the ticking that comes from the old clock on the mantel whose time is always wrong unless I remember to wind it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some are migrants, who sit on the steps of the big clock tower. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She looks at the clock on her phone. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, her and my dad got in a huge fight. I mean huge. She threw a clock radio at his head, so he beaned her with a mango.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As seen from the outside, you would take an infinite amount of time to fall in, because all your clocks—mechanical and biological—would be perceived as having stopped. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see also white Loyalists of Norfolk upon their pleasure-boats now laden with clocks, bedsteads, and inlaid secretaries. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember leaving the clock tower, or how I passed the afternoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The unfriendly clock's second hand shuddered, shuddered, shuddered, shuddered. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The magical, transforming clock that sat across from the ticket booth, doing so much more than simply telling the time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As we continued polite but strained talk I kept my eyes on the clock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The anticipation of what he might find was strung tight in his belly; suddenly the tension snapped and hurled him into the empty room where the ticking of the clock behind the curtains had ceased. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock shocks us out of our sleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was barely light outside, too dim even to read the clock on my desk without crawling to the end of the bed to look. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

East End and West End, black and white would begin only when the alarm clocks rang. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock chimed ten, and Celaena, seated at the small desk in her bedroom, looked up from her book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He smiled, then glanced up at the clock. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, bits of the body of the clock expand and contract, like pieces of a puzzle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The devices chug-chug-chugged around the clock, but competition for computing time on the machines was fierce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The clock on the dining-room table said 2:30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, everyone, it’s about that time,” Mr. Baca called from behind the circulation desk, pointing at the clock. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole Institute was lit up with activity, all the hot labs full of people and operating around the clock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least there he wouldn’t have to steal food and worry about the clocks breaking down. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I glance up at my wall of clocks to see how much time I have before dinner. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The kitchen clock read 7:30 when I passed through to go out to eat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy glanced at the clock glowing an icy blue on the little table in between the beds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No, there’s one other difference. It takes twenty-four hours for the Big Dipper to swing around the North Star. So every hour space on the clock face stands for two hours.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the streets is watching, blocks keep clocking Waiting for you to break, make your first mistake Wes returned to the kitchen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a church clock strikes another hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next to the clock there sits a solitary playing card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I panted as I looked up at how much time we had on the clock. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

If her cervix was a clock’s face, the lump was at four o’clock. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And why did he send out his messages intermittently when he could be broadcasting around the clock? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After all, there's no turning back the clock now. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Very accurate clocks carried in airplanes slow down a little compared to stationary clocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer then pointed to the camera aperture he’d complained about the previous day, and quickly left the stage with his clock running. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fish come back, the noise’ll wake me up better than an alarm clock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of a ticking clock reverberated around the room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Bewildered, Harry looked around as a small golden clock standing upon Slughorn’s desk chimed eleven o’clock. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The clock on the TV said it was just after two in the morning. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby disliked the timer because it took up too much room on the table—plus, you had to push the plunger forward to stop your clock and start your opponent’s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing dangerous here,” she told him “But,” she added, glancing at the wall clock, “he doesn’t like to be kept waiting.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for a few moments and then glanced quickly at the clock on his desk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, all the clocks were alive, and they were dancing to classical music. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“So then what you doing eating my food? Ain’t you still on the clock?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I sat down on my bed and looked at the clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old-fashioned clock by the elevator churred as its gears began to turn. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All through dinner I twist in my seat, checking the clock to make sure I do not miss the hour of magic numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I used to break out in a sweat trying to beat the clock. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly got any sleep because at the end of the day, after taking care of the clocks and working at the booth, he would stay up until dawn working on the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t forget to cover the holders, and I wind the clock and air the rooms every day. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a peaceful protest; orderly and insistent, like the ticking of a clock. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I took a shower and looked at the clock. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The last and biggest Time Suck clambered down from the clock tower with Mr. Flux himself stuck on its back like a tick. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then he glanced at the clock on my wall and said, “Looks like we only have a few minutes left.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sometimes had longings to leave veterinary medicine and devote himself full-time to clocks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She limbered up her fingers, glanced at the clock, was satisfied she had taken enough minutes, started the metronome, took her seat and the lesson began. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the clock bonged four that I could make myself creep up to bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Standing up, Grandpa looked at the clock and clapped his hands together. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was six o’clock—the church clock was just beginning to strike—when Fenoglio suddenly put down his pen and looked over what he had written with a satisfied expression. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the clock: ten minutes after three. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had a passion for doors,” he said, “or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once a clock has started, it performs its tasks automatically, but it cannot regulate itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“In the end, all we are doing is setting a clock. Each day ticks by like the perfect whirring of a well-tuned gear, you see?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the afternoon sped by and the clock ticked down to airtime, Welles became more frenzied. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Soon, Uncle Claude began to disappear for hours at a time, leaving Hugo to take care of the clocks, twice each day, by himself. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Remember, this time we can’t be caught out by the clock . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The town clock struck the first of its twelve noontime booms. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clock radio flashed 4:04 p.m. in green digital numbers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I watched him ask people what time it was, although each person just pointed at the big yellow clock on the wall. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dill was in good spirits as he clocked out of work, took off his green apron, folded it, and put it in his backpack. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then there was no sound in the kitchen save the simmering murmur of the kettle and the clock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Nehemia took up behind him, and as they crossed the small patio in which the clock tower stood, Celaena looked at the spot where Cain had just been kneeling. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Had he run his second lap faster, he said, he might have clocked 4:18. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now I stare at a transparent clock displayed near the center of my vision, counting down the time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I throw a towel down on the puddle and as I do, glance at the clock on my desk, which has the date as well as the time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A clock in a window across the street told him that it was twelve minutes to three. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded like I could see the invisible clock too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Here, the angle being measured is not between the observer and two distant objects, but rather the stars are being read as if they were the hands of a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He passed the town’s Rathaus with its tall clock tower, slender side towers, and Gothic arches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“May and I sleep out here sometimes when we’re harvesting honey round the clock,” August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The printing-press and the windmill, the lever, the pump, and the pulley, the clock and the wheel-barrow, and a host of machines in use among miners and engineers were established features of daily life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say “a loser like you,” because we are on the clock. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, from another room, he heard a clock ticking slowly and distinctly, as if the years, the centuries, were lost in that sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even Dad, who was rarely stirred by anything outside himself, glanced often at the clock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One was the antique clock on the sanctuary wall. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he spent many of his nights in PC bangs, the ubiquitous East Asian Internet cafes where young, mostly unmarried, men play computer games and surf the Internet around the clock. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I look out the fort window and clock someone approaching our house, so I pull out my binoculars to get an ID. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I love a woman with a violent streak,” he said, then disappeared before she could really clock him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tara only nods distractedly, and then they discuss other matters of little import while the clock ticks through the afternoon hours and the light beyond the frosted-glass windows fades considerably. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the big white house facing the Common, the tall clock struck nine. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock was ticking steadily, the darkness was complete. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Death is not a lazy fellow,” she replied, then glanced up at the clock. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I never hear the other kind, so Mom got me that devil disguised as a clock.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a black onyx clock with a gold face but on top of it was the real beauty. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the newspapers and clocks and wristwatches and libraries.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock and my head were still buzzing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I will never get mad at you for taking apart my old alarm clock again.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If you look at a clock or a watch from the outside you can tell that there is a mechanism which turns the hands. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Morning came, and the clocks were waiting, as always. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Wearily Ralph pushed his motorcycle back to the cave under the clock where it was safe. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen is friendly with several French winemakers and has made clocks for many of them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hector takes the silver pocket watch from the table, comparing the time to the clock on the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at the clock on the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pelor stared at the clock, watching it count down the seconds until the Test was over. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My body said it was yesterday, but the clocks said it was tomorrow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My eyes settled on a clock tower with stone carvings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell with Taylor doing a monologue of crazy, but Adina noticed it, too — a faint, steady beep, like a tiny alarm clock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hamilton pacing in circles like an angry clock. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They might make us advance our clocks by one hour.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph was reading in bed when the clock struck six. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It seems like only minutes later when my alarm clock goes off for school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure I'll wait until the clock turns over to 9:50 and then leave. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It amounted to assembly-line dentistry, quick and impersonal, and the young captain’s main concern seemed to be the clock. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy pointed to a four-sided clock suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the market. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Inside her own house, she stared at the clock, wondering when it would be appropriate for her to knock on Brandon’s door. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sensed a wrongness around me, like an alarm clock that had gone off without being set. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Roberto and I woke up to the rattling sound of the alarm clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They had no right to swing me back and forth like a pendulum on a clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I take a look around the train station, feeling like I'm up against a ticking clock, when a riddle interrupts my thoughts. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The apartment is so still, with only the beating of a grandfather clock above my head.“Well, now what?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Miss Akkerman comes back to the foyer, I pretend to consider the two dresses she's brought, but really I'm watching the wall clock. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And now it is night again, another revolution of the clock, and the whole block is quiet, and she cannot sleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance’s Christmas party had ended in such a free-for-all of destruction that a whole fleet of servants working ’round the clock for a month would be hard- pressed to put the house right. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a still, tight moment in the room with just the sound of the brown Timex clock ticking on the shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A grandfather clock lay splintered at their feet, its face cracked, its pendulum lying a little farther away like a dropped sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock in the hallway, and sure enough, it’s five-fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Malvonne looked at the clock on the mantel, figuring out how much time she had to talk to Joe and get her letters mailed before leaving for work. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said, checking the text again, then the clock on his phone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As Riccio’s clock showed almost eleven and Bo was nearly asleep on Prospers lap, they crept under their blankets and Hornet began to read to them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Goldie looked at the clock on the wall and shot out of her chair. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We leave the park at 4:22, according to the clock in Ms. Sitton’s SUV. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the chair closest to the door and listen to the rocket clock ticking and Ms. Kenney typing and answering the phone with “Woodson Elementary, how can I help you?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Blinking and ticking like a cosmic metronome, pulsars keep far better time than the most accurate ordinary clock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy kept watching the clock while she ate, the hands moving closer and closer to 10:33, which was when she was born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Charles awakened on the stroke of four-thirty as surely as though the brass pendulum of the clock had nudged him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to tell my family that I had finally made friends with the clock—and for the first time in my life I was waking up early! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the first Monday after the alligator episode, Officer Delinko set his alarm clock for five A.M. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swaddled in blankets and bandages, she glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To Friedrick, it appears she is gazing through the clock rather than simply looking at it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two coaches hurried up, gaping at their stopwatches, on which they had clocked his final lap. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The numbers were like war paint on the white face of the clock, the hands like swords as they slashed across the pearly surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They listened to the clatter of their decrepit refrigerator and the ticking clock on the wall. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A clock that didn’t work, a flowered tin wastepaper basket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the alarm clock for five, only to wake to the sound of Farmer’s voice, singing up to her from the courtyard below. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I went back up to the cave, got my alarm clock and calendar, a lamp, this notebook, and some other things, and came back to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Watching the children as they watched Skarpi, I realized what they reminded me of: a person anxiously watching a clock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s no clock in the room, so I can’t count down the minutes until the interrogation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dieter, in fact, was already planning for it: he announced that he had set his big alarm clock, which had bells on top, for 5 A.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield had escaped. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The face of the clock becomes a darker grey, and then black, with twinkling stars where the numbers had been previously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The clock on my wall said it was only four o’clock. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stay up so late that I always sleep past the alarm clock and miss the bus. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even the clock on the wall seemed to stop ticking, its hands stuck in time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The room was so quiet that you noticed the ticking of the clock at once. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock: 10:20 a.m. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

You could hear the tick of the kitchen clock. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Conor stood breathing for a second, thinking about the broken clock, about the scratches on the hardwood, about the poisonous berries dropping from the monster onto his grandma’s clean floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the printing-shop clock the sun had been set for almost an hour. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the clocks struck ten on Friday morning, thousands of boots echoed against the cobblestones of Broadway. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited as the clock first chimed eleven times, then twelve, watching the firelight and trying not to ponder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only served to reason that the olive oil Tessie drizzled over everything had some mysterious power to stop the body’s clock, while the mind, impervious to cooking oils, kept going. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He looked at the clock hanging on the wall behind the cash register. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An old-fashioned glass clock with a twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t look at the clock without knowing it’s past the hour for me to go. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the other side of the coin is that the British Air Force is operating around the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then Monday and dawn and the alarm clock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squinted at the digital eyes of his bedside clock and saw 5:21 A.M. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was out of my chair and limping through the kitchen before the clock stopped bonging. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It figures that they wouldn't set the clock. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There is a knock on the frosted-glass door and the scratching pencil halts, though the ticking clock pays no heed. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The coach was signaling for us to take some time off the clock. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know how long he had been there; some hours, at any rate; with no clocks and no daylight it was hard to gauge the time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s clock says it’s three thirty in the morning, and Bad Leg’s voice eases through the locked windows and thick curtains to hover above my air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Fischer returned to the stage, thirty-five minutes had elapsed on his clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I missed the sound of Judy breathing, the squeak of the bed as she rolled over, even the ticking of her alarm clock. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler specifically said that ‘my aim...is to show that the machine of the universe is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of Pearl, but the clock on the stove read 3:15. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because a heart does not strike the hours like a clock, Ralph slept until recess and again until lunchtime when Ryan remembered to slip a bit of sandwich into the pocket for his lunch. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once he got to the kitchen, he also had the red glow of the digital clock on the stove. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I get out of bed, glance at the clock. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Like a clock that is not oscillating properly.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I watch the clock, anyhow; its hands measure time, superslow. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The clock at the bottom, which was nearer the earth, was found to run slower, in exact agreement with general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all is quiet, eerily quiet, except for the tick-tick'tick of my clock. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father did not once look at his watch or the clock on the table by the sofa. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man scribbled down an address and told her they’d see her at eight o clock. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was something chilling in the thought, something a little melancholy, and looking at the clock I saw that five more minutes had gone by. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the wooden clock begin to sing and Wu Tsing’s deep voice complaining of the chill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our pink nights glowed with the raw luminescence of the night shift, of factories running around the clock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her house was even worse, filled with expensive old things you could never touch, like a clock she wouldn’t even let the cleaning lady dust. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The clock on your dresser, the cup of coffee you drink in the morning, the book you're reading right now—all these are three-dimensional objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His bedroom with its hawk eyes and books and ticking clock. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

What is it with the clocks in school? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an alarm clock, the honking of the horn woke me with a start Saturday morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at all the things they own: the towels and the toaster, the alarm clock and the drapes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was silent except for the popping of the applewood in the fire, and the tall clock ticking in the front room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock was still there, but it looked smaller now, and less odd—like every woods would have a skinned grandfather clock in it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted all the clocks everywhere to stop. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She talked on, how plants don't run on electricity or clock time, how none of nature did. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen footmen spread out around the Palace to find the clocks. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo knew it meant clock maker, and he had always thought he would be a clock maker like his father. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I got so much done with Mr. Keller and Annie on the house, but I haven't gone out there since last week—the clock’s ticking. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

So I watch the second hand of the kitchen clock while Richard feeds Mom clues. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They stay like this for some time, alongside the crackling of the fire and the ticking of the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We quitted the scene, leaving behind us a toppled parlor on the dirt street, table flung with arms wide, clock facedown, chairs jumbled on the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The day of the vote, I sprang out of bed before my Hulk alarm clock went off. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“No one else sees as much of him as we do. I wonder if Marion’s home,” he said, glancing at the clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes by the clock, and there's nothing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma had always said, “Ask your daddy the time, and he tells you how to make a clock.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one leap he jumped onto the alarm clock, landing right on the button that set off the alarm. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need a clock that will turn on a 300-watt bulb when it’s time to get up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A week with no clocks, with no sun, can feel like an eternity. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bed, a clock radio, a rocking chair, a bookcase, some books. That’s not nothing.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Strasbourg clock was built in the middle of the fourteenth century—but the mechanical philosophy was invented three centuries later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ceiling leaks, the floor boards wobble, the mailboxes won’t shut, the light bulbs are broken, the clock has stopped. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adèle, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Similar clocks spread across Europe later in the seventeenth century following the independent work of Christiaan Huygens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I looked over to see where the clock had landed, I realized I, too, was lying on the floor. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced, disoriented, at the clock on my dresser. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He pays no taxes, he doesn’t have to see his money going every year to have the courthouse clock cleaned to where it’ll run. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock in the hall bonged loudly, four times, startling us both. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the clock chimed three and most of the guests—including the queen and Chaol—had left, Celaena finally decided that it was safe for her to leave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the mantelpiece an ornate gold clock with a domed glass front ticks loudly. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Select different types of music and note down the general beats per minute using a watch or clock. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young Izzy had stood guard under the funeral home’s clock, which freely gave the time to Madison Avenue, alongside his fellow Lords with their berets and empty rifles. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at the alarm clock hung on a nail on the wall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been studying up on these things while I was laid up in bed instead of messing around with that darn clock I hadn’t even gotten half together yet. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the nothingness, a clock begins to strike midnight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Winter doesn’t really start back home, not on the clock anyway, until mid-November. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were bookshelves; on one shelf an electric clock hummed quietly to itself. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at their one clock on the dashboard of the car. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ma came for my dishes, I said, “Take that clock with you. I can’t make the fool thing work.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I was depressed by what it represented—the hours measured, the boredom of inmates and irritation of officers, the ticking of the clock, the niggling accountability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The clock ticking in the hallway, the crackling on the phone line, the sound of the wind blowing through the open front door. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a clock winding down. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"What are all the clocks for?" she asked. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The clock read 2:40.I needed a solid plan, but I didn’t have the luxury of sitting down to think one up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the colt’s eighteenth start, for no explicable reason, he finally won, clocking a sterling time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the house has been dead quiet for a while, I push the button on my clock that makes the time illuminate: 2:17 A.M. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

There is an inkwell next to the lamp, a brass statue of an Egyptian deity, a clock, and the empty brandy bottle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then she sighed and glanced guiltily over her shoulder at the big, round clock on the wall. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and the clock says three-thirty a.m. and it feels like someone is stabbing a sword through my stomach. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him up a spiral staircase and into the clock tower itself, where there was a well-lit room with simple furnishings: two chairs and a wooden table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Their teacher looked up at the clock and capped his dry-erase marker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sit there for what feels like at least ten minutes, legs crossed and cramping, but when I look at the clock again, only one minute has passed. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would start a job, look at the clock, forget what she’d been doing, and go to another job. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the fullback kicked the ball back toward his own goaltender, who only had to cradle it and run out the clock. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo’s eyes opened wide, for there in front of him was a large dog with a perfectly normal head, four feet, and a tail—and the body of a loudly ticking alarm clock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tick took of the clock was gone, and Hazel missed it like her own heartbeat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She meant that their keepers were making the electric clocks in the dome go fast, then slow, then fast again, and watching the little Earthling family through peepholes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, he does say that understanding the universe is comparable to the problem of understanding a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He begins by simply wandering, casually investigating the odd home of his Wunschtraum clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ask about a bridge with a clock tower behind it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Alfred looked over Barnes' shoulder at the clock on the far wall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head throbs where he’s clocked it against the linoleum floor, but he can feel his lips split into a smile. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look around like my room will have sprouted a clock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were that of the girl in the clock playing the violin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"I say . . ." he began, and I heard my voice come quiet from my tensed throat as I noticed by the clock that I had been gone only twenty minutes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole realized he hadn’t looked at a clock in nearly a year. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Above Ralph the clock began to grind and groan and strike, bong...bong, as if it had to summon strength for each stroke. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

On evenings and weekends, he repaired antique clocks as a hobby. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help the boy overcome these self-defeating tendencies, Collins ordered a clock from Germany with a special ten-second timer, and he insisted that Bobby play with it to practice thinking and moving more rapidly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He does, it is true, mention a small number of modern inventions—stirrups, the compass, clocks, gunpowder, printing—but he has almost nothing to say about new observations, new explanations or new proofs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clock, and I could hear Caddy standing behind me, and I could hear the roof. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look over at the clock on my bedside table. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be sorry yet. Our Sheed is in the clock tower, and he needs us.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy fiddles with the button on the oven clock, as if Grandma hasn’t said a word. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I check the clock, during dessert, canned pears with cinnamon, standard for lunch, and look for Moira in her place, two tables over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking at the clock all through science class. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Now grab a bay and log in. The clock is ticking!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the big clock, whose minute hand never seemed to move in spite of the second hand winding around and around. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then the clock must’ve struck ten because all at once the buzzing generators outside sputtered and died, as did the music from downstairs and the streetlight that had been shining through my window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall suddenly seemed to tick louder. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was a tall grandfather clock, also not working. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The numbers are usually lit on the oven’s clock. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His stare hesitated on a glass measuring cup hiding behind my alarm clock on the nightstand. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The old clock began ringing so wildly it shook itself around the shelf in a mad dance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hands on the big clock closed in on nine o’clock, the air buzzed with expectancy, like the tension before a prizefight. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Olanna hushed her and bathed her in a small basin and glanced at the clock and worried that the wet nurse, a large woman that Ugwu’s aunty had found, would be late. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock went off early the next morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above the South Col, up in the Death Zone, survival is to no small degree a race against the clock. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Wheels were also adopted in Eurasian pottery making and in clocks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing the blood beating hard in his ears, like the rhythm of a clock. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I could hear the ticking of the clock on the wall, the one with the picture of the Pope leaning on his staff. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I read a bit, daydreamed some more, looked at the clock and waited, waited, waited, all the while listening to his footsteps. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the kitchen clock for probably the fifth time since Chess had stepped into the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, taking apart an old alarm clock with Brian. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie stole out to the hall and frowned at the clock face in the shadows. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tucked her in my pocket as I looked at the clock, then raised the bedroom window. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dialogue spoken onstage no longer sounded like words but like the last ticks of a dying clock winding down. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her to meet me under the clock at the Biltmore at two o'clock, and not to be late, because the show probably started at two-thirty. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She just took that clock under one arm, the dishes in the other hand, and walked out, leaving me in cold silence to give my guilt plenty of room to grow. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He watches the clock by the gates for some time before he departs the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock strike the half hour, then people began to pass, in Sunday and easter clothes. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the consul living next door, marines guard the compound round the clock. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I could hear the ticking of the hall clock through the wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time, according to the Customs House clock, was five after two, which meant that I couldn’t go home for two hours. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let it rumble underneath him, watching the clock and waiting for Lily to get a far enough head start. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘Now place the ping-pong table on top of the four grandfather clocks,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall opposite him had only one hand and no numbers at all. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The only way to clock the speed of a galaxy is by using the Doppler effect—the same principle used in state troopers’ radar guns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the clock struck the midnight hour, a loud knocking made me start up with fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The little clock ticked on the mantelpiece, and the boys played tennis in the garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo’s future seemed to fall perfectly into place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the story I’m reading now, Isaiah Dunn races against the clock to find a clue hidden in a box of cereal at the grocery store. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Now that we know about the clock, he probably won’t die in the jungle, so someone’s going to have to kill him in battle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother handed me a jewelry box inlaid with flowers and a little clock. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And if there had been a clock on the island, it would have ticked off exactly three seconds before he lost consciousness and went down hard in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, so long that Turner wondered if the clock might chime again.“Yes,” his father said,“! do know. But it’s not to be gossiped about at the minister’s dinner table.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The judge unknotted the scarf and let the flowered silk float down around the booty: her father's railroad watch, a pearl necklace, cuff links, a pin and earrings set, a clock. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know without looking at a clock that it is somewhere between seven forty-five and eight fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the comfort of his own house, with his own room, and the hawk’s eyes on his walls, and the ticking clock. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Standing on the wide veranda that encompassed the obsidian clock tower, Celaena tried not to shiver. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The stewardess reread the slip of paper in her hand, then eyed the big clock mounted by the arrival-and-departure board, as if she had someplace else to be. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, because as everyone knows, a toy motorcycle moves when someone makes a noise like a motorcycle, Ralph took a deep breath, went pb-b-b, b-b-b, and shot out from under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

See a lamp, a clock—11:42 a.m.—and a framed photo of me and Jupe standing at the edge of the ocean. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"My mother used to say he could charm the hands off a clock." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ralph awoke much later when the clock began to grind and groan and slowly, as if in pain, strike eleven, the safe hour for mice to appear. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every minute I looked at the clock on my dresser and wondered what was keeping them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fixed clock with a promise of lifetime repair brought us some dishes from an old woman who had a wedding set from her first marriage that her second husband didn’t like. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

"It's on the huge mission clock in the center screen." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the rats’ home, in the artificial light, it was hard to tell the passage of time, and she had been so engrossed in Nicodemus’s story that she had not glanced at the clock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If I needed somebody to criticize me around the clock, I could’ve brought T. Ray along!” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you went to their homes you might find black toilet seats, or black seat cushions, or black phone book covers, or black paper plates, or black clocks, or black felt on their pool tables. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But finally, finally, finally the school clock clicked to noon, and we crammed our sandwiches down our throats, and then Danny Hupfer stood up and approached the brown, light, perfect cream puffs sort of reverently. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She turned around to look at the clock and found that she had been working just one hour! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her was a flat gravel surface, and about ten paces away she could see the high wall of the clock tower. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the clock on the wall. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him now of Saturday mornings when his father would read to him under the sheets with the clock thundering in the background. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The clock on her desk shows that it’s almost midnight. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock struck noon, and the whistle at the Snapfinger Volunteer Fire Department finished its blowing as I sat down at the table with my family. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, two clocks are utilized, one for each player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was way early when I got there, so I just sat down on one of those leather couches right near the clock in the lobby and watched the girls. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And so Hugo began working all day in the dark on the clocks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As he began writing, I glanced up at the clock. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The only sounds in the kitchen are our Big Ben clock chiming the half hour and the incinerator roaring four floors below. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Near the explosive they taped two specially adapted alarm clocks—two, just in case one malfunctioned. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun and every clock on the earth. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound around the fake plants set up in the room, draped over the wall clocks and basketball goals, snaked through the bowls of chips and cookies on the snack table. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My entire morning is spent looking at the clock and waiting for this moment right here. This is my favorite part of the day.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, why did the man take his clock to the vet?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I watched the hands on the clock tick around calmly. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s all because 1 clocked her with that shoe, isn’t it? Gaga or not, she’s still got a memory.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also used to say a watched dock don’t tick, and I was definitely watching the clock. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I rolled over and looked at the clock: 7:52. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of them croaked and nodded at her from across the field, and then at the clock face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the clock moved relentlessly on: ten, half after, eleven, half after. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls hung dozens of clocks, their stilled hands pointed every which way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock and groggily muttered, “It’s seven thirty-six.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"It's not as late as I thought," he said, looking at the clock on the dash. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I check the clock on the dashboard: 7:57. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I stopped glancing up at the big clock or down at my Timex. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted into the dark and zeroed in on the glowing digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It keeps better time than the clock on the wall. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Petrosian complained that Fischer was still studying the board—in total darkness—and that therefore his clock should be started. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I still have hopes that they’ll come up with a substitute, made of tin or copper or some such thing, to remind the neighborhood of the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The cab passed the New York Herald bureau with the window full of clocks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-five days, eight hours, and”—I squint at the clock—“thirty-six minutes, to be exact.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I sat in the office while the school secretary sighed and looked at the clock. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The glass shattered, and I stomped again, and the clock hands bent. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He squinted through the darkness to the clock on the DVD player. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The days until the first task seemed to slip by as though someone had fixed the clocks to work at double speed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My only enemy was the clock on the dash-board, whose hands would move relentlessly to one o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A tall grandfather clock sat at the foot of the stairs, pecking away at the hour as if a crow trapped inside were trying to break loose. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the heavy hands of the courtroom clock tick round to midday, and a solemn bong is heard. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The guy on my clock radio called it a Thanksgiving freeze. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that Mama put Charlie in a free preschool, but she only goes for half a day, and now the clock in the car says 1:07. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Also supporting the belief that Bobby had experienced the ritual was the fact that, many years later, he gave an old chess clock and chess set to his Hungarian friend Pal Benko, a grandmaster. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden clock with its loud tick-tick-tick and the oil painting of the village Gramps was from. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soon, while sitting on his Baltimore hotel bed with the view of the B-R-O-M-O-S-E-L-T-Z-E-R clock, Rogers found Lawrence Lacks in the phone book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then at night sometimes he fiddled around with clocks as an extra work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Near where I am standing, a tiny faerie girl with a clock of white hair, like that of a dandelion, and a little knife cuts the strap of an ogre’s belt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Right, so this is the top of our clock,” he says, and quickly scratches the numbers one through twelve around the clock face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a clock over the door, but I’m facing away from the door. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was rhythm that could be established with top-button clocks, and Fischer had become a connoisseur of that kind of clock. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

October slips into November, a change that goes largely unnoticed other than by those standing closest to the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And in between these false alarms, for what seemed hours and hours, the clock ticked on and one big fly—high up and far out of reach—buzzed against the window. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then came the dangerous part: connecting the fuse between the clocks and the explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging over the mantelpiece was his grandma’s prize clock, which no one but her could ever touch. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t begin counting until the clock struck three. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s head turned from shoulder to shoulder like the ticking second hand of the clock in the dining room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His father nodded, then glanced at the kitchen clock. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Reaching for the model Big Ben clock that we brought along from London, I set an alarm for ten minutes from now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The clock by the gates ticks off the minutes later and later, the ornaments upon it twirling and shifting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger took a look at the clock, eight minutes left. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He constructs small keepsake clocks for them depicting their favorite acts or performances. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fountain pens from Paris, chess sets from Iceland, atomic clocks from Austria, jewelry from Yugoslavia, masks from Burma. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall ticked its way closer to one A.M. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because they were so far south, the sun shone around the clock, and the crew was resourceful in finding entertainment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the house a clock chimed seven times. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But white sports officials across the country are working around the clock to get the government to act fast.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he looked at the clock it was quarter to four, and the faintest tinge of pink was brushing the window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time in the woods's older than time in clocks, and truer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then, while everyone at the track was speculating about what he was up to, Smith tacked up the horse, fished out the clock, and went to the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock struck nine deliberate strokes and they were swallowed up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I broke away from him and began to run as the clock struck midnight. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clock struck midnight and he was asleep. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed, I listened to Pa fret as I tried to fix that fool clock. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grandfather clock that appeared to be made entirely of glass, so you could see all the gears turning. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Come on, come on,” she whispered, glancing down at the clock again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump up and tell everybody that sometimes J.T. hauled out of bed at midnight—or 2 A.M.—and worked clear through the night because those chicken buyers collected around the clock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Worried because his friend was in trouble, Ralph peeped out from under the clock and saw Matt, unaware of the manager’s displeasure, enter the lobby. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, as I glanced toward the clock for only the thirty-seventh time, I saw Ben Starling standing outside the classroom door, a hall pass in his hand, dancing a spastic jig. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He took the alarm clock from her bureau and put it on the kitchen cabinet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's an old clock," I told them idiotically. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My eyes flew open and zeroed in on the glowing digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

What he saw first was not the clock. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but she’ll keep you here while the days turn to dust and the leaves fall and the years pass one after the next like the tick-tick-ticking of a clock.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I sat on the back steps, turning every few seconds to check the clock on the kitchen wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now another and another, until this was an immense clock shop, purring. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alarm clock is lying on the floor, facedown, so I’m not sure how much time has passed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep an eye on the clock, because I don’t actually want to miss English class. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was the one time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A great noise burst from the city as the clock in the hallway began to chime, and the entire world seemed to cheer at once. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By this time, he was very sick, and they put him in a private room with nurses attending him around the clock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it was a clock, and a framed photograph of Jalil and three young boys holding a fish. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the dashboard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had to slump into the chair next to the grandfather clock to take it in. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He stared blankly at me as his time-out clock ran down. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

So the traveler adjusts the first clock to read twelve when it is noon where he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Keeping an eye on the clock, we bought a little pot of vegetables and rice. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shoots it over to JB, who looks up at the clock. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He recalled the open meadows of the countryside, days clocked by the fall of rain, the vast solitude of his fields, the cool quiet of the river and his silent house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a hill stood a grand limestone courthouse with a big clock tower. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell got up and left the room with ten minutes left on our visiting clock. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a considerable crowd outside when Herr Thiessen finally reaches the gates, and despite the crowd, he would have spotted his clock instantly, even without having been informed of its placement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The skies darken earlier since the clocks turned back. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He loved learning how the clocks in the station worked, and there was a kind of satisfaction in knowing how to climb through the walls and secretly repair the clocks without anyone seeing him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And now the shame set in, and the guilt, and, upstairs, the clock ticked on, impossibly loud to Laila’s ears. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The clock on the bank across the street says it's 4:28, 58 degrees. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock by my bed said 4:20. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the wall. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The only movement within the circus is the clock that ticks by the passing minutes, if such a wonder of sculpture can even be called a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Roy listened closely for footsteps—sneaking footsteps—but heard only the tick-tick-rick of the clock mounted above the door to the science lab. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall opposite the bed was a big wooden clock with a forest and bears carved into it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the refrigerator were shelves holding more pots and jars, more spoons and knives, a wind-up clock that Granny always forgot to wind, and a long row of cans. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I wanted to shout to the clock and make its meaningless noise be silent, but I did not. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was four-thirty on my alarm clock when I finally opened my eyes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sudden exclamation she pointed at the clock’s face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a clock on my phone, but it’s been in my pocket since I set my music on repeat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lina clutched the edge of the clock tower as if the tumult below might cause her to fall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The noise terrified his little relatives, who thought the clock was out to get them. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced at the carriage clock on the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘Place the four clocks in a rectangle eight feet by four alongside the grand piano,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father glanced at the clock on the shelf over the refrigerator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Singer looked up at the clock and indicated the time—half-past twelve. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The clock above the stove says 7:30. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the clock chimed one, and he rose. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There's my alarm clock, and it's 1:47, and I panic because I've overslept, like I'm late for school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks good to me, Dill. You got done early, but I’ll clock you out normal. Great work.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and the clock reads midnight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The town clock rang out six deep booms that Lina could feel, like shudders, beneath her ribs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t get to think about it for long as the sound of the adhan plays from the mosque-shaped clock in the den, filling the air with the call for the day’s last prayer. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Winnie wandered restlessly about her room, sat in her rocker, lay on her bed, counted the ticks of the hall clock. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did my best to concentrate on the game but again and again I found myself staring, through the open door, at the clock on the mantel in the next room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stood at the foot of the stairs and called them, but there was no answering patter of running feet, only the steady tick-tock of the old clock in the hallway. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the crowd has thinned considerably in these hours past midnight as the clock ticks its way into All Hallows’ proper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He did not own a working clock; generally he depended on the TV for time signals, but today was Interspace Horizons Day, evidently. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The second clock tells a different time, the time at the starting point. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall—a hideously ugly and practical thing, in Kaori’s opinion—said it was two nineteen. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was reading Mr. Pope when the clock chimed the half hour. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

What one historian has called “the perishability of revolutionary time” meant that the political will to act was also racing against the clock. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mom came in and pointed at the clock. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning they woke groggy, drunken from so much rest, and Mrs. McCullough had glanced at the clock on her nightstand and realized it was ten thirty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see if I can get through my workload of broken clocks in the shop and at the museum, Hugo,” said his father. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was tapping his pen in rhythm with the ticking of the clock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A book requires an author; a palace requires an architect; a clock requires a clockmaker; and the universe requires a creator. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As long as he continues to wind the second clock, and as long as it is accurate, he will know the time difference between his present position and his starting point. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I ran to the hallway to check the clock. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking of making a little jacket for my clock radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

From the clock tower of the Gathering Hall came a deep reverberating bong. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast did not call Ariel Andrade because he isn’t dying today, but since he’s an officer of the law, getting the call is his greatest fear every night when the clock strikes midnight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The ache in the middle of my left shin bone came to life, and I abandoned any hope of sleep before seven, when my radio-alarm clock would rouse me with its hearty renderings of Sousa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the time it took my stunned self to glance up at the clock, the masses of students around me had disappeared. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock, by the clock that ticked on the mantel in the living room, he was ready to quit. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s nervousness lasted until he went to sleep that night, and resumed when his alarm clock woke him up next morning with the customary nip on the earlobe. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now he began to look at the clock occasionally. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My eyes went to the windowsill just behind her, one of those picture frame digital clocks. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I kept looking at the clock to see how many minutes were left until the end of the period so I could turn and face him. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was stupid to feel guilty, Maya told herself sometimes when the clock crept past three a.m. toward four a.m., and the lights from the cars hadn’t slowed down. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the frozen wheels, barrels, hooks, flies, cams, gears, and all the other intricate parts of Fry’s giant clock. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I heard the sound of the car in the drive I got up in sudden panic, glancing at the clock, for I knew that it meant Beatrice and her husband had arrived. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The shop was perfectly quiet, save for the sound of the clock ticking on the wall and a fly caught in a spider’s web strung across a grimy windowpane. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, and my eyes fall on the microwave clock flashing the time in bright-green numbers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"Look at that," he said, pointing at the dashboard clock. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It looked like two alarm clocks side by side and had a plunger on its flanks for each player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I checked out the clock on the bedside table—it was 1:09—before locking eyes with Fang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had to get into the walls to check the clocks, but Isabelle was still talking. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She watched the clock on her bedside table, or pressed her face against Dev’s fingers, intertwined with hers, each with its half-dozen hairs at the knuckle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dalgard planned to spend the weekend fixing his clocks in the family room of his house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blushed madly and glanced at the clock. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clayton watched the clock on the dashboard from the time they got into the car until they arrived home. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The clock in his head was still ticking down. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There are no clocks in here, but I am aware of the minutes, aware of the hours. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A high-pitched, gold clock in a glass case ticked very fast on the mantelpiece. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The clock in the hall downstairs strikes nine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on my dresser says 9:20. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from your point of view, all your clocks would be ticking away normally. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared through my hotel room window at a tall, Gothic-looking brick tower across the street with a huge clock at the top. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking up at the clock, she says, “Oliver, you have twenty-five seconds of your time left only.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stood up, took out his reading glass, and looked at the clock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lurching onto my side, I groped for my brass alarm clock. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My eyes ticked to the corner of the vestibule, the wall space next to the grandfather clock, above the umbrella stand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Still—they had opened for business, had polished the glasses and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war operated around the clock—three eight-hour shifts—and businesses sprinted to keep pace. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a grandfather clock in the hallway, which doles out time, and then the door to the motherly front sitting room, with its flesh tones and hints. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk around to run out the clock more. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to work with anyone—he only had to compete against himself and the clock. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock ticked time away in the upstairs hallway. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extrafast. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, then point to the clock. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Noah told me he found Brian’s address online and sent him a series of drawings he did—around the clock like a maniac—called The Invisible Museum. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I don't remember the desk and file drawers, the clock on the wall or the five-dollar bill hanging in a frame. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When a player made a move, he depressed a button on top of his clock, which stopped his device and started his opponent’s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It ticks like a clock; time is inside it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At last, in disgust, he took them off and ate them, every now and then going down to consult the shop clock. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do. Then I stopped Spassky’s clock, breaking the rules. But somehow I had to get that incredible situation under control.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would watch the Customs House clock, and when it was time, I would eat the lunch I had brought along in my schoolbag. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, the bells of the clock tower toll eleven. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our Englishman has looked through a telescope and a microscope; he owns a pendulum clock and a stick barometer—and he knows there is a vacuum at the end of the tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Birring...the alarm clock, which raises its shrill voice at any hour of the day or night, whether you want it to or not. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I walked over and checked the clock next to the sofa. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he went to the door and looked at the courthouse clock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock appears to be in perfect working order and has obviously been well taken care of, despite being left out in the elements. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Was it the tick of the great clock that sounded so frightening, or her own heart? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As long as the clock’s deep boom rang out every hour, and the lights went on and off more or less regularly, it didn’t seem to matter. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The remainder of the hour was spent awkwardly watching the clock as we silently pretended to tune our guitars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z