From d0a9fa306c87f477b420cc3deb08a7fe6373b7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:09:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 01/15] corrections --- litclock_annotated.csv | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 8b29711e..2790b014 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ 01:32|one thirty-two|I sat down on the couch again and looked at my watch It was one thirty-two. I shut my eyes and focused on a spot in my head. My mind a total blank, I gave myself up to the sands of time and let the flow take me wherever it wanted.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 01:32|one-thirty-two|She grinned at him with malicious playfulness, showing great square teeth, and then ran for the stairs. One-thirty-two. She thought that she heard a whistle blown and took the last three steps in one stride.|Stamboul Train|Graham Greene|unknown 01:33|one-thirty-three a.m.|He looked at his watch. One-thirty-three a.m. He had been asleep on this bench for over an hour and a half.|Skeletons|Kat Fox|unknown -01:34|01:34|Myrtle couldn't sleep. Her digital clock's luminous numbers told her it was 01:34 in the morning, which would be later than she had ever been awake in her life. But the questions were so many, and so insistent, that htey just wouldn't let her go.|Drowned Hopes|Donald E. Westlake|sfw +01:34|01:34|Myrtle couldn't sleep. Her digital clock's luminous numbers told her it was 01:34 in the morning, which would be later than she had ever been awake in her life. But the questions were so many, and so insistent, that they just wouldn't let her go.|Drowned Hopes|Donald E. Westlake|sfw 01:35|One thirty-five|Two days later, the chime of his diary woke Merral in the middle of the night. He shook himself and peered at the clock on the diary screen.
One thirty-five. An extraordinary time for a message. Has the ship been sighted?|The Dark Foundations|Chris Walley|sfw 01:36|thirty-six minutes past one|On the north-east side of the street, about midway between the fish and flesh markets in the seaport town of Falmouth, and about the silent and solemn hour of thirty-six minutes past one by my father's watch, on the morning of the 28th day of December, His Gracious Majesty George the Second being King of Great Britain and Ireland, (it is necessary in important matters to be particular). I was introduced with the usual forms and ceremonies into the ancient family of the Hurrys, as the undoubted child of my father Richard and my mother Joan, the ninth, and as it subsequently proved, the last of their promising offspring.|Hurricane Hurry|W.H.G. Kingston|sfw 01:37|01:37|Major Yun appeared at General Castleton's elbow, and handed an interface to the base leader. General Castleton took it, his face darkening and his frown deepening as he read it.
"What is it?" she asked when he looked up. "At 01:37 this morning, an encrypted message was sent from inside the base."|Outcasts|Gail Delaney|sfw @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ 02:36|2.36 am|It was about 2.36 am when a provost colonel arrived to arrest me. At 2.36 1/2 I remembered the big insulating gauntlets. But even had I remembered before, what could I have done?|The Ipcress File|Len Deighton|unknown 02:37|02:37|He was out at least a couple miles from the nearest gas station, and he’d thrown his cell phone out the window in Arkansas after briefly becoming convinced the NSA was tracking him. He plucked the kitchen timer from his pocket: 02:37:47. He would have to hoof it.|Ohio|Stephen Markley|unknown 02:37|thirty-seven minutes past two|June 13, 1990. Thirty-seven minutes past two in the morning. And sixteen seconds.|The Stand|Stephen King|unknown -02:38|twenty-two minutes to three|It was true that the striking apparatus had long ago failed to agree with the hands; and the hands themselves, owing tot he accumulated inaccuracies of years, no longer denoted the real time; nevertheless, whenever it struck seven he could always be sure that the hands were pointing to a quarter-past twelve, and it was then just twenty-two minutes to three.|Pharaoh's Broker|Ellsworth Douglass|sfw +02:38|twenty-two minutes to three|It was true that the striking apparatus had long ago failed to agree with the hands; and the hands themselves, owing to the accumulated inaccuracies of years, no longer denoted the real time; nevertheless, whenever it struck seven he could always be sure that the hands were pointing to a quarter-past twelve, and it was then just twenty-two minutes to three.|Pharaoh's Broker|Ellsworth Douglass|sfw 02:39|2.39|Noo, there's a report come in fra' the station-master at Pinwherry that there was a gentleman tuk the 2.39 at Pinwherry.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 02:40|two-forty|When her watch showed two-forty, she was ready to leave. She put on her darkest coat, a large box of matches already in her pocket, and tied a scarf over her head.|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw 02:40|2:40 a.m.|Miss Conover told investigators that at 2:40 a.m., Officer Martin Willis entered the diner and ordered coffee and donut.|The Andromeda Strain|Michael Crichton|unknown @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ 06:50|six-fifty|Will, my fiancé, was coming from Boston on the six-fifty train - the dawn train, the only train that still stopped in the small Ohio city where I lived.|Pretty Ice|Mary Robison|unknown 06:51|6.51 a.m.|Moon Hartnell opened her eyes and reached for her phone. The screen said 6.51 a.m. on 14 February, Valentine's Day. Most mornings, she would stay in bed until her alarm went off. Usually for a while after that, too - as long as it took Mum to bang on her door.|Kill Your Brother|Jack Heath|unknown 06:52|06.52|Having lied to Mum, I realised that my only option was to take the 06.52 to London as if I hadn't been dismissed at all.|The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone|Will Storr|sfw -06:53|seven to seven|So that was the key to asking my questions, to wait exactly 77 minutes before seven to seven and I would then get my answer.|The Quarter Moon|Stephanie Hudson|sfw +06:53|seven minutes to seven|So that was the key to asking my questions, to wait exactly 77 minutes before seven minutes to seven and I would then get my answer.|The Quarter Moon|Stephanie Hudson|sfw 06:54|six minutes before seven in the morning|And to see if maybe - just maybe - she might have answered him, even though it was now six minutes before seven in the morning.|Her Billionaires|Julia Kent|sfw 06:55|five minutes to seven|It was five minutes to seven the next morning. Sergeant Masterson and Detective Constable Greeson were in the kitchen at Nightingale House with Miss Collins and Mr. Muncie. It seemed like the middle of the night to Masterson, dark and cold.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 06:55|6:55 am|At 6:55 am Lisa parked and took the lift from the frozen underground car park up to level 1 of Green Oaks Shopping Centre.|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|sfw @@ -1892,7 +1892,6 @@ 14:42|two-forty-two|It was two-forty-two. Clarissa has asked to be called at two-forty-five but a few minutes could hardly matter. She knocked, quietly at first, and then more loudly. There was no reply.|The Skull Beneath the Skin|P.D. James|sfw 14:42|14:42|At 14:42 precisely I saw a plasm tether descend from the sky and pause outside the apartment as if it contained a sensorium that was doing some surveilling of its own.|City on Fire|Walter Jon Williams|sfw 14:42|2:42 P.M.|2:42 P.M.
"No!" Cally screamed, but it was already too late. Before Chris Schneider even saw it coming, Ramirez shot him precisely between the eyes, neatly and without fanfare.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw -14:42|eighteen minutes to three|The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is eighteen minutes to three.|Fairyland|Paul J. McAuley|sfw 14:43|two-forty-three|"Right! Let's get on with it. You know what we want, a full account of where you were, what you were doing, and whom you saw between one o'clock when lunch was over and two-forty-three when Miss Gray found the body."|The Skull Beneath the Skin|P.D. James|sfw 14:43|2:43 P.M.|2:43 P.M.
Vance watched the control room freeze as the body slumped to the floor, and he felt his fingers involuntarily bunch into a fist. The bastards were killing hostages already. They definitely were terrorists, right out of the textbook. Kill one, and frighten a thousand. Except they might not stop with one. He foresaw a long day. And night.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 14:43|2.43 pm|Jacobson died at 2.43 pm the next day after slashing his wrists with a razor blade in the second cubicle from the left in the men's washroom on the third floor.|Now: Zero|J.G. Ballard|nsfw @@ -1994,6 +1993,7 @@ 15:16|1516|The Nimrod rendezvoused with the light aircraft at 1516 GMT.|The Crow Road|Iain Banks|unknown 15:17|seventeen minutes past three|From the kitchen came the rackety-banging of the alarm-clock, proving that, as the clock was set to ring at six, Peter had found a mother for the fatherless children at just seventeen minutes past three.|The Jack-Knife Man|Ellis Parker Butler|sfw 15:18|3:18 P.M.|3:18 P.M.
Vance cocked the Pakistani's Uzi and trained it on the door, not sure what to do. The fear was that he might inadvertently kill a friendly. Hostage situations always presented that harrowing possibility. Quick identifications and quick decisions were what made good antiterrorist teams. He was afraid he had neither skill. He wasn't even that great a shot.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +15:18|eighteen minutes past three|The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is eighteen minutes past three.|Fairyland|Paul J. McAuley|sfw 15:19|nineteen minutes past three|At nineteen minutes past three Cecily Thorogood, still self-possessed, but no longer very prettily clad, was submerged in the chilly Atlantic up to her shoulders and clinging to the life-line of an upturned jolly-boat.|The Long Trick|Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie|sfw 15:20|3:20|He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work. Claudette Albertson surprised him. “No, it’s Mr. Hayes, right down here on the first floor with us.”
“Are you sure?” Dan had played a game of checkers with Charlie Hayes just that afternoon, and for a man with acute myelogenous leukemia, he’d seemed as lively as a cricket.|Doctor Sleep|Stephen King|unknown 15:20|three twenty|When the phone rang at three twenty I was sprawled out on the tatami, starting at the ceiling. A pool of winter sunlight had formed in the place where I lay. Like a dead fly I lay there, vacant, in a December 1971 spotlight.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown From 5b22e50d4dd507459c7d8bef37f1dd832f459d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 12:18:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 02/15] additional edits --- litclock_annotated.csv | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 2790b014..68062df5 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ 00:45|quarter of one|It was a banging shutter somewhere below that woke me. I picked my watch up from the night table and saw it was quarter of one. I didn’t think there was going to be any more sleep for me until that banging stopped, so I got dressed, started out the door, then returned to the closet for my slicker. When I got downstairs, I paused. From the big bedroom down the hall from the parlor, I could hear Mrs. S sawing wood in long, noisy strokes. No banging shutter was going to break her rest.|Joyland|Stephen King|unknown 00:45|12.45|At 12.45, during a lull, Mr. Yoshogi told me that owing to the war there were now many more women in England than men.|Pig and Pepper: A Comedy of Youth|David Footman|unknown 00:45|third quarter after midnight|At the thought he jumped to his feet and took down from its hook the coat in which he had left Miss Viner's letter. The clock marked the third quarter after midnight, and he knew it would make no difference if he went down to the post-box now or early the next morning; but he wanted to clear his conscience, and having found the letter he went to the door.|The Reef|Edith Wharton|unknown -00:46|12:46 a.m.|Teddy wrote that phone records confirm Miss Lutton's story. She called at 12:46 a.m.|Dial M For Mischief|Kasey Michaels|unknown -00:47|12:47a.m|At 12:47a.m, Uncle Ho left us forever.|Last Night I Dreamed Of Peace|Andrew X. Pham|unknown +00:46|12:46 a.m.|Teddy wrote that phone records confirm Miss Lutton's story. She called at 12:46 a.m.|Dial M for Mischief|Kasey Michaels|unknown +00:47|12:47a.m|At 12:47a.m, Uncle Ho left us forever.|Last Night I Dreamed of Peace|Andrew X. Pham|unknown 00:48|12:48 a.m.|Stanton shut the light off, glancing quickly at the clock's red numerals; it was 12:48 a.m. She tried to remember what day it was.|The Moriah Ruse|Marvin Wiebener|unknown 00:49|12:49 A.M.|That's when they began yelling for help. A security guard at a nearby high-rise heard their cries and called police. It was 12:49 A.M. Metro-Dade Officer Bart Cohen and his partner arrived one minute later.|Never Let Them See You Cry|Edna Buchanan|unknown 00:50|12.50|The packing was done at 12.50; and Harris sat on the big hamper, and said he hoped nothing would be found broken. George said that if anything was broken it was broken, which reflection seemed to comfort him. He also said he was ready for bed.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ 03:35|3.35 a.m.|He could just see the hands of the alarm clock in the darkness: 3.35 a.m. He adjusted his pillow and shut his eyes.|The Dogs of Riga|Henning Mankell|unknown 03:36|3:36 a.m.|As I near Deadhorse, it's 3:36 a.m. and seventeen below. Tall, sodium vapor lights spill on the road and there are no trees, only machines, mechanical shadows. There isn't even a church. It tells you everything.|Zoopraxis|Richard C. Matheson|unknown 03:37|thirty-seven A.M.|It was three thirty-seven A.M., and for once Maggie was asleep. She had got to be a pretty good sleeper in the last few months. Clyde was prouder of this fact than anything.|The Cobweb|Stephen Bury|unknown -03:38|3.38 am|At 3.38 am, it began to snow in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The geese circling the city flew back to the park, landed, and hunkered down to sit it out on their island in the lake.|Just Like the Ones we Used to Know|Connie Willis|unknown +03:38|3.38 am|At 3.38 am, it began to snow in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The geese circling the city flew back to the park, landed, and hunkered down to sit it out on their island in the lake.|Just Like the Ones We Used to Know|Connie Willis|unknown 03:39|3.39 am|23 October 1893 3.39 am. Upon further thought, I feel it necessary to explain that exile into the Master's workshop is not an unpleasant fate. It is not simply some bare-walled cellar devoid of stimulation - quite the opposite.|The Clockwork Man|William Jablonsky|unknown 03:40|three forty|His bedside clock shows three forty. He has no idea what he's doing out of bed: he has no need to relieve himself, nor is he disturbed by a dream or some element of the day before, or even by the state of the world.|Saturday|Ian McEwan|unknown 03:41|3.41 am|The alarm clock said 3.41 am. He sat up. Why was the alarm clock slow? He picked up the alarm clock and adjusted the hands to show the same time as his wristwatch: 3.44 am|The Dogs of Riga|Henning Mankell|unknown @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ 05:04|four minutes past five|"Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe," continued Poirot, with distaste, "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family."|The Clocks|Agatha Christie|unknown 05:04|5.04 a.m.|5.04 a.m. on the substandard clock radio. Because why do people always say the day starts now? Really it starts in the middle of the night at a fraction of a second past midnight.|The Accidental|Ali Smith|unknown 05:05|five past five|The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning.|The Namesake|Jhumpa Lahiri|unknown -05:06|5:06 a.m.|5:06 a.m. I wake up strangely energized, my stomach growling. Upstairs, the overstocked fridge offers me its bounty of sympathy food.|This is Where I Leave You|Jonathon Tropper|unknown +05:06|5:06 a.m.|5:06 a.m. I wake up strangely energized, my stomach growling. Upstairs, the overstocked fridge offers me its bounty of sympathy food.|This Is Where I Leave You|Jonathon Tropper|unknown 05:07|seven minutes past five|"Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe," continued Poirot, with distaste, "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family."|The Clocks|Agatha Christie|unknown 05:08|5:08|Ambrose and I will marry at Fort McHenry at 5:08 EDST this coming Saturday, Rosh Hashanah!|Letters|John Barth|unknown 05:09|5:09|The primal flush of triumph which had saturated the American's humor on this signal success, proved but fictive and transitory when inquiry of the station attendants educed the information that the two earliest trains to be obtained were the 5:09 to Dunkerque and the 5:37 for Ostend.|The Black Bag|Louis Joseph Vance|unknown @@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ 11:20|11.20|Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. The time was 11.20.|American Gods|Neil Gaiman|unknown 11:21|twenty-one minutes past eleven|It was twenty-one minutes past eleven by the clock over the elevator doors when Joel Cairo came in from the street. His forehead was bandaged. His clothes had the limp unfreshness of too many hours' consecutive wear.|The Maltese Falcon|Dashiell Hammett|sfw 11:22|11:22 a.m.|Felix Polk of Route 16, Rural Delivery Box 12, appeared here yesterday at approximately 11:22 a.m., wanting to know if anybody had shown up with the end of his thumb because he, and I quote, "Wanted to get it back and have it made into a key chain," unquote.|Junkyard Dogs|Craig Johnson|nsfw -11:23|11:23 a.m.|The music was almost raucous. She turned it off. She lay in silence, waiting for sleep. It was 11:23 a.m.|The Black Corridor|Micheal Moorcock|sfw +11:23|11:23 a.m.|The music was almost raucous. She turned it off. She lay in silence, waiting for sleep. It was 11:23 a.m.|The Black Corridor|Michael Moorcock|sfw 11:24|11:24|At 11:24 we thanked Helen Gillard and asked her to thank the doctor for us, left the house, walked sixty yards to Wolfe's, found the door was bolted, pushed the button and were admitted by Fritz.|The Final Deduction|Rex Stout|sfw 11:25|twenty-five past eleven|At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous, a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise, annoyance, etc. Christine's task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed, she asked Linda at twenty-five past eleven what time it was. Linda looked at her watch and replied that it was a quarter to twelve.|Evil Under the Sun|Agatha Christie|unknown 11:25|11.25 am|When, at about 11.25 am, Katharina Blum was finally taken from her apartment for questioning, it was decided not to handcuff her at all.|The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum|Heinrich Böll|unknown @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ 13:26|1:26 P.M.|1:26 P.M.
As she walked down Noyes toward campus, past the giant chirping trees and sturdy hundred-year-old homes full of twenty-year-olds, the sky was the bright, eye-stabbing silver that she hated on game days. The beautiful morning had evolved into a classic midwestern scorcher and there was no relief from any incoming low-pressure front from Minnesota.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 13:27|13.27|At 13.27 on that self-same Friday, 20 June, seventy-two hours before his disappearance, Adria Daedalus Sorra, man-about-town, disc jockey and student of philosophy, careened up the stairs with his skateboard.|The Serpent Papers|Jessica Cornwell|sfw 13:27|1:27 P.M.|1:27 P.M.
"Don't shoot," Isaac Mannheim shouted as he saw the unshaven, barefoot man roll next to him, an Uzi giving off bursts of rounds.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw -13:28|13:28|At 13:28 Van walked into the Korvel Mercantile Tower, then took the lift to the third floor. From there, he made his way along the southern corridor to the open door beside the IIS spelled out in silvered letters on the taupe plaster wall. He stepped inside.|The Ethos Effect|L.E. Modesitt, Jr.|sfw +13:28|13:28|At 13:28 Van walked into the Korvel Mercantile Tower, then took the lift to the third floor. From there, he made his way along the southern corridor to the open door beside the IIS spelled out in silvered letters on the taupe plaster wall. He stepped inside.|The Ethos Effect|L.E. Modesitt Jr.|sfw 13:29|1:29 P.M.|Monday, April 6
1:29 P.M.
As she hung up, Ally wondered again what she was getting into. But she did want to meet this miracle worker. The kind of thing Van de Vliet was talking about sounded as much like science fiction as anything she’d ever heard.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 13:30|one-thirty|At one-thirty she’s for hiring a carriage and driving through the Bois. He has only one thought in his head—how to take a leak? “I love you . . . . I adore you,” he says. “I’ll go anywhere you say—Istanbul, Singapore, Honolulu. Only I must go now. . . . It’s getting late.”|Tropic of Cancer|Henry Miller|unknown 13:30|one thirty|“I moved down here and painted the room black in high school. To be 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭,” Reva said sarcastically.
“It’s very cool,” I said. I put my shopping bag down, finished the coffee.
“When should I wake you up? We should leave here around one thirty. So factor in whatever time you’ll need to get ready.”|My Year of Rest and Relaxation|Ottessa Moshfegh|unknown @@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ 14:00|two o'clock|I caught the two o'clock bus. It was very hot. I ate at Céleste's restaurant as usual. They all felt very sorry for me and Céleste told me, "There's no one like a mother."|The Outsider|Albert Camus|unknown 14:00|two o'clock|The Home for Aged Persons is at Marengo, some fifty miles from Algiers. With the two o'clock bus I should get there well before nightfall. Then I can spend the night there, keeping the usual vigil beside the body, and be back here by tomorrow evening.|The Outsider|Albert Camus|unknown 14:00|2.00|When Salander woke up it was 2.00 on Saturday afternoon and a doctor was poking at her.|The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest|Stieg Larsson|unknown -14:01|about two o' clock|At about two o' clock the owners young wife came, carrying a handleless cup and a pot with a quilted cover, to where I was still lying disconsolate|A Single Pebble|John Hershey|unknown +14:01|about two o'clock|At about two o'clock the owner's young wife came, carrying a handleless cup and a pot with a quilted cover, to where I was still lying disconsolate.|A Single Pebble|John Hershey|sfw 14:01|about two o'clock|The next day was Saturday and, now that Moon was done, I decided to bring the job to its end. So I sent word that I shouldn't be able to umpire for the team at Steeple Sinderby and, after working through the morning, came down about two o'clock.|A Month in the Country|J.L. Carr|unknown 14:01|one minute past two|The express departed from Birmingham with the nicest exactitude, and covered itself with glory as far as Watford, when it ran into a mist, and lost more than a quarter of an hour, besides ruining Arthur's career. Arthur arrived in London at one minute past two.|Catching the Train|Arnold Bennet|sfw 14:02|14.02|"I'm not dead. How did that happen?" He was right. It was 14.02 and twenty-six seconds. Destiny had not been fulfilled. We all looked at each other, confused.|The Woman Who Died a Lot|Jasper Fforde|unknown @@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ 15:45|3:45 pm|I opened my notebook, flipped almost to the end before I found a blank page, and wrote October 5th, 3:45 pm, Dunning to Longview Cem, puts flowers on parents’ (?) graves. Rain.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 15:45|three forty-five|“Well, it’s already three forty-five. You’ll never make it.”
“Is the backup bad?”
“Looks like a major accident up ahead. This is no ordinary traffic jam. We’ve hardly moved for quite a while.”|1Q84, Book One|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:45|3:45|One meal is enough now, topped up with a glucose shot. Sleep is still 'black', completely unrefreshing. Last night I took a 16 mm. film of the first three hours, screened it this morning at the lab. The first true-horror movie. I looked like a half-animated corpse. Woke 10:25. To sleep 3:45.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown -15:46|fourteen minutes to four|I authorize you to leave this room at fourteen minutes to four. Not a moment before fourteen minutes to four. . . Is it understood?|The Blonde Lady|Maurice Leblanc|sfw +15:46|fourteen minutes to four|I authorize you to leave this room at fourteen minutes to four. Not a moment before fourteen minutes to four. . . Is it understood?|The Blonde Lady|Maurice LeBlanc|sfw 15:47|3:47 P.M.|One day, the 30th of September, at 3:47 P.M., a telegram, transmitted by cable from Valentia (Ireland) to Newfoundland and the American Mainland, arrived at the address of President Barbicane.|Journey to the Center of the Earth|Jules Verne|sfw 15:48|15:48|At 15:48 the satellite passed out of the "area of interest" determined by the Madrid computer.|Doomsday Ultimatum|James Follett|sfw 15:49|3.49 p.m.|3.49 p.m. Get off school bus at home|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw From c90bf8c92a62b8c728f6f2b22f7a7e123d201155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 19:55:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 03/15] add and edit quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 68062df5..7358927e 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ 00:00|midnight|"But wait till I tell you," he said. "We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o'clock the morning after the night before." |Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 00:00|midnight|"Midnight," you said. What is midnight to the young? And suddenly a festive blaze was flung Across five cedar trunks, snow patches showed, And a patrol car on our bumpy road Came to a crunching stop. Retake, retake!|Pale Fire|Vladimir Nabokov|unknown 00:00|12.00|That a man who could hardly see anything more than two feet away from him could be employed as a security guard suggested to me that our job was not to secure anything but to report for work every night, fill the bulky ledger with cryptic remarks like 'Patrolled perimeter 12.00 pm, No Incident' and go to the office every fortnight for our wages and listen to the talkative Ms Elgassier.|A Squatter's Tale|Ike Oguine|unknown -00:00|midnight|'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;|A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day|John Donne|unknown +00:00|midnight|'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;|A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day|John Donne|unknown 00:00|midnight|At midnight his wife and daughter might still be bustling about, preparing holiday delicacies in the kitchen, straightening up the house, or perhaps getting their kimonos ready or arranging flowers. Oki would sit in the living room and listen to the radio. As the bells rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience.|Beauty and Sadness|Yasunari Kawabata|unknown 00:00|twelve|Bernardo: 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.|Hamlet|William Shakespeare|unknown -00:00|midnight|But, odder still - Big Ben had once again struck midnight. The time outside still corresponded to that registered by the stopped gilt clock, inside. Inside and outside matched exactly, but both were badly wrong. H'm.|Nights At The Circus|Angela Carter|unknown +00:00|midnight|But, odder still - Big Ben had once again struck midnight. The time outside still corresponded to that registered by the stopped gilt clock, inside. Inside and outside matched exactly, but both were badly wrong. H'm.|Nights at the Circus|Angela Carter|sfw 00:00|midnight|But in the end I understood this language. I understood it, I understood it, all wrong perhaps. That is not what matters. It told me to write the report. Does this mean I am freer now than I was? I do not know. I shall learn. Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.|Molloy|Samuel Beckett|unknown 00:00|0000h.|Cartridges not allowed after 0000h., to encourage sleep.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown 00:00|0000h|Gately can hear the horns and raised voices and u-turn squeals way down below on Wash. That indicates it's around 0000h., the switching hour.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ 00:45|quarter of one|It was a banging shutter somewhere below that woke me. I picked my watch up from the night table and saw it was quarter of one. I didn’t think there was going to be any more sleep for me until that banging stopped, so I got dressed, started out the door, then returned to the closet for my slicker. When I got downstairs, I paused. From the big bedroom down the hall from the parlor, I could hear Mrs. S sawing wood in long, noisy strokes. No banging shutter was going to break her rest.|Joyland|Stephen King|unknown 00:45|12.45|At 12.45, during a lull, Mr. Yoshogi told me that owing to the war there were now many more women in England than men.|Pig and Pepper: A Comedy of Youth|David Footman|unknown 00:45|third quarter after midnight|At the thought he jumped to his feet and took down from its hook the coat in which he had left Miss Viner's letter. The clock marked the third quarter after midnight, and he knew it would make no difference if he went down to the post-box now or early the next morning; but he wanted to clear his conscience, and having found the letter he went to the door.|The Reef|Edith Wharton|unknown -00:46|12:46 a.m.|Teddy wrote that phone records confirm Miss Lutton's story. She called at 12:46 a.m.|Dial M for Mischief|Kasey Michaels|unknown -00:47|12:47a.m|At 12:47a.m, Uncle Ho left us forever.|Last Night I Dreamed of Peace|Andrew X. Pham|unknown +00:46|12:46 a.m.|Teddy wrote that phone records confirm Miss Lutton's story. She called at 12:46 a.m.|Dial M for Mischief|Kasey Michaels|sfw +00:47|12:47 a.m|At 12:47 a.m, Uncle Ho left us forever.|Last Night I Dreamed of Peace|Andrew X. Pham|sfw 00:48|12:48 a.m.|Stanton shut the light off, glancing quickly at the clock's red numerals; it was 12:48 a.m. She tried to remember what day it was.|The Moriah Ruse|Marvin Wiebener|unknown 00:49|12:49 A.M.|That's when they began yelling for help. A security guard at a nearby high-rise heard their cries and called police. It was 12:49 A.M. Metro-Dade Officer Bart Cohen and his partner arrived one minute later.|Never Let Them See You Cry|Edna Buchanan|unknown 00:50|12.50|The packing was done at 12.50; and Harris sat on the big hamper, and said he hoped nothing would be found broken. George said that if anything was broken it was broken, which reflection seemed to comfort him. He also said he was ready for bed.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown -00:51|12:51|My smile suddenly vanished after realizing the time. It was 12:51 and at one in the morning usually checks us. I tried to run as fast as I could to reach the elevator until I did.|All The Stars Above Us|Jyerrmou|unknown +00:51|12:51|My smile suddenly vanished after realizing the time. It was 12:51 and at one in the morning usually checks us. I tried to run as fast as I could to reach the elevator until I did.|All the Stars Above Us|Jyerrmou|unknown 00:52|12:52 a.m.|New Year’s Eve night, well, way early New Year's morning, 1998\nLet’s be exact: Let’s say it was 12:52 a.m.
I discovered what I want:
Attention.|The Year of Lovemaking & Crying|Kenneth Robinson|unknown 00:53|12:53 A.M.|But he came out of it so slowly this time that Jacqueline had already picked up the phone and said hello before he was fully awake. The clock said it was 12:53 A.M. A bit early for Meade to call, yet who else could it be?|Impulse|Michael Weaver|unknown 00:54|six minutes to one|Everybody was happy; everybody was complimentary; the ice was soon broken; songs, anecdotes, and more drinks followed, and the pregnant minutes flew. At six minutes to one, when the jollity was at its highest— BOOM! There was silence instantly.|A Double Barrelled Detective Story|Mark Twain|unknown @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ 01:00|one o’clock in the morning|If you want to get out of a house without being seen, the middle of the afternoon is in some ways a better time to try than the middle of the night. Doors and windows are more likely to be open; and if you are caught, you can always pretend you weren’t meaning to go far and had no particular plans. (It is very hard to make either giants or grown-ups believe this if you’re found climbing out of a bedroom window at one o’clock in the morning.)|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown 01:00|one o’clock|He shut down at one o’clock. He had written two pages, and the feeling that he was reverting to the nervous and neurotic man who’d almost burned down his house three years ago was getting harder to dismiss.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 01:00|1 a.m.|Shortly before 1 a.m., he answered a knock at the back door and admitted five men, two of whom were expert carpenters.|The Nameless Ones|John Connolly|unknown -01:00|1 a.m.|I want to shout and scream, but I would be screaming at a wall. I storm off to my bedroom. Thirty minutes later, she leaves the house with Gboyega.
She doesn’t return till 1 a.m.
I don’t sleep till 1 a.m.|My Sister, The Serial Killer|Oyinkan Braithwaite|unknown +01:00|1 a.m.|I want to shout and scream, but I would be screaming at a wall. I storm off to my bedroom. Thirty minutes later, she leaves the house with Gboyega.
She doesn’t return till 1 a.m.
I don’t sleep till 1 a.m.|My Sister, the Serial Killer|Oyinkan Braithwaite|unknown 01:00|one o’clock|It was one o’clock when we left No. 3, Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram. He then hailed a cab, and ordered the driver to take us to the address given us by Lestrade|A Study in Scarlet|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown 01:00|one o’clock|“Nobody noticed that he got off the ride without his date?”
“Nope. This was mid-July, the very height of the season, and the place was a swarming madhouse. They didn’t find the body until one o’clock the next morning, long after the park was closed and the Horror House work-lights were turned on. For the graveyard shift, you know.”|Joyland|Stephen King|unknown 01:00|one o’clock|It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures.|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ 02:10|ten minutes past two|“Ten minutes past two, sir," answered the man, looking at the clock and blinking. "Ten minutes past two? How horribly late!"|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|unknown 02:10|2:10 am|Decided to get under way again as soon as there is any clearance. Snowing and blowing, force about fifty or sixty miles an hour. February 26, Saturday - Richards went out 1:10 am and found it clearing a bit, so we got under way as soon as possible, which was 2:10 am|South: The Endurance Expedition|Ernest Shackleton|unknown 02:11|2:11|Well hidden, each phone waited like an amoral soldier, devoid of compassion, for its orders. And those orders came at precisely 2:11:17 AM EST.|Warrior Monk|Ray Keating|unknown -02:12|two twelve A.M.|At two twelve A.M., Werner knows, the Frenchman will broadcast again, and Werner will have to switch off the transceiver or else pretend that he hears only static.|All The Light We Cannot See|Anthony Doerr|unknown +02:12|two twelve A.M.|At two twelve A.M., Werner knows, the Frenchman will broadcast again, and Werner will have to switch off the transceiver or else pretend that he hears only static.|All the Light We Cannot See|Anthony Doerr|unknown 02:12|2.12 am|Then the lights went out all over the city. It happened at 2.12 am according to power-house records, but Blake's diary gives no indication of the time. The entry is merely, 'Lights out - God help me.'|The Haunter of the Dark|H.P. Lovecraft|unknown 02:13|02.13|Now, listen: your destination is Friday, 4 August 1944, and the window will punch through at 22.30 hours. You're going to a dimension that diverged from our own at 02.13 on the morning of Wednesday 20 February 1918, over twenty-six years earlier. You don't know what it's going to be like.|The Second Internet Cafe, Part 1: The Dimension Researcher|Chris James|unknown 02:14|fourteen minutes past two|There are no more lights on now than when he arrived. That's something to be positive about. No great commotion in the building after the shooting. A glance at the clock in the car: fourteen minutes past two.|How a Gunman Says Goodbye|Malcolm Mackay|sfw @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ 03:00|three|Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided or she unknowingly fell fast asleep.|Northanger Abbey|Jane Austen|unknown 03:00|3 a.m.|“Uncle Nuri!” he says when he sees me moving. “You’ve been sleeping for such a long time.” The clock on the wall says 3 a.m.|The Beekeeper of Aleppo|Christy Lefteri|unknown 03:00|three a.m.|Mindy Park stared at the ceiling. She had little else to do. The three a.m. shift was pretty dull. Only a constant stream of coffee kept her awake.|The Martian|Andy Weir|unknown -03:00|3 a.m.|I found myself typing “serial killer” into the Google search box at 3 a.m.|My Sister, The Serial Killer|Oyinkan Braithwaite|unknown +03:00|3 a.m.|I found myself typing “serial killer” into the Google search box at 3 a.m.|My Sister, the Serial Killer|Oyinkan Braithwaite|unknown 03:00|three o’clock|About three o’clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs Élysées.|Les Misérables|Victor Hugo|unknown 03:00|three o’clock|A few moments later, about three o’clock, Courfeyrec chanced to be passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had redoubled in violence, and filled the air.|Les Misérables|Victor Hugo|unknown 03:00|three o’clock|I woke up half out of bed, the covers pulled loose and wound around me in a kind of shroud, heart pumping, clawing at my own mouth. It took several seconds for me to realize there was nothing in there. Nonetheless, I got up, went to the bathroom, and drank two glasses of water. I may have had worse dreams than the one that woke me at three o’clock on that Tuesday morning, but if so, I can’t remember them.|Joyland|Stephen King|unknown @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ 03:16|sixteen minutes past three|Rebecca and Abby are taken to hospital by ambulance, Abby is released several hours later with minor cuts and bruises, Rebecca Louden was pronounced dead at sixteen minutes past three this morning after surgeons failed to repair the damage to her carotid artery.|A Place of Safety|Emma Salisbury|sfw 03:17|3:17 a.m.|Timestamp says 3:17 a.m. A large block of text. Not a good sign of things to come.|Bath Haus|P.J. Vernon|unknown 03:17|seventeen minutes past three in the morning|It was seventeen minutes past three in the morning. Mila, in a trenchcoat and boots, sat down on the edge of the bed. Malik Solanka groaned. Disaster always arrived when your defences were at their lowest: blindsiding you, like love.|Fury|Salman Rushdie|unknown -03:17|3:17|The two of us sat there, listening—Boris more intently than me. “Who’s that with him then?” I said. “Some whore.” He listened for a moment, brow furrowed, his profile sharp in the moonlight, and then lay back down. “Two of them.” I rolled over, and checked my iPod. It was 3:17 in the morning.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|unknown +03:17|3:17|The two of us sat there, listening—Boris more intently than me. “Who’s that with him then?” I said. “Some whore.” He listened for a moment, brow furrowed, his profile sharp in the moonlight, and then lay back down. “Two of them.” I rolled over, and checked my iPod. It was 3:17 in the morning.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|nsfw 03:17|3.17 a.m.|He turned to the monitors again and flicked through the screens, each one able to display eight different camera mountings, giving Kurt 192 different still lives of Green Oaks at 3.17 a.m. this March night.|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|unknown 03:18|03.18 hours|The truth of the matter we may never know. All we know at the moment is that at 03.18 hours on 10th February the Southern Cross was firmly beset by the ice and she was sending out an SOS. Sometime during the night that lead must have come to an end. The westward-driven pack ice closed round her and in a matter of hours she was gone.|The White South|Hammond Innes|sfw 03:19|3.19 A.M.|The time stamp on Navidson's camcorder indicates that it is exactly 3.19 A.M.|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|sfw @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ 04:20|four-twenty|At each waking he switched on the light and glanced at his bedside clock, hoping to find that dawn was near to breaking. Two-ten, three-forty, four-twenty.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 04:21|twenty-one past four|At twenty-one past four I inferred that the initial hostilities had not damaged its works. It was running, and I didn't know whether to interpret this indifference on the part of Time as a good or bad omen.|The Tin Drum|Günter Grass|sfw 04:22|4.22|He hurt me to the point where I wanted to tell him something. My watch said 4.22 now. It had stopped. It was smashed.|The Ipcress File|Len Deighton|unknown -04:23|4:23|4:23, Monday morning, Iceland Square. A number of people in the vicinity of Bjornsongatan are awakened by loud screams.|Let The Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown +04:23|4:23|4:23, Monday morning, Iceland Square. A number of people in the vicinity of Bjornsongatan are awakened by loud screams.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 04:23|04:23|Her chip pulsed the time. 04:23:04. It had been a long day.|Neuromancer|William Gibson|unknown 04:24|04:24|At 04:24 on January 5, 2025, the stars stood still in the sky. In California, the earthquake started with a low-frequency rumble. It wasn't a sound but a sensation that caused an incomprehensible weakness in the legs, a constriction of the bowels, and panic.|Perfect Circle|Carlos J. Cortes|sfw 04:25|twenty-five minutes past four|As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four.|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ 06:20|6:20 a.m.|It was 6:20 a.m., and my parents and I were standing, stunned and half-awake, in the parking lot of a Howard Johnson's in Iowa.|Soon I Will Be Invincible|Austin Grossman|unknown 06:21|twenty-one past six|The whipped mules dragged the wagon on through a flooded branch that submerged thirty yards of the road and stood up around the bushes and tree-trunks on either side so that they had no rootage, and I watched where and how deep the wheels went while I idled the motor and lighter Gudger's and my own cigarette. It was twenty-one past six.|Let Us Now Praise Famous Men|James Agee and Walker Evans|sfw 06:22|twenty-two minutes past six|Clock overturned when he fell forward. That'll give us the time of the crime. Twenty-two minutes past six.|The Murder at the Vicarage|Agatha Christie|unknown -06:23|twenty-three minutes past six|It was twenty-three minutes past six. He actually thought about driving round and round Islington, with the radio on, shouting at it.|It Had to be You|David Nobbs|sfw +06:23|twenty-three minutes past six|It was twenty-three minutes past six. He actually thought about driving round and round Islington, with the radio on, shouting at it.|It Had to Be You|David Nobbs|sfw 06:24|06:24|Eventually I track the phone down by the green light on top. Notice that the time display reads 06:24 before I answer. It's Mum.|Simply Heaven|Serena Mackesy|sfw 06:25|6.25|Simon is happy to travel scum class when he's on his own and even sometimes deliberately aims for the 6.25. But today the .25 is delayed to 6.44.|The Deaths|Mark Lawson|unknown 06:25|six-twenty-five|"Still, it's your consciousness that's created it. Not somethin' just anyone could do. Others could be wanderin' around forever in who-knows-what contradictory chaos of a world. You're different. You seem t'be the immortal type."
"When's the turnover into that world going to take place?" asked the chubby girl. The Professor looked at his watch. I looked at my watch. Six-twenty-five. Well past daybreak. Morning papers delivered.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -885,15 +885,15 @@ 07:32|7:32|At 7:32, he suffered a fatal stroke.|IT|Stephen King|unknown 07:33|thirty-three minutes past seven|He was taken from me, by the inscrutable decree of the Almighty, on the fifth of this month at thirty-three minutes past seven in the morning, and died in peace of an influential attack of the chest - he had been asthmatic of late years, though otherwise in good health, praise God.|The Sin of Joost Avelingh: A Dutch Story|Maarten Maartens|sfw 07:33|7:33 A.M.|Wednesday 7:33 A.M.
"You're lucky I love this spot," Vance said, gazing out over the city. "Nothing else on the planet could have got me up this early in the morning."|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw -07:34|7:34|7:34. Monday morning, Blackeberg. The burglar alarm at the ICA grocery store on Arvid Morne's way is set off.|Let The Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown +07:34|7:34|7:34. Monday morning, Blackeberg. The burglar alarm at the ICA grocery store on Arvid Morne's way is set off.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 07:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 07:35|7.35|I told him that it was me and he said, "It’s 7.35 on a Sunday morning. This is terribly inconsiderate of you. I realize you’re besotted with Marigold, but you must try and restrain your passion. Come to lunch. I’ve got something to show you."|Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction|Sue Townsend|unknown 07:35|7:35 am|At 7:35 am Ishigami left his apartment as he did every weekday morning.|The Devotion of Duspect X|Keigo Higashino|unknown 07:35|seven thirty-five|I looked at my watch. Seven thirty-five.|Bare Bones|Kathy Reichs|unknown -07:36|7:36|7:36, sunrise. The hospital blinds were much better, darker than her own.|Let The Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown +07:36|7:36|7:36, sunrise. The hospital blinds were much better, darker than her own.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 07:37|twenty-three minutes to eight|My telephone rang at twenty-three minutes to eight, just as I put a cup of coffee down on the breakfast table.|Satellite People|Has Olav Lahlum|sfw 07:38|7:38 A.M.|7:38 A.M.
"I copy," Nichols said into his mike. "When did the chopper lift off?"|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw -07:39|7.39|"Now, at the station, do you recall speaking to Mr. Joseph Markew?"
"Yes, indeed. I was standing on the platform waiting for my usual train - the 7.39 - when he accosted me."|Arthur & George|Julian Barnes|unknown +07:39|7.39|"Now, at the station, do you recall speaking to Mr. Joseph Markew?"
"Yes, indeed. I was standing on the platform waiting for my usual train - the 7.39 - when he accosted me."|Arthur and George|Julian Barnes|unknown 07:40|7.40 a.m.|7.40 a.m. Have breakfast.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 07:42|7:42|So he really had no choice but to pay an occasional visit to the living room instead, where the hands on the grandfather clock now indicated, rather unambiguously, that it was 7:42.|The Lincoln Highway|Amor Towles|unknown 07:42|seven, and forty-two minutes|I had been in the tech ninja sleeve only a few hours— seven, and forty-two minutes according to the time display chipped into my upper-left field of vision—but there were none of the usual download side effects.|Altered Carbon|Richard K. Morgan|unknown @@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ 08:10|8.10 a.m.|8.10 a.m. Read book or watch video|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:10|8:10|Cell count down to 400,000. Woke 8:10. To sleep 7:15. (Appear to have lost my watch without realising it, had to drive into town to buy another.)|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 08:11|eight-eleven|"Care for a turn on the engine?" he called to the doxies, and pointed up at the footplate. They laughed but voted not to, climbing up with their bathtub into one of the rattlers instead. They both had very fetching hats, with one flower apiece, but the prettiness of their faces made you think it was more. For some reason they both wore white rosettes pinned to their dresses. I looked again at the clock: eight-eleven.|The Blackpool Highflyer|Andrew Martin|unknown -08:12|8:12 a.m.|At 8:12 a.m., just before the moment of pff, all the business of the cellars was being transacted - garbage transferred from small cans into large ones; early wide-awake grandmas, rocky with insomnia, dumped wash into the big tubs; boys in swimming trunks rolled baby carriages out into the cool morning.|In Time Which Made A Monkey Of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown -08:13|8:13 a.m.|At 8:13 a.m. the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.|In Time Which Made A Monkey Of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown +08:12|8:12 a.m.|At 8:12 a.m., just before the moment of pff, all the business of the cellars was being transacted - garbage transferred from small cans into large ones; early wide-awake grandmas, rocky with insomnia, dumped wash into the big tubs; boys in swimming trunks rolled baby carriages out into the cool morning.|In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown +08:13|8:13 a.m.|At 8:13 a.m. the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.|In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown 08:14|fourteen minutes past eight|At fourteen minutes past eight, a man came in, wearing a sheepskin coat. He was sucking on a hand-rolled cigarette. The man stuck out his hand, cheerfully. "You'll be Mister Moon," he said.|The Monarch of the Glen|Neil Gaiman|sfw 08:14|8:14 A.M.|8:14 A.M.
"What happened?" Ramirez asked. Helling had alerted him by walkie-talkie and summoned him to the lobby. There the Germans were returning, Henes Sommer covered with blood and being carried by Rudolph Schindler and Peter Maier.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 08:15|8:15 a.m.|No one at the desk asked Louis for identification or payment. An elderly woman showed him to a tiny, spotlessly clean room, and left without offering a word. The earliest direct flight from Prague to Vienna left at 8:15 a.m., and Most had decided that Louis should not spend the intervening hours waiting in an airport lounge.|The Nameless Ones|John Connolly|unknown @@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ 11:30|half past eleven|And so it was that around half past eleven, I found myself riding down to the Village on the Fifth Avenue bus with the street address of Hobart and Blackwell in my pocket, written on a page from one of the monogrammed notepads Mrs Barbour kept by the telephone.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|unknown 11:30|eleven-thirty|“The extraordinary thing is,” he told Livia at eleven-thirty, “you seem to be the only applicant. Or at least, the only one who’s showed up.”|The Wedding Officer|Anthony Capella|unknown 11:30|11.30|"It is now 11.30. The door to this room is shut, and will remain shut, barring emergencies, until 12.00. I am authorised to inform you that we are now under battle orders."|Singularity Sky|Charles Stross|unknown -11:30|half-past eleven|"O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said."|Far from the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown +11:30|half-past eleven|"O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said."|Far From the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown 11:30|half-past eleven|"Thank-you," said C.B. quietly; but as he hung up his face was grim. In a few minutes he would have to break it to John that, although they had braved such dreadful perils dring the earlier part of the night they had, after all, failed to save Christina. Beddows had abjured Satan at a little after half-past eleven. By about eighteen minutes the Canon had beaten them to it again.|To the Devil a Daughter|Dennis Wheatley|unknown 11:30|11.30|This time it was Kumiko. The wall clock said 11.30.|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|Haruki Murakami|unknown 11:30|11:30|About 11:30 this morning I asked her if she was going to fix anything for Thanksgiving, and she looked at me like she didn't even know what I was talking about.|Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey|Margaret Peterson Haddix|unknown @@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ 11:44|sixteen minutes to twelve|Weiss's watch said sixteen minutes to twelve, and the detonation was set for noon, as set by a bank of electric clocks and three seperate control cables. But when the dragon embraced the bomb and tightened his grip, it was enough.|To Hold the Bridge|Garth Nix|sfw 11:45|eleven forty-five|It was eleven forty-five but my cousin still wasn’t back. It was getting close to lunchtime and the cafeteria was starting to get more crowded. All sorts of sounds and voices mixed together like smoke enveloping the room. I returned once more to the realm of memory. And that small gold pen she had in her breast pocket.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 11:45|11:45 AM|11:45 AM - 06/05/2014
More details have emerged in the investigation into the killings at Val-de-Grâce early Wednesday morning.|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown -11:45|quarter to twelve|I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.|Far from the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown +11:45|quarter to twelve|I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.|Far From the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown 11:45|quarter to twelve|"I will tell you the time," said Septimus, very slowly, very drowsily, smiling mysteriously. As he sat smiling at the dead man in the grey suit the quarter struck, the quarter to twelve.|Mrs. Dalloway|Virginia Woolf|unknown 11:45|11.45 am|I arrived at St. Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11.45 am on Thursday, the 16th by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat.|Epitaph for a Spy|Eric Ambler|unknown 11:47|eleven forty-seven|"Because the two curses that have struck here in Chicago arrived at eleven forty-seven in the morning, and damned close to that last night. Add two hours to the deaths in California to account for the difference in time zones. The curse was sent at the same time. Thirteen minutes before noon or midnight."|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|nsfw @@ -1565,6 +1565,7 @@ 11:58|11.58|And when you go down the steps, it's always 11.58 on the morning of September ninth, 1958.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 11:58|Two minutes before the clock struck noon|Two minutes before the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the preparation for the frightful ceremony of mid-day. The block was laid forth-the hideous minister of vengeance, masked and in black, with the flaming glaive in his hand, was ready. The baron tried the edge of the blade with his finger, and asked the dreadful swordsman if his hand was sure? A nod was the reply of the man of blood.|Burlesques|William Makepeace Thackeray|unknown 11:59|near to twelve|There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew near to twelve I don't mind confessing I was as nervous as a cat.|The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story|Agatha Christie|unknown +12:00|noon|It was about noon today when Jim Pietre called the office on the phone.
"Now, look, Pete," he started out. "What kind of gag are you pulling?"
I chortled to myself and pulled the dead pan on him.
"What do you mean, boy?" I asked back into the phone. "Gag? What kind of gag? What are you talking about?"
"A coin. A coin." He was impatient. "You remember you sent me a coin in the mail?"|Star, Bright|Mark Clifton|sfw 12:00|noon|"Guess what!" said Klaus as he spooned lentil soup into Gunther's mouth at the noon meal in Gaza. "I have the honor of being the first man in Gaza to meet the medical examiners. At one o'clock sharp in Hebron."|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 12:00|noon|When Sister Anna brought him back to Patmos at noon, Gunther shouted to anyone and everyone within earshot, "I can read! I can read!"|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 12:00|midday|"You, Willi, my friend," said Pastor Fritz softly, "you who sit in midnight darkness at midday, is this Jesus Christ a horn of salvation, a light in your darkness?"|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw @@ -1643,9 +1644,9 @@ 12:25|12:25|After a moment reality reasserted itself, and she realized she hadn't been hallucinating, but dreaming. The clock on the desk read 12:55. They'd begun their ten-minute session at 12:25, so obviously she had twenty minutes to account for.|The Enclave|Karen Hancock|sfw 12:25|twelve twenty-five|Mr. Henry Urquhart of Messrs. Urquhart, Wimbush, and Portway was Josephine Fallon's solicitor. Dalgliesh's appointment with him was for twelve twenty-five p.m., a time disobligingly chosen, he felt, to intimate that every minute of the solicitor's time was valuable and that he was prepared to spare the police no more than half an hour before lunch.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 12:25|12.25|Boys, do it now. God's time is 12.25.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown -12:25|12.25 pm|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel For a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown -12:26|26|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel For a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown -12:27|27|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel For a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:25|12.25 pm|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:26|26|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:27|27|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown 12:27|twelve twenty-seven|For three decades, time had been frozen at twelve twenty-seven. The story was that the hands had stopped at the exact moment Corcoran O'Connor's father died. It might have been true.|Boundary Waters|William Kent Krueger|sfw 12:28|12.28|The DRINK CHEER-UP COFFEE wall clock read 12.28.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 12:29|twenty-nine minutes past twelve|"What time is it?" asked Teeny-bits.
The station agent hauled out his big silver watch, looked at it critically and announced: "Twenty-nine minutes past twelve.”
“Past twelve!" repeated Teeny-bits. "It can't be."|The Mark of the Knife|Clayton H. Ernst|sfw @@ -1660,7 +1661,7 @@ 12:33|thirty-three minutes past twelve|Stephen Maxie looked him straight in the eye and said almost casually: “It was thirty-three minutes past twelve by my watch."|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw 12:33|12.33|It's 12.33 now and I could do it, the station is just down that side road there.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 12:34|12:34 P.M.|12:34 P.M.
"W.B., we've got a problem," Karl Van de Vliet said into the microphone. He was in his private office, on the scrambled videophone. "Kristen's mother showed up just before noon with a pistol, demanding to know where she was."|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|nsfw -12:35|twelve-thirty-five|As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was twelve-thirty-five when they were dismissed.|Men At Arms|Evelyn Waugh|unknown +12:35|twelve-thirty-five|As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was twelve-thirty-five when they were dismissed.|Men at Arms|Evelyn Waugh|unknown 12:36|12.36|She was going to walk calmly, coolly, up this amazing flight of stairs and into this building. There she was going to find Taylor, because it was already 12.36 and 30 seconds and in his text he’d told her to be on time.|New York Valentine|Carmen Reid|unknown 12:37|12:37|It was 12:37 when Jason, in blue jeans, cap and dark, tattered V-necked sweater, reached the gates of the old factory. He took out a pack of Gauloise cigarettes and leaned against the wall, lighting one with a match, holding the flame longer than necessary before he blew it out.|The Bourne Ultimatum|Robert Ludlum|sfw 12:38|12:38 p.m.|"At what time did the 12:23 p.m. S-line bus proceeding in the direction of Porte de Champerret arrive on that day?"
"At 12:38 p.m."
"Were there many people on the aforesaid S-bus?"
"Bags of 'em."
"Did you particularly notice any of them?"
"An individual who had a very a long neck and a plait round his hat."|Exercises in Style|Raymon Queneau|unknown @@ -2024,7 +2025,7 @@ 15:35|3:35 P.M.|If Me flashed a little crazy after a restless night of smoking & prowling the darkened house with owl-eyes alert to suspicious noises outside & on the roof, it didn’t inevitably mean she’d still be in such a state when the schoolbus deposited Wolfie back home at 3:35 P.M.|I Am No One You Know: Stories|Joyce Carol Oates|unknown 15:36|twenty-four minutes to four|Meanwhile a girl was standing in an airport concourse. A big clock suspended from the ceiling said it was twenty-four minutes to four.|The Intruders|Michael Marshall|sfw 15:37|15.37|The explosion was now officially designated an "Act of God". But, thought Dirk, what god? And why? What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 flight to Oslo?|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown -15:38|15:38|Mendez took a marker and added to the line for the day Karly Vickers disappeared: 15:38 traffic ticket issued by F. Farman.|Deeper than the Dead|Tami Hoag|sfw +15:38|15:38|Mendez took a marker and added to the line for the day Karly Vickers disappeared: 15:38 traffic ticket issued by F. Farman.|Deeper Than the Dead|Tami Hoag|sfw 15:39|three thirty-nine|I lived two lives in late 1965 and early 1963, one in Dallas and one in Jodie. They came together at three thirty-nine in the afternoon of April 10.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 15:40|twenty to four|Why had nobody else arrived? Could he be too early? But no! They had said half past three and it was at least twenty to four. He hastened towards the gate.|Keep the Aspidistra Flying|George Orwell|sfw 15:40|three-forty|At three-forty, Cliff called to report that Dilworth and his lady friend were sitting on the deck of the Amazing Grace, eating fruit and sipping wine, reminiscing a lot, laughing a little. “From what we can pick up with directional microphones and from what we can see, I’d say they don’t have any intention of going anywhere. Except maybe to bed. They sure do seem to be a randy old pair.”
“Stay with them,” Lem said. “I don’t trust him.”|Watchers|Dean Koontz|nsfw @@ -2133,7 +2134,7 @@ 16:20|twenty minutes past four|At twenty minutes past four - or, to put it another, blunter way, an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride, her head down, a parent stationed on either side of her, was helped out of the building.|Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters|J.D. Salinger|unknown 16:21|4.21 pm|4.21 pm
As they started on, Doug picked up a twig and after rubbing it off, started to move one end of it inside his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Bob asked.
"Brushing my teeth, nature style," Doug answered.
Bob grunted, smiling slightly. "I'll use my toothbrush," he said.|Hunted Past Reason|Richard Matheson|sfw 16:22|4.22 pm|Monday, 4.22 pm Washington, D.C. Paul Hood took his daily late-afternoon look at the list of names on his computer monitor.|Balance of Power: Op-Center 05|Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, and Jeff Rovin|unknown -16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit from the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown +16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit From the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown 16:24|4:24|Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was 4:24. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.|Teardrop|Travis Thrasher|unknown 16:25|4:25 p.m.|I groan audibly. It’s 4:25 p.m. — I can sneak out and say I didn’t see the email.|The Girl I Was|Jenneva Rose|sfw 16:26|twenty-six minutes after four|It seemed all wrong to have thought of such a thing. She thought, "I don't know him. Nor does he know me. Nor ever shall we.” She put her bare hand in the sun, where the wind would weather it. It was twenty-six minutes after four.|Catch-As-Catch-Can|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown @@ -2354,7 +2355,7 @@ 18:00|six|When the bells of Calvary Church struck six, she saw Mr. and Mrs. Biggs hurrying down the front stoop, rushing off to the shops before they closed.|The Interpretation Of Murder|Jed Rubenfeld|unknown 18:01|one minute past six|David had followed me at one minute past six. Then three others had managed to get away, making it five altogether. But as the sixth Hurricane was gathering speed for lift-off, a swarm of Messerschmitts had come swooping in over the olive trees.|Going Solo|Roald Dahl|sfw 18:02|6:02 p.m.|"Incidentally, confirmed by a record of a small and poorly defined shallow-focus earthquake around two hundred and fifty kilometers north of Herrandown at 6:02 p.m. But there is a major problem." |The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown -18:03|6:03|Jarrod stared at the clock on his computer. It said 6:03. Outside his office window it was dark. It felt as if someone had sucked all the oxygen from the room and he took an extra breath before responding.|All The Little Pieces|Jilliane Hoffman|unknown +18:03|6:03|Jarrod stared at the clock on his computer. It said 6:03. Outside his office window it was dark. It felt as if someone had sucked all the oxygen from the room and he took an extra breath before responding.|All the Little Pieces|Jilliane Hoffman|unknown 18:03|three minutes past six|Above it all rose the Houses of Parliament, with the hands of the clock stopped at three minutes past six. It was difficult to believe that all that meant nothing any more, that now it was just a pretentious confection that could decay in peace.|The Day of the Triffids|John Wyndham|unknown 18:04|Four minutes after six|"We will make record of it, my Rosannah; every year, as this dear hour chimes from the clock, we will celebrate it with thanksgivings, all the years of our life."
"We will, we will, Alonzo!"
"Four minutes after six, in the evening, my Rosannah..."|The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton|Mark Twain|unknown 18:05|6:05 p.m.|6:05 p.m. Wonder where everybody is? I suppose they are all out with their boyfriends or have gone home to their families.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -2473,7 +2474,7 @@ 19:05|five past seven|It was five past seven, a little past his normal time, when Hubert got back to the flat which he supposed he ought now to call home, but in which he still felt as ill at ease as a guest who is beginning to suspect that he has outstayed his welcome.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 19:05|7:05 p.m.|Punctual as always, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan was in the chandeliered lobby of the Hilton at 7:05 p.m., when Jon and Shannon stepped off the elevator. This time nattily attired in clerical grays, the dark-haired, ruddy-faced son of Ireland gracefully kissed Shannon's hand and then squeezed Jon's.|The Constantine Codex|Paul L. Maier|unknown 19:06|seven-oh-six p.m.|The time on the clock was six minutes after seven p.m. That doesn't conclusively prove that Sam Dillon was murdered at seven-oh-six p.m., but all other evidence would certainly corroborate that point.|In the Company of Liars|David Ellis|sfw -19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters from My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw +19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters From My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw 19:08|eight minutes past seven|It was eight minutes past seven and still no girl. I waited impatiently. I watched another crowd surge through the barriers and move quickly down the steps. My eyes were alert for the faintest recognition.|The Girl from East Berlin|James Furner|unknown 19:09|nine minutes past seven|Wallander was lucky and managed to catch a taxi right outside. When he got to Rosengard it was nine minutes past seven. He hoped that Mona was running late. But when he read the note on the door he realised that this was not the case.|The Pyramid|Henning Mankell|sfw 19:10|7.10|It was 7.10 and the saloon bar of the Duke of Clarence club was already smoke-filled, the noise level rising and the crowd at the bar three feet deep. Christine Baldwin, the Whistler's fifth victim, had exactly twenty minutes to live.|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2561,7 +2562,7 @@ 19:49|eleven minutes to eight|"When did you next see Dr. Wellesley?"
"At just eleven minutes to eight."
"Where?"
"In the surgery."
"He came back there?"
"Yes."
"How do you fix that precise time--eleven minutes to eight?"
"Because he'd arranged to see a patient in Meadow Gate at ten minutes to eight. I glanced at the clock as he came in, saw what time it was, and reminded him of the appointment."|In the Mayor's Parlour|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 19:49|Eleven minutes to eight|"Eleven minutes to eight."
"You're always right; there must be a clock in your head."
"I can't be wrong, tonight. I'll be able to tell you one second before they blast off. Look! The ten-minute warning!"|The End of the Beginning|Ray Bradbury|unknown 19:50|ten minutes to eight|Everything was arranged for them. A real limousine came at ten minutes to eight and took them to the theater. It drew up under the marquee at exactly the right time, after the big stars and the director and the author and the governor and the mayor and some less important stars.|A Late Encounter with the Enemy|Flannery O'Connor|unknown -19:50|ten minutes to eight|The hands of the clock in the middle of the wall were pointing to ten minutes to eight. The cafe closed at eight.|Before the Coffee gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|unknown +19:50|ten minutes to eight|The hands of the clock in the middle of the wall were pointing to ten minutes to eight. The cafe closed at eight.|Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|unknown 19:50|ten to eight|At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown 19:51|nearly eight|He waited until nearly eight, because around seven there were always more people coming in and out of the house than at other times. At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car, though he had gone down in the middle of the afternoon to look at the car and see if it was Freddie's.|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown 19:52|7:52 P.M.|7:52 P.M.
Vance pulled himself across the planking and stretched for a box of gear stowed beneath the stern platform. In it was a constant traveling companion: his chrome-handled 9mm Walther. Although the concept of downing a Hind gunship with small-arms fire had been tested in Afghanistan and found wanting, he was so angry his better judgment was not fully in play.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|unknown @@ -2762,7 +2763,7 @@ 21:15|9.15|9.15. Did Roberts pay you yet?|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 21:15|nine-fifteen|What are we going to do? Should we try to walk to Clapham High Street? But it's bloody miles away. I glance at my watch and am shocked to see that it's nine-fifteen. We've spent over an hour faffing about and we haven't even had a drink. And it's all my fault. I can't even organize one simple evening without its going catastrophically wrong.|Can You Keep a Secret?|Sophie Kinsella|nsfw 21:16|9:16 P.M.|Leonard checked his watch—9:16 P.M. He went to his computer, logged onto his AOL account. Though he’d been instructed not to email, he wrote a message to John. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦? He logged out.|Reprieve|James Han Mattson|unknown -21:17|21:17|21:17, Sunday Evening, Angbyplan. A man is observed outside the hair salon. He presses his face and hands against the glass, and appears extremely intoxicated.|Let The Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown +21:17|21:17|21:17, Sunday Evening, Angbyplan. A man is observed outside the hair salon. He presses his face and hands against the glass, and appears extremely intoxicated.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 21:18|eighteen minutes after nine|The same thing would hold true if there were someone in her apartment. In that case he would just say that he had been passing by, recognized her charming house, and thought to drop in. It was eighteen minutes after nine when Mr. Martin turned into Twelfth Street.|The Catbird Seat|James Thurber|unknown 21:19|nineteen minutes past nine|The first movement of Mendelssohn's accursed violin concerto was about twelve and a half minutes long. The Jew had started playing it at nineteen minutes past nine.|Money, Money, Money|Ed McBain|sfw 21:20|9.20|At 9.20 he switched off the set and, for a few minutes, sat immobile with the tray still on his lap. He thought that he must look like one of those modern paintings, Man with a Tray, a stiff figure immobilized in an ordinary setting made unordinary, even sinister.|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw From 3899a98adea0eb1c7a93bc3a634dadaf6d17920f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 18:43:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 04/15] add quotes from Jeffrey Archer, Lew Wallace, etc --- litclock_annotated.csv | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 7358927e..76928ad4 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +00:00|midnight|At midnight the entrances were thrown wide, and the rabble, surging in, occupied the quarters assigned to them, from which nothing less than an earthquake or an army with spears could have dislodged them. They dozed the night away on the benches, and breakfasted there; and there the close of the exercises found them, patient and sight-hungry as in the beginning.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw +00:00|midnight|“I thought you asleep,” he said, presently.
“Sleep is for old people and little children, and I came out to look at my friends, the stars in the south—those now holding the curtains of midnight over the Nile. But confess yourself surprised!”|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 00:00|midnight|Ren said, "If you go to the football field at midnight on Halloween and say his name three times, his ghost is supposed to appear."|Copper River|William Kent Krueger|sfw 00:00|midnight|"You, Willi, my friend," said Pastor Fritz softly, "you who sit in midnight darkness at midday, is this Jesus Christ a horn of salvation, a light in your darkness?"|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 00:00|midnight|You take a black cat---isn't that it?---that does not have even one white hair (you know this), and you bind his four paws, and then you take him at midnight to a crossroads and you cry out in a loud voice:|The Name of the Rose|Umberto Eco|unknown @@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ 00:56|12:56|Teacher used to lie awake at night facing that clock, batting his eyelashes against his pillowcase to mimic the sound of the rolling drop action. One night, and this first night is lost in the countless later nights of compounding wonder, he discovered a game. Say the time was 12:56.|Lessons in Essence|Dana Standridge|unknown 00:57|12:57|A minute had passed, and the roller dropped a new leaf. 12:57. 12 + 57 = 69; 6 + 9 = 15; 1 + 5 = 6. 712 + 5 = 717; 71 + 7 = 78; 7 + 8 = 15; 1 + 5 = 6 again.|Lessons in Essence|Dana Standridge|unknown 00:58|almost at one in the morning|It was downright shameless on his part to come visiting them, especially at night, almost at one in the morning, after all that had happened.|The Idiot|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|unknown +00:58|00:58 CET|00:58 CET
"Everything's in place. Now all we have to do is. . ."
William didn't move a muscle until the voice faded away. More words, but they were scattered in the wind. He raised the tarpaulin an inch, and his eyes settled on a group of four men standing only a few yards from the lifeboat.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 00:59|About one o’clock|"What time is it now?" she said.
"About one o’clock."
"In the morning?"
Herera’s friend leered at her. "No, there’s a total eclipse of the sun."|Freedom|Jonathan Frantzen|unknown 00:59|nearly one o’clock|It was nearly one o’clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures.|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown 00:59|nearly one o'clock|I looked attentively at her, as she put that singular question to me. It was then nearly one o'clock. All I could discern distinctly by the moonlight was a colourless, youthful face, meagre and sharp to look at about the cheeks and chin; large, grave, wistfully attentive eyes; nervous, uncertain lips; and light hair of a pale, brownish-yellow hue.|The Woman in White|Wilkie Collins|unknown @@ -168,6 +171,7 @@ 01:05|five minutes past one|"Certain, sir. It was just five minutes past one when I drove into our mews."
"Now, then, be careful about this, Mountain. I want to know exactly what happened when you drove up to the house. Tell us in your own way."
The coachman looked round amongst the listeners as if he were a little perplexed. "Why, sir," he answered, turning back to Barthorpe, "there was nothing happened!"|The Herapath Property|J.S. Fletcher|sfw 01:06|six minutes past one|We had come out of church together after midnight service and had immediately seen the offending light, as had most of the congregation. And Bill, always punctillious, had looked at his watch. His call to the manor had been made at six minutes past one.|The Murder of Santa Claus|P.D. James|sfw 01:06|1:06|When he woke it was 1:06 by the digital clock on the bedside table. He lay there looking at the ceiling, the raw glare of the vaporlamp outside bathing the bedroom in a cold and bluish light. Like a winter moon.|No Country for Old Men|Cormac McCarthy|unknown +01:07|01:07 GMT|01:07 GMT
Lamont could hear the sound of a car coming from behind him. Moments later a green Jaguar drove past and proceeded along the driveway, lights full on. It came to a halt outside the house.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 01:07|1:07 A.M.|But the most striking difference was the time of day. Outside the basement windows, night had fallen. The streetlights were on and there was a full moon out.
“Whoa,” I heard myself whisper. I glanced at the digital alarm clock sitting on top of one of the bookshelves. Its glowing blue display said the local time was now 1:07 A.M.|Ready Player Two|Ernest Cline|unknown 01:08|1.08 a.m.|It was 1.08 a.m. but he had left the ball at the same time as I did, and had further to travel.|The Rosie Project|Graeme Simsion|unknown 01:08|01:08|My radio-alarm is glowing 01:08 when I hear footsteps on the stairs, the pause, the timid knock-knock-knock on my outer door.|The Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw @@ -439,6 +443,7 @@ 03:15|quarter past three in the morning|One night in August, with the good picking done and Old Pie’s crew paid up and back on the rez, I woke to the sound of a cow lowing. 𝘐 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, I thought, but when I fumbled my father’s pocket watch off the table beside my bed and peered at it, I saw it was quarter past three in the morning.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 03:15|3:15|Above the door of Room 69 the clock ticked on at 3:15. The motion was accelerating. What had once been the gymnasium was now a small room, seven feet wide, a tight, almost perfect cube.|Manhole 69|J.G. Ballard|unknown 03:16|sixteen minutes past three|Rebecca and Abby are taken to hospital by ambulance, Abby is released several hours later with minor cuts and bruises, Rebecca Louden was pronounced dead at sixteen minutes past three this morning after surgeons failed to repair the damage to her carotid artery.|A Place of Safety|Emma Salisbury|sfw +03:17|03.17|Hassan checked her watch – 03.17 – confident that the only person on board still awake would be the young man on the bridge. Rook to bishop’s four. He removed a knight from the board.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:17|3:17 a.m.|Timestamp says 3:17 a.m. A large block of text. Not a good sign of things to come.|Bath Haus|P.J. Vernon|unknown 03:17|seventeen minutes past three in the morning|It was seventeen minutes past three in the morning. Mila, in a trenchcoat and boots, sat down on the edge of the bed. Malik Solanka groaned. Disaster always arrived when your defences were at their lowest: blindsiding you, like love.|Fury|Salman Rushdie|unknown 03:17|3:17|The two of us sat there, listening—Boris more intently than me. “Who’s that with him then?” I said. “Some whore.” He listened for a moment, brow furrowed, his profile sharp in the moonlight, and then lay back down. “Two of them.” I rolled over, and checked my iPod. It was 3:17 in the morning.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|nsfw @@ -571,6 +576,7 @@ 04:34|4:34 A.M.|With a heavy sigh, I pried open my eyes just enough to focus on the numbers glowing atop my nightstand. It was 4:34 A.M. What kind of sadist called another human being at 4:34 in the morning?|First Grave on the Right|Darynda Jones|unknown 04:35|4:35|No manner of exhaustion can keep a child asleep much later than six a.m. on Christmas Day. Colby awoke at 4:35.|Dreams and Shadows|C. Robert Cargill|unknown 04:36|4:36|At 4:36 that morning, alone in my hotel room, it had been a much better scene. Spencer had blanched, confounded by the inescapable logic of my accusation. A few drops of perspiration had formed on his upper lip. A tiny vein had started to throb in his temple.|The Brass Go-Between|Ross Thomas|unknown +04:37|4:37 AM|The knock at the door was soft, but it still awoke Stephen. He touched the screen on his smartphone. 4:37 AM|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw 04:37|4:37|Her bedroom was hardly any bigger than her king-size mattress, which she’d told me she’d inherited from her parents when her mother got sick “and so they got two doubles because my dad couldn’t sleep at night with all her fidgeting.” Green numbers on a digital alarm clock glowed between cans of Diet 7UP on the bedside table. It was 4:37. I smelled peanut butter and again, the bitter tang of vomit.|My Year of Rest and Relaxation|Ottessa Moshfegh|unknown 04:38|4.38 a.m.|At 4.38 a.m. as the sun is coming up over Gorley Woods, I hear a strange rustling in the grass beside me. I peer closely but can see nothing.|The Queue|Jonathan Barrow|unknown 04:39|twenty-one minutes to five|At zero hour minus one minute, twenty-one minutes to five on March the twenty-first, Jiffy Tripp stood in the tranches beside an infantry officer, looking over no man's land. It was still dark. At zero hour plus five seconds the shell bursts actually threw a sort of witch's kaleidoscope onto no man's land, and he was reaching for the SOS rockets. Red - green - red.|God's Sparrows|Phillip Child|sfw @@ -588,6 +594,7 @@ 04:50|ten minutes to five|Even the hands of his watch and the hands of all the thirteen clocks were frozen. They had all frozen at the same time, on a snowy night, seven years before, and after that it was always ten minutes to five in the castle.|The 13 Clocks|James Thurber|unknown 04:51|4:51 A.M.|4:51 A.M.
"You know, I hate to spoil all the fun you're having." Vance tried to look at Moreau, but he could barely see through the swelling of his puffy eyelids. "But I've got some unsettling news. You and the rest of Ramirez's hoods are about to be in a deep situation here. The minute you try to send that bomb up, you can tip your hat and kiss your ass good-bye. Better enjoy this while you can."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 04:51|nine minutes to five a.m.|"Earlier? It's nine minutes to five a.m. - who would be up this early?"
"Oh, we're all early risers."|Gifts of the Magi|Jean Johnson|sfw +04:52|4:52 A.M.|Anna left the apartment at 4:52 A.M., dressed in jeans, a blue T-shirt, a linen jacket, and a baseball cap. She wasn’t sure what to expect as she stepped out onto the sidewalk that cool, dark morning.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:52|eight minutes to five|"If it matters, it's eight minutes to five. Don't get any persecuted ideas that I enjoy being out of bed at this time of night. It makes it legally easier if you invite us in."|Holding the Zero|Gerald Seymour|sfw 04:53|seven minutes before five|It was so quiet in the post office that Trinidad could hear the soft tick of the clock's second hand every time it moved. It was now seven minutes before five.|The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow|Rita Leganski|unknown 04:54|six minutes to five|Six minutes to five. Six minutes to go. Suddenly I felt quite clearheaded. There was an unexpected light in the cell; the boundaries were drawn, the roles well defined. The time of doubt and questioning and uncertainty was over.|Dawn: A Novel|Elie Wiesel|unknown @@ -628,6 +635,7 @@ 05:04|5.04 a.m.|5.04 a.m. on the substandard clock radio. Because why do people always say the day starts now? Really it starts in the middle of the night at a fraction of a second past midnight.|The Accidental|Ali Smith|unknown 05:05|five past five|The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning.|The Namesake|Jhumpa Lahiri|unknown 05:06|5:06 a.m.|5:06 a.m. I wake up strangely energized, my stomach growling. Upstairs, the overstocked fridge offers me its bounty of sympathy food.|This Is Where I Leave You|Jonathon Tropper|unknown +05:07|5.07|‘Was the time of that call recorded?’ demanded the Hawk.
‘Yes, sir. At 5.07. I called back just after nine and told Dr Redwood he could visit his patient in the prison hospital at his convenience, and carry out a full examination. He did so later that morning.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:07|seven minutes past five|"Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe," continued Poirot, with distaste, "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family."|The Clocks|Agatha Christie|unknown 05:08|5:08|Ambrose and I will marry at Fort McHenry at 5:08 EDST this coming Saturday, Rosh Hashanah!|Letters|John Barth|unknown 05:09|5:09|The primal flush of triumph which had saturated the American's humor on this signal success, proved but fictive and transitory when inquiry of the station attendants educed the information that the two earliest trains to be obtained were the 5:09 to Dunkerque and the 5:37 for Ostend.|The Black Bag|Louis Joseph Vance|unknown @@ -643,6 +651,7 @@ 05:16|5:16|5:16 - Mank on phone to Secretary of State Brown: 'Mr. Brown, we're profoundly disturbed about this situation in the 21st. We can't get a single result out of there.|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S Thompson|unknown 05:16|5:16 a.m|She could go back to sleep. But typical and ironic, she is completely awake. It is completely light outside now; you can see for miles. Except there is nothing to see here; trees and fields and that kind of thing. 5:16 a.m on the substandard clock radio. She is really awake.|The Accidental|Ali Smith|unknown 05:17|5:17 AM|After managing to get roughly three hours of sleep, Grant checked the time on his phone. 5:17 AM.
More sleep is unlikely. Time for a morning run.|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw +05:18|5:18|WILLIAM PICKED UP THE PHONE but didn’t turn on the light as the digital clock on his bedside table turned from 5:17 to 5:18. He knew it could only be one person on the other end of the line.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:18|5:18 AM|The story is there, and the security photo that runs with it is pretty damning. An hour earlier the light wouldn’t have been good enough to show the doer’s face, but the time stamp on the bottom of the photo is 5:18 AM. The sun isn’t up but it’s getting there, and the face of the guy standing in the alley is as clear as you’d want, if you were a prosecutor.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 05:18|5:18 A.M.|ABOARD TPA 545
5:18 A.M.
Emily Jansen sighed in relief. The long flight was nearing an end. Morning sunlight streamed through the windows of the airplane.|Airframe|Michael Crichton|unknown 05:19|5:19 A.M.|5:19 A.M.
She heaved a sigh of relief as she put down the microphone and prepared to stumble down the hill. She realized she had violated protocol by breaking radio silence, but she was almost as worried about Michael Vance as she was about the facility.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -684,6 +693,7 @@ 05:40|twenty minutes to six|Twenty minutes to six. 'Rob's boys were already on the platform, barrows ready. The only thing that ever dared to be late around here was the train. Rob's boys were in fact Bill Bing, thirty, sucking a Woodbine, and Arthur, sixty, half dead.|The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman|Bruce Robinson|unknown 05:41|5:41|It took Inigo until 5:41 before he actually cornered the Count. In the billiard room. “Hello,” he was about to say. “My name name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father; prepare to die.”|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 05:42|eighteen minutes to six|At eighteen minutes to six, they blew the wall, and even then, it was almost too late.|A Gentleman's Game|Greg Rucka|sfw +05:43|05:43|05:43 Greenwich Mean Time
William was woken by the phone ringing. He grabbed it, wondering who could possibly be calling him at that hour of the morning. He hoped it was Beth.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:43|5:43|It’s 5:43. Time is racing, racing.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 05:43|5.43|5.43 - Mank on phone to 'Mary' in Washington; 'It now appears quite clear that we'll lead the state - without the 21st.'|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown 05:44|0544 hours|"And what time, again, did the defendant actually say these words?"
"That would have been - you can see the time on the film tape on the frame where you've stopped it. 0544 hours."|Invasion of Privacy|Perri O'Shaughnessy|sfw @@ -702,10 +712,12 @@ 05:55|five minutes to six|One, two, three, four, five, six… She wound each clock in turn, three turns each, putting just enough power in the springs to get them ticking in time for Mr. Westcott’s inspection. Speaking of which…it was five minutes to six. Five minutes before Mr. Westcott would arrive to inspect his clocks. Helena swallowed. She could hear footsteps thundering in the room below and the occasional exclamation from Stanley.|The House of One Hundred Clocks|A.M. Howell|unknown 05:55|five to six|Billy doesn’t drive to the parking garage. The parking garage is done. At five to six he parks on Main Street a few blocks from the Gerard Tower. Plenty of curbside spaces at this hour and the sidewalk is deserted.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 05:55|5.55 am|It was 5.55 am and raining hard when I pedalled up to the bike stand just outside the forecourt of the station and dashed inside. I raced past the bookstall, where all the placards of the Yorkshire Post (a morning paper) read 'York Horror', but also 'Terrific February Gales at Coast'.|The Lost Luggage Porter|Andrew Martin|unknown +05:56|5:56 A.M.|ANNA PETRESCU TOUCHED the button on the top of her bedside clock. It glowed 5:56 A.M. Another four minutes and it would have woken her with the early morning news. But not today.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:56|four minutes to six|The officer with the chipped nose went over to borrow the watch of General Feraud. They bent their heads over them for a time. "That's it. At four minutes to six by yours."|A Set of Six|Joseph Conrad|sfw 05:57|05.57|She smiles a bit but the next breath comes out louder like a moan. At 05.57 I say, “Ma, it’s nearly six,” so she gets up to make dinner but she doesn’t eat any.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 05:58|5.58|Loud crashes came from the flat below at 5.58 this morning, though she’d been clock-watching long before that.|The Woman Downstairs|Elisabeth Carpenter|unknown 05:58|5.58 a.m.|Annika Giannini woke with a start. She saw that it was 5.58 a.m.|The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest|Stieg Larsson|unknown +05:58|just before six|Grant stepped into his office at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church just before six the next morning. His unusually early arrival – skipping his regular morning exercises – was spurred by a desire to pull up the essay that he had written years earlier, and to start the process of updating it, as requested.|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw 05:59|before the clock had struck six|The shades in the corner room on the southeast were the first to be raised. It was the old rector's bedroom. He was reading his Bible before the clock had struck six.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown 06:00|six|The next morning, Sister Veronica is still at prayer in the chapel. At six, when the other sisters file in for Vigils, she is there, prostrate before the cross, her arms outstretched, her forehead touching the cold stone tile. It is only when they lean forward to touch her arm gently that the women see that the blood has settled in her face. She has been dead for many hours.|The Power|Naomi Alderman|unknown 06:00|six|Sammy was bright awake at six, giddy with excitement, Daddy was coming, and no settling him to anything. By late morning he was climbing the walls; I suggested we go for a walk, take a little picnic. He didn’t want to leave in case Daddy came while we were gone.
“How ’bout we head up the hill? We can look out for him from there. Like pirates.”
And that did the trick.|The Body Lies|Jo Baker|unknown @@ -731,6 +743,7 @@ 06:05|five minutes past six|A second man went in and found the shop empty, as he thought, at five minutes past six. That puts the time at between 5:30 and 6:05.|The ABC Murders|Agatha Christie|unknown 06:06|6:06|At 6:06, every toilet on Merit Street suddenly exploded in a geyser of shit and raw sewage as some unimaginable reversal took place in the pipes which fed the holding tanks of the new waste-treatment plant in the Barrens.|IT|Stephen King|nsfw 06:08|six oh-eight a.m.|At six oh-eight a.m. two men wearing ragged trench coats approached the Casino. The shorter of the men burst into flames.|Magic Bleeds|Ilona Andrews|unknown +06:09|06:09 CET|06:09 CET
"Why didn't you wake me at four?" demanded Monti. He glared down at William, who was the same color as his soaking sheet, and was still sweating.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:09|6.09|Bimingham New Street 5.25. Walsall 5.55. This train does not stop at Birchills, for reasons George has never been able to ascertain. Then it is Bloxwich 6.02, Wyrley & Churchbridge 6.09. At 6.10 he nods to Mr. Merriman the stationmaster.|Arthur and George|Julian Barnes|unknown 06:10|ten past six|The bus left the station at ten past six - and she sat proud, like an accustomed traveller, apart from her father, John Henry, and Berenice. But after a while a serious doubt came in her, which even the answers of the bus-driver could not quite satisfy.|The Member of the Wedding|Carson McCullers|unknown 06:11|6:11 a.m.|I looked at the clock: 6:11 a.m. Brittany had been gone for five hours. Time was racing forward.|The Good Neighbor|Cathryn Grant|unknown @@ -776,6 +789,7 @@ 06:34|6:34 A.M.|6:34 A.M.
The leader of the SEALs, Lieutenant Devon Robbins, spoke into his thin microphone. "Can you see them? We could use an IR scope." The SEALs had split into two teams, as was their practice, and he was leading the first.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 06:35|twenty-five minutes to seven|My watch lay on the dressing-table close by; glancing at it, I saw that the time was twenty-five minutes to seven. I had been told that the family breakfasted at nine, so I had nearly two-and-a-half hours of leisure. Of course, I would go out, and enjoy the freshness of the morning.|Ravensdene Court|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 06:36|6:36|Kaldren pursues me like luminescent shadow. He has chalked up on the gateway '96,688,365,498,702'. Should confuse the mail man. Woke 9:05. To sleep 6:36.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown +06:37|06:37 GMT|06:37 GMT
Jackie didn't need a wake-up call that morning. She was already on her way to Waterloo station by the time William was speeding down the M4.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:37|6.37 am|The dashboard clock said 6.37 am. Town frowned, and checked his wristwatch, which blinked that it was 1.58 pm. Great, he thought. I was either up on that tree for eight hours, or for minus a minute.|American Gods|Neil Gaiman|unknown 06:38|6.38 am|The clock on the dashboard said it was 6.38 am. He left the keys in the car, and walked toward the tree.|American Gods|Neil Gaiman|unknown 06:39|0639|He fired another torpedo at 0639 hours from a distance of 500 metres. Again it missed its intended target, but exploded seven minutes later. The torpedos would only detonate on contact with a solid object.|Goldfinder|Keith Jessop and Neil Hanson|sfw @@ -850,6 +864,7 @@ 07:12|twelve minutes past seven|At twelve minutes past seven, in the kitchen, Kimberly was becoming anxious. She had been told by Sister Holland that Miss Gradwyn had asked for her early-morning tea tray to be brought up at seven o'clock.|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw 07:12|7:12|He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment, I must refuse to follow the "stupid human habit" of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. "Never meet people at 7:45 or 6:30, Jasper, but pick times like 7:12 and 8:03!"|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|unknown 07:13|seven-thirteen|It was all the more surprising and indeed alarming a little later, said Austerlitz, when I looked out of the corridor window of my carriage just before the train left at seven-thirteen, to find it dawning upon me with perfect certainty that I had seen the pattern of glass and steel roof above the platforms before.|Austerlitz|WG Sebald|unknown +07:14|07:14|07:14 GMT
William spotted him the moment he entered the terminal. A dark blue double-breasted blazer, white shirt, and striped tie. The commander probably slept in double-breasted pajamas.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:14|07:14|I jump onto Rocker to look at Watch, he says 07:14. I can skateboard on Rocker without holding on to her, then I whee back onto Duvet and I’m snowboarding instead.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 07:14|7.14|At 7.14 Harry knew he was alive. He knew that because the pain could be felt in every nerve fibre.|The Redeemer|Jo Nesbo|unknown 07:15|fifteen minutes past seven|The raft drifted steadily north. “There must be a current.” The current was carrying them north, toward the hotel. He looked at his watch and was astonished to see it was fifteen minutes past seven. Only fifteen minutes had passed since he had last looked at his watch. It seemed like two hours.|Jurassic Park|Michael Crichton|unknown @@ -872,6 +887,7 @@ 07:26|twenty-six minutes past seven|Chuck was on deck at twenty-six minutes past seven when marines in helmets and backpacks began to swarm down the rope nets hanging over the sides of the ship and jump into the high-sided landing craft.|Winter of the World|Ken Follett|sfw 07:27|7.27|His appointment with the doctor was for 8.45. It was 7.27.|The Return of the Dancing Master|Henning Mankell|unknown 07:28|seven twenty-eight|"As you know, we're on twenty-four hour call and I got here at seven twenty-eight. We decided to start the investigation at once. The undertakers will collect the body as soon as you've finished."|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw +07:29|7:29|Lamont was waiting for her on platform 11, and they boarded the 7:29 to Guildford, second class. On arrival they were met by Superintendent Wall, the only man from the Surrey Constabulary who'd been fully briefed on what they had planned for the rest of the day.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:29|minute before seven-thirty|Everybody turns in his chair and watches that butter sneak on down the wall, starting, hanging still, shooting ahead and leaving a shiny trail behind it on the pane. Nobody says a word. They look at the butter, then at the clock, then back at the butter. The clock’s moving now.
The butter makes it down to the floor about a half minute before seven-thirty, and McMurphy gets back all the money he lost.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|sfw 07:29|7.29|At 7.29 in the morning of 1 July, the cinematographer finds himself filming silence itself.|At Break of Day|Elizabeth Speller|unknown 07:30|half-past seven|About half-past seven I woke, and opened my window on a fine sunshiny day. The clock had struck eight, and I was just going out to chain up the dogs again, when I heard a sudden whisking of petticoats on the stairs behind me.|The Moonstone|Wilkie Collins|unknown @@ -886,6 +902,7 @@ 07:33|thirty-three minutes past seven|He was taken from me, by the inscrutable decree of the Almighty, on the fifth of this month at thirty-three minutes past seven in the morning, and died in peace of an influential attack of the chest - he had been asthmatic of late years, though otherwise in good health, praise God.|The Sin of Joost Avelingh: A Dutch Story|Maarten Maartens|sfw 07:33|7:33 A.M.|Wednesday 7:33 A.M.
"You're lucky I love this spot," Vance said, gazing out over the city. "Nothing else on the planet could have got me up this early in the morning."|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:34|7:34|7:34. Monday morning, Blackeberg. The burglar alarm at the ICA grocery store on Arvid Morne's way is set off.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown +07:34|7:34|He made another entry in his logbook when Summers emerged from the building at 7:34, and set off in the direction of the local nick as his radio sprang to life. He listened carefully to what Paul had to report, and said he’d deal with it as soon as he was back in the office.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 07:35|7.35|I told him that it was me and he said, "It’s 7.35 on a Sunday morning. This is terribly inconsiderate of you. I realize you’re besotted with Marigold, but you must try and restrain your passion. Come to lunch. I’ve got something to show you."|Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction|Sue Townsend|unknown 07:35|7:35 am|At 7:35 am Ishigami left his apartment as he did every weekday morning.|The Devotion of Duspect X|Keigo Higashino|unknown @@ -899,7 +916,9 @@ 07:42|seven, and forty-two minutes|I had been in the tech ninja sleeve only a few hours— seven, and forty-two minutes according to the time display chipped into my upper-left field of vision—but there were none of the usual download side effects.|Altered Carbon|Richard K. Morgan|unknown 07:42|seven forty-two|Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they will wither and die and fall off your body.|Magic Bleeds|Ilona Andrews|unknown 07:43|seventeen minutes to eight|It was seventeen minutes to eight. It seemed to me that should give me plenty of leeway, but I hadn't been there five minutes before I started to worry that I'd missed him.|The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart|Lawrence Block|sfw +07:44|sixteen minutes to eight|‘If you’re referring to Sergeant Jennings, sir, when I arrived this morning at sixteen minutes to eight, he was unshaven and incorrectly dressed, despite still being on duty. I didn’t bawl him out. But I did leave him in no doubt how I felt about his attitude and appearance while serving as a police officer.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:44|seven forty-four|She voices her thoughts: "It's not exactly how you'd choose to go, is it? You'd rather die flying a kite with your grandchildren, or at a great party or something. Not on the seven forty-four."|One Moment, One Morning|Sarah Rayner|unknown +07:45|quarter to eight|As for Koch, he spent half an hour at the silversmith’s below, before he went up to the old woman and he left him at exactly a quarter to eight. Now just consider…”|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|sfw 07:45|seven-forty-five|"This morning I took the launch out for forty minutes or so to test the engine. She's been giving a bit of trouble. That took from seven-forty-five until twenty past eight, near enough."|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 07:45|quarter to eight|Tony marks papers until quarter to eight. Sunlight floods the room, made golden by the yellow leaves outside; a jet flies over; the garbage truck approaches along the street, clanking like a tank.|The Robber Bride|Margaret Atwood|unknown 07:45|Seven-forty-five|Seven-forty-five the black boys move down the line of Chronics taping catheters on the ones that will hold still for it. Catheters are second-hand condoms the ends clipped off and rubber-banded to tubes that run down pantlegs to a plastic sack marked DISPOSABLE NOT TO BE RE-USED, which it is my job to wash out at the end of each day.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw @@ -911,6 +930,7 @@ 07:48|7:48 A.M.|7:48 A.M.
Vance stared up the mountain, puzzled. The silence baffled him, and then he realized why. He was not hearing the usual high-tension hum of transformers; nothing was operating. They had shut down the power.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:49|Eleven minutes to eight|"Eleven minutes to eight."
"You're always right; there must be a clock in your head."|The End of the Beginning|Ray Bradbury|unknown 07:49|eleven minutes to eight|"When did you next see Dr. Wellesley?"
"At just eleven minutes to eight."
"Where?"
"In the surgery."
"He came back there?"
"Yes."
"How do you fix that precise time--eleven minutes to eight?"
"Because he'd arranged to see a patient in Meadow Gate at ten minutes to eight. I glanced at the clock as he came in, saw what time it was, and reminded him of the appointment."|In the Mayor's Parlour|J.S. Fletcher|unknown +07:50|ten minutes to eight|DI Hogan rang the front doorbell at ten minutes to eight. It was opened a few moments later by someone who was clean-shaven, smartly dressed and clearly expecting him.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:50|ten minutes to eight|She and Dakers had said nothing of interest to each other while they had been working and had left the library at the same time and gone into breakfast together. That had been at about ten minutes to eight.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 07:50|ten minutes to eight|At about ten minutes to eight, Jim had squared the part of the work he had been doing - the window - so he decided not to start on the door or the skirting until after breakfast.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown 07:51|nine minutes to eight|Vimes fished out the Gooseberry as a red-hot cabbage smacked into the road behind him. "Good morning!" he said brightly to the surprised imp. "What is the time, please?"
"Er...nine minutes to eight, Insert Name Here," said the imp.|Thud!|Terry Pratchett|unknown @@ -918,8 +938,10 @@ 07:53|seven to eight|"What time is it?"
"Seven to eight. Won't be long now."|Never Go Back|Robert Goddard|unknown 07:54|six minutes to eight in the morning|When I awoke on the arrival of the others, it was six minutes to eight in the morning of the same day, today. Not two hours had passed from my rising, and time was back to normal. But the things that happened in that time could never be compressed into two hours.|The Six Fingers of Time|R.A. Lafferty|sfw 07:55|five minutes before eight|"Maybe now isn't the best time for you to see her, Mr. Dresden."
I glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was five minutes before eight. "She wanted me early." I stepped to one side to go around him.|Fool Moon|Jim Butcher|sfw +07:55|7:55|Over breakfast, they discussed anything but work, a golden rule, before heading off together for the commander’s morning briefing. They were all seated around the boss’s table by 7:55, waiting for the Hawk to open proceedings.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:55|five minutes to eight|At five minutes to eight, the Prime Minister emerged from Wilson’s office, followed by Halifax and Cadogan. Wilson was the last to appear. He looked irritated. Legat guessed he must have had a further argument with Cadogan.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown 07:55|7.55|at 7.55 this morning the circus ran away to join me.|Tightrope, from Selected Poems 1967-1987|Roger McGough|unknown +07:56|7:56|At 7:56, Anna closed the Wentworth file and bent down to opent the bottom drawer of her desk. She slipped off her sneakers and replaced them with a pair of high-heeled shoes. She rose from her chair, gathered up the files, and glanced in the mirror - not a hair out of place.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:56|just before 8:00 a.m.|Bursting in unannounced just before 8:00 a.m., Eric Snow slapped the Examiner onto his associate pastor's desk. Art ignored the paper and instead made eye contact with his boss, offering him a transparently insincere grin.|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw 07:56|seven fifty-six|I sit by the window, crunching toast, sipping coffee, and leafing through the paper in a leisurely way. At last, after devouring three slices, two cups of coffee, and all the Saturday sections, I stretch my arms in a big yawn and glance at the clock. I don't believe it. It's only seven fifty-six.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 07:56|four minutes to eight|The Castle Gate - only the Castle Gate - and it was four minutes to eight.|Buddenbrooks|Thomas Mann|unknown @@ -1203,6 +1225,7 @@ 09:28|twenty-eight minutes past nine|"This clock right?" he asked the butler in the hall.
"Yes, sir." The clock showed twenty-eight minutes past nine. "The clocks here have to be right, sir," the butler added with pride and a respectful humour, on the stairs.|Lord Raingo|Arnold Bennett|unknown 09:29|9:29|It was 9:29 and Raphael, entering the sacristy last, found only Father Sebastian taking off his cloak before robing for the service.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw 09:29|almost half past nine|It was almost half past nine. At ten o'clock the morning service at the church would begin. It was time he was on his way.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|sfw +09:30|half-past nine|Then with a tremor he broke the seal of the notice and began reading; he was a long while reading, before he understood. It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to appear that day at half-past nine at the office of the district superintendent.|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|sfw 09:30|half-past nine|We have three years of the past to discuss. Let that suffice until half-past nine, when we start upon the notable adventure of the empty house.|The Empty House|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown 09:30|nine-thirty|Grant opened his eyes. Brilliant blue light was streaming into the building through the bars of the gate. Quartz light: the power was back on! Groggily, he looked at his watch. It was just nine-thirty. He’d been asleep only a couple of minutes.|Jurassic Park|Michael Crichton|unknown 09:30|nine thirty in the morning|“Strictly speaking—wait a second—strictly speaking, my last round of vomiting occurred on July 14, at nine thirty in the morning when I brought up my toast, tomato salad, and milk.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -1218,6 +1241,7 @@ 09:32|nine-thirty-two|Sandy barely made the nine-thirty-two and found a seat in no-smoking. She'd been looking forward to this visit with Lisbeth. They hadn't seen each other in months, not since January, when Sandy had returned from Jamaica. And on that day Sandy was sporting a full-blown herpes virus on her lower lip.|Wifey|Judy Blume|unknown 09:33|thirty-three minutes past nine|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 09:34|thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning|In another sense, on the contrary, our trains, in this latitude, gain over the sun more than 900 kilometres an hour, beating that planet hand over hand: quitting Liverpool at noon, for example, the traveler will reach the station where we now are at thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning - that is to say, earlier than he started!|An Express of the Future|Jules Verne|sfw +09:35|9:35 AM|He proceeded to email a copy to Ron, as well as to Zack. He then finally looked at the clock in the upper right corner of his laptop. It said 9:35 AM.|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw 09:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:35|nine-thirty-five|Nine-thirty-five. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire.|The Memory of Love|Aminatta Forna|unknown 09:35|twenty-five minutes to ten|At twenty-five minutes to ten he was tapping on the closed door of Blore’s room.
The latter opened it cautiously. His hair was tousled and his eyes were still dim with sleep.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown @@ -1251,6 +1275,7 @@ 09:48|nine forty-eight|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 09:48|nine-forty-eight|"This is the body I first saw at nine-forty-eight on Friday the fifteenth of October at Innocent House, Innocent Walk, Wapping."|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 09:49|0949 hours|Twenty-four hours later there was a new message on the numbers station. Porter listened to it twice before decoding it. It simply said, Message received. Assets en route. Landing tomorrow at 0949 hours. GCHQ listening in.|Deathlist|Chris Ryan|sfw +09:50|ten minutes to ten|Lamont left his flat in Hammersmith at ten minutes to ten, and instead of turning right and heading for the nearest tube station, as he’d done every weekday morning for the past eight years, he turned left.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:50|9:50|"I should have known," said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at 9:59.|Blood Stained|Gayl Siegel|sfw 09:50|ten to ten|She reaches Radiance at ten to ten, early for once, and lets herself in with her key, and puts on the mauve-and-aqua smock that Shanita designed for them so the customers will know they aren’t customers themselves.|The Robber Bride|Margaret Atwood|unknown 09:50|Ten minutes to ten|Philip Lombard said:
“What’s the time now?”
“Ten minutes to ten, sir.”
Lombard’s eyebrows rose. He nodded slowly to himself.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown @@ -1309,6 +1334,7 @@ 10:00|Ten|The pundit sighed. "Only a fool like me would leave his door open when a riot can occur at any moment, and only a fool like me would say yes to you," he said. "What time?"
Just his head was sticking out of the partially opened door. The money from blessing the ice-cream factory must have dulled his desire for work, I thought.
"Ten."
"Ten-thirty." Without another word, he closed the door.|An Obedient Father|Akhil Sharma|unknown 10:00|ten o' clock|The Saturday immediately preceding the examinations was a very busy day for Kennedy. At ten o' clock he was entering Willey's room; the latter had given him a key and left the room vacant by previous arrangement - in fact he had taken Olivia on another house hunting trip.|The Greeks Have a Word for It|Barry Unsworth|unknown 10:00|ten in the morning|The summer holidays were near at hand when I made up my mind to break out of the weariness of school-life for one day at least. With Leo Dillon and a boy named Mahoney I planned a day's mitching. Each of us saved up sixpence. We were to meet at ten in the morning on the Canal Bridge.|Dubliners|James Joyce|unknown +10:01|one minute past ten|He entered the lawyer’s glass domain at one minute past ten, sat down opposite his client and smiled, before placing his Gladstone bag on the floor next to his chair.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Goddamn cataclysmic devastation, pretty much.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Dr. Abdoul Kirwani, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States of America, sat rigidly facing the small desk in the Oval Office. When the call requesting a meeting had come from Johan Hansen's chief of staff the previous evening, he had hastily sent a secure telex to Islamabad to inquire if he needed any updating.
He did. And it was a disaster.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:01|about ten o'clock|At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.'|Of Mice And Men|John Steinbeck|unknown @@ -1318,6 +1344,7 @@ 10:04|10:04|On Saturday. November 12. 1955, the Hill Valley Courthouses clock tower was struck by lightning, which poured 1.21 gigawatts of energy into the structure. Time stood still at 10:04 on the clocks face from that day on.|Back to the Future: Race Through Time|Marc Sumerak|unknown 10:05|five past ten|We both watch as a pair of swans sail regally under the little bridge. Then I glance at my watch. It's already five past ten. “We should get going,” I say with a little start. Your mother will be waiting.”
“There's no rush,” Nathaniel calls as I hasten down the other side of the bridge. “We've got all day.” He lopes down the bridge. “It's OK. You can slow down.” I try to match his relaxed pace. But I'm not used to this easy rhythm. I'm used to striding along crowded pavements, fighting my way, pushing and elbowing.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 10:06|10:06 a.m.|"You have fifteen minutes," he said. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, 10:06 a.m.|Gone|Lisa Gardner|sfw +10:07|10:07 GMT|10:07 GMT
Once they had settled in Superintendent Wall's office, the three police officers checked and double-checked every detail of Operation Blue Period.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|10:07 a.m.|10:07 a.m. Access letter only, about nonpayment of minimum payment. Try to remember what was looking for. Restart quest for handbag.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 10:07|10.07 am|10.07 am: In a meeting with Rod, Momo and Guy. We are rehearsing the final for the third time, with Rod and Guy taking the parts of the clients, when Rod's secretary, Lorraine, bursts in.|I Don't Know How She Does It|Allison Pearson|unknown 10:08|eight minutes past ten|Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh turned from his inspection of the dead girl's clothes, his six feet two inches uncomfortably trapped between the foot of the bed and the wardrobe door. He looked at his watch. It was eight minutes past ten.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1399,10 +1426,12 @@ 10:49|forty-nine minutes past ten|By forty-nine minutes past ten, we fall in again with a fine portion of the ancient road, which the modern track constantly follows, and descend by some steep windings, hewn in the side of a precipitous cliff, to the place where the Ouad-el-Haoud commences.|Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and 1851|Félicien de Saulcy|sfw 10:50|10.50 a.m.|10.50 a.m. Art class with Mrs. Peters|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 10:50|ten to eleven|As he walked back to the flight office, airmen were forming a line to await the arrival of the NAAFI van with morning tea and cakes. Lambert looked at his watch; it was ten to eleven.|Bomber|Len Deighton|unknown +10:51|10.51|‘Anything else?’ he asked, stealing another glance at the clock: 10.51. Still time to kill.
‘I had a word with my parole officer on Monday,’ said Faulkner, ‘and he made no mention of an early release.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:51|nine minutes to eleven|At nine minutes to eleven on Monday a blond young woman with what amounted to a crew cut came out of Susan's office and took her yellow slicker off the rack and went out of the waiting room without looking at me.|Crimson Joy|Robert Parker|sfw 10:52|eight minutes to eleven|It was now eight minutes to eleven, and he began to feel rather cross and impatient. There was nothing to do in the big, ugly, stately room into which he had been shown.|From Out of the Vasty Deep|Marie Belloc Lowndes|sfw 10:53|10.53 hrs|He begins to make a record of our observations."10.53 hrs," he writes, as we crouch at the top of the stairs, listening to his mother in the hall below.|Spies|Michael Frayn|unknown 10:53|10:53|I gaze and gaze again at that face, which seems to me both strange and familiar, said Austerlitz, I run the tape back repeatedly, looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen, where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds, from 10:53 to 10:57, while the hundredths of a second flash by so fast that you cannot read and capture them.|Austerlitz|W.G. Sebald|unknown +10:54|10:54 GMT|10:54 GMT
"Commander Hawksby's office."
"It's Bruce Lamont, Angela. Can you put me through to the boss?"
"He's still in Italy, Bruce. I'm not expecting him back until Monday."|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:54|10:54 A.M.|It was 10:54 A.M. Her telephone call would come in a minute. They were at different times each morning and she had a plastic laminated chart that told her what time to expect the call on each day.|Last Call|Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir|sfw 10:54|10:54 a.m.|"I'm telling you that you paid 6,495 into Bennington's Bank in the High Street at 10:54 a.m. today," insisted Frost.
"And I'm telling you I did not" spat the man.|Hard Frost|R.D. Wingfield|sfw 10:55|ten-fifty-five|The call came on his dedicated mobile at ten-fifty-five, while he was adding to his selection of organic vegetables, and was Kate's voice. "We have a case. The apparent murder of a patient at a private clinic in Stoke Cheverell, in Dorset. It's in a manor house."|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1412,6 +1441,7 @@ 10:55|five minutes to eleven|The clock was still saying five minutes to eleven when Pooh and Piglet set out on their way half an hour later.|The House at Pooh Corner|A.A. Milne|unknown 10:55|five minutes to eleven|Mr. Justice Wargrave said:
“It is now five minutes to eleven. I think we should summon Miss Brent to join our conclave.”|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown 10:56|four minutes to eleven|"Here's your clock, Katy," he said. "I've got it fixed so that it strikes all right. Only you must be careful not to hit the stiker when you start the pendulum."
"Have you really?" said Katy. "Why, Dorry, you're a genius! I'm ever so much obliged."
"It's four minutes to eleven now," went on Dorry.|What Katy Did|Susan Coolidge|sfw +10:56|10.56|BOOTH WATSON KNEW IT WOULD be a question of careful timing if he hoped to pull it off. He’d have to keep one eye on the clock to make sure it was 10.56 before he made his move.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:57|10.57|I run the tape back repeatedly, looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen, where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds, from 10.53 to 10.57.|Austerlitz|W. G. Sebald|unknown 10:58|10:58|One day Joe was sitting in the office waiting for his 11 o'clock appointment, and at 10:58 this black gal came in.|Lightning Rods|Helen DeWitt|unknown 10:59|a minute before eleven|She had just returned from the only shopping she needed to do that day, and it was still a minute before eleven.|That Hideous Strength|C.S. Lewis|unknown @@ -1565,6 +1595,10 @@ 11:58|11.58|And when you go down the steps, it's always 11.58 on the morning of September ninth, 1958.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 11:58|Two minutes before the clock struck noon|Two minutes before the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the preparation for the frightful ceremony of mid-day. The block was laid forth-the hideous minister of vengeance, masked and in black, with the flaming glaive in his hand, was ready. The baron tried the edge of the blade with his finger, and asked the dreadful swordsman if his hand was sure? A nod was the reply of the man of blood.|Burlesques|William Makepeace Thackeray|unknown 11:59|near to twelve|There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew near to twelve I don't mind confessing I was as nervous as a cat.|The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story|Agatha Christie|unknown +11:59|about noon|The day after that again, about noon, a decurion with his command of ten horsemen approached Nazareth from the south—that is, from the direction of Jerusalem. The place was then a straggling village, perched on a hill-side, and so insignificant that its one street was little more than a path well beaten by the coming and going of flocks and herds.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw +12:00|noon|At noon that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum. The wind was yet from the west, filling the sail to the master’s content. The watches had been established. On the foredeck the altar had been set and sprinkled with salt and barley, and before it the tribune had offered solemn prayers to Jove and to Neptune and all the Oceanidae, and, with vows, poured the wine and burned the incense.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw +12:00|noon|An hour passed, and though Pilate deigned them no answer, the rabbis and crowd remained. Noon came, bringing a shower from the west, but no change in the situation, except that the multitude was larger and much noisier, and the feeling more decidedly angry.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw +12:00|noon|Exactly at noon the dromedary, of its own will, stopped, and uttered the cry or moan, peculiarly piteous, by which its kind always protest against an overload, and sometimes crave attention and rest. The master thereupon bestirred himself, waking, as it were, from sleep.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|It was about noon today when Jim Pietre called the office on the phone.
"Now, look, Pete," he started out. "What kind of gag are you pulling?"
I chortled to myself and pulled the dead pan on him.
"What do you mean, boy?" I asked back into the phone. "Gag? What kind of gag? What are you talking about?"
"A coin. A coin." He was impatient. "You remember you sent me a coin in the mail?"|Star, Bright|Mark Clifton|sfw 12:00|noon|"Guess what!" said Klaus as he spooned lentil soup into Gunther's mouth at the noon meal in Gaza. "I have the honor of being the first man in Gaza to meet the medical examiners. At one o'clock sharp in Hebron."|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 12:00|noon|When Sister Anna brought him back to Patmos at noon, Gunther shouted to anyone and everyone within earshot, "I can read! I can read!"|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw @@ -1636,6 +1670,7 @@ 12:20|twelve twenty|“But by the time he reached the top of the hill the woman’s body had basically been eaten up already by the flies, right?” my friend said.
“In a sense,” his girlfriend replied.
“In a sense being eaten by the flies makes it a sad story, doesn’t it?” my friend said.
“Yes, I guess so,” she said after giving it some thought. “What do you think?” she asked me.
“Sounds like a sad story to me,” I replied.
It was twelve twenty when my cousin came back.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 12:20|twelve-twenty|By twelve-twenty in the afternoon, Vince was seated in a rattan chair with comfortable yellow and green cushions at a table by the windows in that same restaurant. He’d spotted Haines on entering. The doctor was at another window table, three away from Vince, half-screened by a potted palm. Haines was eating shrimp and drinking margaritas with a stunning blonde. She was wearing white slacks and a gaily striped tube-top, and half the men in the place were staring at her.|Watchers|Dean Koontz|unknown 12:20|12:20|It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don’t know the people who will feed me|The Day Lady Died|Frank O'Hara|unknown +12:21|12:21 GMT|12:21 GMT
"Any questions?" asked Jackie when she'd come to the end of her briefing.
A hand shot up. "Which of the two teams is more likely to be needed?"|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:21|twelve twenty-one|Jake think of something. PLEASE! Twelve twenty-one.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 12:22|twenty-two minutes past twelve|By twenty-two minutes past twelve we leave, much too soon for our desires, this delightful spot, where the pilgrims are in the habit of bathing who come to visit the Jordan.|Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and 1851|Félicien de Saulcy|unknown 12:23|12:23|It would feel, she realised, altogether too strange to climb into the same bed with a man she hadn’t seen for two years.
She noticed the time on the digital alarm clock. 12:23.|The Midnight Library|Matt Haig|unknown @@ -1662,6 +1697,7 @@ 12:33|12.33|It's 12.33 now and I could do it, the station is just down that side road there.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 12:34|12:34 P.M.|12:34 P.M.
"W.B., we've got a problem," Karl Van de Vliet said into the microphone. He was in his private office, on the scrambled videophone. "Kristen's mother showed up just before noon with a pistol, demanding to know where she was."|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 12:35|twelve-thirty-five|As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was twelve-thirty-five when they were dismissed.|Men at Arms|Evelyn Waugh|unknown +12:36|12:36 CET|12:36 CET
Once the ship had docked, William and Monti leaned over the railing and watched as Grant lugged the casket down the gangway. He was still clutching it as he climbed into the back seat of a waiting car.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:36|12.36|She was going to walk calmly, coolly, up this amazing flight of stairs and into this building. There she was going to find Taylor, because it was already 12.36 and 30 seconds and in his text he’d told her to be on time.|New York Valentine|Carmen Reid|unknown 12:37|12:37|It was 12:37 when Jason, in blue jeans, cap and dark, tattered V-necked sweater, reached the gates of the old factory. He took out a pack of Gauloise cigarettes and leaned against the wall, lighting one with a match, holding the flame longer than necessary before he blew it out.|The Bourne Ultimatum|Robert Ludlum|sfw 12:38|12:38 p.m.|"At what time did the 12:23 p.m. S-line bus proceeding in the direction of Porte de Champerret arrive on that day?"
"At 12:38 p.m."
"Were there many people on the aforesaid S-bus?"
"Bags of 'em."
"Did you particularly notice any of them?"
"An individual who had a very a long neck and a plait round his hat."|Exercises in Style|Raymon Queneau|unknown @@ -1732,6 +1768,7 @@ 13:07|1307 hours|Dr. Nexa accepted her forced surrender to the inevitable with a greater modicum of grace. She looked at Nurse L'Kem and said, pointing to the human, the Bolian, and then the Zaldan, "Time of death for Lieutenant Hutchinson, 1307 hours."|Star Trek: Destiny #3: Lost Souls|David Mack|sfw 13:08|1:08|“I stopped at Mom’s classroom for the last few minutes of lunch. I closed the door behind me and sat down at a desk opposite her. I glanced up at the clock on the wall. 1:08. I had six minutes. I didn’t want more.”|Turtles All the Way Down|John Green|unknown 13:08|1:08|The numbers on the clock changed silently, advanced to 1:08.|Replay|Kim Grimwood|unknown +13:08|13:08 GMT|13:08 GMT
Lamont and Jackie had joined the team in the canteen for lunch, where the babble of expectant chatter revealed how eager they all were to get on with the job.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:09|nine minutes past one|At nine minutes past one, a pair of horses approached (not from the city, from which direction Krieger had expected her to come, but from the Desert, which lay, vast and largely uncharted, out to the West and South-West of the city.)|Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium|Clive Barker|unknown 13:10|ten minutes past one|It was at ten minutes past one by Bond’s watch when, at the high table, the whole pattern of play suddenly altered.|Casino Royale|Ian Fleming|unknown 13:10|1:10|He says something but I don’t hear it because I am looking at the South Haven Daily. Today is Saturday, October 23, 1993. Our wedding day. The clock above the cigarette rack says 1:10.
“Gotta run,” I say to the old man, and I do.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown @@ -1803,6 +1840,7 @@ 13:58|two minutes to two|Promptly at two minutes to two that afternoon, the two majors presented themselves to General Austin's temporary secretary at his away-from-Pentagon office.|Steel Tiger|Mark Berent|sfw 13:58|almost two o’clock|It was almost two o’clock, but nothing moved, Stari Teočak was silent and so empty it seemed abandoned, and yet Tijmen constantly felt he was being observed by invisible eyes.|King of Tuzla|Arnold Jansen op de Haar|unknown 13:59|One ... fifty-nine|For twenty minutes he sat and watched as the gap between the ship and Epun closed, as the ship's computer teased and kneaded the numbers that would bring it into a loop around the little moon, and close the loop and keep it there, orbiting in perpetual obscurity. "One ... fifty-nine …"|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown +14:00|Two hours past midday|“Where exactly? And when? We’ll need to be there.”
“The square. On the steps of the old library.” She glanced to the clock above the pub. “Two hours past midday, I believe.”|From These Dark Depths|Vanessa Rasanen|sfw 14:00|two hours after noon|An awful silence followed this remark, which was broken by Peter saying, “Giant Wimbleweather and the Bear and Centaur Glenstorm shall be our marshals. The combat will be at two hours after noon. Dinner at noon precisely.”|Prince Caspian|C.S. Lewis|unknown 14:00|two hours after noon|There was a most friendly parting, and when she sailed, two hours after noon, all the Dufflepuds paddled out with her to the harbor mouth, and cheered until she was out of the sound of their cheering.|The Voyage of the Dawn Treader|C.S. Lewis|unknown 14:00|two o'clock|Mrs. Karlsson's eyes were big with surprise when at two o'clock she saw the pastor coming to dinner in this civilian elegance, which besides the suit and red tie, included colored socks and tan shoes. He offered no word of explanation. As usual, he carried under his arm a book with some unintelligible title, and from which he read the entire meal.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown @@ -1854,6 +1892,7 @@ 14:18|2:18 P.M.|2:18 P.M.
Pierre Armont was forty-six, with gray temples and a body appropriate to an Olympic wrestler. He had full cheeks, a heavy mustache, and suspicious dark eyes that constantly searched his surroundings. It was an innate survival instinct.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:19|two-nineteen P.M.|Andrea Mitchell appears on a split screen. “Chet, we understand from a source at Homeland Security that the explosion happened at two-nineteen P.M. I don’t know how the authorities can pinpoint the time that exactly, but apparently they can.”|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 14:19|2:19|2:19: Duane Hinton walks out. He walks through the backyard. He lugs some clothes. He wore said clothes last night. He walks to the fence. He feeds the incinerator. He lights a match.|The Cold Six Thousand|James Ellroy|unknown +14:20|2:20 p.m.|He checked his watch: 2:20 p.m. Kickoff at 3:00. Forty thousand fans were all heading in the same direction. The majority were wearing red-and-white scarves, although a large contingent wore blue-and-white.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:20|twenty past two|"Twenty past two. Want to go back to the hotel for a while?"
"All right."
They walked out of the gardens and down the rue de Vaugirard. This holiday, unlike those holidays long ago, would not end with her sleeping at home. Two nights from now I will be high over the Atlantic Ocean and on Saturday I will be walking around in the Other Place. I am going to America. I am starting my life over again.|The Doctor's Wife|Brian Moore|unknown 14:20|twenty minutes past two|She looked at her watch and it was twenty minutes past two. She had no time to lose but must get ready at once.|A Tale of Two Cities|Charles Dickens|unknown 14:20|twenty minutes past two|The watch found at the Weir was challenged by the jeweller as one he had wound and set for Edwin Drood, at twenty minutes past two on that same afternoon; and it had run down, before being cast into the water; and it was the jeweller's positive opinion that it had never been re-wound.|The Mystery of Edwin Drood|Charles Dickens|unknown @@ -1923,6 +1962,7 @@ 14:58|two minutes to three|We betted that it would happen on the morrow; they took us up and gave us the odds of two to one; we betted that it would happen in the afternoon; we got odds of four to one on that; we betted that it would happen at two minutes to three; they willingly granted us the odds of ten to one on that.|The Chronicle of Young Satan|Mark Twain|unknown 14:59|about three o’clock|About three o’clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs Élysées.|Les Misérables|Victor Hugo|unknown 14:59|2.59 p.m.|A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of one or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr 8 m p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown +15:00|three|The bell in the clock tower in the village square chimed three. Declan straightened against the stone wall, careful to stay hidden in the shadows as he watched the pub from the alley across the street.|On These Black Sands|Vanessa Rasanen|sfw 15:00|three o'clock|Gunther's two conflicting feelings about Christmas almost rubbed each other out on the First Sunday in Advent. By three o'clock the fear feeling had practically vanished.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|unknown 15:00|three|At three that afternoon it was Peter who raised her from the semidaze in which she had been working, making her aware she was two damn-nears: damn-near starving and damn-near exhausted.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|nsfw 15:00|It’s three o’clock|The little velociraptor opened her jaws and hissed at Grant, in a posture of sudden intense fury.
“Fascinating,” Grant said.
“Can I stay and play with her?” Tim said.
“Not right now,” Ed Regis said, glancing at his watch. “It’s three o’clock, and it’s a good time for a tour of the park itself, so you can see all the dinosaurs in the habitats we have designed for them.”|Jurassic Park|Michael Crichton|unknown @@ -2000,6 +2040,7 @@ 15:20|three twenty|When the phone rang at three twenty I was sprawled out on the tatami, starting at the ceiling. A pool of winter sunlight had formed in the place where I lay. Like a dead fly I lay there, vacant, in a December 1971 spotlight.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:20|twenty minutes past three|At twenty minutes past three on Monday, 26 January 1948, in Tokyo, and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking.|Occupied City|David Peace|unknown 15:21|3:21 P.M.|3:21 P.M.
"Let them go," Ramirez said. "We have what we need." He bent down and picked up the box.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +15:22|3:22 P.M.|Ruth finally walked through the door at 3:22 P.M. “Any messages?” she asked the receptionist.
“No,” replied the girl, “but there is a lady waiting to see you.”|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:22|3:22 P.M.|3:22 P.M.
As Stone Aimes stepped off the elevator on the sixth floor, his mind was running through his options. This phone call had to be about Winston Bartlett. He was going to step up the pressure.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 15:23|three twenty-three|Three twenty-three! Is that all? Doesn't time - no, I've already said that, thought that. I sit and watch the seconds change on the watch. I used to have a limited edition Rolex worth the price of a new car but I lost it.|Espedair Street|Iain Banks|unknown 15:24|twenty-four minutes past three|The organist, in his incredulous relief, made a horrible mess of the first bars of the wedding march. It was twenty-four minutes past three before Jimmy mouthed the first sentence of the day that even he was unable to shorten.
"I do," he said.|The Reginald Perrin Omnibus|David Nobbs|sfw @@ -2010,6 +2051,7 @@ 15:28|nearly half-past three|"Good heavens!" she said, "it's nearly half-past three. I must fly. Don't forget about the funeral service," she added, as she put on her coat. "The tapers, the black coffin in the middle of the aisle, the nuns in their white-winged coifs, the gloomy chanting, and the poor cowering creature without any teeth, her face all caved in like an old woman's, wondering whether she wasn't really and in fact dead - wondering whether she wasn't already in hell. Goodbye."|Nuns at Luncheon|Aldous Leonard Huxley|unknown 15:29|3:29 P.M.|Wednesday 3:29 P.M.
"Michael, you look marvelous. It's so good to see you again. I really mean that. The years have treated you well." Eva Borodin leaned back against the gray fabric of the Saab's headrest and appraised him.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 15:29|3:29 P.M.|3:29 P.M.
Events were getting serious enough that the operation had been moved down to the Situation Room, in the White House basement.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +15:30|three-thirty|“They will vote in favor,” Eliza said, her voice full of certainty.
“Yes. Technically, the Congregation could reject a recommendation of the Council of High Stewards, but in reality, it is unlikely. In fact, I have already booked studio time for three-thirty to record a message for the worlds. I have been preparing that here.”|The Dark Foundations|Chris Walley|sfw 15:30|Half past three|“Half past three. Tea time,” said Mary Poppins, and she wheeled the perambulator round and shut her mouth tight again as though it were a trap door. She did not say another word all the way home.|Mary Poppins|P.L. Travers|unknown 15:30|3:30|At first, the change of scene appeared to be working. He managed to digest the roast beef sandwich and asparagus salad he ordered for lunch. At 3:30 he met a friend’s girlfriend in the hotel tearoom, where he sent his stomach a piece of cherry pie and black coffee, which also stayed down.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:30|half-past three|There wasn’t the faintest trace of writing on any of them, not even Auntie Mabel’s Birthday, or dentist, half-past three.|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets|J.K. Rowling|unknown @@ -2051,6 +2093,7 @@ 15:55|3.55 p.m.|3.55 p.m. Give Toby food and water|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 15:56|four minutes to four|Four minutes to four. Newman sighed again, lost in thought.|Tripwire|Lee Child|unknown 15:57|three minutes to four|The clerk had stepped into the hall, and when he came leisurely in at three minutes to four, Caxton discovered that he had written his petition on the back of a blank marriage liscense.|The Colonel's Dream|Charles W. Chesnutt|sfw +15:58|two minutes to four|Punctuality is an obsession with the Japanese, so Anna was not surprised when a smartly dressed lady appeared at two minutes to four, bowed, and invited Anna to follow her. She too looked at the wooden box, but showed no reaction other than to ask, “Would you like it to be taken to the chairman’s office?”|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:58|three-fifty-eight|A hum of tolling bells makes itself heard, but not sharply. At three-fifty-eight a waiting interval. Presently a long procession of gentlemen in evening dress comes in sight and approaches until it is near to the square, then falls back against the wall of soldiers at the sidewalk, and the white shirt-fronts show like snowflakes and are very conspicuous where so much warm color is all about.|The Memorable Assassination|Mark Twain|sfw 15:59|one minute to four|As it lacked one minute to four when Hedworth Westerling, chief of staff in name as well as power now, alighted from the gray automobile that turned in at the Galland drive, the chauffeur thought well enough of himself to forget the crush of supplies and ambulances that had delayed His Excellency's car for at least ninety seconds in the main street of the town.|The Last Shot|Frederick Palmer|sfw 15:59|close upon four|It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he.|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown @@ -2101,6 +2144,7 @@ 16:01|1601|Light is coming in through the curtains. Suddenly the digits on the clock radio look like a year. 1601. I woke up a bit early, don't have to be born for another 400 years.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 16:02|two minutes after four|I'd just looked up at the clock, to make sure time wasn't getting away from me, when I heard the shot. It was two minutes after four. I didn't know what to do.|Southern Ghost|Carolyn G. Hart|unknown 16:03|16.03|She read the page carefully and then said, "16.03 - cat goes to the toilet in front garden."|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|unknown +16:04|four minutes past four|Krantz didn’t stir for the next two hours, aware that two of the guards would be waiting impatiently to accompany her to the bathroom and collect their nightly stipend. But the timing had to suit her. She would cater for their needs at four minutes past four, not before, when one would receive forty dollars, and he would make sure that the other got a packet of Benson & Hedges.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:04|four past four|At four past four he was aware of a rustling train's rush down the steps, and now was like a man with his neck on the block, awaiting the axe.|The Lord of the Sea|M.P. Shiel|sfw 16:05|five past four|I was standing at the top of the long flight, overlooking the red brick buildings that walled the snow-filled quad and preparing to catch the trolley back to the asylum, when a tall young man with a rather ugly and bespectacled, but intelligent face, came up and said, "Could you please tell me the time?"
I glanced at my watch. "Five past four."|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|unknown 16:05|five minutes past four|IT was exactly five minutes past four as Mr. Robert Audley stepped out upon the platform at Shoreditch, and waited placidly … it took a long while to make matters agreeable to all claimants, and even the barrister's seraphic indifference to mundane affairs nearly gave way.|Lady Audley's Secret|Mary Elizabeth Braddon|unknown @@ -2114,9 +2158,11 @@ 16:10|ten-past four|She looks at the clock. She's in the kitchen. A minute left. She waits. It's ten-past four. She picks up the eclair. She licks the cream out of it. She watches herself.It's fuckin' stupid. But. She bites into the chocolate, and the pastry that's been softened by the cream. Jack's not home yet. Leannes's at work. Paula will be leaving, herself, in a bit. She's a year off the drink. Exactly a year. She looks at the clock. A year and a minute.|Paula Spencer|Roddy Doyle|nsfw 16:10|four-ten|The change came at four-ten. Lying on the sand, the woman in the black suit saw it coming and relaxed.|The Women|Ray Bradbury|unknown 16:11|4:11 P.M.|4:11 P.M. Thurs. A Huey helicopter flies east overhead as the last of the U.S. Marines make ready to leave the beach; a buzzard dangles in the thermals closer over the town.|Seek|Denis Johnson|unknown +16:11|eleven minutes past four|At eleven minutes past four, the first bus left the car park, drove up the ramp, and out onto the high street.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:12|twelve minutes after four|At precisely twelve minutes after four a body of cavalry rode into the square, four abreast, clearing a way for the funeral cortege.|The Empty Mirror|J. Sydney Jones|unknown 16:13|4.13 pm|But at precisely 4.13 pm, the fifty thousand spectators saw the totally unexpected happen, before their very eyes. From the most crowded section of the southern grandstand, an apparition suddenly emerged.|Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter|Mario Vargas Llosa|unknown 16:14|4.14 pm|Then at 4.14 pm on March 12 I moved behind zinc-zirconium-not-to-be-revealed-compounds protecting me in this hill, and God have mercy but the struggle is just exchanged for the next one, which is exhausting me further as I say, to separate the true from the false.|Already Dead|Denis Johnson|unknown +16:15|four-fifteen|Downstairs, the clock was striking four-fifteen. They stopped for a moment in the kitchen so that she could look around. “Just when I left,” he said, nodding at the calendar by the refrigerator. “You know how careful Mom is about crossing off the days.” He glanced at her. “I’m sorry about the time you lost.”|The Castle in the Attic|Elizabeth Winthrop|sfw 16:15|4:15 P.M.|4:15 P.M.
Viewed through the window of the Purple Line train, the southbound Howard stop on the El was crowded—but less so than the northbound side, clustered with the first bloom of suburban commuters, weary from their early mornings and afternoon caffeine and blood sugar crashes.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 16:15|quarter past four|I remember the dread with which I at quarter past four
Let go with a bang behind me our house front door|False Security|John Betjeman|unknown 16:15|quarter past four|It is only a quarter past four, (shewing his watch) and you are not now in Bath. No theatre, no rooms to prepare for. Half an hour at Northanger must be enough.|Northanger Abbey|Jane Austen|unknown @@ -2135,12 +2181,14 @@ 16:21|4.21 pm|4.21 pm
As they started on, Doug picked up a twig and after rubbing it off, started to move one end of it inside his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Bob asked.
"Brushing my teeth, nature style," Doug answered.
Bob grunted, smiling slightly. "I'll use my toothbrush," he said.|Hunted Past Reason|Richard Matheson|sfw 16:22|4.22 pm|Monday, 4.22 pm Washington, D.C. Paul Hood took his daily late-afternoon look at the list of names on his computer monitor.|Balance of Power: Op-Center 05|Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, and Jeff Rovin|unknown 16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit From the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown +16:23|16:23 CET|16:23 CET
After stowing their bags in the sleeping quarters below, the two new itinerant deckhands reported for duty on the main deck.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:24|4:24|Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was 4:24. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.|Teardrop|Travis Thrasher|unknown 16:25|4:25 p.m.|I groan audibly. It’s 4:25 p.m. — I can sneak out and say I didn’t see the email.|The Girl I Was|Jenneva Rose|sfw 16:26|twenty-six minutes after four|It seemed all wrong to have thought of such a thing. She thought, "I don't know him. Nor does he know me. Nor ever shall we.” She put her bare hand in the sun, where the wind would weather it. It was twenty-six minutes after four.|Catch-As-Catch-Can|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown 16:27|twenty-seven minutes past four|Still no sign of Juliet. Patricia gave a surreptitious glance at her watch; twenty-seven minutes past four - no! nearly twenty-eight past - Oh, hurry up, Juliet, hurry up, do!|Visitors for the Chalet School|Elinor Brent-Dyer|sfw 16:28|4.28 pm|Same day: 4.28 pm- Right turn at the second bus stop after the gas station. I stopped the car at the first ward post office and inquired at the corner tobacconists. Mr. M's house was the one to the right of the post office, visible diagonally in front of me.|The Ruined Map: A Novel|Kobo Abe|unknown 16:29|4:29 pm|October 21, 2007, 4:29 pm. The phone was red. And what William hated most about it, besides the fact that it was inconveniently mounted on a wall in a tight corner (and at a strange angle), was that when it rang it was so gratingly loud that you could actually see the cherry receiver quavering as you picked it up.|Believing Cedric|Mark Lavorato|unknown +16:30|half-past four|"But I believe,” he pulled out his watch, “I can spend an hour with you. It’s half-past four now. If only I’d been something, a landowner, a father, a cavalry officer, a photographer, a journalist … I am nothing, no specialty, and sometimes I am positively bored. I really thought you would tell me something new.”|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|sfw 16:30|4:30|At 4:30 Gunther came back to House Berg with his arms full of yellow daffodils. Frau Julia was Frau Julia again, and she received both him and the daffodils with open arms.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 16:30|4:30|The local police wouldn't relish being called out at 4:30 on Christmas Eve, and if this was some kind of hoax he preferred not to be an active participant.|The Mistletoe Murder|P.D. James|sfw 16:30|four-thirty|“I won’t go in,” she says. “I’ll meet you on the steps at four-thirty. We can take the girls to Murray’s for a sundae or something.”
He seems relieved. “Right,” he says.
“Tell the children to enjoy themselves.”|Life Before Man|Margaret Atwood|unknown @@ -2156,6 +2204,7 @@ 16:31|4:31 PM|From: Renee Greene – August 5, 2011 – 4:31 PM To: Shelley Manning Subject: Re: All Access What should I be worried about, then? JUST KIDDING. You're right. Well, I gotta run, my groupie friend. I actually have REAL work to do. I'll talk to you tonight.|Click: An Online Love Story|Lisa Becker|unknown 16:32|4.32 pm|4.32 pm. Now the eight Marines next to us leave their emplacement and file quickly past, the last saying, "Go! Go! Go!" They break into a run.|Seek|Denis Johnson|unknown 16:33|4.33 pm|At 4.33 pm, a short bald man puffing on a cigar arrived at the library. He approached a huge cabinet storing thousands of alphabetically arranged cards and slid a drawer out. The tips of his fingers were bandaged.|Havana World Series|José Latour|unknown +16:33|4:33|At 4:33, the second bus maneuvered its way onto the main thoroughfare, where they were held up by early commuters on their way home from work, while they were on their way to work.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:34|4.34 p.m.|A bedroom stocked with all the ordinary, usual things. There was a wardrobe in the corner. A bedside table with a collection of water glasses of varying ages and an alarm clock with red digital numbers- 4.34 p.m.|The Raw Shark Texts|Steven Hall|unknown 16:35|4.35|The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the 4.35 from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.|4.50 from Paddington|Agatha Christie|unknown 16:36|thirty-six minutes past four|They watched their friend through the glass cover; the heaving of the chest became less and less, the breathing lower and lower, while a purple hue settled upon his body. At thirty-six minutes past four, the last division of the wheel had been reached.|A.D. 2000|Alvarado M. Fuller|sfw @@ -2232,6 +2281,7 @@ 17:00|five o'clock|Until five o'clock there was no sign of life from the room. Then he rang for his servant and ordered a cold bath.|Embers|Sandor Marai|unknown 17:00|five o'clock|We motored, I remember, leaving London in the morning in a heavy shower of rain, coming to Manderley about five o'clock, in time for tea. I can see myself now, unsuitably dressed as usual, although a bride of seven weeks, in a tan-coloured stockinette frock, a small fur known as a stone marten round my neck, and over all a shapeless mackintosh, far too big for me and dragging to my ankles.|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|unknown 17:00|five o'clock|"I haven't been to church in over a year."
"Finally worried about your soul?"
"Please," Cork said
"Of course we can talk. When?"
"Tomorrow. Late afternoon maybe. Say five o'clock?"
"Make it six," the priest suggested. "My office."
"I'll be there," Cork promised.|Iron Lake|William Kent Krueger|sfw +17:01|one minute past five|At one minute past five, Beth left the museum, hailed a taxi and, after giving the driver her address, sat in the back surrounded by boxes and unashamedly shed a tear.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:01|One minute after five|One minute after five. The seated guests were told that the ceremony would begin shortly. A little more patience was required.|Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty|Tip "T.I." Harris with David Ritz|unknown 17:02|two minutes past five|She stood up, shook her hair into place, smoothed her skirt and turned on the light. It was two minutes past five. She would have thought it midnight or five in the morning.|Duplicate Keys|Jane Smiley|unknown 17:03|5:03|"Good evening, Mrs. Scheindlin," the man said before departing.
"Good evening, Chris. Say hello to the wife for me."
"I sure will. Thanks. Bye," he said, waving to Elliot, who returned the goodbye. It was 5:03 when Elliot rested the handset in its cradle.|Comrades in Miami: A Novel|José Latour|unknown @@ -2380,6 +2430,7 @@ 18:20|six twenty|It was six twenty before Sarah Berowne managed to reach Ivor Garrod by telephone. She had been in her flat most of the early part of the afternoon but hadn't dared ring from there.|A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw 18:20|twenty past six|By the time Elliot's mother arrived at twenty past six, Mrs. Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of.|Interpreter of Maladies|Jhumpa Lahiri|unknown 18:21|6.21 pm|5.20 pm - 6.21 pm: Miss Pettigrew found herself wafted into the passage. She was past remonstrance now, past bewilderment, surprise, expostulation. Her eyes shone. Her face glowed. Her spirits soared. Everything was happening too quickly. She couldn't keep up with things, but, by golly, she could enjoy them.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown +18:22|18:22 GMT|18:22 GMT
"The firearms squad is in place, sir," said a lone voice over the intercom, sounding like a crack of thunder, after a couple of hours of silence.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:22|six twenty-two|"It was six twenty-two, Commander. I happened to glance at the clock."
He held open the door wide. It seemed less an invitation to leave than a command.|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 18:22|twenty-two minutes past six|Clock overturned when he fell forward. That'll give us the time of the crime. Twenty-two minutes past six.|The Murder at the Vicarage|Agatha Christie|unknown 18:23|twenty-three minutes past six|A picnic lunch in the kitchen, a double bolt drawn across the front door just in case the impossible happened and Father came home from the bank before twenty-three minutes past six in the evening.|Light a Penny Candle|Maeve Binchy|sfw @@ -2403,12 +2454,14 @@ 18:30|six thirty|It is six thirty. Now the dark night and the deafening racket of the crickets again engulf the garden and the veranda, all around the house|Jealousy|Alain Robbe-Grillet|unknown 18:30|half-past six|To a casual visitor it might have seemed that Mr. Penicuik, who owned the house, had fallen upon evil days; but two of the three gentlemen assembled in the Saloon at half-past six on a wintry evening of late February were in no danger of falling into this error.|Cotillion|Georgette Heyer|unknown 18:31|a little after half past six|I had been delayed at a case and it was a little after half past six when I found myself at Baker Street once more|The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +18:32|6:32 p.m.|She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:32|6:32 P.M.|Monday 6:32 P.M.
Tanzan Mino was dressed in a black three-quarter sleeved kimono, staring straight ahead as he knelt before the sword resting in front of him. His hands were settled lightly on his thighs, his face expressionless. Then he reached out and touched the scabbard, bowing low to it. Inside was a twelfth-century katana, a five-foot-long razor created by swordsmiths of the Mino School, from the town of Seki, near Gifu in the heart of old Honshu. It was, he believed, a perfect metaphor for Japanese excellence and discipline.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 18:33|6.33 pm|Every evening, Michel took the train home, changed at Esbly and usually arrived in Crécy on the 6.33 pm train where Annabelle would be waiting at the station.|Atomised|Michel Houellebecq|unknown 18:34|around half past six|It is around half past six in the evening. Dusk is gathering in the living room, an early dusk due to the fog which has rolled in from the Sound and is like a white curtain drawn down outside the windows.|Long Day's Journey Into Night|Eugene O'Neill|unknown 18:35|6:35 p.m.|I swipe for the time with wet thumbs: 6:35 p.m. I’m early. Very early. I’d consider this a good thing if any part of my plan could be called that. I swallow. None of my plan is certain.|Bath Haus|P.J. Vernon|unknown 18:35|6.35 p.m.|And then it was 6.35 p.m. and I heard Father come home in his van and I moved the bed up against the door so he couldn't get in and he came into the house and he and Mother shouted at each other.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 18:36|6:36|Kaldren pursues me like luminescent shadow. He has chalked up on the gateway '96,688,365,498,702'. Should confuse the mail man. Woke 9:05. To sleep 6:36.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown +18:37|6:37|He checked his watch: 6:37. The first lot was due to come under the hammer at seven o’clock. He knew exactly how long it would take to walk from the Ritz to Christie’s, and as the Raphael was lot 25, he wasn’t in any hurry.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:37|Nearly twenty to seven|Amy: What's that? I thought I saw someone pass the window. What time is it?
Charles: Nearly twenty to seven.|The Family Reunion|T.S. Eliot|unknown 18:37|thirty-seven minutes past six o'clock|"Come to the Gray's-Inn Coffee-House," Pinto said, "and I will tell you how the notch came to the ax." And we walked down Holborn at about thirty-seven minutes past six o'clock.|The Notch on the Ax|William Makepeace Thackeray|sfw 18:38|18:38|He took the same route every day, spoke to the same security guard for the same amount of time, took the same lift to the same floor, hung his same coat in the same place and sat at the same desk until lunchtime, when he brought the same sandwich (ham and pickle on brown) from the same sandwich shop. At half past five every day he did the whole journey in reverse, reaching home at between 18:24 on a good day and 18:38 on a bad one.|The Case of the Wayward Professor|Gareth P. Jones|sfw @@ -2437,6 +2490,7 @@ 18:55|6:55|The play was set to begin at seven o'clock and finish before sunset. It was 6:55. Beyond the flats we could hear the hockey field filling up. the low rumble got steadily louder - voices, footsteps, the creaking of bleachers, the slamming of car doors in the parking lot.|Middlesex|Jeffrey Eugenides|unknown 18:56|6.56|Then it was 6.56. A black Rover - a Rover 90, registration PYX 520 - turned into the street that ran down the left-hand side of The Bunker. It parked. The door on the driver's side opened. A man got out.|Dreams of Leaving|Rupert Thomson|unknown 18:57|three minutes to the hour; which was seven|Folded in this triple melody, the audience sat gazing; and beheld gently and approvingly without interrogation, for it seemed inevitable, a box tree in a green tub take the place of the ladies’ dressing-room; while on what seemed to be a wall, was hung a great clock face; the hands pointing to three minutes to the hour; which was seven.|Between the Acts|Virginia Woolf|unknown +18:58|6:58|She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:58|two minutes to seven|"Walk fast," says Perry, "it's two minutes to seven, and I got to be home by—"
"Oh, shut up," says I. "I had an appointment as chief performer at an inquest at seven, and I'm not kicking about not keeping it."|Roads of Destiny|O. Henry|unknown 18:58|two minutes before seven|Today was Tuesday, the fifteenth of August; the sun had risen at eleven minutes past five this morning and would set at two minutes before seven this evening.|The Hot Rock|Donald E Westlake|unknown 18:59|6:59 p.m.|At 6:59 p.m. Central Standard Time, I stand in my Sunday best in Clare’s vestibule with my finger on her buzzer, fragrant yellow freesia and an Australian Cabernet in my other arm, and my heart in my mouth.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown @@ -2477,6 +2531,7 @@ 19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters From My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw 19:08|eight minutes past seven|It was eight minutes past seven and still no girl. I waited impatiently. I watched another crowd surge through the barriers and move quickly down the steps. My eyes were alert for the faintest recognition.|The Girl from East Berlin|James Furner|unknown 19:09|nine minutes past seven|Wallander was lucky and managed to catch a taxi right outside. When he got to Rosengard it was nine minutes past seven. He hoped that Mona was running late. But when he read the note on the door he realised that this was not the case.|The Pyramid|Henning Mankell|sfw +19:10|ten minutes past seven|Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ten minutes past seven. He had to make haste and at the same time to go someway round, so as to approach the house from the other side.|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|sfw 19:10|7.10|It was 7.10 and the saloon bar of the Duke of Clarence club was already smoke-filled, the noise level rising and the crowd at the bar three feet deep. Christine Baldwin, the Whistler's fifth victim, had exactly twenty minutes to live.|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw 19:10|7:10 p.m.|A warm breeze came through the window, smelling of freshly cut grass. The landlord was now mowing the patch of green lawn with a push mower. I glanced at my wristwatch. It was 7:10 p.m.|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown 19:10|in five minutes it would be a quarter past seven|He had already got to the point where, by rocking more strongly, he maintained his equilibrium with difficulty, and very soon he would finally have to make a final decision, for in five minutes it would be a quarter past seven. Then there was a ring at the door of the apartment.
“That’s someone from the office,” he told himself, and he almost froze, while his small limbs only danced around all the faster. For one moment everything remained still. “They aren’t opening,” Gregor said to himself, caught up in some absurd hope.|Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|unknown @@ -2492,6 +2547,7 @@ 19:15|7:15|Cell count down to 400,000. Woke 8:10. To sleep 7:15. (Appear to have lost my watch without realising it, had to drive into town to buy another.)|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 19:15|seven fifteen|Nick had a large wild plan of his own for the night, but for now he let Leo take charge: they were going to go back to Notting Hill and catch the seven fifteen screening of Scarface at the Gate.|The Line of Beauty|Alan Hollinghurst|unknown 19:15|seven-fifteen|The party was to begin at seven. The invitations gave the hour as six-thirty because the famly knew everyone would come a little late, so as not to be the first to arrive. .. By seven-fifteen not another soul could squeeze into the house.|The Elderly Lady|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown +19:16|7:16 P.M.|AT 7:16 P.M., LEAPMAN switched the light off in his office and stepped into the corridor. He closed his door but didn’t lock it. He walked toward the bank of elevators, aware that the only office light still shining was coming from under the chairman’s door.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:16|sixteen past seven PM|“Sixteen past seven PM? That's when he came into the store or when he left after the fact?”|The Last Precinct|Patricia Cornwell|unknown 19:17|7:17 p.m.|7:17 p.m. Simon is coming round. His girlfriend has gone back to her husband. Thank God stayed at home to receive chucked friends in manner of Queen of Hearts or Soup Kitchen. But that's just the kind of person I am: liking to love others.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|nsfw 19:17|7.17 p.m.|Colonel Putnis knocked on his door at 7.17 p.m. The car was waiting in front of the hotel, and they drove through the dark streets to police headquarters. It had grown much colder during the evening, and the city was almost deserted.|The Dogs of Riga|Henning Mankell|unknown @@ -2507,6 +2563,7 @@ 19:21|7:21|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 19:22|7:22|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 19:22|7:22 p.m.|It was 7:22 p.m. by the wall clock when he soldered the final connection. Eric estimated a half hour delay before the little generator had taken over, put the time actually at near eight o'clock. He found himself hesitant, strangely unwilling to test the completed machine.|Operation Syndrome|Frank Herbert|unknown +19:22|7:22 P.M.|BRYCE FENSTON’S GULFSTREAM V executive jet touched down at Heathrow at 7:22 P.M., and Ruth was standing on the tarmac waiting to greet the bank’s representative. She had already alerted customs with all the relevant details so that the paperwork could be completed just as soon as Anna returned.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:23|7:23|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 19:24|almost twenty-five after seven|He picked up his hat and coat and Clarice said hello to him and he said hello and looked at the clock and it was almost twenty-five after seven.|The Evening's at Seven|James Thurber|unknown 19:25|seven twenty-five|"No, sir, only the housekeeper. He's been in New England visiting his daughter. He always goes there in the fall. He was due back at the Heathrow on BA flight 214 arriving at seven twenty-five."|A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2542,11 +2599,14 @@ 19:39|7:39 P.M.|7:39 P.M.
Eva and Braque made $180 at Jack Cermak’s before complains from the nosy wait staff and whiny-ass sore losers forced them out. Then they made a quick five bucks at the famous Every 1’s A Wiener hot dog stand in Andersonville just for taking a bite from a Fire Dog. Eva actually took two bites, because that’s just who she was.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 19:40|twenty to eight|They reckon the time was twenty to eight. They can swear, sir, that the body wasn't suspended then and that they saw no one on the forecourt.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 19:40|7.40|She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late, but the children, Jimmy and Bitsy, are still eating supper and their parents are not ready to go yet. From other rooms come the sound of a baby screaming, water running, a television musical (no words: probably a dance number - patterns of gliding figures come to mind).|The Babysitter|Robert Coover|unknown +19:41|7:41 P.M.|LIGHTING-UP TIME WAS 7:41 P.M. on September 25th. Krantz didn’t appear on the outskirts of Wentworth until just after eight.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:41|7:41|"Do you expect to make an arrest? What's to stop this woman from leaving the country?"
"Up to now, I'm afraid nothing." And since they knew there wasn't a train until 7:41 in the evening, they had all dashed off to the airport in Pisa.|Death of a Dutchman|Magdalen Nabb|sfw +19:42|7:42|He entered the saleroom at 7:42, and took his reserved seat, which he’d selected after some considerable thought. Three rows from the back on the left-hand side. He’d even practiced raising his paddle just high enough for the auctioneer to spot him without anyone in front of him having any idea who was bidding.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:42|7:42|It was 7:42, just over an hour since he had rung Frances. She should have arrived by now.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 19:42|7:42|So he really had no choice but to pay an occasional visit to the living room instead, where the hands on the grandfather clock now indicated, rather unambiguously, that it was 7:42|The Lincoln Highway|Amor Towles|unknown 19:42|seven, and forty-two minutes|“I had been in the tech ninja sleeve only a few hours—seven, and forty-two minutes according to the time display chipped into my upper-left field of vision—but there were none of the usual download side effects.”|Altered Carbon|Richard K. Morgan|unknown 19:42|seven forty-two|I glance at my watch as we speed along the Strand. Seven forty-two. I'm starting to feel quite excited. The street outside is still bright and warm and tourists are walking along in T-shirts and shorts, pointing at the High Court. It must have been a gorgeous summer's day. Inside the air-conditioned Carter Spink building you have no idea what the weather in the real world is doing.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +19:43|7:43 P.M.|He glanced up at the clock on the corner of his desk: 7:43 P.M. “Shit,” he said, aware that if he didn’t hurry he was going to be late for his own speech at the bankers’ dinner.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 19:43|7:43 p.m.|In response to a hail from within the wall, several of the warders bent to the windlass, whereupon the portcullis scraped and groaned aloft, and the tall knight came riding out just as the hands of Mallory's timepiece registered 7:43 p.m.|A Knyght Ther Was|Robert F. Young|sfw 19:44|7:44 P.M.|7:44 P.M.
Vance watched as the Hind approached on the starboard side of the destroyer, heading straight for it and dropping altitude. What in hell was going on?|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 19:45|7:45 p.m.|"I imagine so. He died at night, or he was last seen alive by Grace Willson at 7:45 p.m. when he heard her confession. I suppose he died of boredom."|The Black Tower|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2558,6 +2618,7 @@ 19:45|19.45|He tells his old friend the train times and they settle on the 19.45 arriving at 23.27. "I'll book us into the ultra-luxurious Francis Drake Lodge. Running water in several rooms. Have you got a mobile?"|Other People's Money|Justin Cartwright|unknown 19:46|7:46 P.M.|7:46 P.M.
"Right." Alfred Konwitz snapped to attention. "Yes, sir."
He slammed down the phone and whirled around to Jack Mulhoney. "Full denial, sir. Israeli Control says they have no military aircraft operating anywhere in that sector of the Aegean."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 19:47|7:47 P.M.|7:47 P.M.
Vance watched as the frigate got off a warning tracer, but to no effect. The Hind ignored it, as a stream of 57mm rockets from under the chopper's stubby starboard wing flared down, while the radar-slaved machine gun beneath the nose opened fire.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +19:48|7:48 P.M.|On the ride down in the elevator, Fenston was fascinated to see the low estimate for Caillebotte’s Street Sweepers. He had acquired the larger version for half that price from a client he had recently bankrupted. When the doors slid open, he walked quickly across to reception and signed himself out: 7:48 P.M.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:48|7:48 P.M.|7:48 P.M.
There are sounds of doors opening and closing, with whispered words that are like alien hisses. She senses she is in motion, on a bed that is gliding past powerful overhead lights.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 19:49|eleven minutes to eight|"When did you next see Dr. Wellesley?"
"At just eleven minutes to eight."
"Where?"
"In the surgery."
"He came back there?"
"Yes."
"How do you fix that precise time--eleven minutes to eight?"
"Because he'd arranged to see a patient in Meadow Gate at ten minutes to eight. I glanced at the clock as he came in, saw what time it was, and reminded him of the appointment."|In the Mayor's Parlour|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 19:49|Eleven minutes to eight|"Eleven minutes to eight."
"You're always right; there must be a clock in your head."
"I can't be wrong, tonight. I'll be able to tell you one second before they blast off. Look! The ten-minute warning!"|The End of the Beginning|Ray Bradbury|unknown @@ -2682,12 +2743,14 @@ 20:40|twenty minutes to nine|The letter had been brought in at twenty minutes to nine.|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd|Agatha Christie|unknown 20:41|08:41|It’s 08:41 and I’m in Bed practicing. Ma’s filled a plastic bag with really hot water and tied it tight so none spills out, she puts it in another bag and ties that too.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 20:42|8.42|The hand at this moment pointed to 8.42. The players took up their cards, but their eyes were constantly on the clock. One may safely say that, however secure they might feel, never had minutes seemed so long to them.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown +20:43|20.43|I’ll tell you exactly what I want you to say when he phones back, but never forget that your first priority is to buy me as much time as possible. The SBS can’t make a move until after sunset, 20.43 local time, which isn’t’ – he checked his watch – ‘for another two hours and nineteen minutes.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:43|8.43|'8.43,' said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards placed before him by Gauthier Ralph. There was a moment's pause, during which the spacious room was perfectly silent.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 20:44|8.44!|The clock's pendulum beat every second with mathematical regularity, and each player could count every sixtieth of a minute as it struck his ear. "8.44!" said John Sullivan, in a voice that betrayed his emotion. Only one minute more and the wager would be won.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 20:45|a quarter to nine|When it got to be a quarter to nine and still no one had shown up, Gardener began to wonder if maybe they were quitting. He toyed with the idea as he sat in Bobbi’s rocker on the porch, fingering the big, puffy bruise on the side of his face where Bozeman had clouted him.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown 20:45|eight forty-five|At eight forty-five, I called and said, “I need some financial advice. Actually, I’m serious. I’m in a bind.”|My Year of Rest and Relaxation|Ottessa Moshfegh|unknown 20:45|8.45|"It's not impossible," Phileas said quietly. "I bet you 20,000 pounds I could do it. If I leave this evening on the 8.45 train to Dover, I can be back here at the Reform Club by 8.45 on Saturday 21 December. I'll get my passport stamped at every place I stop to prove I've been around the world."|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 20:45|quarter to nine|Beaver arrived at quarter to nine in a state of high self-approval; he had refused two invitations for dinner while dressing that evening; he had cashed a cheque for ten pounds at his club; he had booked a Divan table at Espinosa's.|A Handful of Dust|Evelyn Waugh|unknown +20:46|8:46|And then he walked into the bedroom and saw the one clue that confirmed that Tina had been in the apartment on the evening of 9/11. By the side of Anna’s bed was a watch. Jack checked the time: 8:46.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:46|eight forty six|At the tone, the time will be eight forty six, exactly. One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.|Macedonia|Tom Lichtenberg|unknown 20:47|20:47|It read 20:47 on the cooker clock when Fliss heard the jangle of Ben's keys in the door. Somewhere along the line, her husband had stopped making any effort.|All That Is Left of Us|Catherine Miller|sfw 20:48|twelve minutes to nine|"It only wants twelve minutes to nine," Constance pointed out. "Well, what if it does?"|The Old Wives' Tale|Arnold Bennett|sfw @@ -2738,6 +2801,7 @@ 21:00|nine o'clock|This time, the putting on of her best hat at nine o'clock at night with the idea of sallying forth from the castle, down the long drive and then northwards along the acacia avenue, had been enough to send her to her own doorway as though she suspected someone might be there, someone who was listening to her thoughts.|Titus Groan|Mervyn Peake|unknown 21:00|nine o’clock|At nine o’clock in the evening I was sitting among my friends writing, while they talked around me. I became aware that it was gradually growing easier for me to express myself; my pen glanced presently like lightning in the effort to keep neck and neck with my ideas.|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw 21:01|9:01 P.M.|He figured he’d start her out with an exceptionally American meal: cheeseburgers, fries, potato salad, Coke. He’d get a pie for dessert: apple. He’d top it off with ice cream and watch as she squirmed and squealed. When she finished, he’d lift her from her chair, carry her to the bedroom, kiss every inch. They’d have sex all night, and this time, he wouldn’t pay.
He looked at his watch—9:01 P.M.|Reprieve|James Han Mattson|nsfw +21:01|past nine|It was past nine. William had finished his homework and his supper. Once he had said good night to his parents and Mrs. Phillips, he crept upstairs to the attic with the two bugs, his flashlight, and his magnifying glass. He wanted to take a closer look at the token.|The Castle in the Attic|Elizabeth Winthrop|sfw 21:01|about nine o'clock|On the evening before K.'s thirty-first birthday - it was about nine o'clock, when there is a lull in the streets - two gentlemen came to his apartment.|The Trial|Franz Kafka|unknown 21:01|after nine|The good Brants did not allow the boys to play out after nine in summer evenings; they were sent to bed at that hour; Eddie honorably remained, but Georgie usually slipped out of the window toward ten, and enjoyed himself until midnight.|Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale|Mark Twain|unknown 21:01|about nine o’clock|Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o’clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.|The Landlady|Roald Dahl|unknown @@ -2871,6 +2935,7 @@ 22:05|ten-oh-five|"If you do not tell me everything I need to know by"-he looked at the watch on his wrist-"by ten-oh-five tomorrow night, you will be executed. You and the three exnays."|Among the Betrayed|Margaret Peterson Haddix|unknown 22:06|after ten o'clock|Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. And then it was long after ten o'clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife. Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed.|The Dead|James Joyce|unknown 22:06|six minutes past ten|"Let me know as soon as you hear anything."
Quoyle shivered in the chilly kitchen. The clock said six minutes past ten. He could not hear the sea.|The Shipping News|Annie Proulx|sfw +22:06|22:06 CET|22:06 CET
William settled down on his bunk just after ten, but he didn't sleep. Some of the deckhands were playing cards, while others told unlikely tales of treasure they had recovered from the bottom of the ocean.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:07|10:07 P.M.|10:07 P.M.
She felt the straps on the gurney loosening and then she started prying her eyes open. She thought, hoped, it was Stone, but she couldn't see well enough to be absolutely sure. Her mind and her vision were still overflowing with horrifying nightmares of time gone awry. What did all those bizarre dreams mean?|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 22:08|eight minutes past ten|Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh turned from his inspection of the dead girl's clothes, his six feet two inches uncomfortably trapped between the foot of the bed and the wardrobe door. He looked at his watch. It was eight minutes past ten.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 22:08|ten eight|"My watch is always a little fast," I said. "What time do you make it now?"
"Ten eight."
"Ten eighteen by mine. You see."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown @@ -2892,6 +2957,7 @@ 22:18|ten eighteen|"My watch is always a little fast," I said. "What time do you make it now?"
"Ten eight."
"Ten eighteen by mine. You see."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown 22:18|10:18 p.m.|10:18 p.m. Ah. Thelma and Louise is in there.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 22:19|10:19 p.m.|10:19 p.m. Thelma and Louise will not come out.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw +22:19|22:19 GMT|22:19 GMT
Jackie decided that this was even worse than a stakeout, because they were waiting for someone who wasn't there, rather than for someone who was there and must eventually show up.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:20|10:20 PM|The clock on the wall in the institute's bullpen ticked past 10:20 PM. Helen Pomeroy and Pastor Eric Meyer looked across her desk at each other. They had just discussed the bizarre events that had unfolded on this day.|Cathedral|Ray Keating|sfw 22:20|Ten twenty|A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds. The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.
“What time is it?” my cousin asked me. About eight inches shorter than me, he had to look up when he talked.
I glanced at my watch. “Ten twenty.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 22:20|10:20|At 10:20 she returned with a shopping bag from the supermarket. In the bag were three scrub brushes, one box of paperclips and a well-chilled six-pack of canned beer. So I had another beer.
"It was about sheep," I said.
"Didn't I tell you?" she said.|A Wild Sheep Chase|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -2935,6 +3001,7 @@ 22:40|ten-forty at night|“My friend,” she said with a pleased tone to her voice that she knew he could not mistake. She didn’t care, she was pleased to hear from him, even if it was ten-forty at night. “Where are you calling from?” she asked, expecting him to say Glasgow or Berlin.|It All Began in Monte Carlo|Elizabeth Adler|unknown 22:40|It’s twenty to eleven|When fifteen minutes have passed and the bogus DPW truck hasn’t returned, Billy decides they have either moved on to another part of the city, maybe to check out the house on Evergreen Street, or have gone back to the McMansion to await further orders from Nick. He closes the curtain, shutting out the view, and looks at his watch. It’s twenty to eleven. How time flies when you’re having fun, he thinks.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 22:40|twenty to eleven|The station clock told him the time: twenty to eleven. He went to the booking office and asked the clerk in a polite tone when was the next train to Paris. "In twelve minutes."|The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By|Georges Simenon|unknown +22:41|10:41|William listened to a debate on the future of Trident between Tony Blair and Michael Heseltine—both regarded as potential future leaders of their respective parties—when the lights went out in Summers’s living room at 10:41. He turned the radio off and made another entry in his notebook.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:41|10:41 P.M.|The only two items that stood out on the whole list for Cork were two calls placed from the home of Wilfred Lipinksi, mayor of Aurora, one at 9:57 P.M. and another at 10:41 P.M. If Lipinski had teenagers who knew about the party at Valhalla, the calls would not have been odd, but all the Lipinski children were long ago grown and gone, and so Cork wondered.|Blood Hollow|William Kent Krueger|sfw 22:41|10:41|He climbed into the front seat and started the car. It started with a merry powerful hum, ready to go. "There, the bastards", said Julian, and smashed the clock with the bottom of the bottle, to give them an approximate time. It was 10:41.|Appointment in Samarra|John O'Hara|nsfw 22:42|eighteen minutes to eleven|"We have established the exact time that Janisohn fell to the stage, the knife in his neck. It was eighteen minutes to eleven."|West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar|Raoul Whitfield|sfw @@ -3030,6 +3097,7 @@ 23:18|11:18|Vero smiled. “I t-take that as approval. So let me summarize. On its present trajectory and speed, the Blade of Night will pass behind the moon between 11:13 and 11:22 p.m. Jerusalem time on the night of the seventeenth of February. That’s four days away. It will be sufficiently close that the moon will fully cover the disk of the earth at 11:18. That’s vital.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 23:18|11.18|It is 11.18. A row of bungalows in a round with a clump of larch tree in the middle.|Trumpet|Jackie Kay|unknown 23:19|11:19|A whistle cut sharply across his words. Peter got onto his knees to look out the window, and Miss Fuller glared at him. Polly looked down at her watch: 11:19. The train. But the stationmaster had said it was always late.|Blackout|Connie Willis|unknown +23:20|twenty past eleven|It appeared afterwards that on the same evening, at twenty past eleven, he made another very eccentric and unexpected visit. The rain still persisted. Drenched to the skin, he walked into the little flat where the parents of his betrothed lived, in Third Street in Vassilyevsky Island.|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|sfw 23:20|eleven-twenty|From Balboa Island, he drove south to Laguna Beach. At eleven-twenty, he parked his van across the street from the Hudston house.|Watchers|Dean Koontz|unknown 23:20|twenty past eleven|Harvey looked at the clock, which marked twenty past eleven. "Then I'll sleep here till three and catch the four o'clock freight. They let us men from the Fleet ride free as a rule."|Captains Courageous|Rudyard Kipling|unknown 23:21|11.21 p.m.|The Swedish police did not exactly distinguish themselves. Palme was killed at 11.21 p.m., but the order to watch the roads didn't go out until 12.50 and even then the police in patrol cars weren't told what they were looking for, and the airports were not closed until 1.05 a.m.|Neither Here, Nor There|Bill Bryson|sfw From 99ebca990407e646d306478236bf76cddd779a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:28:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 05/15] add quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 76928ad4..d8909e81 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ 03:00|three|"What's the time?" said the man, eyeing George up and down with evident suspicion, "why, if you listen you will hear it strike."
George listened, and a neighbouring clock immediately obliged. "But it's only gone three!" said George in an injured tone, when it had finished.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 03:00|3:00 a.m.|When Sophie awoke, it was 3:00 a.m.|Desperate Characters|Paula Fox|unknown 03:00|three o’clock|"You hearken, Missy. It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’ve got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. I know all my property and where the money’s put out. And I’ve made everything ready to change my mind, and do as I like at the last. Do you hear, Missy? I’ve got my faculties."|Middlemarch|George Eliot|unknown +03:01|around three in the morning|Yesterday, at around three in the morning, I found my mother unresponsive on her bathroom floor. I’m a hero, they say, because I saved her from a lithium overdose.
I’m not a hero. This is all my fault.|Blink and We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|nsfw 03:01|about three o'clock|It was now about three o'clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again.|The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber|Ernest Hemingway|unknown 03:01|past three o’clock|I’m not going to just lie here, she thought, and let my life be ruined! And when she heard, “God give you good morrow, my masters! Past three o’clock and a fair morning!” she flung back the covers and got out of bed, turning to shake Nan.|Forever Amber|Kathleen Windsor|sfw 03:02|two minutes past three|But after months of checking and rechecking, Joseph Ricardo, of mixed race, born illegitimately in a Buenos Aires hospital at two minutes past three Western time on 19 October 1995, had officially been recognized.|The Children of Men|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1017,6 +1018,7 @@ 08:15|quarter-past eight|It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up, and hauled down his watch. It was a quarter-past eight.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 08:15|eight fifteen|You scrutinized your wrist: "It's eight fifteen. (And here time forked.) I'll turn it on." The screen in its blank broth evolved a lifelike blur, and music welled.|Pale Fire|Vladimir Nabokov|unknown 08:16|eight sixteen|I walk through the fruit trees toward a huge, square, brown patch of earth with vegetation growing in serried rows. These must be the vegetables. I prod one of them cautiously with my foot. It could be a cabbage or a lettuce. Or the leaves of something growing underground, maybe. To be honest, it could be an alien. I have no idea. I sit down on a mossy wooden bench and look at a nearby bush covered in white flowers. Mm. Pretty. Now what? What do people do in their gardens? I feel I should have something to read. Or someone to call. My fingers are itching to move. I look at my watch. Still only eight sixteen. Oh God.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +08:17|8:17 AM|Lil: Morning, shug. Check the mailbox
Me: It’s literally 8:17 AM
Lil: It’s early, I know. Left something for you when I was out walking. I suggest you get it now.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw 08:17|8.17 a.m.|Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations. He consulted his instruments, and recorded:
“Monday, July 1.
“Chronometer, 8.17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”
This last observation applied to the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.|A Journey to the Centre of the Earth|Jules Verne|unknown 08:17|eight seventeen|Come on, I can't give up yet. I'll just sit here for a bit and enjoy the peace. I lean back and watch a little speckled bird pecking the ground nearby for a while. Then I look at my watch again: eight seventeen. I can't do this.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 08:18|eighteen minutes past eight|Say they left at seventeen or eighteen minutes past eight. In that case they must have followed Joanne Garland and might well be driving faster than she.|Kissing the Gunner's Daughter|Ruth Rendell|sfw @@ -1596,6 +1598,7 @@ 11:58|Two minutes before the clock struck noon|Two minutes before the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the preparation for the frightful ceremony of mid-day. The block was laid forth-the hideous minister of vengeance, masked and in black, with the flaming glaive in his hand, was ready. The baron tried the edge of the blade with his finger, and asked the dreadful swordsman if his hand was sure? A nod was the reply of the man of blood.|Burlesques|William Makepeace Thackeray|unknown 11:59|near to twelve|There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew near to twelve I don't mind confessing I was as nervous as a cat.|The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story|Agatha Christie|unknown 11:59|about noon|The day after that again, about noon, a decurion with his command of ten horsemen approached Nazareth from the south—that is, from the direction of Jerusalem. The place was then a straggling village, perched on a hill-side, and so insignificant that its one street was little more than a path well beaten by the coming and going of flocks and herds.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw +12:00|noon|Towards noon he rose and began to write a letter to her; but he could not find the right words, and after many times laying his brush aside he determined at last to send her some nice pictures instead.|The Tale of Genji|Murasaki Shikibu|sfw 12:00|noon|At noon that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum. The wind was yet from the west, filling the sail to the master’s content. The watches had been established. On the foredeck the altar had been set and sprinkled with salt and barley, and before it the tribune had offered solemn prayers to Jove and to Neptune and all the Oceanidae, and, with vows, poured the wine and burned the incense.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|An hour passed, and though Pilate deigned them no answer, the rabbis and crowd remained. Noon came, bringing a shower from the west, but no change in the situation, except that the multitude was larger and much noisier, and the feeling more decidedly angry.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|Exactly at noon the dromedary, of its own will, stopped, and uttered the cry or moan, peculiarly piteous, by which its kind always protest against an overload, and sometimes crave attention and rest. The master thereupon bestirred himself, waking, as it were, from sleep.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw @@ -2637,6 +2640,7 @@ 19:57|three minutes till eight|At three minutes till eight, Laszlo and His Yankee Hussars set up onstage. While the band played their Sousa medley, Carter thoroughly checked his kit, stuffing his pockets with scarves, examining the seals on decks of cards. He glanced toward his levitation device. "Good luck, Carter." The voice was quiet.|Carter Beats The Devil|Glen David Gold|unknown 19:58|7.58 pm|Robert Langdon stole an anxious glance at his wristwatch: 7.58 pm. The smiling face of Mickey Mouse did little to cheer him up.|The Lost Symbol|Dan Brown|unknown 19:59|eight o'clock, maybe a minute before|"It was right at eight o'clock, maybe a minute before. I went into the demo room to see if I'd left my tin of polish there. And there was this bottle of milk on the trolley and I drank some of it. Just a bit off the top."|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw +19:59|teetering on eight o'clock|I see Lil right as I dismount the bike, her silver braid draped across her right shoulder. She sits on the front porch, her soft, weathered skin a rosy hue in the last rays of the day’s sunlight. It’s teetering on eight o’clock.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw 19:59|just before eight o' clock|Kuniang made her appearance in my study just before eight o' clock, arrayed in what had once been a "party frock."|The Maker of Heavenly Trousers|Daniel Vare|unknown 19:59|A minute to eight|Quickly, quickly. A minute to eight. My hot water bottle was ready, and I filled a glass with water from the tap. Time was of the essence.|The Thirteenth Tale|Diane Setterfield|unknown 20:00|eight o’clock|Charlie glanced at the clock over the bar and saw it was eight o’clock, but the other men were coming over to talk, and he realized he might not be able to pry his father loose from the gaggle of admirers. Especially if they brought him drinks.|Blue Springs|Peter Rennebohm|unknown From 99c3dceb0c98dd439d5134e99d5176f34358e50e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:50:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 06/15] add quotes from Sins of the Father --- litclock_annotated.csv | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index d8909e81..7bd18795 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ 01:12|1.12 a.m.|It was 1.12 a.m. when Father arrived at the police station. I did not see him until 1.28 a.m. but I knew he was there because I could hear him.
He was shouting, "I want to see my son," and "Why the hell is he locked up?" and, "Of course I'm bloody angry."|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|nsfw 01:13|thirteen minutes past one|He drew out his note-book and read aloud what the mysterious chandler had said to him: "It was precisely thirteen minutes past one on the twenty-fourth of January when I drew my last breath."|Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann|sfw 01:14|one-fourteen|"Sal is here, this is my old buddy from New Yor-r-k, this is his first night in Denver and it's absolutely necessary for me to take him out and fix him up with a girl."
"But what time will you be back?"
"It is now," (looking at his watch) "exactly one-fourteen."|On the Road|Jack Kerouac|sfw +01:15|1:15|Emma fell into a deep sleep, to be jolted back to consciousness by the unfamiliar sound of a police siren blaring from the street below. Now she understood why the rooms on the upper floors were more expensive. She checked her watch. It was 1:15.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 01:15|quarter past one|I am sorry, therefore, as I have said, that I ever paid any attention to the footsteps. They began about a quarter past one o'clock in the morning, a rhythmic, quick-cadenced walking around the dining-room table.|My Life and Hard Times: "The Night the Ghost Got In"|James Thurber|unknown 01:15|1.15 am|Lily Chen always prepared an 'evening' snack for her husband to consume on his return at 1.15 am.|Sour Sweet|Timothy Mo|unknown 01:16|sixteen past one|At sixteen past one, they walked into the interview room.|Nothing Gold Can Stay|Dana Stabenow|unknown @@ -452,6 +453,7 @@ 03:18|03.18 hours|The truth of the matter we may never know. All we know at the moment is that at 03.18 hours on 10th February the Southern Cross was firmly beset by the ice and she was sending out an SOS. Sometime during the night that lead must have come to an end. The westward-driven pack ice closed round her and in a matter of hours she was gone.|The White South|Hammond Innes|sfw 03:19|3.19 A.M.|The time stamp on Navidson's camcorder indicates that it is exactly 3.19 A.M.|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|sfw 03:20|3.20 am|Prabath Kumara, 16. 17th November 1989. At 3.20 am from the home of a friend.|Anil's Ghost|Michael Ondaatje|unknown +03:21|3:21|She glanced again at the bedside clock: 3:21. She got out of bed, put on a dressing gown, sat down at the little table and filled several sheets of hotel stationery with notes in preparation for her meeting with Sefton Jelks. It felt like prepping for an exam.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:21|twenty-one minutes past three|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 03:22|03:22|"Ladies and gentlemen, at 03:22 this morning, our GEODSS sensor suite at Socorro, New Mexico detected an anomalous object outside of the orbit of the moon."|The Gift|Dave Donovan|sfw 03:23|twenty-three minutes past three|It is twenty-three minutes past three, and his plane leaves at eight A.M.|Candyland|Evan Hunter and Ed McBain|sfw @@ -770,6 +772,7 @@ 06:27|06:27|06:27:52 by the chip in her optic nerve; Case had been following her progress through Villa Straylight for over an hour, letting the endorphin analogue she'd taken blot out his hangover.|Neuromancer|William Gibson|unknown 06:27|0627 hours|Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate, facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him.|White Teeth|Zadie Smith|unknown 06:28|6:28 A.M.|Thursday 6:28 A.M.
The morning air was sharp and she wished she'd grabbed one of Adriana's black knit shawls before going out. Could she pass for one of those stooped Greek peasant women? she wondered. Not likely. She shivered and pulled her thin coat around her.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw +06:29|6:29|For the next fifteen minutes he lugged the cases of wine and beer up the stairs, constantly stopping to check his watch, and at 6:29 he opened the back door to find the German corporal jumping up and down and slapping his sides in an effort to keep warm.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:29|a minute short of six-thirty|I sat up. There was a rug over me. I threw that off and got my feet on the floor. I scowled at a clock. The clock said a minute short of six-thirty.|The Big Sleep|Raymond Chandler|unknown 06:30|six-thirty|Two whores on their way down from Portland to take us deep sea fishing in a boat! It made it tough to stay in bed until the dorm lights came on at six-thirty.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 06:30|six-thirty|Tony gets up at six-thirty, as she always does. West sleeps on, groaning a little. Probably in his dreams he’s shouting; sounds in dreams are always louder.|The Robber Bride|Margaret Atwood|unknown @@ -819,6 +822,7 @@ 06:57|three minutes to seven|That meant that Helen must run and get the table set as quickly as possible as it was three minutes to seven.|The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors|Neil Speed|sfw 06:58|two minutes to seven|They waited. At exactly two minutes to seven, a white car came into view and pulled into the employee's parking lot behind the building.|Small Sacrifices|Ann Rule|sfw 06:58|6:58 A.M.|6:58 A.M.
Hugo Voorst was lying propped against a rock, his shoulder bandaged with white strips of gauze from the first-aid kit. Now that the flow of blood had been staunched, Marcel was injecting him with a shot of morphine to quell the looming pain.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +06:59|one minute to seven|At one minute to seven, Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:59|6.59 a.m.|It was 6.59 a.m. on Maundy Thursday as Blomkvist and Berger let themselves into the "Millennium" offices.|The Girl Who Played with Fire|Stieg Larsson|unknown 07:00|seven|Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o’clocks in one day.|Raising Steam|Terry Pratchett|unknown 07:00|seven o’clock|By the time the sun peered over the hills east of Rome, the city was a raucous symphony of clattering carts, hammer blows, and screaming babies. Some in the leisure class allowed themselves the luxury of slumbering on till seven o’clock, but only those who had wined to excess would rise any later.|Pontius Pilate|Paul L. Maier|unknown @@ -1186,6 +1190,7 @@ 09:11|9:11|“What train can I get?”
“There’s one about 9:11 if you really must go.”|This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald|unknown 09:11|9:11 am|9:11 am lay in bed, staring at wall.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:12|twelve minutes past nine|On a Wednesday morning, then, at twelve minutes past nine EDT, the Pleiades hung poised, high over the Chancellery of Solar System Enterprises, Incorporated.|The Galaxy Primes|E.E. Smith|sfw +09:12|twelve minutes past nine|The massive iron door didn’t swing open until twelve minutes past nine. Harry leaped up as a prison guard stood to one side and allowed a tall, elegant man with silver gray hair to enter.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:12|9:12 am|9:12 am lay in bed, staring at wall.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:13|9:13 am|9:13 am lay in bed, staring at wall.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:13|9:13 A.M.|She tucked the phone in the crook of her neck and thumbed hurriedly through her pink messages. Dr. Provetto, at 9:13 A.M.|Mistaken Identity|Lisa Scottoline|unknown @@ -1216,7 +1221,9 @@ 09:22|nine twenty-two|No more throwing stones at him, and I'll see you back here exactly one week from now. She looked at her watch. 'At nine twenty-two next Wednesday.'|This is Life|Dan Rhodes|unknown 09:22|9:22|Two days later, on the second of February at 9:22 Jerusalem time, the Dominion launched a simultaneous and massive attack on twenty-two of the worlds between Bannermere and Earth.|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 09:23|9.23|9.23. What possessed me to buy this comb?|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown +09:23|9:23|Hugo drove his Bugatti through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard for the first time in over two years, at 9:23 the following morning. He parked in the chairman’s space before making his way up to his father’s old office.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:24|9.24|9.24. I'm swelled after that cabbage. A speck of dust on the patent leather of her boot.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown +09:25|9:25|With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at 9:25 that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly eight minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:25|9:25|The 9:25 train from Liverpool Street was almost empty. It was still early enough for Philippa to be traveling against the commuter tide.|Innocent Blood|P.D. James|sfw 09:25|nine twenty-five|The phone on his desk rang, startling him. It was nine twenty-five. He hadn't realized he had been sitting as if in a fugue.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 09:25|nine twenty-five|A man I would cross the street to avoid at nine o'clock - by nine twenty-five I wanted to fuck him until he wept. My legs trembled with it. My voice floated out of my mouth when I opened it to speak. The glass wall of the meeting room was huge and suddenly too transparent.|The Forgotten Waltz|Anne Enright|nsfw @@ -1284,16 +1291,20 @@ 09:50|9:50 a.m.|9:50 a.m. Hmmm. Think will go inspect makeup in case he does come in.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 09:50|ten minutes to ten.|Ten minutes to ten. "I had just time to hide the bottle (after the nurse had left me) when you came into my room."|The Law and the Lady|Wilkie Collins|unknown 09:51|9:51 A.M.|9:51 A.M.
J.J. shook his head in disgust as he looked over the shambles that was the gantry. Dr. Andros had just phoned from Command, asked him to undertake a preliminary assessment of the condition of the facility, just to ballpark the extent of damage. The assignment was already depressing him.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +09:51|9:51 a.m.|She had planned to be a few minutes early, and the cab dropped her off outside the building at 9:51 a.m. As she handed the driver a quarter, she was relieved that her visit to New York was coming to an end; it had turned out to be far more expensive than she had anticipated.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:52|9:52|She caught the 9:52 to Victoria. I kept well clear of her on the train and picked her up as she went through the barrier.|Call for the Dead|John le Carré|unknown +09:52|eight minutes to ten|With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at 9:25 that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly eight minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown 09:53|seven minutes to ten|Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare, but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions, and at seven minutes to ten precisely she was outside her destination.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown 09:54|9:54|9:54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton, and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +09:54|six minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten precisely|On Tuesday, 17 October, at five minutes to ten precisely, Father Martin made his way from the small turret room he occupied at the south of the house, down the twisting stairs and along the corridor to Father Sebastian's study.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten|They were to call for her at her house in the Taurida Gardens at ten o’clock, but it was already five minutes to ten, and the girls were not yet dressed.
Natásha was going to her first grand ball. She had got up at eight that morning and had been in a fever of excitement and activity all day.|War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy|unknown 09:55|five to ten|At five to ten I'm ready in the hall. Nathaniel's mother's house is nearby but apparently tricky to find, so the plan is to meet here and he'll walk me over. I check my reflection in the hall mirror and wince. The streak of bleach in my hair is as obvious as ever. Am I really going out in public like this?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:55|five minutes to ten|"Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning", said Albert; "your punctuality really alarms me. What do I say? punctuality! You, whom I expected last, you arrive at five minutes to ten, when the time fixed was half-past! Has the ministry resigned?"|The Count of Monte Cristo|Alexandre Dumas|unknown 09:56|9:56 A.M.|9:56 A.M.
Ally stepped out of the cab, holding the large leather‑bound portfolio, and checked the number on the card against the bronze plaque above the door. Winston Bartlett lived like a nineteenth‑century robber baron.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:57|9:57 A.M.|Friday 9:57 A.M.
"We have detonation," Colonel Arkadi reported into his helmet mike. His twin-engine Foxhound was already in a steep fifty-degree bank.
"We copy you," General Sokolov replied. "Can you confirm the kill?"|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|unknown +09:58|two minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:58|two minutes to ten|At two minutes to ten, the two presented themselves at No. 10, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.|John Dene of Toronto|Herbert George Jenkins|sfw 09:58|around ten o'clock|I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. I felt pretty hungry as soon as I had a cigarette. The last time I'd eaten was those two hamburgers I had with Brossard and Ackley when we went in to Agerstown to the movies. That was a long time ago. It seemed like fifty years ago.|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|unknown 09:59|9:59|"I should have known," said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at 9:59.|Blood Stained|Gayl Siegel|sfw @@ -1340,6 +1351,7 @@ 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Goddamn cataclysmic devastation, pretty much.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Dr. Abdoul Kirwani, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States of America, sat rigidly facing the small desk in the Oval Office. When the call requesting a meeting had come from Johan Hansen's chief of staff the previous evening, he had hastily sent a secure telex to Islamabad to inquire if he needed any updating.
He did. And it was a disaster.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:01|about ten o'clock|At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.'|Of Mice And Men|John Steinbeck|unknown +10:02|10:02|10:02, her eyes rested for a split second on every person who came in.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:02|two minutes after ten|It was two minutes after ten; she was not satisfied with her clothes, her face, her apartment. She heated the coffee again and sat down in the chair by the window. Can't do anything more now, she thought, no sense trying to improve anything the last minute.|The Daemon Lover|Shirley Jackson|unknown 10:03|10.03|It's 10.03 according to his watch, and he is travelling down through the Scottish highlands to Inverness, tired and ever-so-slightly anxious in case he falls asleep between now and when the train reaches the station, and misses his cue to say to Alice, Drew and Aleesha: 'OK, this is Inverness, let's move it.'|“Vanilla-Bright like Eminem” from The Farenheit Twins|Michel Faber|unknown 10:03|10.03|The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty three minutes past ten, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03.|Ctrl-Z|Andrew Norriss|unknown @@ -1356,11 +1368,13 @@ 10:10|10:10|10:10 Shot is fired.|The Hollow Man|John Dickson Carr|unknown 10:10|ten minutes past 10|Saturday morning was bright and sunny, and at ten minutes past 10 Donald arrived at the Embankment entrance of Charing Cross Underground Station, carrying a small suitcase full of clothes suitable for outdoor sports and pastimes.|England, Their England|A.G. Macdonell|unknown 10:10|Ten minutes later|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown +10:11|10:11|10:11, had he called her bluff?|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:11|eleven minutes past ten|It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six.|Three Men and a Maid|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown 10:12|ten twelve|“I'll take the coffee tray out,” I suggest humbly. As I pick it up I glance again at my watch. Ten twelve. I wonder if they've started the meeting.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 10:12|10:12 a.m.|He stood up once, early on, to lock his office door, and then he was reading the last page, and it was exactly 10:12 a.m., and the sun beating on his office windows was a different sun from the one he'd always known.|Freedom|Jonathan Franzen|unknown 10:13|thirteen minutes past ten|"By the bye," said the first, "I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at seventeen minutes past ten."
"And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten."
"Bravo, Mr. Blount!"
"Very good, M. Jolivet."|Michel Strogoff|Jules Verne|unknown 10:13|ten-thirteen|"It's ten-thirteen," announced Clancy. "In two more minutes-"
"Post time," I said.|The Anthem Sprinters|Ray Bradbury|unknown +10:14|10:14|10:14, would her next appointment have to be with Mr. Brett Elders?|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:14|ten fourteen|Okay. Ten fourteen: Mrs. Narada reports that her cat has been attacked by a large dog. Now I send all the boys out looking, but they don't find anything until eleven. Then one of them calls in that a big dog has just bitten holes in the tires on his golf cart and run off.|Coyote Blue|Christopher Moore|unknown 10:15|a quarter past ten|Domino two had me standing sentinel in Mr. Meek’s room watching through the crack in the door. Due to his advanced state of decay, our loyal boiler room mascot wasn’t in on the great escape, but his room was opposite mine, and he understood “Shush!” At a quarter past ten Ernie went to Reception to announce my death to Nurse Noakes.|Cloud Atlas|David Mitchell|unknown 10:15|quarter past ten|When she finally struggled awake—headachey, miserable, feeling hungover—the other half of the bed was empty. Bob had turned his clock back around, and she saw it was quarter past ten. It was the latest she’d slept in years, but of course she hadn’t dropped off until first light, and such sleep as she’d gotten was populated with horrors.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown @@ -1373,6 +1387,7 @@ 10:19|10:19 A.M.|Friday 10:19 A.M.
"Altitude seventy-three thousand feet. Airspeed nine thousand knots.”
"Petra, raise helmet." He was slowly regaining his sight as the G-loads began to recede. The cockpit was an oven, overwhelming its environmental control equipment, clear evidence vehicle skin temperature had exceeded design.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:20|Ten twenty|A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds. The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.
“What time is it?” my cousin asked me. About eight inches shorter than me, he had to look up when he talked.
I glanced at my watch. “Ten twenty.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 10:20|In twenty minutes|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown +10:21|10:21|10:21, and a voice behind her said, “Good morning, Miss Barrington.”|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:21|10.21|Liz Headleand stares into the mirror, as though entranced. She does not see herself or the objects on her dressing-table. The clock abruptly jerks to 10.21.|The Radiant Way|Margaret Drabble|unknown 10:22|10:22|I listened to them, and listened to them again, and then before I had time to figure out what to do, or even what to think or feel, the phone started ringing. It was 10:22:27. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was him.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 10:23|twenty three minutes past ten|The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty three minutes past ten, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03|Ctrl-Z|Andrew Norriss|unknown @@ -1550,6 +1565,7 @@ 11:31|1131|Albatross 8 passed over Pamlico Sound at 1131 local time. Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon, interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters.|The Hunt for Red October|Tom Clancy|unknown 11:32|eleven thirty two|And after that, not forgetting, there was the Flemish armada, all scattered, and all officially drowned, there and then, on a lovely morning, after the universal flood, at about eleven thirty two was it? Off the coast of Cominghome.|Finnegans Wake|James Joyce|unknown 11:33|11:33|At 11:33 the sleek cream nose of an Aston Martin slid to a stop at the gate and Maurice Kemp-Lore stepped out. He stretched himself, stiff from driving, and glanced over the front of the cottage.|Nerve|Dick Francis|sfw +11:34|11:34 a.m.|The private detective joined him at 11:34 a.m., only minutes after the Paddington express had pulled into Temple Meads station. Mitchell slipped into the chair opposite his only client, although he hadn’t received any remuneration for several months.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:34|11.34 am|Christmas Eve 1995. 11.34 am. The first time, Almasa says it slowly and softly, as if she is really looking for an answer, "Are you talking to me?" She peers into the small, grimy mirror in a train toilet.|How to Fare Well and Stay Fair|Adnan Mahmutovic|unknown 11:35|eleven thirty-five|This was exactly the kind of case I’d been hoping for. I went through the motions of checking my schedule, though, and pretended to be shuffling a few things around. If you instantly agree to take a case, the client might suspect some ulterior motive.
“Luckily I’m free until later this afternoon,” I said, shooting my watch a glance. It was eleven thirty-five. “If you don’t mind, could you take me over to your building now? I’d like to see the last place you saw your husband.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 11:35|11.35 a.m.|The Prime Minister’s plane came to a stop at Oberweisenfeld airport at 11.35 a.m. The engines whined and died. Inside the cabin, after three hours of flight the silence was a noise in itself.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown @@ -1928,6 +1944,7 @@ 14:36|two thirty-six|I look at my watch. Two thirty-six. All I've got left today is take in the laundry and fix dinner.|The Elephant Vanishes|Haruki Murakami|unknown 14:37|2:37 P.M.|2:37 P.M.
The conduit was roughly a meter and a half in diameter and pitch dark. He had expected that and had extracted a waterproof flashlight from an emergency kit in the wreckage of the Hind. It was helping, but not all that much. With the heat exchangers off, no water was flowing. The stone walls were merely moist, the curved sides covered with slime.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:38|2:38 P.M.|2:38 P.M.
"Abdoullah" had finished unpacking the second crate, and now he examined what he had: two fifteen-kiloton nuclear devices, made using enriched uranium-235 from the Kahuta Nuclear Research Center. He smiled again to think they had been smuggled out right from under the noses of the officials at Kahuta, directly up the security elevators leading down to the U235 centrifuge at Level Five.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +14:38|2:38 p.m.|The bus continued on its way into Bristol, a journey he would normally cover in about twelve minutes in the Lagonda, but today it took over an hour before they finally pulled into the bus station. Hugo was neither the first nor the last passenger to get off. He checked his watch: 2:38 p.m. He’d left himself enough time.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:39|2.39|Noo, there's a report come in fra' the station-master at Pinwherry that there was a gentleman tuk the 2.39 at Pinwherry.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 14:40|two-forty|If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. “We better hurry,” I said. “The show starts at two-forty.”|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|nsfw 14:40|twenty minutes to three|Members of Big Side marked Michael and Alan as the two most promising three-quarters for Middle Side next year, and when the bell sounded at twenty minutes to three, the members of Big Side would walk with Michael and Alan towards the changing room and encourage them by flattery and genial ragging.|Sinister Street|Compton Mackenzie|unknown @@ -2420,6 +2437,7 @@ 18:09|nine minutes past six|Here I am, at nine minutes past six on a drizzly Saturday evening, with every intention of writing a book in one sitting.|Life With No Breaks|Nick Spalding|sfw 18:10|six ten|"Let me see now. You had a drink at the Continental at six ten."
"Yes."
"And at six forty-five you were talking to another journalist at the door of the Majestic?"
"Yes, Wilkins. I told you all this, Vigot, before. That night."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown 18:11|eleven minutes past six|The first explosion occurred at eleven minutes past six. The chart-house and part of the bridge were blown to pieces. Three dull, splintering crashes ensued in rapid succession, proving beyond question that the bombs were set to automatically explode at a given time.|West Wind Drift|George Barr McCutcheon|sfw +18:12|6:12 p.m.|He checked his watch: 6:12 p.m. He left the dining room and went downstairs to the wine cellar. A single bulb lit a room that had once stored filing cabinets full of archives. Since Giles’s arrival, they had been replaced by wine racks.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:12|6:12 P.M.|Wednesday 6:12 P.M.
The dusk was settling majestically over Tokyo, after a rare smogless day. The view was particularly inspiring from the fifty-fifth-floor penthouse of the granite-clad Mino Industries building.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 18:12|06:12|At 06:12 Noreen brings another whole tray that’s dinner, we can have dinner at five something or six something or even seven something, Ma says.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 18:13|06:13|It’s 06:13, that’s getting nearly to be the evening. Ma says I really should be wrapped up in Rug already, Old Nick might possibly come in early because of me being sick.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown @@ -2446,6 +2464,7 @@ 18:26|around half past six|It is around half past six in the evening. Dusk is gathering in the living room, an early dusk due to the fog which has rolled in from the Sound and is like a white curtain drawn down outside the windows.|Long Day's Journey Into Night|Eugene O'Neill|unknown 18:27|6:27|It was 6:27. In Frances Peverell's flat the phone rang. As soon as James spoke her name she knew that something was wrong.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 18:28|6:28 p.m.|At 6:28 p.m., a "Breaking News Alert" from the Examiner flashed to mobile phones and computers throughout the Chicago area: "Thomas R. O'Sullivan III, youngest member of once-powerful Illinois political family, among two slain in Diamond Point holdup. Lone gunman sought."|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw +18:29|6:29|For the next fifteen minutes he lugged the cases of wine and beer up the stairs, constantly stopping to check his watch, and at 6:29 he opened the back door to find the German corporal jumping up and down and slapping his sides in an effort to keep warm.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:29|twenty-nine minutes past six p.m.|Lieutenant Hershel Mote could not keep the note of near hysteria out of his voice when Wesley returned his telephone call at twenty-nine minutes past six p.m.
"You're where?" Wesley asked him again on the speaker phone.|The Body Farm|Patricia Cornwell|sfw 18:30|SIX-THIRTY|SIX-THIRTY ON REACHER’S watch, the motion inside the truck changed. Six hours and four minutes they’d cruised steadily, maybe fifty-five or sixty miles an hour, while the heat peaked and fell away. He’d sat, hot and rocking and bouncing in the dark with the wheel well between him and Holly Johnson, ticking off the distance against a map inside his head.|Die Trying|Lee Child|unknown 18:30|6:30 p.m.|After he had sent her home, he ate dinner alone at a nearby restaurant: Kyoto-style broiled mackerel with tofu, vinegared vegetables, miso soup, and a bowl of white rice. As usual, he kept away from alcohol. This was 6:30 p.m.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -2496,6 +2515,7 @@ 18:58|6:58|She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:58|two minutes to seven|"Walk fast," says Perry, "it's two minutes to seven, and I got to be home by—"
"Oh, shut up," says I. "I had an appointment as chief performer at an inquest at seven, and I'm not kicking about not keeping it."|Roads of Destiny|O. Henry|unknown 18:58|two minutes before seven|Today was Tuesday, the fifteenth of August; the sun had risen at eleven minutes past five this morning and would set at two minutes before seven this evening.|The Hot Rock|Donald E Westlake|unknown +18:59|one minute to seven|At one minute to seven, Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:59|6:59 p.m.|At 6:59 p.m. Central Standard Time, I stand in my Sunday best in Clare’s vestibule with my finger on her buzzer, fragrant yellow freesia and an Australian Cabernet in my other arm, and my heart in my mouth.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown 19:00|seven o’clock|“It was about seven o’clock and so still I felt that, if someone had spoken a mile away, I could have answered him.”|A Month in the Country|J.L. Carr|unknown 19:00|seven o’clock|By seven o’clock the candles were lit.|A Discovery of Witches|Deborah Harkness|unknown From ff57891a1ededa413ec3059e094187cd017d559f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:34:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 07/15] add quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 7bd18795..932c0a42 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +00:00|midnight|While they were drinking at the fountain, church clocks began to strike midnight. Missis said gladly, “Oh, Pongo, it’s tomorrow! Now we shall be with our puppies today!”|The 101 Dalmatians|Dodie Smith|sfw 00:00|midnight|At midnight the entrances were thrown wide, and the rabble, surging in, occupied the quarters assigned to them, from which nothing less than an earthquake or an army with spears could have dislodged them. They dozed the night away on the benches, and breakfasted there; and there the close of the exercises found them, patient and sight-hungry as in the beginning.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 00:00|midnight|“I thought you asleep,” he said, presently.
“Sleep is for old people and little children, and I came out to look at my friends, the stars in the south—those now holding the curtains of midnight over the Nile. But confess yourself surprised!”|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 00:00|midnight|Ren said, "If you go to the football field at midnight on Halloween and say his name three times, his ghost is supposed to appear."|Copper River|William Kent Krueger|sfw @@ -862,6 +863,7 @@ 07:08|between eight and nine minutes after seven o'clock|Reacher had no watch but he figured when he saw Gregory it must have been between eight and nine minutes after seven o'clock.|The Hard Way|Lee Child|unknown 07:09|07:09|We wake up and the air is shiverier. Watch says 07:09, he has a battery, that’s his own little power hidden inside.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 07:09|seven-nine|The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!|There Will Come Soft Rains|Ray Bradbury|unknown +07:10|7:10 a.m.|When he woke, he jumped out of bed and pulled back the curtains to see the first rays of sunlight bathing the city. He checked the time. It was 7:10 a.m. He felt grubby, and smiled at the thought of a long, hot bath.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:10|7.10|A search in Bradshaw informed me that a train left St. Pancras at 7.10, which would land me at any Galloway station in the late afternoon.|The Thirty-Nine Steps|John Buchan|unknown 07:10|7:10|There were many others waiting to execute the same operation, so she would have to move fast, elbow her way to the front so that she emerged first. The time was 7:10 in the morning. The manoeuvre would start at 7:12. She looked apprehensively at the giant clock at the railway station.|The Fourth Passenger|Mini Nair|unknown 07:11|eleven minutes past seven|"Anyway, every morning at eleven minutes past seven he'd slam the door and rev the engine like he was starting a grand prix, ruining my beauty sleep, especially if I'd just come off nights."|Limestone Cowboy|Stuart Pawson|sfw @@ -885,6 +887,7 @@ 07:21|7.21 a.m.|Why it felt important to know the time she didn’t know, other than to try and root herself in the midst of this chaos. 7.21 a.m. So many people would have been eating breakfast, getting ready for work or the Passover holiday.|The Little Wartime Library|KateThompson|unknown 07:22|7:22 A.M.|7:22 A.M.
"Do you know how to handle this?" Vance handed Cally the MP5 he was carrying. He had brought it up the hill to try to take out Ramirez, but after the fiasco with the flash grenades, he hadn't fired a shot.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 07:23|7:23 A.M.|7:23 A.M.
The transmit seemed to be working, and he was getting out everything he knew—the location of the Hind, the fake nationality, the attack on the frigate. But was anybody picking it up? The heavy Soviet radio was rapidly drawing down its batteries, but he figured it was now or never.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +07:23|7:23|Sebastian had to borrow his mother’s alarm clock to make sure he was up in time to catch the 7:23 to Paddington. Emma was waiting for him in the hall and offered to drive him to Temple Meads. It soon became clear why.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:24|7:24 a.m.|There was a brief murmur of voices; then Stephen Courtney-Brigs followed her into the sitting-room. Glancing at the clock, Dalgliesh saw that the hands stood at 7:24 a.m. The working day had almost begun.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 07:25|twenty-five minutes past seven|At twenty-five minutes past seven: Ker Karraje, Engineer Serko and Captain Spade advance to the extermity of the point, where they sweep the north-western horizon with their telescopes.|Facing the Flag|Jules Verne|sfw 07:25|7:25|He tried one more time at 7:25, and nothing had changed. It ran and ran, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.
He threw his guitar in his dad’s car and drove south toward Prescott. The Built to Spill tape was still in the tape deck, and he just let it keep going; it might as well be the damn soundtrack to everything.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw @@ -1008,7 +1011,7 @@ 08:07|seven minutes past eight|It was seven minutes past eight when Lara saw Betty Jeffries hurrying towards the school with her children in tow.|Dreams Beneath a Red Sun|Elizabeth Haran|sfw 08:08|8:08|Every clerk had his particular schedule of hours, which coincided with a single pair of tram runs coming from the city: A had to come in at 8, B at 8:04, C at 8:08 and so on, and the same for quitting times, in such a manner that never would two colleagues have the opportunity to travel in the same tramcar.|The Periodic Table|Primo Levi|unknown 08:09|8:09|He followed the squeals down a hallway. A wall clock read 8:09 - 10:09 Dallas time.|American Tabloid|James Ellroy|unknown -08:10|8:10|She said, "Hey sleepy head, time to get up. A Navy SEAL made breakfast, and I don't think you're supposed to be late."
"Aye, aye. What time is it?"
She glanced at the digital clock on her nightstand. "8:10." |Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw +08:10|8:10|She said, "Hey sleepy head, time to get up. A Navy SEAL made breakfast, and I don't think you're supposed to be late."
"Aye, aye. What time is it?"
She glanced at the digital clock on her nightstand. "8:10."|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw 08:10|8:10.|Sloane, with his shoulder punctured, was on another lounge. He was half delirious, and kept calling something about a chemistry lecture at 8:10.|This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald|unknown 08:10|8.10 a.m.|8.10 a.m. Read book or watch video|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:10|8:10|Cell count down to 400,000. Woke 8:10. To sleep 7:15. (Appear to have lost my watch without realising it, had to drive into town to buy another.)|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown @@ -1248,6 +1251,7 @@ 09:31|9:31 A.M.|Tuesday 9:31 A.M.
When Michael Vance walked into the third-floor trading room of Kenji Nogami's Westminster Union Bank, it had just opened for morning business. Computer screens were scrolling green numbers; traders in shirtsleeves were making their first calls to Paris and Zurich; the pounds and dollars and deutsche marks and yen were starting to flow.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:32|9.32|He said he couldn't say for certain of course, but that he rather thought he was. Anyhow, if he wasn't the 11.5 for Kingston, he said he was pretty confident he was the 9.32 for Virginia Water, or the 10 a.m. express for the Isle of Wight, or somewhere in that direction, and we should all know when we got there.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 09:32|nine-thirty-two|Sandy barely made the nine-thirty-two and found a seat in no-smoking. She'd been looking forward to this visit with Lisbeth. They hadn't seen each other in months, not since January, when Sandy had returned from Jamaica. And on that day Sandy was sporting a full-blown herpes virus on her lower lip.|Wifey|Judy Blume|unknown +09:33|9:33 a.m.|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:33|thirty-three minutes past nine|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 09:34|thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning|In another sense, on the contrary, our trains, in this latitude, gain over the sun more than 900 kilometres an hour, beating that planet hand over hand: quitting Liverpool at noon, for example, the traveler will reach the station where we now are at thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning - that is to say, earlier than he started!|An Express of the Future|Jules Verne|sfw 09:35|9:35 AM|He proceeded to email a copy to Ron, as well as to Zack. He then finally looked at the clock in the upper right corner of his laptop. It said 9:35 AM.|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw @@ -1267,12 +1271,14 @@ 09:41|09:41|Marya looked at the time display in the lower right corner of the screen; 09:41, exactly eleven minutes since she entered the fabrication complex|The Stone Dogs|S.M. Stirling|sfw 09:42|9:42|9:36
Fuck. I cannot make this bed. Why won't this sheet lie flat?
9:42
And why do they make mattresses so heavy?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|nsfw 09:42|eighteen minutes to ten|As it approached four seconds past eighteen minutes to ten it slowed right down, then halted altogether.|The Space Machine|Christopher Priest|sfw +09:43|9:43|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m. Once around the block: 9:43. Once again, even slower: 9:56. Finally, he walked through the gates, across a pebbled courtyard and up a dozen steps, where a large double door was opened for him by a guard whose medals indicated that they had served in the same theater of war.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:43|9:43 A.M.|Monday 9:43 A.M.
"Michael, I can't tell you how happy I am to hear from you, old man. We must have lunch today." The voice emerged from the receiver in the crisp diction of London's financial district, the City, even though the speaker had been born on the opposite side of the globe.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:44|9:44 A.M.|Friday 9:44 A.M.
"Guess we'd better start playing hide-and-seek in earnest," Vance observed.
"Stealth, my American friend," Androv replied. "The hostile radar signature of this fuselage is almost nothing."|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:45|a quarter to ten|At a quarter to ten on the morning of August 15th, Leandro crossed into the town of Troy. His stomach was tight with anticipation and — let’s face it, folks — a tingle of fear. His skin felt cold.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown 09:45|quarter to ten|She looked at the clock on the night table and saw it was quarter to ten. She’d slept another two hours. For a moment she was alarmed; maybe she’d suffered a concussion or a fracture after all.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:45|9.45|9.15, 9.30, 9.45, 10! Bond felt the excitement ball up inside him like cat's fur.|On Her Majesty's Secret Service|Ian Fleming|unknown 09:46|9:46 a.m.|At the hour of 9:46 A.M., to be exact, as one should in these matters, I had cast three times above the known lair of this fish. Then I cast a fourth time, more from habit than hope; and the fight was on.|Ma Pettengill|Harry Leon Wilson|sfw +09:47|9:47 a.m.|The timing of the Lord Chancellor’s entrance and exit from the North Tower of the Palace of Westminster would have impressed a regimental sergeant major. At 9:47 a.m. there was a knock on the door and his secretary, David Bartholomew, entered the room.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|nine forty-seven|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 09:47|09:47|When I’m hungry again I check Watch but he only says 09:47. Cartoons are over so I watch football and the planet where people win prizes.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 09:47|9:47|Finally at 9:47, the call came. Elaine answered, listened for a second, then silently handed me the receiver. “I want you to be my Secretary of State.”|Madam Secretary|Madeleine Albright|sfw @@ -1298,15 +1304,19 @@ 09:53|seven minutes to ten|Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare, but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions, and at seven minutes to ten precisely she was outside her destination.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown 09:54|9:54|9:54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton, and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:54|six minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +09:55|five to ten|Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by five to ten most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten precisely|On Tuesday, 17 October, at five minutes to ten precisely, Father Martin made his way from the small turret room he occupied at the south of the house, down the twisting stairs and along the corridor to Father Sebastian's study.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten|They were to call for her at her house in the Taurida Gardens at ten o’clock, but it was already five minutes to ten, and the girls were not yet dressed.
Natásha was going to her first grand ball. She had got up at eight that morning and had been in a fever of excitement and activity all day.|War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy|unknown 09:55|five to ten|At five to ten I'm ready in the hall. Nathaniel's mother's house is nearby but apparently tricky to find, so the plan is to meet here and he'll walk me over. I check my reflection in the hall mirror and wince. The streak of bleach in my hair is as obvious as ever. Am I really going out in public like this?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:55|five minutes to ten|"Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning", said Albert; "your punctuality really alarms me. What do I say? punctuality! You, whom I expected last, you arrive at five minutes to ten, when the time fixed was half-past! Has the ministry resigned?"|The Count of Monte Cristo|Alexandre Dumas|unknown +09:56|9:56|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m. Once around the block: 9:43. Once again, even slower: 9:56. Finally, he walked through the gates, across a pebbled courtyard and up a dozen steps, where a large double door was opened for him by a guard whose medals indicated that they had served in the same theater of war.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:56|9:56 A.M.|9:56 A.M.
Ally stepped out of the cab, holding the large leather‑bound portfolio, and checked the number on the card against the bronze plaque above the door. Winston Bartlett lived like a nineteenth‑century robber baron.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:57|9:57 A.M.|Friday 9:57 A.M.
"We have detonation," Colonel Arkadi reported into his helmet mike. His twin-engine Foxhound was already in a steep fifty-degree bank.
"We copy you," General Sokolov replied. "Can you confirm the kill?"|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|unknown 09:58|two minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:58|two minutes to ten|At two minutes to ten, the two presented themselves at No. 10, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.|John Dene of Toronto|Herbert George Jenkins|sfw 09:58|around ten o'clock|I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. I felt pretty hungry as soon as I had a cigarette. The last time I'd eaten was those two hamburgers I had with Brossard and Ackley when we went in to Agerstown to the movies. That was a long time ago. It seemed like fifty years ago.|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|unknown +09:59|moments before the clock struck ten|Harry took his place at a desk in the front row, and just moments before the clock struck ten, several masters in long black gowns and mortarboards swept in and placed examination papers on the desks in front of each candidate.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +09:59|one minute to ten|THE FRONT DOORBELL rang at one minute to ten, and Karl answered it.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|9:59|"I should have known," said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at 9:59.|Blood Stained|Gayl Siegel|sfw 09:59|One minute to ten|One minute to ten. With a heavy heart Bert watched the clock. His legs were still aching very badly. He could not see the hands of the clock moving, but they were creeping on all the same.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown 10:00|ten o’clock|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown @@ -1385,6 +1395,7 @@ 10:18|10:18 A.M.|Wednesday 10:18 A.M.
Kenji Nogami sat upright at his wide oak desk, waiting for the phone to ring. How would Michael play it? Admittedly it was smart to keep everything close to the chest, but still. He would have felt better if Michael Vance, Jr., had favored him with a little more trust.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:18|10:18|I know that it was 10:18 when I got home because I look at my watch a lot.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 10:19|10:19 A.M.|Friday 10:19 A.M.
"Altitude seventy-three thousand feet. Airspeed nine thousand knots.”
"Petra, raise helmet." He was slowly regaining his sight as the G-loads began to recede. The cockpit was an oven, overwhelming its environmental control equipment, clear evidence vehicle skin temperature had exceeded design.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw +10:20||At 10:20 there was a gentle tap on the door and, like the fairy godmother, Mr. Harrison reappeared.
“I hope you both enjoyed a good night’s sleep,” he ventured.
“Couldn’t have been better,” said William, after he’d drained his coffee.
Not much chance of that when you’re married to a caveman, Beth wanted to tell him, but kept her thoughts to herself.|Hidden in Plain Sight|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:20|Ten twenty|A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds. The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.
“What time is it?” my cousin asked me. About eight inches shorter than me, he had to look up when he talked.
I glanced at my watch. “Ten twenty.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 10:20|In twenty minutes|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown 10:21|10:21|10:21, and a voice behind her said, “Good morning, Miss Barrington.”|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1579,6 +1590,7 @@ 11:40|11:40|There was a group of about twenty people waiting for the 11:40 train, and the murderess and her daughter walked some fifty yards farther down the platform and stood alone, not speaking.|Innocent Blood|P.D. James|sfw 11:40|11.40 am|But the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron rods. He sat down again, and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line where these words were written, "21st December, Saturday, Liverpool," he added, "80th day, 11.40 am," and waited.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 11:40|twenty minutes before noon|During the sessions at Ito he read the Lotus Sutra on mornings of play, and he now seemed to be bringing himself to order through silent meditation. Then, quickly, there came a rap of stone on board. It was twenty minutes before noon.|The Master of Go|Yusunari Kawabata|unknown +11:41|11:41|Once he was back behind the wheel, he checked his watch: 11:41. No reason he shouldn’t make it to Shillingford in a couple of hours, although he knew his father would be pacing up and down the driveway long before then.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:41|eleven forty-one|Spagnola took a deep breath and started into the log again. "Eleven forty-one: large dog craps in Dr. Yamata's Aston Martin. Twelve oh-three: dog eats two, count 'em, two of Mrs. Wittingham's Siamese cats. She just lost her husband last week; this sort of put her over the edge. We had to call Dr. Yamata in off the putting green to give her a sedative."|Coyote Blue|Christopher Moore|unknown 11:42|11.42|The front door opens. Her heart pounds. She looks at the time on the bottom right of her screen. 11.42.|The Woman Downstairs|Elisabeth Carpenter|unknown 11:42|11:42|11:42 I'm doing fine. I'm doing well. I've got the Hoover on, I'm cruising along nicely- What was that? What just went up the Hoover? Why is it making that grinding noise? Have I broken it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown @@ -1715,6 +1727,7 @@ 12:33|thirty-three minutes past twelve|Stephen Maxie looked him straight in the eye and said almost casually: “It was thirty-three minutes past twelve by my watch."|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw 12:33|12.33|It's 12.33 now and I could do it, the station is just down that side road there.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 12:34|12:34 P.M.|12:34 P.M.
"W.B., we've got a problem," Karl Van de Vliet said into the microphone. He was in his private office, on the scrambled videophone. "Kristen's mother showed up just before noon with a pistol, demanding to know where she was."|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +12:35|twelve thirty-five|“Unfortunately you missed the early morning plane for Rome. However, we managed to book you onto the twelve thirty-five flight, and the airline has upgraded you to business class. A limousine will be waiting outside to take you back to the airport.”
“Of course it will,” said Beth.
“I beg your pardon, madam?”|Hidden in Plain Sight|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:35|twelve-thirty-five|As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was twelve-thirty-five when they were dismissed.|Men at Arms|Evelyn Waugh|unknown 12:36|12:36 CET|12:36 CET
Once the ship had docked, William and Monti leaned over the railing and watched as Grant lugged the casket down the gangway. He was still clutching it as he climbed into the back seat of a waiting car.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:36|12.36|She was going to walk calmly, coolly, up this amazing flight of stairs and into this building. There she was going to find Taylor, because it was already 12.36 and 30 seconds and in his text he’d told her to be on time.|New York Valentine|Carmen Reid|unknown @@ -1948,6 +1961,7 @@ 14:39|2.39|Noo, there's a report come in fra' the station-master at Pinwherry that there was a gentleman tuk the 2.39 at Pinwherry.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 14:40|two-forty|If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. “We better hurry,” I said. “The show starts at two-forty.”|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|nsfw 14:40|twenty minutes to three|Members of Big Side marked Michael and Alan as the two most promising three-quarters for Middle Side next year, and when the bell sounded at twenty minutes to three, the members of Big Side would walk with Michael and Alan towards the changing room and encourage them by flattery and genial ragging.|Sinister Street|Compton Mackenzie|unknown +14:41|Nineteen minutes to three|Nineteen minutes to three. “No need to rush,” she told Emma when there was a knock on the door. She was sure she’d hung the Do Not Disturb sign on the doorknob and told the chauffeur not to expect them before three.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:41|2.41|At 2.41, when the afternoon fast train to London was pulling out of Larborough prompt to the minute, Miss Pym sat under the cedar on the lawn wondering whether she was a fool, and not caring much anyhow.|Miss Pym Disposes|Josephine Tey|unknown 14:42|two-forty-two|It was two-forty-two. Clarissa has asked to be called at two-forty-five but a few minutes could hardly matter. She knocked, quietly at first, and then more loudly. There was no reply.|The Skull Beneath the Skin|P.D. James|sfw 14:42|14:42|At 14:42 precisely I saw a plasm tether descend from the sky and pause outside the apartment as if it contained a sensorium that was doing some surveilling of its own.|City on Fire|Walter Jon Williams|sfw @@ -2196,7 +2210,7 @@ 16:19|4:19 PM|Jessica [4:19 PM] Don't tease me like that. I haven't been to a play in years. Charles [4:19 PM] Then it'll be my treat. You and the hubby can have big fun on me.|The Other Woman|Eric Jerome Dickey|unknown 16:20|4:20 p.m.|“So, it was routinely tracked every fifty minutes. The last reported sighting was at 4:20 p.m. Central Menaya time. It was still coming sunward and nearly at the point of closest approach to Farholme - estimated to be at one hundred thousand kilometers out - but was still behaving itself."|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown 16:20|4.20 p.m.|4.20 p.m. Watch television or a video|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw -16:20|twenty past four|Hence it happened that he shouted out the hour, which was twenty past four, in his big voice through the growing twilight; and somehow the loudness of it made it seem like the proclamation of something tremendous.|The Oracle of the Dog|G.K. Chesterton|unknown +16:20|twenty past four|Hence it happened that he shouted out the hour, which was twenty past four, in his big voice through the growing twilight; and somehow the loudness of it made it seem like the proclamation of something tremendous.|The Oracle of the Dog|G.K. Chesterton|sfw 16:20|twenty minutes past four|At twenty minutes past four - or, to put it another, blunter way, an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride, her head down, a parent stationed on either side of her, was helped out of the building.|Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters|J.D. Salinger|unknown 16:21|4.21 pm|4.21 pm
As they started on, Doug picked up a twig and after rubbing it off, started to move one end of it inside his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Bob asked.
"Brushing my teeth, nature style," Doug answered.
Bob grunted, smiling slightly. "I'll use my toothbrush," he said.|Hunted Past Reason|Richard Matheson|sfw 16:22|4.22 pm|Monday, 4.22 pm Washington, D.C. Paul Hood took his daily late-afternoon look at the list of names on his computer monitor.|Balance of Power: Op-Center 05|Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, and Jeff Rovin|unknown @@ -2372,6 +2386,7 @@ 17:40|five-forty|It's five-forty now. The party's at six. By about ten past, the eleventh floor should be clearing. Arnold is a very popular partner; no one's going to miss his farewell speech if they can help it. Plus, at Carter Spink parties, the speeches always happen early on, so people can get back to work if they need to. And while everyone's listening I'll slip down to Arnold's office. It should work. It has to work. As I stare at my own bizarre reflection, I feel a grim resolve hardening inside me. He's not going to get away with everyone thinking he's a cheery, harmless old teddy bear. He's not going to get away with it.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 17:41|17:41|"All right, people, let's haul ass. Sunset's at 17:41 and we've got twenty-three k to go." Staff Segeant Beyn got to his feet and the platoon followed.|The Heart of Valor|Tanya Huff|nsfw 17:42|forty-two minutes past five|"Well, they set sail, and after going ever so many thousand miles, or hundred - I forget which, but it doesn't matter- a great storm arose, a typhoon or simoon, perhaps both; and after slowly gathering up its energies for the space of twenty-nine days, seven hours, and twenty-three minutes, without counting the seconds, it burst upon them at exactly forty-two minutes past five, on the sixth day of the week."|The Dodge Club; Or, Italy in MDCCCLIX|James De Mille|sfw +17:43|5:43 p.m.|“I always prefer to travel on a British carrier,” Don Pedro told the purser as they were shown to their seats in first class. The Boeing Stratocruiser took off at 5:43 p.m., just a few minutes behind schedule.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:43|5:43|It’s 5:43. Time is racing, racing.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 17:44|around 5.45|Janice is not waiting for him in the lounge or beside the pool when at last around 5.45 they come home from playing the par-5 eighteenth. Instead one of the girls in their green and white uniforms comes over and tells him that his wife wants him to call home.|Rabbit Is Rich|John Updike|unknown 17:45|a quarter to six|At a quarter to six, there was a rapping sound outside my door. I checked out the peephole. Ramirez stood outside, dressed in a big red basketball-type tank top, black shorts, and flip-flops.|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -2387,6 +2402,7 @@ 17:55|five minutes to six|One, two, three, four, five, six… She wound each clock in turn, three turns each, putting just enough power in the springs to get them ticking in time for Mr Westcott’s inspection. Speaking of which…it was five minutes to six. Five minutes before Mr. Westcott would arrive to inspect his clocks. Helena swallowed. She could hear footsteps thundering in the room below and the occasional exclamation from Stanley.|The House of One Hundred Clocks|A.M. Howell|unknown 17:55|five minutes to six|The wind moaned and sang dismally, catching the ears and lifting the shabby coat-tails of Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn, 'Photographic Artist', as he stood outside and put the shutters up with this own cold hands in despair of further trade. It was five minutes to six.|The Deferred Appointment|Algernon Blackwood|unknown 17:56|four minutes to six|Now, sir, the hand wants four minutes to six. If the hour strike before you call yourself a wanton, gratuitous calumniator, I'll flog you round the room.|The Knight of Gwynne|Charles James Lever|sfw +17:57|three minutes to six|Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by five to ten most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.|Only Time Will Tell|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|Hugo Carmody had done this, with the result that by three minutes to six he was feeling as if he had been marooned among roses since the beginning of summer.|Summer Lightning|P.G. Wodehouse|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|He would make his way by charm, the charm of voice, of jewel-like language, above all by the intellectual charm of new, moving, luminous ideas. At three minutes to six the doctor closed the book and waited.|The Drunkard|Guy Thorne|sfw 17:58|17:58|Then I notice the windows: they're shiny dark. 17:58, insists my watch. It can't be. It's only just gone four. I peer around my tormentor's belly to find Immaculée Constantin, but she's gone.|Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw @@ -2498,6 +2514,7 @@ 18:45|six forty-five|"Six forty-five," called Louie. "Did you hear, Ming," he asked, "did you hear?"
"Yes, Taddy, I heard."
"What is it?" asked Tommy. "The new baby, listen, the new baby."|The Man Who Loved Children|Christina Stead|unknown 18:45|quarter to seven|It was a quarter to seven when I let myself into the office and clicked the light on and picked a piece of paper off the floor. It was a notice from the Green Feather Messenger Service ...|The High Window|Raymond Chandler|unknown 18:46|fourteen minutes to seven|When I heard the thump overhead, I did not bother to look up. I knew it was fourteen minutes to seven.|Tiffany Street|Jerome Weidman|sfw +18:47|18:47|“Should he fail to make an appearance,” Lamont added, his tone changing, “the Hawk’s orders couldn’t have been clearer. Abort. We’re not going to raid Faulkner’s house unless we can be sure the evidence we need to convict him has been delivered.”
“No pressure,” whispered Jackie as William checked his watch: 18:47.|Hidden in Plain Sight|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:47|6:47 pm|The clock said 6:47 pm. With growing fear, I walked stiffly around the apartment, turning on all the lights - even the overhead lights in the living room, which we generally didn’t use because they were so stark and bright.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|unknown 18:48|twelve minutes to seven o'clock|We were soon dashing quickly along the streets. I did not know Liverpool well, and consequently could not tell exactly where the man was going. When I got into the hansom it wanted twelve minutes to seven o'clock; these minutes were quickly flying, and still no station.|A Master of Mysteries|Robert Eustace|sfw 18:49|6:49 p.m.|6:49 p.m. Lieutenant-General Tanz escorted by a motorized unit, drove to Corps headquarters|The Night of the Generals|Hans Hellmut Kirst|unknown @@ -2589,6 +2606,7 @@ 19:22|7:22 P.M.|BRYCE FENSTON’S GULFSTREAM V executive jet touched down at Heathrow at 7:22 P.M., and Ruth was standing on the tarmac waiting to greet the bank’s representative. She had already alerted customs with all the relevant details so that the paperwork could be completed just as soon as Anna returned.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:23|7:23|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 19:24|almost twenty-five after seven|He picked up his hat and coat and Clarice said hello to him and he said hello and looked at the clock and it was almost twenty-five after seven.|The Evening's at Seven|James Thurber|unknown +19:25|7:25 p.m.|When the bishop led the three men on to the stage at 7:25 p.m., it was the only time that night when everyone in the hall applauded. Giles took his seat and looked down at the packed audience. He estimated that over a thousand members of the public had turned up to watch the jousting.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:25|seven twenty-five|"No, sir, only the housekeeper. He's been in New England visiting his daughter. He always goes there in the fall. He was due back at the Heathrow on BA flight 214 arriving at seven twenty-five."|A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw 19:25|7:25|He tried one more time at 7:25, and nothing had changed. It ran and ran, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.
He threw his guitar in his dad’s car and drove south toward Prescott. The Built to Spill tape was still in the tape deck, and he just let it keep going; it might as well be the damn soundtrack to everything.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 19:25|twenty-five after seven|He picked up his hat and coat and Clarice said hello to him and he said hello and looked at the clock and it was almost twenty-five after seven.|The Evening's at Seven|James Thurber|unknown @@ -2663,6 +2681,7 @@ 19:59|teetering on eight o'clock|I see Lil right as I dismount the bike, her silver braid draped across her right shoulder. She sits on the front porch, her soft, weathered skin a rosy hue in the last rays of the day’s sunlight. It’s teetering on eight o’clock.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw 19:59|just before eight o' clock|Kuniang made her appearance in my study just before eight o' clock, arrayed in what had once been a "party frock."|The Maker of Heavenly Trousers|Daniel Vare|unknown 19:59|A minute to eight|Quickly, quickly. A minute to eight. My hot water bottle was ready, and I filled a glass with water from the tap. Time was of the essence.|The Thirteenth Tale|Diane Setterfield|unknown +20:00|eight o‘clock|It was still only eight o‘clock. “Missis!” he cried. “We shall get home tonight! We shall be home for Christmas!”
“Yes, Pongo,” said Missis gaily. But she did not feel as gay as she sounded.|The 101 Dalmatians|Dodie Smith|sfw 20:00|eight o’clock|Charlie glanced at the clock over the bar and saw it was eight o’clock, but the other men were coming over to talk, and he realized he might not be able to pry his father loose from the gaggle of admirers. Especially if they brought him drinks.|Blue Springs|Peter Rennebohm|unknown 20:00|8:00 P.M.|The ten directors now sitting in the conference room were irritable and impatient. It was 8:00 P.M. They had been talking among themselves for the last ten minutes, but slowly had fallen silent.|Jurassic Park|Michael Crichton|unknown 20:00|Eight o’clock|On the wall above the cupboard, invisible save at night, by lamplight and even then evincing an enigmatic profundity because it had but one hand, a cabinet clock ticked, then with a preliminary sound as if it had cleared its throat, struck five times.
"Eight o’clock," Dilsey said.|The Sound and the Fury|William Faulkner|unknown @@ -2996,6 +3015,7 @@ 22:25|10:25|Dalgliesh reflected that Etienne could hardly have devised a more effective deterrent to visitors and for a moment he wondered whether to walk the half-mile rather than risk his suspension. Glancing at his watch, he saw that it was 10:25. He would arrive precisely on time.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 22:25|ten twenty-five p.m.|“The last phone call came at ten twenty-five p.m. that night when I was listening to Erroll Garner’s Concert by the Sea and drinking Seagram’s VO. Handy, isn’t it, keeping a diary like this?”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 22:25|10:25 p.m.|10:25 p.m. Have got new cassette in now. Right. Turn to "Recording."|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw +22:26|ten twenty-six p.m.|Siddons shuffled through some papers before he found the document he was looking for. He looked up at the judge and said, “I can confirm, sir, that the death certificate was signed at ten twenty-six p.m. on Thursday the twenty-sixth of July, 1951.”|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:26|ten-twenty-six|As always, consciousness returned to me progressively from the edges of my field of vision. The first things to claim recognition were the bathroom door emerging from the far right and a lamp from the far left, from which my awareness gradually drifted inward like ice flowing together toward the middle of a lake. In the exact center of my visual field was the alarm clock, hands pointing to ten-twenty-six.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 22:27|ten twenty-seven p.m.|“Should you be having caffeine at”—Olive glanced at the clock—“ten twenty-seven p.m.?” Come to think of it, he shouldn’t be having caffeine at all, given his baseline shiny personality. And yet the two of them got coffee together every Wednesday. Olive was nothing but an enabler.|The Love Hypothesis|Ali Hazelwood|unknown 22:27|twenty-seven minutes past 10|Mr. Harcourt woke up with mysterious suddenness at twenty-seven minutes past 10, and, by a curious coincidence, it was at that very instant that the butler came in with two footmen laden with trays of whisky, brandy, syphons, glasses and biscuits.|England, Their England|A.G. Macdonell|unknown @@ -3060,6 +3080,7 @@ 22:59|one minute to eleven|They parked the car outside Lowther's at precisely one minute to eleven. People were leaving, not all of them happy at having their evening curtailed. But the grumbling was muted, and even then it only started once they were safely on the street.|The Complaints|Ian Rankin|unknown 22:59|10:59 P.M.|For the rest of the evening, nobody talked. They just drank, ate, sat in different parts of the shack. Sarah bit her nails, pretended to be busy at the food table. Kendra sat on the couch, her knees pulled up, her head in her arms. Christy stood by the window, examining the rain, her arms crossed, her face pinched.
At 10:59 P.M., Kendra’s walkie-talkie beeped.|Reprieve|James Han Mattson|unknown 22:59|one minute to eleven|Harry grunted in his sleep and his face slid down the window an inch or so, making his glasses still more lopsided, but he did not wake up. An alarm clock, repaired by Harry several years ago, ticked loudly on the sill, showing one minute to eleven.|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|J.K. Rowling|unknown +23:00|eleven|At eleven o‘clock the dogs gave Mrs. Dearly’s hand one last kiss and took Mr. Dearly out for his last run. Perdita joined them for this. She had spent the evening with the Nannies, feeling that Pongo and Missis might wish to be alone with their pets.|The 101 Dalmatians|Dodie Smith|sfw 23:00|eleven|Shanghai’s clocks were set an hour ahead so the city could "save daylight", but the Bai family said: “We go by the old clock.” Ten o’clock to them was eleven to everyone else. Their singing was behind the beat; they couldn’t keep up with the huqin [Chinese string instrument] producing bleak and desolate sounds of life.|Love in a Fallen City|Eileen Chang|unknown 23:00|eleven o’clock|Tony and Zenia are having coffee, as they have done almost every third day now for the past month, ever since they met. Or not every third day, every third evening: right now it’s eleven o’clock, Tony’s usual bedtime, and here she is, still up. She isn’t even sleepy.|The Robber Bride|Margaret Atwood|unknown 23:00|eleven o’clock|It was nearly eleven o’clock when we reached this final stage of our night’s adventures. We had left the damp fog of the great city behind us, and the night was fairly fine. A warm wind blew from the west-ward, and heavy clouds moved slowly across the sky, with half a moon peeping occasionally through the rifts.|The Sign of Four|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown @@ -3163,12 +3184,14 @@ 23:40|11:40 pm|I went to the kitchen to select another bottle, deciding to reduce the next day’s alcohol intake to compensate. Then I saw the clock: 11:40 pm. I picked up the phone and ordered a taxi. With any luck it would arrive before the after-midnight tariff commenced.|The Rosie Project|Graeme Simsion|unknown 23:40|Twenty minutes before midnight|Twenty minutes before midnight, before Oliver put an end to the festivities, she gave in to her impulse and texted her son, reminding him of their mutually agreed-upon curfew.|Behind the Lie|Emilya Naymark|unknown 23:40|11:40|We all have the maps and appliances of various kinds that can be had. Professor Van Helsing and I are to leave by the 11:40 train tonight for Veresti, where we are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.|Dracula|Bram Stoker|unknown +23:41|11:41|Once he was back behind the wheel, he checked his watch: 11:41. No reason he shouldn’t make it to Shillingford in a couple of hours, although he knew his father would be pacing up and down the driveway long before then.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 23:41|11:41|In a little while his mind cleared, but his head ached, arms ached, body ached. The phosphorescent figures on his watch attracted his attention. He peered at them. The time was 11:41. I remember...what do I remember?|Noble House|James Clavell|unknown 23:42|11.42|The front door opens. Her heart pounds. She looks at the time on the bottom right of her screen. 11.42.|The Woman Downstairs|Elisabeth Carpenter|unknown 23:42|11.42|At 11.42 then the signal's nearly due And the passengers are frantic to a man- Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:|Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|T.S. Eliot|unknown 23:43|Eleven-forty-three|Eleven-forty-three. In four minutes, give or take, Emma would die.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 23:43|eleven forty-three|The clock told him it was eleven forty-three and in that moment, in a flash of illumination, Mungo understood what the numbers at the end of Moscow Centre's messages were|Talking to Strange Men|Ruth Rendell|unknown 23:44|eleven forty-four|"At eleven forty-four last night somebody stabbed this girl in the neck with a kitchen knife and immediately thereafter plunged the same knife through her skull, where it remained."|Dead Famous|Ben Elton|unknown +23:45|fifteen minutes to midnight|It was fifteen minutes to midnight, when the dead—according to Celia—threw off their coffin lids like so many blankets. Stop that, Matt told himself.|The House of the Scorpion|Nancy Farmer|sfw 23:45|quarter to midnight|Billy’s plan lasts until quarter to midnight. He’s been watching some action movie in his underwear, and although the plot is simple—something about a guy seeking revenge on the men who killed his dog—Billy has lost the thread. He decides to call it a day.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 23:45|three quarters past eleven|The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged on London Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid step, was that of a woman who looked eagerly about her as though in quest of some expected object; the other figure was that of a man...|Oliver Twist|Charles Dickens|unknown 23:45|quarter to twelve|We struck the tow-path at length, and that made us happy because prior to this we had not been sure whether we were walking towards the river or away from it, and when you are tired and want to go to bed, uncertainties like that worry you. We passed Shiplake as the clock was striking the quarter to twelve and then George said thoughtfully: "You don't happen to remember which of the islands it was, do you?"|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown From 4a55987977e97a346ec93fb5bfa2a125ef1f646f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:19:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 08/15] added more Jeffrey Archer quotes, moved a quote at the wrong time --- litclock_annotated.csv | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 932c0a42..d39ca85d 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ 01:15|1.15 am|Lily Chen always prepared an 'evening' snack for her husband to consume on his return at 1.15 am.|Sour Sweet|Timothy Mo|unknown 01:16|sixteen past one|At sixteen past one, they walked into the interview room.|Nothing Gold Can Stay|Dana Stabenow|unknown 01:16|1.16 am|From 1 am to 1.16 am vouched for by other two conductors.|Murder on the Orient Express|Agatha Christie|unknown +01:17|seventeen minutes past one|“I don’t know how you feel, but I’m exhausted,” said Ted, bolting the kitchen door.
Hazel checked her watch. It was seventeen minutes past one.|Shoeshine Boy|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 01:17|1:17 A.M.|Friday 1:17 A.M.
The room was cold. Just cold. That was the first thing he'd noticed when they shoved him in. It still was. For nine hours he'd been sitting on a hard, canvas-covered Soviet cot, shivering.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 01:17|seventeen minutes past one|At that moment (it was seventeen minutes past one in the morning) Lieutenant Bronsfield was preparing to leave the watch and return to his cabin, when his attention was attracted by a distant hissing noise.|A Voyage Round the Moon|Jules Verne|unknown 01:17|1:17|The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didn't answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned on both taps as far as they would go.|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|unknown @@ -285,6 +286,7 @@ 02:05|2:05 A.M.|2:05 A.M., Flushing, Queens
Her cellphone, set on vibrate, rested on the night table next to the bed.|Warrior Monk|Ray Keating|sfw 02:05|2.05|At 2.05 the fizzy tights came crackling off.|London Fields|Martin Amis|unknown 02:05|five minutes past two|Then he began ringing the bell. In about ten minutes his valet appeared, half dressed, and looking very drowsy. "I am sorry to have had to wake you up, Francis," he said, stepping in; "but I had forgotten my latch-key. What time is it?"
"Five minutes past two, sir," answered the man, looking at the clock and yawning.
"Five minutes past two? How horribly late! You must wake me at nine to-morrow. I have some work to do."|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|unknown +02:06|six minutes past two|He checked his watch: six minutes past two. He closed the bedroom door and walked slowly downstairs. He opened the front door to see his car parked by the curb.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 02:06|six minutes past two|And the time was six minutes past two. And what of Jonah? He and Harry would probably arrive about five minutes too late.|Berry and Co.|Dornford Yates|sfw 02:06|About two. Just past.|"The middle of the night?" Alec asked sharply. "Can you be more definite?"
"About two. Just past." Daisy noted that he expressed no concern for her safety.|Dead in the Water|Carola Dunn|unknown 02:07|2:07 a.m.|At 2:07 a.m. I decided that I wanted a drink of orange squash before I brushed my teeth and got into bed, so I went downstairs to the kitchen. Father was sitting on the sofa watching snooker on the television and drinking whisky. There were tears coming out of his eyes.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|unknown @@ -550,6 +552,7 @@ 04:15|four-fifteen|Alice wants to warn her that a defect runs in the family, like flat feet or diabetes: they're all in danger of ending up alone by their own stubborn choice. The ugly kitchen clock says four-fifteen.|Pigs in Heaven|Barbara Kingsolver|unknown 04:16|four-sixteen|I stooped to pick up my watch from the floor. Four-sixteen. Another hour until dawn. I went to the telephone and dialled my own number. It'd been a long time since I'd called home, so I had to struggle to remember the number. I let it ring fifteen times; no answer. I hung up, dialled again, and let it ring another fifteen times. Nobody.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 04:16|four sixteen|They pulled into the visitor's carpark at four sixteen am. He knew it was four sixteen because the entrance to the maternity unit sported a digital clock beneath the signage.|Freaks in the City: Book Two of the Freaks Series|Maree Anderson|unknown +04:17|4:17|Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at 6:48 A.M. He checked his watch: 4:17. They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:17|4:17 a.m.|I succumbed to my curiosity, tugged up the left sleeve of my pullover, and checked my wristwatch. It was 4:17 a.m. This surprised me not because it was almost dawn, but because I’d had no idea of the time whatsoever.|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown 04:17|4.17 am|He awoke at 4.17 am in a sweat. He had been dreaming of Africa again, and then the dream had continued in the U.S. when he was a young man. But Inbata had been there, watching him.|The Vile|Douglas Phinney|unknown 04:18|four-eighteen|I grabbed the alarm clock, threw it on my lap, and slapped the red and black buttons with both hands. The ringing didn't stop. The telephone! The clock read four-eighteen. It was dark outside. Four-eighteen a.m. I got out of bed and picked up the receiver. "Hello?"|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -809,6 +812,7 @@ 06:45|quarter to seven|As the clock pointed to a quarter to seven, the dog woke and shook himself. After waiting in vain for the footman, who was accustomed to let him out, the animal wandered restlessly from one closed door to another on the ground floor; and, returning to his mat in great perplexity, appealed to the sleeping family, with a long and melancholy howl.|No Name|Wilkie Collins|unknown 06:45|quarter to seven|He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. Didn't you want to go somewhere?"|Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|unknown 06:46|one minute after the quarter to seven|At one minute after the quarter to seven I heard the rattle of the cans outside. I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.|The Thirty-Nine Steps|John Buchan|unknown +06:48|6:48 A.M.|Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at 6:48 A.M. He checked his watch: 4:17. They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:48|6:48 A.M.|His jet had touched down on the facility's runway at 6:48 A.M. and been promptly towed into the hangar. Tanzan Mino intended to be in personal command when Daedalus I went hypersonic, in just nineteen hours.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 06:49|6:49|Night ends, 6:49. Meet in the coffee shop at 7:30; press conference at 10:00.|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown 06:50|six fifty|That night I lay in my jangling single bed across from Sammy’s and I watched him sleep, and then I stared at the ceiling. I got up and took a blanket and went and made a cup of tea, and lay on the sofa and tried to read one of the wrinkled paperbacks. I blinked my way through a hallucinatory half chapter, set it aside and closed my eyes. I woke and it was six fifty, and I winced my way upstairs and lay down in my bed, to be there when Sammy woke up again.|The Body Lies|Jo Baker|unknown @@ -882,12 +886,14 @@ 07:17|7.17 am|As of 7.17 am local time on 30 June 1908, Padzhitnoff had been working for nearly a year as a contract employee of the Okhrana, receiving five hundred rubles a month, a sum which hovered at the exorbitant end of spy-budget outlays for those years.|Against the Day|Thomas Pynchon|unknown 07:18|7:18 A.M.|7:18 A.M.
"Ulysses to Sirene. Do you read me?"
When his radio crackled, Armont was in the medical facility of the Bates Motel, watching as a plasma IV was attached to Dimitri's arm. He immediately grabbed for it.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:19|7.19 am|I opened the sunroof and turned up the CD player volume to combat fatigue, and at 7.19 am on Saturday, with the caffeine still running all around my brain, Jackson Browne and I pulled into Moree.|The Rosie Project|Graeme Simsion|unknown +07:20|7:20|At 7:20, the door swung open and Anne reappeared to carry out her most important function of the day. “Time to take you through to the studio, Harry.”|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:20|7.20 a.m.|And this was my timetable when I lived at home with Father and I thought that Mother was dead from a heart attack (this was the timetable for a Monday and also it is an approximation). 7.20 a.m. Wake up|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|unknown 07:20|seven-twenty|He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day. He escaped from reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty.|Babbitt|Sinclair Lewis|unknown 07:21|7.21 a.m.|Why it felt important to know the time she didn’t know, other than to try and root herself in the midst of this chaos. 7.21 a.m. So many people would have been eating breakfast, getting ready for work or the Passover holiday.|The Little Wartime Library|KateThompson|unknown 07:22|7:22 A.M.|7:22 A.M.
"Do you know how to handle this?" Vance handed Cally the MP5 he was carrying. He had brought it up the hill to try to take out Ramirez, but after the fiasco with the flash grenades, he hadn't fired a shot.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 07:23|7:23 A.M.|7:23 A.M.
The transmit seemed to be working, and he was getting out everything he knew—the location of the Hind, the fake nationality, the attack on the frigate. But was anybody picking it up? The heavy Soviet radio was rapidly drawing down its batteries, but he figured it was now or never.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:23|7:23|Sebastian had to borrow his mother’s alarm clock to make sure he was up in time to catch the 7:23 to Paddington. Emma was waiting for him in the hall and offered to drive him to Temple Meads. It soon became clear why.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +07:24|7:24 a.m.|All three morning shows had offered him their highest rated spot, at 7:24 a.m. Six minutes didn’t sound like a long time, but in television terms, only ex-presidents and Oscar winners could take it for granted.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:24|7:24 a.m.|There was a brief murmur of voices; then Stephen Courtney-Brigs followed her into the sitting-room. Glancing at the clock, Dalgliesh saw that the hands stood at 7:24 a.m. The working day had almost begun.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 07:25|twenty-five minutes past seven|At twenty-five minutes past seven: Ker Karraje, Engineer Serko and Captain Spade advance to the extermity of the point, where they sweep the north-western horizon with their telescopes.|Facing the Flag|Jules Verne|sfw 07:25|7:25|He tried one more time at 7:25, and nothing had changed. It ran and ran, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.
He threw his guitar in his dad’s car and drove south toward Prescott. The Built to Spill tape was still in the tape deck, and he just let it keep going; it might as well be the damn soundtrack to everything.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw @@ -1043,6 +1049,7 @@ 08:25|Eight-twenty-five|Eight-twenty-five some Acute mentions he used to watch his sister taking her bath; the three guys at the table with him fall over each other to see who gets to write it in the log book.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 08:25|twenty-five after|The next day, Jay sat at his desk promptly at eight. At twenty-five after, Irene came over. "Time to go to the meeting."
Jay stood. "Who'll take over the phones?" |The Arachne Portal|Joan Marie Verba|unknown 08:26|twenty-six minutes past eight|It exploded much later than intended, probably a good twelve hours later, at twenty-six minutes past eight on Monday morning. Several defunct wristwatches, the property of victims, confirmed the time. As with its predecessors over the last few months, there had been no warning.|The Little Drummer Girl|John le Carré|unknown +08:27|8:27|On arriving at platform one at Sevenoaks station, he would purchase a copy of the Daily Express before boarding the 8:27 to Cannon Street.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:27|twenty-seven minutes past eight|Even dawdling over breakfast with my mother just killed an hour, and though I hadn't planned to be at Marge's until nine, I was knocking on her door at twenty-seven minutes past eight.|Fatally Frosted|Jessica Beck|sfw 08:27|almost eight-thirty|The lecture was to be given tomorrow, and it was now almost eight-thirty.|A Confederacy of Dunces|John Kennedy Toole|unknown 08:28|8.28|And at 8.28 on the following morning, with a novel chilliness about the upper lip, and a vast excess of strength and spirits, I was sitting in a third-class carriage, bound for Germany, and dressed as a young sea-man, in a pea-jacket, peaked cap, and comforter.|The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers|unknown @@ -1081,6 +1088,7 @@ 08:39|8:39 A.M.|8:39 A.M.
"It's a go in five," Caroline Shaeffer announced in a stage whisper, leaning over his shoulder. A blond Ohio debutante, she was press secretary—a job she had fought for and loved —and she structured the President's media appearances with the bloodless efficiency of a Nazi drill sergeant.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 08:39|8:39 A.M.|This is because when the first shot was fired at 8:39 A.M., I was sleeping beside my girlfriend, Carmen, as bourbon soaked our livers, coke drip lingered in our throats, and her birth control eliminated the risk of getting pregnant on a night we would scarcely remember. As haram of a night as one could live; I might as well have changed my name to Patrick and launched a blog for atheists.|Cairo Circles|Doma Mahmoud|nsfw 08:39|8:39 A.M.|Doug McGuire noticed the early hour, 8:39 A.M. on the one wall clock that gave Daylight Savings Time for the East Coast.|Terminal Compromise|Winn Schwartau|unknown +08:40|8:40|He left the Sherry-Netherland just after 8:40, and by the time he reached Lexington, he was just about ready to face the headmaster’s wrath.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:40|8:40 A.M.|At 8:40 A.M. she was wheeled out on a stretcher headed for Mayo General Hospital, blistered and burned by a tanning bed turned torture chamber.|Pomegranate Soup|Marsha Mehran|unknown 08:40|8.40|At this moment the clock indicated 8.40. "Five minutes more," said Andrew Stuart. The five friends looked at each other. One may surmise that their heart-beats were slightly accelerated, for, even for bold gamblers, the stake was a large one.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 08:40|twenty minutes to nine|It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.|Great Expectations|Charles Dickens|unknown @@ -1099,6 +1107,7 @@ 08:47|8:47 a.m.|8:47 a.m. Just had fag. But no-smoking day does not start officially till have got dressed.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|unknown 08:47|8.47|"Just on my way to the cottage. It's, er, . . .8.47. Bit misty on the roads."|Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency|Douglas Adams|unknown 08:48|twelve minutes to nine|Surely if she walked down Swane Street and down Leeds Road, she could go into the old door, up the old steps and slip into her old chair, gather up her old stock of paper and scent and gum, and just go on with her work where she had left off? But it was twelve minutes to nine.|Courage|Malachi Whitaker|sfw +08:49|8:49|At 8:49 there was a loud rap on the door, and Sir Hamish muttered an inaudible reproach as David Heath went to open it. He found his contact standing there.|A Matter of Principle|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:49|8.49|I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at 8.19 and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late, at 8.49.|The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim|Jonathan Coe|unknown 08:50|ten minutes to nine|At ten minutes to nine the mail van stopped outside Sprogg's Cottage on the outskirts of Chevisham to deliver a single letter.|Death of an Expert Witness|P.D. James|sfw 08:50|8:50 AM|He knew it was central to the pope's visit. When it arrived at 8:50 AM on Tuesday morning, Carolan's secretary handed it to him. The bishop asked her to close the door as she left his office.|Warrior Monk|Ray Keating|sfw @@ -1125,6 +1134,7 @@ 08:57|08:57|She points up at Watch that says 08:57, that’s only three minutes before nine. So I run into Wardrobe and lie down on my pillow and wrap up in Blanket that’s all grey and fleecy with the red piping.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 08:57|three minutes before nine|You'll have to hurry. Many a long year before that, in one of the bygone centuries, a worthy citizen of Wrychester, Martin by name, had left a sum of money to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral on condition that as long as ever the Cathedral stood, they should cause to be rung a bell from its smaller bell-tower for three minutes before nine o'clock every morning, all the year round.|The Paradise Mystery|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 08:58|two minutes of nine|It was two minutes of nine now - two minutes before the bombs were set to explode - and three or four people were gathered in front of the bank waiting for it to open.|The Getaway|Jim Thompson|unknown +08:59|8:59|He would then take a hackney carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and arrive in the Foreign Office at promptly 8:59, returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.|The Chinese Statue|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:59|8:59|She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alberto's conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep. The reading lamp by the bed had been on all night. The green glowing digits on her desk alarm clock showed 8:59.|Sophie's World|Jostein Gaarder|unknown 09:00|nine|No trace of Inge was found that day or night. For some the search went on all night long. Then, about nine the next morning, the bells in the belfry of Zion Church began to ring wildly.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw 09:00|nine o'clock|At nine o'clock the parsonage buggy carried them south on the highway toward Ravelunda. Fridfeldt felt more at home north of the church hamlet. There the revival had been more evident. Down here at Vänneberga it had one of its last outposts. Beyond it lay Sörbygden where the spiritual life was of another type. There one could both smoke and confess the Savior; there the doctrine of total sinful depravity was preached, and it was said whisky might be found also among the awakened.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown @@ -1163,6 +1173,7 @@ 09:00|nine|The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; In half an hour she promised to return.|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|unknown 09:00|nine|To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.|The Waste Land|T.S. Eliot|unknown 09:00|Nine o’clock|Nine o’clock young residents wearing leather elbows talk to Acutes for fifty minutes about what they did when they were little boys. The Big Nurse is suspicious of the crew-cut looks of these residents, and that fifty minutes they are on the ward is a tough time for her.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown +09:01|one minute past nine|He paced around the room, using the time to rehearse his questions, questions that mustn’t sound prepared. At one minute past nine, he took the piece of paper out of his pocket and dialed the number.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:01|9:01 am|9:01 am lay in bed, staring at ceiling.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:02|two minutes past nine|It was two minutes past nine. Hanley nodded to the chief housing officer. "Proceed," he said. The council officer approached the door of the house and knocked loudly.|No Comebacks|Frederick Forsyth|sfw 09:02|a few minutes after nine|We were rolling down an expressway, somewhere, but rain was clouding the view of the skyline so that I couldn't orient myself to where we were. The glowing numbers of the dashboard clock said that it was only a few minutes after nine.|Fool Moon|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -1178,6 +1189,7 @@ 09:05|9:05 a.m.|The tour of the office doesn't take that long. In fact, we're pretty much done by 9:05 a.m. Ed looks at everything twice and says it's all great, and gives me a list of contacts who might be helpful, then has to leave for his own office.|Twenties Girl|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:06|six minutes past nine|Secretly, it's only six minutes past nine. I set my huge clock (oversize so that I can see without my contacts in) nine minutes fast in the hope that somehow this deception will make me on time.|Milkrun|Sarah Miynowski|sfw 09:06|9:06 am|9:06 am lay in bed, staring at ceiling.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw +09:07|9:07|During the journey Septimus would read his newspaper and smoke two cigarettes, arriving at Cannon Street at 9:07.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:07|Seven minutes past|Hadn't Father Presteign said that the post came at nine or shortly after? "Shortly after" could mean anything. They could be waiting for half an hour. Five past nine. Seven minutes past. And then it came.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 09:07|9:07|The seventh day the blinds in a downstairs window were left up in the morning. Luke saw a light go on and off at 9:07, two full hours after the Sports Family had left.|Among the Hidden|Margaret Peterson Haddix|unknown 09:07|9:07 am|9:07 am lay in bed, staring at ceiling.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw @@ -1248,22 +1260,26 @@ 09:30|nine-thirty|It was nine-thirty. In another ten minutes she would turn off the heat; then it would take a while for the water to cool. In the meantime there was nothing to do but wait. “Have you thought it through April?” Never undertake to do a thing until you’ve –“ But she needed no more advice and no more instruction. She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents not Aunt Claire not Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.|Revolutionary Road|Richard Yates|unknown 09:30|nine-thirty|The body came in at nine-thirty this morning. One of Holding's men went to the house and collected it. There was nothing particularly unusual about the death. The man had had a fear of hospitals and had died at home, being cared for more than adequately by his devoted wife.|Trumpet|Jackie Kay|unknown 09:30|9.30|Up the welcomingly warm morning hill we trudge, side by each, bound finally for the Hall of Fame. It's 9.30, and time is in fact a-wastin'.|Independence Day|Richard Ford|unknown +09:31|9:31|His phone rang at 9:31. Pat grabbed it, and was relieved to hear Mr. Levy’s voice on the other end of the line.|You'll Never Live to Regret It|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:31|9:31 A.M.|Tuesday 9:31 A.M.
When Michael Vance walked into the third-floor trading room of Kenji Nogami's Westminster Union Bank, it had just opened for morning business. Computer screens were scrolling green numbers; traders in shirtsleeves were making their first calls to Paris and Zurich; the pounds and dollars and deutsche marks and yen were starting to flow.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:32|9.32|He said he couldn't say for certain of course, but that he rather thought he was. Anyhow, if he wasn't the 11.5 for Kingston, he said he was pretty confident he was the 9.32 for Virginia Water, or the 10 a.m. express for the Isle of Wight, or somewhere in that direction, and we should all know when we got there.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 09:32|nine-thirty-two|Sandy barely made the nine-thirty-two and found a seat in no-smoking. She'd been looking forward to this visit with Lisbeth. They hadn't seen each other in months, not since January, when Sandy had returned from Jamaica. And on that day Sandy was sporting a full-blown herpes virus on her lower lip.|Wifey|Judy Blume|unknown 09:33|9:33 a.m.|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:33|thirty-three minutes past nine|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 09:34|thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning|In another sense, on the contrary, our trains, in this latitude, gain over the sun more than 900 kilometres an hour, beating that planet hand over hand: quitting Liverpool at noon, for example, the traveler will reach the station where we now are at thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning - that is to say, earlier than he started!|An Express of the Future|Jules Verne|sfw +09:35|9:35 AM|He opened the first file and began to go over the seven questions he’d written out so neatly the night before. He glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was 9:35 A.M.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:35|9:35 AM|He proceeded to email a copy to Ron, as well as to Zack. He then finally looked at the clock in the upper right corner of his laptop. It said 9:35 AM.|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw 09:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:35|nine-thirty-five|Nine-thirty-five. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire.|The Memory of Love|Aminatta Forna|unknown 09:35|twenty-five minutes to ten|At twenty-five minutes to ten he was tapping on the closed door of Blore’s room.
The latter opened it cautiously. His hair was tousled and his eyes were still dim with sleep.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown +09:36|9:36 A.M.|Danny checked Nick’s watch: 9:36 A.M. He walked quickly downstairs and headed for reception, where he tried a different ploy.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:36|9:36|I grab a pen and the pad of paper by the phone and start scribbling a list for the day. I have an image of myself moving smoothly from task to task, brush in one hand, duster in the other, bringing order to everything. Like Mary Poppins.
9:30-9:36 Make Geigers' bed|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|sfw 09:36|9:36 a.m.|9:36 a.m. Oh God, Oh God. Maybe he's fallen in love in New York and stayed there.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 09:37|thirty-seven minutes past nine|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|sfw 09:38|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]. He was just turning in upon the footpath behind the swine shed. It would take ten minutes to get to the church. He had less than fifteen minutes in which to get ready.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown 09:39|9.39 a.m.|Exactly as the display ticked over to 9.39 a.m. there was a distant banging on my front door. I hate show-offs.|Fated|Benedict Jacka|sfw 09:39|9:39 A.M.|9:39 A.M.
Braque was in the ground-floor women’s bathroom at Chapin Hall with her pants to her knees, but her whole day wasn’t f*cked yet. Yes, this was a substantial detour, but she still had an hour to make it to her last Micro 1 discussion group before the final.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw +09:40|9:40|After breakfast she selected a maternity outfit that made her, with a little assistance, look about seven months pregnant. She left the hotel at 9:40 a.m., and took a taxi to Lafayette street, where she entered a monument to glass and steel, and, after checking the directory on the wall, took a lift to the twenty-first floor.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:40|nine-forty|His business partner rang the office at about nine-forty to say he hadn't been able to contact Robin since yesterday morning and was worried. Mrs. Frensham came over first and found the remains of a meal on the kitchen table, his car in the driveway and his bed apparently not slept in.|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw 09:40|twenty minutes to ten|Hartmann closed the door of the banqueting hall and stopped to fasten his watch. It was twenty minutes to ten. From the office along the corridor came a faint sound of typing; a telephone rang.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown 09:40|twenty minutes before ten|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club—all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|sfw @@ -1278,6 +1294,7 @@ 09:45|quarter to ten|She looked at the clock on the night table and saw it was quarter to ten. She’d slept another two hours. For a moment she was alarmed; maybe she’d suffered a concussion or a fracture after all.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:45|9.45|9.15, 9.30, 9.45, 10! Bond felt the excitement ball up inside him like cat's fur.|On Her Majesty's Secret Service|Ian Fleming|unknown 09:46|9:46 a.m.|At the hour of 9:46 A.M., to be exact, as one should in these matters, I had cast three times above the known lair of this fish. Then I cast a fourth time, more from habit than hope; and the fight was on.|Ma Pettengill|Harry Leon Wilson|sfw +09:47|9:47|“She’s dead,” he confirmed. “It must have been very sudden and with the minimum of pain.” He checked his watch; the time was 9:47. He covered his patient with a blanket and called for an ambulance.|Old Love|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|9:47 a.m.|The timing of the Lord Chancellor’s entrance and exit from the North Tower of the Palace of Westminster would have impressed a regimental sergeant major. At 9:47 a.m. there was a knock on the door and his secretary, David Bartholomew, entered the room.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|nine forty-seven|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 09:47|09:47|When I’m hungry again I check Watch but he only says 09:47. Cartoons are over so I watch football and the planet where people win prizes.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown @@ -1302,6 +1319,7 @@ 09:52|eight minutes to ten|With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at 9:25 that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly eight minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown 09:53|seven minutes to ten|Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare, but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions, and at seven minutes to ten precisely she was outside her destination.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown +09:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw 09:54|9:54|9:54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton, and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:54|six minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five to ten|Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by five to ten most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1395,7 +1413,8 @@ 10:18|10:18 A.M.|Wednesday 10:18 A.M.
Kenji Nogami sat upright at his wide oak desk, waiting for the phone to ring. How would Michael play it? Admittedly it was smart to keep everything close to the chest, but still. He would have felt better if Michael Vance, Jr., had favored him with a little more trust.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:18|10:18|I know that it was 10:18 when I got home because I look at my watch a lot.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 10:19|10:19 A.M.|Friday 10:19 A.M.
"Altitude seventy-three thousand feet. Airspeed nine thousand knots.”
"Petra, raise helmet." He was slowly regaining his sight as the G-loads began to recede. The cockpit was an oven, overwhelming its environmental control equipment, clear evidence vehicle skin temperature had exceeded design.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw -10:20||At 10:20 there was a gentle tap on the door and, like the fairy godmother, Mr. Harrison reappeared.
“I hope you both enjoyed a good night’s sleep,” he ventured.
“Couldn’t have been better,” said William, after he’d drained his coffee.
Not much chance of that when you’re married to a caveman, Beth wanted to tell him, but kept her thoughts to herself.|Hidden in Plain Sight|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +10:20|twenty minutes past ten|They arrived outside Brides of Bombay at twenty minutes past ten. This was never going to be an appointment Seb would be late for. Vijay didn’t comment when Seb asked him to park out of sight, but he was surprised by his next instruction.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +10:20|10:20|At 10:20 there was a gentle tap on the door and, like the fairy godmother, Mr. Harrison reappeared.
“I hope you both enjoyed a good night’s sleep,” he ventured.
“Couldn’t have been better,” said William, after he’d drained his coffee.
Not much chance of that when you’re married to a caveman, Beth wanted to tell him, but kept her thoughts to herself.|Hidden in Plain Sight|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:20|Ten twenty|A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds. The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.
“What time is it?” my cousin asked me. About eight inches shorter than me, he had to look up when he talked.
I glanced at my watch. “Ten twenty.”|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 10:20|In twenty minutes|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown 10:21|10:21|10:21, and a voice behind her said, “Good morning, Miss Barrington.”|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1543,6 +1562,8 @@ 11:15|quarter past eleven|A stretch of curb in front of Gerard Tower has been stenciled AUTHORIZED PARKING ONLY. At quarter past eleven a truck with a big sombrero on the side pulls up there. Below the sombrero, JOSE’S EATS. And below that, TODOS COMEN! People start leaving the building, trundling toward the truck like ants drawn to sugar.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 11:15|a quarter past eleven|The chalet stand isolated at the end of a blind valley. Higher up, there’s only the reservoir, and behind it the treacherous glacier. At a quarter past eleven, she concludes that it’s impossible for Nick to be wandering out there, in this weather.|Echo|Thomas Olde Heuvelt|unknown 11:15|11:15|"Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15."|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +11:17|11:17|When Sir Matthew was directly behind his client, he checked his watch. It was 11:17. He knew his timing had to be exact, because he had become uncomfortably aware that he was dealing not only with a clever woman but also an extremely cunning one.|An Eye for an Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +11:17|11:17|Ted presented himself at the front door of Number 10 at 11:17 the next day. The deputy clerk accompanied him down the long corridor to the ground floor and asked him to take a seat in the small waiting area that adjoins the Cabinet Room.|Shoeshine Boy|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|seventeen minutes past eleven|Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George's Church had stopped ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven: she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then catch short twelve at Marlborough Street. She was sure she would win.|Dubliners|James Joyce|unknown 11:18|11.18|It is 11.18. A row of bungalows in a round with a clump of larch tree in the middle.|Trumpet|Jackie Kay|unknown 11:19|11:19|A whistle cut sharply across his words. Peter got onto his knees to look out the window, and Miss Fuller glared at him. Polly looked down at her watch: 11:19. The train. But the stationmaster had said it was always late.|Blackout|Connie Willis|unknown @@ -1584,6 +1605,7 @@ 11:36|11:30 and arrived six minutes late|Velma Pitt-Cowley, Mrs. Carling's literary agent, had agreed to be at the flat at 11:30 and arrived six minutes late. She was hardly inside the door before it became apparent that she was in none too good a temper.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 11:36|eleven thirty-six|I ran up the stairs, away from the heat and the noise, the mess and the confusion. I saw the clock radio by my bed. Eleven thirty-six.|Losing You|Nicci French|unknown 11:37|11:37 a.m.|Took a call at 11:37 a.m. from a woman who identified herself as Jean Garfield, secretary to Pan-Con Certification Examiner Jim Long of Dallas. Asked how to go about lodging a complaint of religious harassment against Rayford Steele due to his pressuring Long during his recert this a.m.|Tribulation Force|Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins|sfw +11:38|11:38|He glanced at his watch: 11:38. He put down his drink, and ran out of the apartment.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:38|11:38|At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ten minutes before noon.|The Circle|Dave Eggers|sfw 11:39|Eleven-thirty-nine|"Time?" Raith asked.
"Eleven-thirty-nine, my lord," the bodyguard reported.
"Ah, good. Still time." He walked over to a group of pillows in the far corner of the room, and I realized that they had been strewn around a little raised platform of stone.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 11:39|11.39|After painstaking ticket-office conversations and timetable consultations, I established with as much certainty as any tourist can hope for that the 11.39 to Paris Est was a service on which accompanied bicycles could be carried free of charge.|French Revolutions|Tim Moore|sfw @@ -1604,8 +1626,8 @@ 11:45|11.45 am|I arrived at St. Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11.45 am on Thursday, the 16th by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat.|Epitaph for a Spy|Eric Ambler|unknown 11:47|eleven forty-seven|"Because the two curses that have struck here in Chicago arrived at eleven forty-seven in the morning, and damned close to that last night. Add two hours to the deaths in California to account for the difference in time zones. The curse was sent at the same time. Thirteen minutes before noon or midnight."|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|nsfw 11:47|thirteen minutes to noon|It was a vast plain with no one on it, neither living on the earth nor dead beneath it; and I walked a long time beneath a colourless sky, which didn't let me judge the time (my watch, set like all military watches to Berlin time, hadn't stood up to the swim and showed an eternal thirteen minutes to noon).|The Kindly Ones|Jonathan Littell|unknown -11:48|ten minutes before noon|At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ten minutes before noon.|The Circle|Dave Eggers|unknown 11:49|11:49 A.M.|Richie hadn't made any outgoing calls after 11:49 A.M. However, there was a long list of incoming calls that afternoon, calls he would never return.|After All These Years|Susan Isaacs|sfw +11:50|ten minutes before noon|At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ten minutes before noon.|The Circle|Dave Eggers|unknown 11:50|ten minutes to twelve|The man who gave them to him handed him a ten-shilling note and promised him another if it were delivered at exactly ten minutes to twelve.|The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story|Agatha Christie|unknown 11:51|nine minutes to twelve|The next day, at nine minutes to twelve o'clock noon, the last clock ran down and stopped. It was then placed in the town museum, as a collector's item, or museum piece, with proper ceremonies, addresses, and the like.|Lanterns & Lances|James Thurber|unknown 11:52|eight minutes to twelve|He walked back to Delaney Street at eight minutes to twelve and pretended to browse the bookshop. At twelve o'clock Monty called to his neighbor and, a second or two later, appeared from the back of the shop wearing his denim jacket and went across to the Blind Beggar.|Innocent Blood|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1614,13 +1636,16 @@ 11:53|seven minutes to twelve|Afterward it was recalled by observing citizens that just before noon - seven minutes to twelve, in fact - a small cloud no bigger than the proverbial hand crossed the sun hurriedly as if afraid to tarry.|The Daughter of Anderson Crow|George Barr McCutcheon|sfw 11:54|six minutes to twelve|He swilled off the remains of [his beer] and looked at the clock. It was six minutes to twelve.|Hangover Square|Patrick Hamilton|unknown 11:54|six minutes to noon|“‘Han will have that shield down,’ ” Aech quoted. “‘We’ve got to give him more time!’”
I laughed, then used my robot’s right hand to tap the back of its left wrist, indicating the time. “Aech is right. It’s still six minutes to noon.”|Ready Player One|Ernest Cline|unknown +11:55|five minutes to twelve|The prisoners would be allowed out of their cells to watch the World Cup match between England and Argentina. At five minutes to twelve, the doors were unlocked and the prisoners flooded out of their cells, all heading in one direction.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:55|five minutes to twelve|He was tearing off on his bicycle to one of the jobs about five minutes to twelve to see if he could catch anyone leaving off for dinner before the proper time.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown 11:55|11:55 a.m.|It was 11:55 a.m. on April 30.|All the President's Men|Bernstein & Woodward|unknown 11:55|11:55|"What time did you arrive at the site?"
"It was 11:55. I remember since I happened to glance at my watch when we got there. We rode our bicycles to the bottom of the hill, as far as we could go, then climbed the rest of the way on foot."|Kafka on the Shore|Haruki Murakami|sfw +11:56|four minutes to twelve|Aaron checked his watch on the run: four minutes to twelve. He prayed that Harry would be late. Harry was never late.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:56|11:56 a.m.|16th December 1985, 11:56 a.m.
[UNIT 4B, KING'S MILLS. (MUM IS MAKING ME SIT IN THE OFFICE BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T TRUST ME TO BE IN THE HOUSE ON MY OWN.)]
"Doctor, doctor, everyone thinks I'm a liar."
"I find that hard to believe."|The Book of Lies|Mary Horlock|sfw 11:57|three minutes to noon|By the time that it only wanted three minutes to noon, the droll object in question was perceived to be a very diminutive foreign-looking young man. He descended the hills at a great rate, so that every body soon had a good look at him.|The Devil in the Belfry|Edgar Allan Poe|sfw 11:57|around noon|A few minutes' light around noon is all that you need to discover the error, and re-set the clock – provide that you bother to go up and make the observation.|Odalisque: The Baroque Cycle #3|Neal Stephenson|unknown 11:57|can't be far-off twelve|"I wondered what the time is?" said the latter after a pause.
"I don't know exactly", replied Easton, "but it can't be far-off twelve."|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown +11:58|two minutes to twelve|Danny turned to the business section of The Times to check on his investments while he waited for the innocent Mr. Hall to appear. At two minutes to twelve, Mario was standing by his side. “Sir Nicholas, your guest has arrived.”|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:58|11:58 AM|Nguyen shrugged. He pointed at the clock on the dashboard that said 11:58 AM. "Maybe they're heading to lunch." He smiled, as he returned his focus to the road and the vehicles in front of him.
Noack mumbled, "If only."|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw 11:58|11.58|And when you go down the steps, it's always 11.58 on the morning of September ninth, 1958.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 11:58|Two minutes before the clock struck noon|Two minutes before the clock struck noon, the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the preparation for the frightful ceremony of mid-day. The block was laid forth-the hideous minister of vengeance, masked and in black, with the flaming glaive in his hand, was ready. The baron tried the edge of the blade with his finger, and asked the dreadful swordsman if his hand was sure? A nod was the reply of the man of blood.|Burlesques|William Makepeace Thackeray|unknown @@ -1747,9 +1772,11 @@ 12:47|forty-seven minutes past twelve|At forty-seven minutes past twelve they reached the buoy, it was in perfect condition, and must have shifted but little.|Around the Moon|Jules Verne|sfw 12:48|12.48|Scarcely had we left the golf links behind than he remarked - until that moment he had not uttered a single word, nor had I - "If you're going by the 12.48 I'll see you off."|Under One Flag|Richard Marsh|sfw 12:49|12:49 hours|The first victim of the Krefeld raid died at 12:49 hours Double British Summer Time at B Flight, but it wasn't due to carelessness.|Bomber|Len Deighton|unknown +12:50|12:50|“There are two flights out of Bombay today, both of them Air India.” She glanced down at her pad. “One in forty minutes’ time, at 12:50, so you couldn’t possibly make it to the airport in time, and one-“|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:50|Ten minutes to one|Ten minutes to one the fog dissolves completely and the black boys are telling Acutes to clear the floor for the meeting. All the tables are carried out of the day room to the tub room across the hall—leaves the floor, McMurphy says, like we was aiming to have us a little dance.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 12:50|ten minutes to one|So presently Bert was sent up to the top of the house to look at a church clock which was visible therefrom, and when he came down he reported that it was ten minutes to one.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown 12:51|12:51|At 12:51 James Burdick came on the air again. The material for exchange will shortly arrive and we need your permission for the aircraft to land. Zade gave it.|The Kobra Manifesto|Adam Hall|sfw +12:52|12:52|Consuela stood on the pavement and checked her watch. It was 12:52, and she had to accept that it had been a fruitless morning.|Cheap at Half the Price|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:52|12.52|The nightclub stood on the junction, flamboyant, still. It was 12.52.|Dreams of Leaving|Rupert Thomson|unknown 12:53|12:53|Aboot twelve miles. We ought tae pass her at Pinmore. She's due there at 12:53.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown 12:54|12:54 pm|I listen to the different boats' horns, hoping to learn what kind of boat I'm hearing and what the signal means: is the boat leaving or entering the harbor; is it the ferry, or a whale-watching boat, or a fishing boat? At 5:33 pm there is a blast of two deep, resonant notes a major third apart. On another day there is the same blast at 12:54 pm. On another, exactly 8:00 am.|Varieties of Disturbance|Lydia Davis|unknown @@ -1759,6 +1786,7 @@ 12:55|five minutes to one|But when Curry rose at five minutes to one to introduce item Three, there was a sharp revival of interest. It was called, "Rectification of an Anomaly of the Stipends of Junior Fellows."|That Hideous Strength|C.S. Lewis|unknown 12:56|four minutes to one|If he was ignored till one o'clock, he promised himself, he would leave. He watched the filigreed minute hand jerk from five minutes to four minutes to one.|Sharpe's Revenge|Bernard Cornwell|sfw 12:57|12:57 P.M.|Monday, April 6
12:57 P.M.
Stone Aimes was floating through cyberspace, through the massive data pages of the National Institutes of Health. Since the Gerex Corporation had a complete clampdown on their clinical-trial results, he was attempting an end run.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw +12:58|two minutes to one|At two minutes to one, Charlie Duncan entered the Palm Court restaurant wearing an open-necked shirt and smoking a cigarette—a walking H. M. Bateman cartoon.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:58|12.58 pm|The watch on my wrist showed 12.58 pm. I'd have time to hit the morgue.|Magic Bites|Ilona Andrews|unknown 12:59|12:59 PM|We need the Holy Spirit. It's almost Advent. We await. Please help. Amen.
Stephen checked the time. It was 12:59 PM.|An Advent for Religious Liberty|Ray Keating|sfw 12:59|12:59 P.M.|12:59 P.M.
After missing both her morning workout and her first lunch, Braque felt her blood sugar falling off a goddamn cliff, and she could smell the turkey grilling even half a block from the Stucco Palace.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw @@ -1865,6 +1893,7 @@ 13:52|eight minutes to two|"I came to your door to tell you. It is near to your luncheon hour. Yes; eight minutes to two. Vivian will be at luncheon. I don't lunch, but I don't mind going in. I must not let him slip through my fingers."|The Rose and the Key|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu|sfw 13:53|seven minutes to two|"Mr. Jackson," exclaimed Mr. Rossiter. "I really must ask you to be good enough to come in from your lunch at the proper time. It was fully seven minutes to two when you returned, and-"|Psmith in the City|P.G. Wodehouse|sfw 13:54|1:54 PM|At the moment museum officials do not believe anything was stolen from the collection. The museum and church, which are popular tourist attractions, will be closed to the public until further notice.
1:54 PM - 05/05/2014|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown +13:55|1:55|At 1:55 he returned to the insurance records until the fifteen-minute tea break at four o’clock, which was another ritual occasion for two more cigarettes.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:55|five minutes before two|If I was punctual in quitting Mlle. Reuter's domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at five minutes before two, and on reaching the schoolroom door, before I opened it, I heard a rapid, gabbling sound, which warned me that the "priere du midi" was not yet concluded.|The Professor|Charlotte Brontë|unknown 13:56|1:56 P.M.|1:56 P.M.
Happily, Katelyn was out of the dorm room, off doing whatever the hell she did on campus, so Braque could type her computer passwords for Eva without worrying about her cooze of a roommate getting them.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 13:57|one fifty-seven|Then I opened my eyes and looked at my watch. It was one fifty-seven. Twenty-five minutes had vanished somewhere. Not bad, I told myself. A pointless way of whittling away time. Not bad at all.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -1913,7 +1942,7 @@ 14:10|2:10 P.M.|He arrived at her house at 2:10 P.M., two videotapes in one hand, and a single bag of uncooked microwave popcorn in the other.|Reprieve|James Han Mattson|unknown 14:10|ten past two|Mrs. Eunice Harris pulls back the sleeve of her good coat and checks her good watch. "Indeed yes. Half twelve," and waves a hand at the Town Hall clock as if it was hers. "Always ten past two. Someone put a nail in the time years back."|The Coward's Tale|Vanessa Gebbie|unknown 14:11|two-eleven P.M.|The phone machine announced in an electronic voice, "You have one message, at two-eleven P.M."
Then an unctuous male voice came on. "Kirby, we know you're there. You're still in treatment. You shouldn't be wandering around unsupervised. It's a lot better, a lot safer, for you to stay with us now."|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw -14:12|twelve minutes past two|However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime? At twelve minutes past two, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw +14:12|twelve minutes past two|However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime?
At twelve minutes past two, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw 14:13|two ... thirteen|At the third stroke, it will be two ... thirteen ... and fifty seconds.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 14:14|fourteen minutes past two o'clock|The clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.|Barn Burning|William Faulkner|sfw 14:15|2:15 p.m.|2:15 p.m. Story in papers about two-year-olds having to take tests to get into nursery school just made me jump out of my skin. Am supposed to be at tea party for godson Harry's birthday.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -1986,6 +2015,7 @@ 14:52|eight minutes to three|"Mr. Kesselbach, it is eight minutes to three. If you don't answer within eight minutes from now, you are a dead man!"|813|Maurice LeBlanc|sfw 14:53|seven minutes to three|“And what do you suppose Father Mahoney is thinking now, sitting there like some Romanian beggar and just before teatime? He knows very well we’re expecting him. If he’s even one minute late—I’m counting, it’s seven minutes to three on my watch—I’ll be telling him a thing or two.”|Pomegranate Soup|Marsha Mehran|unknown 14:54|About 2.55|In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55, when you know you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.|Life, the Universe and Everything|Douglas Adams|unknown +14:55|five minutes to three|At five minutes to three Paolo and his best man entered the chapel and walked slowly down the aisle. Gian Lorenzo knew he’d been a well-known footballer, but he still couldn’t remember his name.|Cat O' Nine Tales|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:55|five to three|The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three. Just nice time to walk to Artane.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 14:55|2.55 that afternoon|At 2.55 that afternoon, she parked across the road from her daughter’s school and waited for the students to emerge. She hadn’t slept at all. Her eyes ached, and there was a fuzzy heat in her head.|Kill Your Brother|Jack Heath|unknown 14:56|2.56 P.M.|2.56 P.M. Helen is alone now. Her face is out of frame, and through the viewfinder I see only a segment of the pillow, an area of crumpled sheet and the upper section of her chest and shoulders.|The 60 Minute Zoom|J.G. Ballard|unknown @@ -2055,6 +2085,7 @@ 15:10|3:10 p.m.|At 3:10 p.m., the restaurant was still about two hours from opening, which was how Randy liked it for their visits. As they passed by the wooden benches and coat racks in the lobby, Eva liked to stop and look at a sepia-toned portrait of the owners, Jack Dougherty and Ishmael Mendoza, and a framed “Story of Lulu’s” that was meant to help pass the time for customers willing to tolerate a substantial wait.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 15:10|3.10 pm|This time it was only the simple fact that the hands chanced to point to 3.10 pm, the precise moment at which all the clocks of London had stopped.|The Purple Cloud|M.P. Shiel|unknown 15:11|eleven past three p.m.|Heart rate one thirty-two, one thirty-one, one thirty, and dropping. She was walking south on Park Avenue in the rain. The time was now eleven past three p.m.|The Scarpetta Factor|Patricia Cornwell|sfw +15:12|twelve minutes past three|At twelve minutes past three, an announcement came over the loudspeaker. “All those involved in the Cartwright case, please make their way back in to court number four, as the jury is returning.”|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:12|twelve minutes past three|Perhaps those three miles were nearer four, because when, tired, dusty, and heart-sick, he described the tower of the Congregational church above the leafless elms and maples of the village, the gilded hands pointed to twelve minutes past three.|The Turner Twins|Ralph Henry Barbour|sfw 15:13|thirteen minutes past three|The lift moved. It was thirteen minutes past three. The bell gave out its ping. Two men stepped out of the lift, Alan Norman and another man. Tony Blair walked into the office.|Virtual Assassin|Simon Kearns|unknown 15:14|3.14|A signal sounded. "There's the 3.14 up," said Perks. "You lie low till she's through, and then we'll go up along to my place, and see if there's any of them strawberries ripe what I told you about."|The Railway Children|Edith Nesbit|unknown @@ -2066,6 +2097,7 @@ 15:15|3:15|I got out my old clothes. I put wool socks over my regular socks and took my time lacing up the boots. I made a couple of tuna sandwiches and some double-decker peanut-butter crackers. I filled my canteen and attached the hunting knife and the canteen to my belt. As I was going out the door, I decided to leave a note. So I wrote: "Feeling better and going to Birch Creek. Back soon. R. 3:15." That was about four hours from now.|Where I'm Calling From|Raymond Carver|unknown 15:15|3:15|July 3: 5 3/4 hours. Little done today. Deepening lethargy, dragged myself over to the lab, nearly left the road twice. Concentrated enough to feed the zoo and get the log up to date. Read through the operating manuals Whitby left for the last time, decided on a delivery rate of 40 röntgens/min., target distance of 530 cm. Everything is ready now. Woke 11:05. To sleep 3:15.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 15:16|1516|The Nimrod rendezvoused with the light aircraft at 1516 GMT.|The Crow Road|Iain Banks|unknown +15:17|3:17|“You can take the 3:17 to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the 4:09 for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”|Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:17|seventeen minutes past three|From the kitchen came the rackety-banging of the alarm-clock, proving that, as the clock was set to ring at six, Peter had found a mother for the fatherless children at just seventeen minutes past three.|The Jack-Knife Man|Ellis Parker Butler|sfw 15:18|3:18 P.M.|3:18 P.M.
Vance cocked the Pakistani's Uzi and trained it on the door, not sure what to do. The fear was that he might inadvertently kill a friendly. Hostage situations always presented that harrowing possibility. Quick identifications and quick decisions were what made good antiterrorist teams. He was afraid he had neither skill. He wasn't even that great a shot.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 15:18|eighteen minutes past three|The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is eighteen minutes past three.|Fairyland|Paul J. McAuley|sfw @@ -2184,7 +2216,9 @@ 16:05|five minutes past four|IT was exactly five minutes past four as Mr. Robert Audley stepped out upon the platform at Shoreditch, and waited placidly … it took a long while to make matters agreeable to all claimants, and even the barrister's seraphic indifference to mundane affairs nearly gave way.|Lady Audley's Secret|Mary Elizabeth Braddon|unknown 16:06|six minutes after four|At six minutes after four, Benny's Cadillac pulled up in front of Mr. Botelia's store, and Benny's mother stepped out of the car with Penelope, who was gnawing on the tip of an ice cream cone.|Follow Me: A Novel|Joanna Scott|unknown 16:07|seven minutes after four|But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in air and then he realised that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday.|Love in the Time of Cholera|Gabriel García Márquez|unknown +16:08|eight minutes past four|At eight minutes past four, the jury filed back into their places and this time Alex noted that their expressions had changed from blank to bemused. Mr. Justice Sackville had no choice but to send them home for a second night.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:08|eight minutes after four|It was eight minutes after four. I still don't have a plan. Maybe the guys in the Nova, maybe they had a plan.|The Monkey's Raincoat|Robert Crais|unknown +16:09|4:09|“You can take the 3:17 to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the 4:09 for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”|Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:09|nine minutes after four|"I have to hang up now," Rosemary said. "I just wanted to know if there was any improvement."
"No, there isn't. It was nice of you to call."
She hung up. It was nine minutes after four.|Rosemary's Baby|Ira Levin|unknown 16:10|Four-ten|"I don't like this waiting," he said.
She smiled. "You'd make a terrible PI."
"What time is it?"
"Four-ten. Fifteen minutes later than the last time you asked."|Copper River|William Kent Krueger|sfw 16:10|ten past four|This Saturday he had left the greetings to Father Martin, but at ten past four he thought it would be courteous to put in an appearance.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2243,6 +2277,7 @@ 16:35|4.35|The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the 4.35 from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.|4.50 from Paddington|Agatha Christie|unknown 16:36|thirty-six minutes past four|They watched their friend through the glass cover; the heaving of the chest became less and less, the breathing lower and lower, while a purple hue settled upon his body. At thirty-six minutes past four, the last division of the wheel had been reached.|A.D. 2000|Alvarado M. Fuller|sfw 16:36|after four-thirty|It was after four-thirty when they arrived at the old Red Bull Playhouse in upper St. John Street, and the performance had been under way for more than an hour. The theatre was hot and stuffy, almost humid, and it smelt strongly of sweat and unwashed bodies and powerful perfumes.|Forever Amber|Kathleen Windsor|unknown +16:37|4:37|She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.|Never Stop on the Motorway|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:37|4:37|Rorschach’s journal: Slept all day. Awoken at 4:37. Landlady complaining about smell.|Watchmen|Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|unknown 16:37|1637|She should have been home by now. 1637. Yes. It's as if I had the date of a year on my arm. Every day is a piece of world history.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 16:38|twenty-two minutes to five|I let him put me in the car and drive me to the station. At twenty-two minutes to five by the clock in the station house I was in front of a cell in the Mill River jail.|At Catskill Eagle|Robert B. Parker|sfw @@ -2359,6 +2394,7 @@ 17:25|five-twenty-five|It was five-twenty-five when I pulled up in front of the library. Still early for our date, so I got out of the car and took a stroll down the misty streets. In a coffee shop, watched a golf match on television, then I went to an entertainment center and played a video game. The object of the game was to wipe out tanks invading from across the river. I was winning at first, but as the game went on, the enemy tanks bred like lemmings, crushing me by sheer number and destroying my base. An on-screen nuclear blast took care of everything, followed by the message game over insert coin.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 17:25|twenty-five minutes past five|"Now," said Handsley, when Angela had poured out the last cup, "it's twenty-five minutes past five, at half-past the Murder game is on."|A Man Lay Dead|Ngaio Marsh|unknown 17:26|twenty-six minutes past five|"There's a train that leaves Totnes at twenty-six minutes past five this afternoon," I said, "and it reaches London at-"|Wildtrack|Bernard Cornwell|sfw +17:27|5:27|One evening at 5:27, when Septimus was closing the file on the last claim for the day, his immediate superior, the deputy manager, called him in for a consultation.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:27|5:27 P.M.|Thursday 5:27 P.M.
"Strasvetye," came a voice behind Eva. "Kak pazhavatye."
She whirled around. Moving in fast was a tall and — admit it — not bad-looking Soviet major.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 17:28|5:28|And so, when he told her on May 15 at 5:28 in the afternoon that he had to be moving on, she passed out. She was in his bed at the time.|Smart Women|Judy Blume|sfw 17:29|twenty-nine minutes past five|"Well?" he said.
"It's twenty-nine minutes past five, Insert Name Here," said the imp nervously.|Thud!|Terry Pratchett|sfw @@ -2382,6 +2418,7 @@ 17:38|5.38 p.m.|He stares at the phone, thinks: Ring. Ring now. But it remains inert. 5.38 p.m. Bunny will be done with her housekeeping shift by now.|Cloud Cuckoo Land|Anthony Doerr|unknown 17:38|5.38 p.m.|It was 5.38 p.m. when the Prime Minister’s plane finally broke through the clouds and appeared above Heston Aerodrome. As the ground flickered into view, Legat could see the traffic along the Great West Road. Cars were halted for more than a mile in either direction. It had been raining heavily.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown 17:39|05:39|It’s 05:39 so we can have dinner, it’s quick noodles. While they’re in the hot water, Ma finds hard words to test me from the milk carton like nutritional that means food, and pasteurized that means laser guns zapped away the germs.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown +17:40|5:40|As no one had “any other business” to raise, I closed the meeting at 5:40, and suggested to Jeremy that he join Rosemary and me for dinner. I wanted to see them together.|Trial and Error|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:40|5:40|"What?" I said, "is it 5:30 yet?"
"Er, 5:40." Heavens, they'll be starving. But then that's a good thing. Let them.|I Love Dollars|Zhu Wen|unknown 17:40|five-forty|It's five-forty now. The party's at six. By about ten past, the eleventh floor should be clearing. Arnold is a very popular partner; no one's going to miss his farewell speech if they can help it. Plus, at Carter Spink parties, the speeches always happen early on, so people can get back to work if they need to. And while everyone's listening I'll slip down to Arnold's office. It should work. It has to work. As I stare at my own bizarre reflection, I feel a grim resolve hardening inside me. He's not going to get away with everyone thinking he's a cheery, harmless old teddy bear. He's not going to get away with it.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 17:41|17:41|"All right, people, let's haul ass. Sunset's at 17:41 and we've got twenty-three k to go." Staff Segeant Beyn got to his feet and the platoon followed.|The Heart of Valor|Tanya Huff|nsfw @@ -2395,6 +2432,7 @@ 17:49|eleven minutes to six|It was eleven minutes to six. After a moment he idly drew the center drawer of the desk out over his lap. For a moment he stared at the gun without recognition. Then he gave a yelp and leaped up. She had put it back!|The Comforts of Home|Flannery O'Connor|unknown 17:50|ten to six|"What time is it Jack?"
"Ten to six"
"Ten more minutes then." I shuffle the cards. "Time for a quick game of rummy?"|Noughts and Crosses|Malorie Blackman|unknown 17:50|5:50|Esterville had called the truck stop, but no one had seen his wife come in. She hadn't returned home. Cork and McDougal found her red Mustang at 5:50.|Corpus Delicti|William Kent Krueger|sfw +17:51|5:51|She read through the first page slowly and made of a couple of emendations, aware that any mistake made hastily on a Friday evening could be regretted in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as she signed the final page of the document. It was just showing 5:51.|Never Stop on the Motorway|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:51|nine minutes to six|The sun was red and the shadows were long and dark. It wanted but nine minutes to six, and within the hotel the disgraceful National Swill was in full flow, men pouring as much liquor down their throats as possible before the fatal hour of drought arrived.|Venom House|Arthur Upfield|sfw 17:52|eight minutes to six o'clock|It was eight minutes to six o'clock. "I must get him," he told the telephone girl for the dozenth time.
"Sorry- no one will answer," she said wearily.|Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant|Hugh S. Fullerton|sfw 17:53|seven minutes to six|"That boy will be spoiled, as sure as I go on springs; he's made such a lot of. Have you been regulated?"
"I should think I have!" exclaimed I, in indignant recollection of my education.
"All right; keep your temper. What time are you?"
"Seven minutes to six."|The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch|Talbot Baines Reed|unknown @@ -2492,6 +2530,7 @@ 18:30|six thirty|It is six thirty. Now the dark night and the deafening racket of the crickets again engulf the garden and the veranda, all around the house|Jealousy|Alain Robbe-Grillet|unknown 18:30|half-past six|To a casual visitor it might have seemed that Mr. Penicuik, who owned the house, had fallen upon evil days; but two of the three gentlemen assembled in the Saloon at half-past six on a wintry evening of late February were in no danger of falling into this error.|Cotillion|Georgette Heyer|unknown 18:31|a little after half past six|I had been delayed at a case and it was a little after half past six when I found myself at Baker Street once more|The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +18:32|6:32|As he stepped out of the great Gothic cathedral it started to rain. Septimus reluctantly undid his neatly rolled umbrella and, putting it up, dashed through the puddles, hoping he would be in time to catch the 6:32.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:32|6:32 p.m.|She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:32|6:32 P.M.|Monday 6:32 P.M.
Tanzan Mino was dressed in a black three-quarter sleeved kimono, staring straight ahead as he knelt before the sword resting in front of him. His hands were settled lightly on his thighs, his face expressionless. Then he reached out and touched the scabbard, bowing low to it. Inside was a twelfth-century katana, a five-foot-long razor created by swordsmiths of the Mino School, from the town of Seki, near Gifu in the heart of old Honshu. It was, he believed, a perfect metaphor for Japanese excellence and discipline.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 18:33|6.33 pm|Every evening, Michel took the train home, changed at Esbly and usually arrived in Crécy on the 6.33 pm train where Annabelle would be waiting at the station.|Atomised|Michel Houellebecq|unknown @@ -2518,6 +2557,7 @@ 18:47|6:47 pm|The clock said 6:47 pm. With growing fear, I walked stiffly around the apartment, turning on all the lights - even the overhead lights in the living room, which we generally didn’t use because they were so stark and bright.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|unknown 18:48|twelve minutes to seven o'clock|We were soon dashing quickly along the streets. I did not know Liverpool well, and consequently could not tell exactly where the man was going. When I got into the hansom it wanted twelve minutes to seven o'clock; these minutes were quickly flying, and still no station.|A Master of Mysteries|Robert Eustace|sfw 18:49|6:49 p.m.|6:49 p.m. Lieutenant-General Tanz escorted by a motorized unit, drove to Corps headquarters|The Night of the Generals|Hans Hellmut Kirst|unknown +18:50|18:50|Finally a voice said, “Neither Mr. Clifton nor your daughter are on that flight, Mr. Ghuman, and the boarding desk has already closed. Do you want me to check the 18:50 flight?”|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:50|6:50 that evening|At 6:50 that evening, Lacey stood in the atrium dressed in shorts, a blue tank top, and sturdy tennis shoes, ready for a warm evening of walking about. She stared at the tiny red tree frog crouched on a branch at eye level as tour groups and a never-ending stream of smaller parties trooped around her, all wandering the portions of the zig that Swain had opened to the public for the weekend's open house.|The Enclave|Karen Hancock|sfw 18:50|ten minutes to seven|At ten minutes to seven Dulcie was ready. She looked at herself in the wrinkly mirror. The reflection was satisfactory. The dark blue dress, fitting without a wrinkle, the hat with its jaunty black feather, the but-slightly-soiled gloves--all representing self- denial, even of food itself--were vastly becoming. Dulcie forgot everything else for a moment except that she was beautiful, and that life was about to lift a corner of its mysterious veil for her to observe its wonders. No gentleman had ever asked her out before. Now she was going for a brief moment into the glitter and exalted show.|The Four Million|O. Henry|unknown 18:50|ten minutes before seven|It was time to go see the Lady. When we arrived at her house at ten minutes before seven o'clock, Damaronde answered the door.|Boy's Life|Robert R. McCammon|unknown @@ -2797,6 +2837,7 @@ 20:46|eight forty six|At the tone, the time will be eight forty six, exactly. One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.|Macedonia|Tom Lichtenberg|unknown 20:47|20:47|It read 20:47 on the cooker clock when Fliss heard the jangle of Ben's keys in the door. Somewhere along the line, her husband had stopped making any effort.|All That Is Left of Us|Catherine Miller|sfw 20:48|twelve minutes to nine|"It only wants twelve minutes to nine," Constance pointed out. "Well, what if it does?"|The Old Wives' Tale|Arnold Bennett|sfw +20:49|8:49|At 8:49 there was a loud rap on the door, and Sir Hamish muttered an inaudible reproach as David Heath went to open it. He found his contact standing there.|A Matter of Principle|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:49|8.49|8.49. I took the phone, cleared my throat, and dialed the keep, the packs stronghold on the outskirts of Atlanta. Just keep it professional. Less pathetic that way.|Magic Bleeds|Ilona Andrews|unknown 20:50|ten minutes to nine|He rang up his servant, dressed in haste, and went out onto the steps, completely forgetting the dream and only worried at being late. As he drove up to the Karenins’ entrance he looked at his watch and saw it was ten minutes to nine.|Anna Karenina|Leo Tolstoy|unknown 20:50|8:50 p.m.|8:50 p.m. Ah. Diagram. "Buttons for IMC functions." But what are IMC functions?|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -2805,6 +2846,7 @@ 20:50|2050|He was, yes, always home from work by 2050 on Thursdays.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown 20:50|ten minutes to nine|What did it mean by beginning to tick so loudly all of a sudden? Its face indicated ten minutes to nine. Mrs Verloc cared nothing for time, and the ticking went on.|The Secret Agent|Joseph Conrad|unknown 20:51|nine minutes to nine|I stayed watching the polestar from nine minutes to nine until ten past, tilting my head back till it hurt, fighting off dizziness and not taking my eyes off the distant, twinkling light which is our rendezvous in the sky, trying to see your face looking back at me.|Belle du Seigneur|Albert Cohen|sfw +20:52|8:52|“That’d be the 8:52, change at Doncaster and Peterborough. You should be back in Cambridge just after midnight.”|Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:52|eight minutes to nine|The waitress brought my coffee. I carried it to the far end of the counter and drank it slowly. It was eight minutes to nine. People were lining up at the loading door, which meant that a bus was expected.|The Far Side of the Dollar|Ross MacDonald|sfw 20:53|eight fifty-three|Only eight fifty-three. The partners' decision meeting starts in seven minutes. I'm not sure I can bear this.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 20:54|six minutes to nine|I tried to restart our dinner-table conversation, which had been about the validity of I.Q. tests, but he was back in his funk again, and I didn't feel like trying to jolly him out of it. I was relieved when the bell squawked at six minutes to nine; now maybe we'd get some action.|Death on Deadline|Robert Goldsborough|sfw @@ -2815,6 +2857,7 @@ 20:57|only three minutes before nine|She points up at Watch that says 08:57, that’s only three minutes before nine. So I run into Wardrobe and lie down on my pillow and wrap up in Blanket that’s all grey and fleecy with the red piping.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 20:57|three minutes to nine|"Wait," he said solemnly, "till the clock strikes. I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men, but when the clock strikes I am afraid. Stay by me until then. This woman shall be yours. You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna. On the day of your marriage I will give you $100,000 and a palace on the Hudson. But there must be no clocks in that palace--they measure our follies and limit our pleasures. Do you agree to that?"
"Of course," said the young man, cheerfully, "they're a nuisance, anyway--always ticking and striking and getting you late for dinner." He glanced again at the clock in the tower. The hands stood at three minutes to nine.|The Four Million|O. Henry|unknown 20:58|two minutes to nine|"What time is it?" she asked, quiet, definite, hopeless.
"Two minutes to nine," he replied, telling the truth with a struggle.|Sons and Lovers|D.H. Lawrence|unknown +20:59|one minute to nine|Normally an assistant would have put [the television] on for him at one minute to nine. He sat watching a Nigerian woman give a talk on dressmaking, followed by the weather forecast man who supplied Eduardo with the revealing information that the temperature would continue to be hot for the next month.|The Coup|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:59|8:59 p.m.|"Well, what an amazing culinary experience," Eva said at 8:59 p.m., when Prager’s car parked in front of her apartment.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 21:00|nine o'clock|They who had to go to bed so punctually, for whom the lights went out at nine o'clock, could stay at Obermeier Farm until the fireflies and the stars came out-until the Chinese lanterns were lit and they could walk once more about the farm with their jovial host and hostess with these beautiful, swaying, colored lights.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|unknown 21:00|nine o’clock|The storm held off until nine o’clock, and by then Anderson was pretty sure they were going to have a good one - what Havenites called “a real Jeezer.”|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown @@ -2900,6 +2943,7 @@ 21:30|nine thirty|Forty-eight years old, profoundly asleep at nine thirty on a Friday night - this is modern professional life.|Saturday|Ian McEwan|unknown 21:30|9:30 p.m.|It's 9:30 p.m. already. I've gotta head uptown for my appointment with Pavel. Pavel is my shrink. He sees patients at night. He's a Czech Jew, a survivor of Terezin and Auswitz. I see him once a week.|Maus|Art Spiegelman|unknown 21:30|nine-thirty|The light in Mr. Green's kitchen snapped off at nine-thirty, followed by the light in his bedroom at his usual ten o'clock. His house was the first on the street to go dark.|A Crime in the Neighborhood|Suzanne Berne|unknown +21:31|9:31|His phone rang at 9:31. Pat grabbed it, and was relieved to hear Mr. Levy’s voice on the other end of the line.|You'll Never Live to Regret It|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:31|9:31|I took some juice out of the refrigerator and sat down at the kitchen table with it. On the table was a note from my girlfriend: 'Gone out to eat. Back by 9:30.' The digital clock on the table read 9:30. I watched it flip over to 9:31, then to 9:32.|A Wild Sheep Chase|Haruki Murakami|unknown 21:32|9:32|I took some juice out of the refrigerator and sat down at the kitchen table with it. On the table was a note from my girlfriend: 'Gone out to eat. Back by 9:30.' The digital clock on the table read 9:30. I watched it flip over to 9:31, then to 9:32.|A Wild Sheep Chase|Haruki Murakami|unknown 21:32|9:32|Geraldine's bus ride back to the sanitarium, in Bensalem Township, would leave at 9:32. Out of pride, despite the drive taking well over a half hour, she declined to stay until morning.|Sold on a Monday|Kristina McMorris|sfw @@ -2919,6 +2963,7 @@ 21:45|the quarter before ten|Hattie would certainly return soon. She wouldn't leave a room for long while Char occupied it.
My dance ended as the clock struck the quarter before ten.|Ella Enchanted|Gail Carson Levine|unknown 21:45|9:45 PM|But for some unfathomable reason-birth, death, the end of the universe and all things available to man-Cody Menhoff's was closed at 9:45 PM on a Thursday...|Riven Rock|T.C. Boyle|unknown 21:46|9:46 P.M.|9:46 P.M.
"But I'm still finishing the trajectory-default analysis I was supposed to do," LeFarge said to Dore Peretz, hoping he could stall. "I'm only half—"|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +21:47|9:47|“She’s dead,” he confirmed. “It must have been very sudden and with the minimum of pain.” He checked his watch; the time was 9:47. He covered his patient with a blanket and called for an ambulance.|Old Love|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:47|nine forty-seven|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 21:47|thirteen minutes to ten|For Hunter, who was trained to note times exactly, the final emergency started at thirteen minutes to ten.|Elegy for a Revolutionary|C.J. Driver|unknown 21:48|nine forty-eight|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -2932,6 +2977,7 @@ 21:51|9:51 P.M.|9:51 P.M.
. . . HELLO, SOHO. BLUEBIRD NEEDS A FAVOR. CAN YOU SWITCH ON THE SERVOS?|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:52|9:52 P.M.|9:52 P.M.
"Georges is a genius," she said, turning back, "but this may not actually be possible. Nobody's ever done it before."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown +21:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw 21:54|about five minutes to ten|At about five minutes to ten Martha had put a saucepan of milk to heat slowly at the side of the stove. This was done most nights at Martingale so that she could get early to bed.|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw 21:55|five minutes to ten|The lamps were still lit in the drive leading to the museum and when she turned the final corner she saw that every window blazed as if the place were preparing for a celebration. She glanced at her watch; five minutes to ten. The visiting group would be here already.|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 21:56|about five minutes to ten|At about five minutes to ten Martha had put a saucepan of milk to heat slowly at the side of the stove. This was done most nights at Martingale so that she could get early to bed.|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw From 906a8504f03fd248d76880e9508c73f845e2de88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:54:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 09/15] add more Jeffrey Archer quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index d39ca85d..3c8a8116 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -610,6 +610,7 @@ 04:56|just before five|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|sfw 04:57|few minutes before five|The second said the same thing a few minutes before five, and mentioned eternity... I'm sure I'll meet you in the other world. Four minutes later she left a last, fleeting message: My love. Fernando. It's Suzana. Then, it seemed, she had shot herself.|A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions|Peter Robb|nsfw 04:58|two minutes to five|He wants to look death in the face. Two minutes to five. I took a handkerchief out of my pocket, but John Dawson ordered me to put it back. An Englishman dies with his eyes open. He wants to look death in the face.|Dawn: A Novel|Elie Wiesel|unknown +04:59|one minute to five|The captain and his three mates appeared out of the early morning mist at one minute to five. All four of them were dressed in exactly the same clothes they had been wearing the night before, making Percy wonder if they’d come straight from the Fisherman’s Arms.|The Undiplomatic Diplomat|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:59|0459|The whole place smells like death no matter what the fuck you do. Gately gets to the shelter at 0459.9h and just shuts his head off as if his head had a control switch.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|nsfw 05:00|5 o’clock|At precisely 5 o’clock, like every morning, hours before a single stirring would emerge from the rooms upstairs, Dora dragged herself from her bed and made her way down the hallway to the kitchen, where she put on a kettle and dropped a bag of Earl Grey in a mug.|When the Summer Was Ours|Roxanne Veletzos|unknown 05:00|five in the morning|“I just took all the pills in the bathroom cabinet,” she says. “Sixty-two aspirin with codeine, twenty-four Valiums. I thought you might like to say goodbye.”
“That was stupid, Martha,” Nate says. “Did you really?”
“Wait and see,” she says, laughing. “Wait till five in the morning when you get to inspect the body.”|Life Before Man|Margaret Atwood|nsfw @@ -704,6 +705,7 @@ 05:43|5:43|It’s 5:43. Time is racing, racing.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 05:43|5.43|5.43 - Mank on phone to 'Mary' in Washington; 'It now appears quite clear that we'll lead the state - without the 21st.'|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown 05:44|0544 hours|"And what time, again, did the defendant actually say these words?"
"That would have been - you can see the time on the film tape on the frame where you've stopped it. 0544 hours."|Invasion of Privacy|Perri O'Shaughnessy|sfw +05:45|5:45|At 5:45 the following morning, the General was standing outside George’s tent in full dress uniform, carrying a black leather attaché case.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:45|5:45|At 5:45 a power-transformer on a pole beside the abandoned Tracker Brothers’ Truck Depot exploded in a flash of purple light, spraying twisted chunks of metal onto the shingled roof.|IT|Stephen King|unknown 05:46|5.46 am|Herbert could feel nothing. He wrote a legal-sounding phrase to the effect that the sentence had been carried out at 5.46 am, adding, 'without a snag'. The burial party had cursed him quietly as they'd hacked at the thick roots and tight soil.|A Whispered Name|William Brodrick|unknown 05:46|fourteen minutes to six|It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six. In other words, it was exactly eight; and Mrs. Hignett acknowledged the fact by moving her head on the pillow, opening her eyes, and sitting up in bed. She always woke at eight precisely.|Three Men and a Maid|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown @@ -940,6 +942,7 @@ 07:45|quarter to eight|Mr. Green left for work at a quarter to eight, as he did every morning. He walked down his front steps carrying his empty-looking leatherette briefcase with the noisy silver clasps, opened his car door, and ducked his head to climb into the driver's seat.|A Crime in the Neighborhood|Suzanne Berne|unknown 07:45|7:45|He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment, I must refuse to follow the "stupid human habit" of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. "Never meet people at 7:45 or 6:30, Jasper, but pick times like 7:12 and 8:03!"|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|unknown 07:46|7.46 a.m.|He awoke with a start. The clock on his bedside table said 7.46 a.m. He cursed, jumped out of bed and dressed. He stuffed his toothbrush and toothpaste in his jacket pocket, and parked outside the station just before 8 a.m. In reception, Ebba beckoned to him.|The Dogs of Riga|Henning Mankell|unknown +07:47|7.47|He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’|The Grass is Always Greener|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:47|7:47 A.M.|7:47 A.M.
Vance had never been more scared in his life. This made a day at a stormy helm seem like a Sunday stroll. The down-draft was spinning him violently now, a lesson that rappelling was not for the faint of heart.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:48|7:48 A.M.|7:48 A.M.
Vance stared up the mountain, puzzled. The silence baffled him, and then he realized why. He was not hearing the usual high-tension hum of transformers; nothing was operating. They had shut down the power.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:49|Eleven minutes to eight|"Eleven minutes to eight."
"You're always right; there must be a clock in your head."|The End of the Beginning|Ray Bradbury|unknown @@ -961,6 +964,7 @@ 07:56|four minutes to eight|The Castle Gate - only the Castle Gate - and it was four minutes to eight.|Buddenbrooks|Thomas Mann|unknown 07:57|7:57 A.M.|7:57 A.M.
As Alexa stepped out of the lobby, the morning was glorious and clear. Spring had arrived in a burst of pear and cherry blossoms in the garden of St. Luke's Church, up the street, but here by the river the morning air was still brisk enough to make her skin tingle.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:58|7:58 AM|McEnany looked at the clock in the corner of the video screen. It said 7:58 AM. A few more keystrokes, and Paige Caldwell's voice came through his headset.|Murderer's Row|Ray Keating|sfw +07:59|one minute to eight|At one minute to eight he set off at a brisk pace down the path that would take them to the base of the mountain.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:59|eight o'clock, maybe a minute before|"It was right at eight o'clock, maybe a minute before. I went into the demo room to see if I'd left my tin of polish there. And there was this bottle of milk on the trolley and I drank some of it. Just a bit off the top."|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 07:59|7.59|I'd spent fifty two days in 1958, but here it was 7.59 in the morning.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 08:00|eight o’clock|Philip Lombard had the habit of waking at daybreak. He did so on this particular morning. He raised himself on an elbow and listened. The wind had somewhat abated but was still blowing. He could hear no sound of rain…
At eight o’clock the wind was blowing more strongly, but Lombard did not hear it. He was asleep again.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|sfw @@ -1016,11 +1020,13 @@ 08:06|six minutes past eight|"I had a restless night with some fever and was a little late starting out. It was six minutes past eight when I arrived at the lighthouse. I was unable to gain entry. The door was locked."|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 08:07|seven minutes past eight|It was seven minutes past eight when Lara saw Betty Jeffries hurrying towards the school with her children in tow.|Dreams Beneath a Red Sun|Elizabeth Haran|sfw 08:08|8:08|Every clerk had his particular schedule of hours, which coincided with a single pair of tram runs coming from the city: A had to come in at 8, B at 8:04, C at 8:08 and so on, and the same for quitting times, in such a manner that never would two colleagues have the opportunity to travel in the same tramcar.|The Periodic Table|Primo Levi|unknown +08:09|8.09|He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’|The Grass is Always Greener|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:09|8:09|He followed the squeals down a hallway. A wall clock read 8:09 - 10:09 Dallas time.|American Tabloid|James Ellroy|unknown 08:10|8:10|She said, "Hey sleepy head, time to get up. A Navy SEAL made breakfast, and I don't think you're supposed to be late."
"Aye, aye. What time is it?"
She glanced at the digital clock on her nightstand. "8:10."|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw 08:10|8:10.|Sloane, with his shoulder punctured, was on another lounge. He was half delirious, and kept calling something about a chemistry lecture at 8:10.|This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald|unknown 08:10|8.10 a.m.|8.10 a.m. Read book or watch video|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:10|8:10|Cell count down to 400,000. Woke 8:10. To sleep 7:15. (Appear to have lost my watch without realising it, had to drive into town to buy another.)|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown +08:11|8.11|He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’|The Grass is Always Greener|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:11|eight-eleven|"Care for a turn on the engine?" he called to the doxies, and pointed up at the footplate. They laughed but voted not to, climbing up with their bathtub into one of the rattlers instead. They both had very fetching hats, with one flower apiece, but the prettiness of their faces made you think it was more. For some reason they both wore white rosettes pinned to their dresses. I looked again at the clock: eight-eleven.|The Blackpool Highflyer|Andrew Martin|unknown 08:12|8:12 a.m.|At 8:12 a.m., just before the moment of pff, all the business of the cellars was being transacted - garbage transferred from small cans into large ones; early wide-awake grandmas, rocky with insomnia, dumped wash into the big tubs; boys in swimming trunks rolled baby carriages out into the cool morning.|In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown 08:13|8:13 a.m.|At 8:13 a.m. the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.|In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown @@ -1041,6 +1047,7 @@ 08:20|Eight-twenty|Eight-twenty the cards and puzzles go out.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown 08:20|8:20|When the typewriters happen to pause (8:20 and other mythical hours), and there are no flights of American bombers in the sky, and the motor traffic's not too heavy in Oxford Street, you can hear winter birds cheeping outside, busy at the feeders the girls have put up.|Gravity's Rainbow|Thomas Pynchon|unknown 08:22|twenty-two minutes past eight|Daisy Flory made her 999 call at twenty-two minutes past eight, within a few minutes of their leaving.|Kissing the Gunner's Daughter|Ruth Rendell|sfw +08:23|8.23|He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’|The Grass is Always Greener|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:23|twenty-three minutes past eight|And then Wedderburn looked at his watch. "Twenty-three minutes past eight. I am going up by the quarter to twelve train, so that there is plenty of time. I think I shall wear my alpaca jacket - it is quite warm enough - and my grey felt hat and brown shoes.”|The Flowering of The Strange Orchid|H.G. Wells|unknown 08:23|twenty-three minutes past eight|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 08:23|8:23|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown @@ -1094,6 +1101,7 @@ 08:40|twenty minutes to nine|It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.|Great Expectations|Charles Dickens|unknown 08:41|08:41|It’s 08:41 and I’m in Bed practicing. Ma’s filled a plastic bag with really hot water and tied it tight so none spills out, she puts it in another bag and ties that too.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 08:41|forty-one minutes past eight|By forty-one minutes past eight we are five hundred yards from the water’s edge, and between our road and the foot of the mountain we descry the piled-up remains of a ruined tower.|Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and 1851|Félicien de Saulcy|unknown +08:42|Eight forty-two|“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. Eight forty-two. Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”|The Edge of Lost|Kristina McMorris|sfw 08:42|eighteen minutes to nine|When Black himself finally appeared at eighteen minutes to nine, she became very engrossed in the details of Wednesday's surveillance. So engrossed, in fact, the she barely noticed him standing in the door of her space until he spoke.|His Hot Number|Shannon Hollis|sfw 08:43|eight forty-three|"You understand this tape recorder is on?"
"Uh huh"
"And it's Wednesday, May 15, at eight forty-three in the mornin'."
"If you say so"|A Time to Kill|John Grisham|unknown 08:43|8.43 a.m.|8.43 a.m. Go past tropical fish shop|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw @@ -1267,7 +1275,7 @@ 09:33|9:33 a.m.|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:33|thirty-three minutes past nine|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 09:34|thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning|In another sense, on the contrary, our trains, in this latitude, gain over the sun more than 900 kilometres an hour, beating that planet hand over hand: quitting Liverpool at noon, for example, the traveler will reach the station where we now are at thirty-four minutes past nine in the morning - that is to say, earlier than he started!|An Express of the Future|Jules Verne|sfw -09:35|9:35 AM|He opened the first file and began to go over the seven questions he’d written out so neatly the night before. He glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was 9:35 A.M.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +09:35|9:35 A.M.|He opened the first file and began to go over the seven questions he’d written out so neatly the night before. He glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was 9:35 A.M.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:35|9:35 AM|He proceeded to email a copy to Ron, as well as to Zack. He then finally looked at the clock in the upper right corner of his laptop. It said 9:35 AM.|Under the Golden Dome|Ray Keating|sfw 09:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:35|nine-thirty-five|Nine-thirty-five. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire.|The Memory of Love|Aminatta Forna|unknown @@ -1384,6 +1392,7 @@ 10:03|10.03|It's 10.03 according to his watch, and he is travelling down through the Scottish highlands to Inverness, tired and ever-so-slightly anxious in case he falls asleep between now and when the train reaches the station, and misses his cue to say to Alice, Drew and Aleesha: 'OK, this is Inverness, let's move it.'|“Vanilla-Bright like Eminem” from The Farenheit Twins|Michel Faber|unknown 10:03|10.03|The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty three minutes past ten, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03.|Ctrl-Z|Andrew Norriss|unknown 10:04|10:04|On Saturday. November 12. 1955, the Hill Valley Courthouses clock tower was struck by lightning, which poured 1.21 gigawatts of energy into the structure. Time stood still at 10:04 on the clocks face from that day on.|Back to the Future: Race Through Time|Marc Sumerak|unknown +10:05|10:05|GUY KNOCKED ON George’s door, but there was no reply. He checked his watch: 10:05. George couldn’t be in hall having breakfast, because they finished serving at nine on a Sunday, and he surely wouldn’t have gone to the Freshers’ Fair without him.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:05|five past ten|We both watch as a pair of swans sail regally under the little bridge. Then I glance at my watch. It's already five past ten. “We should get going,” I say with a little start. Your mother will be waiting.”
“There's no rush,” Nathaniel calls as I hasten down the other side of the bridge. “We've got all day.” He lopes down the bridge. “It's OK. You can slow down.” I try to match his relaxed pace. But I'm not used to this easy rhythm. I'm used to striding along crowded pavements, fighting my way, pushing and elbowing.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 10:06|10:06 a.m.|"You have fifteen minutes," he said. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, 10:06 a.m.|Gone|Lisa Gardner|sfw 10:07|10:07 GMT|10:07 GMT
Once they had settled in Superintendent Wall's office, the three police officers checked and double-checked every detail of Operation Blue Period.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1398,6 +1407,7 @@ 10:10|Ten minutes later|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown 10:11|10:11|10:11, had he called her bluff?|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:11|eleven minutes past ten|It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six.|Three Men and a Maid|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown +10:12|10:12|George checked his watch: 10:12. Although their progress had been slower than he had anticipated, he still believed that if they could reach the summit by midday, they would have enough time to return to the North Col before sunset.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:12|ten twelve|“I'll take the coffee tray out,” I suggest humbly. As I pick it up I glance again at my watch. Ten twelve. I wonder if they've started the meeting.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 10:12|10:12 a.m.|He stood up once, early on, to lock his office door, and then he was reading the last page, and it was exactly 10:12 a.m., and the sun beating on his office windows was a different sun from the one he'd always known.|Freedom|Jonathan Franzen|unknown 10:13|thirteen minutes past ten|"By the bye," said the first, "I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at seventeen minutes past ten."
"And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten."
"Bravo, Mr. Blount!"
"Very good, M. Jolivet."|Michel Strogoff|Jules Verne|unknown @@ -1473,9 +1483,11 @@ 10:49|forty-nine minutes past ten|By forty-nine minutes past ten, we fall in again with a fine portion of the ancient road, which the modern track constantly follows, and descend by some steep windings, hewn in the side of a precipitous cliff, to the place where the Ouad-el-Haoud commences.|Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and 1851|Félicien de Saulcy|sfw 10:50|10.50 a.m.|10.50 a.m. Art class with Mrs. Peters|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 10:50|ten to eleven|As he walked back to the flight office, airmen were forming a line to await the arrival of the NAAFI van with morning tea and cakes. Lambert looked at his watch; it was ten to eleven.|Bomber|Len Deighton|unknown +10:51|10:51|but he still remained confident that they could make it to the top when they reached 27,550 feet at 10:51. That was when he heard a cry that sounded like a wounded animal. He knew it wasn’t Finch.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:51|10.51|‘Anything else?’ he asked, stealing another glance at the clock: 10.51. Still time to kill.
‘I had a word with my parole officer on Monday,’ said Faulkner, ‘and he made no mention of an early release.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:51|nine minutes to eleven|At nine minutes to eleven on Monday a blond young woman with what amounted to a crew cut came out of Susan's office and took her yellow slicker off the rack and went out of the waiting room without looking at me.|Crimson Joy|Robert Parker|sfw 10:52|eight minutes to eleven|It was now eight minutes to eleven, and he began to feel rather cross and impatient. There was nothing to do in the big, ugly, stately room into which he had been shown.|From Out of the Vasty Deep|Marie Belloc Lowndes|sfw +10:53|10:53|George wanted to say no, but knew he couldn’t. He checked his watch—10:53—and nodded. “Good luck,” he said, “but you must turn back by midday at the latest.”|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:53|10.53 hrs|He begins to make a record of our observations."10.53 hrs," he writes, as we crouch at the top of the stairs, listening to his mother in the hall below.|Spies|Michael Frayn|unknown 10:53|10:53|I gaze and gaze again at that face, which seems to me both strange and familiar, said Austerlitz, I run the tape back repeatedly, looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen, where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds, from 10:53 to 10:57, while the hundredths of a second flash by so fast that you cannot read and capture them.|Austerlitz|W.G. Sebald|unknown 10:54|10:54 GMT|10:54 GMT
"Commander Hawksby's office."
"It's Bruce Lamont, Angela. Can you put me through to the boss?"
"He's still in Italy, Bruce. I'm not expecting him back until Monday."|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1689,6 +1701,7 @@ 12:00|twelve|Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.|The Oxen|Thomas Hardy|unknown 12:00|noon|Then came the stroke of noon, and all these working and professional people dispersed like a trampled anthill into all the streets and directions. The white bridge was swarming with nimble dots. And when you considered that each dot had a mouth with which it was now planning to eat lunch, you couldn't help bursting into laughter.|The Tanners|Robert Walser|unknown 12:00|noon|One day, about the hour of noon, a little more than a week after my first experiment, I rolled twenty grains of hashish into a pill and swallowed it, saying as I did so, “Here is the final test for the sake of science.”|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +12:01|one minute past twelve|At one minute past twelve, Percy stood to attention, slowly raised the Union Jack up the flagpole and delivered the exact words required by the Territories Settlement Act of 1762: “I claim this sovereign territory in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom I swear my allegiance.”|The Undiplomatic Diplomat|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:01|12:01|It was the twelfth of December, the twelfth month. A was twelve. The electric clock/radio by his bedside table said 12:01.|Boy A|Jonathan Trigell|unknown 12:02|two minutes past twelve|At two minutes past twelve the door opens and two men come into the lobby. One is tall with black hair combed in a 50’s pompadour. The other is short and bespectacled. Both are wearing suits.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 12:02|twelve o'clock two minutes and a quarter|It had struck twelve o'clock two minutes and a quarter. The Baron's footman hastily seized a large goblet, and gasped with terror as he filled it with hot, spiced wine.
"Tis past the hour, 'tis past," he groaned in anguish, "and surely I shall now get the red hot poker the Baron hath so often promised me, oh! Woe is me! Would that I had prepared the Baron's lunch before!"|Crundle Castle|Lewis Carroll|unknown @@ -1772,6 +1785,7 @@ 12:47|forty-seven minutes past twelve|At forty-seven minutes past twelve they reached the buoy, it was in perfect condition, and must have shifted but little.|Around the Moon|Jules Verne|sfw 12:48|12.48|Scarcely had we left the golf links behind than he remarked - until that moment he had not uttered a single word, nor had I - "If you're going by the 12.48 I'll see you off."|Under One Flag|Richard Marsh|sfw 12:49|12:49 hours|The first victim of the Krefeld raid died at 12:49 hours Double British Summer Time at B Flight, but it wasn't due to carelessness.|Bomber|Len Deighton|unknown +12:50|12:50|He checked his watch: 12:50. They still had more than enough time to reach the top and be back in their little tent before the last rays of sunlight disappeared.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:50|12:50|“There are two flights out of Bombay today, both of them Air India.” She glanced down at her pad. “One in forty minutes’ time, at 12:50, so you couldn’t possibly make it to the airport in time, and one-“|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:50|Ten minutes to one|Ten minutes to one the fog dissolves completely and the black boys are telling Acutes to clear the floor for the meeting. All the tables are carried out of the day room to the tub room across the hall—leaves the floor, McMurphy says, like we was aiming to have us a little dance.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 12:50|ten minutes to one|So presently Bert was sent up to the top of the house to look at a church clock which was visible therefrom, and when he came down he reported that it was ten minutes to one.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown @@ -1936,6 +1950,7 @@ 14:04|2.04 pm|2.04 pm. Once again, the Quartermaster-General's office came on the line asking for Colonel Finckh, and once again Finckh heard the quiet, unemotional, unfamiliar voice|The Night of the Generals|Hans Hellmut Kirst|unknown 14:05|five past two|...and at five past two on 17 September of that same unforgettable year 1916, I was in the Muryovo hospital yard, standing on trampled withered grass, flattened by the September rain.|A Country Doctor's Notebook|Mikhail Bulgakov|unknown 14:06|six minutes past two|A man driving a tractor saw her, four hundred yards from her house, six minutes past two in the afternoon.|A Change of Climate|Hilary Mantel|unknown +14:07|2:07 P.M.|2:07 P.M., SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1924
WHEN GEORGE LOOKED up again, it appeared as if the peak was within touching distance, despite the altimeter warning him that they still had over 300 feet to climb.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:07|seven minutes past two|He poked his head into Tonay's office at about seven minutes past two and said, "Sarge, I'm pretty sure something's happening with the Buick."|From a Buick 8|Stephen King|sfw 14:08|eight minutes past two|At eight minutes past two, the gloomy-faced man, standing by the wide y of steps that led down from the balcony, craned his neck and discovered Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Daniel W. Lochaber and Elma Champion.|The Man Who Was Scared|Kenneth Robeson|sfw 14:09|14:09|"Mr. Tyne," said Butler, "left the North Tower lobby at 14:09 by up tube on the elevators and arrived at the chess tournament on the sixtieth level at 14:10."|Necromancer|Gordon R. Dickson|sfw @@ -1984,6 +1999,7 @@ 14:35|2:35 p.m.|Like 2.32 p.m., Beecher and Avalon, L3 R2 (which meant left three blocks, right two) 2:35 p.m., and you wondered how you could pick up one box, then drive 5 blocks in 3 minutes and be finished cleaning out another box.|Post Office|Charles Bukowski|unknown 14:36|2:36|“Drive safe,” says Ned. He texted me to send the van. That was at 2:36, I know because I looked at the clock, the art deco one right over there, see? Keeps perfect time. Then, I dunno, he just vanished.|Stone Mattress|Margaret Atwood|unknown 14:36|two thirty-six|I look at my watch. Two thirty-six. All I've got left today is take in the laundry and fix dinner.|The Elephant Vanishes|Haruki Murakami|unknown +14:37|2:37 P.M.|However, what he hadn’t anticipated was that it would stop at every station from Finsbury Park to Stevenage, so by the time the train finally puffed into Cambridge, the station clock showed 2:37 P.M.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:37|2:37 P.M.|2:37 P.M.
The conduit was roughly a meter and a half in diameter and pitch dark. He had expected that and had extracted a waterproof flashlight from an emergency kit in the wreckage of the Hind. It was helping, but not all that much. With the heat exchangers off, no water was flowing. The stone walls were merely moist, the curved sides covered with slime.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:38|2:38 P.M.|2:38 P.M.
"Abdoullah" had finished unpacking the second crate, and now he examined what he had: two fifteen-kiloton nuclear devices, made using enriched uranium-235 from the Kahuta Nuclear Research Center. He smiled again to think they had been smuggled out right from under the noses of the officials at Kahuta, directly up the security elevators leading down to the U235 centrifuge at Level Five.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:38|2:38 p.m.|The bus continued on its way into Bristol, a journey he would normally cover in about twelve minutes in the Lagonda, but today it took over an hour before they finally pulled into the bus station. Hugo was neither the first nor the last passenger to get off. He checked his watch: 2:38 p.m. He’d left himself enough time.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2071,6 +2087,7 @@ 15:01|one minute past three|"There'll be twenty pallets' worth by three o'clock tomorrow, see," comes a man's voice from the office down the hall, "and if your truck isn't here at one minute past three, then the lot'll be going to the Fine Fare depot in Aylesford."|The Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw 15:02|two minutes past three|But after months of checking and rechecking, Joseph Ricardo, of mixed race, born illegitimately in a Buenos Aires hospital at two minutes past three Western time on 19 October 1995, had officially been recognized.|The Children of Men|P.D. James|sfw 15:03|3.03 pm|I check Shingi's mobile phone - it says it's 3.03 pm. I get out of bed, open my suitcase to take clean socks out and the smell of Mother hit my nose and make me feel dizzy.|Harare North|Brian Chikwava|unknown +15:04|3:04 P.M.|He checked his watch: 3:04 P.M. He banged on the door again, but still no one responded. Surely they would not deny him entry when he was only a couple of minutes late?|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:04|four minutes past three|He saw the clock in the town-hall tower standing at four minutes past three on that hot and windless late-July afternoon.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown 15:04|1504|Woken at 1504 by Michelangelo hammering away with his chisel.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 15:05|three-oh-five|"Five minutes ago it was three o'clock," Murphy said. "I can't be certain, but I theorize that it must now be about three-oh-five."
I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -2113,6 +2130,7 @@ 15:25|15.25|"Hmm, let's see. It's a three-line rail-fence, a, d, g...d-a-r-l...Got it: 'Darling Hepzibah'
Hepzibah? What kind of name is that?
'Will meet you Reading Sunday 15.25 train Didcot-Reading.' Reading you all right, you idiots."|C|Tom McCarthy|unknown 15:25|three twenty-five|The next afternoon Mr. Underhill finished at the office early and took the three o'clock train, arriving out in Green Town at three twenty-five, in plenty of time to drink in the brisk rays of the autumnal sun.|The Playground|Ray Bradbury|unknown 15:26|15.26|It was almost 15.26 so I sent a two-word message to Chris - "All OK" - then started walking purposefully towards the nearest Portakabin, trying not to dwell too much on the insanity of what I was doing.|The Witness|Simon Kernick|sfw +15:27|three twenty-seven P.M.|At three twenty-seven P.M., the precise minute Albert had been born in 1907, the old man, surrounded by his five children, eleven grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren, thrust a silver-handled knife into a three-tier cake.|The Queen's Birthday Telegram|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:27|3.27 p.m.|And she rang the Reverend Peters and he came into school at 3.27 p.m. and he said, "So, young man, are we ready to roll?"|The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 15:28|nearly half-past three|"Good heavens!" she said, "it's nearly half-past three. I must fly. Don't forget about the funeral service," she added, as she put on her coat. "The tapers, the black coffin in the middle of the aisle, the nuns in their white-winged coifs, the gloomy chanting, and the poor cowering creature without any teeth, her face all caved in like an old woman's, wondering whether she wasn't really and in fact dead - wondering whether she wasn't already in hell. Goodbye."|Nuns at Luncheon|Aldous Leonard Huxley|unknown 15:29|3:29 P.M.|Wednesday 3:29 P.M.
"Michael, you look marvelous. It's so good to see you again. I really mean that. The years have treated you well." Eva Borodin leaned back against the gray fabric of the Saab's headrest and appraised him.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -2131,6 +2149,7 @@ 15:34|15:34|It was 15:34 now and the sleepiness felt like lead inside him.|Devil's Peak|Deon Meyer|sfw 15:35|three-thirty-five|By three-thirty-five business really winds down. I have already sold my ladderback chairs and my Scottish cardigans. I'm not even sure now why I've sold all these things, except perhaps so as not to be left out of this giant insult to one's life that is a yard sale, this general project of getting rid quick.|Anagrams|Lorrie Moore|unknown 15:35|3:35 P.M.|If Me flashed a little crazy after a restless night of smoking & prowling the darkened house with owl-eyes alert to suspicious noises outside & on the roof, it didn’t inevitably mean she’d still be in such a state when the schoolbus deposited Wolfie back home at 3:35 P.M.|I Am No One You Know: Stories|Joyce Carol Oates|unknown +15:36|3:36 P.M.|A strange thought crossed his mind. He must remember to tell Clare that the top of Everest was about the same size as their dining-room table. George checked his watch: 3:36 P.M.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:36|twenty-four minutes to four|Meanwhile a girl was standing in an airport concourse. A big clock suspended from the ceiling said it was twenty-four minutes to four.|The Intruders|Michael Marshall|sfw 15:37|15.37|The explosion was now officially designated an "Act of God". But, thought Dirk, what god? And why? What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 flight to Oslo?|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown 15:38|15:38|Mendez took a marker and added to the line for the day Karly Vickers disappeared: 15:38 traffic ticket issued by F. Farman.|Deeper Than the Dead|Tami Hoag|sfw @@ -2209,6 +2228,7 @@ 16:01|A little after four o'clock|A little after four o'clock, Pippa meandered over to Dot's house carrying a bottle of wine she had been keeping in reserve and wondering if she could possibly be pregnant in spite of the vestigial coil still lodged in her uterus like astronaut litter abandoned on the moon.|The Private Lives of Pippa Lee|Rebecca Miller|unknown 16:01|1601|Light is coming in through the curtains. Suddenly the digits on the clock radio look like a year. 1601. I woke up a bit early, don't have to be born for another 400 years.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 16:02|two minutes after four|I'd just looked up at the clock, to make sure time wasn't getting away from me, when I heard the shot. It was two minutes after four. I didn't know what to do.|Southern Ghost|Carolyn G. Hart|unknown +16:03|a few minutes after four|When Odell arrived back at the hotel a few minutes after four, the first thing he did was order a large flask of hot fruit punch before walking out onto the veranda to take up his post.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:03|16.03|She read the page carefully and then said, "16.03 - cat goes to the toilet in front garden."|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|unknown 16:04|four minutes past four|Krantz didn’t stir for the next two hours, aware that two of the guards would be waiting impatiently to accompany her to the bathroom and collect their nightly stipend. But the timing had to suit her. She would cater for their needs at four minutes past four, not before, when one would receive forty dollars, and he would make sure that the other got a packet of Benson & Hedges.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:04|four past four|At four past four he was aware of a rustling train's rush down the steps, and now was like a man with his neck on the block, awaiting the axe.|The Lord of the Sea|M.P. Shiel|sfw @@ -2429,7 +2449,9 @@ 17:45|a quarter to six|At a quarter to six, there was a rapping sound outside my door. I checked out the peephole. Ramirez stood outside, dressed in a big red basketball-type tank top, black shorts, and flip-flops.|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw 17:47|thirteen minutes to six|"Then I take it the matter is practically concluded," said the clergyman. "And that you very properly submit to return to your proper home. And now, if I may offer a suggestion, it is that we take tea. Freed of its tannin, nothing, I think, is more refreshing and stimulating."
"There's a train from Lyndhurst at thirteen minutes to six," said Widgery, unfolding a time table.|The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll|H.G. Wells|sfw 17:48|5:48 p.m.|Father came home at 5:48 p.m. I heard him come through the front door. Then he came into the living room. He was wearing a lime green and sky blue check shirt and there was a double knot on one of his shoes but not on the other.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw +17:49|5:49 P.M.|5:49 P.M., SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1924 WHEN ODELL ARRIVED back at Camp IV, he was unable to conceal his excitement. He crawled into Norton’s tent and told him what he’d seen.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:49|eleven minutes to six|It was eleven minutes to six. After a moment he idly drew the center drawer of the desk out over his lap. For a moment he stared at the gun without recognition. Then he gave a yelp and leaped up. She had put it back!|The Comforts of Home|Flannery O'Connor|unknown +17:50|ten to six|He glanced up at the clock above the door: ten to six. Young Kevin would appear through that door at any moment and ask if he would be kind enough to move on.|The Grass is Always Greener|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:50|ten to six|"What time is it Jack?"
"Ten to six"
"Ten more minutes then." I shuffle the cards. "Time for a quick game of rummy?"|Noughts and Crosses|Malorie Blackman|unknown 17:50|5:50|Esterville had called the truck stop, but no one had seen his wife come in. She hadn't returned home. Cork and McDougal found her red Mustang at 5:50.|Corpus Delicti|William Kent Krueger|sfw 17:51|5:51|She read through the first page slowly and made of a couple of emendations, aware that any mistake made hastily on a Friday evening could be regretted in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as she signed the final page of the document. It was just showing 5:51.|Never Stop on the Motorway|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2440,7 +2462,6 @@ 17:55|five minutes to six|One, two, three, four, five, six… She wound each clock in turn, three turns each, putting just enough power in the springs to get them ticking in time for Mr Westcott’s inspection. Speaking of which…it was five minutes to six. Five minutes before Mr. Westcott would arrive to inspect his clocks. Helena swallowed. She could hear footsteps thundering in the room below and the occasional exclamation from Stanley.|The House of One Hundred Clocks|A.M. Howell|unknown 17:55|five minutes to six|The wind moaned and sang dismally, catching the ears and lifting the shabby coat-tails of Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn, 'Photographic Artist', as he stood outside and put the shutters up with this own cold hands in despair of further trade. It was five minutes to six.|The Deferred Appointment|Algernon Blackwood|unknown 17:56|four minutes to six|Now, sir, the hand wants four minutes to six. If the hour strike before you call yourself a wanton, gratuitous calumniator, I'll flog you round the room.|The Knight of Gwynne|Charles James Lever|sfw -17:57|three minutes to six|Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by five to ten most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.|Only Time Will Tell|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|Hugo Carmody had done this, with the result that by three minutes to six he was feeling as if he had been marooned among roses since the beginning of summer.|Summer Lightning|P.G. Wodehouse|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|He would make his way by charm, the charm of voice, of jewel-like language, above all by the intellectual charm of new, moving, luminous ideas. At three minutes to six the doctor closed the book and waited.|The Drunkard|Guy Thorne|sfw 17:58|17:58|Then I notice the windows: they're shiny dark. 17:58, insists my watch. It can't be. It's only just gone four. I peer around my tormentor's belly to find Immaculée Constantin, but she's gone.|Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw @@ -2569,6 +2590,7 @@ 18:55|6:55|The play was set to begin at seven o'clock and finish before sunset. It was 6:55. Beyond the flats we could hear the hockey field filling up. the low rumble got steadily louder - voices, footsteps, the creaking of bleachers, the slamming of car doors in the parking lot.|Middlesex|Jeffrey Eugenides|unknown 18:56|6.56|Then it was 6.56. A black Rover - a Rover 90, registration PYX 520 - turned into the street that ran down the left-hand side of The Bunker. It parked. The door on the driver's side opened. A man got out.|Dreams of Leaving|Rupert Thomson|unknown 18:57|three minutes to the hour; which was seven|Folded in this triple melody, the audience sat gazing; and beheld gently and approvingly without interrogation, for it seemed inevitable, a box tree in a green tub take the place of the ladies’ dressing-room; while on what seemed to be a wall, was hung a great clock face; the hands pointing to three minutes to the hour; which was seven.|Between the Acts|Virginia Woolf|unknown +18:58|6:58 P.M.|Exactly where he’d seen the two figures, the time at which they continued up the mountain, and the fact that they appeared to be in no difficulty as they disappeared into the mist. When he’d finished, he checked his watch: 6:58 P.M.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:58|6:58|She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:58|two minutes to seven|"Walk fast," says Perry, "it's two minutes to seven, and I got to be home by—"
"Oh, shut up," says I. "I had an appointment as chief performer at an inquest at seven, and I'm not kicking about not keeping it."|Roads of Destiny|O. Henry|unknown 18:58|two minutes before seven|Today was Tuesday, the fifteenth of August; the sun had risen at eleven minutes past five this morning and would set at two minutes before seven this evening.|The Hot Rock|Donald E Westlake|unknown @@ -2606,7 +2628,7 @@ 19:04|7:04 p.m.|Sunday evening at almost the same hour (to be precise, at about 7:04 p.m.) she rings the front door bell at the home of Walter Moeding, Crime Commissioner, who is at that moment engaged, for professional rather than private reasons, in disguising himself as a sheikh.|The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum|Heinrich Böll|unknown 19:05|five minutes after seven|I parked at a rental lot outside O'Hare about five minutes after seven. I got out of the car with my staff and rod in hand. There was only one old light burning on the lot, but the moon had risen huge and bright, and I had no trouble seeing Micheal coming.|Death Masks|Jim Butcher|sfw 19:05|five past seven|It was five past seven, a little past his normal time, when Hubert got back to the flat which he supposed he ought now to call home, but in which he still felt as ill at ease as a guest who is beginning to suspect that he has outstayed his welcome.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw -19:05|7:05 p.m.|Punctual as always, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan was in the chandeliered lobby of the Hilton at 7:05 p.m., when Jon and Shannon stepped off the elevator. This time nattily attired in clerical grays, the dark-haired, ruddy-faced son of Ireland gracefully kissed Shannon's hand and then squeezed Jon's.|The Constantine Codex|Paul L. Maier|unknown +19:05|7:05 p.m.|Punctual as always, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan was in the chandeliered lobby of the Hilton at 7:05 p.m., when Jon and Shannon stepped off the elevator. This time nattily attired in clerical grays, the dark-haired, ruddy-faced son of Ireland gracefully kissed Shannon's hand and then squeezed Jon's.|The Constantine Codex|Paul L. Maier|sfw 19:06|seven-oh-six p.m.|The time on the clock was six minutes after seven p.m. That doesn't conclusively prove that Sam Dillon was murdered at seven-oh-six p.m., but all other evidence would certainly corroborate that point.|In the Company of Liars|David Ellis|sfw 19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters From My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw 19:08|eight minutes past seven|It was eight minutes past seven and still no girl. I waited impatiently. I watched another crowd surge through the barriers and move quickly down the steps. My eyes were alert for the faintest recognition.|The Girl from East Berlin|James Furner|unknown @@ -2670,6 +2692,7 @@ 19:32|7:32 p.m.|It’s 7:32 p.m., and Marge sits beside Clay on one side of the interrogation room table. Luke and I sit opposite them. We’ve run through the preambles. The interview is being recorded.|Beneath Devil’s Bridge|Loreth Anne White|unknown 19:33|thirty-three minutes past seven|At thirty-three minutes past seven he stood on the platform of the station at Southampton - a clear hour before the train containing Owen could possibly arrive. Making a few inquiries here, but too impatient to pursue his investigation carefully and inductively, he went into the town.|Desperate Remedies|Thomas Hardy|sfw 19:34|19:34|I checked my watch at 19:34 and thought that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it, if Pepperidge finally called me and heard only the engaged tone while Al was asking about his girlfriend's health or his aunt's or whoever the hell it was on the other end, my chest's easier but there's still this cough, and the doctor says I do not care what the doctor says, just get off the line.|Quiller's Run|Adam Hall|nsfw +19:35|7:35 P.M.|George checked his watch: 7:35 P.M. By now Geoffrey Young would be taking the rest of the team through tomorrow’s program, having informed them who would be joining him on the final ascent. The water boiled.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:35|seven-thirty-five P.M.|At seven-thirty-five P.M., Cork parked his Bronco behind the Aurora Middle School and headed toward the back entrance, which was near a Dumpster. He could see that Deputy Gil Singer had been posted at the door.|Purgatory Ridge|William Kent Krueger|sfw 19:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 19:35|7.35|7.35-40. Yseut arrives at 'M. and S.', puts through phone call.|The Case of the Gilded Fly|Edmund Crispin|unknown @@ -2825,6 +2848,7 @@ 20:40|twenty minutes to nine|It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.|Great Expectations|Charles Dickens|unknown 20:40|twenty minutes to nine|The letter had been brought in at twenty minutes to nine.|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd|Agatha Christie|unknown 20:41|08:41|It’s 08:41 and I’m in Bed practicing. Ma’s filled a plastic bag with really hot water and tied it tight so none spills out, she puts it in another bag and ties that too.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown +20:42|Eight forty-two|“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. Eight forty-two. Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”|The Edge of Lost|Kristina McMorris|sfw 20:42|8.42|The hand at this moment pointed to 8.42. The players took up their cards, but their eyes were constantly on the clock. One may safely say that, however secure they might feel, never had minutes seemed so long to them.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 20:43|20.43|I’ll tell you exactly what I want you to say when he phones back, but never forget that your first priority is to buy me as much time as possible. The SBS can’t make a move until after sunset, 20.43 local time, which isn’t’ – he checked his watch – ‘for another two hours and nineteen minutes.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:43|8.43|'8.43,' said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards placed before him by Gauthier Ralph. There was a moment's pause, during which the spacious room was perfectly silent.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown @@ -3193,7 +3217,7 @@ 23:20|twenty past eleven|Harvey looked at the clock, which marked twenty past eleven. "Then I'll sleep here till three and catch the four o'clock freight. They let us men from the Fleet ride free as a rule."|Captains Courageous|Rudyard Kipling|unknown 23:21|11.21 p.m.|The Swedish police did not exactly distinguish themselves. Palme was killed at 11.21 p.m., but the order to watch the roads didn't go out until 12.50 and even then the police in patrol cars weren't told what they were looking for, and the airports were not closed until 1.05 a.m.|Neither Here, Nor There|Bill Bryson|sfw 23:22|11:22 p.m.|Vero smiled. “I t-take that as approval. So let me summarize. On its present trajectory and speed, the Blade of Night will pass behind the moon between 11:13 and 11:22 p.m. Jerusalem time on the night of the seventeenth of February. That’s four days away. It will be sufficiently close that the moon will fully cover the disk of the earth at 11:18. That’s vital.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown -23:22|twenty-two minutes past eleven|It began to rain again, so she sat there with the blinds open, staring at the drops on the glass.
The time was now twenty-two minutes past eleven.
She knew only one thing with absolute certainty: she didn’t want to reach tomorrow. She stood up. She found a pen and a piece of paper.
It was, she decided, a very good time to die.|The Midnight Library|Matt Haig|unknown +23:22|twenty-two minutes past eleven|It began to rain again, so she sat there with the blinds open, staring at the drops on the glass.
The time was now twenty-two minutes past eleven.
She knew only one thing with absolute certainty: she didn’t want to reach tomorrow. She stood up. She found a pen and a piece of paper.
It was, she decided, a very good time to die.|The Midnight Library|Matt Haig|nsfw 23:22|11.22|At 11.22 he handed his ticket to a yawning guard and walked down a long flight of wooden steps to the car-park. A breeze lifted and dropped the leaves of a tree, and he thought of the girl with the blonde hair. His bicycle lay where he had left it.|Dreams of Leaving|Robert Thomson|unknown 23:23|twenty-three minutes past eleven|By the time the second lock had also admitted defeat with a click, things had still gone without a hitch. Quinten looked at his watch: twenty-three minutes past eleven.|The Discovery of Heaven|Harry Mulisch|sfw 23:24|11:24 P.M.|11:24 P.M.
Willem Voorst was at the controls of the Cessna as they powered through the Aegean night, their heading 210 as they closed rapidly on Andikythera. He was holding their altitude at five hundred meters, their airspeed just under a hundred knots, barely above stall.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw From 72987b3da6d715dab955abe9fce5c3daea63374e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:43:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 10/15] added further Jeffrey Archer quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 3c8a8116..c62545e3 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ 00:38|thirty-eight minutes past midnight|Somewhere he'd lost three days; for he'd entered the burning veil Thursday, thirty-eight minutes past midnight. Yes. But keep cool. There's more at stake than three lost days. There must be; otherwise why the police?|Redemolished|Alfred Bester|unknown 00:38|12:38 a.m.|Justin turned on the light and groggily looked at the Sony clock radio which said it was 12:38 a.m. The screams in his dream had been painfully, frighteningly real, but he could not remember where the screams had come from.|Crow's Nest|G.V. Miller|unknown 00:39|12:39 a.m.|It was 12:39 a.m. and I watched the moon fall prey to an evil-looking pack of galloping dark clouds.|Monastery Nightmare|Ross H. Spencer|unknown +00:40|twelve-forty|He looked around the carriage he was sitting in. It was full of night people, waiters, nurses, party returners, drunks—even a traffic warden. The train eventually pulled into his station at twelve-forty.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 00:40|twelve-forty|It was the opinion of the forensic pathologist who saw the body at twelve-forty that Mrs. O'Keefe had died very shortly after her return home.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 00:40|twenty minutes to one|"Twenty minutes to one?" exclaimed Helen. "My mother will certainly think we're lost. But I hate to go. It is magnificent, even if it is terrible."|White Ashes|Sidney R. Kennedy|sfw 00:41|12:41 am|By the time he came back to his car, it was 12:41 am. I was standing outside my car, just waiting and he noticed me.|Blood Ties|Geraldo Cruz|unknown @@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ 01:12|1.12 a.m.|It was 1.12 a.m. when Father arrived at the police station. I did not see him until 1.28 a.m. but I knew he was there because I could hear him.
He was shouting, "I want to see my son," and "Why the hell is he locked up?" and, "Of course I'm bloody angry."|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|nsfw 01:13|thirteen minutes past one|He drew out his note-book and read aloud what the mysterious chandler had said to him: "It was precisely thirteen minutes past one on the twenty-fourth of January when I drew my last breath."|Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann|sfw 01:14|one-fourteen|"Sal is here, this is my old buddy from New Yor-r-k, this is his first night in Denver and it's absolutely necessary for me to take him out and fix him up with a girl."
"But what time will you be back?"
"It is now," (looking at his watch) "exactly one-fourteen."|On the Road|Jack Kerouac|sfw +01:15|1:15|A bit weak, thought Robin, but the best he could do at 1:15 in the morning.
“Sure it wasn’t some beautiful girl?” said Mary.
“I’m afraid Jim and Fred could hardly be described as beautiful, even by their loving wives.”|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 01:15|1:15|Emma fell into a deep sleep, to be jolted back to consciousness by the unfamiliar sound of a police siren blaring from the street below. Now she understood why the rooms on the upper floors were more expensive. She checked her watch. It was 1:15.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 01:15|quarter past one|I am sorry, therefore, as I have said, that I ever paid any attention to the footsteps. They began about a quarter past one o'clock in the morning, a rhythmic, quick-cadenced walking around the dining-room table.|My Life and Hard Times: "The Night the Ghost Got In"|James Thurber|unknown 01:15|1.15 am|Lily Chen always prepared an 'evening' snack for her husband to consume on his return at 1.15 am.|Sour Sweet|Timothy Mo|unknown @@ -338,6 +340,7 @@ 02:32|2.32 a.m.|The last guests departed at 2.32 a.m., two hours and two minutes after the scheduled completion time.|The Rosie Project|Graeme Simsion|unknown 02:33|two-thirty-three|But it wasn't going on! It was two-thirty-four, well. Two-thirty-three and nothing had happened. Suppose he got a room call, or the elevator night-bell rang, now.|A Swell-looking Babe|Jim Thompson|unknown 02:34|two-thirty-four|But it wasn't going on! It was two-thirty-four, well. Two-thirty-three and nothing had happened. Suppose he got a room call, or the elevator night-bell rang, now.|A Swell-looking Babe|Jim Thompson|unknown +02:35|2:35|Matson and the Chairman had driven back from Mark’s apartment at 2:35 that morning, their task completed. Matson had overslept by thirty minutes. The damned hotel had forgotten his wake-up call; you couldn’t trust anyone nowdays.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 02:35|two-thirty-five|I crept down the stairs careful to avoid the steps I knew would cry my presence to my father who had taken to sleeping on the sofa in the living room. In the kitchen I saw by moonlight that the hands of the wall clock read two-thirty-five.|Ordinary Grace|William Kent Krueger|sfw 02:35|2:35 in the morning|The lit-up screen offered no information about the caller, but it did reveal that it was 2:35 in the morning.|Shifting Sands|Ray Keating|sfw 02:35|2:35 a.m.|Rorschach’s journal: Left Jacob’s house 2:35 a.m. He knows nothing about any attempt to discredit Dr. Manhattan. He has simply been used.|Watchmen|Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|unknown @@ -410,7 +413,7 @@ 03:00|three o'clock|"She died this morning, very early, about three o'clock."|The Voyage Out|Virginia Woolf|unknown 03:00|Three in the morn.|Three a.m. That’s our reward. Three in the morn. The soul’s midnight. The tide goes out, the soul ebbs. And a train arrives at an hour of despair. Why?|Something Wicked This Way Comes|Ray Bradbury|unknown 03:00|three o'clock|According to her watch it was shortly after three o'clock, and according to everything else it was night-time.|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown -03:00|At three am|At three am I was walking the floor and listening to Katchaturian working in a tractor factory. He called it a violin concerto. I called it a loose fan belt and the hell with it.|The Long Goodbye|Raymond Chandler|unknown +03:00|At three am|At three am I was walking the floor and listening to Katchaturian working in a tractor factory. He called it a violin concerto. I called it a loose fan belt and the hell with it.|The Long Goodbye|Raymond Chandler|nsfw 03:00|three o' clock in the morning|At three o' clock in the morning Eurydice is bound to come into it. After all, why did I sit here like a telegrapher at a lost outpost if not to receive messages from everywhere about the lost Eurydice who was never mine to begin with but whom I lamented and sought continually both professionally and amateurishly.|The Medusa Frequency|Russell Hoban|unknown 03:00|three o’clock in the morning|But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work -- and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.|The Crack-Up|F. Scott Fitzgerald|unknown 03:00|three o'clock|Not till she has had one cup of tea, so weak that it has a colour accidentally golden, can she begin her day. She is an insomniac. Her nights are wide-eyed and excited with worry. Even at three o'clock in the morning one might hear her eating a Bain Marie biscuit in the kitchen.|Afternoon Raag|Amit Chaudhuri|unknown @@ -436,6 +439,7 @@ 03:07|3.07 am|Wayne late-logged in: 3.07 am -the late-late show. He parked. He dumped his milk can. He yawned, he stretched. He scratched.|The Cold Six Thousand|James Ellroy|unknown 03:08|eight minutes past three|The mist was thinning now and he could just discern the Grange itself - a substantial, dark shadow marked by blurs of lights from the windows. His watch showed that it was eight minutes past three. So they would all be closeted now in solitary meditation waiting for the four o'clock summons to announce their final votes.|The Black Tower|P.D. James|sfw 03:09|nine past three|Hall looked at his Rolex and it was nine past three, and yet no cuckoos had announced the hour, not one. How long had this been going on, or not going on?|The Road to Ruin|Donald E. Westlake|sfw +03:10|ten past three|Adam licked his fingers and rubbed them over his eyes as he tried to get accustomed to the dark. He checked the little luminous dial on his alarm clock: ten past three.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:10|3:10|It was 3:10 in the morning when Pastor Grant finally got back to the parsonage.|Warrior Monk|Ray Keating|sfw 03:10|ten-past three|I think my credit card was in there too. I wrote down the words credit card and said that if they wouldn't let me cancel them I'd demand that they registered the loss so you couldn't be charge for anything beyond the time of my calling them up. I looked at the clock. It was ten-past three.|The Whole Story and Other Stories|Ali Smith|unknown 03:10|ten past three|Love again; wanking at ten past three|Love Again|Philip Larkin|nsfw @@ -592,6 +596,7 @@ 04:42|04:42 am|A large clock above the desks read 04:42 am. He paused to listen. Whatever had happened there, appeared to be over.|Dead City|Matthew Warwick|sfw 04:43|four forty-three|The time is four forty-three in the mornin an it's almost light oot there.|Pyschoraag|Suhayl Saadi|unknown 04:44|0444 hours|"At 0444 hours yesterday morning, the landing craft Orpheus was appropriated by Dr. Diana Chandler, twenty-seven, an astrophysicist from Toronto, Canada. Dr. Chandler, apparently disconsolate over the failure of her husband, Aaron Rossman, also twenty-seven, also of Toronto, to renew their recently expired two-year marriage contract, presumably committed suicide. Mr. Rossman is the Starcology's dock master."|Golden Fleece|Robert J. Sawyer|nsfw +04:45|four forty-five|He never found it necessary to phone the Prime Minister, although Mr. Churchill did phone him on one occasion. It was four forty-five in the morning when Charlie picked up the receiver on his desk.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:45|4:45 a.m.|His wife's breathing at his side is so faint that he can scarcely hear it. One of these mornings she'll be lying dead beside me and I won't even notice, he thinks. Or maybe it'll be me. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left alone. He checks the clock on the table next to the bed. The hands glow and register 4:45 a.m.|Faceless Killers|Henning Mankell|unknown 04:46|four-forty-six|The phone rang again at four-forty-six.
"Hello," I said.
"Hello," came a woman's voice. "Sorry about the time before. There's a disturbance in the sound field. Sometimes the sound goes away."
"The sound goes away?"
"Yes," she said. "The sound field's slipping. Can you hear me?"|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 04:47|4.47 am|I slept only fitfully after looking online. The phrases I’d read repeated in my head over and over again. When I woke up for what felt like the hundredth time, the Stormtrooper clock beside the bed read 4.47 am.|What She Knew|Gilly MacMillan|unknown @@ -604,6 +609,7 @@ 04:52|4:52 A.M.|Anna left the apartment at 4:52 A.M., dressed in jeans, a blue T-shirt, a linen jacket, and a baseball cap. She wasn’t sure what to expect as she stepped out onto the sidewalk that cool, dark morning.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:52|eight minutes to five|"If it matters, it's eight minutes to five. Don't get any persecuted ideas that I enjoy being out of bed at this time of night. It makes it legally easier if you invite us in."|Holding the Zero|Gerald Seymour|sfw 04:53|seven minutes before five|It was so quiet in the post office that Trinidad could hear the soft tick of the clock's second hand every time it moved. It was now seven minutes before five.|The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow|Rita Leganski|unknown +04:54|six minutes to five|When the last lid had been placed back on he checked the clock on the wall: six minutes to five. Just enough time to glance in the other box and see if he could expect the same again.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:54|six minutes to five|Six minutes to five. Six minutes to go. Suddenly I felt quite clearheaded. There was an unexpected light in the cell; the boundaries were drawn, the roles well defined. The time of doubt and questioning and uncertainty was over.|Dawn: A Novel|Elie Wiesel|unknown 04:55|4:55 a.m.|There were two messages. The first, sent at 4:55 a.m., was from the campus garage.
"We have your vehicle," the mechanic's voice informed him. "Unfortunately, we had some trouble getting it out of the ditch, and it has sustained a small amount of additional damage."|The Enclave|Karen Hancock|sfw 04:55|4:55|4:55 - Mank holding phone. Turns to Caddell - "Who is this?"
Caddell: "Jim." (shrugs) "I think he's our man in Cincinnati."|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown @@ -689,6 +695,7 @@ 05:33|five thirty-three|It was five thirty-three when we left. Is it six o'clock now? Six thirty? And Mark's still in his cage and I'm scared to drive very fast. . . what if we don't get there in time?|Among the Brave|Margaret Peterson Haddix|unknown 05:34|five-thirty-four|I asked "What time is sunrise?”
A second's silence while the crestfallen Bush absorbed his rebuke, and then another voice answered: "Five-thirty-four, sir."|The Commodore|C.S. Forester|unknown 05:34|four minutes later|"At five-thirty. I was here about four minutes later. Judging by the appearance of the blood and the beginning of rigor in the side of the face, I guessed that he had been dead about five hours."|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|nsfw +05:35|5:35|The Senator woke at 5:35 in a cold sweat—not that he had really slept for more than a few minutes at any one time. It had been an evil night, thunder and lightning and sirens.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:35|5:35|He was surprised to see it was 5:35. So he must have slept - or at least dozed - for over six hours. He was beginning to wonder whether the storm had really spent its force when the moaning began again, and rose to another howling crescendo.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw 05:35|5:35|5:35 - All phones ringing now, the swing shift has shot the gap - now the others are waking up.|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S Thompson|unknown 05:35|twenty-five before six|I squinted at the clock. 'It says twenty-five before six,' I said and rolled away from him.|The Dice Man|Luke Rhinehart|unknown @@ -701,6 +708,7 @@ 05:40|twenty minutes to six|Twenty minutes to six. 'Rob's boys were already on the platform, barrows ready. The only thing that ever dared to be late around here was the train. Rob's boys were in fact Bill Bing, thirty, sucking a Woodbine, and Arthur, sixty, half dead.|The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman|Bruce Robinson|unknown 05:41|5:41|It took Inigo until 5:41 before he actually cornered the Count. In the billiard room. “Hello,” he was about to say. “My name name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father; prepare to die.”|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 05:42|eighteen minutes to six|At eighteen minutes to six, they blew the wall, and even then, it was almost too late.|A Gentleman's Game|Greg Rucka|sfw +05:43|five forty-three|On 16 July 1921 Daphne woke at five forty-three feeling drained, but by the time she stepped out into the sunshine in Lowndes Square at one forty-five she was exhilarated and actually looking forward to the occasion.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:43|05:43|05:43 Greenwich Mean Time
William was woken by the phone ringing. He grabbed it, wondering who could possibly be calling him at that hour of the morning. He hoped it was Beth.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:43|5:43|It’s 5:43. Time is racing, racing.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 05:43|5.43|5.43 - Mank on phone to 'Mary' in Washington; 'It now appears quite clear that we'll lead the state - without the 21st.'|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown @@ -716,6 +724,8 @@ 05:50|5:50|It was was 5:50 when he staggered from the room, heading he knew not where or for how long, but hoping only that whoever had been guiding him lately would not desert him now.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 05:51|nine minutes to six o'clock|It was nine minutes to six o'clock and an hour before dawn. The brigade was not due to move today, and so, just as they did every other day, along with every British corps in the field, the four battalions stood to arms in case of attack. Each company paraded and then marched to form with its battalion at its alarm post.|Whose Business is to Die|Adrian Goldsworthy|sfw 05:52|5.52 am|At 5.52 am paramedics from the St. Petersburg Fire Department and SunStar Medic One ambulance service responded to a medical emergency call at 12201 Ninth Street North, St. Petersburg, apartment 2210.|Silent Witness|Mark Fuhrman|unknown +05:53|five fifty-three|The day had been specially chosen because the meteorologists had assured them that the sun would rise at five fifty-three and there would be no rain. The meteorologists would prove to be right about the sun, but as if to show their fallibility at four-eleven a steady drizzle began.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +05:53|five fifty-three|At five fifty-three, as a blood-red sun peeped over the horizon, a Verey pistol was fired and Charlie looked back to see the sky lit up behind him.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:53|seven minutes to six|The gate log showed he'd signed out at seven minutes to six that morning, slightly earlier than usual. Because they were conscientious employees, the spaceport immediately called the police and sent someone around to Gemma Tivon.|Fallen Dragon|Peter F. Hamilton|sfw 05:54|six minutes to six|This morning, the sun came up at six minutes to six. There was already heavy early-morning rush-hour traffic on the Majesta Bridge. Meyer was driving. Carella was riding shotgun.|Merely Hate|Ed McBain|sfw 05:55|five minutes to six|One, two, three, four, five, six… She wound each clock in turn, three turns each, putting just enough power in the springs to get them ticking in time for Mr. Westcott’s inspection. Speaking of which…it was five minutes to six. Five minutes before Mr. Westcott would arrive to inspect his clocks. Helena swallowed. She could hear footsteps thundering in the room below and the occasional exclamation from Stanley.|The House of One Hundred Clocks|A.M. Howell|unknown @@ -754,6 +764,7 @@ 06:08|six oh-eight a.m.|At six oh-eight a.m. two men wearing ragged trench coats approached the Casino. The shorter of the men burst into flames.|Magic Bleeds|Ilona Andrews|unknown 06:09|06:09 CET|06:09 CET
"Why didn't you wake me at four?" demanded Monti. He glared down at William, who was the same color as his soaking sheet, and was still sweating.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:09|6.09|Bimingham New Street 5.25. Walsall 5.55. This train does not stop at Birchills, for reasons George has never been able to ascertain. Then it is Bloxwich 6.02, Wyrley & Churchbridge 6.09. At 6.10 he nods to Mr. Merriman the stationmaster.|Arthur and George|Julian Barnes|unknown +06:10|6:10|The Chairman got out of bed at 7:20 and lit his first cigarette. He couldn’t remember exactly when he had woken. At 6:10 he had phoned Tony, who was already up and waiting for his call.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:10|ten past six|The bus left the station at ten past six - and she sat proud, like an accustomed traveller, apart from her father, John Henry, and Berenice. But after a while a serious doubt came in her, which even the answers of the bus-driver could not quite satisfy.|The Member of the Wedding|Carson McCullers|unknown 06:11|6:11 a.m.|I looked at the clock: 6:11 a.m. Brittany had been gone for five hours. Time was racing forward.|The Good Neighbor|Cathryn Grant|unknown 06:12|6:12 in the morning|"Doc Kerrison?" The interrogation was surely unnecessary. Who else in this half-empty, echoing house would be answering at 6:12 in the morning? He made no reply and the voice went on.|Death of an Expert Witness|P.D. James|sfw @@ -774,6 +785,7 @@ 06:25|six-twenty-five|"Still, it's your consciousness that's created it. Not somethin' just anyone could do. Others could be wanderin' around forever in who-knows-what contradictory chaos of a world. You're different. You seem t'be the immortal type."
"When's the turnover into that world going to take place?" asked the chubby girl. The Professor looked at his watch. I looked at my watch. Six-twenty-five. Well past daybreak. Morning papers delivered.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 06:26|0626 hours|No lights were on in the master bedroom at this time but it is noted that the official time of sunrise for this date is 0626 hours. Victim is quite clear that sufficient light was entering via the large picture window to allow good visibility.|Roulette|Don and Linda Pendleton|sfw 06:26|6:26 A.M.|6:26 A.M.
"All right," Armont declared, "we make the insert here." He tapped his finger on the blueprint. "We hit the nerve center of Launch with flash-bangs and tear gas, and take it down. If we're lucky, Ramirez will still be there, and that should be the end of it."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +06:27|6:27 A.M.|6:27 A.M.
Eventually Mark could stand it no longer and at 6:30 A.M. he rose, showered, and put on a clean shirt and a fresh suit.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:27|6:27|It was 6:27. In Frances Peverell's flat the phone rang. As soon as James spoke her name she knew that something was wrong.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 06:27|06:27|06:27:52 by the chip in her optic nerve; Case had been following her progress through Villa Straylight for over an hour, letting the endorphin analogue she'd taken blot out his hangover.|Neuromancer|William Gibson|unknown 06:27|0627 hours|Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate, facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him.|White Teeth|Zadie Smith|unknown @@ -792,11 +804,13 @@ 06:30|six-thirty|Six-thirty was clearly a preposterous time and he, the client, obviously hadn't meant it seriously. A civilised six-thirty for twelve noon was almost certainly what he had in mind, and if he wanted to cut up rough about it, Dirk would have no option but to start handing out some serious statistics. Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up. Dirk had the figures to prove it.|The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown 06:30|6.30|Sometimes they were hooded carts, sometimes they were just open carts, with planks for seats, on which sat twelve cloaked and bonneted women, six a side, squeezed together, for the interminable journey. As late as 1914 I knew the carrier of Croydon-cum-Clopton, twelve miles from Cambridge; his cart started at 6.30 in the morning and got back at about ten at night. Though he was not old, he could neither read nor write; but he took commissions all along the road - a packet of needles for Mrs. This, and a new teapot for Mrs. That - and delivered them all correctly on the way back.|Period Piece|Gwen Raverat|unknown 06:31|6:31 A.M.|6:31 A.M.
"Alpha Leader, this is SEAL One. I think we've spotted some hostiles."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +06:32|6:32 A.M.|6:32 A.M.
Mark had awoken, but he wasn’t awake. His head was swimming with incoherent thoughts. The first vision to flash across his mind was Elizabeth; he smiled.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:32|6:32 a.m.|He had been parked there for seven minutes already; he could only afford a few more before someone might become suspicious.
"C'mon. . . c'mon," he was muttering. "Let's get this over with."
He checked his watch: 6:32 a.m.|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw 06:32|6:32 A.M.|BURBANK AIRPORT
6:32 A.M.
Rush hour traffic crept forward in the pale morning light. Casey twisted her rearview mirror, and leaned over to check her makeup.|Airframe|Michael Crichton|unknown 06:32|twenty-eight minutes to seven|The familiar radium numerals on my left wrist confirmed the clock tower. It was twenty-eight minutes to seven. I seemed to be filling a set of loud maroon pajamas which were certainly not mine. My vis-a-vis was wearing a little number in yellow.|Too Like the Lightning|Dana Chambers|unknown 06:33|6.33 a.m.|Woke 6.33 a.m. Last session with Anderson. He made it plain he's seen enough of me, and from now on I'm better alone. To sleep 8:00? (These count-downs terrify me.) He paused, then added: Goodbye, Eniwetok.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 06:34|6:34 A.M.|6:34 A.M.
The leader of the SEALs, Lieutenant Devon Robbins, spoke into his thin microphone. "Can you see them? We could use an IR scope." The SEALs had split into two teams, as was their practice, and he was leading the first.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +06:35|6:35|Mark woke with a start and sat up, trying to focus his eyes on his watch. All he could see was the second hand moving: 6:35. Hell. He shot up from the chair, his stiff neck and back hurting him; he was still dressed.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 06:35|twenty-five minutes to seven|My watch lay on the dressing-table close by; glancing at it, I saw that the time was twenty-five minutes to seven. I had been told that the family breakfasted at nine, so I had nearly two-and-a-half hours of leisure. Of course, I would go out, and enjoy the freshness of the morning.|Ravensdene Court|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 06:36|6:36|Kaldren pursues me like luminescent shadow. He has chalked up on the gateway '96,688,365,498,702'. Should confuse the mail man. Woke 9:05. To sleep 6:36.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 06:37|06:37 GMT|06:37 GMT
Jackie didn't need a wake-up call that morning. She was already on her way to Waterloo station by the time William was speeding down the M4.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -807,13 +821,17 @@ 06:40|twenty to seven|At eleven o'clock the phone rang, and still the figure did not respond, any more than it has responded when the phone had rung at twenty-five to seven in the morning, and again at twenty to seven|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown 06:41|nineteen minutes to seven|A car drove past at a crawl, its driver eyeing her curiously through the slow-moving windscreen wipers, and she pretended to rummage for something in her pocket, trying to look like a normal person, on her way to a normal day. It was nineteen minutes to seven.|The Horse Dancer|Jojo Moyes|sfw 06:42|06:42|It was 06:42 and he had just finished his solo morning workout: three circuits of Ring 7 - the second-longest ring in the hab-disk - followed by a half hour pushing and pulling against resistance channels in the gym.|Marine Cadet|Tim C. Taylor|sfw +06:43|6:43|After throwing the lather on his face, he shaved too quickly, mowing down the stubble on his chin. Damn it, three nicks; the aftershave lotion stung viciously: 6:43.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 06:43|6.43 am|To London on the 6.43 am. Jessica is back from her holiday. Things are looking up, she called me Chris, instead of Minister, when we talked on the phone this afternoon.|A View From the Foothills|Chris Mullin|unknown 06:44|6.44|Simon is happy to travel scum class when he's on his own and even sometimes deliberately aims for the 6.25. But today the .25 is delayed to 6.44.|The Deaths|Mark Lawson|unknown -06:45|Six-forty-five|Six-forty-five the shavers buzz and the Acutes line up in alphabetical order at the mirrors, A, B, C, D. . . . The walking Chronics like me walk in when the Acutes are done, then the Wheelers are wheeled in.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown +06:45|Six-forty-five|Six-forty-five the shavers buzz and the Acutes line up in alphabetical order at the mirrors, A, B, C, D. . . . The walking Chronics like me walk in when the Acutes are done, then the Wheelers are wheeled in.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 06:45|six-forty-five|The black boy’s dwarf head swivels and comes nose to knuckle with that hand. He frowns at it, then takes a quick check where’s the other two black boys just in case, and tells McMurphy they don’t open the cabinet till six-forty-five. “It’s a policy,” he says.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 06:45|quarter to seven|As the clock pointed to a quarter to seven, the dog woke and shook himself. After waiting in vain for the footman, who was accustomed to let him out, the animal wandered restlessly from one closed door to another on the ground floor; and, returning to his mat in great perplexity, appealed to the sleeping family, with a long and melancholy howl.|No Name|Wilkie Collins|unknown 06:45|quarter to seven|He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. Didn't you want to go somewhere?"|Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|unknown +06:46|6:46|He bundled the papers on his desk into his briefcase and ran for the elevator. First piece of luck, it was on the top floor. Downstairs: 6:46.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:46|one minute after the quarter to seven|At one minute after the quarter to seven I heard the rattle of the cans outside. I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.|The Thirty-Nine Steps|John Buchan|unknown +06:47|thirteen minutes to seven|“Morning, Mark. Hell, man, is it eight o’clock already?”
“No, thirteen minutes to seven.”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw +06:48|6:48|Car starts first time. Reliable Mercedes. Moves on the road: 6:48. Must stay below speed limit. Never embarrass the Bureau.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:48|6:48 A.M.|Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at 6:48 A.M. He checked his watch: 4:17. They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:48|6:48 A.M.|His jet had touched down on the facility's runway at 6:48 A.M. and been promptly towed into the hangar. Tanzan Mino intended to be in personal command when Daedalus I went hypersonic, in just nineteen hours.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 06:49|6:49|Night ends, 6:49. Meet in the coffee shop at 7:30; press conference at 10:00.|Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|Hunter S. Thompson|unknown @@ -826,9 +844,11 @@ 06:55|five minutes to seven|It was five minutes to seven the next morning. Sergeant Masterson and Detective Constable Greeson were in the kitchen at Nightingale House with Miss Collins and Mr. Muncie. It seemed like the middle of the night to Masterson, dark and cold.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 06:55|6:55 am|At 6:55 am Lisa parked and took the lift from the frozen underground car park up to level 1 of Green Oaks Shopping Centre.|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|sfw 06:56|four minutes to seven|"Well, I've only to say I'm sorry to cause all this fuss, y'know - and, well, yes, I would like a smoke," replied the condemned man, and added hastily: "Don't think I want to delay things for a moment though - but if there is time. . ."
"It is four minutes to seven," said Major Ranald, "and tobacco and matches are not supposed to be found in a government jail."|Driftwood Spars|Percival Christopher Wren|sfw +06:57|6:57|Down ramp, park, show FBI pass to garage guard, run for elevator: 6:57;|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:57|three minutes to seven|That meant that Helen must run and get the table set as quickly as possible as it was three minutes to seven.|The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors|Neil Speed|sfw 06:58|two minutes to seven|They waited. At exactly two minutes to seven, a white car came into view and pulled into the employee's parking lot behind the building.|Small Sacrifices|Ann Rule|sfw 06:58|6:58 A.M.|6:58 A.M.
Hugo Voorst was lying propped against a rock, his shoulder bandaged with white strips of gauze from the first-aid kit. Now that the flow of blood had been staunched, Marcel was injecting him with a shot of morphine to quell the looming pain.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +06:59|6:59|She barely glances up; knock on door of Director’s office; no reply; go in as instructed. No Director: 6:59; sink into easy chair. Director going to be late; smile of satisfaction.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:59|one minute to seven|At one minute to seven, Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:59|6.59 a.m.|It was 6.59 a.m. on Maundy Thursday as Blomkvist and Berger let themselves into the "Millennium" offices.|The Girl Who Played with Fire|Stieg Larsson|unknown 07:00|seven|Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o’clocks in one day.|Raising Steam|Terry Pratchett|unknown @@ -865,10 +885,12 @@ 07:05|five after seven|Outside my window the sky hung low and gray. It looked like snow, which added to my malaise. The clock read five after seven. I punched the remote control and watched the morning news as I lay in bed.|Dance Dance Dance|Haruki Murakami|unknown 07:05|7:05 A.M.|Ryan missed the dawn. He boarded a TWA 747 that left Dulles on time, at 7:05 A.M. The sky was overcast, and when the aircraft burst through the cloud layer into sunlight, Ryan did something he had never done before. For the first time in his life, Jack Ryan fell asleep on an airplane.|The Hunt for Red October|Tom Clancy|unknown 07:06|six minutes past seven|Percy subscribed to that old axiom about how you should get right back on the horse that had thrown you, because here he came through the door at six minutes past seven, resplendent in his blue uniform with his sidearm on one hip and his hickory stick in its ridiculous custom-made holster on the other.|The Green Mile|Stephen King|unknown +07:07|seven minutes past seven|Qantas Flight 102 touched down at Melbourne Airport at seven minutes past seven. Charlie was the first off the aircraft, running as fast as he could, but having to lug Cathy’s picture under one arm slowed him down and made it possible for several other passengers, who obviously had the same idea, to overtake him.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:07|seven minutes past seven|When Joubert walked into the parade room at seven minutes past seven on the first of January, forty detectives were already seated on the blue-gray government-issue chairs placed in a large rectangle against the four walls.|Dead Before Dying|Deon Meyer|sfw 07:08|between eight and nine minutes after seven o'clock|Reacher had no watch but he figured when he saw Gregory it must have been between eight and nine minutes after seven o'clock.|The Hard Way|Lee Child|unknown 07:09|07:09|We wake up and the air is shiverier. Watch says 07:09, he has a battery, that’s his own little power hidden inside.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 07:09|seven-nine|The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!|There Will Come Soft Rains|Ray Bradbury|unknown +07:10|7:10|“Get me the head of the Secret Service at the White House.”
“Yes, sir.”
The Director glanced at his watch: 7:10. Andrews was due at 8:15. The phone rang.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:10|7:10 a.m.|When he woke, he jumped out of bed and pulled back the curtains to see the first rays of sunlight bathing the city. He checked the time. It was 7:10 a.m. He felt grubby, and smiled at the thought of a long, hot bath.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:10|7.10|A search in Bradshaw informed me that a train left St. Pancras at 7.10, which would land me at any Galloway station in the late afternoon.|The Thirty-Nine Steps|John Buchan|unknown 07:10|7:10|There were many others waiting to execute the same operation, so she would have to move fast, elbow her way to the front so that she emerged first. The time was 7:10 in the morning. The manoeuvre would start at 7:12. She looked apprehensively at the giant clock at the railway station.|The Fourth Passenger|Mini Nair|unknown @@ -888,6 +910,8 @@ 07:17|7.17 am|As of 7.17 am local time on 30 June 1908, Padzhitnoff had been working for nearly a year as a contract employee of the Okhrana, receiving five hundred rubles a month, a sum which hovered at the exorbitant end of spy-budget outlays for those years.|Against the Day|Thomas Pynchon|unknown 07:18|7:18 A.M.|7:18 A.M.
"Ulysses to Sirene. Do you read me?"
When his radio crackled, Armont was in the medical facility of the Bates Motel, watching as a plasma IV was attached to Dimitri's arm. He immediately grabbed for it.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:19|7.19 am|I opened the sunroof and turned up the CD player volume to combat fatigue, and at 7.19 am on Saturday, with the caffeine still running all around my brain, Jackson Browne and I pulled into Moree.|The Rosie Project|Graeme Simsion|unknown +07:20|twenty past seven|The two policemen arrived at the Hotel Monarche at twenty past seven that Thursday morning. They were tired, discontent, and hungry. Since midnight they had visited forty-three hotels on the west side of the city, on each occasion with no success.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +07:20|7:20|The Chairman got out of bed at 7:20 and lit his first cigarette. He couldn’t remember exactly when he had woken. At 6:10 he had phoned Tony, who was already up and waiting for his call.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:20|7:20|At 7:20, the door swung open and Anne reappeared to carry out her most important function of the day. “Time to take you through to the studio, Harry.”|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:20|7.20 a.m.|And this was my timetable when I lived at home with Father and I thought that Mother was dead from a heart attack (this was the timetable for a Monday and also it is an approximation). 7.20 a.m. Wake up|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|unknown 07:20|seven-twenty|He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day. He escaped from reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty.|Babbitt|Sinclair Lewis|unknown @@ -919,7 +943,8 @@ 07:33|7:33 A.M.|Wednesday 7:33 A.M.
"You're lucky I love this spot," Vance said, gazing out over the city. "Nothing else on the planet could have got me up this early in the morning."|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 07:34|7:34|7:34. Monday morning, Blackeberg. The burglar alarm at the ICA grocery store on Arvid Morne's way is set off.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 07:34|7:34|He made another entry in his logbook when Summers emerged from the building at 7:34, and set off in the direction of the local nick as his radio sprang to life. He listened carefully to what Paul had to report, and said he’d deal with it as soon as he was back in the office.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw -07:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown +07:35|7:35|Florentyna Kane did not wake until 7:35. She rolled over, trying to recall the dream she had just had, but none of it would come back to her, so she let her mind wander.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +07:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|sfw 07:35|7.35|I told him that it was me and he said, "It’s 7.35 on a Sunday morning. This is terribly inconsiderate of you. I realize you’re besotted with Marigold, but you must try and restrain your passion. Come to lunch. I’ve got something to show you."|Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction|Sue Townsend|unknown 07:35|7:35 am|At 7:35 am Ishigami left his apartment as he did every weekday morning.|The Devotion of Duspect X|Keigo Higashino|unknown 07:35|seven thirty-five|I looked at my watch. Seven thirty-five.|Bare Bones|Kathy Reichs|unknown @@ -963,6 +988,7 @@ 07:56|seven fifty-six|I sit by the window, crunching toast, sipping coffee, and leafing through the paper in a leisurely way. At last, after devouring three slices, two cups of coffee, and all the Saturday sections, I stretch my arms in a big yawn and glance at the clock. I don't believe it. It's only seven fifty-six.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 07:56|four minutes to eight|The Castle Gate - only the Castle Gate - and it was four minutes to eight.|Buddenbrooks|Thomas Mann|unknown 07:57|7:57 A.M.|7:57 A.M.
As Alexa stepped out of the lobby, the morning was glorious and clear. Spring had arrived in a burst of pear and cherry blossoms in the garden of St. Luke's Church, up the street, but here by the river the morning air was still brisk enough to make her skin tingle.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw +07:58|7:58|He had to catch the conspirators alive, get them to testify against the Senator. The Director checked his watch with the clock on the Old Post Office Tower over the Washington Field Office. It was 7:58.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:58|7:58 AM|McEnany looked at the clock in the corner of the video screen. It said 7:58 AM. A few more keystrokes, and Paige Caldwell's voice came through his headset.|Murderer's Row|Ray Keating|sfw 07:59|one minute to eight|At one minute to eight he set off at a brisk pace down the path that would take them to the base of the mountain.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:59|eight o'clock, maybe a minute before|"It was right at eight o'clock, maybe a minute before. I went into the demo room to see if I'd left my tin of polish there. And there was this bottle of milk on the trolley and I drank some of it. Just a bit off the top."|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1014,6 +1040,7 @@ 08:03|Eight oh three|Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom ... Eight oh three eh em ... Death of Sergeant Detritus ... Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds ... Death of Constable Visit ... Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds ... Death of death of death of ...|Jingo|Terry Pratchett|unknown 08:03|8:03|He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment, I must refuse to follow the "stupid human habit" of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. "Never meet people at 7:45 or 6:30, Jasper, but pick times like 7:12 and 8:03!"|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|unknown 08:03|three minutes past eight|I might talk to the GP about getting some sleeping pills. I noticed that my watch had stopped at three minutes past eight, and I wondered if that was the exact time our baby died.|Rock Paper Scissors|Alice Feeny|unknown +08:04|8:04 A.M.|8:04 A.M.
The phone was ringing, but Mark was still in a deep sleep. It continued to ring.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:04|8:04|Every clerk had his particular schedule of hours, which coincided with a single pair of tram runs coming from the city: A had to come in at 8, B at 8:04, C at 8:08 and so on, and the same for quitting times, in such a manner that never would two colleagues have the opportunity to travel in the same tramcar.|The Periodic Table|Primo Levi|unknown 08:05|8.05 a.m.|8.05 a.m. Pack school bag|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:05|five-past eight|"Well, it’s five-past eight now," I said to Drake. "You’d better go straight off and organise a flashing party. There’s not a hope of a sortie tonight at sea, but we’d better be on the safe side."|Eight Hours from England|Anthony Quayle|unknown @@ -1032,16 +1059,19 @@ 08:13|8:13 a.m.|At 8:13 a.m. the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.|In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All|Grace Paley|unknown 08:14|fourteen minutes past eight|At fourteen minutes past eight, a man came in, wearing a sheepskin coat. He was sucking on a hand-rolled cigarette. The man stuck out his hand, cheerfully. "You'll be Mister Moon," he said.|The Monarch of the Glen|Neil Gaiman|sfw 08:14|8:14 A.M.|8:14 A.M.
"What happened?" Ramirez asked. Helling had alerted him by walkie-talkie and summoned him to the lobby. There the Germans were returning, Henes Sommer covered with blood and being carried by Rudolph Schindler and Peter Maier.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +08:15|8:15|“Get me the head of the Secret Service at the White House.”
“Yes, sir.”
The Director glanced at his watch: 7:10. Andrews was due at 8:15. The phone rang.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:15|8:15 a.m.|No one at the desk asked Louis for identification or payment. An elderly woman showed him to a tiny, spotlessly clean room, and left without offering a word. The earliest direct flight from Prague to Vienna left at 8:15 a.m., and Most had decided that Louis should not spend the intervening hours waiting in an airport lounge.|The Nameless Ones|John Connolly|unknown 08:15|quarter past eight|Casey Kingsley wasn’t entirely surprised to see his new hire sitting outside his office when he arrived at quarter past eight that morning. Nor was he surprised to see the bottle Torrance was holding in his hands, first twisting the cap off, then putting it back on and turning it tight again—he’d had that special look from the start, the thousand-yard Kappy’s Discount Liquor Store stare.|Doctor Sleep|Stephen King|unknown 08:15|quarter-past eight|It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up, and hauled down his watch. It was a quarter-past eight.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 08:15|eight fifteen|You scrutinized your wrist: "It's eight fifteen. (And here time forked.) I'll turn it on." The screen in its blank broth evolved a lifelike blur, and music welled.|Pale Fire|Vladimir Nabokov|unknown 08:16|eight sixteen|I walk through the fruit trees toward a huge, square, brown patch of earth with vegetation growing in serried rows. These must be the vegetables. I prod one of them cautiously with my foot. It could be a cabbage or a lettuce. Or the leaves of something growing underground, maybe. To be honest, it could be an alien. I have no idea. I sit down on a mossy wooden bench and look at a nearby bush covered in white flowers. Mm. Pretty. Now what? What do people do in their gardens? I feel I should have something to read. Or someone to call. My fingers are itching to move. I look at my watch. Still only eight sixteen. Oh God.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +08:17|8:17|He caught the 8:17 train so favored by those who commute from Oxford to London every day. All the people at breakfast seemed to know each other and Stephen felt like an uninvited guest at someone else’s party.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:17|8:17 AM|Lil: Morning, shug. Check the mailbox
Me: It’s literally 8:17 AM
Lil: It’s early, I know. Left something for you when I was out walking. I suggest you get it now.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw 08:17|8.17 a.m.|Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations. He consulted his instruments, and recorded:
“Monday, July 1.
“Chronometer, 8.17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”
This last observation applied to the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.|A Journey to the Centre of the Earth|Jules Verne|unknown 08:17|eight seventeen|Come on, I can't give up yet. I'll just sit here for a bit and enjoy the peace. I lean back and watch a little speckled bird pecking the ground nearby for a while. Then I look at my watch again: eight seventeen. I can't do this.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 08:18|eighteen minutes past eight|Say they left at seventeen or eighteen minutes past eight. In that case they must have followed Joanne Garland and might well be driving faster than she.|Kissing the Gunner's Daughter|Ruth Rendell|sfw 08:19|8.19|I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at 8.19 and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late, at 8.49.|The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim|Jonathan Coe|unknown +08:20|twenty past eight|He had watched the early-morning commuters flooding in on every train. By twenty past eight Adam judged they were at their peak. He checked that the icon was in place and left his hideout to join the flood as they headed to work.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:20|twenty past eight|"This morning I took the launch out for forty minutes or so to test the engine. She's been giving a bit of trouble. That took from seven-forty-five until twenty past eight, near enough."|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 08:20|8:20|At each end of the forecourt the two great globes of light supported by bronze dolphins threw shining pools on the heaving surface of the water which as she watched shimmered like a great cloak of black satin, shaken, smoothed and gently billowed by an invisible hand. Mandy glanced at her watch: 8:20.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 08:20|Eight-twenty|Eight-twenty the cards and puzzles go out.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown @@ -1052,6 +1082,7 @@ 08:23|twenty-three minutes past eight|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 08:23|8:23|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 08:24|8:24|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown +08:25|8:25|There was one hell of a lot of things he was going to do next week. He glanced at his watch: 8:25. No Wheaties this morning.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 08:25|eight twenty-five|The twenty-five minutes from eight until eight twenty-five was the only time in which all the female suspects had been together, eating under the eye of Miss Collins and full in each other's gaze.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 08:25|Eight-twenty-five|Eight-twenty-five some Acute mentions he used to watch his sister taking her bath; the three guys at the table with him fall over each other to see who gets to write it in the log book.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 08:25|twenty-five after|The next day, Jay sat at his desk promptly at eight. At twenty-five after, Irene came over. "Time to go to the meeting."
Jay stood. "Who'll take over the phones?" |The Arachne Portal|Joan Marie Verba|unknown @@ -1060,6 +1091,7 @@ 08:27|twenty-seven minutes past eight|Even dawdling over breakfast with my mother just killed an hour, and though I hadn't planned to be at Marge's until nine, I was knocking on her door at twenty-seven minutes past eight.|Fatally Frosted|Jessica Beck|sfw 08:27|almost eight-thirty|The lecture was to be given tomorrow, and it was now almost eight-thirty.|A Confederacy of Dunces|John Kennedy Toole|unknown 08:28|8.28|And at 8.28 on the following morning, with a novel chilliness about the upper lip, and a vast excess of strength and spirits, I was sitting in a third-class carriage, bound for Germany, and dressed as a young sea-man, in a pea-jacket, peaked cap, and comforter.|The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers|unknown +08:29|8:29|“If you get past eleven o’clock, young man, I think you have a good chance for a long and healthy life, but we still don’t know if it’s Dexter or Harrison. You know I think it’s Dexter.” The Director looked at his watch again: 8:29—ninety-seven minutes left.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:29|8:29|Mr. Trent himself followed a rigid routine. Each day, he arose at 7 a.m., breakfasted at 7:30, and departed for work at 8:10, arriving at 8:29.|The Great Train Robbery|Micheal Crichton|sfw 08:29|8.29|At 8.29 I punched the front doorbell in Elgin Crescent. It was opened by a small oriental woman in a white apron. She showed me into a large, empty sitting room with an open fire and a couple of huge oil paintings.|Engleby|Sebastian Faulks|unknown 08:30|eight-thirty in the morning|Gard stood bent over the cut in the earth for some time, shining the big light into the black depths. Here it was, only eight-thirty in the morning, and already he wanted a drink.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown @@ -1106,6 +1138,7 @@ 08:43|eight forty-three|"You understand this tape recorder is on?"
"Uh huh"
"And it's Wednesday, May 15, at eight forty-three in the mornin'."
"If you say so"|A Time to Kill|John Grisham|unknown 08:43|8.43 a.m.|8.43 a.m. Go past tropical fish shop|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:44|eight forty-four|Several soldiers - some with their uniforms unbuttoned - were looking over a motorcycle, arguing about it. The sergeant looked at his watch; it was eight forty-four. They had to wait until nine. Hladik, feeling more insignificant than ill-fortuned, sat down on a pile of firewood.|The Secret Miracle|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown +08:45|8:45|DAVID ARRIVED AT the office at 9 A.M. on Monday to find that the front door was locked. He could not understand it. The secretaries were supposed to be in by 8:45.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:45|eight forty-five|The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a sixty-five-year-old spinster of the parish of St. Matthew's in Paddington, London, and Darren Wilkes, aged ten, of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared.|A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw 08:45|quarter of nine|When Gardner woke up, bright light was streaming into his face through the western window. His back hurt like a bastard, and when he stood up his neck gave a wretched arthritic creak that made him wince. It was quarter of nine.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|nsfw 08:45|a quarter to nine|When it got to be a quarter to nine and still no one had shown up, Gardener began to wonder if maybe they were quitting. He toyed with the idea as he sat in Bobbi’s rocker on the porch, fingering the big, puffy bruise on the side of his face where Bozeman had clouted him.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown @@ -1287,6 +1320,7 @@ 09:38|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]. He was just turning in upon the footpath behind the swine shed. It would take ten minutes to get to the church. He had less than fifteen minutes in which to get ready.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown 09:39|9.39 a.m.|Exactly as the display ticked over to 9.39 a.m. there was a distant banging on my front door. I hate show-offs.|Fated|Benedict Jacka|sfw 09:39|9:39 A.M.|9:39 A.M.
Braque was in the ground-floor women’s bathroom at Chapin Hall with her pants to her knees, but her whole day wasn’t f*cked yet. Yes, this was a substantial detour, but she still had an hour to make it to her last Micro 1 discussion group before the final.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw +09:40|9:40|The Chairman broke the circuit and lit another cigarette: 9:40.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:40|9:40|After breakfast she selected a maternity outfit that made her, with a little assistance, look about seven months pregnant. She left the hotel at 9:40 a.m., and took a taxi to Lafayette street, where she entered a monument to glass and steel, and, after checking the directory on the wall, took a lift to the twenty-first floor.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:40|nine-forty|His business partner rang the office at about nine-forty to say he hadn't been able to contact Robin since yesterday morning and was worried. Mrs. Frensham came over first and found the remains of a meal on the kitchen table, his car in the driveway and his bed apparently not slept in.|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw 09:40|twenty minutes to ten|Hartmann closed the door of the banqueting hall and stopped to fasten his watch. It was twenty minutes to ten. From the office along the corridor came a faint sound of typing; a telephone rang.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown @@ -1302,6 +1336,7 @@ 09:45|quarter to ten|She looked at the clock on the night table and saw it was quarter to ten. She’d slept another two hours. For a moment she was alarmed; maybe she’d suffered a concussion or a fracture after all.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:45|9.45|9.15, 9.30, 9.45, 10! Bond felt the excitement ball up inside him like cat's fur.|On Her Majesty's Secret Service|Ian Fleming|unknown 09:46|9:46 a.m.|At the hour of 9:46 A.M., to be exact, as one should in these matters, I had cast three times above the known lair of this fish. Then I cast a fourth time, more from habit than hope; and the fight was on.|Ma Pettengill|Harry Leon Wilson|sfw +09:47|9:47 A.M.|He left the hotel at 9:47 A.M. at his usual brisk pace “Action stations.”
Stephen and Robin snapped out of their daydreaming.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|9:47|“She’s dead,” he confirmed. “It must have been very sudden and with the minimum of pain.” He checked his watch; the time was 9:47. He covered his patient with a blanket and called for an ambulance.|Old Love|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|9:47 a.m.|The timing of the Lord Chancellor’s entrance and exit from the North Tower of the Palace of Westminster would have impressed a regimental sergeant major. At 9:47 a.m. there was a knock on the door and his secretary, David Bartholomew, entered the room.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:47|nine forty-seven|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -1315,6 +1350,7 @@ 09:48|nine forty-eight|"Right. . . nine forty-seven and nine forty-eight. They died at the same time."
"That's not the same time, Harry."
I waved a hand, impatient.|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|sfw 09:48|nine-forty-eight|"This is the body I first saw at nine-forty-eight on Friday the fifteenth of October at Innocent House, Innocent Walk, Wapping."|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 09:49|0949 hours|Twenty-four hours later there was a new message on the numbers station. Porter listened to it twice before decoding it. It simply said, Message received. Assets en route. Landing tomorrow at 0949 hours. GCHQ listening in.|Deathlist|Chris Ryan|sfw +09:50|nine-fifty A.M.|The colonel and his two colleagues entered the half-filled room at nine-fifty A.M. and, as instructed, filed into the seats immediately behind their adversary.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:50|ten minutes to ten|Lamont left his flat in Hammersmith at ten minutes to ten, and instead of turning right and heading for the nearest tube station, as he’d done every weekday morning for the past eight years, he turned left.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:50|9:50|"I should have known," said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at 9:59.|Blood Stained|Gayl Siegel|sfw 09:50|ten to ten|She reaches Radiance at ten to ten, early for once, and lets herself in with her key, and puts on the mauve-and-aqua smock that Shanita designed for them so the customers will know they aren’t customers themselves.|The Robber Bride|Margaret Atwood|unknown @@ -1330,6 +1366,7 @@ 09:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw 09:54|9:54|9:54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton, and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:54|six minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +09:55|five to ten|Leave your room at five to ten, join the orchestra in the lobby, and then make your way to the front door, where you’ll find their coach parked.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five to ten|Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by five to ten most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten precisely|On Tuesday, 17 October, at five minutes to ten precisely, Father Martin made his way from the small turret room he occupied at the south of the house, down the twisting stairs and along the corridor to Father Sebastian's study.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw 09:55|five minutes to ten|They were to call for her at her house in the Taurida Gardens at ten o’clock, but it was already five minutes to ten, and the girls were not yet dressed.
Natásha was going to her first grand ball. She had got up at eight that morning and had been in a fever of excitement and activity all day.|War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy|unknown @@ -1337,6 +1374,7 @@ 09:55|five minutes to ten|"Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning", said Albert; "your punctuality really alarms me. What do I say? punctuality! You, whom I expected last, you arrive at five minutes to ten, when the time fixed was half-past! Has the ministry resigned?"|The Count of Monte Cristo|Alexandre Dumas|unknown 09:56|9:56|Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m. Once around the block: 9:43. Once again, even slower: 9:56. Finally, he walked through the gates, across a pebbled courtyard and up a dozen steps, where a large double door was opened for him by a guard whose medals indicated that they had served in the same theater of war.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:56|9:56 A.M.|9:56 A.M.
Ally stepped out of the cab, holding the large leather‑bound portfolio, and checked the number on the card against the bronze plaque above the door. Winston Bartlett lived like a nineteenth‑century robber baron.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw +09:57|three minutes to ten|That Thursday morning the board members were all seated in their places round the table by three minutes to ten. The meeting began on a quiet note, with apologies for absence, followed by the acceptance of the minutes of the last meeting.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:57|9:57 A.M.|Friday 9:57 A.M.
"We have detonation," Colonel Arkadi reported into his helmet mike. His twin-engine Foxhound was already in a steep fifty-degree bank.
"We copy you," General Sokolov replied. "Can you confirm the kill?"|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|unknown 09:58|two minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:58|two minutes to ten|At two minutes to ten, the two presented themselves at No. 10, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.|John Dene of Toronto|Herbert George Jenkins|sfw @@ -1383,18 +1421,24 @@ 10:00|Ten|The pundit sighed. "Only a fool like me would leave his door open when a riot can occur at any moment, and only a fool like me would say yes to you," he said. "What time?"
Just his head was sticking out of the partially opened door. The money from blessing the ice-cream factory must have dulled his desire for work, I thought.
"Ten."
"Ten-thirty." Without another word, he closed the door.|An Obedient Father|Akhil Sharma|unknown 10:00|ten o' clock|The Saturday immediately preceding the examinations was a very busy day for Kennedy. At ten o' clock he was entering Willey's room; the latter had given him a key and left the room vacant by previous arrangement - in fact he had taken Olivia on another house hunting trip.|The Greeks Have a Word for It|Barry Unsworth|unknown 10:00|ten in the morning|The summer holidays were near at hand when I made up my mind to break out of the weariness of school-life for one day at least. With Leo Dillon and a boy named Mahoney I planned a day's mitching. Each of us saved up sixpence. We were to meet at ten in the morning on the Canal Bridge.|Dubliners|James Joyce|unknown +10:01|10:01|“Right, go ahead,” said the Director crisply. “Report to me as soon as they’re ready but leave the final briefing to the last possible moment, and, Matt, I want no helicopters until 10:01. I don’t want there to be a chance of a leak of any sort; it’s our one hope of catching the assassin.”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:01|one minute past ten|He entered the lawyer’s glass domain at one minute past ten, sat down opposite his client and smiled, before placing his Gladstone bag on the floor next to his chair.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Goddamn cataclysmic devastation, pretty much.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 10:01|10:01 A.M.|10:01 A.M.
Dr. Abdoul Kirwani, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States of America, sat rigidly facing the small desk in the Oval Office. When the call requesting a meeting had come from Johan Hansen's chief of staff the previous evening, he had hastily sent a secure telex to Islamabad to inquire if he needed any updating.
He did. And it was a disaster.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 10:01|about ten o'clock|At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.'|Of Mice And Men|John Steinbeck|unknown 10:02|10:02|10:02, her eyes rested for a split second on every person who came in.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:02|two minutes after ten|It was two minutes after ten; she was not satisfied with her clothes, her face, her apartment. She heated the coffee again and sat down in the chair by the window. Can't do anything more now, she thought, no sense trying to improve anything the last minute.|The Daemon Lover|Shirley Jackson|unknown +10:03|three minutes past [ten]|She passes the FBI Building at three minutes past [ten], she passes the Peace Monument at the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds at five minutes past.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:03|10.03|It's 10.03 according to his watch, and he is travelling down through the Scottish highlands to Inverness, tired and ever-so-slightly anxious in case he falls asleep between now and when the train reaches the station, and misses his cue to say to Alice, Drew and Aleesha: 'OK, this is Inverness, let's move it.'|“Vanilla-Bright like Eminem” from The Farenheit Twins|Michel Faber|unknown 10:03|10.03|The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty three minutes past ten, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03.|Ctrl-Z|Andrew Norriss|unknown 10:04|10:04|On Saturday. November 12. 1955, the Hill Valley Courthouses clock tower was struck by lightning, which poured 1.21 gigawatts of energy into the structure. Time stood still at 10:04 on the clocks face from that day on.|Back to the Future: Race Through Time|Marc Sumerak|unknown +10:05|five minutes past|She passes the FBI Building at three minutes past [ten], she passes the Peace Monument at the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds at five minutes past.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:05|10:05|GUY KNOCKED ON George’s door, but there was no reply. He checked his watch: 10:05. George couldn’t be in hall having breakfast, because they finished serving at nine on a Sunday, and he surely wouldn’t have gone to the Freshers’ Fair without him.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:05|five past ten|We both watch as a pair of swans sail regally under the little bridge. Then I glance at my watch. It's already five past ten. “We should get going,” I say with a little start. Your mother will be waiting.”
“There's no rush,” Nathaniel calls as I hasten down the other side of the bridge. “We've got all day.” He lopes down the bridge. “It's OK. You can slow down.” I try to match his relaxed pace. But I'm not used to this easy rhythm. I'm used to striding along crowded pavements, fighting my way, pushing and elbowing.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +10:06|10:06|“All right, Matt, let’s assume that the point of maximum risk is the Capitol itself, at 10:06, right on the steps—what then?”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +10:06|six minutes past [ten]|She gets out of her car at the east front of the Capitol at six minutes past [ten].|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:06|10:06 a.m.|"You have fifteen minutes," he said. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, 10:06 a.m.|Gone|Lisa Gardner|sfw +10:07|seven minutes past ten|“It must have been about seven minutes past ten. I remember because I checked my watch when that coach left.”
“The coach?” said Romanov.
“Yes, the one that was being loaded up with musical instruments. It left about …”|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|10:07 GMT|10:07 GMT
Once they had settled in Superintendent Wall's office, the three police officers checked and double-checked every detail of Operation Blue Period.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|10:07 a.m.|10:07 a.m. Access letter only, about nonpayment of minimum payment. Try to remember what was looking for. Restart quest for handbag.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 10:07|10.07 am|10.07 am: In a meeting with Rod, Momo and Guy. We are rehearsing the final for the third time, with Rod and Guy taking the parts of the clients, when Rod's secretary, Lorraine, bursts in.|I Don't Know How She Does It|Allison Pearson|unknown @@ -1405,8 +1449,10 @@ 10:10|10:10|10:10 Shot is fired.|The Hollow Man|John Dickson Carr|unknown 10:10|ten minutes past 10|Saturday morning was bright and sunny, and at ten minutes past 10 Donald arrived at the Embankment entrance of Charing Cross Underground Station, carrying a small suitcase full of clothes suitable for outdoor sports and pastimes.|England, Their England|A.G. Macdonell|unknown 10:10|Ten minutes later|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown +10:11|10:11|“Fine,” said Florentyna Kane and looked at her watch. It was 10:11. The digits changed—and were replaced by the rate of her heartbeat—72; normal, she thought.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:11|10:11|10:11, had he called her bluff?|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:11|eleven minutes past ten|It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six.|Three Men and a Maid|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown +10:12|10:12|This disappeared and the watch showed 10:12. The President rehearsed the opening line of her speech for the last time. She’d gone over the final draft with Edward that morning, and she was satisfied with it.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:12|10:12|George checked his watch: 10:12. Although their progress had been slower than he had anticipated, he still believed that if they could reach the summit by midday, they would have enough time to return to the North Col before sunset.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:12|ten twelve|“I'll take the coffee tray out,” I suggest humbly. As I pick it up I glance again at my watch. Ten twelve. I wonder if they've started the meeting.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 10:12|10:12 a.m.|He stood up once, early on, to lock his office door, and then he was reading the last page, and it was exactly 10:12 a.m., and the sun beating on his office windows was a different sun from the one he'd always known.|Freedom|Jonathan Franzen|unknown @@ -1493,16 +1539,19 @@ 10:54|10:54 GMT|10:54 GMT
"Commander Hawksby's office."
"It's Bruce Lamont, Angela. Can you put me through to the boss?"
"He's still in Italy, Bruce. I'm not expecting him back until Monday."|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:54|10:54 A.M.|It was 10:54 A.M. Her telephone call would come in a minute. They were at different times each morning and she had a plastic laminated chart that told her what time to expect the call on each day.|Last Call|Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir|sfw 10:54|10:54 a.m.|"I'm telling you that you paid 6,495 into Bennington's Bank in the High Street at 10:54 a.m. today," insisted Frost.
"And I'm telling you I did not" spat the man.|Hard Frost|R.D. Wingfield|sfw +10:55|ten fifty-five hours|At ten fifty-five hours sharp Lance Corporal Trumper stood trembling outside the colonel’s tent, almost as fearful of his commanding officer as of going over the top. A few minutes later the company sergeant major marched out of the tent to collect him.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:55|ten-fifty-five|The call came on his dedicated mobile at ten-fifty-five, while he was adding to his selection of organic vegetables, and was Kate's voice. "We have a case. The apparent murder of a patient at a private clinic in Stoke Cheverell, in Dorset. It's in a manor house."|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw 10:55|ten-fifty-five|But this meeting, called in Assistant Commissioner Harkness's office on the seventh floor of New Scotland Yard at ten-fifty-five on the morning of Saturday, 23 October, had, from his first entry into the room, the unmistakable presaging of murder.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw -10:55|10:55|At 10:55 they would enter the Farholme Gate, emerging a mere ten and a half minutes later at Bannermere Gate. Forty light-years away.|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown +10:55|10:55|At 10:55 they would enter the Farholme Gate, emerging a mere ten and a half minutes later at Bannermere Gate. Forty light-years away.|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 10:55|10:55|“She sat down facing the empty desk, smiled at it in a way she hoped showed competence and intelligence, then sighed and slumped back and checked her watch. The interview was for eleven o’clock. It was 10:55.”|The Grammarians: A Novel|Cathleen Schine|unknown 10:55|five minutes to eleven|The clock was still saying five minutes to eleven when Pooh and Piglet set out on their way half an hour later.|The House at Pooh Corner|A.A. Milne|unknown 10:55|five minutes to eleven|Mr. Justice Wargrave said:
“It is now five minutes to eleven. I think we should summon Miss Brent to join our conclave.”|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown +10:56|10:56|The second hand moved relentlessly—relentlessly towards 10:56. He busied himself with breakfast and the morning paper. The Post informed him that many buildings had caught fire during the night in one of the worst storms in Washington’s history, and the Lubber Run in Virginia had overflowed its banks, causing heavy property damage.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:56|four minutes to eleven|"Here's your clock, Katy," he said. "I've got it fixed so that it strikes all right. Only you must be careful not to hit the stiker when you start the pendulum."
"Have you really?" said Katy. "Why, Dorry, you're a genius! I'm ever so much obliged."
"It's four minutes to eleven now," went on Dorry.|What Katy Did|Susan Coolidge|sfw 10:56|10.56|BOOTH WATSON KNEW IT WOULD be a question of careful timing if he hoped to pull it off. He’d have to keep one eye on the clock to make sure it was 10.56 before he made his move.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:57|10.57|I run the tape back repeatedly, looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen, where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds, from 10.53 to 10.57.|Austerlitz|W. G. Sebald|unknown 10:58|10:58|One day Joe was sitting in the office waiting for his 11 o'clock appointment, and at 10:58 this black gal came in.|Lightning Rods|Helen DeWitt|unknown +10:59|10:59|At 10:59 the butler opened the front door and the crowds began to cheer.
The President and her husband waved to the smiling eyes and only sensed by experience and professional instinct that fifty people were not looking toward them.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:59|a minute before eleven|She had just returned from the only shopping she needed to do that day, and it was still a minute before eleven.|That Hideous Strength|C.S. Lewis|unknown 11:00|eleven o'clock|"The Population Police require your attendance at a meeting at eleven o'clock in the town square. You will be issued a new identity card. No other cards or papers will be valid after these cards are issued," Luke said in a rush.|Among the Free|Margaret Peterson Haddix|sfw 11:00|eleven|Shanghai’s clocks were set an hour ahead so the city could "save daylight", but the Bai family said: “We go by the old clock.” Ten o’clock to them was eleven to everyone else. Their singing was behind the beat; they couldn’t keep up with the huqin [Chinese string instrument] producing bleak and desolate sounds of life.|Love in a Fallen City|Eileen Chang|unknown @@ -1549,6 +1598,7 @@ 11:02|11:02|“Yes.” Perena’s firm tone brooked no argument. “It exploded at 11:07. You would have entered at 11:02, so that by then you would have been exactly midway between the Gates.”|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown 11:03|Eleven oh-three|"What makes you think it's for real?"
"Just a hunch, really. He sounded for real. Sometimes you can just tell about people"-he smiled-"even if you're a dull old WASP."
"I think it's a setup."
"Why?"
"I just do. Why would someone from the government want to help you?"
"Good question. Guess I'll find out."
She went back into the kitchen."What time are you meeting him?" she called out.
"Eleven oh-three," he said. "That made me think he's for real. Military and intelligence types set precise appointment times to eliminate confusion and ambiguity. Nothing ambiguous about eleven oh-three."|Little Green Men|Christopher Buckley|unknown 11:03|11.03 am|On the fourth, at 11.03 am, the editor of the Yidische Zaitung put in a call to him; Doctor Yarmolinsky did not answer. He was found in his room, his face already a little dark, nearly nude beneath a large, anachronistic cape.|Death and the Compass|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown +11:04|11:04|Senator Harrison died before he reached the hospital and Mark had his wound patched up by a house doctor. Mark checked his watch and laughed. It was 11:04—he was going to live.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:04|11.04|Consequently we are happy to announce that since the excess excuses have now been used, the 11.04 DeepDrop to Sydney is ready for boarding at Gate Six.|Lost in a Good Book|Jasper Fforde|sfw 11:04|past 11 o'clock|As her husband had told him, she was still in bed although it was past 11 o'clock. Her normally mobile face was encased in clay, rigid and menacing as an Aztec mask.|Scoop|Evelyn Waugh|unknown 11:05|Five past eleven|Five past eleven; less than a quarter of an hour before Amethyst either succeeded or failed|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown @@ -1566,6 +1616,7 @@ 11:10|Ten past eleven|She backed down the driveway, checked for traffic, and turned toward the turnpike. Ten past eleven. Plenty of time.
That’s what she thought then.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 11:10|Ten minutes after eleven|Ten minutes after eleven in Archie McCue's room on the third floor of the extension to the Robert Matthews' soaring sixties' tower - The Queen's Tower, although no queen was ever likely to live in it.|Emotionally Weird|Kate Atkinson|unknown 11:11|11:11|The LCD face on his Super G Digital Athletic Chronometer blinks, 11:11, on and off and on and off. Eleven eleven. Eleven eleven. Eleven eleven.|The Indifference League|Richard Scarsbrook|unknown +11:12|11:12|“11:12 action stations, action stations.”
James slipped quickly into the Lamanns Gallery as Jean-Pierre once again removed from his window the Sutherland watercolor of the Thames and the Boatman, and replaced it with an oil by Van Gogh, as magnificent an example of the master’s work as a London gallery had ever seen.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:12|11:12|11:12 I have a solution, via the local paper. A girl from the village will collect it, iron it all overnight at £3 a shirt, and sew on Eddie's button.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 11:12|11:12|I squinted down the street at the bank clock: 11:12, 87 degrees.
"It's only a block and a half and it's not that hot, Daddy. The walk will do you good." This conversation made me breathless, as if I were wearing a girdle with tight stays.|A Thousand Acres|Jane Smiley|unknown 11:13|around eleven, eleven-fifteen|The first time I saw them it was around eleven, eleven-fifteen, a Saturday morning, I was about two thirds through my route when I turned onto their block and noticed a '56 Ford sedan pulled up in the yard with a big open U-Haul behind.|Where I'm Calling From|Raymond Carver|unknown @@ -1574,18 +1625,22 @@ 11:15|quarter past eleven|A stretch of curb in front of Gerard Tower has been stenciled AUTHORIZED PARKING ONLY. At quarter past eleven a truck with a big sombrero on the side pulls up there. Below the sombrero, JOSE’S EATS. And below that, TODOS COMEN! People start leaving the building, trundling toward the truck like ants drawn to sugar.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 11:15|a quarter past eleven|The chalet stand isolated at the end of a blind valley. Higher up, there’s only the reservoir, and behind it the treacherous glacier. At a quarter past eleven, she concludes that it’s impossible for Nick to be wandering out there, in this weather.|Echo|Thomas Olde Heuvelt|unknown 11:15|11:15|"Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15."|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +11:16|11:16|Eventually, at 11:16, he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|11:17|When Sir Matthew was directly behind his client, he checked his watch. It was 11:17. He knew his timing had to be exact, because he had become uncomfortably aware that he was dealing not only with a clever woman but also an extremely cunning one.|An Eye for an Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|11:17|Ted presented himself at the front door of Number 10 at 11:17 the next day. The deputy clerk accompanied him down the long corridor to the ground floor and asked him to take a seat in the small waiting area that adjoins the Cabinet Room.|Shoeshine Boy|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|seventeen minutes past eleven|Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George's Church had stopped ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven: she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then catch short twelve at Marlborough Street. She was sure she would win.|Dubliners|James Joyce|unknown 11:18|11.18|It is 11.18. A row of bungalows in a round with a clump of larch tree in the middle.|Trumpet|Jackie Kay|unknown 11:19|11:19|A whistle cut sharply across his words. Peter got onto his knees to look out the window, and Miss Fuller glared at him. Polly looked down at her watch: 11:19. The train. But the stationmaster had said it was always late.|Blackout|Connie Willis|unknown +11:20|eleven-twenty|By eleven-twenty Adam decided he could no longer chance being seen on the road. He stared down the ravine, realizing there was no alternative left open to him now but foot.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:20|11.20 am|On Friday 17 September at 11.20 am, my life changed forever. I was standing in the master bedroom of a house in Mosman, staring at the queen-sized bed and deciding whether to dress it in neutral colours or go lavish with a silver-beaded throw, when my mobile phone rang, giving me a start.|Southern Ruby|Belinda Alexandra|unknown 11:20|11h20|OFFICER'S NOTES Disruption alert logged 11h20 from Stones' Pool Hall (Premises ID 33CBD-Long181). Officer and Aito /379 responded. On arrival found subject shouting threats and acting in aggressive manner. A scan of the subject's SIM ID register revealed that the subject has recent priors including previous public disruptions and a juvenile record.|Moxyland|Lauren Beukes|unknown 11:20|11.20|Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. The time was 11.20.|American Gods|Neil Gaiman|unknown +11:21|eleven twenty-one|She checked her watch yet again: eleven twenty-one. For the first time she began to feel slightly uneasy. Then suddenly she saw him striding across the platform towards her followed by a man dragging two cases, and a porter wheeling even more luggage.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:21|twenty-one minutes past eleven|It was twenty-one minutes past eleven by the clock over the elevator doors when Joel Cairo came in from the street. His forehead was bandaged. His clothes had the limp unfreshness of too many hours' consecutive wear.|The Maltese Falcon|Dashiell Hammett|sfw 11:22|11:22 a.m.|Felix Polk of Route 16, Rural Delivery Box 12, appeared here yesterday at approximately 11:22 a.m., wanting to know if anybody had shown up with the end of his thumb because he, and I quote, "Wanted to get it back and have it made into a key chain," unquote.|Junkyard Dogs|Craig Johnson|nsfw 11:23|11:23 a.m.|The music was almost raucous. She turned it off. She lay in silence, waiting for sleep. It was 11:23 a.m.|The Black Corridor|Michael Moorcock|sfw 11:24|11:24|At 11:24 we thanked Helen Gillard and asked her to thank the doctor for us, left the house, walked sixty yards to Wolfe's, found the door was bolted, pushed the button and were admitted by Fritz.|The Final Deduction|Rex Stout|sfw +11:25|eleven twenty-five|The BEA Viscount landed at Geneva airport at eleven twenty-five local time that morning, a few minutes later than scheduled. The stewardess advised passengers to put their watches forward one hour to Central European Time.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:25|twenty-five past eleven|At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous, a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise, annoyance, etc. Christine's task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed, she asked Linda at twenty-five past eleven what time it was. Linda looked at her watch and replied that it was a quarter to twelve.|Evil Under the Sun|Agatha Christie|unknown 11:25|11.25 am|When, at about 11.25 am, Katharina Blum was finally taken from her apartment for questioning, it was decided not to handcuff her at all.|The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum|Heinrich Böll|unknown 11:26|11:26 AM|A pair of brown shoes appeared beneath his urine bag. "I counted eleven bells."
"The current time is 11:26 AM."
"What day?"
"Your injury occurred yesterday."|The Wind Knot|John Galligan|sfw @@ -1616,6 +1671,7 @@ 11:35|11.35|At 11.35 the Colonel came out; he looked hot and angry as he strode towards the lift. There goes a hanging judge, thought Wormold.|Our Man in Havana|Graham Greene|unknown 11:36|11:30 and arrived six minutes late|Velma Pitt-Cowley, Mrs. Carling's literary agent, had agreed to be at the flat at 11:30 and arrived six minutes late. She was hardly inside the door before it became apparent that she was in none too good a temper.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 11:36|eleven thirty-six|I ran up the stairs, away from the heat and the noise, the mess and the confusion. I saw the clock radio by my bed. Eleven thirty-six.|Losing You|Nicci French|unknown +11:37|eleven thirty-seven|At eleven thirty-seven I handed over the full and final settlement to Mr. Fothergill in exchange for the freehold of Number 1 Chelsea Terrace.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:37|11:37 a.m.|Took a call at 11:37 a.m. from a woman who identified herself as Jean Garfield, secretary to Pan-Con Certification Examiner Jim Long of Dallas. Asked how to go about lodging a complaint of religious harassment against Rayford Steele due to his pressuring Long during his recert this a.m.|Tribulation Force|Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins|sfw 11:38|11:38|He glanced at his watch: 11:38. He put down his drink, and ran out of the apartment.|Cometh the Hour|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:38|11:38|At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ten minutes before noon.|The Circle|Dave Eggers|sfw @@ -1701,6 +1757,7 @@ 12:00|twelve|Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.|The Oxen|Thomas Hardy|unknown 12:00|noon|Then came the stroke of noon, and all these working and professional people dispersed like a trampled anthill into all the streets and directions. The white bridge was swarming with nimble dots. And when you considered that each dot had a mouth with which it was now planning to eat lunch, you couldn't help bursting into laughter.|The Tanners|Robert Walser|unknown 12:00|noon|One day, about the hour of noon, a little more than a week after my first experiment, I rolled twenty grains of hashish into a pill and swallowed it, saying as I did so, “Here is the final test for the sake of science.”|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +12:01|one minute past midday|“Madam President …” Florentyna had to think quickly to prevent anyone noticing her instinctive response to the words. “It’s one minute past midday.”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:01|one minute past twelve|At one minute past twelve, Percy stood to attention, slowly raised the Union Jack up the flagpole and delivered the exact words required by the Territories Settlement Act of 1762: “I claim this sovereign territory in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom I swear my allegiance.”|The Undiplomatic Diplomat|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:01|12:01|It was the twelfth of December, the twelfth month. A was twelve. The electric clock/radio by his bedside table said 12:01.|Boy A|Jonathan Trigell|unknown 12:02|two minutes past twelve|At two minutes past twelve the door opens and two men come into the lobby. One is tall with black hair combed in a 50’s pompadour. The other is short and bespectacled. Both are wearing suits.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown @@ -1735,6 +1792,7 @@ 12:17|12:17 p.m.|In a bus of the S-line, 10 meters long, 3 wide, 6 high, at 3 km. 600m. from its starting point, loaded with 48 people at 12:17 p.m., a person of the masculine sex aged 27 years 3 months and 8 days, 1 m. 72 cm tall and weighing 65 kg. and wearing a hat 35 cm. in height round the crown of which was a ribbon 60 cm.|Exercises in Style|Raymon Queneau|unknown 12:18|12:18 P.M.|Monday, April 6
12:18 P.M.
"Hey, how did it go?" Jennifer asked the minute Ally came in the door.
She wasn't sure she knew the answer to that. Initially the job looked like a lot of fun, but now she felt the interpersonal dynamics of working in Bartlett's home were already a problem even before she started.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 12:19|12:19 p.m.|Not believed to have slept in her bed last night. Could not have left island due to blocked bridge. None of family members has any knowledge as to HV's whereabouts. At 12:19 p.m.: G.M. informed by telephone about the situation.|The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|Stieg Larsson|sfw +12:20|12:20 P.M.|He sipped it slowly and lit a Romeo y Julieta Churchill, which an Italian immigrant smuggled in for him in boxes of two hundred and fifty once a month from Cuba. He settled back for a mild celebration. In Boston, Massachusetts, it was 12:20 P.M.—nearly time for lunch.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:20|twenty minutes after twelve|At twenty minutes after twelve he got up, resolutely sealed the large brown envelope, put on his raincoat, and walked down to the village. He dug his hands into his pockets and took longer steps.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|sfw 12:20|twelve twenty|“But by the time he reached the top of the hill the woman’s body had basically been eaten up already by the flies, right?” my friend said.
“In a sense,” his girlfriend replied.
“In a sense being eaten by the flies makes it a sad story, doesn’t it?” my friend said.
“Yes, I guess so,” she said after giving it some thought. “What do you think?” she asked me.
“Sounds like a sad story to me,” I replied.
It was twelve twenty when my cousin came back.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 12:20|twelve-twenty|By twelve-twenty in the afternoon, Vince was seated in a rattan chair with comfortable yellow and green cushions at a table by the windows in that same restaurant. He’d spotted Haines on entering. The doctor was at another window table, three away from Vince, half-screened by a potted palm. Haines was eating shrimp and drinking margaritas with a stunning blonde. She was wearing white slacks and a gaily striped tube-top, and half the men in the place were staring at her.|Watchers|Dean Koontz|unknown @@ -1748,9 +1806,10 @@ 12:25|12:25|After a moment reality reasserted itself, and she realized she hadn't been hallucinating, but dreaming. The clock on the desk read 12:55. They'd begun their ten-minute session at 12:25, so obviously she had twenty minutes to account for.|The Enclave|Karen Hancock|sfw 12:25|twelve twenty-five|Mr. Henry Urquhart of Messrs. Urquhart, Wimbush, and Portway was Josephine Fallon's solicitor. Dalgliesh's appointment with him was for twelve twenty-five p.m., a time disobligingly chosen, he felt, to intimate that every minute of the solicitor's time was valuable and that he was prepared to spare the police no more than half an hour before lunch.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 12:25|12.25|Boys, do it now. God's time is 12.25.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown -12:25|12.25 pm|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown -12:26|26|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown -12:27|27|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:25|12.25 pm|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:26|12:26 P.M.|12:26 P.M.
“I, Florentyna Kane, do solemnly swear …”
“I, Florentyna Kane, do solemnly swear …”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +12:26|26|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown +12:27|27|12.25 pm. 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.|A Kestrel for a Knave|Barry Hines|unknown 12:27|twelve twenty-seven|For three decades, time had been frozen at twelve twenty-seven. The story was that the hands had stopped at the exact moment Corcoran O'Connor's father died. It might have been true.|Boundary Waters|William Kent Krueger|sfw 12:28|12.28|The DRINK CHEER-UP COFFEE wall clock read 12.28.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 12:29|twenty-nine minutes past twelve|"What time is it?" asked Teeny-bits.
The station agent hauled out his big silver watch, looked at it critically and announced: "Twenty-nine minutes past twelve.”
“Past twelve!" repeated Teeny-bits. "It can't be."|The Mark of the Knife|Clayton H. Ernst|sfw @@ -1772,12 +1831,14 @@ 12:37|12:37|It was 12:37 when Jason, in blue jeans, cap and dark, tattered V-necked sweater, reached the gates of the old factory. He took out a pack of Gauloise cigarettes and leaned against the wall, lighting one with a match, holding the flame longer than necessary before he blew it out.|The Bourne Ultimatum|Robert Ludlum|sfw 12:38|12:38 p.m.|"At what time did the 12:23 p.m. S-line bus proceeding in the direction of Porte de Champerret arrive on that day?"
"At 12:38 p.m."
"Were there many people on the aforesaid S-bus?"
"Bags of 'em."
"Did you particularly notice any of them?"
"An individual who had a very a long neck and a plait round his hat."|Exercises in Style|Raymon Queneau|unknown 12:39|thirty-nine minutes past twelve|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown +12:40|12:40 P.M.|When it came to work, Anne was always on time, and at 12:40 P.M. she appeared from the Piccadilly end of the street.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:40|12:40|“I have received your name from the Skilled Women’s Agency together with their recommendation. I understand they know you personally. I shall be glad to pay you the salary you ask and shall expect you to take up your duties on August 8th. The train is the 12:40 from Paddington and you will be met at Oakbridge station. I enclose five pound notes for expenses."|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown 12:40|twenty minutes to one|A little ormolu clock in the outer corridor indicated twenty minutes to one. The car was due at one-fifteen. Thirty-five minutes: oh, to escape for only that brief period!|Extremely Entertaining Short Stories (The Octave of Jealousy)|Stacy Aumonier|unknown 12:41|12:41|At 12:41 President-elect and Mrs. Tucker finally embarked in their limousine. He instructed me to work with Feeley on a speech insert explaining the delay.|The White House Mess|Christopher Buckley|sfw 12:42|eighteen minutes to one|The butt had been growing warm in her fingers; now the glowing end stung her skin. She crushed the cigarette out and stood, brushing ash from her black skirt. It was eighteen minutes to one. She went to the house phone and called his room. The telephone rang and rang, but there was no answer.|Marjorie Morningstar|Herman Wouk|unknown 12:43|twelve-forty-three|Died five minutes ago, you say? he asked. His eye went to the watch on his wrist. Twelve-forty-three, he wrote on the blotter.|A Pocket Full of Rye|Agatha Christie|unknown 12:44|sixteen minutes to one|A few minutes later they were crossing the bridge over the Arizona Canal. Matt pulled out his old silver watch.
"Only sixteen minutes to one," he announced, with a note of exultation, "and we're fifteen miles on our way."|Motor Matt's Century Run|Stanley R. Matthews|sfw +12:45|12:45 P.M.|On Friday at 12:45 P.M., David arrived at the Athenaeum, a massive white building on the corner of Pall Mall, overlooked by a statue of the Duke of York.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 12:45|a quarter to one|That Sunday was a picture-book summer day in Maine: clear, bright, warm. At a quarter to one, Ruth McCausland, dressed in a pretty blue summer frock, left her house for the last time.|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|unknown 12:45|12:45|The boy handed in a dispatch. The Professor closed the door again, and after looking at the direction, opened it and read aloud. "Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax hurriedly and hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want to see you: Mina"|Dracula|Bram Stoker|unknown 12:45|quarter to one|Because it was raining, and because she was depressed and out of sorts, and because Robbie had not come by quarter to one, Elizabeth treated herself to a Martini while she was waiting, sitting uncomfortably on a narrow chair in the restaurant, watching other unimpressive people go in and out.|The Lottery, or the Adventure of James Harris|Shirley Jackson|unknown @@ -1883,7 +1944,7 @@ 13:32|one ... thirty-two|At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty-two ... and twenty seconds. 'Beep ... beep ... beep.' Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 13:33|one ... thirty-three|He waited for the green light to show and then opened the door again on to the now empty cargo hold.'... one ... thirty-three ... and fifty seconds.' Very nice.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 13:34|one ... thirty-four|"At the third stroke it will be ..."
He tiptoed out and returned to the control cabin.
"... one ... thirty-four and twenty seconds."
The voice sounded as clear as if he was hearing it over a phone in London, which he wasn't, not by a long way.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown -13:35|1:35 P.M.|1:35 P.M.
Katelyn stood in the hallway, her hands on her hips, enjoying the hell out of the moment. “So I see how it is,” she said. “Your cousin can visit during finals week but my sister can’t.”|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown +13:35|1:35 P.M.|1:35 P.M.
Katelyn stood in the hallway, her hands on her hips, enjoying the hell out of the moment. “So I see how it is,” she said. “Your cousin can visit during finals week but my sister can’t.”|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 13:37|1.37 pm|He had not dared to sleep in his rented car—you didn't sleep in your car when you worked for Jesus Castro—and he was beginning to hallucinate. Still, he was on the job, and he scribbled in his notebook: 1.37 pm Subject appears to be getting laid.|Light House|William Monahan|nsfw 13:38|13:38|According to the digital readout inside my helmet, it was only 13:38 LT. The news that I wouldn't have to devote another three hours to painstaking cleanup should have cheered me considerably; instead, it rendered me about twenty times more suspicious.|Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's|Adam-Troy Castro|sfw 13:39|1.39 p.m.|And it was now 1.39 p.m. which was 23 minutes after the stop, which meant that we would be at the sea if the train didn't go in a big curve. But I didn't know if it went in a big curve.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw @@ -1893,6 +1954,7 @@ 13:42|1.42 pm|The last note was recorded at 1.42 pm: G.M. on site at H-by; will take over the matter.|The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|Stieg Larsson|unknown 13:43|seventeen minutes to two|"There's a train at seventeen minutes to two," said Didier. He blessed himself and got to his feet. He hesitated.
"What's the matter?"
"Shouldn't we say goodbye to Grandpa? He usually has a cheque for me."|The Public Prosecutor|Jef Geeraerts|sfw 13:44|forty-four minutes past one|By good luck, the next train was due at forty-four minutes past one, and arrived at Yateland (the next station) ten minutes afterward.|Mr. Policeman and the Cook|Wilkie Collins|unknown +13:45|1:45|"Let us know the moment Harvey leaves his box. My guess is that around 1:45 he’ll come and look at the runners and riders for the two o’clock, so that gives us a clear hour.”|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:45|quarter to two|That period which is always so dangerous, when the wicket is bad, the ten minutes before lunch, proved fatal to two more of the enemy. The last man had just gone to the wickets, with the score at a hundred and thirty-one, when a quarter to two arrived, and with it the luncheon interval.|Mike|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown 13:45|one forty-five|The blow fell at precisely one forty-five (summer-time). Benson, my Aunt Agatha's butler, was offering me the fried potatoes at the moment, and such was my emotion that I lofted six of them on the sideboard with the spoon.|Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown 13:46|1346 hours|PAUL: I noticed Malatarsis right after Mama called me. At 1346 hours on Thursday the twenty-fourth. Brett was killed at least fourteen hours later, in the wee hours of the twenty-fifth.|Jack the Bodiless|Julian May|sfw @@ -1909,7 +1971,7 @@ 13:54|1:54 PM|At the moment museum officials do not believe anything was stolen from the collection. The museum and church, which are popular tourist attractions, will be closed to the public until further notice.
1:54 PM - 05/05/2014|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown 13:55|1:55|At 1:55 he returned to the insurance records until the fifteen-minute tea break at four o’clock, which was another ritual occasion for two more cigarettes.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:55|five minutes before two|If I was punctual in quitting Mlle. Reuter's domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at five minutes before two, and on reaching the schoolroom door, before I opened it, I heard a rapid, gabbling sound, which warned me that the "priere du midi" was not yet concluded.|The Professor|Charlotte Brontë|unknown -13:56|1:56 P.M.|1:56 P.M.
Happily, Katelyn was out of the dorm room, off doing whatever the hell she did on campus, so Braque could type her computer passwords for Eva without worrying about her cooze of a roommate getting them.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown +13:56|1:56 P.M.|1:56 P.M.
Happily, Katelyn was out of the dorm room, off doing whatever the hell she did on campus, so Braque could type her computer passwords for Eva without worrying about her cooze of a roommate getting them.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 13:57|one fifty-seven|Then I opened my eyes and looked at my watch. It was one fifty-seven. Twenty-five minutes had vanished somewhere. Not bad, I told myself. A pointless way of whittling away time. Not bad at all.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 13:57|three minutes to two|It was three minutes to two. "I hope you can catch him, then. Thank you. I really appreciate it."|Urban Shaman|C.E. Murphy|unknown 13:58|two minutes to two|Promptly at two minutes to two that afternoon, the two majors presented themselves to General Austin's temporary secretary at his away-from-Pentagon office.|Steel Tiger|Mark Berent|sfw @@ -1960,6 +2022,7 @@ 14:12|twelve minutes past two|However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime?
At twelve minutes past two, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw 14:13|two ... thirteen|At the third stroke, it will be two ... thirteen ... and fifty seconds.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 14:14|fourteen minutes past two o'clock|The clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.|Barn Burning|William Faulkner|sfw +14:15|2:15 P.M.|2:15 P.M.
Mark finished his lunch. Two other men finished their sandwiches and also rose to leave. Mark quickly returned to the Senate, as he wanted to catch Henry Lykham before the floor debate started.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:15|2:15 p.m.|2:15 p.m. Story in papers about two-year-olds having to take tests to get into nursery school just made me jump out of my skin. Am supposed to be at tea party for godson Harry's birthday.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 14:15|2.15 P.M.|I had a date with her next day at 2.15 P.M. In my own rooms, but it was less successful, she seemed to have grown less juvenile, more of a woman overnight.|Lolita|Vladimir Nabokov|nsfw 14:15|2.15 p.m.|2.15 p.m. Second afternoon class|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw @@ -2004,6 +2067,7 @@ 14:38|2:38 P.M.|2:38 P.M.
"Abdoullah" had finished unpacking the second crate, and now he examined what he had: two fifteen-kiloton nuclear devices, made using enriched uranium-235 from the Kahuta Nuclear Research Center. He smiled again to think they had been smuggled out right from under the noses of the officials at Kahuta, directly up the security elevators leading down to the U235 centrifuge at Level Five.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:38|2:38 p.m.|The bus continued on its way into Bristol, a journey he would normally cover in about twelve minutes in the Lagonda, but today it took over an hour before they finally pulled into the bus station. Hugo was neither the first nor the last passenger to get off. He checked his watch: 2:38 p.m. He’d left himself enough time.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:39|2.39|Noo, there's a report come in fra' the station-master at Pinwherry that there was a gentleman tuk the 2.39 at Pinwherry.|Five Red Herrings|Dorothy L. Sayers|unknown +14:40|two-forty|“I’ve already explained to the fellow that the only two-forty I know is the bus that runs between Golders Green and Edgware, and if I don’t get a move on, I’ll miss my beloved 14,” said Lawrence, checking his watch.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:40|two-forty|If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. “We better hurry,” I said. “The show starts at two-forty.”|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|nsfw 14:40|twenty minutes to three|Members of Big Side marked Michael and Alan as the two most promising three-quarters for Middle Side next year, and when the bell sounded at twenty minutes to three, the members of Big Side would walk with Michael and Alan towards the changing room and encourage them by flattery and genial ragging.|Sinister Street|Compton Mackenzie|unknown 14:41|Nineteen minutes to three|Nineteen minutes to three. “No need to rush,” she told Emma when there was a knock on the door. She was sure she’d hung the Do Not Disturb sign on the doorknob and told the chauffeur not to expect them before three.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2016,6 +2080,7 @@ 14:43|2.43 pm|Jacobson died at 2.43 pm the next day after slashing his wrists with a razor blade in the second cubicle from the left in the men's washroom on the third floor.|Now: Zero|J.G. Ballard|nsfw 14:43|seventeen minutes to three|Then he began to breathe more freely; “the girl,” as he always mentally dubbed her, could not enter the grounds now without his seeing her. He looked at his watch for the third time—seventeen minutes to three. Just about the time he had planned. She should be here soon if she had left Miss Lloyd’s a little after two.|Silverthorns|Mary Louisa Molesworth|sfw 14:44|sixteen minutes to three|A carriage clock in a window two up from the milliner's was showing sixteen minutes to three when I turned round and saw Bruno no more than fifty yards from me.|Friends in High Places|Caro Peacock|sfw +14:45|2:45 P.M.|David arrived at 2:45 P.M. at the Copley Hotel on Huntingdon Avenue, the adrenaline pumping through his body. He repeated the Harvard Business School motto to himself as he was ushered into a small private room: look British, think Yiddish.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:45|Quarter to three|He glanced down at his watch. He had been smiling as he stroked her awake, and was smiling now. “Quarter to three. I sat in my stupid old motel room for almost two hours after we talked, trying to convince myself that what I was thinking couldn’t be true. Only I didn’t get where I am by dodging the truth.”|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 14:45|quarter to three in the afternoon|The young tinker girl knocked at the back door at quarter to three in the afternoon. Marjan recognized her as one of the many freckled faces that lingered at the café windows long after other curious schoolchildren had left their mucky handprints behind.|Pomegranate Soup|Marsha Mehran|unknown 14:45|quarter to three|He never came down till a quarter to three.|The Diary of a Nobody|George and Weedon Grossmith|unknown @@ -2025,12 +2090,14 @@ 14:47|2:47 p.m.|The walls here were painted yellow, not red as they had been on Level I. The people wore yellow uniforms. A nurse by the elevator said, "The time is 2:47 p.m., gentlemen. You may continue your descent in one hour."|The Andromeda Strain|Michael Crichton|sfw 14:48|2:48 P.M.|2:48 P.M.
Rais had finished retrieving the box of krytrons from the cockpit of the Huey and was headed down the elevator for the area directly below and south of the launch facility, the clean room where SatCom's expensive communications satellites were going to be prepped for launch.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 14:49|14:49 hours|Endicott stared back at him and thought. Five thousand dollars up front and five thousand after to create a major shunt on Interstate 50 at mile marker 107, shunt to occur at 14:49 hours.|The Homecoming|Carsten Stroud|sfw +14:50|2:50|At 2:50 he called for them all to join him in the Members’ Enclosure to look at his famous filly. Stephen, like the others, trailed behind him in a little pseudo-royal entourage.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:50|2:50|When it was 2:50 and the bank, too, had not been attacked, it was clear this was not the day of the big coup.|The Locked Room|Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö|unknown 14:50|ten to three|Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?|The Old Vicarage, Grantchester|Rupert Brooke|unknown 14:51|nine minutes to three|At nine minutes to three, the storm came back. It rolled in on angry, brooding tiers: swollen blue-black cumulus and ghostly, low-slung nimbostratus, crowding the ceiling of the sky. It made the oxygen in the air itself compress, turn chill and thick, absorbed or displaced by the moisture that blackened and bloated the heavens.|The Bridge|John Skipp and Craig Spector|sfw 14:52|eight minutes to three|"Mr. Kesselbach, it is eight minutes to three. If you don't answer within eight minutes from now, you are a dead man!"|813|Maurice LeBlanc|sfw 14:53|seven minutes to three|“And what do you suppose Father Mahoney is thinking now, sitting there like some Romanian beggar and just before teatime? He knows very well we’re expecting him. If he’s even one minute late—I’m counting, it’s seven minutes to three on my watch—I’ll be telling him a thing or two.”|Pomegranate Soup|Marsha Mehran|unknown 14:54|About 2.55|In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55, when you know you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.|Life, the Universe and Everything|Douglas Adams|unknown +14:55|two fifty-five|At two fifty-five, ten men and two women, all of whom were dressed in what looked to Daphne like long black dressing gowns with purple scarves hanging from their necks, proceeded across the stage in a gentle crocodile before taking their allocated places.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:55|five minutes to three|At five minutes to three Paolo and his best man entered the chapel and walked slowly down the aisle. Gian Lorenzo knew he’d been a well-known footballer, but he still couldn’t remember his name.|Cat O' Nine Tales|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:55|five to three|The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three. Just nice time to walk to Artane.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 14:55|2.55 that afternoon|At 2.55 that afternoon, she parked across the road from her daughter’s school and waited for the students to emerge. She hadn’t slept at all. Her eyes ached, and there was a fuzzy heat in her head.|Kill Your Brother|Jack Heath|unknown @@ -2114,11 +2181,13 @@ 15:15|3:15|I got out my old clothes. I put wool socks over my regular socks and took my time lacing up the boots. I made a couple of tuna sandwiches and some double-decker peanut-butter crackers. I filled my canteen and attached the hunting knife and the canteen to my belt. As I was going out the door, I decided to leave a note. So I wrote: "Feeling better and going to Birch Creek. Back soon. R. 3:15." That was about four hours from now.|Where I'm Calling From|Raymond Carver|unknown 15:15|3:15|July 3: 5 3/4 hours. Little done today. Deepening lethargy, dragged myself over to the lab, nearly left the road twice. Concentrated enough to feed the zoo and get the log up to date. Read through the operating manuals Whitby left for the last time, decided on a delivery rate of 40 röntgens/min., target distance of 530 cm. Everything is ready now. Woke 11:05. To sleep 3:15.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 15:16|1516|The Nimrod rendezvoused with the light aircraft at 1516 GMT.|The Crow Road|Iain Banks|unknown +15:17|three-seventeen|Romanov checked the clock on the wall: three-seventeen. He couldn’t believe he would need close to two hours to find out what was in the five boxes. The two Herr Bischoffs bowed and left.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:17|3:17|“You can take the 3:17 to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the 4:09 for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”|Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:17|seventeen minutes past three|From the kitchen came the rackety-banging of the alarm-clock, proving that, as the clock was set to ring at six, Peter had found a mother for the fatherless children at just seventeen minutes past three.|The Jack-Knife Man|Ellis Parker Butler|sfw 15:18|3:18 P.M.|3:18 P.M.
Vance cocked the Pakistani's Uzi and trained it on the door, not sure what to do. The fear was that he might inadvertently kill a friendly. Hostage situations always presented that harrowing possibility. Quick identifications and quick decisions were what made good antiterrorist teams. He was afraid he had neither skill. He wasn't even that great a shot.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 15:18|eighteen minutes past three|The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is eighteen minutes past three.|Fairyland|Paul J. McAuley|sfw 15:19|nineteen minutes past three|At nineteen minutes past three Cecily Thorogood, still self-possessed, but no longer very prettily clad, was submerged in the chilly Atlantic up to her shoulders and clinging to the life-line of an upturned jolly-boat.|The Long Trick|Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie|sfw +15:20|3:20|James jammed his trilby over his ears, looked the other way and passed the time by chatting to Sam O’Flaherty about the 3:20, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:20|3:20|He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work. Claudette Albertson surprised him. “No, it’s Mr. Hayes, right down here on the first floor with us.”
“Are you sure?” Dan had played a game of checkers with Charlie Hayes just that afternoon, and for a man with acute myelogenous leukemia, he’d seemed as lively as a cricket.|Doctor Sleep|Stephen King|unknown 15:20|three twenty|When the phone rang at three twenty I was sprawled out on the tatami, starting at the ceiling. A pool of winter sunlight had formed in the place where I lay. Like a dead fly I lay there, vacant, in a December 1971 spotlight.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:20|twenty minutes past three|At twenty minutes past three on Monday, 26 January 1948, in Tokyo, and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking.|Occupied City|David Peace|unknown @@ -2166,10 +2235,12 @@ 15:45|three forty-five|“Well, it’s already three forty-five. You’ll never make it.”
“Is the backup bad?”
“Looks like a major accident up ahead. This is no ordinary traffic jam. We’ve hardly moved for quite a while.”|1Q84, Book One|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:45|3:45|One meal is enough now, topped up with a glucose shot. Sleep is still 'black', completely unrefreshing. Last night I took a 16 mm. film of the first three hours, screened it this morning at the lab. The first true-horror movie. I looked like a half-animated corpse. Woke 10:25. To sleep 3:45.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown 15:46|fourteen minutes to four|I authorize you to leave this room at fourteen minutes to four. Not a moment before fourteen minutes to four. . . Is it understood?|The Blonde Lady|Maurice LeBlanc|sfw +15:47|Three forty-seven|Three forty-seven. He estimated that he still had at least another twenty minutes before the bridge party would begin to break up.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:47|3:47 P.M.|One day, the 30th of September, at 3:47 P.M., a telegram, transmitted by cable from Valentia (Ireland) to Newfoundland and the American Mainland, arrived at the address of President Barbicane.|Journey to the Center of the Earth|Jules Verne|sfw 15:48|15:48|At 15:48 the satellite passed out of the "area of interest" determined by the Madrid computer.|Doomsday Ultimatum|James Follett|sfw 15:49|3.49 p.m.|3.49 p.m. Get off school bus at home|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 15:49|3.49 pm|But there were more bad things than good things. And one of them was that Mother didn't get back from work til 5.30 pm so I had to go to Father's house between 3.49 pm and 5.30 pm because I wasn't allowed to be on my own and Mother said I didn't have a choice so I pushed the bed against the door in case Father tried to come in.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time|Mark Haddon|unknown +15:50|three-fifty|Romanov paced up and down the small anteroom impatiently, but the secretary did not return until the hands on the clock were in a straight line. At three-fifty, Romanov was ushered into the chairman’s room.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:50|3.50 p.m.|3.50 p.m. Have juice and snack|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 15:51|fifty-one minutes after fifteen o'clock|Date of the telegram, Rome, November 24, ten minutes before twenty-three o'clock. The telegram seems to say, "The Sovereigns and the Royal Children expect themselves at Rome tomorrow at fifty-one minutes after fifteen o'clock."|Italian Without a Master|Mark Twain|unknown 15:52|eight minutes to four|He came to a curve, and there was the lay-by, just where McCready had said it would be. He checked his watch; eight minutes to four. The road was empty.|The Deceiver|Frederick Forsyth|sfw @@ -2228,6 +2299,7 @@ 16:01|A little after four o'clock|A little after four o'clock, Pippa meandered over to Dot's house carrying a bottle of wine she had been keeping in reserve and wondering if she could possibly be pregnant in spite of the vestigial coil still lodged in her uterus like astronaut litter abandoned on the moon.|The Private Lives of Pippa Lee|Rebecca Miller|unknown 16:01|1601|Light is coming in through the curtains. Suddenly the digits on the clock radio look like a year. 1601. I woke up a bit early, don't have to be born for another 400 years.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 16:02|two minutes after four|I'd just looked up at the clock, to make sure time wasn't getting away from me, when I heard the shot. It was two minutes after four. I didn't know what to do.|Southern Ghost|Carolyn G. Hart|unknown +16:03|a few minutes after four|Rose Rennick arrived a few minutes after four, accompanied by two small dogs and wearing an outrageously large hat.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:03|a few minutes after four|When Odell arrived back at the hotel a few minutes after four, the first thing he did was order a large flask of hot fruit punch before walking out onto the veranda to take up his post.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:03|16.03|She read the page carefully and then said, "16.03 - cat goes to the toilet in front garden."|What Was Lost|Catherine O'Flynn|unknown 16:04|four minutes past four|Krantz didn’t stir for the next two hours, aware that two of the guards would be waiting impatiently to accompany her to the bathroom and collect their nightly stipend. But the timing had to suit her. She would cater for their needs at four minutes past four, not before, when one would receive forty dollars, and he would make sure that the other got a packet of Benson & Hedges.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2247,6 +2319,7 @@ 16:10|four-ten|The change came at four-ten. Lying on the sand, the woman in the black suit saw it coming and relaxed.|The Women|Ray Bradbury|unknown 16:11|4:11 P.M.|4:11 P.M. Thurs. A Huey helicopter flies east overhead as the last of the U.S. Marines make ready to leave the beach; a buzzard dangles in the thermals closer over the town.|Seek|Denis Johnson|unknown 16:11|eleven minutes past four|At eleven minutes past four, the first bus left the car park, drove up the ramp, and out onto the high street.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +16:12|twelve minutes past four|Nigel Trentham and his lawyer finally appeared at twelve minutes past four; neither of them seemed to feel it was necessary to apologize for their lateness.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:12|twelve minutes after four|At precisely twelve minutes after four a body of cavalry rode into the square, four abreast, clearing a way for the funeral cortege.|The Empty Mirror|J. Sydney Jones|unknown 16:13|4.13 pm|But at precisely 4.13 pm, the fifty thousand spectators saw the totally unexpected happen, before their very eyes. From the most crowded section of the southern grandstand, an apparition suddenly emerged.|Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter|Mario Vargas Llosa|unknown 16:14|4.14 pm|Then at 4.14 pm on March 12 I moved behind zinc-zirconium-not-to-be-revealed-compounds protecting me in this hill, and God have mercy but the struggle is just exchanged for the next one, which is exhausting me further as I say, to separate the true from the false.|Already Dead|Denis Johnson|unknown @@ -2262,7 +2335,7 @@ 16:17|seventeen minutes after four|In the next instant she was running toward her house, unmindful of the bags she had dropped, seeing only the police cars, knowing as she glanced down at her watch and saw that it was seventeen minutes after four, that for her time had stopped.|Life Penalty|Joy Fielding|unknown 16:18|4.18 p.m.|4.18 p.m. Put Toby into his cage|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 16:19|4:19 PM|Jessica [4:19 PM] Don't tease me like that. I haven't been to a play in years. Charles [4:19 PM] Then it'll be my treat. You and the hubby can have big fun on me.|The Other Woman|Eric Jerome Dickey|unknown -16:20|4:20 p.m.|“So, it was routinely tracked every fifty minutes. The last reported sighting was at 4:20 p.m. Central Menaya time. It was still coming sunward and nearly at the point of closest approach to Farholme - estimated to be at one hundred thousand kilometers out - but was still behaving itself."|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown +16:20|4:20 p.m.|“So, it was routinely tracked every fifty minutes. The last reported sighting was at 4:20 p.m. Central Menaya time. It was still coming sunward and nearly at the point of closest approach to Farholme - estimated to be at one hundred thousand kilometers out - but was still behaving itself."|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 16:20|4.20 p.m.|4.20 p.m. Watch television or a video|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 16:20|twenty past four|Hence it happened that he shouted out the hour, which was twenty past four, in his big voice through the growing twilight; and somehow the loudness of it made it seem like the proclamation of something tremendous.|The Oracle of the Dog|G.K. Chesterton|sfw 16:20|twenty minutes past four|At twenty minutes past four - or, to put it another, blunter way, an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride, her head down, a parent stationed on either side of her, was helped out of the building.|Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters|J.D. Salinger|unknown @@ -2271,6 +2344,7 @@ 16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit From the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown 16:23|16:23 CET|16:23 CET
After stowing their bags in the sleeping quarters below, the two new itinerant deckhands reported for duty on the main deck.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:24|4:24|Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was 4:24. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.|Teardrop|Travis Thrasher|unknown +16:25|4:25 P.M.|“You will appear a few minutes after 4:20, Jean-Pierre, and then you, James, about 4:25 P.M. But keep exactly to the same routine, act as if the meeting had taken place, as originally planned, at the Garden Party and we had all walked over to the Clarendon together.”|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:25|4:25 p.m.|I groan audibly. It’s 4:25 p.m. — I can sneak out and say I didn’t see the email.|The Girl I Was|Jenneva Rose|sfw 16:26|twenty-six minutes after four|It seemed all wrong to have thought of such a thing. She thought, "I don't know him. Nor does he know me. Nor ever shall we.” She put her bare hand in the sun, where the wind would weather it. It was twenty-six minutes after four.|Catch-As-Catch-Can|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown 16:27|twenty-seven minutes past four|Still no sign of Juliet. Patricia gave a surreptitious glance at her watch; twenty-seven minutes past four - no! nearly twenty-eight past - Oh, hurry up, Juliet, hurry up, do!|Visitors for the Chalet School|Elinor Brent-Dyer|sfw @@ -2294,6 +2368,7 @@ 16:33|4.33 pm|At 4.33 pm, a short bald man puffing on a cigar arrived at the library. He approached a huge cabinet storing thousands of alphabetically arranged cards and slid a drawer out. The tips of his fingers were bandaged.|Havana World Series|José Latour|unknown 16:33|4:33|At 4:33, the second bus maneuvered its way onto the main thoroughfare, where they were held up by early commuters on their way home from work, while they were on their way to work.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:34|4.34 p.m.|A bedroom stocked with all the ordinary, usual things. There was a wardrobe in the corner. A bedside table with a collection of water glasses of varying ages and an alarm clock with red digital numbers- 4.34 p.m.|The Raw Shark Texts|Steven Hall|unknown +16:35|four thirty-five|“The plane you require does not leave Sheremetyevo Airport until four thirty-five. In any case, I have already booked two seats on it for you.”
“Two?” inquired Romanov.
“You will obviously need an expert to accompany you, unless you know considerably more about icons than you do about banking,” Poskonov added.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:35|4.35|The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the 4.35 from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.|4.50 from Paddington|Agatha Christie|unknown 16:36|thirty-six minutes past four|They watched their friend through the glass cover; the heaving of the chest became less and less, the breathing lower and lower, while a purple hue settled upon his body. At thirty-six minutes past four, the last division of the wheel had been reached.|A.D. 2000|Alvarado M. Fuller|sfw 16:36|after four-thirty|It was after four-thirty when they arrived at the old Red Bull Playhouse in upper St. John Street, and the performance had been under way for more than an hour. The theatre was hot and stuffy, almost humid, and it smelt strongly of sweat and unwashed bodies and powerful perfumes.|Forever Amber|Kathleen Windsor|unknown @@ -2325,6 +2400,7 @@ 16:51|nine minutes to five|Nine minutes to five. If this wasn't some new ordeal, intended to fray her nerves to shreds, if this important person really did exist, if he'd actually set up this appointment, and if, moreover, he arrived on time, then there were nine minutes left.|Compulsory Happiness|Norman Manea and Linda Coverdale|unknown 16:52|eight minutes to five|The corrida was to begin at five o'clock. The five-footed beasts make a point of arriving at the latest at eight or seven minutes to: ritual again. At eight minutes to five, there they were. The urchins gave them a tap on the shoulder: another bit of ritual.|Chaos and Night|Henry De Montherlant|unknown 16:53|seven minutes before five|It was so quiet in the post office that Trinidad could hear the soft tick of the clock's second hand every time it moved. It was now seven minutes before five.|The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow|Rita Leganski|unknown +16:54|six minutes to five|When the last lid had been placed back on he checked the clock on the wall: six minutes to five. Just enough time to glance in the other box and see if he could expect the same again.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:54|six minutes before five|At six minutes before five o'clock, Daisy Robinson, about to reach her own apartment door, paused to look and to listen. Something was out of order. Tess Rogan's door was standing wide open and, from within, Daisy could hear something being broken.|The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown 16:54|1654|It was 1654 local time when the Red October broke the surface of the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, forty-seven miles southeast of Norfolk. There was no other ship in sight.|The Hunt for Red October|Tom Clancy|unknown 16:55|four-fifty-five|Darkness had fallen. Glancing at the dashboard, she saw that it was four-fifty-five. She had been on the road for nearly three hours.|The Private Patient|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2499,7 +2575,7 @@ 18:00|six o'clock|The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock.|Preludes|T.S. Eliot|unknown 18:00|six|When the bells of Calvary Church struck six, she saw Mr. and Mrs. Biggs hurrying down the front stoop, rushing off to the shops before they closed.|The Interpretation Of Murder|Jed Rubenfeld|unknown 18:01|one minute past six|David had followed me at one minute past six. Then three others had managed to get away, making it five altogether. But as the sixth Hurricane was gathering speed for lift-off, a swarm of Messerschmitts had come swooping in over the olive trees.|Going Solo|Roald Dahl|sfw -18:02|6:02 p.m.|"Incidentally, confirmed by a record of a small and poorly defined shallow-focus earthquake around two hundred and fifty kilometers north of Herrandown at 6:02 p.m. But there is a major problem." |The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown +18:02|6:02 p.m.|"Incidentally, confirmed by a record of a small and poorly defined shallow-focus earthquake around two hundred and fifty kilometers north of Herrandown at 6:02 p.m. But there is a major problem." |The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 18:03|6:03|Jarrod stared at the clock on his computer. It said 6:03. Outside his office window it was dark. It felt as if someone had sucked all the oxygen from the room and he took an extra breath before responding.|All the Little Pieces|Jilliane Hoffman|unknown 18:03|three minutes past six|Above it all rose the Houses of Parliament, with the hands of the clock stopped at three minutes past six. It was difficult to believe that all that meant nothing any more, that now it was just a pretentious confection that could decay in peace.|The Day of the Triffids|John Wyndham|unknown 18:04|Four minutes after six|"We will make record of it, my Rosannah; every year, as this dear hour chimes from the clock, we will celebrate it with thanksgivings, all the years of our life."
"We will, we will, Alonzo!"
"Four minutes after six, in the evening, my Rosannah..."|The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton|Mark Twain|unknown @@ -2523,6 +2599,7 @@ 18:17|18:17|The printed front of the card read Bernis Sand. On the back was written in pencil: your westbound tram stop at 18:17. There was no date or signature. At 18:17 Adele stepped out of the townhouse with Trovera at her side.|The Way to Glory|David Drake|sfw 18:18|18:18|It was at 18:18 when a sixty-one-year-old Tibetan woman telephoned for a fire engine to put out a burning car.|My Name is Not Jacob Ramsay|Ben Trebilcook|sfw 18:19|18:19|Gravesend's a black cloud. Vinny and Stella and Mam are in it. Are it. My watch says 18:19 and the Captain Marlow'll be cheerful and chattery as the evening regulars drift in.|The Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw +18:20|6:20 P.M.|In Harley Street, Bond Street, the King’s Road and Magdalen College, Oxford, it was 6:20 P.M. Four men, unknown to each other, checked the market price of Prospecta Oil in the final edition of the London Evening Standard.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:20|six twenty|It was six twenty before Sarah Berowne managed to reach Ivor Garrod by telephone. She had been in her flat most of the early part of the afternoon but hadn't dared ring from there.|A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw 18:20|twenty past six|By the time Elliot's mother arrived at twenty past six, Mrs. Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of.|Interpreter of Maladies|Jhumpa Lahiri|unknown 18:21|6.21 pm|5.20 pm - 6.21 pm: Miss Pettigrew found herself wafted into the passage. She was past remonstrance now, past bewilderment, surprise, expostulation. Her eyes shone. Her face glowed. Her spirits soared. Everything was happening too quickly. She couldn't keep up with things, but, by golly, she could enjoy them.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown @@ -2584,6 +2661,7 @@ 18:50|ten minutes before seven|It was time to go see the Lady. When we arrived at her house at ten minutes before seven o'clock, Damaronde answered the door.|Boy's Life|Robert R. McCammon|unknown 18:51|6:51|The square of light in the kitchen doorway had faded to thin purple; his watch said 6:51.|Salem's Lot|Stephen King|unknown 18:52|near on seven o'clock|It was near on seven o'clock when I got to Mr. and Mrs. Fleming's house on 6th Street, where I was renting a room. It was late September, and though there was some sun left, I didn't want to visit a dead man's place with night coming on.|All Aunt Hagar's Children|Edward P. Jones|unknown +18:53|a few minutes after six-fifty|He strolled across the tarmac to the waiting plane a few minutes after six-fifty. The plane carrying the icon would be touching down in Washington in about two hours.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:53|About seven o’clock|About seven o’clock in the evening she had died, and her frantic husband had made a frightful scene in his efforts to kill West, whom he wildly blamed for not saving her life. Friends had held him when he drew a stiletto, but West departed amidst his inhuman shrieks, curses, and oaths of vengeance.|Herbert West - Reanimator|H.P. Lovecraft|unknown 18:54|a few minutes before seven|"I feel a little awkward," Kay Randall said on the phone, "asking a man to do these errands ... but that's my problem, not yours. Just bring the supplies and try to be at the church meeting room a few minutes before seven."|Bridging|Max Apple|unknown 18:55|five to seven|"... You had no reason to think the times important. Indeed how suspicious it would be if you had been completely accurate."
"Haven't I been?"
"Not quite. It was five to seven that you talked to Wilkins."
"Another ten minutes."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown @@ -2630,6 +2708,7 @@ 19:05|five past seven|It was five past seven, a little past his normal time, when Hubert got back to the flat which he supposed he ought now to call home, but in which he still felt as ill at ease as a guest who is beginning to suspect that he has outstayed his welcome.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 19:05|7:05 p.m.|Punctual as always, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan was in the chandeliered lobby of the Hilton at 7:05 p.m., when Jon and Shannon stepped off the elevator. This time nattily attired in clerical grays, the dark-haired, ruddy-faced son of Ireland gracefully kissed Shannon's hand and then squeezed Jon's.|The Constantine Codex|Paul L. Maier|sfw 19:06|seven-oh-six p.m.|The time on the clock was six minutes after seven p.m. That doesn't conclusively prove that Sam Dillon was murdered at seven-oh-six p.m., but all other evidence would certainly corroborate that point.|In the Company of Liars|David Ellis|sfw +19:07|seven minutes past seven|Qantas Flight 102 touched down at Melbourne Airport at seven minutes past seven. Charlie was the first off the aircraft, running as fast as he could, but having to lug Cathy’s picture under one arm slowed him down and made it possible for several other passengers, who obviously had the same idea, to overtake him.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters From My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw 19:08|eight minutes past seven|It was eight minutes past seven and still no girl. I waited impatiently. I watched another crowd surge through the barriers and move quickly down the steps. My eyes were alert for the faintest recognition.|The Girl from East Berlin|James Furner|unknown 19:09|nine minutes past seven|Wallander was lucky and managed to catch a taxi right outside. When he got to Rosengard it was nine minutes past seven. He hoped that Mona was running late. But when he read the note on the door he realised that this was not the case.|The Pyramid|Henning Mankell|sfw @@ -2691,6 +2770,7 @@ 19:31|7:31 P.M.|7:31 P.M.
As another gust hit, Vance glanced up at the rigging, praying it would hang together. Instead of canvas, the wide, shallow square sail was made of small linen cloths sewn together, like those made on the tiny looms of ancient times. It was a single-masted reefing sail, invented just in time for the Trojan War, with an upper yard fitted with a system of lines whereby it could be furled up and then secured aloft.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 19:32|7:32 p.m.|It’s 7:32 p.m., and Marge sits beside Clay on one side of the interrogation room table. Luke and I sit opposite them. We’ve run through the preambles. The interview is being recorded.|Beneath Devil’s Bridge|Loreth Anne White|unknown 19:33|thirty-three minutes past seven|At thirty-three minutes past seven he stood on the platform of the station at Southampton - a clear hour before the train containing Owen could possibly arrive. Making a few inquiries here, but too impatient to pursue his investigation carefully and inductively, he went into the town.|Desperate Remedies|Thomas Hardy|sfw +19:34|7:34|“You better not wait up, because if I fail, Simon, I’ll probably jump on top of you.”
“Thanks for the warning, Mark. Tough it out, man.”
Beautiful evening, climb into car, check watch: 7:34.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:34|19:34|I checked my watch at 19:34 and thought that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it, if Pepperidge finally called me and heard only the engaged tone while Al was asking about his girlfriend's health or his aunt's or whoever the hell it was on the other end, my chest's easier but there's still this cough, and the doctor says I do not care what the doctor says, just get off the line.|Quiller's Run|Adam Hall|nsfw 19:35|7:35 P.M.|George checked his watch: 7:35 P.M. By now Geoffrey Young would be taking the rest of the team through tomorrow’s program, having informed them who would be joining him on the final ascent. The water boiled.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:35|seven-thirty-five P.M.|At seven-thirty-five P.M., Cork parked his Bronco behind the Aurora Middle School and headed toward the back entrance, which was near a Dumpster. He could see that Deputy Gil Singer had been posted at the door.|Purgatory Ridge|William Kent Krueger|sfw @@ -2739,6 +2819,8 @@ 19:55|eight, and it's five to|"The party starts at eight, and it's five to."
"Anything up to half an hour late is considered on time, Pruitt. Don't you know anything about etiquette?"
"Very little, I'm afraid"
"Well, anything up to half an hour late is considered on time, but anything before the appointed time---even a single minute---is downright gouchy."|Staggerford|Jon Hassler|unknown 19:56|four minutes to eight|I remember the cigarette in his hard face, against the now limitless storm cloud. Bernardo cried to him unexpectedly: "What time is it, Ireno?"
Without consulting the sky, without stopping, he replied: "It's four minutes to eight, young Bernardo Juan Franciso." His voice was shrill, mocking.|Funes the Memorious-Labyrinths|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown 19:57|three minutes till eight|At three minutes till eight, Laszlo and His Yankee Hussars set up onstage. While the band played their Sousa medley, Carter thoroughly checked his kit, stuffing his pockets with scarves, examining the seals on decks of cards. He glanced toward his levitation device. "Good luck, Carter." The voice was quiet.|Carter Beats The Devil|Glen David Gold|unknown +19:58|7:58|He had to catch the conspirators alive, get them to testify against the Senator. The Director checked his watch with the clock on the Old Post Office Tower over the Washington Field Office. It was 7:58.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +19:58|7:58 P.M.|He leaped into his car, revving it quickly through the gears, shot along to Sloane Square, through Eaton Square, up past St. George’s Hospital, around Hyde Park Corner into Park Lane, and arrived at 7:58 P.M.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:58|7.58 pm|Robert Langdon stole an anxious glance at his wristwatch: 7.58 pm. The smiling face of Mickey Mouse did little to cheer him up.|The Lost Symbol|Dan Brown|unknown 19:59|eight o'clock, maybe a minute before|"It was right at eight o'clock, maybe a minute before. I went into the demo room to see if I'd left my tin of polish there. And there was this bottle of milk on the trolley and I drank some of it. Just a bit off the top."|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 19:59|teetering on eight o'clock|I see Lil right as I dismount the bike, her silver braid draped across her right shoulder. She sits on the front porch, her soft, weathered skin a rosy hue in the last rays of the day’s sunlight. It’s teetering on eight o’clock.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw @@ -2776,11 +2858,13 @@ 20:03|Three minutes after eight|"Yes, well. Obviously she's dead and it's very recent. Within the last two hours, if you press me. But you must have come to that conclusion yourselves or you wouldn't have cut her down. When did you say you found her? Three minutes after eight."|Death of an Expert Witness|P.D. James|sfw 20:03|8:03|He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment, I must refuse to follow the "stupid human habit" of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. "Never meet people at 7:45 or 6:30, Jasper, but pick times like 7:12 and 8:03!"|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|unknown 20:03|three minutes past eight|I might talk to the GP about getting some sleeping pills. I noticed that my watch had stopped at three minutes past eight, and I wondered if that was the exact time our baby died.|Rock Paper Scissors|Alice Feeny|unknown +20:04|8:04|Doublepark and hope no traffic cop’s around. Stroll nonchalantly towards house—bet she’s still in the tub. Check watch: 8:04. Perfect. Ring doorbell.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 20:04|8.04|The earth seems to cast its darkness upward into the air. The farm country is somber at night. He is grateful when the lights of Lankaster merge with his dim beams. He stops at a diner who's clock says 8.04.|Rabbit, Run|John Updike|unknown 20:05|five minutes past eight|She asked her last question: "When you left by the Devereux Court gate at about five minutes past eight, did you see anyone in Pawlet Court or entering Middle Temple?"
Catherine said: "No one. Devereux Court and the passage out to the Strand were deserted."|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 20:05|8.05 pm|December 23rd At 8.05 pm Prof. Preobrazhensky commenced the first operation of its kind to be performed in Europe: removal under anaesthesia of a dog's testicles and their replacement by implanted human testes, with appendages and seminal ducts, taken from a 28-year-old human male|The Heart of a Dog|Mikhail Bulgakov|nsfw 20:05|five minutes past eight|Ransom took out his watch, which he had adapted, on purpose, several hours before, to Boston time, and saw that the minutes had sped with increasing velocity during this interview, and that it now marked five minutes past eight.|The Bostonians|Henry James|unknown 20:05|five-past eight|"Well, it’s five-past eight now," I said to Drake. "You’d better go straight off and organise a flashing party. There’s not a hope of a sortie tonight at sea, but we’d better be on the safe side."|Eight Hours from England|Anthony Quayle|unknown +20:06|8:06|Met by another Secret Service man also in dinner jacket. Also better tie. I give up. Escorted to elevator. Check watch: 8:06. Not bad. Enter West Sitting Hall.
“Good evening, Madam President.”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:06|six minutes past eight|"It was six minutes past eight when I arrived at the lighthouse. I was unable to gain entry. The door was locked."|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 20:07|8:07 p.m.|And I could hear that there were fewer people in the little station when the train wasn't there, so I opened my eyes and I looked at my watch and it said 8:07 p.m. and I had been sitting on the bench for approximately 5 hours but it hadn't seemed like approximately 5 hours, except that my bottom hurt and I was hungry and thirsty.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 20:07|8:07|Bennie pulled the transcripts for that night. The first call had come in at 8:07, with a positive ID.|Mistaken Identity|Lisa Scottoline|unknown @@ -2881,6 +2965,7 @@ 20:57|only three minutes before nine|She points up at Watch that says 08:57, that’s only three minutes before nine. So I run into Wardrobe and lie down on my pillow and wrap up in Blanket that’s all grey and fleecy with the red piping.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 20:57|three minutes to nine|"Wait," he said solemnly, "till the clock strikes. I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men, but when the clock strikes I am afraid. Stay by me until then. This woman shall be yours. You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna. On the day of your marriage I will give you $100,000 and a palace on the Hudson. But there must be no clocks in that palace--they measure our follies and limit our pleasures. Do you agree to that?"
"Of course," said the young man, cheerfully, "they're a nuisance, anyway--always ticking and striking and getting you late for dinner." He glanced again at the clock in the tower. The hands stood at three minutes to nine.|The Four Million|O. Henry|unknown 20:58|two minutes to nine|"What time is it?" she asked, quiet, definite, hopeless.
"Two minutes to nine," he replied, telling the truth with a struggle.|Sons and Lovers|D.H. Lawrence|unknown +20:59|one minute to nine|However, you will go no farther than two miles from the barracks, you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine.|As The Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:59|one minute to nine|Normally an assistant would have put [the television] on for him at one minute to nine. He sat watching a Nigerian woman give a talk on dressmaking, followed by the weather forecast man who supplied Eduardo with the revealing information that the temperature would continue to be hot for the next month.|The Coup|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:59|8:59 p.m.|"Well, what an amazing culinary experience," Eva said at 8:59 p.m., when Prager’s car parked in front of her apartment.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 21:00|nine o'clock|They who had to go to bed so punctually, for whom the lights went out at nine o'clock, could stay at Obermeier Farm until the fireflies and the stars came out-until the Chinese lanterns were lit and they could walk once more about the farm with their jovial host and hostess with these beautiful, swaying, colored lights.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|unknown @@ -2973,6 +3058,7 @@ 21:32|9:32|Geraldine's bus ride back to the sanitarium, in Bensalem Township, would leave at 9:32. Out of pride, despite the drive taking well over a half hour, she declined to stay until morning.|Sold on a Monday|Kristina McMorris|sfw 21:33|twenty-seven minutes to ten|It must have been about twenty-seven minutes to ten when I reached the summer-house. Ralph was waiting for me.|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd|Agatha Christie|sfw 21:34|9.34 p.m.|"Thanks; expect me 9.34 p.m. 26th"; which produced, three hours later, a reply: "Delighted; please bring a No. 3 Rippingille stove" - a perplexing and ominous direction, which somehow chilled me in spite of its subject matter.|The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers|unknown +21:35|nine thirty-five|The colonel ran to it, jumped in, and drove quickly down the ramp of the Royal Garden Hotel before turning left into Kensington Palace Gardens. Adam checked his watch: nine thirty-five.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 21:35|9.35 p.m.|The Sergeant jotted it down on a piece of paper. "That checks up with his own story: 9.35 p.m. Budd leaves; the North dame arrives."|A Blunt Instrument|Georgette Heyer|unknown 21:36|9:36|My backpack was already packed, and I'd already gotten the other supplies together, like the altimeter and the granola bars and the Swiss army knife I'd dug up in Central Park, so there was nothing else to do. Mom tucked me in at 9:36.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown @@ -3104,14 +3190,15 @@ 22:33|10.33|He looked at his watch: 10.33. He remembered being told, he couldn't recall when or by whom, that it was her practice to take her nightly swim shortly after nine o'clock.|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw 22:33|10:33 p.m.|10:33 p.m. Yesss, yesss. RECORDING CURRENT PROGRAM. Have done it!
Aargh. All going mad. Cassette has started rewinding and now stopped and ejected. Why? Shit. Shit. Realize in excitement have sat on remote control.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|nsfw 22:34|Just after half past ten.|"If you please. You went to bed at what time, Madame?"
"Just after half past ten."|Death on the Nile|Agatha Christie|unknown +22:35|Ten thirty-five|“What time does the concert end?” he asked the first uniformed official he spotted.
“Ten thirty-five, sir, but you can’t leave your car there.”|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:35|Five-and-twenty to eleven|Five-and-twenty to eleven. A horrible hour - a macabre hour, for it is not only the hour of pleasure ended, it is the hour when pleasure itself has been found wanting.|Rope|Patrick Hamilton|unknown 22:35|twenty-five minutes to eleven|If he did not return in fourteen minutes he would have lingered. She looked at the clock. It was twenty-five minutes to eleven. He might enter the inn with Arabella, as they would reach it before closing time; she might get him to drink with
her; and Heaven only knew what disasters would befall him then.|Jude the Obscure|Thomas Hardy|unknown 22:35|10:35 p.m.|10:35 p.m. Frantic now. Have rung Shazzer, Rebecca, Simon, Magda. Nobody knows how to programme their videos. Only person I know who knows how to do it is Daniel.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 22:36|22.36|Our take-off time was 22.36 and as I lifted the heavy plane into the starlit night my hands and stomach felt as cold as ice.|Air Bridge|Hammond Innes|sfw 22:37|10:37 p.m.|"At 10:37 p.m. that night a fireball rips through Obscurity, killing Cripps but not before he's called Goldilocks and left a message about something being 'full of holes.'"|The Fourth Bear|Jasper Fforde|sfw 22:38|22.38|Just a click as someone hung up the phone. It had been left at 22.38 the previous evening. Jack didn't have much doubt that it was someone checking to see if he was in.|The Kill Zone|Chris Ryan|sfw -22:39|10:39 P.M.|Sunday, April 5
10:39 P.M.
"I didn't know if I should have brought a bodyguard" he was saying as he strode in the door, a Master of the Universe with a leather jacket slung over his shoulder.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|unknown -22:40|10:40|There, at 10:40, the plasma engines would ignite at full burn to start the rapid straight-line acceleration that would give them the ten-thousand-kilometers-an-hour speed needed to coast quickly along the Normal-Space tunnel linking the Gates.|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown +22:39|10:39 P.M.|Sunday, April 5
10:39 P.M.
"I didn't know if I should have brought a bodyguard" he was saying as he strode in the door, a Master of the Universe with a leather jacket slung over his shoulder.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw +22:40|10:40|There, at 10:40, the plasma engines would ignite at full burn to start the rapid straight-line acceleration that would give them the ten-thousand-kilometers-an-hour speed needed to coast quickly along the Normal-Space tunnel linking the Gates.|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 22:40|ten-forty at night|“My friend,” she said with a pleased tone to her voice that she knew he could not mistake. She didn’t care, she was pleased to hear from him, even if it was ten-forty at night. “Where are you calling from?” she asked, expecting him to say Glasgow or Berlin.|It All Began in Monte Carlo|Elizabeth Adler|unknown 22:40|It’s twenty to eleven|When fifteen minutes have passed and the bogus DPW truck hasn’t returned, Billy decides they have either moved on to another part of the city, maybe to check out the house on Evergreen Street, or have gone back to the McMansion to await further orders from Nick. He closes the curtain, shutting out the view, and looks at his watch. It’s twenty to eleven. How time flies when you’re having fun, he thinks.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 22:40|twenty to eleven|The station clock told him the time: twenty to eleven. He went to the booking office and asked the clerk in a polite tone when was the next train to Paris. "In twelve minutes."|The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By|Georges Simenon|unknown @@ -3207,6 +3294,7 @@ 23:15|11:15 p.m.|11:15 p.m. Humph. Mum just rang. "Sorry, darling. It isn't Newsnight, it's Breakfast News tomorrow. Could you set it for seven o'clock tomorrow morning, BBC1?"|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 23:15|quarter-past eleven|On arriving home at a quarter-past eleven, we found a hansom cab, which had been waiting for me for two hours with a letter. Sarah said she did not know what to do, as we had not left the address where we had gone.|Diary of a Nobody|George and Weedon Grossmith|unknown 23:15|between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven|The impulse seized me to look again. The minute-hand stood half way between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven. The watch must have stopped; I held it to my ear; no, it was still going.|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +23:16|11:16|Eventually, at 11:16, he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 23:16|11.16 p.m.|But I couldn't get out of the house straightaway because he would see me, so I would have to wait until he was asleep.
The time was 11.16 p.m.
I tried doubling 2s again, but I couldn't get past 2(15) which was 32,768. So I groaned to make the time pass quicker and not think.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 23:17|11:17|Merral, trying to free his head, glimpsed the time on his helmet datastrip. 11:17:45. Less than a minute. They will be sending out the solar flare warnings now.|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown 23:18|11:18|Vero smiled. “I t-take that as approval. So let me summarize. On its present trajectory and speed, the Blade of Night will pass behind the moon between 11:13 and 11:22 p.m. Jerusalem time on the night of the seventeenth of February. That’s four days away. It will be sufficiently close that the moon will fully cover the disk of the earth at 11:18. That’s vital.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown @@ -3224,6 +3312,7 @@ 23:25|11.25 p.m.|"OK, Estelle, I will be at Nice Airport at 11.25 p.m. on Saturday, BA: Could you send the driver?"|Other People's Money|Justin Cartwright|unknown 23:25|eleven o'clock and twenty-five minutes|To test the intensity of the light whose nature and cause he could not determine, he took out his watch to see if he could make out the figures on the dial. They were plainly visible, and the hands indicated the hour of eleven o'clock and twenty-five minutes. At that moment the mysterious illumination suddenly flared to an intense, an almost blinding splendor…|A Wireless Message|Ambrose Bierce|unknown 23:26|11:26 p.m.|Los Angeles. 11:26 p.m. In a dark red room- the color of the walls is close to that of raw liver- is a tall woman dressed cartoonishly in too-tight silk shorts, her breasts pulled up and pressed forward by the yellow blouse tied beneath them.|American Gods|Neil Gaiman|nsfw +23:27|11:27 P.M.|At 11:27 P.M. Jean-Pierre left quietly and returned to the solitude of his hotel room where he remained until 11 A.M. the next day. He phoned no one and did not use room service.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 23:27|23.27|He tells his old friend the train times and they settle on the 19.45 arriving at 23.27. "I'll book us into the ultra-luxurious Francis Drake Lodge. Running water in several rooms. Have you got a mobile?"|Other People's Money|Justin Cartwright|unknown 23:28|11:28 P.M.|Monday 11:28 P.M.
It was flawless. They dined in a Gothic, ivy-covered greenhouse in the garden of a maitre nineteenth-century inn where waiters scurried, the maitre d' hovered, and the wine steward nodded obsequiously every time he passed their table. It was even better than their first visit.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 23:29|twenty-nine minutes past eleven|With a sigh of relief that she had not missed the deadline, she crept between the sheets at twenty-nine minutes past eleven and turned out the light at once.|Belle du Seigneur|Albert Cohen|sfw From 0792f3918a66dd0906b21c140e3f3af9c781d94a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 20:32:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 11/15] add quotes from Honor Among Thieves, Kane & Abel --- litclock_annotated.csv | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index c62545e3..d2c82bdc 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ 02:25|2:25 in the morning|It's 2:25 in the morning, and Sean is calling. Stephen quietly slipped out of bed, and exited the bedroom. With Sean, it could be a family matter, a threat to the country, or countless things in between.|The Traitor|Ray Keating|sfw 02:25|2.25 am|You see it is time: 2.25 am. You get out of bed.|Nineteen Eighty-Three: The Red Riding Quartet, Book Four|David Peace|unknown 02:26|2.26 am|Listened to a voicemail message left at 2.26 am by Claude.|The Lighted Rooms|Richard Mason|unknown +02:27|2:27|The request was granted, but not until another form had been completed and signed. Dexter Hutchins put a collect call through to the Director of the CIA at 2:27 that morning.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 02:27|twenty-seven minutes past two|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|Aldous Leonard Huxley|unknown 02:27|2.27 am|The moon didn’t shine again until 2.27 am. It was enough to show Wallander that he was positioned some distance below the tree.|One Step Behind|Henning Mankell|unknown 02:28|2.28 am|2.28 am: Ran out of sheep and began counting other farmyard animals.|Mr. Commitment|Mike Gayle|unknown @@ -460,6 +461,7 @@ 03:18|03.18 hours|The truth of the matter we may never know. All we know at the moment is that at 03.18 hours on 10th February the Southern Cross was firmly beset by the ice and she was sending out an SOS. Sometime during the night that lead must have come to an end. The westward-driven pack ice closed round her and in a matter of hours she was gone.|The White South|Hammond Innes|sfw 03:19|3.19 A.M.|The time stamp on Navidson's camcorder indicates that it is exactly 3.19 A.M.|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|sfw 03:20|3.20 am|Prabath Kumara, 16. 17th November 1989. At 3.20 am from the home of a friend.|Anil's Ghost|Michael Ondaatje|unknown +03:21|3:21|He didn’t bother to shower or shave, and dressed quickly in the clothes he had worn the previous day. He left his apartment in Queens at 3:21 and drove himself into Manhattan, leaving his car outside the front of the precinct a few minutes before four.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:21|3:21|She glanced again at the bedside clock: 3:21. She got out of bed, put on a dressing gown, sat down at the little table and filled several sheets of hotel stationery with notes in preparation for her meeting with Sefton Jelks. It felt like prepping for an exam.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:21|twenty-one minutes past three|Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.|The Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo|unknown 03:22|03:22|"Ladies and gentlemen, at 03:22 this morning, our GEODSS sensor suite at Socorro, New Mexico detected an anomalous object outside of the orbit of the moon."|The Gift|Dave Donovan|sfw @@ -505,6 +507,7 @@ 03:54|3.54 a.m.|The charter flight from Florida touched down at Aldergrove minutes earlier, at 3.54 a.m.|The More a Man Has, the More a Man Wants|Paul Muldoon|unknown 03:55|3.55 a.m.|Here in the cavernous basement at 3.55 a.m., in a single pool of light, is Theo Perowne.|Saturday|Ian McEwan|unknown 03:56|four minutes to four|It was now four minutes to four, and a new day had begun: a day that would likely wrench the cracks apart, turn the bruises into bloody wounds, and shatter to smithereens everything she had patiently made of herself.|The Cassandra Complex|Brian Stableford|sfw +03:57|3:57|He flicked on the bedside light and picked up his watch. It was 3:57. He began to recall what had taken place a few hours earlier.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:57|three minutes to four|"Three minutes to four," she replied, consulting her broad old gold watch, and then holding it to her ear. "Yes, three minutes to four. I thought it was later. You saw something, William Maubray - you did. You have seen something, haven't you?"|All in the Dark|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu|sfw 03:58|two minutes to four|The ancient house was deserted, the crumbling garage padlocked, and one was just able to discern - by peering through a crack in the bubbling sun on the window - the face of a clock on the opposite wall. The clock had stopped at two minutes to four early in the morning, or who could tell, it may have been earlier still, yesterday in the afternoon, a couple of hours after Kaiser had left Kamaria for Bartica.|Heartland|Wilson Harris|unknown 03:58|3:58|The clock atop the clubhouse reads 3:58.|Underworld|Don DeLillo|unknown @@ -545,6 +548,7 @@ 04:06|4.06 am|Dexter looked at Kate's note, then her face, then the clock. It was 4.06 am, the night before they would go to the restaurant.|The Expats|Chris Pavone|unknown 04:07|4.07 am|4.07 am. Why am I standing? My shoulders feel cold and I'm shivering. I become aware that I'm standing in the middle of the room. I immediately look at the bedroom door. Closed, with no signs of a break-in. Why did I get up?|Guarding Hanna: A Novel|Miha Mazzini|unknown 04:08|4:08 a.m.|It was at 4:08 a.m. beneath the cool metal of a jungle gym that all Andrew's dreams came true. He kissed his one true love and swore up and down that it would last forever to this exhausted companion throughout their long trek home.|Dying in the Twilight of Summer|Seth O'Connell|unknown +04:09|4:09|“The truck has driven nonstop through the night at a steady pace of around forty miles per hour in the direction of Baghdad, but at 4:09 this morning it turned off into the desert, and we ceased to monitor its movements, as that particular path leads nowhere.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:09|nine minutes past four|It was nine minutes past four. "He's sitting in the middle of an ultrasonic field and I'm ten minutes late to get him out. Come on!"|The Final Affair: A Man from U.N.C.L.E.|David McDaniel|sfw 04:10|Four-ten|"I don't like this waiting," he said.
She smiled. "You'd make a terrible PI."
"What time is it?"
"Four-ten. Fifteen minutes later than the last time you asked."|Copper River|William Kent Krueger|sfw 04:10|four-ten|The change came at four-ten. Lying on the sand, the woman in the black suit saw it coming and relaxed.|The Women|Ray Bradbury|unknown @@ -563,6 +567,7 @@ 04:19|nineteen minutes past four|At nineteen minutes past four on the morning of December 27, 2040, her eyes, dark as an Aztec sacrificial knife, flicked open.|Aurora Quest|James Axler|sfw 04:20|four-twenty|At each waking he switched on the light and glanced at his bedside clock, hoping to find that dawn was near to breaking. Two-ten, three-forty, four-twenty.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 04:21|twenty-one past four|At twenty-one past four I inferred that the initial hostilities had not damaged its works. It was running, and I didn't know whether to interpret this indifference on the part of Time as a good or bad omen.|The Tin Drum|Günter Grass|sfw +04:22|4:22|The chairman dialed seven digits and asked to speak to the duty officer. He checked his watch as he waited to be put through. It was 4:22.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:22|4.22|He hurt me to the point where I wanted to tell him something. My watch said 4.22 now. It had stopped. It was smashed.|The Ipcress File|Len Deighton|unknown 04:23|4:23|4:23, Monday morning, Iceland Square. A number of people in the vicinity of Bjornsongatan are awakened by loud screams.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 04:23|04:23|Her chip pulsed the time. 04:23:04. It had been a long day.|Neuromancer|William Gibson|unknown @@ -668,6 +673,7 @@ 05:18|5:18|WILLIAM PICKED UP THE PHONE but didn’t turn on the light as the digital clock on his bedside table turned from 5:17 to 5:18. He knew it could only be one person on the other end of the line.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:18|5:18 AM|The story is there, and the security photo that runs with it is pretty damning. An hour earlier the light wouldn’t have been good enough to show the doer’s face, but the time stamp on the bottom of the photo is 5:18 AM. The sun isn’t up but it’s getting there, and the face of the guy standing in the alley is as clear as you’d want, if you were a prosecutor.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 05:18|5:18 A.M.|ABOARD TPA 545
5:18 A.M.
Emily Jansen sighed in relief. The long flight was nearing an end. Morning sunlight streamed through the windows of the airplane.|Airframe|Michael Crichton|unknown +05:19|5:19|Scott eased himself into the corner before once again checking the little sulphur dots on his watch. It was 5:19. He and Hannah had been in the safe for an hour and seventeen minutes.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:19|5:19 A.M.|5:19 A.M.
She heaved a sigh of relief as she put down the microphone and prepared to stumble down the hill. She realized she had violated protocol by breaking radio silence, but she was almost as worried about Michael Vance as she was about the facility.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 05:20|five-twenty|If she can keep her speed to seventy until she leaves the turnpike at midtown, and if she catches most of the traffic lights, she estimates she can be at her building by five-twenty.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 05:20|five twenty|He saw on the floor his cigarette reduced to a long thin cylinder of ash: it had smoked itself. It was five twenty, dawn was breaking behind the shed of empty barrels, the thermometer pointed to 210 degrees.|The Periodic Table|Primo Levi|unknown @@ -766,6 +772,7 @@ 06:09|6.09|Bimingham New Street 5.25. Walsall 5.55. This train does not stop at Birchills, for reasons George has never been able to ascertain. Then it is Bloxwich 6.02, Wyrley & Churchbridge 6.09. At 6.10 he nods to Mr. Merriman the stationmaster.|Arthur and George|Julian Barnes|unknown 06:10|6:10|The Chairman got out of bed at 7:20 and lit his first cigarette. He couldn’t remember exactly when he had woken. At 6:10 he had phoned Tony, who was already up and waiting for his call.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:10|ten past six|The bus left the station at ten past six - and she sat proud, like an accustomed traveller, apart from her father, John Henry, and Berenice. But after a while a serious doubt came in her, which even the answers of the bus-driver could not quite satisfy.|The Member of the Wedding|Carson McCullers|unknown +06:11|6:11|“La Guardia,” said Dexter and then thanked the agent for sitting up half the night. Scott looked between the two front seats as the digital clock changed from 6:11 to 6:12.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:11|6:11 a.m.|I looked at the clock: 6:11 a.m. Brittany had been gone for five hours. Time was racing forward.|The Good Neighbor|Cathryn Grant|unknown 06:12|6:12 in the morning|"Doc Kerrison?" The interrogation was surely unnecessary. Who else in this half-empty, echoing house would be answering at 6:12 in the morning? He made no reply and the voice went on.|Death of an Expert Witness|P.D. James|sfw 06:13|06:13|It's 06:13. Ma says I ought to be wrapped up in Rug already, Old Nick might possibly come.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown @@ -821,6 +828,7 @@ 06:40|twenty to seven|At eleven o'clock the phone rang, and still the figure did not respond, any more than it has responded when the phone had rung at twenty-five to seven in the morning, and again at twenty to seven|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown 06:41|nineteen minutes to seven|A car drove past at a crawl, its driver eyeing her curiously through the slow-moving windscreen wipers, and she pretended to rummage for something in her pocket, trying to look like a normal person, on her way to a normal day. It was nineteen minutes to seven.|The Horse Dancer|Jojo Moyes|sfw 06:42|06:42|It was 06:42 and he had just finished his solo morning workout: three circuits of Ring 7 - the second-longest ring in the hab-disk - followed by a half hour pushing and pulling against resistance channels in the gym.|Marine Cadet|Tim C. Taylor|sfw +06:43|6:43|At 6:43 the driver pulled off the highway and followed the signs for La Guardia. No one spoke until the car came to a halt at the curb opposite the Marine Air terminal entrance.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:43|6:43|After throwing the lather on his face, he shaved too quickly, mowing down the stubble on his chin. Damn it, three nicks; the aftershave lotion stung viciously: 6:43.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 06:43|6.43 am|To London on the 6.43 am. Jessica is back from her holiday. Things are looking up, she called me Chris, instead of Minister, when we talked on the phone this afternoon.|A View From the Foothills|Chris Mullin|unknown 06:44|6.44|Simon is happy to travel scum class when he's on his own and even sometimes deliberately aims for the 6.25. But today the .25 is delayed to 6.44.|The Deaths|Mark Lawson|unknown @@ -925,6 +933,7 @@ 07:25|7:25|He tried one more time at 7:25, and nothing had changed. It ran and ran, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.
He threw his guitar in his dad’s car and drove south toward Prescott. The Built to Spill tape was still in the tape deck, and he just let it keep going; it might as well be the damn soundtrack to everything.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 07:25|7.25 a.m.|7.25 a.m. Clean teeth and wash face|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 07:26|twenty-six minutes past seven|Chuck was on deck at twenty-six minutes past seven when marines in helmets and backpacks began to swarm down the rope nets hanging over the sides of the ship and jump into the high-sided landing craft.|Winter of the World|Ken Follett|sfw +07:27|7:27|The pilot welcomed them aboard and warned them there might be a slight delay. Dexter checked his watch: 7:27. He began drumming his fingers on the armrest that divided him from Scott.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:27|7.27|His appointment with the doctor was for 8.45. It was 7.27.|The Return of the Dancing Master|Henning Mankell|unknown 07:28|seven twenty-eight|"As you know, we're on twenty-four hour call and I got here at seven twenty-eight. We decided to start the investigation at once. The undertakers will collect the body as soon as you've finished."|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 07:29|7:29|Lamont was waiting for her on platform 11, and they boarded the 7:29 to Guildford, second class. On arrival they were met by Superintendent Wall, the only man from the Surrey Constabulary who'd been fully briefed on what they had planned for the rest of the day.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -951,6 +960,7 @@ 07:36|7:36|7:36, sunrise. The hospital blinds were much better, darker than her own.|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|unknown 07:37|twenty-three minutes to eight|My telephone rang at twenty-three minutes to eight, just as I put a cup of coffee down on the breakfast table.|Satellite People|Has Olav Lahlum|sfw 07:38|7:38 A.M.|7:38 A.M.
"I copy," Nichols said into his mike. "When did the chopper lift off?"|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw +07:39|7:39|At 7:39 the aircraft taxied onto the runway to prepare for takeoff. When it stopped, Dexter asked the flight attendant what was holding them up.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:39|7.39|"Now, at the station, do you recall speaking to Mr. Joseph Markew?"
"Yes, indeed. I was standing on the platform waiting for my usual train - the 7.39 - when he accosted me."|Arthur and George|Julian Barnes|unknown 07:40|7.40 a.m.|7.40 a.m. Have breakfast.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 07:42|7:42|So he really had no choice but to pay an occasional visit to the living room instead, where the hands on the grandfather clock now indicated, rather unambiguously, that it was 7:42.|The Lincoln Highway|Amor Towles|unknown @@ -975,8 +985,10 @@ 07:50|ten minutes to eight|DI Hogan rang the front doorbell at ten minutes to eight. It was opened a few moments later by someone who was clean-shaven, smartly dressed and clearly expecting him.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:50|ten minutes to eight|She and Dakers had said nothing of interest to each other while they had been working and had left the library at the same time and gone into breakfast together. That had been at about ten minutes to eight.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 07:50|ten minutes to eight|At about ten minutes to eight, Jim had squared the part of the work he had been doing - the window - so he decided not to start on the door or the skirting until after breakfast.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown +07:51|7:51|The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:51|nine minutes to eight|Vimes fished out the Gooseberry as a red-hot cabbage smacked into the road behind him. "Good morning!" he said brightly to the surprised imp. "What is the time, please?"
"Er...nine minutes to eight, Insert Name Here," said the imp.|Thud!|Terry Pratchett|unknown 07:52|eight minutes to eight|Homicide Detective David Neiser arrived at the house on Twin Peaks Drive at eight minutes to eight. Chief Criminal Deputy Joe Doench was already there.|In the Still of the Night|Ann Rule|sfw +07:53|7:53|The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:53|seven to eight|"What time is it?"
"Seven to eight. Won't be long now."|Never Go Back|Robert Goddard|unknown 07:54|six minutes to eight in the morning|When I awoke on the arrival of the others, it was six minutes to eight in the morning of the same day, today. Not two hours had passed from my rising, and time was back to normal. But the things that happened in that time could never be compressed into two hours.|The Six Fingers of Time|R.A. Lafferty|sfw 07:55|five minutes before eight|"Maybe now isn't the best time for you to see her, Mr. Dresden."
I glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was five minutes before eight. "She wanted me early." I stepped to one side to go around him.|Fool Moon|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -1035,6 +1047,7 @@ 08:01|eight-one|Eight-one, tick-tock, eight-one o'clock, off to school, off to work, run, run, eight-one!|There Will Come Soft Rains|Ray Bradbury|unknown 08:01|8:01 A.M.|8:01 A.M.
Dore Peretz’ chest still felt like it was on fire, a burning sensation that seemed to spread across the entire front of his torso; in fact, he felt like shit.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 08:02|Eight oh two|Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom ... Eight oh three eh em ... Death of Sergeant Detritus ... Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds ... Death of Constable Visit ... Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds ... Death of death of death of ...|Jingo|Terry Pratchett|unknown +08:03|three minutes past eight|When he had finished the last mouthful, Scott checked his watch: three minutes past eight—just enough time for coffee before grabbing a taxi to the airport.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:03|Three minutes after eight|"Yes, well. Obviously she's dead and it's very recent. Within the last two hours, if you press me. But you must have come to that conclusion yourselves or you wouldn't have cut her down. When did you say you found her? Three minutes after eight."|Death of an Expert Witness|P.D. James|sfw 08:03|8:03 A.M.|8:03 A.M.
People in Evanston moved so goddamn slow. it was one thing when the sidewalks were covered in ice and lake-effect snow. But this was June, the day after Braque’s cousin Eva’s birthday, which used to mean a big family party marking the beginning of summer, at least before her dad left and her brother Randy went into rehab.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 08:03|Eight oh three|Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom ... Eight oh three eh em ... Death of Sergeant Detritus ... Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds ... Death of Constable Visit ... Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds ... Death of death of death of ...|Jingo|Terry Pratchett|unknown @@ -1065,11 +1078,13 @@ 08:15|quarter-past eight|It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up, and hauled down his watch. It was a quarter-past eight.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 08:15|eight fifteen|You scrutinized your wrist: "It's eight fifteen. (And here time forked.) I'll turn it on." The screen in its blank broth evolved a lifelike blur, and music welled.|Pale Fire|Vladimir Nabokov|unknown 08:16|eight sixteen|I walk through the fruit trees toward a huge, square, brown patch of earth with vegetation growing in serried rows. These must be the vegetables. I prod one of them cautiously with my foot. It could be a cabbage or a lettuce. Or the leaves of something growing underground, maybe. To be honest, it could be an alien. I have no idea. I sit down on a mossy wooden bench and look at a nearby bush covered in white flowers. Mm. Pretty. Now what? What do people do in their gardens? I feel I should have something to read. Or someone to call. My fingers are itching to move. I look at my watch. Still only eight sixteen. Oh God.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +08:17|8:17|“Then let’s get going,” said T. Hamilton McKenzie. He checked his watch. It was 8:17. With a bit of luck he might still make the meeting on time.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:17|8:17|He caught the 8:17 train so favored by those who commute from Oxford to London every day. All the people at breakfast seemed to know each other and Stephen felt like an uninvited guest at someone else’s party.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:17|8:17 AM|Lil: Morning, shug. Check the mailbox
Me: It’s literally 8:17 AM
Lil: It’s early, I know. Left something for you when I was out walking. I suggest you get it now.|Blink And We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|sfw 08:17|8.17 a.m.|Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations. He consulted his instruments, and recorded:
“Monday, July 1.
“Chronometer, 8.17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”
This last observation applied to the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.|A Journey to the Centre of the Earth|Jules Verne|unknown 08:17|eight seventeen|Come on, I can't give up yet. I'll just sit here for a bit and enjoy the peace. I lean back and watch a little speckled bird pecking the ground nearby for a while. Then I look at my watch again: eight seventeen. I can't do this.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 08:18|eighteen minutes past eight|Say they left at seventeen or eighteen minutes past eight. In that case they must have followed Joanne Garland and might well be driving faster than she.|Kissing the Gunner's Daughter|Ruth Rendell|sfw +08:19|8:19|At 8:19 she received a second phone call to let her know the plane had taken off from Amman with the “cargo” on board.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:19|8.19|I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at 8.19 and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late, at 8.49.|The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim|Jonathan Coe|unknown 08:20|twenty past eight|He had watched the early-morning commuters flooding in on every train. By twenty past eight Adam judged they were at their peak. He checked that the icon was in place and left his hideout to join the flood as they headed to work.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:20|twenty past eight|"This morning I took the launch out for forty minutes or so to test the engine. She's been giving a bit of trouble. That took from seven-forty-five until twenty past eight, near enough."|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1086,6 +1101,7 @@ 08:25|eight twenty-five|The twenty-five minutes from eight until eight twenty-five was the only time in which all the female suspects had been together, eating under the eye of Miss Collins and full in each other's gaze.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 08:25|Eight-twenty-five|Eight-twenty-five some Acute mentions he used to watch his sister taking her bath; the three guys at the table with him fall over each other to see who gets to write it in the log book.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw 08:25|twenty-five after|The next day, Jay sat at his desk promptly at eight. At twenty-five after, Irene came over. "Time to go to the meeting."
Jay stood. "Who'll take over the phones?" |The Arachne Portal|Joan Marie Verba|unknown +08:26|Twenty-six minutes after eight|He turned around and asked the youth, “What’s the time?” The young man looked proudly at his new acquisition, which he hadn’t taken his eyes off for one moment.
“Twenty-six minutes after eight and twenty seconds.”|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:26|twenty-six minutes past eight|It exploded much later than intended, probably a good twelve hours later, at twenty-six minutes past eight on Monday morning. Several defunct wristwatches, the property of victims, confirmed the time. As with its predecessors over the last few months, there had been no warning.|The Little Drummer Girl|John le Carré|unknown 08:27|8:27|On arriving at platform one at Sevenoaks station, he would purchase a copy of the Daily Express before boarding the 8:27 to Cannon Street.|Broken Routine|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:27|twenty-seven minutes past eight|Even dawdling over breakfast with my mother just killed an hour, and though I hadn't planned to be at Marge's until nine, I was knocking on her door at twenty-seven minutes past eight.|Fatally Frosted|Jessica Beck|sfw @@ -1114,6 +1130,7 @@ 08:32|8:32 a.m.|It’s 8:32 a.m. on the twenty-fourth of December and Henry and I are on our way to Meadowlark House for Christmas. It’s a beautiful clear day, no snow here in Chicago, but six inches on the ground in South Haven.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown 08:32|0832|"Does anybody know the time a little more exactly is what I'm wondering, Don, since Day doesn't."
Gately checks his cheap digital, head still hung over the sofa's arm. "I got 0832:14, 15, 16, Randy."
"'ks a lot, D.G. man."|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown 08:32|8.32 a.m.|8.32 a.m. Catch bus to school|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw +08:33|8:33|He began his descent at 8:33, and was at the gate on schedule for the first time in months. When he had turned the engine off, three men immediately blocked the gangway and remained there until the Deputy Director and his party were well inside the terminal.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:33|08:33|It’s too late for any TV because of the cake, watch says it is 08:33. My yellow hoody nearly rips my head off when Ma is pulling it.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 08:34|08:34 hours|At 08:34 hours precisely General Conrad Pyne's black official Rover 800 stopped outside the ugly wrought iron barrier that guarded the entrance into Downing Street.|Doomsday Ultimatum|James Follett|sfw 08:35|8.35 a.m.|Delivery had been by messenger service and the office stamp showed 8.35 a.m. as the time out. I opened the envelope and drew out the shiny 4¼ by 3¼ photo that was all there was inside.|The Bug Sleep|Raymond Chandler|unknown @@ -1135,6 +1152,7 @@ 08:41|forty-one minutes past eight|By forty-one minutes past eight we are five hundred yards from the water’s edge, and between our road and the foot of the mountain we descry the piled-up remains of a ruined tower.|Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and 1851|Félicien de Saulcy|unknown 08:42|Eight forty-two|“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. Eight forty-two. Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”|The Edge of Lost|Kristina McMorris|sfw 08:42|eighteen minutes to nine|When Black himself finally appeared at eighteen minutes to nine, she became very engrossed in the details of Wednesday's surveillance. So engrossed, in fact, the she barely noticed him standing in the door of her space until he spoke.|His Hot Number|Shannon Hollis|sfw +08:43|8:43|"Either way, he mustn’t be allowed to return to the White House.” The line went dead. Cavalli knew that his father was right on both counts. Cavalli checked his watch again: 8:43.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:43|eight forty-three|"You understand this tape recorder is on?"
"Uh huh"
"And it's Wednesday, May 15, at eight forty-three in the mornin'."
"If you say so"|A Time to Kill|John Grisham|unknown 08:43|8.43 a.m.|8.43 a.m. Go past tropical fish shop|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:44|eight forty-four|Several soldiers - some with their uniforms unbuttoned - were looking over a motorcycle, arguing about it. The sergeant looked at his watch; it was eight forty-four. They had to wait until nine. Hladik, feeling more insignificant than ill-fortuned, sat down on a pile of firewood.|The Secret Miracle|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown @@ -1214,6 +1232,7 @@ 09:00|nine|The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; In half an hour she promised to return.|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|unknown 09:00|nine|To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.|The Waste Land|T.S. Eliot|unknown 09:00|Nine o’clock|Nine o’clock young residents wearing leather elbows talk to Acutes for fifty minutes about what they did when they were little boys. The Big Nurse is suspicious of the crew-cut looks of these residents, and that fifty minutes they are on the ward is a tough time for her.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown +09:01|9:01|As Dexter passed under the digital clock, its red numbers clicked to 9:01. The doors slid open and he marched out onto the sidewalk. Three black limousines were waiting in line with drivers by their doors.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:01|one minute past nine|He paced around the room, using the time to rehearse his questions, questions that mustn’t sound prepared. At one minute past nine, he took the piece of paper out of his pocket and dialed the number.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:01|9:01 am|9:01 am lay in bed, staring at ceiling.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:02|two minutes past nine|It was two minutes past nine. Hanley nodded to the chief housing officer. "Proceed," he said. The council officer approached the door of the house and knocked loudly.|No Comebacks|Frederick Forsyth|sfw @@ -1245,6 +1264,7 @@ 09:11|9:11|These new locks yielded easily to Agar's attentions. At 9:11 they swung the grating door open and entered the wine cellar proper. They immediately began the search for the key.|The Great Train Robbery|Micheal Crichton|sfw 09:11|9:11|“What train can I get?”
“There’s one about 9:11 if you really must go.”|This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald|unknown 09:11|9:11 am|9:11 am lay in bed, staring at wall.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw +09:12|9:12|As the Jefferson Memorial came into sight Dexter checked his watch yet again. It was 9:12. “Easily enough time,” he remarked. Less than a minute later, they were caught in a traffic jam.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:12|twelve minutes past nine|On a Wednesday morning, then, at twelve minutes past nine EDT, the Pleiades hung poised, high over the Chancellery of Solar System Enterprises, Incorporated.|The Galaxy Primes|E.E. Smith|sfw 09:12|twelve minutes past nine|The massive iron door didn’t swing open until twelve minutes past nine. Harry leaped up as a prison guard stood to one side and allowed a tall, elegant man with silver gray hair to enter.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:12|9:12 am|9:12 am lay in bed, staring at wall.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw @@ -1284,6 +1304,7 @@ 09:25|nine twenty-five|The phone on his desk rang, startling him. It was nine twenty-five. He hadn't realized he had been sitting as if in a fugue.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 09:25|nine twenty-five|A man I would cross the street to avoid at nine o'clock - by nine twenty-five I wanted to fuck him until he wept. My legs trembled with it. My voice floated out of my mouth when I opened it to speak. The glass wall of the meeting room was huge and suddenly too transparent.|The Forgotten Waltz|Anne Enright|nsfw 09:26|09.26 hours|This was the sixth equipment failure in a week, the eleventh since Nula's death. It was enormously significant. She nodded, concealing her reaction.
"There is also a report from the test site, madam."
"Proceed."
"Test flight terminated at 09.26 hours at map point 45, sector 14."|New Doctor Who Adventures: Zamper|Gareth Roberts|sfw +09:27|9:27|“It must be some time since you’ve been shopping in Paris,” she had told him. “That’s just about enough for a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts.” Kratz had reluctantly handed over another five thousand francs.
At 9:27 the phone rang.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:27|9:27 A.M.|9:27 A.M.
Vance leaned back against the scrub cypress and listened to the whistle of the light wind through the granite outcroppings. He had perched himself on one of the rugged cliffs, from which he could see virtually everything that went on aboveground. Around him ants crawled, oblivious to the heat of the sun, which now seared the bone-colored rocks on all sides, while down below the languorous surf beckoned.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:27|twenty-seven minutes past nine|From twenty minutes past nine until twenty-seven minutes past nine, from twenty-five minutes past eleven until twenty-eight minutes past eleven, from ten minutes to three until two minutes to three the heroes of the school met in a large familiarity whose Olympian laughter awed the fearful small boy that flitted uneasily past and chilled the slouching senior that rashly paused to examine the notices in assertion of an unearned right.|Sinister Street|Compton Mackenzie|unknown 09:28|9:28|The call had been made at 9:28. This was one more piece of evidence, and an important one. It proved what they had suspected from the first: that the killer was in St. Anselm's.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw @@ -1313,9 +1334,11 @@ 09:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 09:35|nine-thirty-five|Nine-thirty-five. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire.|The Memory of Love|Aminatta Forna|unknown 09:35|twenty-five minutes to ten|At twenty-five minutes to ten he was tapping on the closed door of Blore’s room.
The latter opened it cautiously. His hair was tousled and his eyes were still dim with sleep.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown +09:36|9:36|It was 9:36 and the traffic was now flowing smoothly. He walked over to the officer coordinating the shoot for the city’s motion picture and television office.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:36|9:36 A.M.|Danny checked Nick’s watch: 9:36 A.M. He walked quickly downstairs and headed for reception, where he tried a different ploy.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:36|9:36|I grab a pen and the pad of paper by the phone and start scribbling a list for the day. I have an image of myself moving smoothly from task to task, brush in one hand, duster in the other, bringing order to everything. Like Mary Poppins.
9:30-9:36 Make Geigers' bed|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|sfw 09:36|9:36 a.m.|9:36 a.m. Oh God, Oh God. Maybe he's fallen in love in New York and stayed there.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw +09:37|9:37|The lead car swerved between two police barriers and turned into Constitution Avenue at 9:37. When Dexter saw the floats lining up for the parade, he gave the order to turn the sirens off.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:37|thirty-seven minutes past nine|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|sfw 09:38|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]|Twenty-two minutes remained [until ten o'clock]. He was just turning in upon the footpath behind the swine shed. It would take ten minutes to get to the church. He had less than fifteen minutes in which to get ready.|The Hammer of God|Bo Giertz|unknown 09:39|9.39 a.m.|Exactly as the display ticked over to 9.39 a.m. there was a distant banging on my front door. I hate show-offs.|Fated|Benedict Jacka|sfw @@ -1357,6 +1380,7 @@ 09:50|Ten minutes to ten|Philip Lombard said:
“What’s the time now?”
“Ten minutes to ten, sir.”
Lombard’s eyebrows rose. He nodded slowly to himself.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown 09:50|9:50 a.m.|9:50 a.m. Hmmm. Think will go inspect makeup in case he does come in.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 09:50|ten minutes to ten.|Ten minutes to ten. "I had just time to hide the bottle (after the nurse had left me) when you came into my room."|The Law and the Lady|Wilkie Collins|unknown +09:51|9:51|They paused in front of the great concrete blocks that had been built to house the Declaration of Independence, just as a priest might in front of an altar. Scott checked his watch. It was 9:51.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:51|9:51 A.M.|9:51 A.M.
J.J. shook his head in disgust as he looked over the shambles that was the gantry. Dr. Andros had just phoned from Command, asked him to undertake a preliminary assessment of the condition of the facility, just to ballpark the extent of damage. The assignment was already depressing him.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:51|9:51 a.m.|She had planned to be a few minutes early, and the cab dropped her off outside the building at 9:51 a.m. As she handed the driver a quarter, she was relieved that her visit to New York was coming to an end; it had turned out to be far more expensive than she had anticipated.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:52|9:52|She caught the 9:52 to Victoria. I kept well clear of her on the train and picked her up as she went through the barrier.|Call for the Dead|John le Carré|unknown @@ -1438,6 +1462,7 @@ 10:06|10:06|“All right, Matt, let’s assume that the point of maximum risk is the Capitol itself, at 10:06, right on the steps—what then?”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:06|six minutes past [ten]|She gets out of her car at the east front of the Capitol at six minutes past [ten].|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:06|10:06 a.m.|"You have fifteen minutes," he said. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, 10:06 a.m.|Gone|Lisa Gardner|sfw +10:07|10:07|“Follow the diversion sign,” he said, without even looking at her.
She glanced at the clock on her dashboard. It was 10:07.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|seven minutes past ten|“It must have been about seven minutes past ten. I remember because I checked my watch when that coach left.”
“The coach?” said Romanov.
“Yes, the one that was being loaded up with musical instruments. It left about …”|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|10:07 GMT|10:07 GMT
Once they had settled in Superintendent Wall's office, the three police officers checked and double-checked every detail of Operation Blue Period.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:07|10:07 a.m.|10:07 a.m. Access letter only, about nonpayment of minimum payment. Try to remember what was looking for. Restart quest for handbag.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -1445,6 +1470,8 @@ 10:08|eight minutes past ten|Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh turned from his inspection of the dead girl's clothes, his six feet two inches uncomfortably trapped between the foot of the bed and the wardrobe door. He looked at his watch. It was eight minutes past ten.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 10:08|ten eight|"My watch is always a little fast," I said. "What time do you make it now?"
"Ten eight."
"Ten eighteen by mine. You see."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown 10:09|10:09|He followed the squeals down a hallway. A wall clock read 8:09-10:09 Dallas time.|American Tabloid|James Ellroy|unknown +10:10|ten minutes past ten|At ten minutes past ten the next morning, William received another call from his now agitated broker. Another million dollars' worth of Interstate stock had been placed on the market at the opening bell.|Kane & Abel|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +10:10|10:10|At 10:10, two white-coated orderlies wheeled a tall, well-built man in a chair out through the swing doors and, seeing the car parked in the dean’s space, guided him towards it. The driver jumped out and quickly opened the back door. Poor man, he thought, his head all covered in bandages and only a small crack left for his lips and nostrils. He wondered if it had been burns.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:10|10:10 A.M.|10:10 A.M.
To Braque, the Humanities dorm was like an icicle up the glory hole. She’d put it down as her fifth choice of five. Only after getting to school did she learn that anyone who’d put it down as 𝘢𝘯𝘺 choice got stuck there.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 10:10|10:10|10:10 Shot is fired.|The Hollow Man|John Dickson Carr|unknown 10:10|ten minutes past 10|Saturday morning was bright and sunny, and at ten minutes past 10 Donald arrived at the Embankment entrance of Charing Cross Underground Station, carrying a small suitcase full of clothes suitable for outdoor sports and pastimes.|England, Their England|A.G. Macdonell|unknown @@ -1464,6 +1491,7 @@ 10:15|quarter past ten|When she finally struggled awake—headachey, miserable, feeling hungover—the other half of the bed was empty. Bob had turned his clock back around, and she saw it was quarter past ten. It was the latest she’d slept in years, but of course she hadn’t dropped off until first light, and such sleep as she’d gotten was populated with horrors.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 10:15|10.15|At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous, a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise, annoyance, etc. Christine's task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed she asked Linda at twenty-five past eleven what time it was. Linda looked at her watch and replied that it was a quarter to twelve.|Evil Under the Sun|Agatha Christie|unknown 10:16|10:16|10:16 At last. Forty minutes of hard work and I have made precisely one bed. I'm way behind. But never mind. Just keep moving. Laundry next.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown +10:17|seventeen minutes past ten|Pacey hummed to himself as he walked slowly toward Abel's office for their daily ten o'clock meeting. It was seventeen minutes past ten.|Kane & Abel|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:17|10.17 am|She looked at the corner of the screen. It was only 10.17 am. She’d been at her desk for forty-seven minutes exactly.|New York Valentine|Carmen Reid|unknown 10:17|seventeen minutes past ten|"By the bye," said the first, "I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at seventeen minutes past ten."
"And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten."
"Bravo, Mr. Blount!"
"Very good, M. Jolivet."|Michel Strogoff|Jules Verne|unknown 10:18|10:18 A.M.|Wednesday 10:18 A.M.
Kenji Nogami sat upright at his wide oak desk, waiting for the phone to ring. How would Michael play it? Admittedly it was smart to keep everything close to the chest, but still. He would have felt better if Michael Vance, Jr., had favored him with a little more trust.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -1477,6 +1505,7 @@ 10:21|10.21|Liz Headleand stares into the mirror, as though entranced. She does not see herself or the objects on her dressing-table. The clock abruptly jerks to 10.21.|The Radiant Way|Margaret Drabble|unknown 10:22|10:22|I listened to them, and listened to them again, and then before I had time to figure out what to do, or even what to think or feel, the phone started ringing. It was 10:22:27. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was him.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 10:23|twenty three minutes past ten|The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty three minutes past ten, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03|Ctrl-Z|Andrew Norriss|unknown +10:24|10:24|Cavalli checked his watch, it was 10:24, and they’d already been inside the building for seventeen minutes. Although the limousines were waiting, he had no choice but to allow the Conservator to carry on at his own pace.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 10:24|10:24 A.M.|Arnet entered the Peabody Wildlife Management Area at 10:24 A.M., crested a ridge, and noticed fresh skid marks leading to dark, pool-like stains near the side of the road.|Labyrinth|Mark T. Sullivan|sfw 10:25|10:25|Dalgliesh reflected that Etienne could hardly have devised a more effective deterrent to visitors and for a moment he wondered whether to walk the half-mile rather than risk his suspension. Glancing at his watch, he saw that it was 10:25. He would arrive precisely on time.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 10:25|10:25 AM|As four armed and armored FBI teams surrounded the warehouse at 10:25 AM, the only person missing was Ned Jennings.|An Advent for Religious Liberty|Ray Keating|sfw @@ -1597,7 +1626,7 @@ 11:02|11.02 am|On August 9th, three days later, at 11.02 am, another B−29 dropped the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki, totally destroying 1 1/2 square miles of the city, killing 39,000 persons and injuring 25,000 more.|The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|The Manhattan Engineer District|unknown 11:02|11:02|“Yes.” Perena’s firm tone brooked no argument. “It exploded at 11:07. You would have entered at 11:02, so that by then you would have been exactly midway between the Gates.”|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown 11:03|Eleven oh-three|"What makes you think it's for real?"
"Just a hunch, really. He sounded for real. Sometimes you can just tell about people"-he smiled-"even if you're a dull old WASP."
"I think it's a setup."
"Why?"
"I just do. Why would someone from the government want to help you?"
"Good question. Guess I'll find out."
She went back into the kitchen."What time are you meeting him?" she called out.
"Eleven oh-three," he said. "That made me think he's for real. Military and intelligence types set precise appointment times to eliminate confusion and ambiguity. Nothing ambiguous about eleven oh-three."|Little Green Men|Christopher Buckley|unknown -11:03|11.03 am|On the fourth, at 11.03 am, the editor of the Yidische Zaitung put in a call to him; Doctor Yarmolinsky did not answer. He was found in his room, his face already a little dark, nearly nude beneath a large, anachronistic cape.|Death and the Compass|Jorge Luis Borges|unknown +11:03|11.03 am|On the fourth, at 11.03 am, the editor of the Yidische Zaitung put in a call to him; Doctor Yarmolinsky did not answer. He was found in his room, his face already a little dark, nearly nude beneath a large, anachronistic cape.|Death and the Compass|Jorge Luis Borges|nsfw 11:04|11:04|Senator Harrison died before he reached the hospital and Mark had his wound patched up by a house doctor. Mark checked his watch and laughed. It was 11:04—he was going to live.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:04|11.04|Consequently we are happy to announce that since the excess excuses have now been used, the 11.04 DeepDrop to Sydney is ready for boarding at Gate Six.|Lost in a Good Book|Jasper Fforde|sfw 11:04|past 11 o'clock|As her husband had told him, she was still in bed although it was past 11 o'clock. Her normally mobile face was encased in clay, rigid and menacing as an Aztec mask.|Scoop|Evelyn Waugh|unknown @@ -1720,6 +1749,7 @@ 11:59|near to twelve|There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew near to twelve I don't mind confessing I was as nervous as a cat.|The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story|Agatha Christie|unknown 11:59|about noon|The day after that again, about noon, a decurion with his command of ten horsemen approached Nazareth from the south—that is, from the direction of Jerusalem. The place was then a straggling village, perched on a hill-side, and so insignificant that its one street was little more than a path well beaten by the coming and going of flocks and herds.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|Towards noon he rose and began to write a letter to her; but he could not find the right words, and after many times laying his brush aside he determined at last to send her some nice pictures instead.|The Tale of Genji|Murasaki Shikibu|sfw +12:00|noonday|And there, almost at its foot, so close that the shadow of the palace tower fell upon it in the noonday sun, was his own house, sandwiched between the walls, with its small courtyard, two low doors, and the little pool of water.|With My Own Eyes|Bo Giertz|sfw 12:00|noon|At noon that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum. The wind was yet from the west, filling the sail to the master’s content. The watches had been established. On the foredeck the altar had been set and sprinkled with salt and barley, and before it the tribune had offered solemn prayers to Jove and to Neptune and all the Oceanidae, and, with vows, poured the wine and burned the incense.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|An hour passed, and though Pilate deigned them no answer, the rabbis and crowd remained. Noon came, bringing a shower from the west, but no change in the situation, except that the multitude was larger and much noisier, and the feeling more decidedly angry.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw 12:00|noon|Exactly at noon the dromedary, of its own will, stopped, and uttered the cry or moan, peculiarly piteous, by which its kind always protest against an overload, and sometimes crave attention and rest. The master thereupon bestirred himself, waking, as it were, from sleep.|Ben-Hur|Lew Wallace|sfw @@ -2095,6 +2125,7 @@ 14:50|ten to three|Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?|The Old Vicarage, Grantchester|Rupert Brooke|unknown 14:51|nine minutes to three|At nine minutes to three, the storm came back. It rolled in on angry, brooding tiers: swollen blue-black cumulus and ghostly, low-slung nimbostratus, crowding the ceiling of the sky. It made the oxygen in the air itself compress, turn chill and thick, absorbed or displaced by the moisture that blackened and bloated the heavens.|The Bridge|John Skipp and Craig Spector|sfw 14:52|eight minutes to three|"Mr. Kesselbach, it is eight minutes to three. If you don't answer within eight minutes from now, you are a dead man!"|813|Maurice LeBlanc|sfw +14:53|2:53|At 2:53 they were ushered into an empty conference room. Scott selected a chair against the wall, just behind where Warren Christopher would be seated but slightly to his left so he would have a clear view of Prime Minister Rabin across the table.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:53|seven minutes to three|“And what do you suppose Father Mahoney is thinking now, sitting there like some Romanian beggar and just before teatime? He knows very well we’re expecting him. If he’s even one minute late—I’m counting, it’s seven minutes to three on my watch—I’ll be telling him a thing or two.”|Pomegranate Soup|Marsha Mehran|unknown 14:54|About 2.55|In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55, when you know you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.|Life, the Universe and Everything|Douglas Adams|unknown 14:55|two fifty-five|At two fifty-five, ten men and two women, all of whom were dressed in what looked to Daphne like long black dressing gowns with purple scarves hanging from their necks, proceeded across the stage in a gentle crocodile before taking their allocated places.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2107,6 +2138,7 @@ 14:58|two minutes to three|But generally it’s the other way, the slow way. She’ll turn that dial to a dead stop and freeze the sun there on the screen so it don’t move a scant hair for weeks, so not a leaf on a tree or a blade of grass in the pasture shimmers. The clock hands hang at two minutes to three and she’s liable to let them hang there till we rust.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown 14:58|two minutes to three|From twenty minutes past nine until twenty-seven minutes past nine, from twenty-five minutes past eleven until twenty-eight minutes past eleven, from ten minutes to three until two minutes to three the heroes of the school met in a large familiarity whose Olympian laughter awed the fearful small boy that flitted uneasily past and chilled the slouching senior that rashly paused to examine the notices in assertion of an unearned right.|Sinister Street|Compton Mackenzie|unknown 14:58|two minutes to three|We betted that it would happen on the morrow; they took us up and gave us the odds of two to one; we betted that it would happen in the afternoon; we got odds of four to one on that; we betted that it would happen at two minutes to three; they willingly granted us the odds of ten to one on that.|The Chronicle of Young Satan|Mark Twain|unknown +14:59|one minute to three|At one minute to three, five senior staffers entered the room, and Scott was pleased to see that Susan Anderson was among them.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:59|about three o’clock|About three o’clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs Élysées.|Les Misérables|Victor Hugo|unknown 14:59|2.59 p.m.|A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of one or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr 8 m p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 15:00|three|The bell in the clock tower in the village square chimed three. Declan straightened against the stone wall, careful to stay hidden in the shadows as he watched the pub from the alley across the street.|On These Black Sands|Vanessa Rasanen|sfw @@ -2376,6 +2408,7 @@ 16:37|4:37|Rorschach’s journal: Slept all day. Awoken at 4:37. Landlady complaining about smell.|Watchmen|Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|unknown 16:37|1637|She should have been home by now. 1637. Yes. It's as if I had the date of a year on my arm. Every day is a piece of world history.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown 16:38|twenty-two minutes to five|I let him put me in the car and drive me to the station. At twenty-two minutes to five by the clock in the station house I was in front of a cell in the Mill River jail.|At Catskill Eagle|Robert B. Parker|sfw +16:39|4:39|He looked at the clock on his desk: 4:39. “Get me the checkpoint at Khalis,” he instructed the young Lieutenant.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:39|4:39 p.m.|Harlem enjoys lazy Sabbath mornings, although the pace picks up again in the afternoon, after church. My watch read 4:39 p.m., and I realized that I hadn't eaten all day. I bought two slices of pizza from a sidewalk vendor on 122nd and Lenox Avenue and washed it down with a grape Snapple.|Blood Red Blues|Teddy Hayes|unknown 16:40|four forty|Four forty P.M. Besta sang another hymn. Everyone knew something was wrong. How long did they wait? The mayor was going crazy inside, as was the mayor's wife, as was their daughter. Seiji could barely contain his rage. He was turning as red as his red tuxedo.|Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty|Tip "T.I." Harris with David Ritz|unknown 16:41|nineteen minutes to five|She'd opened the door at nineteen minutes to five, thinking she had some measure of control over her world. Now she knew it for the lie it was. Everything she once thought she knew was upside-down; everything had changed.|Who Do You Trust|Melissa James|sfw @@ -2478,6 +2511,7 @@ 17:17|seventeen minutes past five|And it was just seventeen minutes past five when Dick French, hanging in a frenzy of anxiety over the paddock fence circling the inside of the mile oval, uttered something resembling a howl and rushed to the gate to signal his recreant driver.|The Flying Mercury|Eleanor M. Ingram|sfw 17:18|eighteen minutes past five|Lupin rose, without breaking his contemptuous silence, and took the sheet of paper. I remembered soon after that, at this moment, I happened to look at the clock. It was eighteen minutes past five.|The Confessions of Arsène Lupin|Maurice LeBlanc|unknown 17:18|5:18 P.M.|Thursday 5:18 P.M.
Yuri Andreevich was mad as hell. After his one-on-one with Tanzan Mino, he knew he'd been screwed. Sticking a couple of "pilots" from Mino Industries in the cockpit. It was just the old GRU trick, surveillance under the specious guise of "support." He'd seen it all before.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|nsfw +17:19|5:19|Scott eased himself into the corner before once again checking the little sulphur dots on his watch. It was 5:19. He and Hannah had been in the safe for an hour and seventeen minutes.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:19|5.19 p.m.|The call came at 5.19 p.m. The line was surprisingly clear. A man introduced himself as Major Liepa from the Riga police. Wallander made notes as he listened, occasionally answering a question.|The Dogs of Riga|Henning Mankell|unknown 17:20|five-twenty|"I'm going to park here and walk in. I don't want to drive into a zoo." He glanced at his watch. "It's only five-twenty. Kidnapper's call is supposed to come at six. We've got time."|Purgatory Ridge|William Kent Krueger|sfw 17:20|five-twenty|If she can keep her speed to seventy until she leaves the turnpike at midtown, and if she catches most of the traffic lights, she estimates she can be at her building by five-twenty.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown @@ -2486,6 +2520,7 @@ 17:22|seventeen-twenty-two|"I expect she didn't want Octavia to know that she'd called in her father, not until they'd worked out a plan. And I was the one who fixed the time. I didn't see how I could catch a train before the seventeen-twenty-two which gets in to Waterloo at nineteen-twenty-nine."|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 17:23|five twenty-three|"I was wondering if we could meet for a drink."
"What for?"
"Just for a chat. Do you know the Royal batsman, near Central Station? We could meet tomorrow at five?"
"Five twenty-three," I said, to exert some control over the situation.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|unknown 17:24|5:24 P.M.|At Baltimore, it was said, twelve hours after the passage of the sun of the meridian of Kilimanjaro, it was 5:24 P.M. It is impossible to describe the pangs which were produced at this moment. The most powerful of modern pens would be helpless at the task. The people of Baltimore stood fearing that they would be swept off the surface of the earth by the terrible mass of water which would fall on their city.|Topsy-Turvy|Jules Verne|sfw +17:25|5:25|By 5:25 neither of them was at his side and his famous “cool” was beginning to show distinct signs of steaming.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:25|five twenty-five|"I left Weymouth Street at about five twenty-five, but I expect the dental nurse and the receptionist will be able to confirm the time. I found that my motorcycle had been taken."|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 17:25|five-twenty-five|It was five-twenty-five when I pulled up in front of the library. Still early for our date, so I got out of the car and took a stroll down the misty streets. In a coffee shop, watched a golf match on television, then I went to an entertainment center and played a video game. The object of the game was to wipe out tanks invading from across the river. I was winning at first, but as the game went on, the enemy tanks bred like lemmings, crushing me by sheer number and destroying my base. An on-screen nuclear blast took care of everything, followed by the message game over insert coin.|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|unknown 17:25|twenty-five minutes past five|"Now," said Handsley, when Angela had poured out the last cup, "it's twenty-five minutes past five, at half-past the Murder game is on."|A Man Lay Dead|Ngaio Marsh|unknown @@ -2523,6 +2558,7 @@ 17:43|5:43|It’s 5:43. Time is racing, racing.|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 17:44|around 5.45|Janice is not waiting for him in the lounge or beside the pool when at last around 5.45 they come home from playing the par-5 eighteenth. Instead one of the girls in their green and white uniforms comes over and tells him that his wife wants him to call home.|Rabbit Is Rich|John Updike|unknown 17:45|a quarter to six|At a quarter to six, there was a rapping sound outside my door. I checked out the peephole. Ramirez stood outside, dressed in a big red basketball-type tank top, black shorts, and flip-flops.|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw +17:46|fourteen minutes to six|At fourteen minutes to six they walked into the director’s study, where a young lady of Sally’s age offered the guests a choice of dry sherry or orange juice.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:47|thirteen minutes to six|"Then I take it the matter is practically concluded," said the clergyman. "And that you very properly submit to return to your proper home. And now, if I may offer a suggestion, it is that we take tea. Freed of its tannin, nothing, I think, is more refreshing and stimulating."
"There's a train from Lyndhurst at thirteen minutes to six," said Widgery, unfolding a time table.|The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll|H.G. Wells|sfw 17:48|5:48 p.m.|Father came home at 5:48 p.m. I heard him come through the front door. Then he came into the living room. He was wearing a lime green and sky blue check shirt and there was a double knot on one of his shoes but not on the other.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 17:49|5:49 P.M.|5:49 P.M., SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1924 WHEN ODELL ARRIVED back at Camp IV, he was unable to conceal his excitement. He crawled into Norton’s tent and told him what he’d seen.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2538,9 +2574,12 @@ 17:55|five minutes to six|One, two, three, four, five, six… She wound each clock in turn, three turns each, putting just enough power in the springs to get them ticking in time for Mr Westcott’s inspection. Speaking of which…it was five minutes to six. Five minutes before Mr. Westcott would arrive to inspect his clocks. Helena swallowed. She could hear footsteps thundering in the room below and the occasional exclamation from Stanley.|The House of One Hundred Clocks|A.M. Howell|unknown 17:55|five minutes to six|The wind moaned and sang dismally, catching the ears and lifting the shabby coat-tails of Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn, 'Photographic Artist', as he stood outside and put the shutters up with this own cold hands in despair of further trade. It was five minutes to six.|The Deferred Appointment|Algernon Blackwood|unknown 17:56|four minutes to six|Now, sir, the hand wants four minutes to six. If the hour strike before you call yourself a wanton, gratuitous calumniator, I'll flog you round the room.|The Knight of Gwynne|Charles James Lever|sfw +17:57|three minutes to six|At three minutes to six, despite there still being no sign of Sally, the director suggested they should all make their way to the Great Hall.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +17:57|three minutes to six|At three minutes to six, a tall, well-built man of military bearing pushed his way through the revolving doors. His dark navy blazer, gray flannels, short hair and highly polished shoes all suggested a life of discipline.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|Hugo Carmody had done this, with the result that by three minutes to six he was feeling as if he had been marooned among roses since the beginning of summer.|Summer Lightning|P.G. Wodehouse|sfw 17:57|three minutes to six|He would make his way by charm, the charm of voice, of jewel-like language, above all by the intellectual charm of new, moving, luminous ideas. At three minutes to six the doctor closed the book and waited.|The Drunkard|Guy Thorne|sfw 17:58|17:58|Then I notice the windows: they're shiny dark. 17:58, insists my watch. It can't be. It's only just gone four. I peer around my tormentor's belly to find Immaculée Constantin, but she's gone.|Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw +17:59|one minute to six|At one minute to six, the director led the guest of honor onto the stage. He watched the four hundred girls rise and applaud him in what the director would have described as a “ladylike” manner.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:59|nearly six o'clock|It was nearly six o'clock in the evening, and the absurd bell in the six-foot tin steeple of the church went clank-clank, clank- clank! as old Mattu pulled the rope within.|Burmese Days|George Orwell|unknown 17:59|nearly six o'clock|When he arrived it was nearly six o'clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks.|Dracula|Bram Stoker|unknown 18:00|six|"I haven't been to church in over a year."
"Finally worried about your soul?"
"Please," Cork said
"Of course we can talk. When?"
"Tomorrow. Late afternoon maybe. Say five o'clock?"
"Make it six," the priest suggested. "My office."
"I'll be there," Cork promised.|Iron Lake|William Kent Krueger|sfw @@ -2743,6 +2782,7 @@ 19:20|7:20|The pause, we finally concluded, was to allow the other important people to catch up, those who had arrived at 7:10 waiting for those who had arrived at 7:20.|Parkinson's Law or the Pursuit of Progress|C. Northcote Parkinson|unknown 19:21|7:21|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 19:22|7:22|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown +19:22|7:22|Cavalli checked his watch: 7:22. When he looked up he saw Johnny heading towards him, red in the face. Thank God I don’t have to work in Hollywood, thought Cavalli.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:22|7:22 p.m.|It was 7:22 p.m. by the wall clock when he soldered the final connection. Eric estimated a half hour delay before the little generator had taken over, put the time actually at near eight o'clock. He found himself hesitant, strangely unwilling to test the completed machine.|Operation Syndrome|Frank Herbert|unknown 19:22|7:22 P.M.|BRYCE FENSTON’S GULFSTREAM V executive jet touched down at Heathrow at 7:22 P.M., and Ruth was standing on the tarmac waiting to greet the bank’s representative. She had already alerted customs with all the relevant details so that the paperwork could be completed just as soon as Anna returned.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:23|7:23|Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then 7:22, then 7:23.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -2752,6 +2792,7 @@ 19:25|7:25|He tried one more time at 7:25, and nothing had changed. It ran and ran, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.
He threw his guitar in his dad’s car and drove south toward Prescott. The Built to Spill tape was still in the tape deck, and he just let it keep going; it might as well be the damn soundtrack to everything.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 19:25|twenty-five after seven|He picked up his hat and coat and Clarice said hello to him and he said hello and looked at the clock and it was almost twenty-five after seven.|The Evening's at Seven|James Thurber|unknown 19:26|19.26 hours|Newman pointed up at the hotel. Under the eaves shards of ice a foot long projected downwards. A palisade of icicles. Inverted. The station was little more than a one-storey hut, an isolated building with no one about. The dashboard clock registered 19.26 hours.|Terminal|Colin Forbes|sfw +19:27|7:27|The pilot welcomed them aboard and warned them there might be a slight delay. Dexter checked his watch: 7:27. He began drumming his fingers on the armrest that divided him from Scott.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:27|twenty-seven minutes past seven|He may as well give it a go, at least once. If it was as bad as he was anticipating, he need never return. He turned into the college car park at twenty-seven minutes past seven precisely.|Life Drawing for Beginners|Roisin Meaney|sfw 19:28|seven twenty-eight|"As you know, we're on twenty-four hour call and I got here at seven twenty-eight. We decided to start the investigation at once. The undertakers will collect the body as soon as you've finished."|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 19:28|7:28|"It says here that you called your mother at 7:28 p.m. this evening."
"There's some sort of mistake. I didn't get the chance to call anyone."|Superior Justice|Tom Hilpert|sfw @@ -2772,13 +2813,15 @@ 19:33|thirty-three minutes past seven|At thirty-three minutes past seven he stood on the platform of the station at Southampton - a clear hour before the train containing Owen could possibly arrive. Making a few inquiries here, but too impatient to pursue his investigation carefully and inductively, he went into the town.|Desperate Remedies|Thomas Hardy|sfw 19:34|7:34|“You better not wait up, because if I fail, Simon, I’ll probably jump on top of you.”
“Thanks for the warning, Mark. Tough it out, man.”
Beautiful evening, climb into car, check watch: 7:34.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:34|19:34|I checked my watch at 19:34 and thought that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it, if Pepperidge finally called me and heard only the engaged tone while Al was asking about his girlfriend's health or his aunt's or whoever the hell it was on the other end, my chest's easier but there's still this cough, and the doctor says I do not care what the doctor says, just get off the line.|Quiller's Run|Adam Hall|nsfw +19:35|7:35|“We’ve only got one chance of getting across that border,” said Scott, “so for now pull over into that clump of trees. We can’t risk going out onto the highway until it’s pitch dark.” He checked the time. It was 7:35.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:35|7:35 P.M.|George checked his watch: 7:35 P.M. By now Geoffrey Young would be taking the rest of the team through tomorrow’s program, having informed them who would be joining him on the final ascent. The water boiled.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:35|seven-thirty-five P.M.|At seven-thirty-five P.M., Cork parked his Bronco behind the Aurora Middle School and headed toward the back entrance, which was near a Dumpster. He could see that Deputy Gil Singer had been posted at the door.|Purgatory Ridge|William Kent Krueger|sfw -19:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown +19:35|7:35|Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was 7:35.
“Wait a minute. When did you hear about this?”
There was a tiny moment of hesitation. “The first news came in just before five.”|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|sfw 19:35|7.35|7.35-40. Yseut arrives at 'M. and S.', puts through phone call.|The Case of the Gilded Fly|Edmund Crispin|unknown 19:36|19.36|The time on the video recorder was 19.36 when the back door slammed and Victor strode into the front room clutching a handful of something so unspeakably vile it defies description.|One Foot in the Grave|David Renwick|sfw 19:37|19:37|"A ship is making an unauthorized departure from the main orbital terminal tonight at precisely 19:37 hours. We need to produce a reaction from Orbital Defense which will appear to be a genuine response to an unauthorized seizure of a vessel."|Relic of Empire|W. Michael Gear|sfw 19:38|7:38 P.M.|Wednesday 7:38 P.M.
"Michael! And Eva! Again, after so long. Pos iste! What a surprise!" The old Greek's sunburned face widened into a smile, his gray mustache opening above his last good teeth. "Parakalo, you must come in for a glass of raki and some of Adriana's meze. She would never forgive me."|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw +19:39|7:39|At 7:39 the aircraft taxied onto the runway to prepare for takeoff. When it stopped, Dexter asked the flight attendant what was holding them up.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:39|twenty-one minutes to eight|The time too was speeding on. Twenty-one minutes to eight! In a few minutes more he must set out or he would miss the train.|The Case of Oscar Brodski|Austin Freeman|sfw 19:39|7:39 P.M.|7:39 P.M.
Eva and Braque made $180 at Jack Cermak’s before complains from the nosy wait staff and whiny-ass sore losers forced them out. Then they made a quick five bucks at the famous Every 1’s A Wiener hot dog stand in Andersonville just for taking a bite from a Fire Dog. Eva actually took two bites, because that’s just who she was.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 19:40|twenty to eight|They reckon the time was twenty to eight. They can swear, sir, that the body wasn't suspended then and that they saw no one on the forecourt.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2809,8 +2852,10 @@ 19:50|ten minutes to eight|Everything was arranged for them. A real limousine came at ten minutes to eight and took them to the theater. It drew up under the marquee at exactly the right time, after the big stars and the director and the author and the governor and the mayor and some less important stars.|A Late Encounter with the Enemy|Flannery O'Connor|unknown 19:50|ten minutes to eight|The hands of the clock in the middle of the wall were pointing to ten minutes to eight. The cafe closed at eight.|Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|unknown 19:50|ten to eight|At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown +19:51|7:51|The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:51|nearly eight|He waited until nearly eight, because around seven there were always more people coming in and out of the house than at other times. At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car, though he had gone down in the middle of the afternoon to look at the car and see if it was Freddie's.|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown 19:52|7:52 P.M.|7:52 P.M.
Vance pulled himself across the planking and stretched for a box of gear stowed beneath the stern platform. In it was a constant traveling companion: his chrome-handled 9mm Walther. Although the concept of downing a Hind gunship with small-arms fire had been tested in Afghanistan and found wanting, he was so angry his better judgment was not fully in play.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|unknown +19:53|7:53|The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:53|7.53 p.m.|Wednesday, 11 th December 1963. 7.53 p.m. "Help me. You've got to help me." The woman's voice quavered on the edge of tears. The duty constable who had picked up the phone heard a hiccuping gulp, as if the caller was struggling to speak.|A Place of Execution|Val McDermid|unknown 19:54|six minutes to eight|The body was found at six minutes to eight. Doctor Young arrived some thirty minutes later. Just let me get that clear - I've a filthy memory.|A Man Lay Dead|Ngaio Marsh|unknown 19:55|seven fifty-five|It was seven fifty-five and Detective Inspector Kate Miskin and Detective Inspector Piers Tarrant were drinking together in a riverside pub between Southwark Bridge and London Bridge.|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2883,6 +2928,7 @@ 20:16|sixteen minutes past eight|He kissed her hand and after a while went to get two more drinks. When he got back, it was sixteen minutes past eight, and Lois was humming softly along with the jukebox|The Rotters' Club|Jonathan Coe|unknown 20:17|20.17|20.17 A red warning light failed to go on in the Drive Room, beginning a chain of events which would lead, in a further twenty-three minutes, to the total annihilation of the entire crew of Red Dwarf.|Red Dwarf|Grant Naylor|unknown 20:18|2018 hrs|2018 hrs Katya has arrived at the Odessa Hotel. Barley and Katya are talking in the canteen. Wicklow and one irregular observing. More.|The Russia House|John le Carré|unknown +20:19|8:19|At 8:19 she received a second phone call to let her know the plane had taken off from Amman with the “cargo” on board.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:19|nineteen minutes past eight|All was still. It was nineteen minutes past eight.|The Burglars' Club|Henry Augustus Hering|sfw 20:20|8:20|At each end of the forecourt the two great globes of light supported by bronze dolphins threw shining pools on the heaving surface of the water which as she watched shimmered like a great cloak of black satin, shaken, smoothed and gently billowed by an invisible hand. Mandy glanced at her watch: 8:20.|Original Sin|P.D. James|sfw 20:20|twenty past eight|Again the boy knocked. Again there was no response. Gabriel watched and suffered with him until, at twenty past eight, the boy finally gave up and turned away.|The Mistletoe Murder|P.D. James|sfw @@ -2934,6 +2980,7 @@ 20:41|08:41|It’s 08:41 and I’m in Bed practicing. Ma’s filled a plastic bag with really hot water and tied it tight so none spills out, she puts it in another bag and ties that too.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 20:42|Eight forty-two|“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. Eight forty-two. Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”|The Edge of Lost|Kristina McMorris|sfw 20:42|8.42|The hand at this moment pointed to 8.42. The players took up their cards, but their eyes were constantly on the clock. One may safely say that, however secure they might feel, never had minutes seemed so long to them.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown +20:43|8:43|"Either way, he mustn’t be allowed to return to the White House.” The line went dead. Cavalli knew that his father was right on both counts. Cavalli checked his watch again: 8:43.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:43|20.43|I’ll tell you exactly what I want you to say when he phones back, but never forget that your first priority is to buy me as much time as possible. The SBS can’t make a move until after sunset, 20.43 local time, which isn’t’ – he checked his watch – ‘for another two hours and nineteen minutes.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:43|8.43|'8.43,' said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards placed before him by Gauthier Ralph. There was a moment's pause, during which the spacious room was perfectly silent.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 20:44|8.44!|The clock's pendulum beat every second with mathematical regularity, and each player could count every sixtieth of a minute as it struck his ear. "8.44!" said John Sullivan, in a voice that betrayed his emotion. Only one minute more and the wager would be won.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown @@ -3039,6 +3086,7 @@ 21:25|9:25 p.m.|9:25 p.m. Aargh. Suddenly main menu is on TV saying "Press 6." Oh dear. Realize was using telly remote control by mistake. Now news has come on.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 21:25|twenty-five past nine|This is the table on which Tom Tear will work if ever he becomes an architect. At that moment the table was horizontal and there was a clock on it, and an electric lamp which didn’t work, and a burning candle, and a radio with a plastic cabinet in which another clock was inlaid. Both clocks said twenty-five past nine.|Cain's Book|Alexander Trocchi|sfw 21:26|21.26|"The terrorists," he began, "crossed the border at 21.26 last night. Four passports were presented to the immigration officer for stamping. Three were of Swedish origin, and one was from Iraq."|Honour Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +21:27|9:27|“It must be some time since you’ve been shopping in Paris,” she had told him. “That’s just about enough for a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts.” Kratz had reluctantly handed over another five thousand francs.
At 9:27 the phone rang.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:27|nine-twenty-seven P.M.|The call came at nine-twenty-seven P.M., after dark had swept over most of the sky. There was still a narrow strip of washed-out blue along the western horizon, more like the memory of light, but it would soon be gone.|Purgatory Ridge|William Kent Krueger|sfw 21:28|9:28|From that moment on--9:28 in the evening, June 18, 1941--everything was different.|Everything is Illuminated|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 21:28|9:28|The call had been made at 9:28. This was one more piece of evidence, and an important one. It proved what they had suspected from the first: that the killer was in St. Anselm's.|Death in Holy Orders|P.D. James|sfw @@ -3061,6 +3109,7 @@ 21:35|nine thirty-five|The colonel ran to it, jumped in, and drove quickly down the ramp of the Royal Garden Hotel before turning left into Kensington Palace Gardens. Adam checked his watch: nine thirty-five.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:35|twenty-five to ten|Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only twenty-five to ten. It seemed that she had fed Fritzy double rations and left the house four years ago. Maybe five, She thought she heard an approaching engine, then decided she didn’t.|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|unknown 21:35|9.35 p.m.|The Sergeant jotted it down on a piece of paper. "That checks up with his own story: 9.35 p.m. Budd leaves; the North dame arrives."|A Blunt Instrument|Georgette Heyer|unknown +21:36|9:36|It was 9:36 and the traffic was now flowing smoothly. He walked over to the officer coordinating the shoot for the city’s motion picture and television office.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:36|9:36|My backpack was already packed, and I'd already gotten the other supplies together, like the altimeter and the granola bars and the Swiss army knife I'd dug up in Central Park, so there was nothing else to do. Mom tucked me in at 9:36.|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 21:37|21:37 hours|"What time last night did this happen?"
"We received the treble nine call at 21:37 hours," he answered, checking his notes.
"What made her look in? It's a terrace, was she passing the window?"|A Deviant Breed|Stephen Coill|sfw 21:38|nine thirty-eight|At nine thirty-eight the waiter came back and offered us a second helping of cheese, salami and sardines, and Mr Yoshogi who had been converting sterling into yen looked extremely puzzled and said he had no idea that British Honduras had so large an export trade|Pig and Pepper|David Footman|unknown @@ -3084,6 +3133,7 @@ 21:50|Nine-fifty|Nine-fifty the residents leave and the machinery hums up smooth again. The nurse watches the day room from her glass case; the scene before her takes on that blue-steel clarity again, that clean orderly movement of a cartoon comedy.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|unknown 21:50|Ten minutes to ten|Philip Lombard said:
“What’s the time now?”
“Ten minutes to ten, sir.”
Lombard’s eyebrows rose. He nodded slowly to himself.|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|unknown 21:50|ten minutes to ten|I passed out on to the road and saw by the lighted dial of a clock that it was ten minutes to ten. In front of me was a large building which displayed the magical name.|Dubliners|James Joyce|unknown +21:51|9:51|They paused in front of the great concrete blocks that had been built to house the Declaration of Independence, just as a priest might in front of an altar. Scott checked his watch. It was 9:51.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:51|9:51 P.M.|9:51 P.M.
. . . HELLO, SOHO. BLUEBIRD NEEDS A FAVOR. CAN YOU SWITCH ON THE SERVOS?|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:52|9:52 P.M.|9:52 P.M.
"Georges is a genius," she said, turning back, "but this may not actually be possible. Nobody's ever done it before."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown @@ -3135,6 +3185,7 @@ 22:06|after ten o'clock|Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. And then it was long after ten o'clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife. Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed.|The Dead|James Joyce|unknown 22:06|six minutes past ten|"Let me know as soon as you hear anything."
Quoyle shivered in the chilly kitchen. The clock said six minutes past ten. He could not hear the sea.|The Shipping News|Annie Proulx|sfw 22:06|22:06 CET|22:06 CET
William settled down on his bunk just after ten, but he didn't sleep. Some of the deckhands were playing cards, while others told unlikely tales of treasure they had recovered from the bottom of the ocean.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +22:07|10:07|“Follow the diversion sign,” he said, without even looking at her.
She glanced at the clock on her dashboard. It was 10:07.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:07|10:07 P.M.|10:07 P.M.
She felt the straps on the gurney loosening and then she started prying her eyes open. She thought, hoped, it was Stone, but she couldn't see well enough to be absolutely sure. Her mind and her vision were still overflowing with horrifying nightmares of time gone awry. What did all those bizarre dreams mean?|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw 22:08|eight minutes past ten|Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh turned from his inspection of the dead girl's clothes, his six feet two inches uncomfortably trapped between the foot of the bed and the wardrobe door. He looked at his watch. It was eight minutes past ten.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 22:08|ten eight|"My watch is always a little fast," I said. "What time do you make it now?"
"Ten eight."
"Ten eighteen by mine. You see."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown @@ -3198,6 +3249,7 @@ 22:37|10:37 p.m.|"At 10:37 p.m. that night a fireball rips through Obscurity, killing Cripps but not before he's called Goldilocks and left a message about something being 'full of holes.'"|The Fourth Bear|Jasper Fforde|sfw 22:38|22.38|Just a click as someone hung up the phone. It had been left at 22.38 the previous evening. Jack didn't have much doubt that it was someone checking to see if he was in.|The Kill Zone|Chris Ryan|sfw 22:39|10:39 P.M.|Sunday, April 5
10:39 P.M.
"I didn't know if I should have brought a bodyguard" he was saying as he strode in the door, a Master of the Universe with a leather jacket slung over his shoulder.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw +22:40|10:40|She climbed into bed at 10:40, but couldn’t sleep for more than an hour at a time. She occasionally flicked on the television to watch spaghetti Westerns dubbed into Lebanese.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:40|10:40|There, at 10:40, the plasma engines would ignite at full burn to start the rapid straight-line acceleration that would give them the ten-thousand-kilometers-an-hour speed needed to coast quickly along the Normal-Space tunnel linking the Gates.|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 22:40|ten-forty at night|“My friend,” she said with a pleased tone to her voice that she knew he could not mistake. She didn’t care, she was pleased to hear from him, even if it was ten-forty at night. “Where are you calling from?” she asked, expecting him to say Glasgow or Berlin.|It All Began in Monte Carlo|Elizabeth Adler|unknown 22:40|It’s twenty to eleven|When fifteen minutes have passed and the bogus DPW truck hasn’t returned, Billy decides they have either moved on to another part of the city, maybe to check out the house on Evergreen Street, or have gone back to the McMansion to await further orders from Nick. He closes the curtain, shutting out the view, and looks at his watch. It’s twenty to eleven. How time flies when you’re having fun, he thinks.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown From 332cc6a6af0ece6f1001c3cdef1476855d26a540 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:57:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 12/15] quotes from Sons of Fortune --- litclock_annotated.csv | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index d2c82bdc..464e19dc 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ 04:30|four thirty in the morning|“What time is it? Do you have time here?”
“Of course we do.” She pulled up her sleeve, revealing a yellow Timex wristwatch. “It is four thirty in the morning.”
“That’s a nice watch.”
“My father gave it to me,” she said happily.|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown 04:30|four thirty|At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. I was overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal, betrayal because a union in which I had invested so much had been declared bankrupt without my feeling it to be so. Chloe had not given it a chance, I argued with myself, knowing the hopelessness of these inner courts announcing hollow verdicts at four thirty in the morning.|Essays on Love|Alain de Botton|unknown 04:30|0430|Hester Thrale undulates in in a false fox jacket at 2330 as usual even though she has to be up at like 0430 for the breakfast shift at the Provident Nursing Home and sometimes eats breakfast with Gately, both their faces nodding perilously close to their Frosted Flakes.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown +04:31|4:31 A.M.|As Miss Nichol walked along the corridor, she checked her watch. It was 4:31 A.M. She took the stairs down to the fifth floor and made her way to the nursery.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 04:31|4:31|An earthquake hit Los Angeles at 4:31 this morning and the images began arriving via CNN right away.|Microserfs|Douglas Coupland|unknown 04:32|4:32 a.m.|On his first day of kindergarten, Peter Houghton woke up at 4:32 a.m. He padded into his parents' room and asked if it was time yet to take the school bus.|Nineteen Minutes|Jodi Picoult|unknown 04:33|04.33|When he heard the faint clunk of a steel gate closing behind them, he smiled in the darkness. They were out. He pressed a button on the watch and when the light showed him it was 04.33 his smile became a grin. No one had made it out of Greenacres for over a decade, which made Bishop's achievement that much sweeter. That was the kind of record he liked to beat.|The Wrong Man|Jason Dean|sfw @@ -657,6 +658,7 @@ 05:07|5.07|‘Was the time of that call recorded?’ demanded the Hawk.
‘Yes, sir. At 5.07. I called back just after nine and told Dr Redwood he could visit his patient in the prison hospital at his convenience, and carry out a full examination. He did so later that morning.’|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:07|seven minutes past five|"Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe," continued Poirot, with distaste, "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family."|The Clocks|Agatha Christie|unknown 05:08|5:08|Ambrose and I will marry at Fort McHenry at 5:08 EDST this coming Saturday, Rosh Hashanah!|Letters|John Barth|unknown +05:09|5:09|“You’ll have one by the side of your bed in a few years’ time, so you wouldn’t even need to go into your office,” said Su Ling, letting her head fall back on the pillow when she saw 5:09 flick up on the bedside clock.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 05:09|5:09|The primal flush of triumph which had saturated the American's humor on this signal success, proved but fictive and transitory when inquiry of the station attendants educed the information that the two earliest trains to be obtained were the 5:09 to Dunkerque and the 5:37 for Ostend.|The Black Bag|Louis Joseph Vance|unknown 05:10|ten minutes past five|"Oh, my husband, I have done the deed which will relieve you of the wife whom you hate! I have taken the poison--all of it that was left in the paper packet, which was the first that I found. If this is not enough to kill me, I have more left in the bottle. Ten minutes past five."|The Law and the Lady|Wilkie Collins|nsfw 05:10|ten after five|I settled into a daily routine. Wake up at 4:40 am, shower, get on the train north by ten after five.|Bossypants|Tina Fey|unknown @@ -1097,6 +1099,7 @@ 08:23|twenty-three minutes past eight|It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.|Around the World in Eighty Days|Jules Verne|unknown 08:23|8:23|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 08:24|8:24|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown +08:24|eight twenty-four|At eight twenty-four the senior partner walked in.
“I must apologize for keeping you away from your desks,” he began, “but this was not something that I felt could be covered by an internal memo, or slipped into my monthly report.”|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:25|8:25|There was one hell of a lot of things he was going to do next week. He glanced at his watch: 8:25. No Wheaties this morning.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 08:25|eight twenty-five|The twenty-five minutes from eight until eight twenty-five was the only time in which all the female suspects had been together, eating under the eye of Miss Collins and full in each other's gaze.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 08:25|Eight-twenty-five|Eight-twenty-five some Acute mentions he used to watch his sister taking her bath; the three guys at the table with him fall over each other to see who gets to write it in the log book.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw @@ -1403,6 +1406,7 @@ 09:58|two minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:58|two minutes to ten|At two minutes to ten, the two presented themselves at No. 10, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.|John Dene of Toronto|Herbert George Jenkins|sfw 09:58|around ten o'clock|I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. I felt pretty hungry as soon as I had a cigarette. The last time I'd eaten was those two hamburgers I had with Brossard and Ackley when we went in to Agerstown to the movies. That was a long time ago. It seemed like fifty years ago.|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|unknown +09:59|one minute to ten|Fletcher had looked around when Don Culver, the chief of police, and Detective Petrowski had taken their seats in the front row, directly behind the state’s attorney’s table. At one minute to ten, only thirteen seats remained unoccupied.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|moments before the clock struck ten|Harry took his place at a desk in the front row, and just moments before the clock struck ten, several masters in long black gowns and mortarboards swept in and placed examination papers on the desks in front of each candidate.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|one minute to ten|THE FRONT DOORBELL rang at one minute to ten, and Karl answered it.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|9:59|"I should have known," said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at 9:59.|Blood Stained|Gayl Siegel|sfw @@ -1935,6 +1939,7 @@ 13:08|1:08|The numbers on the clock changed silently, advanced to 1:08.|Replay|Kim Grimwood|unknown 13:08|13:08 GMT|13:08 GMT
Lamont and Jackie had joined the team in the canteen for lunch, where the babble of expectant chatter revealed how eager they all were to get on with the job.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:09|nine minutes past one|At nine minutes past one, a pair of horses approached (not from the city, from which direction Krieger had expected her to come, but from the Desert, which lay, vast and largely uncharted, out to the West and South-West of the city.)|Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium|Clive Barker|unknown +13:10|1:10|Thirty minutes later Fletcher passed Harry in the corridor on his way out, as Jimmy had insisted that, if they were still going to visit every counting house, then they had to leave by 1:10.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:10|ten minutes past one|It was at ten minutes past one by Bond’s watch when, at the high table, the whole pattern of play suddenly altered.|Casino Royale|Ian Fleming|unknown 13:10|1:10|He says something but I don’t hear it because I am looking at the South Haven Daily. Today is Saturday, October 23, 1993. Our wedding day. The clock above the cigarette rack says 1:10.
“Gotta run,” I say to the old man, and I do.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown 13:10|ten minutes past one|"It was ten minutes past one.”
“You are sure of that?"|Death on the Nile|Agatha Christie|unknown @@ -1942,6 +1947,7 @@ 13:12|twelve minutes past one|At twelve minutes past one the adjutant, Wilde, and myself sat down to lunch.
"The colonel said he wouldn't be late- but we needn't wait," said the adjutant.|Pushed and the Return Push|George Herbert Fosdike Nichols|sfw 13:13|thirteen minutes past one|"There it is! There it is!" shouted the Professor. "Now for the centre of the globe!" he added in Danish.
I looked at Hans. "Forüt!" was his tranquil answer.
"Forward!" replied my uncle. It was thirteen minutes past one.|Journey to the Centre of the Earth|Jules Verne|unknown 13:14|1:14 pm|Agent Brooks pulled out a small notepad and flipped to a page. "On September 26th at 1:14 pm Central Standard Time, Oakly Acadia Laveau's biological tracker registered an error code. Afterward, all biological activity ceased."|Extinction Island|Janice Boekhoff|sfw +13:15|1:15 P.M.|At 1:15 P.M. Fletcher glanced up at the receptionist, who looked apologetic and offered him a second coffee.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:15|One fifteen|I got up slowly and made my way down the hall.
“I’m 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨,” I hissed through the door. I squinted into the peephole: Reva looks bedraggled and deranged.
“Can I come in?” she asked. “I really need to talk.”
“Can I just call you later? What time is it?”
“One fifteen. I tried calling,” she said. “Here, the doorman sent up your mail. I need to talk. It’s serious.”|My Year of Rest and Relaxation|Ottessa Moshfegh|unknown 13:15|One hour and a quarter|"Monsieur has well slept this morning," he said, smiling.
"What o’clock is it, Victor?" asked Dorian Gray, sleepily.
"One hour and a quarter, monsieur."|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|unknown 13:15|one-fifteen|"Where are the ladies and gentlemen?" asked Aleyn.
"Sir, in the garden", said Bunce.
"What time's lunch?"
"One-fifteen."|A Man Lay Dead|Ngaio Marsh|unknown @@ -1974,6 +1980,7 @@ 13:32|one ... thirty-two|At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty-two ... and twenty seconds. 'Beep ... beep ... beep.' Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 13:33|one ... thirty-three|He waited for the green light to show and then opened the door again on to the now empty cargo hold.'... one ... thirty-three ... and fifty seconds.' Very nice.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 13:34|one ... thirty-four|"At the third stroke it will be ..."
He tiptoed out and returned to the control cabin.
"... one ... thirty-four and twenty seconds."
The voice sounded as clear as if he was hearing it over a phone in London, which he wasn't, not by a long way.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown +13:35|1:35 P.M.|Fletcher checked his watch again. It was 1:35 P.M. He sighed and asked the receptionist if he could use the washroom.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 13:35|1:35 P.M.|1:35 P.M.
Katelyn stood in the hallway, her hands on her hips, enjoying the hell out of the moment. “So I see how it is,” she said. “Your cousin can visit during finals week but my sister can’t.”|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|nsfw 13:37|1.37 pm|He had not dared to sleep in his rented car—you didn't sleep in your car when you worked for Jesus Castro—and he was beginning to hallucinate. Still, he was on the job, and he scribbled in his notebook: 1.37 pm Subject appears to be getting laid.|Light House|William Monahan|nsfw 13:38|13:38|According to the digital readout inside my helmet, it was only 13:38 LT. The news that I wouldn't have to devote another three hours to painstaking cleanup should have cheered me considerably; instead, it rendered me about twenty times more suspicious.|Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's|Adam-Troy Castro|sfw @@ -2184,6 +2191,7 @@ 15:00|three o'clock|Today was the day Alex had appointed for her 'punishment'. I became increasingly nervous as the hour of three o'clock approached. I was alone in the house, and paced restlessly from room to room, glancing at the clocks in each of them.|Deaf Sentence|David Lodge|unknown 15:01|about three|The sun was now setting. It was about three in the afternoon when Alisande had begun to tell me who the cowboys were; so she had made pretty good progress with it - for her. She would arrive some time or other, no doubt, but she was not a person who could be hurried.|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court|Mark Twain|unknown 15:01|one minute past three|"There'll be twenty pallets' worth by three o'clock tomorrow, see," comes a man's voice from the office down the hall, "and if your truck isn't here at one minute past three, then the lot'll be going to the Fine Fare depot in Aylesford."|The Bone Clocks|David Mitchell|sfw +15:01|one minute past three|It was one minute past three. As he walked, he became aware of the echoing sound his feet made on the marble floor. It was then that he heard a voice say, “Do you wish to confess, my son?”|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:02|two minutes past three|But after months of checking and rechecking, Joseph Ricardo, of mixed race, born illegitimately in a Buenos Aires hospital at two minutes past three Western time on 19 October 1995, had officially been recognized.|The Children of Men|P.D. James|sfw 15:03|3.03 pm|I check Shingi's mobile phone - it says it's 3.03 pm. I get out of bed, open my suitcase to take clean socks out and the smell of Mother hit my nose and make me feel dizzy.|Harare North|Brian Chikwava|unknown 15:04|3:04 P.M.|He checked his watch: 3:04 P.M. He banged on the door again, but still no one responded. Surely they would not deny him entry when he was only a couple of minutes late?|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2404,6 +2412,7 @@ 16:35|4.35|The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the 4.35 from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.|4.50 from Paddington|Agatha Christie|unknown 16:36|thirty-six minutes past four|They watched their friend through the glass cover; the heaving of the chest became less and less, the breathing lower and lower, while a purple hue settled upon his body. At thirty-six minutes past four, the last division of the wheel had been reached.|A.D. 2000|Alvarado M. Fuller|sfw 16:36|after four-thirty|It was after four-thirty when they arrived at the old Red Bull Playhouse in upper St. John Street, and the performance had been under way for more than an hour. The theatre was hot and stuffy, almost humid, and it smelt strongly of sweat and unwashed bodies and powerful perfumes.|Forever Amber|Kathleen Windsor|unknown +16:37|4:37|Susan had delivered two boys, Nat at 4:37 and Peter at 4:43 that afternoon. For the next hour, the parents took turns cuddling them, until Dr. Greenwood suggested that perhaps mother and babies should be allowed to rest.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:37|4:37|She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.|Never Stop on the Motorway|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:37|4:37|Rorschach’s journal: Slept all day. Awoken at 4:37. Landlady complaining about smell.|Watchmen|Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|unknown 16:37|1637|She should have been home by now. 1637. Yes. It's as if I had the date of a year on my arm. Every day is a piece of world history.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown @@ -2415,6 +2424,7 @@ 16:41|just after 4:40|It was just after 4:40 on Wednesday afternoon. At the back of the newsroom was Graham's office, up several steps from the bullpen area that ran from the front door back to the office. Graham was at his desk trying to hammer out an editorial on his computer, but he was distracted by the television coverage of President Elizabeth Sanderski's funeral.|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw 16:42|4:42 p.m.|In a dream Seymour walks beneath trees towards a cluster of white tents, but every time he takes step forward, the trail twists and the tents recede, and a terrible confusion presses down on him. He wakes with a start. The dashboard clock says 4:42 p.m. How long did he sleep?|Cloud Cuckoo Land|Anthony Doerr|unknown 16:42|4:42 pm|I'm always happy when I reach the finish line of a long-distance race, but this time it really struck me hard. I pumped my right fist into the air. The time was 4:42 pm. Eleven hours and forty-two minutes since the start of the race.|What I Talk About When I Talk About Running|Haruki Murakami|unknown +16:43|4:43|Susan had delivered two boys, Nat at 4:37 and Peter at 4:43 that afternoon. For the next hour, the parents took turns cuddling them, until Dr. Greenwood suggested that perhaps mother and babies should be allowed to rest.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:43|4:43 p.m.|The only car in the gravel parking lot to the west is Marian the Librarian’s Subaru, humped with snow. 4:43 p.m.|Cloud Cuckoo Land|Anthony Doerr|unknown 16:43|4:43 P.M.|The deputies huddled in the lee of the Land Cruiser while Cork briefed them. Oren Esterville had called the sheriff's office at 4:43 P.M. to report his wife missing.|Corpus Delicti|William Kent Krueger|sfw 16:44|sixteen minutes to five|At sixteen minutes to five Mr. Beveridge stood by the side of Clankwood Avenue, comfortably wrapped in Dr. Escott's fur coat, and smoking with the greatest relish one of Dr. Escott's undeniable cigars.|The Lunatic at Large|J. Storer Clouston|sfw @@ -2424,6 +2434,7 @@ 16:46|4:46|At 4:46 an obese, middle-aged man shuffled in. Wearing a starched guayabera and dark green pants, Ureña asked for a book on confectionery, then took a seat at the end of the same reading room. Evelina and Leticia exchanged astonished glances. It definitely was one of those days.|The Havana World Series|José Latour|unknown 16:47|4:47|But maybe it was more than that, maybe Affenlight had erred badly somehow, because here it was 4:49 by his watch, 4:47 by the wall clock, and Owen had not yet come.|The Art of Fielding|Chad Harbach|unknown 16:48|four forty-eight|By four forty-eight the five-man team had her back again and the urgent struggle to save Ellen's life continued. She'd now been undergoing surgery for the best part of two hours, and it was doubtful her body could sustain much more trauma.|Taking Chances|Susan Lewis|sfw +16:49|4:49 P.M.|Within weeks Tom was on the 4:49 P.M. train to New York every Friday afternoon, returning to Hartford on Monday morning. Su Ling kept asking for progress reports, but Nat seemed unusually ill-informed.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:49|4:49 p.m.|4:49 p.m., a bald-headed man wearing khakis and ankle-high deck shoes came out through the front door of the purple house on 21st Avenue East. The detectives had nicknamed him the General.|Beyond Recognition|Ridley Pearson|unknown 16:50|4.50|"The train standing at Platform 3," the Voice told her, "is the 4.50 for Brackhampton, Milchester, Waverton, Carvil Junction, Roxeter and stations to Chadmouth. Passengers for Brackhampton and Milchester travel at the rear of the train. Passengers for Vanequay change at Roxeter." The voice shut itself off with a click.|4.50 from Paddington|Agatha Christie|unknown 16:50|ten minutes to five|They had all frozen at the same time, on a snowy night, seven years before, and after that it was always ten minutes to five in the castle.|The 13 Clocks|James Thurber|unknown @@ -2613,6 +2624,8 @@ 18:00|six o'clock|The newspaper snaked through the door and there was suddenly a six o'clock feeling in the house|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie|Muriel Spark|unknown 18:00|six o'clock|The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock.|Preludes|T.S. Eliot|unknown 18:00|six|When the bells of Calvary Church struck six, she saw Mr. and Mrs. Biggs hurrying down the front stoop, rushing off to the shops before they closed.|The Interpretation Of Murder|Jed Rubenfeld|unknown +18:01|one minute past six|At one minute past six, he turned to Tom and said, “Hi, I’m Nat Cartwright and…”|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +18:01|one minute past six|“No one stops, even to draw breath, until one minute past six when the last vote will have been cast."|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:01|one minute past six|David had followed me at one minute past six. Then three others had managed to get away, making it five altogether. But as the sixth Hurricane was gathering speed for lift-off, a swarm of Messerschmitts had come swooping in over the olive trees.|Going Solo|Roald Dahl|sfw 18:02|6:02 p.m.|"Incidentally, confirmed by a record of a small and poorly defined shallow-focus earthquake around two hundred and fifty kilometers north of Herrandown at 6:02 p.m. But there is a major problem." |The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|sfw 18:03|6:03|Jarrod stared at the clock on his computer. It said 6:03. Outside his office window it was dark. It felt as if someone had sucked all the oxygen from the room and he took an extra breath before responding.|All the Little Pieces|Jilliane Hoffman|unknown @@ -2627,6 +2640,7 @@ 18:09|nine minutes past six|Here I am, at nine minutes past six on a drizzly Saturday evening, with every intention of writing a book in one sitting.|Life With No Breaks|Nick Spalding|sfw 18:10|six ten|"Let me see now. You had a drink at the Continental at six ten."
"Yes."
"And at six forty-five you were talking to another journalist at the door of the Majestic?"
"Yes, Wilkins. I told you all this, Vigot, before. That night."|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|unknown 18:11|eleven minutes past six|The first explosion occurred at eleven minutes past six. The chart-house and part of the bridge were blown to pieces. Three dull, splintering crashes ensued in rapid succession, proving beyond question that the bombs were set to automatically explode at a given time.|West Wind Drift|George Barr McCutcheon|sfw +18:12|6:12|Bill Russell left the office at 6:12 that evening, and never entered the building again.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:12|6:12 p.m.|He checked his watch: 6:12 p.m. He left the dining room and went downstairs to the wine cellar. A single bulb lit a room that had once stored filing cabinets full of archives. Since Giles’s arrival, they had been replaced by wine racks.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 18:12|6:12 P.M.|Wednesday 6:12 P.M.
The dusk was settling majestically over Tokyo, after a rare smogless day. The view was particularly inspiring from the fifty-fifth-floor penthouse of the granite-clad Mino Industries building.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 18:12|06:12|At 06:12 Noreen brings another whole tray that’s dinner, we can have dinner at five something or six something or even seven something, Ma says.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown @@ -2852,6 +2866,7 @@ 19:50|ten minutes to eight|Everything was arranged for them. A real limousine came at ten minutes to eight and took them to the theater. It drew up under the marquee at exactly the right time, after the big stars and the director and the author and the governor and the mayor and some less important stars.|A Late Encounter with the Enemy|Flannery O'Connor|unknown 19:50|ten minutes to eight|The hands of the clock in the middle of the wall were pointing to ten minutes to eight. The cafe closed at eight.|Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|unknown 19:50|ten to eight|At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown +19:51|7:51|Annie somehow managed to shower and change into a cocktail dress, while Fletcher paced around the room looking at his watch every few moments. He opened the cab door for his wife at 7:51.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:51|7:51|The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:51|nearly eight|He waited until nearly eight, because around seven there were always more people coming in and out of the house than at other times. At ten to eight, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car, though he had gone down in the middle of the afternoon to look at the car and see if it was Freddie's.|The Talented Mr. Ripley|Patricia Highsmith|unknown 19:52|7:52 P.M.|7:52 P.M.
Vance pulled himself across the planking and stretched for a box of gear stowed beneath the stern platform. In it was a constant traveling companion: his chrome-handled 9mm Walther. Although the concept of downing a Hind gunship with small-arms fire had been tested in Afghanistan and found wanting, he was so angry his better judgment was not fully in play.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|unknown From aef799790975dc1642a4331cbf50de1d01b29a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:59:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 13/15] more Jeffrey Archer quotes --- litclock_annotated.csv | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 464e19dc..0f560af1 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ 00:20|twelve-twenty|When the police arrived at twelve-twenty they found Mrs. O'Keefe lying on a single divan in her front sitting-room, practically naked.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|nsfw 00:20|twelve twenty|“But by the time he reached the top of the hill the woman’s body had basically been eaten up already by the flies, right?” my friend said.
“In a sense,” his girlfriend replied.
“In a sense being eaten by the flies makes it a sad story, doesn’t it?” my friend said.
“Yes, I guess so,” she said after giving it some thought. “What do you think?” she asked me.
“Sounds like a sad story to me,” I replied.
It was twelve twenty when my cousin came back.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 00:20|twelve-twenty|Now she was kneading the little ball of hot paste on the convex margin of the bowl and I could smell the opium. There is no smell like it. Beside the bed the alarm-clock showed twelve-twenty, but already my tension was over. Pyle had diminished.|The Quiet American|Graham Greene|nsfw +00:21|12:21|The aircraft took off at 12:21, and while the rest of the family dozed, Sasha went over the speech he would deliver on arrival at the airport. He also needed to prepare a eulogy for his uncle’s funeral, but that would have to wait until they checked into their hotel.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 00:21|12:21 A.M.|12:21 A.M.
Uh-oh. Vance felt the tracks suddenly shiver. Then with what sounded like a painful grind of metal on metal, the gantry started moving again. They'd decided to override the safety shutoff.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 00:21|12.21 am|Nobody had been one of Mycroft Ward's most important operatives and for sixty seconds every day, between 12.21 am and 12.22 am., his laptop was permitted to connect directly with the gigantic online database of self that was Mycroft Ward's mind.|The Raw Shark Texts|Steven Hall|unknown 00:22|12.22 am|Nobody had been one of Mycroft Ward's most important operatives and for sixty seconds every day, between 12.21 am and 12.22 am., his laptop was permitted to connect directly with the gigantic online database of self that was Mycroft Ward's mind.|The Raw Shark Texts|Steven Hall|unknown @@ -366,6 +367,7 @@ 02:46|two forty-six|Vicki shoved her glasses at her face and peered at the clock. Two forty-six. 'I don't have time for this' she muttered, settling back against the pillows, heart still slamming against her ribs.|Blood Lines|Tanya Huff|unknown 02:47|2.47 am|The glowing numbers read 2.47 am. Moisés sighs and turns back to the bathroom door. Finally, the doorknob turns and Conchita comes back to bed. She resumes her place next to Moisés. Relieved, he pulls her close.|The Book of Want|Daniel A. Olivas|unknown 02:48|twelve minutes to three|And you keep quiet, Betty. There may be trouble. He almost pushed her off the desk toward Max. A second later he had darkened the room by flicking the switch by the foyer door. Through the door, the clock showed twelve minutes to three.|Blind Allies|Baynard Kendrick|sfw +02:49|2:49 a.m.|At 2:49 a.m., the town clerk walked back to the microphone and tapped it once again. The momentary silence was broken only by a pencil falling off a table and rolling across the floor.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 02:50|2:50|When it was 2:50 and the bank, too, had not been attacked, it was clear this was not the day of the big coup.|The Locked Room|Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö|unknown 02:51|2:51 A.M.|Thursday 2:51 A.M.
A very wet, very annoyed Michael Vance rapped on the door of Zeno Stantopoulos's darkened kafeneion. He'd walked the lonely back road into Iraklion in the dark, guiding himself by the rain-battered groves of plane trees, olive, and wild pear, trying to figure out what in hell was happening.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 02:52|eight minutes to three in the morning|It was an impulse, born of aloneness. It was eight minutes to three in the morning, Sunday morning.|A Song in the Morning|Gerald Seymour|sfw @@ -437,6 +439,7 @@ 03:05|three-oh-five|"Five minutes ago it was three o'clock," Murphy said. "I can't be certain, but I theorize that it must now be about three-oh-five."
I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw 03:05|3:05 a.m.|On the Sunday before Christmas she awoke at 3:05 a.m. and thought: Thirty-six hours. Four hours later she got up thinking: Thirty-two hours. Late in the day she took Alfred to the street-association Christmas party at Dale and Honey Driblett’s, sat him down safely with Kirby Root, and proceeded to remind all her neighbors that her favorite grandson, who’d been looking forward all year to a Christmas in St. Jude, was arriving tomorrow afternoon.|The Corrections|Jonathan Franzen|unknown 03:06|3.06 AM|3.06 AM
"Here," said Miss Pettigrew in a tiny voice. Joe loomed above her. He said no word, but his arm went through hers with that glorious, proprietary, warding male attentiveness never hitherto experienced by Miss Pettigrew. She simply leaned on him weakly.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|sfw +03:07|3:07|He glanced at his watch: 3:07. Surely it couldn’t be Fiona? He dragged himself out of bed, put on his dressing gown, and reluctantly padded across to the door.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:07|3.07 am|Wayne late-logged in: 3.07 am -the late-late show. He parked. He dumped his milk can. He yawned, he stretched. He scratched.|The Cold Six Thousand|James Ellroy|unknown 03:08|eight minutes past three|The mist was thinning now and he could just discern the Grange itself - a substantial, dark shadow marked by blurs of lights from the windows. His watch showed that it was eight minutes past three. So they would all be closeted now in solitary meditation waiting for the four o'clock summons to announce their final votes.|The Black Tower|P.D. James|sfw 03:09|nine past three|Hall looked at his Rolex and it was nine past three, and yet no cuckoos had announced the hour, not one. How long had this been going on, or not going on?|The Road to Ruin|Donald E. Westlake|sfw @@ -468,6 +471,7 @@ 03:23|twenty-three minutes past three|It is twenty-three minutes past three, and his plane leaves at eight A.M.|Candyland|Evan Hunter and Ed McBain|sfw 03:25|3:25 a.m.|It was 3:25 a.m. A strange thrill, to think I was the only Mulvaney awake in the house.|We Were the Mulvaneys|Joyce Carol Oates|unknown 03:26|03:26|Sinking down heavily on the edge of his unmade bed with his head in his hands, Sam raked his fingers through the messy spikes of his hair before casting a glance at the digital clock on the nightstand. Its little red numbers flashed 03:26 and he heaved a sigh.|Ink|Torrie McLean|sfw +03:27|3:27 a.m.|At 3:27 a.m., he called for silence again. “I, Leonard Derek Hardy, being the returning officer…” Heads were bowed, eyes were closed, while some of those present turned away, unable even to face the stage as they crossed their fingers and waited for the numbers to be read out.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 03:27|twenty-seven minutes past three|With the Ranger at their head, they went out of town at a fast trot. If there had been anybody there to notice it, he would have seen that the clock on the wall at the Bird Cage registered the time as twenty-seven minutes past three.|Oh, You Tex!|William MacLeod Raine|sfw 03:28|3.28|Now somebody was running past his room. A door slammed. That foreign language again. What the devil was going on? he switched on his light and peered at his watch. 3.28. He got out of bed.|Dreams of Leaving|Rupert Thomson|unknown 03:29|03.29|"Only a message from the CIU. They got the billing on Difford's mobile. The last call was to another mobile at 03.29 on Sunday morning. Since then no one's used it."|Borrowed Light|Graham Hurley|sfw @@ -848,6 +852,7 @@ 06:50|six fifty|That night I lay in my jangling single bed across from Sammy’s and I watched him sleep, and then I stared at the ceiling. I got up and took a blanket and went and made a cup of tea, and lay on the sofa and tried to read one of the wrinkled paperbacks. I blinked my way through a hallucinatory half chapter, set it aside and closed my eyes. I woke and it was six fifty, and I winced my way upstairs and lay down in my bed, to be there when Sammy woke up again.|The Body Lies|Jo Baker|unknown 06:50|six-fifty|Will, my fiancé, was coming from Boston on the six-fifty train - the dawn train, the only train that still stopped in the small Ohio city where I lived.|Pretty Ice|Mary Robison|unknown 06:51|6.51 a.m.|Moon Hartnell opened her eyes and reached for her phone. The screen said 6.51 a.m. on 14 February, Valentine's Day. Most mornings, she would stay in bed until her alarm went off. Usually for a while after that, too - as long as it took Mum to bang on her door.|Kill Your Brother|Jack Heath|unknown +06:52|6:52|Sasha and Charlie caught the 6:52 from Victoria to Merrifield the following morning, and arrived at the local Labour Party headquarters just before 8 a.m.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:52|06.52|Having lied to Mum, I realised that my only option was to take the 06.52 to London as if I hadn't been dismissed at all.|The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone|Will Storr|sfw 06:53|seven minutes to seven|So that was the key to asking my questions, to wait exactly 77 minutes before seven minutes to seven and I would then get my answer.|The Quarter Moon|Stephanie Hudson|sfw 06:54|six minutes before seven in the morning|And to see if maybe - just maybe - she might have answered him, even though it was now six minutes before seven in the morning.|Her Billionaires|Julia Kent|sfw @@ -997,6 +1002,7 @@ 07:55|7:55|Over breakfast, they discussed anything but work, a golden rule, before heading off together for the commander’s morning briefing. They were all seated around the boss’s table by 7:55, waiting for the Hawk to open proceedings.|Turn a Blind Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:55|five minutes to eight|At five minutes to eight, the Prime Minister emerged from Wilson’s office, followed by Halifax and Cadogan. Wilson was the last to appear. He looked irritated. Legat guessed he must have had a further argument with Cadogan.|Munich|Robert Harris|unknown 07:55|7.55|at 7.55 this morning the circus ran away to join me.|Tightrope, from Selected Poems 1967-1987|Roger McGough|unknown +07:56|7:56|Sebastian was putting on his jacket and heading for the door when the phone rang for a third time. He looked at his watch, 7:56, and thought about ignoring it, but turned back, grabbed the phone, and said, “I haven’t got time, Mother.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:56|7:56|At 7:56, Anna closed the Wentworth file and bent down to opent the bottom drawer of her desk. She slipped off her sneakers and replaced them with a pair of high-heeled shoes. She rose from her chair, gathered up the files, and glanced in the mirror - not a hair out of place.|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 07:56|just before 8:00 a.m.|Bursting in unannounced just before 8:00 a.m., Eric Snow slapped the Examiner onto his associate pastor's desk. Art ignored the paper and instead made eye contact with his boss, offering him a transparently insincere grin.|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw 07:56|seven fifty-six|I sit by the window, crunching toast, sipping coffee, and leafing through the paper in a leisurely way. At last, after devouring three slices, two cups of coffee, and all the Saturday sections, I stretch my arms in a big yawn and glance at the clock. I don't believe it. It's only seven fifty-six.|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown @@ -1100,6 +1106,7 @@ 08:23|8:23|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 08:24|8:24|At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.|The Princess Bride|William Goldman|unknown 08:24|eight twenty-four|At eight twenty-four the senior partner walked in.
“I must apologize for keeping you away from your desks,” he began, “but this was not something that I felt could be covered by an internal memo, or slipped into my monthly report.”|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +08:24|8:24 a.m.|Alex checked his watch as the waitress returned with his order: 8:24 a.m. He planned to enter the building for the first time at 8:55. He looked around the diner and wondered how many of the other customers worked at the bank, and were aware that their new chairman was sitting in one of the booths.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:25|8:25|There was one hell of a lot of things he was going to do next week. He glanced at his watch: 8:25. No Wheaties this morning.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw 08:25|eight twenty-five|The twenty-five minutes from eight until eight twenty-five was the only time in which all the female suspects had been together, eating under the eye of Miss Collins and full in each other's gaze.|Shroud for a Nightingale|P.D. James|sfw 08:25|Eight-twenty-five|Eight-twenty-five some Acute mentions he used to watch his sister taking her bath; the three guys at the table with him fall over each other to see who gets to write it in the log book.|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest|Ken Kesey|nsfw @@ -1181,6 +1188,7 @@ 08:51|8.51 a.m.|8.51 a.m. Arrive at school|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 08:52|8.52 am|Message one. Tuesday, 8.52 am. Is anybody there? Hello?|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|Jonathan Safran Foer|unknown 08:53|8:53 A.M.|Friday 8:53 A.M.
Vance stared at the small army facing him, including Tanzan Mino and his two pilots. This definitely was not the drill. Something had gone very, very wrong. Had some of the Soviet ground crews lost their nerve and talked? Whatever had happened, things were headed off the track.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw +08:54|8:54 a.m.|He had to fork out almost a pound on a taxi to make sure he arrived at the police station at 8:54 a.m. A young constable took him straight through to Detective Sergeant Warwick’s office, and not an interview room.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:54|08.54|"Are you aware that at 08.54 Carthedian standard time yesterday, a report was received from Captain J.L. Gafeska of the cargo ship Axious that the occupants of charter ship KS55NZ/4 were found dead aboard said charter ship?"|Doctor Who: The Dalek Generation|Nicholas Briggs|sfw 08:55|8.55|But it was 8.55 before the telephone rang and he heard the expected voice. Caroline sounded perfectly calm; only the words were urgent.
"I have to see you. Now. Can you get away?"|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw 08:55|five minutes to nine|She arrived at five minutes to nine and stood dripping in his aunts’ hall, a tubular bundle of baby-blue plastic from which nothing showed but her face. She was holding a damp paper sack and her large mouth was twisted in an uncertain smile. Overnight she had apparently lost some of her self-assurance.|The Partridge Festival|Flannery O'Connor|unknown @@ -1196,6 +1204,7 @@ 08:57|08:57|She points up at Watch that says 08:57, that’s only three minutes before nine. So I run into Wardrobe and lie down on my pillow and wrap up in Blanket that’s all grey and fleecy with the red piping.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 08:57|three minutes before nine|You'll have to hurry. Many a long year before that, in one of the bygone centuries, a worthy citizen of Wrychester, Martin by name, had left a sum of money to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral on condition that as long as ever the Cathedral stood, they should cause to be rung a bell from its smaller bell-tower for three minutes before nine o'clock every morning, all the year round.|The Paradise Mystery|J.S. Fletcher|unknown 08:58|two minutes of nine|It was two minutes of nine now - two minutes before the bombs were set to explode - and three or four people were gathered in front of the bank waiting for it to open.|The Getaway|Jim Thompson|unknown +08:59|one minute to|“The Goodwill store opens at nine,” said Dimitri. “We must be waiting outside at one minute to.”|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:59|8:59|He would then take a hackney carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and arrive in the Foreign Office at promptly 8:59, returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.|The Chinese Statue|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 08:59|8:59|She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alberto's conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep. The reading lamp by the bed had been on all night. The green glowing digits on her desk alarm clock showed 8:59.|Sophie's World|Jostein Gaarder|unknown 09:00|nine|No trace of Inge was found that day or night. For some the search went on all night long. Then, about nine the next morning, the bells in the belfry of Zion Church began to ring wildly.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|sfw @@ -1390,7 +1399,7 @@ 09:52|eight minutes to ten|With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at 9:25 that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly eight minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown 09:53|seven minutes to ten|Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare, but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions, and at seven minutes to ten precisely she was outside her destination.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown -09:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw +09:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:54|9:54|9:54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton, and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it?|The Undomestic Goddess|Sophie Kinsella|unknown 09:54|six minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:55|five to ten|Leave your room at five to ten, join the orchestra in the lobby, and then make your way to the front door, where you’ll find their coach parked.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -1406,6 +1415,7 @@ 09:58|two minutes to ten|The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:58|two minutes to ten|At two minutes to ten, the two presented themselves at No. 10, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.|John Dene of Toronto|Herbert George Jenkins|sfw 09:58|around ten o'clock|I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. I felt pretty hungry as soon as I had a cigarette. The last time I'd eaten was those two hamburgers I had with Brossard and Ackley when we went in to Agerstown to the movies. That was a long time ago. It seemed like fifty years ago.|Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|unknown +09:59|one minute to ten|Alex was standing outside the principal’s office at one minute to ten, having already been to the market at four that morning, and done an hour’s work on the stall before Bernie took over at eight.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|one minute to ten|Fletcher had looked around when Don Culver, the chief of police, and Detective Petrowski had taken their seats in the front row, directly behind the state’s attorney’s table. At one minute to ten, only thirteen seats remained unoccupied.|Sons of Fortune|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|moments before the clock struck ten|Harry took his place at a desk in the front row, and just moments before the clock struck ten, several masters in long black gowns and mortarboards swept in and placed examination papers on the desks in front of each candidate.|Only Time Will Tell|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 09:59|one minute to ten|THE FRONT DOORBELL rang at one minute to ten, and Karl answered it.|Best Kept Secret|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2056,7 +2066,7 @@ 14:10|2:10 P.M.|He arrived at her house at 2:10 P.M., two videotapes in one hand, and a single bag of uncooked microwave popcorn in the other.|Reprieve|James Han Mattson|unknown 14:10|ten past two|Mrs. Eunice Harris pulls back the sleeve of her good coat and checks her good watch. "Indeed yes. Half twelve," and waves a hand at the Town Hall clock as if it was hers. "Always ten past two. Someone put a nail in the time years back."|The Coward's Tale|Vanessa Gebbie|unknown 14:11|two-eleven P.M.|The phone machine announced in an electronic voice, "You have one message, at two-eleven P.M."
Then an unctuous male voice came on. "Kirby, we know you're there. You're still in treatment. You shouldn't be wandering around unsupervised. It's a lot better, a lot safer, for you to stay with us now."|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw -14:12|twelve minutes past two|However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime?
At twelve minutes past two, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw +14:12|twelve minutes past two|However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime?
At twelve minutes past two, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 14:13|two ... thirteen|At the third stroke, it will be two ... thirteen ... and fifty seconds.|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|unknown 14:14|fourteen minutes past two o'clock|The clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.|Barn Burning|William Faulkner|sfw 14:15|2:15 P.M.|2:15 P.M.
Mark finished his lunch. Two other men finished their sandwiches and also rose to leave. Mark quickly returned to the Senate, as he wanted to catch Henry Lykham before the floor debate started.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2204,6 +2214,7 @@ 15:07|seven minutes past three|The next day was grey, threatening rain. He was there at seven minutes past three. The clock on the church over the way pointed to it. They had arranged to be there at three fifteen. Therefore, if she had been there when he came, she would have been eight minutes before her time.|Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky|Patrick Hamilton|unknown 15:08|eight minutes past three|The mist was thinning now and he could just discern the Grange itself - a substantial, dark shadow marked by blurs of lights from the windows. His watch showed that it was eight minutes past three. So they would all be closeted now in solitary meditation waiting for the four o'clock summons to announce their final votes.|The Black Tower|P.D. James|sfw 15:08|3 hr 8 m p.m.|A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr 8 m p.m. at Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m.|Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown +15:09|3:09|“And now I must dash, Seb. I’m off to see my mother in Yorkshire, and if I don’t leave immediately I’ll miss the 3:09 to Huddersfield. Do give your mother my kindest regards and wish her luck for the trial.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:09|3.09|On the next day he boarded the London train which reaches Hull at 3.09. At Paragon Station he soon singled out Beamish from Merriman's description.|The Pit-Prop Syndicate|Freeman Wills Crofts|unknown 15:10|ten after three|It was ten after three when Miles drove into the park. He saw the Binghams' black GMC pickup standing next to the pump. He pulled up beside it and almost before he came to a stop Beverly opened the door and got into the front seat with him. He thought at first that she had been crying, but what he took to be tears on her cheeks were raindrops.|Staggerford|Jon Hassler|unknown 15:10|3:10 p.m.|At 3:10 p.m., the restaurant was still about two hours from opening, which was how Randy liked it for their visits. As they passed by the wooden benches and coat racks in the lobby, Eva liked to stop and look at a sepia-toned portrait of the owners, Jack Dougherty and Ishmael Mendoza, and a framed “Story of Lulu’s” that was meant to help pass the time for customers willing to tolerate a substantial wait.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown @@ -2256,6 +2267,7 @@ 15:33|3:33 PM|Jon stepped out of the Peugeot and headed inside the Shrine of the Book, his heart throbbing a pulse he could feel down to his fingertips. A walk down the ramp brought him to the office of the director, Dov Sonnenfeld. He looked at his watch: 3:33 PM.|A Skeleton in God's Closet|Paul L. Maier|unknown 15:33|three thirty-three|I picked up my briefcase, glancing at my watch again as I did so. Three thirty-three.|11/22/63|Stephen King|unknown 15:34|15:34|It was 15:34 now and the sleepiness felt like lead inside him.|Devil's Peak|Deon Meyer|sfw +15:35|3:35|Sasha was sitting in the corner of the railway carriage when the 3:35 shunted out of Southampton station on its way to London. He stared out of the window but didn’t speak, because his mind was far away in his homeland. He was beginning to wonder if they’d made a terrible mistake.|Heads You Win|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:35|three-thirty-five|By three-thirty-five business really winds down. I have already sold my ladderback chairs and my Scottish cardigans. I'm not even sure now why I've sold all these things, except perhaps so as not to be left out of this giant insult to one's life that is a yard sale, this general project of getting rid quick.|Anagrams|Lorrie Moore|unknown 15:35|3:35 P.M.|If Me flashed a little crazy after a restless night of smoking & prowling the darkened house with owl-eyes alert to suspicious noises outside & on the roof, it didn’t inevitably mean she’d still be in such a state when the schoolbus deposited Wolfie back home at 3:35 P.M.|I Am No One You Know: Stories|Joyce Carol Oates|unknown 15:36|3:36 P.M.|A strange thought crossed his mind. He must remember to tell Clare that the top of Everest was about the same size as their dining-room table. George checked his watch: 3:36 P.M.|Paths of Glory|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2384,6 +2396,7 @@ 16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit From the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown 16:23|16:23 CET|16:23 CET
After stowing their bags in the sleeping quarters below, the two new itinerant deckhands reported for duty on the main deck.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:24|4:24|Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was 4:24. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.|Teardrop|Travis Thrasher|unknown +16:25|4:25|He jumped off at St. Paul’s and, although he walked slowly, he was standing outside Kaufman’s bank on Cheapside by 4:25.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:25|4:25 P.M.|“You will appear a few minutes after 4:20, Jean-Pierre, and then you, James, about 4:25 P.M. But keep exactly to the same routine, act as if the meeting had taken place, as originally planned, at the Garden Party and we had all walked over to the Clarendon together.”|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:25|4:25 p.m.|I groan audibly. It’s 4:25 p.m. — I can sneak out and say I didn’t see the email.|The Girl I Was|Jenneva Rose|sfw 16:26|twenty-six minutes after four|It seemed all wrong to have thought of such a thing. She thought, "I don't know him. Nor does he know me. Nor ever shall we.” She put her bare hand in the sun, where the wind would weather it. It was twenty-six minutes after four.|Catch-As-Catch-Can|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown @@ -2416,9 +2429,11 @@ 16:37|4:37|She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.|Never Stop on the Motorway|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:37|4:37|Rorschach’s journal: Slept all day. Awoken at 4:37. Landlady complaining about smell.|Watchmen|Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|unknown 16:37|1637|She should have been home by now. 1637. Yes. It's as if I had the date of a year on my arm. Every day is a piece of world history.|101 Reykjavik|Hallgrímur Helgason|unknown +16:38|4:38|At 4:38, Seb marched into the bank and said to the receptionist, “I have an appointment with Mr. Kaufman.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:38|twenty-two minutes to five|I let him put me in the car and drive me to the station. At twenty-two minutes to five by the clock in the station house I was in front of a cell in the Mill River jail.|At Catskill Eagle|Robert B. Parker|sfw 16:39|4:39|He looked at the clock on his desk: 4:39. “Get me the checkpoint at Khalis,” he instructed the young Lieutenant.|Honor Among Thieves|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:39|4:39 p.m.|Harlem enjoys lazy Sabbath mornings, although the pace picks up again in the afternoon, after church. My watch read 4:39 p.m., and I realized that I hadn't eaten all day. I bought two slices of pizza from a sidewalk vendor on 122nd and Lenox Avenue and washed it down with a grape Snapple.|Blood Red Blues|Teddy Hayes|unknown +16:40|4:40|Kaufman placed his hands together as if in prayer, and when his prayer was answered, he said, “I’ll need to make a few phone calls before I come to a final decision, so come back to my office at 4:40 tomorrow afternoon. If I’m convinced, we’ll take it from there.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:40|four forty|Four forty P.M. Besta sang another hymn. Everyone knew something was wrong. How long did they wait? The mayor was going crazy inside, as was the mayor's wife, as was their daughter. Seiji could barely contain his rage. He was turning as red as his red tuxedo.|Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty|Tip "T.I." Harris with David Ritz|unknown 16:41|nineteen minutes to five|She'd opened the door at nineteen minutes to five, thinking she had some measure of control over her world. Now she knew it for the lie it was. Everything she once thought she knew was upside-down; everything had changed.|Who Do You Trust|Melissa James|sfw 16:41|just after 4:40|It was just after 4:40 on Wednesday afternoon. At the back of the newsroom was Graham's office, up several steps from the bullpen area that ran from the front door back to the office. Graham was at his desk trying to hammer out an editorial on his computer, but he was distracted by the television coverage of President Elizabeth Sanderski's funeral.|Lionhearts|Ray Keating|sfw @@ -2444,6 +2459,7 @@ 16:51|nine minutes to five|Nine minutes to five. If this wasn't some new ordeal, intended to fray her nerves to shreds, if this important person really did exist, if he'd actually set up this appointment, and if, moreover, he arrived on time, then there were nine minutes left.|Compulsory Happiness|Norman Manea and Linda Coverdale|unknown 16:52|eight minutes to five|The corrida was to begin at five o'clock. The five-footed beasts make a point of arriving at the latest at eight or seven minutes to: ritual again. At eight minutes to five, there they were. The urchins gave them a tap on the shoulder: another bit of ritual.|Chaos and Night|Henry De Montherlant|unknown 16:53|seven minutes before five|It was so quiet in the post office that Trinidad could hear the soft tick of the clock's second hand every time it moved. It was now seven minutes before five.|The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow|Rita Leganski|unknown +16:54|six minutes to five|At six minutes to five, he leaned forward and picked up the black phone. He dialed the number of an estate agent in Mayfair, and asked to speak to the senior partner.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:54|six minutes to five|When the last lid had been placed back on he checked the clock on the wall: six minutes to five. Just enough time to glance in the other box and see if he could expect the same again.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:54|six minutes before five|At six minutes before five o'clock, Daisy Robinson, about to reach her own apartment door, paused to look and to listen. Something was out of order. Tess Rogan's door was standing wide open and, from within, Daisy could hear something being broken.|The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci|Charlotte Armstrong|unknown 16:54|1654|It was 1654 local time when the Red October broke the surface of the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, forty-seven miles southeast of Norfolk. There was no other ship in sight.|The Hunt for Red October|Tom Clancy|unknown @@ -2451,6 +2467,7 @@ 16:55|five minutes to five|About five minutes to five, just as they were all putting their things away for the night, Nimrod suddenly appeared in the house. He had come hoping to find some of them ready dressed to go home before the proper time.|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists|Robert Tressell|unknown 16:56|4:56|Prager was in his bedroom practicing “Steamy Night on a Steamboat” when his dad knocked on the door. Prager had lost track of time; it was 4:56.
“She’s here,” Eli said, smiling. “Come out and say hi.”|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 16:56|4:56 P.M.|And when that final Friday came, when my packing was mostly done, she sat with my dad and me on the living-room couch at 4:56 P.M. and patiently awaited the arrival of the Good-bye to Miles Cavalry.|Looking for Alaska|John Green|unknown +16:57|three minutes to five|“Three minutes to five.”
“Please hold on, Mr. Vaughan, there’s someone on the other line. I’ll only be a moment.” Kaufman placed the black receiver on his desk, picked up the red one and dialed a number.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:57|shortly before 5:00 p.m.|Tom O'Sullivan and Phillip Taylor were kibitzing at the counter of Nikki's Hot Dog Stand as they placed their order shortly before 5:00 p.m.|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw 16:57|nearly five|It was nearly five in the evening when the cook came aboard. He did not have the cabbages.|A Single Pebble|John Hershey|unknown 16:57|almost 5:00 p.m.|After an hour, they caught one gold-and-brown-striped fish that was kind of small, and they put him back. Prager swore it was a baby walleye; Eva seemed fairly sure it wasn’t.
After another hour of drowning worms and losing them in little nibbles, it was almost 5:00 p.m., and supposedly the best time to catch walleye was in the evening; clearly, they were just too eager and had started too early.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown @@ -2492,6 +2509,7 @@ 17:00|five o'clock|"I haven't been to church in over a year."
"Finally worried about your soul?"
"Please," Cork said
"Of course we can talk. When?"
"Tomorrow. Late afternoon maybe. Say five o'clock?"
"Make it six," the priest suggested. "My office."
"I'll be there," Cork promised.|Iron Lake|William Kent Krueger|sfw 17:01|one minute past five|At one minute past five, Beth left the museum, hailed a taxi and, after giving the driver her address, sat in the back surrounded by boxes and unashamedly shed a tear.|Next in Line|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:01|One minute after five|One minute after five. The seated guests were told that the ceremony would begin shortly. A little more patience was required.|Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty|Tip "T.I." Harris with David Ritz|unknown +17:02|Two minutes past five|“Two minutes past five.”
“Then the deal is closed. And as long as I pay the remaining ninety percent within thirty days, Shifnal Farm is mine.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 17:02|two minutes past five|She stood up, shook her hair into place, smoothed her skirt and turned on the light. It was two minutes past five. She would have thought it midnight or five in the morning.|Duplicate Keys|Jane Smiley|unknown 17:03|5:03|"Good evening, Mrs. Scheindlin," the man said before departing.
"Good evening, Chris. Say hello to the wife for me."
"I sure will. Thanks. Bye," he said, waving to Elliot, who returned the goodbye. It was 5:03 when Elliot rested the handset in its cradle.|Comrades in Miami: A Novel|José Latour|unknown 17:03|5:03|I looked down at the watch Trey had given me last Christmas, the delicate gold links so real and solid, and it seemed like someone else’s memory strapped to someone else’s shaking hand. It was 5:03 now. I was halfway to my house.|Mother May I|Joshilyn Jackson|unknown @@ -3071,6 +3089,7 @@ 21:07|seven minutes past nine|He just rolled up his window, switched off the engine, and leaned down to unlock the trunk. I checked my watch. It was seven minutes past nine.|Even|Andrew Grant|sfw 21:08|eight minutes past nine|At exactly eight minutes past nine, the fault, already weakened by the preliminary tremor, now without warning shifted violently and slipped a hundred or so feet, sucking down with it some billions of tons of water.|The Poseidon Adventure|Paul Gallico|sfw 21:09|9.09|9.09. Too late to turn around and go back. Too late, too dangerous.|Dreams of Leaving|Rupert Thomson|unknown +21:10|21:10|Harry realized that if he was going to be back at the airport in time to board the 21:10 to Heathrow, he would only have twenty or thirty minutes to spare. But that should be more than enough.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:10|9.10|She liked to swim most nights just after the nine o'clock news; everyone knew that - at least, everyone who knew her. And the news on Sunday was at 9.10.|Devices and Desires|P.D. James|sfw 21:10|ten past nine|"Ivor, where were you on Tuesday night? You've never been late for a cell meeting before, you've always been there before the rest of us. But it was ten past nine when you arrived." |A Taste for Death|P.D. James|sfw 21:10|9:10 p.m.|9:10 p.m. "When you turn your recorder on you must adjust clock and the calendar for precise TIMER-controlled recording (don't forget to use the quick-adjust options to switch between summer and winter time). Clock menus called with red and digital number 6."|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -3152,7 +3171,7 @@ 21:51|9:51 P.M.|9:51 P.M.
. . . HELLO, SOHO. BLUEBIRD NEEDS A FAVOR. CAN YOU SWITCH ON THE SERVOS?|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:52|9:52 P.M.|9:52 P.M.
"Georges is a genius," she said, turning back, "but this may not actually be possible. Nobody's ever done it before."|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 21:53|seven minutes to ten|People did not speak to her in such a manner. Her father was a lawyer. It was seven minutes to ten.|Carrie|Stephen King|unknown -21:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffery Archer|sfw +21:54|9:54|Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: 9:54.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 21:54|about five minutes to ten|At about five minutes to ten Martha had put a saucepan of milk to heat slowly at the side of the stove. This was done most nights at Martingale so that she could get early to bed.|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw 21:55|five minutes to ten|The lamps were still lit in the drive leading to the museum and when she turned the final corner she saw that every window blazed as if the place were preparing for a celebration. She glanced at her watch; five minutes to ten. The visiting group would be here already.|The Murder Room|P.D. James|sfw 21:56|about five minutes to ten|At about five minutes to ten Martha had put a saucepan of milk to heat slowly at the side of the stove. This was done most nights at Martingale so that she could get early to bed.|Cover Her Face|P.D. James|sfw @@ -3190,6 +3209,7 @@ 22:00|ten o'clock|The light in Mr. Green's kitchen snapped off at nine-thirty, followed by the light in his bedroom at his usual ten o'clock. His house was the first on the street to go dark.|A Crime in the Neighborhood|Suzanne Berne|unknown 22:00|ten o'clock|They were alone then, and theoretically free to do whatever they wanted, but they went on eating the dinner they had no appetite for. Florence set down her knife and reached for Edward's hand and squeezed. From downstairs they heard the wireless, the chimes of Big Ben at the start of the ten o'clock news.|On Chesil Beach|Ian McEwan|unknown 22:00|ten o'clock|We let our upstairs room to a certain Mr. Goudsmit, a divorced man in his thirties, who appeared to have nothing to do on this particular evening; we simply could not get rid of him without being rude; he hung about until ten o'clock.|Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl|Anne Frank|unknown +22:01|one minute past ten|At one minute past ten, Giles shook the last hand and, desperate for a drink, walked down the road to join the dock workers in the Lord Nelson.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:01|one minute past ten|In the old school they use now for the Village Hall, below the clock that has stood always at one minute past ten, hangs a small dusty painting of a horse.|War Horse|Michael Morpurgo|sfw 22:01|about 10|The first night, as soon as the corporal had conducted my uncle Toby upstairs, which was about 10 - Mrs. Wadman threw herself into her arm chair|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|Laurence Sterne|unknown 22:02|10.02 pm|It was now 10.02 pm. He has less than two hours.|The Lost Symbol|Dan Brown|unknown @@ -3209,6 +3229,7 @@ 22:10|ten minutes later|At about ten o’clock the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill’s arm. Ten minutes later they were falling quite thickly. In twenty minutes the ground was noticeably white.|The Silver Chair|C.S. Lewis|unknown 22:11|10:11 PM|But all of his senses were heightened when the knock at the hotel door came. He looked at the clock: 10:11 PM.|The Root of All Evil?|Ray Keating|sfw 22:11|eleven minutes past ten|Therefore a sergeant called Trifonov had been on post all day or all week and then he had left at eleven minutes past ten in the evening.|The Enemy|Lee Child|unknown +22:12|twelve minutes past ten|The phone rang at twelve minutes past ten. He grabbed the receiver, and immediately recognized the voice of the local party chairman. “Good evening, Peter.”|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 22:12|10:12|Still unable to sleep, Tengo was sitting on the floor, listening to the Duke Ellington record at low volume, when the phone rang again. The hands on the wall clock were pointing to 10:12.|1Q84|Haruki Murakami|unknown 22:12|2212|The Chinese women scuttled at an amazing rate, given their size and the bags' size. It was c. 2212:30-40h., smack in the middle of the former Interval of Issues Resolution.|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|unknown 22:13|ten-thirteen|"It's ten-thirteen," announced Clancy. "In two more minutes-"
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"quote_last": ". Missis said gladly, “Oh, Pongo, it’s tomorrow! Now we shall be with our puppies today!”", + "title": "The 101 Dalmatians", + "author": "Dodie Smith", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "00:00", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "midnight", + "quote_last": " the entrances were thrown wide, and the rabble, surging in, occupied the quarters assigned to them, from which nothing less than an earthquake or an army with spears could have dislodged them. They dozed the night away on the benches, and breakfasted there; and there the close of the exercises found them, patient and sight-hungry as in the beginning.", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "00:00", + "quote_first": "“I thought you asleep,” he said, presently.
“Sleep is for old people and little children, and I came out to look at my friends, the stars in the south—those now holding the curtains of ", + "quote_time_case": "midnight", + "quote_last": " over the Nile. But confess yourself surprised!”", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "00:00", "quote_first": "Ren said, “If you go to the football field at ", @@ -274,7 +301,7 @@ "quote_first": "‘Tis the year’s ", "quote_time_case": "midnight", "quote_last": ", and it is the day’s, Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;", - "title": "A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day", + "title": "A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day", "author": "John Donne", "sfw": "yes" }, @@ -301,7 +328,7 @@ "quote_first": "But, odder still - Big Ben had once again struck ", "quote_time_case": "midnight", "quote_last": ". The time outside still corresponded to that registered by the stopped gilt clock, inside. Inside and outside matched exactly, but both were badly wrong. H’m.", - "title": "Nights At The Circus", + "title": "Nights at the Circus", "author": "Angela Carter", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/00_21.json b/docs/times/00_21.json index 17276795..6363e3c6 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_21.json +++ b/docs/times/00_21.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "00:21", + "quote_first": "The aircraft took off at ", + "quote_time_case": "12:21", + "quote_last": ", and while the rest of the family dozed, Sasha went over the speech he would deliver on arrival at the airport. He also needed to prepare a eulogy for his uncle’s funeral, but that would have to wait until they checked into their hotel.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "00:21", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/00_40.json b/docs/times/00_40.json index 13fc95d9..c2a79bb4 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_40.json +++ b/docs/times/00_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "00:40", + "quote_first": "He looked around the carriage he was sitting in. It was full of night people, waiters, nurses, party returners, drunks—even a traffic warden. The train eventually pulled into his station at ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve-forty", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "00:40", "quote_first": "It was the opinion of the forensic pathologist who saw the body at ", diff --git a/docs/times/00_46.json b/docs/times/00_46.json index 14baaa15..a308e7b4 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_46.json +++ b/docs/times/00_46.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "Teddy wrote that phone records confirm Miss Lutton’s story. She called at ", "quote_time_case": "12:46 a.m.", "quote_last": "", - "title": "Dial M For Mischief", + "title": "Dial M for Mischief", "author": "Kasey Michaels", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/00_47.json b/docs/times/00_47.json index 799a177c..f83ae0cf 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_47.json +++ b/docs/times/00_47.json @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ { "time": "00:47", "quote_first": "At ", - "quote_time_case": "12:47a.m", + "quote_time_case": "12:47 a.m", "quote_last": ", Uncle Ho left us forever.", - "title": "Last Night I Dreamed Of Peace", + "title": "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace", "author": "Andrew X. Pham", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/00_51.json b/docs/times/00_51.json index f456e532..7f14f97b 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_51.json +++ b/docs/times/00_51.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "My smile suddenly vanished after realizing the time. It was ", "quote_time_case": "12:51", "quote_last": " and at one in the morning usually checks us. I tried to run as fast as I could to reach the elevator until I did.", - "title": "All The Stars Above Us", + "title": "All the Stars Above Us", "author": "Jyerrmou", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/00_58.json b/docs/times/00_58.json index 0ea2fdc0..4b8b6cff 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_58.json +++ b/docs/times/00_58.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "The Idiot", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "00:58", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "00:58 CET", + "quote_last": "
“Everything’s in place. Now all we have to do is. . .”
William didn’t move a muscle until the voice faded away. More words, but they were scattered in the wind. He raised the tarpaulin an inch, and his eyes settled on a group of four men standing only a few yards from the lifeboat.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/01_00.json b/docs/times/01_00.json index bd9349f2..bd988a40 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_00.json +++ b/docs/times/01_00.json @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ "quote_first": "I want to shout and scream, but I would be screaming at a wall. I storm off to my bedroom. Thirty minutes later, she leaves the house with Gboyega.
She doesn’t return till ", "quote_time_case": "1 a.m.", "quote_last": "
I don’t sleep till 1 a.m.", - "title": "My Sister, The Serial Killer", + "title": "My Sister, the Serial Killer", "author": "Oyinkan Braithwaite", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/01_07.json b/docs/times/01_07.json index b3d7d725..7aaaa6c8 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_07.json +++ b/docs/times/01_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "01:07", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "01:07 GMT", + "quote_last": "
Lamont could hear the sound of a car coming from behind him. Moments later a green Jaguar drove past and proceeded along the driveway, lights full on. It came to a halt outside the house.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "01:07", "quote_first": "But the most striking difference was the time of day. Outside the basement windows, night had fallen. The streetlights were on and there was a full moon out.
“Whoa,” I heard myself whisper. I glanced at the digital alarm clock sitting on top of one of the bookshelves. Its glowing blue display said the local time was now ", diff --git a/docs/times/01_15.json b/docs/times/01_15.json index 5defc5c8..b52bc396 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_15.json +++ b/docs/times/01_15.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "01:15", + "quote_first": "A bit weak, thought Robin, but the best he could do at ", + "quote_time_case": "1:15", + "quote_last": " in the morning.
“Sure it wasn’t some beautiful girl?” said Mary.
“I’m afraid Jim and Fred could hardly be described as beautiful, even by their loving wives.”", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "01:15", + "quote_first": "Emma fell into a deep sleep, to be jolted back to consciousness by the unfamiliar sound of a police siren blaring from the street below. Now she understood why the rooms on the upper floors were more expensive. She checked her watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "1:15", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "01:15", "quote_first": "I am sorry, therefore, as I have said, that I ever paid any attention to the footsteps. They began about a ", diff --git a/docs/times/01_17.json b/docs/times/01_17.json index 2020e665..34dd6029 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_17.json +++ b/docs/times/01_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "01:17", + "quote_first": "“I don’t know how you feel, but I’m exhausted,” said Ted, bolting the kitchen door.
Hazel checked her watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "seventeen minutes past one", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shoeshine Boy", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "01:17", "quote_first": "Friday ", diff --git a/docs/times/01_34.json b/docs/times/01_34.json index ca6ba2cd..3bb34e17 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_34.json +++ b/docs/times/01_34.json @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "time": "01:34", "quote_first": "Myrtle couldn’t sleep. Her digital clock’s luminous numbers told her it was ", "quote_time_case": "01:34", - "quote_last": " in the morning, which would be later than she had ever been awake in her life. But the questions were so many, and so insistent, that htey just wouldn’t let her go.", + "quote_last": " in the morning, which would be later than she had ever been awake in her life. But the questions were so many, and so insistent, that they just wouldn’t let her go.", "title": "Drowned Hopes", "author": "Donald E. Westlake", "sfw": "yes" diff --git a/docs/times/02_06.json b/docs/times/02_06.json index 8aef82f5..dd9d73b8 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_06.json +++ b/docs/times/02_06.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "02:06", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes past two", + "quote_last": ". He closed the bedroom door and walked slowly downstairs. He opened the front door to see his car parked by the curb.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "02:06", "quote_first": "And the time was ", diff --git a/docs/times/02_12.json b/docs/times/02_12.json index 6742c0cf..4f1d50b8 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_12.json +++ b/docs/times/02_12.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "At ", "quote_time_case": "two twelve A.M.", "quote_last": ", Werner knows, the Frenchman will broadcast again, and Werner will have to switch off the transceiver or else pretend that he hears only static.", - "title": "All The Light We Cannot See", + "title": "All the Light We Cannot See", "author": "Anthony Doerr", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/02_27.json b/docs/times/02_27.json index df754f29..29237f08 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_27.json +++ b/docs/times/02_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "02:27", + "quote_first": "The request was granted, but not until another form had been completed and signed. Dexter Hutchins put a collect call through to the Director of the CIA at ", + "quote_time_case": "2:27", + "quote_last": " that morning.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "02:27", "quote_first": "The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked ", diff --git a/docs/times/02_35.json b/docs/times/02_35.json index d5917e14..2eaad6af 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_35.json +++ b/docs/times/02_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "02:35", + "quote_first": "Matson and the Chairman had driven back from Mark’s apartment at ", + "quote_time_case": "2:35", + "quote_last": " that morning, their task completed. Matson had overslept by thirty minutes. The damned hotel had forgotten his wake-up call; you couldn’t trust anyone nowdays.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "02:35", "quote_first": "I crept down the stairs careful to avoid the steps I knew would cry my presence to my father who had taken to sleeping on the sofa in the living room. In the kitchen I saw by moonlight that the hands of the wall clock read ", diff --git a/docs/times/02_38.json b/docs/times/02_38.json index 404a4816..d0faaccc 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_38.json +++ b/docs/times/02_38.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ [ { "time": "02:38", - "quote_first": "It was true that the striking apparatus had long ago failed to agree with the hands; and the hands themselves, owing tot he accumulated inaccuracies of years, no longer denoted the real time; nevertheless, whenever it struck seven he could always be sure that the hands were pointing to a quarter-past twelve, and it was then just ", + "quote_first": "It was true that the striking apparatus had long ago failed to agree with the hands; and the hands themselves, owing to the accumulated inaccuracies of years, no longer denoted the real time; nevertheless, whenever it struck seven he could always be sure that the hands were pointing to a quarter-past twelve, and it was then just ", "quote_time_case": "twenty-two minutes to three", "quote_last": ".", "title": "Pharaoh's Broker", diff --git a/docs/times/02_49.json b/docs/times/02_49.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..781df2ef --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/times/02_49.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[ + { + "time": "02:49", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "2:49 a.m.", + "quote_last": ", the town clerk walked back to the microphone and tapped it once again. The momentary silence was broken only by a pencil falling off a table and rolling across the floor.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + } +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/03_00.json b/docs/times/03_00.json index 0395494e..b2905ffb 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_00.json +++ b/docs/times/03_00.json @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ "quote_first": "I found myself typing “serial killer” into the Google search box at ", "quote_time_case": "3 a.m.", "quote_last": "", - "title": "My Sister, The Serial Killer", + "title": "My Sister, the Serial Killer", "author": "Oyinkan Braithwaite", "sfw": "yes" }, @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ "quote_last": " I was walking the floor and listening to Katchaturian working in a tractor factory. He called it a violin concerto. I called it a loose fan belt and the hell with it.", "title": "The Long Goodbye", "author": "Raymond Chandler", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" }, { "time": "03:00", diff --git a/docs/times/03_01.json b/docs/times/03_01.json index 12716af6..8a56fb76 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_01.json +++ b/docs/times/03_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:01", + "quote_first": "Yesterday, at ", + "quote_time_case": "around three in the morning", + "quote_last": ", I found my mother unresponsive on her bathroom floor. I’m a hero, they say, because I saved her from a lithium overdose.
I’m not a hero. This is all my fault.", + "title": "Blink and We'll Miss It", + "author": "Ginny Kochis", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "03:01", "quote_first": "It was now ", diff --git a/docs/times/03_07.json b/docs/times/03_07.json index 3b7a9745..efd520e4 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_07.json +++ b/docs/times/03_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:07", + "quote_first": "He glanced at his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "3:07", + "quote_last": ". Surely it couldn’t be Fiona? He dragged himself out of bed, put on his dressing gown, and reluctantly padded across to the door.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:07", "quote_first": "Wayne late-logged in: ", diff --git a/docs/times/03_10.json b/docs/times/03_10.json index bdbbc5c4..544637fd 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_10.json +++ b/docs/times/03_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:10", + "quote_first": "Adam licked his fingers and rubbed them over his eyes as he tried to get accustomed to the dark. He checked the little luminous dial on his alarm clock: ", + "quote_time_case": "ten past three", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:10", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/03_17.json b/docs/times/03_17.json index e26d94a9..d009afa9 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_17.json +++ b/docs/times/03_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:17", + "quote_first": "Hassan checked her watch – ", + "quote_time_case": "03.17", + "quote_last": " – confident that the only person on board still awake would be the young man on the bridge. Rook to bishop’s four. He removed a knight from the board.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:17", "quote_first": "Timestamp says ", @@ -24,7 +33,7 @@ "quote_last": " in the morning.", "title": "The Goldfinch", "author": "Donna Tartt", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" }, { "time": "03:17", diff --git a/docs/times/03_21.json b/docs/times/03_21.json index 4947d8e5..fc6b16df 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_21.json +++ b/docs/times/03_21.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:21", + "quote_first": "He didn’t bother to shower or shave, and dressed quickly in the clothes he had worn the previous day. He left his apartment in Queens at ", + "quote_time_case": "3:21", + "quote_last": " and drove himself into Manhattan, leaving his car outside the front of the precinct a few minutes before four.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "03:21", + "quote_first": "She glanced again at the bedside clock: ", + "quote_time_case": "3:21", + "quote_last": ". She got out of bed, put on a dressing gown, sat down at the little table and filled several sheets of hotel stationery with notes in preparation for her meeting with Sefton Jelks. It felt like prepping for an exam.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:21", "quote_first": "Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at ", diff --git a/docs/times/03_27.json b/docs/times/03_27.json index e9058d7c..63580327 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_27.json +++ b/docs/times/03_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:27", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "3:27 a.m.", + "quote_last": ", he called for silence again. “I, Leonard Derek Hardy, being the returning officer…” Heads were bowed, eyes were closed, while some of those present turned away, unable even to face the stage as they crossed their fingers and waited for the numbers to be read out.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:27", "quote_first": "With the Ranger at their head, they went out of town at a fast trot. If there had been anybody there to notice it, he would have seen that the clock on the wall at the Bird Cage registered the time as ", diff --git a/docs/times/03_38.json b/docs/times/03_38.json index 7fcf4ddd..d834e712 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_38.json +++ b/docs/times/03_38.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "At ", "quote_time_case": "3.38 am", "quote_last": ", it began to snow in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The geese circling the city flew back to the park, landed, and hunkered down to sit it out on their island in the lake.", - "title": "Just Like the Ones we Used to Know", + "title": "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know", "author": "Connie Willis", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/03_57.json b/docs/times/03_57.json index f4ec70d6..7a0bc658 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_57.json +++ b/docs/times/03_57.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "03:57", + "quote_first": "He flicked on the bedside light and picked up his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "3:57", + "quote_last": ". He began to recall what had taken place a few hours earlier.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "03:57", "quote_first": "“", diff --git a/docs/times/04_09.json b/docs/times/04_09.json index 8e28a995..565210c2 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_09.json +++ b/docs/times/04_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:09", + "quote_first": "“The truck has driven nonstop through the night at a steady pace of around forty miles per hour in the direction of Baghdad, but at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:09", + "quote_last": " this morning it turned off into the desert, and we ceased to monitor its movements, as that particular path leads nowhere.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:09", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_17.json b/docs/times/04_17.json index 589af119..4995d979 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_17.json +++ b/docs/times/04_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:17", + "quote_first": "Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at 6:48 A.M. He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "4:17", + "quote_last": ". They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:17", "quote_first": "I succumbed to my curiosity, tugged up the left sleeve of my pullover, and checked my wristwatch. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_22.json b/docs/times/04_22.json index 3247cfca..586a0cbd 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_22.json +++ b/docs/times/04_22.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:22", + "quote_first": "The chairman dialed seven digits and asked to speak to the duty officer. He checked his watch as he waited to be put through. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "4:22", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:22", "quote_first": "He hurt me to the point where I wanted to tell him something. My watch said ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_23.json b/docs/times/04_23.json index 312f2fcb..7f764e0a 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_23.json +++ b/docs/times/04_23.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "4:23", "quote_last": ", Monday morning, Iceland Square. A number of people in the vicinity of Bjornsongatan are awakened by loud screams.", - "title": "Let The Right One In", + "title": "Let the Right One In", "author": "John Ajvide Lindqvist", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/04_31.json b/docs/times/04_31.json index 5440cd30..8c2c0a99 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_31.json +++ b/docs/times/04_31.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:31", + "quote_first": "As Miss Nichol walked along the corridor, she checked her watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "4:31 A.M.", + "quote_last": " She took the stairs down to the fifth floor and made her way to the nursery.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:31", "quote_first": "An earthquake hit Los Angeles at ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_37.json b/docs/times/04_37.json index 544625cd..dbc80e6c 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_37.json +++ b/docs/times/04_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:37", + "quote_first": "The knock at the door was soft, but it still awoke Stephen. He touched the screen on his smartphone. ", + "quote_time_case": "4:37 AM", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Under the Golden Dome", + "author": "Ray Keating", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:37", "quote_first": "Her bedroom was hardly any bigger than her king-size mattress, which she’d told me she’d inherited from her parents when her mother got sick “and so they got two doubles because my dad couldn’t sleep at night with all her fidgeting.” Green numbers on a digital alarm clock glowed between cans of Diet 7UP on the bedside table. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_45.json b/docs/times/04_45.json index 1f2b2f27..f2999a33 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_45.json +++ b/docs/times/04_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:45", + "quote_first": "He never found it necessary to phone the Prime Minister, although Mr. Churchill did phone him on one occasion. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "four forty-five", + "quote_last": " in the morning when Charlie picked up the receiver on his desk.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:45", "quote_first": "His wife’s breathing at his side is so faint that he can scarcely hear it. One of these mornings she’ll be lying dead beside me and I won’t even notice, he thinks. Or maybe it’ll be me. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left alone. He checks the clock on the table next to the bed. The hands glow and register ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_52.json b/docs/times/04_52.json index 16c70e7d..3a6315f8 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_52.json +++ b/docs/times/04_52.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:52", + "quote_first": "Anna left the apartment at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:52 A.M.", + "quote_last": ", dressed in jeans, a blue T-shirt, a linen jacket, and a baseball cap. She wasn’t sure what to expect as she stepped out onto the sidewalk that cool, dark morning.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:52", "quote_first": "“If it matters, it’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/04_54.json b/docs/times/04_54.json index c292d817..be00d2b9 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_54.json +++ b/docs/times/04_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:54", + "quote_first": "When the last lid had been placed back on he checked the clock on the wall: ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes to five", + "quote_last": ". Just enough time to glance in the other box and see if he could expect the same again.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:54", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/04_59.json b/docs/times/04_59.json index fe9d518e..c70719fe 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_59.json +++ b/docs/times/04_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "04:59", + "quote_first": "The captain and his three mates appeared out of the early morning mist at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to five", + "quote_last": ". All four of them were dressed in exactly the same clothes they had been wearing the night before, making Percy wonder if they’d come straight from the Fisherman’s Arms.", + "title": "The Undiplomatic Diplomat", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "04:59", "quote_first": "The whole place smells like death no matter what the fuck you do. Gately gets to the shelter at ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_06.json b/docs/times/05_06.json index 57afa840..92e49f12 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_06.json +++ b/docs/times/05_06.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "5:06 a.m.", "quote_last": " I wake up strangely energized, my stomach growling. Upstairs, the overstocked fridge offers me its bounty of sympathy food.", - "title": "This is Where I Leave You", + "title": "This Is Where I Leave You", "author": "Jonathon Tropper", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/05_07.json b/docs/times/05_07.json index 75f5e720..f80f7ae9 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_07.json +++ b/docs/times/05_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:07", + "quote_first": "‘Was the time of that call recorded?’ demanded the Hawk.
‘Yes, sir. At ", + "quote_time_case": "5.07", + "quote_last": ". I called back just after nine and told Dr Redwood he could visit his patient in the prison hospital at his convenience, and carry out a full examination. He did so later that morning.’", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:07", "quote_first": "“Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_09.json b/docs/times/05_09.json index 8d65d196..7a4cae6f 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_09.json +++ b/docs/times/05_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:09", + "quote_first": "“You’ll have one by the side of your bed in a few years’ time, so you wouldn’t even need to go into your office,” said Su Ling, letting her head fall back on the pillow when she saw ", + "quote_time_case": "5:09", + "quote_last": " flick up on the bedside clock.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:09", "quote_first": "The primal flush of triumph which had saturated the American’s humor on this signal success, proved but fictive and transitory when inquiry of the station attendants educed the information that the two earliest trains to be obtained were the ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_18.json b/docs/times/05_18.json index 9a8f45ff..c8c3240f 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_18.json +++ b/docs/times/05_18.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:18", + "quote_first": "WILLIAM PICKED UP THE PHONE but didn’t turn on the light as the digital clock on his bedside table turned from 5:17 to ", + "quote_time_case": "5:18", + "quote_last": ". He knew it could only be one person on the other end of the line.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:18", "quote_first": "The story is there, and the security photo that runs with it is pretty damning. An hour earlier the light wouldn’t have been good enough to show the doer’s face, but the time stamp on the bottom of the photo is ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_19.json b/docs/times/05_19.json index 3a640ec6..e40332b5 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_19.json +++ b/docs/times/05_19.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:19", + "quote_first": "Scott eased himself into the corner before once again checking the little sulphur dots on his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "5:19", + "quote_last": ". He and Hannah had been in the safe for an hour and seventeen minutes.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:19", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/05_35.json b/docs/times/05_35.json index 12ebf611..00766d70 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_35.json +++ b/docs/times/05_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:35", + "quote_first": "The Senator woke at ", + "quote_time_case": "5:35", + "quote_last": " in a cold sweat—not that he had really slept for more than a few minutes at any one time. It had been an evil night, thunder and lightning and sirens.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:35", "quote_first": "He was surprised to see it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_43.json b/docs/times/05_43.json index 4d53bccb..046797f9 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_43.json +++ b/docs/times/05_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:43", + "quote_first": "On 16 July 1921 Daphne woke at ", + "quote_time_case": "five forty-three", + "quote_last": " feeling drained, but by the time she stepped out into the sunshine in Lowndes Square at one forty-five she was exhilarated and actually looking forward to the occasion.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "05:43", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "05:43", + "quote_last": " Greenwich Mean Time
William was woken by the phone ringing. He grabbed it, wondering who could possibly be calling him at that hour of the morning. He hoped it was Beth.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:43", "quote_first": "It’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_45.json b/docs/times/05_45.json index 609d5213..d48c6ced 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_45.json +++ b/docs/times/05_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:45", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "5:45", + "quote_last": " the following morning, the General was standing outside George’s tent in full dress uniform, carrying a black leather attaché case.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:45", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_53.json b/docs/times/05_53.json index e01f13ea..c1a77c58 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_53.json +++ b/docs/times/05_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:53", + "quote_first": "The day had been specially chosen because the meteorologists had assured them that the sun would rise at ", + "quote_time_case": "five fifty-three", + "quote_last": " and there would be no rain. The meteorologists would prove to be right about the sun, but as if to show their fallibility at four-eleven a steady drizzle began.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "05:53", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "five fifty-three", + "quote_last": ", as a blood-red sun peeped over the horizon, a Verey pistol was fired and Charlie looked back to see the sky lit up behind him.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:53", "quote_first": "The gate log showed he’d signed out at ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_56.json b/docs/times/05_56.json index f5485dc0..2039f015 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_56.json +++ b/docs/times/05_56.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "05:56", + "quote_first": "ANNA PETRESCU TOUCHED the button on the top of her bedside clock. It glowed ", + "quote_time_case": "5:56 A.M.", + "quote_last": " Another four minutes and it would have woken her with the early morning news. But not today.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "05:56", "quote_first": "The officer with the chipped nose went over to borrow the watch of General Feraud. They bent their heads over them for a time. “That’s it. At ", diff --git a/docs/times/05_58.json b/docs/times/05_58.json index cbcdca5e..09eeef48 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_58.json +++ b/docs/times/05_58.json @@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest", "author": "Stieg Larsson", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "05:58", + "quote_first": "Grant stepped into his office at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church ", + "quote_time_case": "just before six", + "quote_last": " the next morning. His unusually early arrival – skipping his regular morning exercises – was spurred by a desire to pull up the essay that he had written years earlier, and to start the process of updating it, as requested.", + "title": "Under the Golden Dome", + "author": "Ray Keating", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/06_09.json b/docs/times/06_09.json index 6fa6fc22..ae630370 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_09.json +++ b/docs/times/06_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:09", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "06:09 CET", + "quote_last": "
“Why didn’t you wake me at four?” demanded Monti. He glared down at William, who was the same color as his soaking sheet, and was still sweating.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:09", "quote_first": "Bimingham New Street 5.25. Walsall 5.55. This train does not stop at Birchills, for reasons George has never been able to ascertain. Then it is Bloxwich 6.02, Wyrley & Churchbridge ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_10.json b/docs/times/06_10.json index 8d18dfbc..279237d3 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_10.json +++ b/docs/times/06_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:10", + "quote_first": "The Chairman got out of bed at 7:20 and lit his first cigarette. He couldn’t remember exactly when he had woken. At ", + "quote_time_case": "6:10", + "quote_last": " he had phoned Tony, who was already up and waiting for his call.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:10", "quote_first": "The bus left the station at ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_11.json b/docs/times/06_11.json index 0e01d658..06c64224 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_11.json +++ b/docs/times/06_11.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:11", + "quote_first": "“La Guardia,” said Dexter and then thanked the agent for sitting up half the night. Scott looked between the two front seats as the digital clock changed from ", + "quote_time_case": "6:11", + "quote_last": " to 6:12.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:11", "quote_first": "I looked at the clock: ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_23.json b/docs/times/06_23.json index bb2e3c02..ae6f8b5a 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_23.json +++ b/docs/times/06_23.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "It was ", "quote_time_case": "twenty-three minutes past six", "quote_last": ". He actually thought about driving round and round Islington, with the radio on, shouting at it.", - "title": "It Had to be You", + "title": "It Had to Be You", "author": "David Nobbs", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/06_27.json b/docs/times/06_27.json index bc31e1e5..cacbb46c 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_27.json +++ b/docs/times/06_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:27", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "6:27 A.M.", + "quote_last": "
Eventually Mark could stand it no longer and at 6:30 A.M. he rose, showered, and put on a clean shirt and a fresh suit.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:27", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_29.json b/docs/times/06_29.json index 27b8eb36..b4663963 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_29.json +++ b/docs/times/06_29.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:29", + "quote_first": "For the next fifteen minutes he lugged the cases of wine and beer up the stairs, constantly stopping to check his watch, and at ", + "quote_time_case": "6:29", + "quote_last": " he opened the back door to find the German corporal jumping up and down and slapping his sides in an effort to keep warm.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:29", "quote_first": "I sat up. There was a rug over me. I threw that off and got my feet on the floor. I scowled at a clock. The clock said ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_32.json b/docs/times/06_32.json index a172cc9a..c329e976 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_32.json +++ b/docs/times/06_32.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:32", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "6:32 A.M.", + "quote_last": "
Mark had awoken, but he wasn’t awake. His head was swimming with incoherent thoughts. The first vision to flash across his mind was Elizabeth; he smiled.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:32", "quote_first": "He had been parked there for seven minutes already; he could only afford a few more before someone might become suspicious.
“C’mon. . . c’mon,” he was muttering. “Let’s get this over with.”
He checked his watch: ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_35.json b/docs/times/06_35.json index 0da00643..0e4b36f0 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_35.json +++ b/docs/times/06_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:35", + "quote_first": "Mark woke with a start and sat up, trying to focus his eyes on his watch. All he could see was the second hand moving: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:35", + "quote_last": ". Hell. He shot up from the chair, his stiff neck and back hurting him; he was still dressed.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "06:35", "quote_first": "My watch lay on the dressing-table close by; glancing at it, I saw that the time was ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_37.json b/docs/times/06_37.json index cd973695..5e31346a 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_37.json +++ b/docs/times/06_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:37", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "06:37 GMT", + "quote_last": "
Jackie didn’t need a wake-up call that morning. She was already on her way to Waterloo station by the time William was speeding down the M4.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:37", "quote_first": "The dashboard clock said ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_43.json b/docs/times/06_43.json index 0c03774d..c0cda803 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_43.json +++ b/docs/times/06_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:43", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "6:43", + "quote_last": " the driver pulled off the highway and followed the signs for La Guardia. No one spoke until the car came to a halt at the curb opposite the Marine Air terminal entrance.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "06:43", + "quote_first": "After throwing the lather on his face, he shaved too quickly, mowing down the stubble on his chin. Damn it, three nicks; the aftershave lotion stung viciously: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:43", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "06:43", "quote_first": "To London on the ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_45.json b/docs/times/06_45.json index 3d41d085..ce215674 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_45.json +++ b/docs/times/06_45.json @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ "quote_last": " the shavers buzz and the Acutes line up in alphabetical order at the mirrors, A, B, C, D. . . . The walking Chronics like me walk in when the Acutes are done, then the Wheelers are wheeled in.", "title": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest", "author": "Ken Kesey", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" }, { "time": "06:45", diff --git a/docs/times/06_46.json b/docs/times/06_46.json index be99b964..bc3492bc 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_46.json +++ b/docs/times/06_46.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:46", + "quote_first": "He bundled the papers on his desk into his briefcase and ran for the elevator. First piece of luck, it was on the top floor. Downstairs: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:46", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:46", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_47.json b/docs/times/06_47.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09933f72 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/times/06_47.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[ + { + "time": "06:47", + "quote_first": "“Morning, Mark. Hell, man, is it eight o’clock already?”
“No, ", + "quote_time_case": "thirteen minutes to seven", + "quote_last": ".”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + } +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/06_48.json b/docs/times/06_48.json index 162e7f61..b97e2ecb 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_48.json +++ b/docs/times/06_48.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:48", + "quote_first": "Car starts first time. Reliable Mercedes. Moves on the road: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:48", + "quote_last": ". Must stay below speed limit. Never embarrass the Bureau.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "06:48", + "quote_first": "Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at ", + "quote_time_case": "6:48 A.M.", + "quote_last": " He checked his watch: 4:17. They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:48", "quote_first": "His jet had touched down on the facility’s runway at ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_52.json b/docs/times/06_52.json index ab98093f..ffcef60a 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_52.json +++ b/docs/times/06_52.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:52", + "quote_first": "Sasha and Charlie caught the ", + "quote_time_case": "6:52", + "quote_last": " from Victoria to Merrifield the following morning, and arrived at the local Labour Party headquarters just before 8 a.m.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:52", "quote_first": "Having lied to Mum, I realised that my only option was to take the ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_53.json b/docs/times/06_53.json index 89d846d5..69afb477 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_53.json +++ b/docs/times/06_53.json @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ { "time": "06:53", "quote_first": "So that was the key to asking my questions, to wait exactly 77 minutes before ", - "quote_time_case": "seven to seven", + "quote_time_case": "seven minutes to seven", "quote_last": " and I would then get my answer.", "title": "The Quarter Moon", "author": "Stephanie Hudson", diff --git a/docs/times/06_57.json b/docs/times/06_57.json index 0f017faf..c1ca42df 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_57.json +++ b/docs/times/06_57.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:57", + "quote_first": "Down ramp, park, show FBI pass to garage guard, run for elevator: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:57", + "quote_last": ";", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:57", "quote_first": "That meant that Helen must run and get the table set as quickly as possible as it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/06_59.json b/docs/times/06_59.json index 799157da..c48e7d25 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_59.json +++ b/docs/times/06_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "06:59", + "quote_first": "She barely glances up; knock on door of Director’s office; no reply; go in as instructed. No Director: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:59", + "quote_last": "; sink into easy chair. Director going to be late; smile of satisfaction.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "06:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to seven", + "quote_last": ", Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "06:59", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_07.json b/docs/times/07_07.json index ddc5301d..0427090c 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_07.json +++ b/docs/times/07_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:07", + "quote_first": "Qantas Flight 102 touched down at Melbourne Airport at ", + "quote_time_case": "seven minutes past seven", + "quote_last": ". Charlie was the first off the aircraft, running as fast as he could, but having to lug Cathy’s picture under one arm slowed him down and made it possible for several other passengers, who obviously had the same idea, to overtake him.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:07", "quote_first": "When Joubert walked into the parade room at ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_10.json b/docs/times/07_10.json index a0cc6a44..ed70ffc5 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_10.json +++ b/docs/times/07_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:10", + "quote_first": "“Get me the head of the Secret Service at the White House.”
“Yes, sir.”
The Director glanced at his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:10", + "quote_last": ". Andrews was due at 8:15. The phone rang.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:10", + "quote_first": "When he woke, he jumped out of bed and pulled back the curtains to see the first rays of sunlight bathing the city. He checked the time. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "7:10 a.m.", + "quote_last": " He felt grubby, and smiled at the thought of a long, hot bath.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:10", "quote_first": "A search in Bradshaw informed me that a train left St. Pancras at ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_14.json b/docs/times/07_14.json index f96b4e7e..7f9b4bd0 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_14.json +++ b/docs/times/07_14.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:14", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "07:14", + "quote_last": " GMT
William spotted him the moment he entered the terminal. A dark blue double-breasted blazer, white shirt, and striped tie. The commander probably slept in double-breasted pajamas.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:14", "quote_first": "I jump onto Rocker to look at Watch, he says ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_20.json b/docs/times/07_20.json index 4977892c..ea9deee1 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_20.json +++ b/docs/times/07_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,31 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:20", + "quote_first": "The two policemen arrived at the Hotel Monarche at ", + "quote_time_case": "twenty past seven", + "quote_last": " that Thursday morning. They were tired, discontent, and hungry. Since midnight they had visited forty-three hotels on the west side of the city, on each occasion with no success.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:20", + "quote_first": "The Chairman got out of bed at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:20", + "quote_last": " and lit his first cigarette. He couldn’t remember exactly when he had woken. At 6:10 he had phoned Tony, who was already up and waiting for his call.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:20", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "7:20", + "quote_last": ", the door swung open and Anne reappeared to carry out her most important function of the day. “Time to take you through to the studio, Harry.”", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:20", "quote_first": "And this was my timetable when I lived at home with Father and I thought that Mother was dead from a heart attack (this was the timetable for a Monday and also it is an approximation). ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_23.json b/docs/times/07_23.json index 612b9bb1..24bf44f9 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_23.json +++ b/docs/times/07_23.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Project Cyclops", "author": "Thomas Hoover", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:23", + "quote_first": "Sebastian had to borrow his mother’s alarm clock to make sure he was up in time to catch the ", + "quote_time_case": "7:23", + "quote_last": " to Paddington. Emma was waiting for him in the hall and offered to drive him to Temple Meads. It soon became clear why.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/07_24.json b/docs/times/07_24.json index 591fdd46..89618fd1 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_24.json +++ b/docs/times/07_24.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:24", + "quote_first": "All three morning shows had offered him their highest rated spot, at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:24 a.m.", + "quote_last": " Six minutes didn’t sound like a long time, but in television terms, only ex-presidents and Oscar winners could take it for granted.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:24", "quote_first": "There was a brief murmur of voices; then Stephen Courtney-Brigs followed her into the sitting-room. Glancing at the clock, Dalgliesh saw that the hands stood at ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_27.json b/docs/times/07_27.json index a85a70a6..d9bf1084 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_27.json +++ b/docs/times/07_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:27", + "quote_first": "The pilot welcomed them aboard and warned them there might be a slight delay. Dexter checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:27", + "quote_last": ". He began drumming his fingers on the armrest that divided him from Scott.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:27", "quote_first": "His appointment with the doctor was for 8.45. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_29.json b/docs/times/07_29.json index 5d250e93..0eb8f01a 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_29.json +++ b/docs/times/07_29.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:29", + "quote_first": "Lamont was waiting for her on platform 11, and they boarded the ", + "quote_time_case": "7:29", + "quote_last": " to Guildford, second class. On arrival they were met by Superintendent Wall, the only man from the Surrey Constabulary who’d been fully briefed on what they had planned for the rest of the day.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:29", "quote_first": "Everybody turns in his chair and watches that butter sneak on down the wall, starting, hanging still, shooting ahead and leaving a shiny trail behind it on the pane. Nobody says a word. They look at the butter, then at the clock, then back at the butter. The clock’s moving now.
The butter makes it down to the floor about a half ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_34.json b/docs/times/07_34.json index 0e361f3e..c5d7e33f 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_34.json +++ b/docs/times/07_34.json @@ -4,8 +4,17 @@ "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "7:34", "quote_last": ". Monday morning, Blackeberg. The burglar alarm at the ICA grocery store on Arvid Morne’s way is set off.", - "title": "Let The Right One In", + "title": "Let the Right One In", "author": "John Ajvide Lindqvist", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:34", + "quote_first": "He made another entry in his logbook when Summers emerged from the building at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:34", + "quote_last": ", and set off in the direction of the local nick as his radio sprang to life. He listened carefully to what Paul had to report, and said he’d deal with it as soon as he was back in the office.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/07_35.json b/docs/times/07_35.json index 73191bd3..52076643 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_35.json +++ b/docs/times/07_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:35", + "quote_first": "Florentyna Kane did not wake until ", + "quote_time_case": "7:35", + "quote_last": ". She rolled over, trying to recall the dream she had just had, but none of it would come back to her, so she let her mind wander.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:35", "quote_first": "Trying to identify the key facts, Ethan was suddenly aware he was looking at the wall clock; it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_36.json b/docs/times/07_36.json index c4c4bb69..97140607 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_36.json +++ b/docs/times/07_36.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "7:36", "quote_last": ", sunrise. The hospital blinds were much better, darker than her own.", - "title": "Let The Right One In", + "title": "Let the Right One In", "author": "John Ajvide Lindqvist", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/07_39.json b/docs/times/07_39.json index dee0535b..9aa67951 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_39.json +++ b/docs/times/07_39.json @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:39", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "7:39", + "quote_last": " the aircraft taxied onto the runway to prepare for takeoff. When it stopped, Dexter asked the flight attendant what was holding them up.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:39", "quote_first": "“Now, at the station, do you recall speaking to Mr. Joseph Markew?”
“Yes, indeed. I was standing on the platform waiting for my usual train - the ", "quote_time_case": "7.39", "quote_last": " - when he accosted me.”", - "title": "Arthur & George", + "title": "Arthur and George", "author": "Julian Barnes", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/07_44.json b/docs/times/07_44.json index d6e14de7..de509483 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_44.json +++ b/docs/times/07_44.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:44", + "quote_first": "‘If you’re referring to Sergeant Jennings, sir, when I arrived this morning at ", + "quote_time_case": "sixteen minutes to eight", + "quote_last": ", he was unshaven and incorrectly dressed, despite still being on duty. I didn’t bawl him out. But I did leave him in no doubt how I felt about his attitude and appearance while serving as a police officer.’", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:44", "quote_first": "She voices her thoughts: “It’s not exactly how you’d choose to go, is it? You’d rather die flying a kite with your grandchildren, or at a great party or something. Not on the ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_45.json b/docs/times/07_45.json index 0451b3d2..c02357ab 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_45.json +++ b/docs/times/07_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:45", + "quote_first": "As for Koch, he spent half an hour at the silversmith’s below, before he went up to the old woman and he left him at exactly a ", + "quote_time_case": "quarter to eight", + "quote_last": ". Now just consider…”", + "title": "Crime and Punishment", + "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:45", "quote_first": "“This morning I took the launch out for forty minutes or so to test the engine. She’s been giving a bit of trouble. That took from ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_47.json b/docs/times/07_47.json index b5e5b3e7..8ae42dac 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_47.json +++ b/docs/times/07_47.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:47", + "quote_first": "He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, ", + "quote_time_case": "7.47", + "quote_last": "; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’", + "title": "The Grass is Always Greener", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:47", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/07_50.json b/docs/times/07_50.json index 4b8a7907..ff813c53 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_50.json +++ b/docs/times/07_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:50", + "quote_first": "DI Hogan rang the front doorbell at ", + "quote_time_case": "ten minutes to eight", + "quote_last": ". It was opened a few moments later by someone who was clean-shaven, smartly dressed and clearly expecting him.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:50", "quote_first": "She and Dakers had said nothing of interest to each other while they had been working and had left the library at the same time and gone into breakfast together. That had been at about ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_51.json b/docs/times/07_51.json index 68a032fe..deedc307 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_51.json +++ b/docs/times/07_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:51", + "quote_first": "The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:51", + "quote_last": ", its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:51", "quote_first": "Vimes fished out the Gooseberry as a red-hot cabbage smacked into the road behind him. “Good morning!” he said brightly to the surprised imp. “What is the time, please?”
“Er…", diff --git a/docs/times/07_53.json b/docs/times/07_53.json index d5f054c7..cdd20c80 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_53.json +++ b/docs/times/07_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:53", + "quote_first": "The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:53", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:53", "quote_first": "“What time is it?”
“", diff --git a/docs/times/07_55.json b/docs/times/07_55.json index 8a340f8c..e6e2a193 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_55.json +++ b/docs/times/07_55.json @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ "author": "Jim Butcher", "sfw": "yes" }, + { + "time": "07:55", + "quote_first": "Over breakfast, they discussed anything but work, a golden rule, before heading off together for the commander’s morning briefing. They were all seated around the boss’s table by ", + "quote_time_case": "7:55", + "quote_last": ", waiting for the Hawk to open proceedings.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:55", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_56.json b/docs/times/07_56.json index 8e35e1e6..a0e74827 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_56.json +++ b/docs/times/07_56.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:56", + "quote_first": "Sebastian was putting on his jacket and heading for the door when the phone rang for a third time. He looked at his watch, ", + "quote_time_case": "7:56", + "quote_last": ", and thought about ignoring it, but turned back, grabbed the phone, and said, “I haven’t got time, Mother.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:56", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "7:56", + "quote_last": ", Anna closed the Wentworth file and bent down to opent the bottom drawer of her desk. She slipped off her sneakers and replaced them with a pair of high-heeled shoes. She rose from her chair, gathered up the files, and glanced in the mirror - not a hair out of place.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:56", "quote_first": "Bursting in unannounced ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_58.json b/docs/times/07_58.json index 83f01e90..2c301eee 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_58.json +++ b/docs/times/07_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:58", + "quote_first": "He had to catch the conspirators alive, get them to testify against the Senator. The Director checked his watch with the clock on the Old Post Office Tower over the Washington Field Office. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "7:58", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:58", "quote_first": "McEnany looked at the clock in the corner of the video screen. It said ", diff --git a/docs/times/07_59.json b/docs/times/07_59.json index e3f86da0..c05bfd9f 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_59.json +++ b/docs/times/07_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "07:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to eight", + "quote_last": " he set off at a brisk pace down the path that would take them to the base of the mountain.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "07:59", "quote_first": "“It was right at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_03.json b/docs/times/08_03.json index a9db3a18..8eeaa571 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_03.json +++ b/docs/times/08_03.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:03", + "quote_first": "When he had finished the last mouthful, Scott checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "three minutes past eight", + "quote_last": "—just enough time for coffee before grabbing a taxi to the airport.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:03", "quote_first": "“Yes, well. Obviously she’s dead and it’s very recent. Within the last two hours, if you press me. But you must have come to that conclusion yourselves or you wouldn’t have cut her down. When did you say you found her? ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_04.json b/docs/times/08_04.json index d89a7bae..7ad5def6 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_04.json +++ b/docs/times/08_04.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:04", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "8:04 A.M.", + "quote_last": "
The phone was ringing, but Mark was still in a deep sleep. It continued to ring.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:04", "quote_first": "Every clerk had his particular schedule of hours, which coincided with a single pair of tram runs coming from the city: A had to come in at 8, B at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_09.json b/docs/times/08_09.json index 236ac4f4..cee246b5 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_09.json +++ b/docs/times/08_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:09", + "quote_first": "He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, ", + "quote_time_case": "8.09", + "quote_last": "; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’", + "title": "The Grass is Always Greener", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:09", "quote_first": "He followed the squeals down a hallway. A wall clock read ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_11.json b/docs/times/08_11.json index 3f908578..e58967bb 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_11.json +++ b/docs/times/08_11.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:11", + "quote_first": "He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, ", + "quote_time_case": "8.11", + "quote_last": "; Mr Alexander, 8.23.’", + "title": "The Grass is Always Greener", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:11", "quote_first": "“Care for a turn on the engine?” he called to the doxies, and pointed up at the footplate. They laughed but voted not to, climbing up with their bathtub into one of the rattlers instead. They both had very fetching hats, with one flower apiece, but the prettiness of their faces made you think it was more. For some reason they both wore white rosettes pinned to their dresses. I looked again at the clock: ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_12.json b/docs/times/08_12.json index b9b8cdba..6e12ad9a 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_12.json +++ b/docs/times/08_12.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "At ", "quote_time_case": "8:12 a.m.", "quote_last": ", just before the moment of pff, all the business of the cellars was being transacted - garbage transferred from small cans into large ones; early wide-awake grandmas, rocky with insomnia, dumped wash into the big tubs; boys in swimming trunks rolled baby carriages out into the cool morning.", - "title": "In Time Which Made A Monkey Of Us All", + "title": "In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All", "author": "Grace Paley", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/08_13.json b/docs/times/08_13.json index 7b1cdc5a..ad4be3d4 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_13.json +++ b/docs/times/08_13.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "At ", "quote_time_case": "8:13 a.m.", "quote_last": " the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.", - "title": "In Time Which Made A Monkey Of Us All", + "title": "In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All", "author": "Grace Paley", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/08_15.json b/docs/times/08_15.json index 55d12346..bca66e99 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_15.json +++ b/docs/times/08_15.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:15", + "quote_first": "“Get me the head of the Secret Service at the White House.”
“Yes, sir.”
The Director glanced at his watch: 7:10. Andrews was due at ", + "quote_time_case": "8:15", + "quote_last": ". The phone rang.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:15", "quote_first": "No one at the desk asked Louis for identification or payment. An elderly woman showed him to a tiny, spotlessly clean room, and left without offering a word. The earliest direct flight from Prague to Vienna left at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_17.json b/docs/times/08_17.json index 2b3f3423..a85d202a 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_17.json +++ b/docs/times/08_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,31 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:17", + "quote_first": "“Then let’s get going,” said T. Hamilton McKenzie. He checked his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "8:17", + "quote_last": ". With a bit of luck he might still make the meeting on time.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:17", + "quote_first": "He caught the ", + "quote_time_case": "8:17", + "quote_last": " train so favored by those who commute from Oxford to London every day. All the people at breakfast seemed to know each other and Stephen felt like an uninvited guest at someone else’s party.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:17", + "quote_first": "Lil: Morning, shug. Check the mailbox
Me: It’s literally ", + "quote_time_case": "8:17 AM", + "quote_last": "
Lil: It’s early, I know. Left something for you when I was out walking. I suggest you get it now.", + "title": "Blink And We'll Miss It", + "author": "Ginny Kochis", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:17", "quote_first": "Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations. He consulted his instruments, and recorded:
“Monday, July 1.
“Chronometer, ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_19.json b/docs/times/08_19.json index 5dc2a22a..7d6139cb 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_19.json +++ b/docs/times/08_19.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:19", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "8:19", + "quote_last": " she received a second phone call to let her know the plane had taken off from Amman with the “cargo” on board.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:19", "quote_first": "I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_20.json b/docs/times/08_20.json index 3f4fbe2f..8ae43d47 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_20.json +++ b/docs/times/08_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:20", + "quote_first": "He had watched the early-morning commuters flooding in on every train. By ", + "quote_time_case": "twenty past eight", + "quote_last": " Adam judged they were at their peak. He checked that the icon was in place and left his hideout to join the flood as they headed to work.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:20", "quote_first": "“This morning I took the launch out for forty minutes or so to test the engine. She’s been giving a bit of trouble. That took from seven-forty-five until ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_23.json b/docs/times/08_23.json index 969118e5..bd54cbaf 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_23.json +++ b/docs/times/08_23.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:23", + "quote_first": "He looked across at his son. ‘You been booking in all those names, the way I taught you?’
‘Sure have, Dad. Mr Parnell, 7.47; Mr Parker, 8.09; Mr Tudor-Jones, 8.11; Mr Alexander, ", + "quote_time_case": "8.23", + "quote_last": ".’", + "title": "The Grass is Always Greener", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:23", "quote_first": "And then Wedderburn looked at his watch. “", diff --git a/docs/times/08_24.json b/docs/times/08_24.json index 8c87323d..b3fffe84 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_24.json +++ b/docs/times/08_24.json @@ -7,5 +7,23 @@ "title": "The Princess Bride", "author": "William Goldman", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:24", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "eight twenty-four", + "quote_last": " the senior partner walked in.
“I must apologize for keeping you away from your desks,” he began, “but this was not something that I felt could be covered by an internal memo, or slipped into my monthly report.”", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:24", + "quote_first": "Alex checked his watch as the waitress returned with his order: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:24 a.m.", + "quote_last": " He planned to enter the building for the first time at 8:55. He looked around the diner and wondered how many of the other customers worked at the bank, and were aware that their new chairman was sitting in one of the booths.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/08_25.json b/docs/times/08_25.json index b9d8555c..f22970ba 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_25.json +++ b/docs/times/08_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:25", + "quote_first": "There was one hell of a lot of things he was going to do next week. He glanced at his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:25", + "quote_last": ". No Wheaties this morning.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "08:25", "quote_first": "The twenty-five minutes from eight until ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_26.json b/docs/times/08_26.json index 4b299dcd..eaacf606 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_26.json +++ b/docs/times/08_26.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:26", + "quote_first": "He turned around and asked the youth, “What’s the time?” The young man looked proudly at his new acquisition, which he hadn’t taken his eyes off for one moment.
“", + "quote_time_case": "Twenty-six minutes after eight", + "quote_last": " and twenty seconds.”", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:26", "quote_first": "It exploded much later than intended, probably a good twelve hours later, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_27.json b/docs/times/08_27.json index 23ae5aa1..52e2033d 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_27.json +++ b/docs/times/08_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:27", + "quote_first": "On arriving at platform one at Sevenoaks station, he would purchase a copy of the Daily Express before boarding the ", + "quote_time_case": "8:27", + "quote_last": " to Cannon Street.", + "title": "Broken Routine", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:27", "quote_first": "Even dawdling over breakfast with my mother just killed an hour, and though I hadn’t planned to be at Marge’s until nine, I was knocking on her door at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_29.json b/docs/times/08_29.json index e734f8b1..eb2cfadb 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_29.json +++ b/docs/times/08_29.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:29", + "quote_first": "“If you get past eleven o’clock, young man, I think you have a good chance for a long and healthy life, but we still don’t know if it’s Dexter or Harrison. You know I think it’s Dexter.” The Director looked at his watch again: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:29", + "quote_last": "—ninety-seven minutes left.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:29", "quote_first": "Mr. Trent himself followed a rigid routine. Each day, he arose at 7 a.m., breakfasted at 7:30, and departed for work at 8:10, arriving at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_33.json b/docs/times/08_33.json index df73b225..ce9d63d1 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_33.json +++ b/docs/times/08_33.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:33", + "quote_first": "He began his descent at ", + "quote_time_case": "8:33", + "quote_last": ", and was at the gate on schedule for the first time in months. When he had turned the engine off, three men immediately blocked the gangway and remained there until the Deputy Director and his party were well inside the terminal.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:33", "quote_first": "It’s too late for any TV because of the cake, watch says it is ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_40.json b/docs/times/08_40.json index 9f4e59ca..cdbc7d69 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_40.json +++ b/docs/times/08_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:40", + "quote_first": "He left the Sherry-Netherland just after ", + "quote_time_case": "8:40", + "quote_last": ", and by the time he reached Lexington, he was just about ready to face the headmaster’s wrath.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:40", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_42.json b/docs/times/08_42.json index 288bc8e7..b46ba3b1 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_42.json +++ b/docs/times/08_42.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:42", + "quote_first": "“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. ", + "quote_time_case": "Eight forty-two", + "quote_last": ". Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”", + "title": "The Edge of Lost", + "author": "Kristina McMorris", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:42", "quote_first": "When Black himself finally appeared at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_43.json b/docs/times/08_43.json index 66f7b9d6..acab790c 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_43.json +++ b/docs/times/08_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:43", + "quote_first": "“Either way, he mustn’t be allowed to return to the White House.” The line went dead. Cavalli knew that his father was right on both counts. Cavalli checked his watch again: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:43", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:43", "quote_first": "“You understand this tape recorder is on?”
“Uh huh”
“And it’s Wednesday, May 15, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_45.json b/docs/times/08_45.json index c8e6b88b..940a4356 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_45.json +++ b/docs/times/08_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:45", + "quote_first": "DAVID ARRIVED AT the office at 9 A.M. on Monday to find that the front door was locked. He could not understand it. The secretaries were supposed to be in by ", + "quote_time_case": "8:45", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:45", "quote_first": "The bodies were discovered at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_49.json b/docs/times/08_49.json index 89875ffc..4cd444e4 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_49.json +++ b/docs/times/08_49.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:49", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "8:49", + "quote_last": " there was a loud rap on the door, and Sir Hamish muttered an inaudible reproach as David Heath went to open it. He found his contact standing there.", + "title": "A Matter of Principle", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:49", "quote_first": "I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at 8.19 and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_54.json b/docs/times/08_54.json index b9c610a6..2b3d0949 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_54.json +++ b/docs/times/08_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:54", + "quote_first": "He had to fork out almost a pound on a taxi to make sure he arrived at the police station at ", + "quote_time_case": "8:54 a.m.", + "quote_last": " A young constable took him straight through to Detective Sergeant Warwick’s office, and not an interview room.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:54", "quote_first": "“Are you aware that at ", diff --git a/docs/times/08_59.json b/docs/times/08_59.json index a0cb454f..7c4cb248 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_59.json +++ b/docs/times/08_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "08:59", + "quote_first": "“The Goodwill store opens at nine,” said Dimitri. “We must be waiting outside at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to", + "quote_last": ".”", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:59", + "quote_first": "He would then take a hackney carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and arrive in the Foreign Office at promptly ", + "quote_time_case": "8:59", + "quote_last": ", returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.", + "title": "The Chinese Statue", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "08:59", "quote_first": "She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alberto’s conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep. The reading lamp by the bed had been on all night. The green glowing digits on her desk alarm clock showed ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_01.json b/docs/times/09_01.json index d8dc60f8..f6e496cd 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_01.json +++ b/docs/times/09_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:01", + "quote_first": "As Dexter passed under the digital clock, its red numbers clicked to ", + "quote_time_case": "9:01", + "quote_last": ". The doors slid open and he marched out onto the sidewalk. Three black limousines were waiting in line with drivers by their doors.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:01", + "quote_first": "He paced around the room, using the time to rehearse his questions, questions that mustn’t sound prepared. At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past nine", + "quote_last": ", he took the piece of paper out of his pocket and dialed the number.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:01", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/09_07.json b/docs/times/09_07.json index 365ec652..4336e3d4 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_07.json +++ b/docs/times/09_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:07", + "quote_first": "During the journey Septimus would read his newspaper and smoke two cigarettes, arriving at Cannon Street at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:07", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Broken Routine", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:07", "quote_first": "Hadn’t Father Presteign said that the post came at nine or shortly after? “Shortly after” could mean anything. They could be waiting for half an hour. Five past nine. ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_12.json b/docs/times/09_12.json index f5201301..183d18e8 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_12.json +++ b/docs/times/09_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:12", + "quote_first": "As the Jefferson Memorial came into sight Dexter checked his watch yet again. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:12", + "quote_last": ". “Easily enough time,” he remarked. Less than a minute later, they were caught in a traffic jam.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:12", "quote_first": "On a Wednesday morning, then, at ", @@ -8,6 +17,15 @@ "author": "E.E. Smith", "sfw": "yes" }, + { + "time": "09:12", + "quote_first": "The massive iron door didn’t swing open until ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve minutes past nine", + "quote_last": ". Harry leaped up as a prison guard stood to one side and allowed a tall, elegant man with silver gray hair to enter.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:12", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/09_23.json b/docs/times/09_23.json index 59453b68..8e9ea927 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_23.json +++ b/docs/times/09_23.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Ulysses", "author": "James Joyce", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:23", + "quote_first": "Hugo drove his Bugatti through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard for the first time in over two years, at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:23", + "quote_last": " the following morning. He parked in the chairman’s space before making his way up to his father’s old office.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/09_25.json b/docs/times/09_25.json index b8f6d35d..439f0f5c 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_25.json +++ b/docs/times/09_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:25", + "quote_first": "With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:25", + "quote_last": " that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly eight minutes to ten.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:25", "quote_first": "The ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_27.json b/docs/times/09_27.json index c23a93ea..cba95077 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_27.json +++ b/docs/times/09_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:27", + "quote_first": "“It must be some time since you’ve been shopping in Paris,” she had told him. “That’s just about enough for a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts.” Kratz had reluctantly handed over another five thousand francs.
At ", + "quote_time_case": "9:27", + "quote_last": " the phone rang.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:27", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/09_30.json b/docs/times/09_30.json index 13f7f122..4410bf79 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_30.json +++ b/docs/times/09_30.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:30", + "quote_first": "Then with a tremor he broke the seal of the notice and began reading; he was a long while reading, before he understood. It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to appear that day at ", + "quote_time_case": "half-past nine", + "quote_last": " at the office of the district superintendent.", + "title": "Crime and Punishment", + "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:30", "quote_first": "We have three years of the past to discuss. Let that suffice until ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_31.json b/docs/times/09_31.json index 4bc01319..2608087d 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_31.json +++ b/docs/times/09_31.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:31", + "quote_first": "His phone rang at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:31", + "quote_last": ". Pat grabbed it, and was relieved to hear Mr. Levy’s voice on the other end of the line.", + "title": "You'll Never Live to Regret It", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:31", "quote_first": "Tuesday ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_33.json b/docs/times/09_33.json index 5179d16e..d6a976a2 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_33.json +++ b/docs/times/09_33.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:33", + "quote_first": "Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:33 a.m.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:33", "quote_first": "Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_35.json b/docs/times/09_35.json index 090dbf7b..2320c562 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_35.json +++ b/docs/times/09_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:35", + "quote_first": "He opened the first file and began to go over the seven questions he’d written out so neatly the night before. He glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:35 A.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:35", + "quote_first": "He proceeded to email a copy to Ron, as well as to Zack. He then finally looked at the clock in the upper right corner of his laptop. It said ", + "quote_time_case": "9:35 AM", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Under the Golden Dome", + "author": "Ray Keating", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:35", "quote_first": "Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_36.json b/docs/times/09_36.json index d5f91ba3..6f6276fc 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_36.json +++ b/docs/times/09_36.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:36", + "quote_first": "It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:36", + "quote_last": " and the traffic was now flowing smoothly. He walked over to the officer coordinating the shoot for the city’s motion picture and television office.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:36", + "quote_first": "Danny checked Nick’s watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:36 A.M.", + "quote_last": " He walked quickly downstairs and headed for reception, where he tried a different ploy.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:36", "quote_first": "I grab a pen and the pad of paper by the phone and start scribbling a list for the day. I have an image of myself moving smoothly from task to task, brush in one hand, duster in the other, bringing order to everything. Like Mary Poppins.
9:30-", diff --git a/docs/times/09_37.json b/docs/times/09_37.json index d94c114d..6590013d 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_37.json +++ b/docs/times/09_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:37", + "quote_first": "The lead car swerved between two police barriers and turned into Constitution Avenue at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:37", + "quote_last": ". When Dexter saw the floats lining up for the parade, he gave the order to turn the sirens off.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:37", "quote_first": "It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club - all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_40.json b/docs/times/09_40.json index 583bb0a6..2a357cf9 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_40.json +++ b/docs/times/09_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:40", + "quote_first": "The Chairman broke the circuit and lit another cigarette: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:40", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:40", + "quote_first": "After breakfast she selected a maternity outfit that made her, with a little assistance, look about seven months pregnant. She left the hotel at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:40", + "quote_last": " a.m., and took a taxi to Lafayette street, where she entered a monument to glass and steel, and, after checking the directory on the wall, took a lift to the twenty-first floor.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:40", "quote_first": "His business partner rang the office at about ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_43.json b/docs/times/09_43.json index edc30bc3..e74ff4dd 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_43.json +++ b/docs/times/09_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:43", + "quote_first": "Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m. Once around the block: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:43", + "quote_last": ". Once again, even slower: 9:56. Finally, he walked through the gates, across a pebbled courtyard and up a dozen steps, where a large double door was opened for him by a guard whose medals indicated that they had served in the same theater of war.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:43", "quote_first": "Monday ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_47.json b/docs/times/09_47.json index 252f2d26..b9a41023 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_47.json +++ b/docs/times/09_47.json @@ -1,4 +1,31 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:47", + "quote_first": "He left the hotel at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:47 A.M.", + "quote_last": " at his usual brisk pace “Action stations.”
Stephen and Robin snapped out of their daydreaming.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:47", + "quote_first": "“She’s dead,” he confirmed. “It must have been very sudden and with the minimum of pain.” He checked his watch; the time was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:47", + "quote_last": ". He covered his patient with a blanket and called for an ambulance.", + "title": "Old Love", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:47", + "quote_first": "The timing of the Lord Chancellor’s entrance and exit from the North Tower of the Palace of Westminster would have impressed a regimental sergeant major. At ", + "quote_time_case": "9:47 a.m.", + "quote_last": " there was a knock on the door and his secretary, David Bartholomew, entered the room.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:47", "quote_first": "“Right. . . ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_50.json b/docs/times/09_50.json index b7e0fd29..b30ef08d 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_50.json +++ b/docs/times/09_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:50", + "quote_first": "The colonel and his two colleagues entered the half-filled room at ", + "quote_time_case": "nine-fifty A.M.", + "quote_last": " and, as instructed, filed into the seats immediately behind their adversary.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:50", + "quote_first": "Lamont left his flat in Hammersmith at ", + "quote_time_case": "ten minutes to ten", + "quote_last": ", and instead of turning right and heading for the nearest tube station, as he’d done every weekday morning for the past eight years, he turned left.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:50", "quote_first": "“I should have known,” said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_51.json b/docs/times/09_51.json index 7ba44e20..61dc7cc9 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_51.json +++ b/docs/times/09_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:51", + "quote_first": "They paused in front of the great concrete blocks that had been built to house the Declaration of Independence, just as a priest might in front of an altar. Scott checked his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:51", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:51", "quote_first": "", @@ -7,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "Project Cyclops", "author": "Thomas Hoover", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:51", + "quote_first": "She had planned to be a few minutes early, and the cab dropped her off outside the building at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:51 a.m.", + "quote_last": " As she handed the driver a quarter, she was relieved that her visit to New York was coming to an end; it had turned out to be far more expensive than she had anticipated.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/09_52.json b/docs/times/09_52.json index ac08012d..735e1a07 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_52.json +++ b/docs/times/09_52.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Call for the Dead", "author": "John le Carré", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:52", + "quote_first": "With that in mind, Emma left the Manor House at 9:25 that morning, and was driven through the gates of Barrington’s shipyard at exactly ", + "quote_time_case": "eight minutes to ten", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/09_54.json b/docs/times/09_54.json index 0eefb50d..3bfc6428 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_54.json +++ b/docs/times/09_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:54", + "quote_first": "Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:54", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:54", "quote_first": "", @@ -7,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "The Undomestic Goddess", "author": "Sophie Kinsella", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:54", + "quote_first": "The car parked outside Barrington House at ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes to ten", + "quote_last": ". By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was two minutes to ten.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/09_55.json b/docs/times/09_55.json index ba71f9b0..968a4998 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_55.json +++ b/docs/times/09_55.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:55", + "quote_first": "Leave your room at ", + "quote_time_case": "five to ten", + "quote_last": ", join the orchestra in the lobby, and then make your way to the front door, where you’ll find their coach parked.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:55", + "quote_first": "Although every one of them knew that Dr. Oakshott wouldn’t be a minute early or a minute late, by ", + "quote_time_case": "five to ten", + "quote_last": " most eyes were staring across the quad waiting for the door of the headmaster’s house to open.", + "title": "Only Time Will Tell", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:55", "quote_first": "On Tuesday, 17 October, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_56.json b/docs/times/09_56.json index ab547158..3ff8a69a 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_56.json +++ b/docs/times/09_56.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:56", + "quote_first": "Harry found himself standing outside the embassy at 9:33 a.m. Once around the block: 9:43. Once again, even slower: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:56", + "quote_last": ". Finally, he walked through the gates, across a pebbled courtyard and up a dozen steps, where a large double door was opened for him by a guard whose medals indicated that they had served in the same theater of war.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:56", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/09_57.json b/docs/times/09_57.json index 62025a84..cda4598a 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_57.json +++ b/docs/times/09_57.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:57", + "quote_first": "That Thursday morning the board members were all seated in their places round the table by ", + "quote_time_case": "three minutes to ten", + "quote_last": ". The meeting began on a quiet note, with apologies for absence, followed by the acceptance of the minutes of the last meeting.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:57", "quote_first": "Friday ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_58.json b/docs/times/09_58.json index f871a1f1..7f217b56 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_58.json +++ b/docs/times/09_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:58", + "quote_first": "The car parked outside Barrington House at six minutes to ten. By the time she stepped out of the lift on the fifth floor and walked down the corridor to the chairman’s office, it was ", + "quote_time_case": "two minutes to ten", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:58", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/09_59.json b/docs/times/09_59.json index e707d07c..aa3f137f 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_59.json +++ b/docs/times/09_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,40 @@ [ + { + "time": "09:59", + "quote_first": "Alex was standing outside the principal’s office at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to ten", + "quote_last": ", having already been to the market at four that morning, and done an hour’s work on the stall before Bernie took over at eight.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:59", + "quote_first": "Fletcher had looked around when Don Culver, the chief of police, and Detective Petrowski had taken their seats in the front row, directly behind the state’s attorney’s table. At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to ten", + "quote_last": ", only thirteen seats remained unoccupied.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:59", + "quote_first": "Harry took his place at a desk in the front row, and just ", + "quote_time_case": "moments before the clock struck ten", + "quote_last": ", several masters in long black gowns and mortarboards swept in and placed examination papers on the desks in front of each candidate.", + "title": "Only Time Will Tell", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:59", + "quote_first": "THE FRONT DOORBELL rang at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to ten", + "quote_last": ", and Karl answered it.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "09:59", "quote_first": "“I should have known,” said Maddy. It was typical for the church to be nearly empty at 9:50 and full at ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_01.json b/docs/times/10_01.json index 5c03d514..157c6500 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_01.json +++ b/docs/times/10_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:01", + "quote_first": "“Right, go ahead,” said the Director crisply. “Report to me as soon as they’re ready but leave the final briefing to the last possible moment, and, Matt, I want no helicopters until ", + "quote_time_case": "10:01", + "quote_last": ". I don’t want there to be a chance of a leak of any sort; it’s our one hope of catching the assassin.”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:01", + "quote_first": "He entered the lawyer’s glass domain at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past ten", + "quote_last": ", sat down opposite his client and smiled, before placing his Gladstone bag on the floor next to his chair.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:01", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/10_02.json b/docs/times/10_02.json index d7c8a231..e6c321ee 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_02.json +++ b/docs/times/10_02.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:02", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:02", + "quote_last": ", her eyes rested for a split second on every person who came in.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:02", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_03.json b/docs/times/10_03.json index 29697141..22600df7 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_03.json +++ b/docs/times/10_03.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:03", + "quote_first": "She passes the FBI Building at ", + "quote_time_case": "three minutes past [ten]", + "quote_last": ", she passes the Peace Monument at the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds at five minutes past.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:03", "quote_first": "It’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_05.json b/docs/times/10_05.json index 87fb6717..10f1d365 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_05.json +++ b/docs/times/10_05.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:05", + "quote_first": "She passes the FBI Building at three minutes past [ten], she passes the Peace Monument at the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds at ", + "quote_time_case": "five minutes past", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:05", + "quote_first": "GUY KNOCKED ON George’s door, but there was no reply. He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "10:05", + "quote_last": ". George couldn’t be in hall having breakfast, because they finished serving at nine on a Sunday, and he surely wouldn’t have gone to the Freshers’ Fair without him.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:05", "quote_first": "We both watch as a pair of swans sail regally under the little bridge. Then I glance at my watch. It’s already ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_06.json b/docs/times/10_06.json index 9fb45cff..acca494f 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_06.json +++ b/docs/times/10_06.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:06", + "quote_first": "“All right, Matt, let’s assume that the point of maximum risk is the Capitol itself, at ", + "quote_time_case": "10:06", + "quote_last": ", right on the steps—what then?”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:06", + "quote_first": "She gets out of her car at the east front of the Capitol at ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes past [ten]", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:06", "quote_first": "“You have fifteen minutes,” he said. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_07.json b/docs/times/10_07.json index 11099f6b..15f314b4 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_07.json +++ b/docs/times/10_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,31 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:07", + "quote_first": "“Follow the diversion sign,” he said, without even looking at her.
She glanced at the clock on her dashboard. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "10:07", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:07", + "quote_first": "“It must have been about ", + "quote_time_case": "seven minutes past ten", + "quote_last": ". I remember because I checked my watch when that coach left.”
“The coach?” said Romanov.
“Yes, the one that was being loaded up with musical instruments. It left about …”", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:07", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:07 GMT", + "quote_last": "
Once they had settled in Superintendent Wall’s office, the three police officers checked and double-checked every detail of Operation Blue Period.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:07", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/10_10.json b/docs/times/10_10.json index 67d4ab09..bcbb4072 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_10.json +++ b/docs/times/10_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:10", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "ten minutes past ten", + "quote_last": " the next morning, William received another call from his now agitated broker. Another million dollars’ worth of Interstate stock had been placed on the market at the opening bell.", + "title": "Kane & Abel", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:10", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "10:10", + "quote_last": ", two white-coated orderlies wheeled a tall, well-built man in a chair out through the swing doors and, seeing the car parked in the dean’s space, guided him towards it. The driver jumped out and quickly opened the back door. Poor man, he thought, his head all covered in bandages and only a small crack left for his lips and nostrils. He wondered if it had been burns.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:10", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/10_11.json b/docs/times/10_11.json index 78920b72..b0391152 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_11.json +++ b/docs/times/10_11.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:11", + "quote_first": "“Fine,” said Florentyna Kane and looked at her watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "10:11", + "quote_last": ". The digits changed—and were replaced by the rate of her heartbeat—72; normal, she thought.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:11", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:11", + "quote_last": ", had he called her bluff?", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:11", "quote_first": "It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_12.json b/docs/times/10_12.json index 18e4f8bc..f86e0f06 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_12.json +++ b/docs/times/10_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:12", + "quote_first": "This disappeared and the watch showed ", + "quote_time_case": "10:12", + "quote_last": ". The President rehearsed the opening line of her speech for the last time. She’d gone over the final draft with Edward that morning, and she was satisfied with it.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:12", + "quote_first": "George checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "10:12", + "quote_last": ". Although their progress had been slower than he had anticipated, he still believed that if they could reach the summit by midday, they would have enough time to return to the North Col before sunset.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:12", "quote_first": "“I’ll take the coffee tray out,” I suggest humbly. As I pick it up I glance again at my watch. ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_14.json b/docs/times/10_14.json index 12c444de..e9d92dc7 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_14.json +++ b/docs/times/10_14.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:14", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:14", + "quote_last": ", would her next appointment have to be with Mr. Brett Elders?", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:14", "quote_first": "Okay. ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_17.json b/docs/times/10_17.json index 7bf64729..3fa2c612 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_17.json +++ b/docs/times/10_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:17", + "quote_first": "Pacey hummed to himself as he walked slowly toward Abel’s office for their daily ten o’clock meeting. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "seventeen minutes past ten", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Kane & Abel", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:17", "quote_first": "She looked at the corner of the screen. It was only ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_20.json b/docs/times/10_20.json index 100115b1..c530cee5 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_20.json +++ b/docs/times/10_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:20", + "quote_first": "They arrived outside Brides of Bombay at ", + "quote_time_case": "twenty minutes past ten", + "quote_last": ". This was never going to be an appointment Seb would be late for. Vijay didn’t comment when Seb asked him to park out of sight, but he was surprised by his next instruction.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:20", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "10:20", + "quote_last": " there was a gentle tap on the door and, like the fairy godmother, Mr. Harrison reappeared.
“I hope you both enjoyed a good night’s sleep,” he ventured.
“Couldn’t have been better,” said William, after he’d drained his coffee.
Not much chance of that when you’re married to a caveman, Beth wanted to tell him, but kept her thoughts to herself.", + "title": "Hidden in Plain Sight", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:20", "quote_first": "A May wind, swelling up like a piece of fruit, with a rough outer skin, slimy flesh, dozens of seeds. The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.
“What time is it?” my cousin asked me. About eight inches shorter than me, he had to look up when he talked.
I glanced at my watch. “", diff --git a/docs/times/10_21.json b/docs/times/10_21.json index 58350c93..c8cc888d 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_21.json +++ b/docs/times/10_21.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:21", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:21", + "quote_last": ", and a voice behind her said, “Good morning, Miss Barrington.”", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:21", "quote_first": "Liz Headleand stares into the mirror, as though entranced. She does not see herself or the objects on her dressing-table. The clock abruptly jerks to ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_24.json b/docs/times/10_24.json index 0f8efa12..f5cf1d00 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_24.json +++ b/docs/times/10_24.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:24", + "quote_first": "Cavalli checked his watch, it was ", + "quote_time_case": "10:24", + "quote_last": ", and they’d already been inside the building for seventeen minutes. Although the limousines were waiting, he had no choice but to allow the Conservator to carry on at his own pace.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:24", "quote_first": "Arnet entered the Peabody Wildlife Management Area at ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_51.json b/docs/times/10_51.json index c7a51824..085c00b9 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_51.json +++ b/docs/times/10_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:51", + "quote_first": "but he still remained confident that they could make it to the top when they reached 27,550 feet at ", + "quote_time_case": "10:51", + "quote_last": ". That was when he heard a cry that sounded like a wounded animal. He knew it wasn’t Finch.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:51", + "quote_first": "‘Anything else?’ he asked, stealing another glance at the clock: ", + "quote_time_case": "10.51", + "quote_last": ". Still time to kill.
‘I had a word with my parole officer on Monday,’ said Faulkner, ‘and he made no mention of an early release.’", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:51", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_53.json b/docs/times/10_53.json index fe60e143..a6a1c483 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_53.json +++ b/docs/times/10_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:53", + "quote_first": "George wanted to say no, but knew he couldn’t. He checked his watch—", + "quote_time_case": "10:53", + "quote_last": "—and nodded. “Good luck,” he said, “but you must turn back by midday at the latest.”", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:53", "quote_first": "He begins to make a record of our observations.“", diff --git a/docs/times/10_54.json b/docs/times/10_54.json index d6d8167e..2692bc8e 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_54.json +++ b/docs/times/10_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:54", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "10:54 GMT", + "quote_last": "
“Commander Hawksby’s office.”
“It’s Bruce Lamont, Angela. Can you put me through to the boss?”
“He’s still in Italy, Bruce. I’m not expecting him back until Monday.”", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:54", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_55.json b/docs/times/10_55.json index 09881ad6..90bfe4a8 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_55.json +++ b/docs/times/10_55.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:55", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "ten fifty-five hours", + "quote_last": " sharp Lance Corporal Trumper stood trembling outside the colonel’s tent, almost as fearful of his commanding officer as of going over the top. A few minutes later the company sergeant major marched out of the tent to collect him.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:55", "quote_first": "The call came on his dedicated mobile at ", diff --git a/docs/times/10_56.json b/docs/times/10_56.json index 69a85fa8..f28485a4 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_56.json +++ b/docs/times/10_56.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:56", + "quote_first": "The second hand moved relentlessly—relentlessly towards ", + "quote_time_case": "10:56", + "quote_last": ". He busied himself with breakfast and the morning paper. The Post informed him that many buildings had caught fire during the night in one of the worst storms in Washington’s history, and the Lubber Run in Virginia had overflowed its banks, causing heavy property damage.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:56", "quote_first": "“Here’s your clock, Katy,” he said. “I’ve got it fixed so that it strikes all right. Only you must be careful not to hit the stiker when you start the pendulum.”
“Have you really?” said Katy. “Why, Dorry, you’re a genius! I’m ever so much obliged.”
“It’s ", @@ -7,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "What Katy Did", "author": "Susan Coolidge", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:56", + "quote_first": "BOOTH WATSON KNEW IT WOULD be a question of careful timing if he hoped to pull it off. He’d have to keep one eye on the clock to make sure it was ", + "quote_time_case": "10.56", + "quote_last": " before he made his move.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/10_59.json b/docs/times/10_59.json index 6c8fe5a3..433f9247 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_59.json +++ b/docs/times/10_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "10:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "10:59", + "quote_last": " the butler opened the front door and the crowds began to cheer.
The President and her husband waved to the smiling eyes and only sensed by experience and professional instinct that fifty people were not looking toward them.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "10:59", "quote_first": "She had just returned from the only shopping she needed to do that day, and it was still ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_03.json b/docs/times/11_03.json index 68c73742..db441bf1 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_03.json +++ b/docs/times/11_03.json @@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ "quote_last": ", the editor of the Yidische Zaitung put in a call to him; Doctor Yarmolinsky did not answer. He was found in his room, his face already a little dark, nearly nude beneath a large, anachronistic cape.", "title": "Death and the Compass", "author": "Jorge Luis Borges", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_04.json b/docs/times/11_04.json index 34def80d..b6ad3bee 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_04.json +++ b/docs/times/11_04.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:04", + "quote_first": "Senator Harrison died before he reached the hospital and Mark had his wound patched up by a house doctor. Mark checked his watch and laughed. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "11:04", + "quote_last": "—he was going to live.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:04", "quote_first": "Consequently we are happy to announce that since the excess excuses have now been used, the ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_12.json b/docs/times/11_12.json index ce6a3c2e..99eca759 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_12.json +++ b/docs/times/11_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:12", + "quote_first": "“", + "quote_time_case": "11:12", + "quote_last": " action stations, action stations.”
James slipped quickly into the Lamanns Gallery as Jean-Pierre once again removed from his window the Sutherland watercolor of the Thames and the Boatman, and replaced it with an oil by Van Gogh, as magnificent an example of the master’s work as a London gallery had ever seen.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:12", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/11_16.json b/docs/times/11_16.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57f92cb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/times/11_16.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[ + { + "time": "11:16", + "quote_first": "Eventually, at ", + "quote_time_case": "11:16", + "quote_last": ", he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + } +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_17.json b/docs/times/11_17.json index 749d92d5..d888b1d9 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_17.json +++ b/docs/times/11_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:17", + "quote_first": "When Sir Matthew was directly behind his client, he checked his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "11:17", + "quote_last": ". He knew his timing had to be exact, because he had become uncomfortably aware that he was dealing not only with a clever woman but also an extremely cunning one.", + "title": "An Eye for an Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "11:17", + "quote_first": "Ted presented himself at the front door of Number 10 at ", + "quote_time_case": "11:17", + "quote_last": " the next day. The deputy clerk accompanied him down the long corridor to the ground floor and asked him to take a seat in the small waiting area that adjoins the Cabinet Room.", + "title": "Shoeshine Boy", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:17", "quote_first": "Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George’s Church had stopped ringing. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_20.json b/docs/times/11_20.json index 80dc575d..7812200c 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_20.json +++ b/docs/times/11_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:20", + "quote_first": "By ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven-twenty", + "quote_last": " Adam decided he could no longer chance being seen on the road. He stared down the ravine, realizing there was no alternative left open to him now but foot.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:20", "quote_first": "On Friday 17 September at ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_21.json b/docs/times/11_21.json index 3796f725..b376c00d 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_21.json +++ b/docs/times/11_21.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:21", + "quote_first": "She checked her watch yet again: ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven twenty-one", + "quote_last": ". For the first time she began to feel slightly uneasy. Then suddenly she saw him striding across the platform towards her followed by a man dragging two cases, and a porter wheeling even more luggage.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:21", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_23.json b/docs/times/11_23.json index 94a3cef5..4234bed1 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_23.json +++ b/docs/times/11_23.json @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ "quote_time_case": "11:23 a.m.", "quote_last": "", "title": "The Black Corridor", - "author": "Micheal Moorcock", + "author": "Michael Moorcock", "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_25.json b/docs/times/11_25.json index 5297238e..bd86ba69 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_25.json +++ b/docs/times/11_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:25", + "quote_first": "The BEA Viscount landed at Geneva airport at ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven twenty-five", + "quote_last": " local time that morning, a few minutes later than scheduled. The stewardess advised passengers to put their watches forward one hour to Central European Time.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:25", "quote_first": "At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous, a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise, annoyance, etc. Christine’s task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed, she asked Linda at ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_30.json b/docs/times/11_30.json index 236482e6..473e0412 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_30.json +++ b/docs/times/11_30.json @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ "quote_first": "“O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints’, and I was at the door at ", "quote_time_case": "half-past eleven", "quote_last": " to a minute as you said.”", - "title": "Far from the Madding Crowd", + "title": "Far From the Madding Crowd", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/11_34.json b/docs/times/11_34.json index 8dfa399f..ab00b1b3 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_34.json +++ b/docs/times/11_34.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:34", + "quote_first": "The private detective joined him at ", + "quote_time_case": "11:34 a.m.", + "quote_last": ", only minutes after the Paddington express had pulled into Temple Meads station. Mitchell slipped into the chair opposite his only client, although he hadn’t received any remuneration for several months.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:34", "quote_first": "Christmas Eve 1995. ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_37.json b/docs/times/11_37.json index 5eb4350a..2c7fbd03 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_37.json +++ b/docs/times/11_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:37", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven thirty-seven", + "quote_last": " I handed over the full and final settlement to Mr. Fothergill in exchange for the freehold of Number 1 Chelsea Terrace.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:37", "quote_first": "Took a call at ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_38.json b/docs/times/11_38.json index e0486243..f1c4cd33 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_38.json +++ b/docs/times/11_38.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:38", + "quote_first": "He glanced at his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "11:38", + "quote_last": ". He put down his drink, and ran out of the apartment.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:38", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_41.json b/docs/times/11_41.json index 332ee520..780ffbe2 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_41.json +++ b/docs/times/11_41.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:41", + "quote_first": "Once he was back behind the wheel, he checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "11:41", + "quote_last": ". No reason he shouldn’t make it to Shillingford in a couple of hours, although he knew his father would be pacing up and down the driveway long before then.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:41", "quote_first": "Spagnola took a deep breath and started into the log again. “", diff --git a/docs/times/11_45.json b/docs/times/11_45.json index 66b9d11f..a8162e05 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_45.json +++ b/docs/times/11_45.json @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ "quote_first": "I waited till a ", "quote_time_case": "quarter to twelve", "quote_last": ", and found then that I was in All Souls’. But I wasn’t much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.", - "title": "Far from the Madding Crowd", + "title": "Far From the Madding Crowd", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/11_48.json b/docs/times/11_48.json deleted file mode 100644 index a532e7c2..00000000 --- a/docs/times/11_48.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -[ - { - "time": "11:48", - "quote_first": "At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ", - "quote_time_case": "ten minutes before noon", - "quote_last": ".", - "title": "The Circle", - "author": "Dave Eggers", - "sfw": "yes" - } -] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_50.json b/docs/times/11_50.json index 423d499c..f1f11e29 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_50.json +++ b/docs/times/11_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:50", + "quote_first": "At 11:38, she left her desk and walked to the side door of the auditorium, arriving ", + "quote_time_case": "ten minutes before noon", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "The Circle", + "author": "Dave Eggers", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:50", "quote_first": "The man who gave them to him handed him a ten-shilling note and promised him another if it were delivered at exactly ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_55.json b/docs/times/11_55.json index fed21ee1..c6c81f90 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_55.json +++ b/docs/times/11_55.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:55", + "quote_first": "The prisoners would be allowed out of their cells to watch the World Cup match between England and Argentina. At ", + "quote_time_case": "five minutes to twelve", + "quote_last": ", the doors were unlocked and the prisoners flooded out of their cells, all heading in one direction.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:55", "quote_first": "He was tearing off on his bicycle to one of the jobs about ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_56.json b/docs/times/11_56.json index b916c3aa..ebbbd6dc 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_56.json +++ b/docs/times/11_56.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:56", + "quote_first": "Aaron checked his watch on the run: ", + "quote_time_case": "four minutes to twelve", + "quote_last": ". He prayed that Harry would be late. Harry was never late.", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:56", "quote_first": "16th December 1985, ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_58.json b/docs/times/11_58.json index d433bdd4..4a461686 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_58.json +++ b/docs/times/11_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "11:58", + "quote_first": "Danny turned to the business section of The Times to check on his investments while he waited for the innocent Mr. Hall to appear. At ", + "quote_time_case": "two minutes to twelve", + "quote_last": ", Mario was standing by his side. “Sir Nicholas, your guest has arrived.”", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "11:58", "quote_first": "Nguyen shrugged. He pointed at the clock on the dashboard that said ", diff --git a/docs/times/11_59.json b/docs/times/11_59.json index 4a34e913..4ce5a19a 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_59.json +++ b/docs/times/11_59.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley: A Hercule Poirot Story", "author": "Agatha Christie", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "11:59", + "quote_first": "The day after that again, ", + "quote_time_case": "about noon", + "quote_last": ", a decurion with his command of ten horsemen approached Nazareth from the south—that is, from the direction of Jerusalem. The place was then a straggling village, perched on a hill-side, and so insignificant that its one street was little more than a path well beaten by the coming and going of flocks and herds.", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/12_00.json b/docs/times/12_00.json index 0c55524a..fd6ce791 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_00.json +++ b/docs/times/12_00.json @@ -1,4 +1,58 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "Towards ", + "quote_time_case": "noon", + "quote_last": " he rose and began to write a letter to her; but he could not find the right words, and after many times laying his brush aside he determined at last to send her some nice pictures instead.", + "title": "The Tale of Genji", + "author": "Murasaki Shikibu", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "And there, almost at its foot, so close that the shadow of the palace tower fell upon it in the ", + "quote_time_case": "noonday", + "quote_last": " sun, was his own house, sandwiched between the walls, with its small courtyard, two low doors, and the little pool of water.", + "title": "With My Own Eyes", + "author": "Bo Giertz", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "noon", + "quote_last": " that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum. The wind was yet from the west, filling the sail to the master’s content. The watches had been established. On the foredeck the altar had been set and sprinkled with salt and barley, and before it the tribune had offered solemn prayers to Jove and to Neptune and all the Oceanidae, and, with vows, poured the wine and burned the incense.", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "An hour passed, and though Pilate deigned them no answer, the rabbis and crowd remained. ", + "quote_time_case": "Noon", + "quote_last": " came, bringing a shower from the west, but no change in the situation, except that the multitude was larger and much noisier, and the feeling more decidedly angry.", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "Exactly at ", + "quote_time_case": "noon", + "quote_last": " the dromedary, of its own will, stopped, and uttered the cry or moan, peculiarly piteous, by which its kind always protest against an overload, and sometimes crave attention and rest. The master thereupon bestirred himself, waking, as it were, from sleep.", + "title": "Ben-Hur", + "author": "Lew Wallace", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:00", + "quote_first": "It was about ", + "quote_time_case": "noon", + "quote_last": " today when Jim Pietre called the office on the phone.
“Now, look, Pete,” he started out. “What kind of gag are you pulling?”
I chortled to myself and pulled the dead pan on him.
“What do you mean, boy?” I asked back into the phone. “Gag? What kind of gag? What are you talking about?”
“A coin. A coin.” He was impatient. “You remember you sent me a coin in the mail?”", + "title": "Star, Bright", + "author": "Mark Clifton", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:00", "quote_first": "“Guess what!” said Klaus as he spooned lentil soup into Gunther’s mouth at the ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_01.json b/docs/times/12_01.json index 9e96d6b2..3168a7a1 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_01.json +++ b/docs/times/12_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:01", + "quote_first": "“Madam President …” Florentyna had to think quickly to prevent anyone noticing her instinctive response to the words. “It’s ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past midday", + "quote_last": ".”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:01", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past twelve", + "quote_last": ", Percy stood to attention, slowly raised the Union Jack up the flagpole and delivered the exact words required by the Territories Settlement Act of 1762: “I claim this sovereign territory in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom I swear my allegiance.”", + "title": "The Undiplomatic Diplomat", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:01", "quote_first": "It was the twelfth of December, the twelfth month. A was twelve. The electric clock/radio by his bedside table said ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_20.json b/docs/times/12_20.json index 09a8b944..0d048a34 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_20.json +++ b/docs/times/12_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:20", + "quote_first": "He sipped it slowly and lit a Romeo y Julieta Churchill, which an Italian immigrant smuggled in for him in boxes of two hundred and fifty once a month from Cuba. He settled back for a mild celebration. In Boston, Massachusetts, it was ", + "quote_time_case": "12:20 P.M.", + "quote_last": "—nearly time for lunch.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_21.json b/docs/times/12_21.json index 78bdd24e..2ac5e2f8 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_21.json +++ b/docs/times/12_21.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:21", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "12:21 GMT", + "quote_last": "
“Any questions?” asked Jackie when she’d come to the end of her briefing.
A hand shot up. “Which of the two teams is more likely to be needed?”", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:21", "quote_first": "Jake think of something. PLEASE! ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_25.json b/docs/times/12_25.json index e5d9d536..62991370 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_25.json +++ b/docs/times/12_25.json @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ "time": "12:25", "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "12.25 pm", - "quote_last": ". 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken", - "title": "A Kestrel For a Knave", + "quote_last": ". 26. 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.", + "title": "A Kestrel for a Knave", "author": "Barry Hines", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/12_26.json b/docs/times/12_26.json index 687126e3..b91b48c7 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_26.json +++ b/docs/times/12_26.json @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:26", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "12:26 P.M.", + "quote_last": "
“I, Florentyna Kane, do solemnly swear …”
“I, Florentyna Kane, do solemnly swear …”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:26", "quote_first": "12.25 pm. ", "quote_time_case": "26", - "quote_last": ". 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken", - "title": "A Kestrel For a Knave", + "quote_last": ". 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.", + "title": "A Kestrel for a Knave", "author": "Barry Hines", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/12_27.json b/docs/times/12_27.json index 3ff85f3b..78b69600 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_27.json +++ b/docs/times/12_27.json @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ "time": "12:27", "quote_first": "12.25 pm. 26. ", "quote_time_case": "27", - "quote_last": ". Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken", - "title": "A Kestrel For a Knave", + "quote_last": ". Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken.", + "title": "A Kestrel for a Knave", "author": "Barry Hines", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/12_35.json b/docs/times/12_35.json index 94ebb5e8..86e92777 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_35.json +++ b/docs/times/12_35.json @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:35", + "quote_first": "“Unfortunately you missed the early morning plane for Rome. However, we managed to book you onto the ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve thirty-five", + "quote_last": " flight, and the airline has upgraded you to business class. A limousine will be waiting outside to take you back to the airport.”
“Of course it will,” said Beth.
“I beg your pardon, madam?”", + "title": "Hidden in Plain Sight", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:35", "quote_first": "As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was ", "quote_time_case": "twelve-thirty-five", "quote_last": " when they were dismissed.", - "title": "Men At Arms", + "title": "Men at Arms", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/12_36.json b/docs/times/12_36.json index c97f30ec..1459a0bf 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_36.json +++ b/docs/times/12_36.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:36", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "12:36 CET", + "quote_last": "
Once the ship had docked, William and Monti leaned over the railing and watched as Grant lugged the casket down the gangway. He was still clutching it as he climbed into the back seat of a waiting car.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:36", "quote_first": "She was going to walk calmly, coolly, up this amazing flight of stairs and into this building. There she was going to find Taylor, because it was already ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_40.json b/docs/times/12_40.json index 9720b368..b9045c57 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_40.json +++ b/docs/times/12_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:40", + "quote_first": "When it came to work, Anne was always on time, and at ", + "quote_time_case": "12:40 P.M.", + "quote_last": " she appeared from the Piccadilly end of the street.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:40", "quote_first": "“I have received your name from the Skilled Women’s Agency together with their recommendation. I understand they know you personally. I shall be glad to pay you the salary you ask and shall expect you to take up your duties on August 8th. The train is the ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_45.json b/docs/times/12_45.json index 13f6c6b8..0709806a 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_45.json +++ b/docs/times/12_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:45", + "quote_first": "On Friday at ", + "quote_time_case": "12:45 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", David arrived at the Athenaeum, a massive white building on the corner of Pall Mall, overlooked by a statue of the Duke of York.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:45", "quote_first": "That Sunday was a picture-book summer day in Maine: clear, bright, warm. At ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_50.json b/docs/times/12_50.json index 50550858..66539623 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_50.json +++ b/docs/times/12_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:50", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "12:50", + "quote_last": ". They still had more than enough time to reach the top and be back in their little tent before the last rays of sunlight disappeared.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "12:50", + "quote_first": "“There are two flights out of Bombay today, both of them Air India.” She glanced down at her pad. “One in forty minutes’ time, at ", + "quote_time_case": "12:50", + "quote_last": ", so you couldn’t possibly make it to the airport in time, and one-“", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:50", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/12_52.json b/docs/times/12_52.json index 178f7a19..456195f4 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_52.json +++ b/docs/times/12_52.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:52", + "quote_first": "Consuela stood on the pavement and checked her watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "12:52", + "quote_last": ", and she had to accept that it had been a fruitless morning.", + "title": "Cheap at Half the Price", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:52", "quote_first": "The nightclub stood on the junction, flamboyant, still. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/12_58.json b/docs/times/12_58.json index 952d0597..30f1818d 100644 --- a/docs/times/12_58.json +++ b/docs/times/12_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "12:58", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "two minutes to one", + "quote_last": ", Charlie Duncan entered the Palm Court restaurant wearing an open-necked shirt and smoking a cigarette—a walking H. M. Bateman cartoon.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "12:58", "quote_first": "The watch on my wrist showed ", diff --git a/docs/times/13_08.json b/docs/times/13_08.json index 3cb0fcbf..0d990e85 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_08.json +++ b/docs/times/13_08.json @@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "Replay", "author": "Kim Grimwood", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "13:08", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "13:08 GMT", + "quote_last": "
Lamont and Jackie had joined the team in the canteen for lunch, where the babble of expectant chatter revealed how eager they all were to get on with the job.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/13_10.json b/docs/times/13_10.json index 1ab020fc..7f4f4b11 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_10.json +++ b/docs/times/13_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "13:10", + "quote_first": "Thirty minutes later Fletcher passed Harry in the corridor on his way out, as Jimmy had insisted that, if they were still going to visit every counting house, then they had to leave by ", + "quote_time_case": "1:10", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "13:10", "quote_first": "It was at ", diff --git a/docs/times/13_15.json b/docs/times/13_15.json index 5f591263..0ebbd896 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_15.json +++ b/docs/times/13_15.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "13:15", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "1:15 P.M.", + "quote_last": " Fletcher glanced up at the receptionist, who looked apologetic and offered him a second coffee.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "13:15", "quote_first": "I got up slowly and made my way down the hall.
“I’m 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨,” I hissed through the door. I squinted into the peephole: Reva looks bedraggled and deranged.
“Can I come in?” she asked. “I really need to talk.”
“Can I just call you later? What time is it?”
“", diff --git a/docs/times/13_28.json b/docs/times/13_28.json index 074e805b..d68c881d 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_28.json +++ b/docs/times/13_28.json @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ "quote_time_case": "13:28", "quote_last": " Van walked into the Korvel Mercantile Tower, then took the lift to the third floor. From there, he made his way along the southern corridor to the open door beside the IIS spelled out in silvered letters on the taupe plaster wall. He stepped inside.", "title": "The Ethos Effect", - "author": "L.E. Modesitt, Jr.", + "author": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/13_35.json b/docs/times/13_35.json index f68a8ecb..d538b7a1 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_35.json +++ b/docs/times/13_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "13:35", + "quote_first": "Fletcher checked his watch again. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "1:35 P.M.", + "quote_last": " He sighed and asked the receptionist if he could use the washroom.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "13:35", "quote_first": "", @@ -6,6 +15,6 @@ "quote_last": "
Katelyn stood in the hallway, her hands on her hips, enjoying the hell out of the moment. “So I see how it is,” she said. “Your cousin can visit during finals week but my sister can’t.”", "title": "Kitchens of the Great Midwest", "author": "J. Ryan Stradal", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/13_45.json b/docs/times/13_45.json index a4c07cd7..d99f1c50 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_45.json +++ b/docs/times/13_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "13:45", + "quote_first": "“Let us know the moment Harvey leaves his box. My guess is that around ", + "quote_time_case": "1:45", + "quote_last": " he’ll come and look at the runners and riders for the two o’clock, so that gives us a clear hour.”", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "13:45", "quote_first": "That period which is always so dangerous, when the wicket is bad, the ten minutes before lunch, proved fatal to two more of the enemy. The last man had just gone to the wickets, with the score at a hundred and thirty-one, when a ", diff --git a/docs/times/13_55.json b/docs/times/13_55.json index 9b5c549c..1f639826 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_55.json +++ b/docs/times/13_55.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "13:55", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "1:55", + "quote_last": " he returned to the insurance records until the fifteen-minute tea break at four o’clock, which was another ritual occasion for two more cigarettes.", + "title": "Broken Routine", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "13:55", "quote_first": "If I was punctual in quitting Mlle. Reuter’s domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at ", diff --git a/docs/times/13_56.json b/docs/times/13_56.json index b6b1d42b..1f2f5037 100644 --- a/docs/times/13_56.json +++ b/docs/times/13_56.json @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ "quote_last": "
Happily, Katelyn was out of the dorm room, off doing whatever the hell she did on campus, so Braque could type her computer passwords for Eva without worrying about her cooze of a roommate getting them.", "title": "Kitchens of the Great Midwest", "author": "J. Ryan Stradal", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/14_00.json b/docs/times/14_00.json index 3e08508d..444d809f 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_00.json +++ b/docs/times/14_00.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:00", + "quote_first": "“Where exactly? And when? We’ll need to be there.”
“The square. On the steps of the old library.” She glanced to the clock above the pub. “", + "quote_time_case": "Two hours past midday", + "quote_last": ", I believe.”", + "title": "From These Dark Depths", + "author": "Vanessa Rasanen", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:00", "quote_first": "An awful silence followed this remark, which was broken by Peter saying, “Giant Wimbleweather and the Bear and Centaur Glenstorm shall be our marshals. The combat will be at ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_01.json b/docs/times/14_01.json index 175f670c..db25bca8 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_01.json +++ b/docs/times/14_01.json @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ { "time": "14:01", "quote_first": "At ", - "quote_time_case": "about two o’ clock", - "quote_last": " the owners young wife came, carrying a handleless cup and a pot with a quilted cover, to where I was still lying disconsolate", + "quote_time_case": "about two o’clock", + "quote_last": " the owner’s young wife came, carrying a handleless cup and a pot with a quilted cover, to where I was still lying disconsolate.", "title": "A Single Pebble", "author": "John Hershey", "sfw": "yes" diff --git a/docs/times/14_07.json b/docs/times/14_07.json index 5e3ceaf5..46afbb5e 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_07.json +++ b/docs/times/14_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:07", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "2:07 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1924
WHEN GEORGE LOOKED up again, it appeared as if the peak was within touching distance, despite the altimeter warning him that they still had over 300 feet to climb.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:07", "quote_first": "He poked his head into Tonay’s office at about ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_12.json b/docs/times/14_12.json index 6fa7d028..f1f7a712 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_12.json +++ b/docs/times/14_12.json @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ [ { "time": "14:12", - "quote_first": "However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime? At ", + "quote_first": "However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime?
At ", "quote_time_case": "twelve minutes past two", "quote_last": ", the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.", "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", - "author": "Jeffery Archer", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/14_15.json b/docs/times/14_15.json index 3692a50e..11501597 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_15.json +++ b/docs/times/14_15.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:15", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "2:15 P.M.", + "quote_last": "
Mark finished his lunch. Two other men finished their sandwiches and also rose to leave. Mark quickly returned to the Senate, as he wanted to catch Henry Lykham before the floor debate started.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:15", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/14_20.json b/docs/times/14_20.json index 96881902..062b6a5a 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_20.json +++ b/docs/times/14_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:20", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "2:20 p.m.", + "quote_last": " Kickoff at 3:00. Forty thousand fans were all heading in the same direction. The majority were wearing red-and-white scarves, although a large contingent wore blue-and-white.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:20", "quote_first": "“", diff --git a/docs/times/14_37.json b/docs/times/14_37.json index de700e96..6bc4287d 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_37.json +++ b/docs/times/14_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:37", + "quote_first": "However, what he hadn’t anticipated was that it would stop at every station from Finsbury Park to Stevenage, so by the time the train finally puffed into Cambridge, the station clock showed ", + "quote_time_case": "2:37 P.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:37", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/14_38.json b/docs/times/14_38.json index ff691aeb..fca8373e 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_38.json +++ b/docs/times/14_38.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Project Cyclops", "author": "Thomas Hoover", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "14:38", + "quote_first": "The bus continued on its way into Bristol, a journey he would normally cover in about twelve minutes in the Lagonda, but today it took over an hour before they finally pulled into the bus station. Hugo was neither the first nor the last passenger to get off. He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "2:38 p.m.", + "quote_last": " He’d left himself enough time.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/14_40.json b/docs/times/14_40.json index 8b62bc5f..4da61fb9 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_40.json +++ b/docs/times/14_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:40", + "quote_first": "“I’ve already explained to the fellow that the only ", + "quote_time_case": "two-forty", + "quote_last": " I know is the bus that runs between Golders Green and Edgware, and if I don’t get a move on, I’ll miss my beloved 14,” said Lawrence, checking his watch.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:40", "quote_first": "If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. “We better hurry,” I said. “The show starts at ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_41.json b/docs/times/14_41.json index 5cc705c1..09b2f1c3 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_41.json +++ b/docs/times/14_41.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:41", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "Nineteen minutes to three", + "quote_last": ". “No need to rush,” she told Emma when there was a knock on the door. She was sure she’d hung the Do Not Disturb sign on the doorknob and told the chauffeur not to expect them before three.", + "title": "Only Time Will Tell", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:41", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_42.json b/docs/times/14_42.json index 3d1c35a6..b77952f9 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_42.json +++ b/docs/times/14_42.json @@ -25,14 +25,5 @@ "title": "Project Cyclops", "author": "Thomas Hoover", "sfw": "no" - }, - { - "time": "14:42", - "quote_first": "The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is ", - "quote_time_case": "eighteen minutes to three", - "quote_last": ".", - "title": "Fairyland", - "author": "Paul J. McAuley", - "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/14_45.json b/docs/times/14_45.json index 0e245df4..21f3f642 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_45.json +++ b/docs/times/14_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:45", + "quote_first": "David arrived at ", + "quote_time_case": "2:45 P.M.", + "quote_last": " at the Copley Hotel on Huntingdon Avenue, the adrenaline pumping through his body. He repeated the Harvard Business School motto to himself as he was ushered into a small private room: look British, think Yiddish.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:45", "quote_first": "He glanced down at his watch. He had been smiling as he stroked her awake, and was smiling now. “", diff --git a/docs/times/14_50.json b/docs/times/14_50.json index 7c128659..30ed9a6a 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_50.json +++ b/docs/times/14_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:50", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "2:50", + "quote_last": " he called for them all to join him in the Members’ Enclosure to look at his famous filly. Stephen, like the others, trailed behind him in a little pseudo-royal entourage.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:50", "quote_first": "When it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_53.json b/docs/times/14_53.json index 1f550d76..219da15f 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_53.json +++ b/docs/times/14_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:53", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "2:53", + "quote_last": " they were ushered into an empty conference room. Scott selected a chair against the wall, just behind where Warren Christopher would be seated but slightly to his left so he would have a clear view of Prime Minister Rabin across the table.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:53", "quote_first": "“And what do you suppose Father Mahoney is thinking now, sitting there like some Romanian beggar and just before teatime? He knows very well we’re expecting him. If he’s even one minute late—I’m counting, it’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_55.json b/docs/times/14_55.json index 9c97b5b1..0d3bb2f9 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_55.json +++ b/docs/times/14_55.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:55", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "two fifty-five", + "quote_last": ", ten men and two women, all of whom were dressed in what looked to Daphne like long black dressing gowns with purple scarves hanging from their necks, proceeded across the stage in a gentle crocodile before taking their allocated places.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "14:55", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "five minutes to three", + "quote_last": " Paolo and his best man entered the chapel and walked slowly down the aisle. Gian Lorenzo knew he’d been a well-known footballer, but he still couldn’t remember his name.", + "title": "Cat O' Nine Tales", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:55", "quote_first": "The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. ", diff --git a/docs/times/14_59.json b/docs/times/14_59.json index ae9f2c33..aad1f666 100644 --- a/docs/times/14_59.json +++ b/docs/times/14_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "14:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to three", + "quote_last": ", five senior staffers entered the room, and Scott was pleased to see that Susan Anderson was among them.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "14:59", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/15_00.json b/docs/times/15_00.json index b3384f63..a1bb5bc7 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_00.json +++ b/docs/times/15_00.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:00", + "quote_first": "The bell in the clock tower in the village square chimed ", + "quote_time_case": "three", + "quote_last": ". Declan straightened against the stone wall, careful to stay hidden in the shadows as he watched the pub from the alley across the street.", + "title": "On These Black Sands", + "author": "Vanessa Rasanen", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:00", "quote_first": "Gunther’s two conflicting feelings about Christmas almost rubbed each other out on the First Sunday in Advent. By ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_01.json b/docs/times/15_01.json index b9e17a08..b96293b9 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_01.json +++ b/docs/times/15_01.json @@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "The Bone Clocks", "author": "David Mitchell", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "15:01", + "quote_first": "It was ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past three", + "quote_last": ". As he walked, he became aware of the echoing sound his feet made on the marble floor. It was then that he heard a voice say, “Do you wish to confess, my son?”", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/15_04.json b/docs/times/15_04.json index 5f778534..af209c82 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_04.json +++ b/docs/times/15_04.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:04", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "3:04 P.M.", + "quote_last": " He banged on the door again, but still no one responded. Surely they would not deny him entry when he was only a couple of minutes late?", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:04", "quote_first": "He saw the clock in the town-hall tower standing at ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_09.json b/docs/times/15_09.json index 94a9b91e..41283714 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_09.json +++ b/docs/times/15_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:09", + "quote_first": "“And now I must dash, Seb. I’m off to see my mother in Yorkshire, and if I don’t leave immediately I’ll miss the ", + "quote_time_case": "3:09", + "quote_last": " to Huddersfield. Do give your mother my kindest regards and wish her luck for the trial.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:09", "quote_first": "On the next day he boarded the London train which reaches Hull at ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_12.json b/docs/times/15_12.json index 0718e2a5..0215e7cd 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_12.json +++ b/docs/times/15_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:12", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve minutes past three", + "quote_last": ", an announcement came over the loudspeaker. “All those involved in the Cartwright case, please make their way back in to court number four, as the jury is returning.”", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:12", "quote_first": "Perhaps those three miles were nearer four, because when, tired, dusty, and heart-sick, he described the tower of the Congregational church above the leafless elms and maples of the village, the gilded hands pointed to ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_17.json b/docs/times/15_17.json index 0a9ab1f9..abb1c3ef 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_17.json +++ b/docs/times/15_17.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:17", + "quote_first": "Romanov checked the clock on the wall: ", + "quote_time_case": "three-seventeen", + "quote_last": ". He couldn’t believe he would need close to two hours to find out what was in the five boxes. The two Herr Bischoffs bowed and left.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "15:17", + "quote_first": "“You can take the ", + "quote_time_case": "3:17", + "quote_last": " to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the 4:09 for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”", + "title": "Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:17", "quote_first": "From the kitchen came the rackety-banging of the alarm-clock, proving that, as the clock was set to ring at six, Peter had found a mother for the fatherless children at just ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_18.json b/docs/times/15_18.json index ff2ae301..89f53fd3 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_18.json +++ b/docs/times/15_18.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Project Cyclops", "author": "Thomas Hoover", "sfw": "no" + }, + { + "time": "15:18", + "quote_first": "The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is ", + "quote_time_case": "eighteen minutes past three", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Fairyland", + "author": "Paul J. McAuley", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/15_20.json b/docs/times/15_20.json index 4c0f4c86..bc384350 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_20.json +++ b/docs/times/15_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:20", + "quote_first": "James jammed his trilby over his ears, looked the other way and passed the time by chatting to Sam O’Flaherty about the ", + "quote_time_case": "3:20", + "quote_last": ", the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:20", "quote_first": "He checked his watch. Only ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_22.json b/docs/times/15_22.json index c5489805..485a9a38 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_22.json +++ b/docs/times/15_22.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:22", + "quote_first": "Ruth finally walked through the door at ", + "quote_time_case": "3:22 P.M.", + "quote_last": " “Any messages?” she asked the receptionist.
“No,” replied the girl, “but there is a lady waiting to see you.”", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:22", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/15_27.json b/docs/times/15_27.json index c56d35ed..e4386f74 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_27.json +++ b/docs/times/15_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:27", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "three twenty-seven P.M.", + "quote_last": ", the precise minute Albert had been born in 1907, the old man, surrounded by his five children, eleven grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren, thrust a silver-handled knife into a three-tier cake.", + "title": "The Queen's Birthday Telegram", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:27", "quote_first": "And she rang the Reverend Peters and he came into school at ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_30.json b/docs/times/15_30.json index 4f1ff7b9..9918890b 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_30.json +++ b/docs/times/15_30.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:30", + "quote_first": "“They will vote in favor,” Eliza said, her voice full of certainty.
“Yes. Technically, the Congregation could reject a recommendation of the Council of High Stewards, but in reality, it is unlikely. In fact, I have already booked studio time for ", + "quote_time_case": "three-thirty", + "quote_last": " to record a message for the worlds. I have been preparing that here.”", + "title": "The Dark Foundations", + "author": "Chris Walley", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:30", "quote_first": "“", diff --git a/docs/times/15_35.json b/docs/times/15_35.json index 2ab2e321..adb748b7 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_35.json +++ b/docs/times/15_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:35", + "quote_first": "Sasha was sitting in the corner of the railway carriage when the ", + "quote_time_case": "3:35", + "quote_last": " shunted out of Southampton station on its way to London. He stared out of the window but didn’t speak, because his mind was far away in his homeland. He was beginning to wonder if they’d made a terrible mistake.", + "title": "Heads You Win", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:35", "quote_first": "By ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_36.json b/docs/times/15_36.json index 3c275605..d0c9af2e 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_36.json +++ b/docs/times/15_36.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:36", + "quote_first": "A strange thought crossed his mind. He must remember to tell Clare that the top of Everest was about the same size as their dining-room table. George checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "3:36 P.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:36", "quote_first": "Meanwhile a girl was standing in an airport concourse. A big clock suspended from the ceiling said it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_38.json b/docs/times/15_38.json index b8bd0a8d..112848db 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_38.json +++ b/docs/times/15_38.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "Mendez took a marker and added to the line for the day Karly Vickers disappeared: ", "quote_time_case": "15:38", "quote_last": " traffic ticket issued by F. Farman.", - "title": "Deeper than the Dead", + "title": "Deeper Than the Dead", "author": "Tami Hoag", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/15_46.json b/docs/times/15_46.json index 66c5d0ba..e0969a81 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_46.json +++ b/docs/times/15_46.json @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ "quote_time_case": "fourteen minutes to four", "quote_last": ". Not a moment before fourteen minutes to four. . . Is it understood?", "title": "The Blonde Lady", - "author": "Maurice Leblanc", + "author": "Maurice LeBlanc", "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/15_47.json b/docs/times/15_47.json index 8c8e0072..948ed35c 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_47.json +++ b/docs/times/15_47.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:47", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "Three forty-seven", + "quote_last": ". He estimated that he still had at least another twenty minutes before the bridge party would begin to break up.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:47", "quote_first": "One day, the 30th of September, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/15_50.json b/docs/times/15_50.json index 7d51c210..d0a85564 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_50.json +++ b/docs/times/15_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:50", + "quote_first": "Romanov paced up and down the small anteroom impatiently, but the secretary did not return until the hands on the clock were in a straight line. At ", + "quote_time_case": "three-fifty", + "quote_last": ", Romanov was ushered into the chairman’s room.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:50", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/15_58.json b/docs/times/15_58.json index 544eb03c..f6509afb 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_58.json +++ b/docs/times/15_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "15:58", + "quote_first": "Punctuality is an obsession with the Japanese, so Anna was not surprised when a smartly dressed lady appeared at ", + "quote_time_case": "two minutes to four", + "quote_last": ", bowed, and invited Anna to follow her. She too looked at the wooden box, but showed no reaction other than to ask, “Would you like it to be taken to the chairman’s office?”", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "15:58", "quote_first": "A hum of tolling bells makes itself heard, but not sharply. At ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_03.json b/docs/times/16_03.json index aee9e2c4..091ac0b7 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_03.json +++ b/docs/times/16_03.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:03", + "quote_first": "Rose Rennick arrived ", + "quote_time_case": "a few minutes after four", + "quote_last": ", accompanied by two small dogs and wearing an outrageously large hat.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:03", + "quote_first": "When Odell arrived back at the hotel ", + "quote_time_case": "a few minutes after four", + "quote_last": ", the first thing he did was order a large flask of hot fruit punch before walking out onto the veranda to take up his post.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:03", "quote_first": "She read the page carefully and then said, “", diff --git a/docs/times/16_04.json b/docs/times/16_04.json index 979bf866..4fd6166f 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_04.json +++ b/docs/times/16_04.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:04", + "quote_first": "Krantz didn’t stir for the next two hours, aware that two of the guards would be waiting impatiently to accompany her to the bathroom and collect their nightly stipend. But the timing had to suit her. She would cater for their needs at ", + "quote_time_case": "four minutes past four", + "quote_last": ", not before, when one would receive forty dollars, and he would make sure that the other got a packet of Benson & Hedges.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:04", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_08.json b/docs/times/16_08.json index 897a31f2..a9a4b5ba 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_08.json +++ b/docs/times/16_08.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:08", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "eight minutes past four", + "quote_last": ", the jury filed back into their places and this time Alex noted that their expressions had changed from blank to bemused. Mr. Justice Sackville had no choice but to send them home for a second night.", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:08", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_09.json b/docs/times/16_09.json index 2ef8bbd5..738dd442 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_09.json +++ b/docs/times/16_09.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:09", + "quote_first": "“You can take the 3:17 to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the ", + "quote_time_case": "4:09", + "quote_last": " for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”", + "title": "Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:09", "quote_first": "“I have to hang up now,” Rosemary said. “I just wanted to know if there was any improvement.”
“No, there isn’t. It was nice of you to call.”
She hung up. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_11.json b/docs/times/16_11.json index fa5910ab..d5a935e9 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_11.json +++ b/docs/times/16_11.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Seek", "author": "Denis Johnson", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:11", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven minutes past four", + "quote_last": ", the first bus left the car park, drove up the ramp, and out onto the high street.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/16_12.json b/docs/times/16_12.json index b9936a3f..20c31818 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_12.json +++ b/docs/times/16_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:12", + "quote_first": "Nigel Trentham and his lawyer finally appeared at ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve minutes past four", + "quote_last": "; neither of them seemed to feel it was necessary to apologize for their lateness.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:12", "quote_first": "At precisely ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_15.json b/docs/times/16_15.json index 7bb5b8c8..d9d29ce4 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_15.json +++ b/docs/times/16_15.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:15", + "quote_first": "Downstairs, the clock was striking ", + "quote_time_case": "four-fifteen", + "quote_last": ". They stopped for a moment in the kitchen so that she could look around. “Just when I left,” he said, nodding at the calendar by the refrigerator. “You know how careful Mom is about crossing off the days.” He glanced at her. “I’m sorry about the time you lost.”", + "title": "The Castle in the Attic", + "author": "Elizabeth Winthrop", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:15", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/16_23.json b/docs/times/16_23.json index a5c9d0c1..c3d70ee3 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_23.json +++ b/docs/times/16_23.json @@ -4,8 +4,17 @@ "quote_first": "They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related “adjustments” to Earth’s orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at ", "quote_time_case": "4.23", "quote_last": ".", - "title": "A Visit from the Goon Squad", + "title": "A Visit From the Goon Squad", "author": "Jennifer Egan", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:23", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "16:23 CET", + "quote_last": "
After stowing their bags in the sleeping quarters below, the two new itinerant deckhands reported for duty on the main deck.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/16_25.json b/docs/times/16_25.json index 459332be..be9b2b47 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_25.json +++ b/docs/times/16_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:25", + "quote_first": "He jumped off at St. Paul’s and, although he walked slowly, he was standing outside Kaufman’s bank on Cheapside by ", + "quote_time_case": "4:25", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:25", + "quote_first": "“You will appear a few minutes after 4:20, Jean-Pierre, and then you, James, about ", + "quote_time_case": "4:25 P.M.", + "quote_last": " But keep exactly to the same routine, act as if the meeting had taken place, as originally planned, at the Garden Party and we had all walked over to the Clarendon together.”", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:25", "quote_first": "I groan audibly. It’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_30.json b/docs/times/16_30.json index f628899a..1d7dcadd 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_30.json +++ b/docs/times/16_30.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:30", + "quote_first": "“But I believe,” he pulled out his watch, “I can spend an hour with you. It’s ", + "quote_time_case": "half-past four", + "quote_last": " now. If only I’d been something, a landowner, a father, a cavalry officer, a photographer, a journalist … I am nothing, no specialty, and sometimes I am positively bored. I really thought you would tell me something new.”", + "title": "Crime and Punishment", + "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:30", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_33.json b/docs/times/16_33.json index f24ff068..33ea0ae2 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_33.json +++ b/docs/times/16_33.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Havana World Series", "author": "José Latour", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:33", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "4:33", + "quote_last": ", the second bus maneuvered its way onto the main thoroughfare, where they were held up by early commuters on their way home from work, while they were on their way to work.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/16_35.json b/docs/times/16_35.json index 67574acf..9b3dbb82 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_35.json +++ b/docs/times/16_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:35", + "quote_first": "“The plane you require does not leave Sheremetyevo Airport until ", + "quote_time_case": "four thirty-five", + "quote_last": ". In any case, I have already booked two seats on it for you.”
“Two?” inquired Romanov.
“You will obviously need an expert to accompany you, unless you know considerably more about icons than you do about banking,” Poskonov added.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:35", "quote_first": "The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_37.json b/docs/times/16_37.json index e66a1c07..12d69c53 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_37.json +++ b/docs/times/16_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:37", + "quote_first": "Susan had delivered two boys, Nat at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:37", + "quote_last": " and Peter at 4:43 that afternoon. For the next hour, the parents took turns cuddling them, until Dr. Greenwood suggested that perhaps mother and babies should be allowed to rest.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:37", + "quote_first": "She tried not to show her true feelings when at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:37", + "quote_last": " her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.", + "title": "Never Stop on the Motorway", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:37", "quote_first": "Rorschach’s journal: Slept all day. Awoken at ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_38.json b/docs/times/16_38.json index 52f9c88e..928ce65a 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_38.json +++ b/docs/times/16_38.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:38", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "4:38", + "quote_last": ", Seb marched into the bank and said to the receptionist, “I have an appointment with Mr. Kaufman.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:38", "quote_first": "I let him put me in the car and drive me to the station. At ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_39.json b/docs/times/16_39.json index a17c7cac..987ce110 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_39.json +++ b/docs/times/16_39.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:39", + "quote_first": "He looked at the clock on his desk: ", + "quote_time_case": "4:39", + "quote_last": ". “Get me the checkpoint at Khalis,” he instructed the young Lieutenant.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:39", "quote_first": "Harlem enjoys lazy Sabbath mornings, although the pace picks up again in the afternoon, after church. My watch read ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_40.json b/docs/times/16_40.json index 29cfa680..f61ac4e6 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_40.json +++ b/docs/times/16_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:40", + "quote_first": "Kaufman placed his hands together as if in prayer, and when his prayer was answered, he said, “I’ll need to make a few phone calls before I come to a final decision, so come back to my office at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:40", + "quote_last": " tomorrow afternoon. If I’m convinced, we’ll take it from there.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:40", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/16_43.json b/docs/times/16_43.json index 3fe15207..1e8b04ea 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_43.json +++ b/docs/times/16_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:43", + "quote_first": "Susan had delivered two boys, Nat at 4:37 and Peter at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:43", + "quote_last": " that afternoon. For the next hour, the parents took turns cuddling them, until Dr. Greenwood suggested that perhaps mother and babies should be allowed to rest.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:43", "quote_first": "The only car in the gravel parking lot to the west is Marian the Librarian’s Subaru, humped with snow. ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_49.json b/docs/times/16_49.json index bc58d799..8cd37456 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_49.json +++ b/docs/times/16_49.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:49", + "quote_first": "Within weeks Tom was on the ", + "quote_time_case": "4:49 P.M.", + "quote_last": " train to New York every Friday afternoon, returning to Hartford on Monday morning. Su Ling kept asking for progress reports, but Nat seemed unusually ill-informed.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:49", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/16_54.json b/docs/times/16_54.json index 0079aa48..03e9c7ff 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_54.json +++ b/docs/times/16_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:54", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes to five", + "quote_last": ", he leaned forward and picked up the black phone. He dialed the number of an estate agent in Mayfair, and asked to speak to the senior partner.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "16:54", + "quote_first": "When the last lid had been placed back on he checked the clock on the wall: ", + "quote_time_case": "six minutes to five", + "quote_last": ". Just enough time to glance in the other box and see if he could expect the same again.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:54", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/16_57.json b/docs/times/16_57.json index f7149df1..9ea2f7d2 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_57.json +++ b/docs/times/16_57.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "16:57", + "quote_first": "“", + "quote_time_case": "Three minutes to five", + "quote_last": ".”
“Please hold on, Mr. Vaughan, there’s someone on the other line. I’ll only be a moment.” Kaufman placed the black receiver on his desk, picked up the red one and dialed a number.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "16:57", "quote_first": "Tom O’Sullivan and Phillip Taylor were kibitzing at the counter of Nikki’s Hot Dog Stand as they placed their order ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_01.json b/docs/times/17_01.json index a8fd0515..cdb58aa6 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_01.json +++ b/docs/times/17_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:01", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past five", + "quote_last": ", Beth left the museum, hailed a taxi and, after giving the driver her address, sat in the back surrounded by boxes and unashamedly shed a tear.", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:01", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/17_02.json b/docs/times/17_02.json index 15e2a31e..a181ebb2 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_02.json +++ b/docs/times/17_02.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:02", + "quote_first": "“", + "quote_time_case": "Two minutes past five", + "quote_last": ".”
“Then the deal is closed. And as long as I pay the remaining ninety percent within thirty days, Shifnal Farm is mine.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:02", "quote_first": "She stood up, shook her hair into place, smoothed her skirt and turned on the light. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_19.json b/docs/times/17_19.json index 31b01440..04bd1c94 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_19.json +++ b/docs/times/17_19.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:19", + "quote_first": "Scott eased himself into the corner before once again checking the little sulphur dots on his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "5:19", + "quote_last": ". He and Hannah had been in the safe for an hour and seventeen minutes.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:19", "quote_first": "The call came at ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_25.json b/docs/times/17_25.json index 5790d898..81764f61 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_25.json +++ b/docs/times/17_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:25", + "quote_first": "By ", + "quote_time_case": "5:25", + "quote_last": " neither of them was at his side and his famous “cool” was beginning to show distinct signs of steaming.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:25", "quote_first": "“I left Weymouth Street at about ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_27.json b/docs/times/17_27.json index 64695548..3f324e1b 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_27.json +++ b/docs/times/17_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:27", + "quote_first": "One evening at ", + "quote_time_case": "5:27", + "quote_last": ", when Septimus was closing the file on the last claim for the day, his immediate superior, the deputy manager, called him in for a consultation.", + "title": "Broken Routine", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:27", "quote_first": "Thursday ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_40.json b/docs/times/17_40.json index 8b38628b..8370e08d 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_40.json +++ b/docs/times/17_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:40", + "quote_first": "As no one had “any other business” to raise, I closed the meeting at ", + "quote_time_case": "5:40", + "quote_last": ", and suggested to Jeremy that he join Rosemary and me for dinner. I wanted to see them together.", + "title": "Trial and Error", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:40", "quote_first": "“What?” I said, “is it 5:30 yet?”
“Er, ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_43.json b/docs/times/17_43.json index aa7ab112..eed71fb4 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_43.json +++ b/docs/times/17_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:43", + "quote_first": "“I always prefer to travel on a British carrier,” Don Pedro told the purser as they were shown to their seats in first class. The Boeing Stratocruiser took off at ", + "quote_time_case": "5:43 p.m.", + "quote_last": ", just a few minutes behind schedule.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:43", "quote_first": "It’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_46.json b/docs/times/17_46.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d8f696ba --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/times/17_46.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[ + { + "time": "17:46", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "fourteen minutes to six", + "quote_last": " they walked into the director’s study, where a young lady of Sally’s age offered the guests a choice of dry sherry or orange juice.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + } +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/17_49.json b/docs/times/17_49.json index 3629be5c..452942cf 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_49.json +++ b/docs/times/17_49.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:49", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "5:49 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1924 WHEN ODELL ARRIVED back at Camp IV, he was unable to conceal his excitement. He crawled into Norton’s tent and told him what he’d seen.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:49", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_50.json b/docs/times/17_50.json index 348ad849..2e81f106 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_50.json +++ b/docs/times/17_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:50", + "quote_first": "He glanced up at the clock above the door: ", + "quote_time_case": "ten to six", + "quote_last": ". Young Kevin would appear through that door at any moment and ask if he would be kind enough to move on.", + "title": "The Grass is Always Greener", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:50", "quote_first": "“What time is it Jack?”
“", diff --git a/docs/times/17_51.json b/docs/times/17_51.json index be28c3eb..03f817a6 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_51.json +++ b/docs/times/17_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:51", + "quote_first": "She read through the first page slowly and made of a couple of emendations, aware that any mistake made hastily on a Friday evening could be regretted in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as she signed the final page of the document. It was just showing ", + "quote_time_case": "5:51", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Never Stop on the Motorway", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:51", "quote_first": "The sun was red and the shadows were long and dark. It wanted but ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_57.json b/docs/times/17_57.json index e02a3603..1664e053 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_57.json +++ b/docs/times/17_57.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:57", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "three minutes to six", + "quote_last": ", despite there still being no sign of Sally, the director suggested they should all make their way to the Great Hall.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "17:57", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "three minutes to six", + "quote_last": ", a tall, well-built man of military bearing pushed his way through the revolving doors. His dark navy blazer, gray flannels, short hair and highly polished shoes all suggested a life of discipline.", + "title": "Only Time Will Tell", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:57", "quote_first": "Hugo Carmody had done this, with the result that by ", diff --git a/docs/times/17_59.json b/docs/times/17_59.json index 495f4fde..8df4cfab 100644 --- a/docs/times/17_59.json +++ b/docs/times/17_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "17:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to six", + "quote_last": ", the director led the guest of honor onto the stage. He watched the four hundred girls rise and applaud him in what the director would have described as a “ladylike” manner.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "17:59", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_01.json b/docs/times/18_01.json index fef8e6b5..e414a431 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_01.json +++ b/docs/times/18_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:01", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past six", + "quote_last": ", he turned to Tom and said, “Hi, I’m Nat Cartwright and…”", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "18:01", + "quote_first": "“No one stops, even to draw breath, until ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past six", + "quote_last": " when the last vote will have been cast.”", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:01", "quote_first": "David had followed me at ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_03.json b/docs/times/18_03.json index 0971f555..78095926 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_03.json +++ b/docs/times/18_03.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "Jarrod stared at the clock on his computer. It said ", "quote_time_case": "6:03", "quote_last": ". Outside his office window it was dark. It felt as if someone had sucked all the oxygen from the room and he took an extra breath before responding.", - "title": "All The Little Pieces", + "title": "All the Little Pieces", "author": "Jilliane Hoffman", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/18_12.json b/docs/times/18_12.json index f6327209..1dad9d00 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_12.json +++ b/docs/times/18_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:12", + "quote_first": "Bill Russell left the office at ", + "quote_time_case": "6:12", + "quote_last": " that evening, and never entered the building again.", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "18:12", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:12 p.m.", + "quote_last": " He left the dining room and went downstairs to the wine cellar. A single bulb lit a room that had once stored filing cabinets full of archives. Since Giles’s arrival, they had been replaced by wine racks.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:12", "quote_first": "Wednesday ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_20.json b/docs/times/18_20.json index aba614f3..c1e8c35f 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_20.json +++ b/docs/times/18_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:20", + "quote_first": "In Harley Street, Bond Street, the King’s Road and Magdalen College, Oxford, it was ", + "quote_time_case": "6:20 P.M.", + "quote_last": " Four men, unknown to each other, checked the market price of Prospecta Oil in the final edition of the London Evening Standard.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:20", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_22.json b/docs/times/18_22.json index b6534fd9..e3cd624b 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_22.json +++ b/docs/times/18_22.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:22", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "18:22 GMT", + "quote_last": "
“The firearms squad is in place, sir,” said a lone voice over the intercom, sounding like a crack of thunder, after a couple of hours of silence.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:22", "quote_first": "“It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_29.json b/docs/times/18_29.json index 442b3d40..8cec5e7b 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_29.json +++ b/docs/times/18_29.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:29", + "quote_first": "For the next fifteen minutes he lugged the cases of wine and beer up the stairs, constantly stopping to check his watch, and at ", + "quote_time_case": "6:29", + "quote_last": " he opened the back door to find the German corporal jumping up and down and slapping his sides in an effort to keep warm.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:29", "quote_first": "Lieutenant Hershel Mote could not keep the note of near hysteria out of his voice when Wesley returned his telephone call at ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_32.json b/docs/times/18_32.json index a61dcf91..dc63dea0 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_32.json +++ b/docs/times/18_32.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:32", + "quote_first": "As he stepped out of the great Gothic cathedral it started to rain. Septimus reluctantly undid his neatly rolled umbrella and, putting it up, dashed through the puddles, hoping he would be in time to catch the ", + "quote_time_case": "6:32", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Broken Routine", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "18:32", + "quote_first": "She didn’t emerge again until ", + "quote_time_case": "6:32 p.m.", + "quote_last": " She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At 6:58 she let herself into the house.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:32", "quote_first": "Monday ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_37.json b/docs/times/18_37.json index ffaec7f7..b10e8362 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_37.json +++ b/docs/times/18_37.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:37", + "quote_first": "He checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:37", + "quote_last": ". The first lot was due to come under the hammer at seven o’clock. He knew exactly how long it would take to walk from the Ritz to Christie’s, and as the Raphael was lot 25, he wasn’t in any hurry.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:37", "quote_first": "Amy: What’s that? I thought I saw someone pass the window. What time is it?
Charles: ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_47.json b/docs/times/18_47.json index 49ea1f43..29427b74 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_47.json +++ b/docs/times/18_47.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:47", + "quote_first": "“Should he fail to make an appearance,” Lamont added, his tone changing, “the Hawk’s orders couldn’t have been clearer. Abort. We’re not going to raid Faulkner’s house unless we can be sure the evidence we need to convict him has been delivered.”
“No pressure,” whispered Jackie as William checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "18:47", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Hidden in Plain Sight", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:47", "quote_first": "The clock said ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_50.json b/docs/times/18_50.json index d41e95d0..c6d32b14 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_50.json +++ b/docs/times/18_50.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:50", + "quote_first": "Finally a voice said, “Neither Mr. Clifton nor your daughter are on that flight, Mr. Ghuman, and the boarding desk has already closed. Do you want me to check the ", + "quote_time_case": "18:50", + "quote_last": " flight?”", + "title": "Cometh the Hour", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:50", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_53.json b/docs/times/18_53.json index bb20d477..b1754d86 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_53.json +++ b/docs/times/18_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:53", + "quote_first": "He strolled across the tarmac to the waiting plane ", + "quote_time_case": "a few minutes after six-fifty", + "quote_last": ". The plane carrying the icon would be touching down in Washington in about two hours.", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:53", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/18_58.json b/docs/times/18_58.json index e0121e6e..475741c5 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_58.json +++ b/docs/times/18_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:58", + "quote_first": "Exactly where he’d seen the two figures, the time at which they continued up the mountain, and the fact that they appeared to be in no difficulty as they disappeared into the mist. When he’d finished, he checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "6:58 P.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "18:58", + "quote_first": "She didn’t emerge again until 6:32 p.m. She was dressed in her civilian clothes, and headed in the direction of Summers’s flat, stopping on the way to pick up one of his suits from the dry cleaner’s. At ", + "quote_time_case": "6:58", + "quote_last": " she let herself into the house.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:58", "quote_first": "“Walk fast,” says Perry, “it’s ", diff --git a/docs/times/18_59.json b/docs/times/18_59.json index 1dac6743..432aabfb 100644 --- a/docs/times/18_59.json +++ b/docs/times/18_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "18:59", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to seven", + "quote_last": ", Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.", + "title": "The Sins of the Father", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "18:59", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_07.json b/docs/times/19_07.json index 666fadca..d047db8c 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_07.json +++ b/docs/times/19_07.json @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:07", + "quote_first": "Qantas Flight 102 touched down at Melbourne Airport at ", + "quote_time_case": "seven minutes past seven", + "quote_last": ". Charlie was the first off the aircraft, running as fast as he could, but having to lug Cathy’s picture under one arm slowed him down and made it possible for several other passengers, who obviously had the same idea, to overtake him.", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:07", "quote_first": "She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at ", "quote_time_case": "seven minutes past seven", "quote_last": ", when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.", - "title": "Chapters from My Autobiography", + "title": "Chapters From My Autobiography", "author": "Mark Twain", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/19_10.json b/docs/times/19_10.json index 64bc9746..d7949922 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_10.json +++ b/docs/times/19_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:10", + "quote_first": "Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ", + "quote_time_case": "ten minutes past seven", + "quote_last": ". He had to make haste and at the same time to go someway round, so as to approach the house from the other side.", + "title": "Crime and Punishment", + "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:10", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_16.json b/docs/times/19_16.json index 65784ec6..995c514e 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_16.json +++ b/docs/times/19_16.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:16", + "quote_first": "AT ", + "quote_time_case": "7:16 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", LEAPMAN switched the light off in his office and stepped into the corridor. He closed his door but didn’t lock it. He walked toward the bank of elevators, aware that the only office light still shining was coming from under the chairman’s door.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:16", "quote_first": "“", diff --git a/docs/times/19_22.json b/docs/times/19_22.json index c5890620..333d28a3 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_22.json +++ b/docs/times/19_22.json @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ "author": "Haruki Murakami", "sfw": "yes" }, + { + "time": "19:22", + "quote_first": "Cavalli checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:22", + "quote_last": ". When he looked up he saw Johnny heading towards him, red in the face. Thank God I don’t have to work in Hollywood, thought Cavalli.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:22", "quote_first": "It was ", @@ -16,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "Operation Syndrome", "author": "Frank Herbert", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "19:22", + "quote_first": "BRYCE FENSTON’S GULFSTREAM V executive jet touched down at Heathrow at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:22 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", and Ruth was standing on the tarmac waiting to greet the bank’s representative. She had already alerted customs with all the relevant details so that the paperwork could be completed just as soon as Anna returned.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/19_25.json b/docs/times/19_25.json index 6b3ed730..4de55519 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_25.json +++ b/docs/times/19_25.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:25", + "quote_first": "When the bishop led the three men on to the stage at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:25 p.m.", + "quote_last": ", it was the only time that night when everyone in the hall applauded. Giles took his seat and looked down at the packed audience. He estimated that over a thousand members of the public had turned up to watch the jousting.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:25", "quote_first": "“No, sir, only the housekeeper. He’s been in New England visiting his daughter. He always goes there in the fall. He was due back at the Heathrow on BA flight 214 arriving at ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_27.json b/docs/times/19_27.json index e78454cc..588f2a9d 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_27.json +++ b/docs/times/19_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:27", + "quote_first": "The pilot welcomed them aboard and warned them there might be a slight delay. Dexter checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:27", + "quote_last": ". He began drumming his fingers on the armrest that divided him from Scott.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:27", "quote_first": "He may as well give it a go, at least once. If it was as bad as he was anticipating, he need never return. He turned into the college car park at ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_34.json b/docs/times/19_34.json index 5073ed02..0aa9bb09 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_34.json +++ b/docs/times/19_34.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:34", + "quote_first": "“You better not wait up, because if I fail, Simon, I’ll probably jump on top of you.”
“Thanks for the warning, Mark. Tough it out, man.”
Beautiful evening, climb into car, check watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:34", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:34", "quote_first": "I checked my watch at ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_35.json b/docs/times/19_35.json index 217a1b9c..31bf8fac 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_35.json +++ b/docs/times/19_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:35", + "quote_first": "“We’ve only got one chance of getting across that border,” said Scott, “so for now pull over into that clump of trees. We can’t risk going out onto the highway until it’s pitch dark.” He checked the time. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "7:35", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "19:35", + "quote_first": "George checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:35 P.M.", + "quote_last": " By now Geoffrey Young would be taking the rest of the team through tomorrow’s program, having informed them who would be joining him on the final ascent. The water boiled.", + "title": "Paths of Glory", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:35", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_39.json b/docs/times/19_39.json index 25095708..6248dbdf 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_39.json +++ b/docs/times/19_39.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:39", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "7:39", + "quote_last": " the aircraft taxied onto the runway to prepare for takeoff. When it stopped, Dexter asked the flight attendant what was holding them up.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:39", "quote_first": "The time too was speeding on. ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_41.json b/docs/times/19_41.json index e9e9abad..64b9cf19 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_41.json +++ b/docs/times/19_41.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:41", + "quote_first": "LIGHTING-UP TIME WAS ", + "quote_time_case": "7:41 P.M.", + "quote_last": " on September 25th. Krantz didn’t appear on the outskirts of Wentworth until just after eight.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:41", "quote_first": "“Do you expect to make an arrest? What’s to stop this woman from leaving the country?”
“Up to now, I’m afraid nothing.” And since they knew there wasn’t a train until ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_42.json b/docs/times/19_42.json index f798e0f1..2b96269b 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_42.json +++ b/docs/times/19_42.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:42", + "quote_first": "He entered the saleroom at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:42", + "quote_last": ", and took his reserved seat, which he’d selected after some considerable thought. Three rows from the back on the left-hand side. He’d even practiced raising his paddle just high enough for the auctioneer to spot him without anyone in front of him having any idea who was bidding.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:42", "quote_first": "It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_43.json b/docs/times/19_43.json index be527b2a..8e39f8d4 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_43.json +++ b/docs/times/19_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:43", + "quote_first": "He glanced up at the clock on the corner of his desk: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:43 P.M.", + "quote_last": " “Shit,” he said, aware that if he didn’t hurry he was going to be late for his own speech at the bankers’ dinner.", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "19:43", "quote_first": "In response to a hail from within the wall, several of the warders bent to the windlass, whereupon the portcullis scraped and groaned aloft, and the tall knight came riding out just as the hands of Mallory’s timepiece registered ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_48.json b/docs/times/19_48.json index 315c7fa2..2d3a79f8 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_48.json +++ b/docs/times/19_48.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:48", + "quote_first": "On the ride down in the elevator, Fenston was fascinated to see the low estimate for Caillebotte’s Street Sweepers. He had acquired the larger version for half that price from a client he had recently bankrupted. When the doors slid open, he walked quickly across to reception and signed himself out: ", + "quote_time_case": "7:48 P.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:48", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/19_50.json b/docs/times/19_50.json index 0f2a9b76..13c63d90 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_50.json +++ b/docs/times/19_50.json @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ "quote_first": "The hands of the clock in the middle of the wall were pointing to ", "quote_time_case": "ten minutes to eight", "quote_last": ". The cafe closed at eight.", - "title": "Before the Coffee gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe", + "title": "Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe", "author": "Toshikazu Kawaguchi", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/19_51.json b/docs/times/19_51.json index 72b16f67..6d1fba92 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_51.json +++ b/docs/times/19_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:51", + "quote_first": "Annie somehow managed to shower and change into a cocktail dress, while Fletcher paced around the room looking at his watch every few moments. He opened the cab door for his wife at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:51", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Sons of Fortune", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "19:51", + "quote_first": "The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:51", + "quote_last": ", its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at 7:53.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:51", "quote_first": "He waited until ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_53.json b/docs/times/19_53.json index f4c91478..f5fda3ae 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_53.json +++ b/docs/times/19_53.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:53", + "quote_first": "The plane swung around onto the take-off runway at 7:51, its jets revving before it moved slowly forward, then gathered speed. The wheels left the ground at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:53", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:53", "quote_first": "Wednesday, 11 th December 1963. ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_58.json b/docs/times/19_58.json index 3377c9ee..2298478a 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_58.json +++ b/docs/times/19_58.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "19:58", + "quote_first": "He had to catch the conspirators alive, get them to testify against the Senator. The Director checked his watch with the clock on the Old Post Office Tower over the Washington Field Office. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "7:58", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "19:58", + "quote_first": "He leaped into his car, revving it quickly through the gears, shot along to Sloane Square, through Eaton Square, up past St. George’s Hospital, around Hyde Park Corner into Park Lane, and arrived at ", + "quote_time_case": "7:58 P.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:58", "quote_first": "Robert Langdon stole an anxious glance at his wristwatch: ", diff --git a/docs/times/19_59.json b/docs/times/19_59.json index bb2bb087..43097f16 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_59.json +++ b/docs/times/19_59.json @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ "author": "P.D. James", "sfw": "yes" }, + { + "time": "19:59", + "quote_first": "I see Lil right as I dismount the bike, her silver braid draped across her right shoulder. She sits on the front porch, her soft, weathered skin a rosy hue in the last rays of the day’s sunlight. It’s ", + "quote_time_case": "teetering on eight o’clock", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Blink And We'll Miss It", + "author": "Ginny Kochis", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "19:59", "quote_first": "Kuniang made her appearance in my study ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_00.json b/docs/times/20_00.json index 814480ae..ede6348d 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_00.json +++ b/docs/times/20_00.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:00", + "quote_first": "It was still only ", + "quote_time_case": "eight o‘clock", + "quote_last": ". “Missis!” he cried. “We shall get home tonight! We shall be home for Christmas!”
“Yes, Pongo,” said Missis gaily. But she did not feel as gay as she sounded.", + "title": "The 101 Dalmatians", + "author": "Dodie Smith", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:00", "quote_first": "Charlie glanced at the clock over the bar and saw it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_04.json b/docs/times/20_04.json index 8bb20404..185de523 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_04.json +++ b/docs/times/20_04.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:04", + "quote_first": "Doublepark and hope no traffic cop’s around. Stroll nonchalantly towards house—bet she’s still in the tub. Check watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:04", + "quote_last": ". Perfect. Ring doorbell.", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "no" + }, { "time": "20:04", "quote_first": "The earth seems to cast its darkness upward into the air. The farm country is somber at night. He is grateful when the lights of Lankaster merge with his dim beams. He stops at a diner who’s clock says ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_06.json b/docs/times/20_06.json index 09b6b388..bd9e79db 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_06.json +++ b/docs/times/20_06.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:06", + "quote_first": "Met by another Secret Service man also in dinner jacket. Also better tie. I give up. Escorted to elevator. Check watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:06", + "quote_last": ". Not bad. Enter West Sitting Hall.
“Good evening, Madam President.”", + "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:06", "quote_first": "“It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_19.json b/docs/times/20_19.json index 8f985aef..66f3c19a 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_19.json +++ b/docs/times/20_19.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:19", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "8:19", + "quote_last": " she received a second phone call to let her know the plane had taken off from Amman with the “cargo” on board.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:19", "quote_first": "All was still. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_42.json b/docs/times/20_42.json index 8b83035d..179c1cac 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_42.json +++ b/docs/times/20_42.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:42", + "quote_first": "“Yeah, I was just thinking . . .”
Shan stole a glance at the pendulum wall clock. ", + "quote_time_case": "Eight forty-two", + "quote_last": ". Eighteen minutes before he’d be escorted back. “I’m worried I left the drip hose on. If Ranger Roy gets here early, tell him I’ll be back in a few.”", + "title": "The Edge of Lost", + "author": "Kristina McMorris", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:42", "quote_first": "The hand at this moment pointed to ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_43.json b/docs/times/20_43.json index 3738ba0e..9bb53eb3 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_43.json +++ b/docs/times/20_43.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:43", + "quote_first": "“Either way, he mustn’t be allowed to return to the White House.” The line went dead. Cavalli knew that his father was right on both counts. Cavalli checked his watch again: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:43", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "20:43", + "quote_first": "I’ll tell you exactly what I want you to say when he phones back, but never forget that your first priority is to buy me as much time as possible. The SBS can’t make a move until after sunset, ", + "quote_time_case": "20.43", + "quote_last": " local time, which isn’t’ – he checked his watch – ‘for another two hours and nineteen minutes.’", + "title": "Next in Line", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:43", "quote_first": "‘", diff --git a/docs/times/20_46.json b/docs/times/20_46.json index c3ef94e8..dd03fd80 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_46.json +++ b/docs/times/20_46.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:46", + "quote_first": "And then he walked into the bedroom and saw the one clue that confirmed that Tina had been in the apartment on the evening of 9/11. By the side of Anna’s bed was a watch. Jack checked the time: ", + "quote_time_case": "8:46", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "False Impression", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:46", "quote_first": "At the tone, the time will be ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_49.json b/docs/times/20_49.json index 4a706033..728296b3 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_49.json +++ b/docs/times/20_49.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:49", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "8:49", + "quote_last": " there was a loud rap on the door, and Sir Hamish muttered an inaudible reproach as David Heath went to open it. He found his contact standing there.", + "title": "A Matter of Principle", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:49", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/20_52.json b/docs/times/20_52.json index 1edc0c9d..c61b52f4 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_52.json +++ b/docs/times/20_52.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:52", + "quote_first": "“That’d be the ", + "quote_time_case": "8:52", + "quote_last": ", change at Doncaster and Peterborough. You should be back in Cambridge just after midnight.”", + "title": "Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:52", "quote_first": "The waitress brought my coffee. I carried it to the far end of the counter and drank it slowly. It was ", diff --git a/docs/times/20_59.json b/docs/times/20_59.json index bbd2b817..6300fd65 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_59.json +++ b/docs/times/20_59.json @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@ [ + { + "time": "20:59", + "quote_first": "However, you will go no farther than two miles from the barracks, you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute before nine", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "As The Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "20:59", + "quote_first": "Normally an assistant would have put [the television] on for him at ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute to nine", + "quote_last": ". He sat watching a Nigerian woman give a talk on dressmaking, followed by the weather forecast man who supplied Eduardo with the revealing information that the temperature would continue to be hot for the next month.", + "title": "The Coup", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "20:59", "quote_first": "“Well, what an amazing culinary experience,” Eva said at ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_01.json b/docs/times/21_01.json index 61bd8c23..e2124740 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_01.json +++ b/docs/times/21_01.json @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ "author": "James Han Mattson", "sfw": "no" }, + { + "time": "21:01", + "quote_first": "It was ", + "quote_time_case": "past nine", + "quote_last": ". William had finished his homework and his supper. Once he had said good night to his parents and Mrs. Phillips, he crept upstairs to the attic with the two bugs, his flashlight, and his magnifying glass. He wanted to take a closer look at the token.", + "title": "The Castle in the Attic", + "author": "Elizabeth Winthrop", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:01", "quote_first": "On the evening before K.‘s thirty-first birthday - it was ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_10.json b/docs/times/21_10.json index 1484b1ac..d75f76b0 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_10.json +++ b/docs/times/21_10.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:10", + "quote_first": "Harry realized that if he was going to be back at the airport in time to board the ", + "quote_time_case": "21:10", + "quote_last": " to Heathrow, he would only have twenty or thirty minutes to spare. But that should be more than enough.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:10", "quote_first": "She liked to swim most nights just after the nine o’clock news; everyone knew that - at least, everyone who knew her. And the news on Sunday was at ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_17.json b/docs/times/21_17.json index a5b689be..6c352c4b 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_17.json +++ b/docs/times/21_17.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "", "quote_time_case": "21:17", "quote_last": ", Sunday Evening, Angbyplan. A man is observed outside the hair salon. He presses his face and hands against the glass, and appears extremely intoxicated.", - "title": "Let The Right One In", + "title": "Let the Right One In", "author": "John Ajvide Lindqvist", "sfw": "yes" } diff --git a/docs/times/21_27.json b/docs/times/21_27.json index e582eece..76aa9791 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_27.json +++ b/docs/times/21_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:27", + "quote_first": "“It must be some time since you’ve been shopping in Paris,” she had told him. “That’s just about enough for a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts.” Kratz had reluctantly handed over another five thousand francs.
At ", + "quote_time_case": "9:27", + "quote_last": " the phone rang.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:27", "quote_first": "The call came at ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_31.json b/docs/times/21_31.json index c91e9698..2ec82b38 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_31.json +++ b/docs/times/21_31.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:31", + "quote_first": "His phone rang at ", + "quote_time_case": "9:31", + "quote_last": ". Pat grabbed it, and was relieved to hear Mr. Levy’s voice on the other end of the line.", + "title": "You'll Never Live to Regret It", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:31", "quote_first": "I took some juice out of the refrigerator and sat down at the kitchen table with it. On the table was a note from my girlfriend: ‘Gone out to eat. Back by 9:30.’ The digital clock on the table read 9:30. I watched it flip over to ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_35.json b/docs/times/21_35.json index 251457ef..d41a85bf 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_35.json +++ b/docs/times/21_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:35", + "quote_first": "The colonel ran to it, jumped in, and drove quickly down the ramp of the Royal Garden Hotel before turning left into Kensington Palace Gardens. Adam checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "nine thirty-five", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "A Matter of Honor", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:35", "quote_first": "Tess looked at her watch and was astounded to see it was only ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_36.json b/docs/times/21_36.json index 1346edca..c1f0a97e 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_36.json +++ b/docs/times/21_36.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:36", + "quote_first": "It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:36", + "quote_last": " and the traffic was now flowing smoothly. He walked over to the officer coordinating the shoot for the city’s motion picture and television office.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:36", "quote_first": "My backpack was already packed, and I’d already gotten the other supplies together, like the altimeter and the granola bars and the Swiss army knife I’d dug up in Central Park, so there was nothing else to do. Mom tucked me in at ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_47.json b/docs/times/21_47.json index 4c803c91..92b4be51 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_47.json +++ b/docs/times/21_47.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:47", + "quote_first": "“She’s dead,” he confirmed. “It must have been very sudden and with the minimum of pain.” He checked his watch; the time was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:47", + "quote_last": ". He covered his patient with a blanket and called for an ambulance.", + "title": "Old Love", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:47", "quote_first": "“Right. . . ", diff --git a/docs/times/21_51.json b/docs/times/21_51.json index 97123203..1a169d22 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_51.json +++ b/docs/times/21_51.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:51", + "quote_first": "They paused in front of the great concrete blocks that had been built to house the Declaration of Independence, just as a priest might in front of an altar. Scott checked his watch. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "9:51", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:51", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/21_54.json b/docs/times/21_54.json index 77233dd0..56c3803b 100644 --- a/docs/times/21_54.json +++ b/docs/times/21_54.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "21:54", + "quote_first": "Danny walked quickly back past the hotel, checking every intersection until he finally saw the name Argyll Street carved in large letters on a stone slab above him. He checked his watch as he turned into the street: ", + "quote_time_case": "9:54", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "A Prisoner of Birth", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "21:54", "quote_first": "At ", diff --git a/docs/times/22_01.json b/docs/times/22_01.json index efc6a695..bd35c501 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_01.json +++ b/docs/times/22_01.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:01", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "one minute past ten", + "quote_last": ", Giles shook the last hand and, desperate for a drink, walked down the road to join the dock workers in the Lord Nelson.", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:01", "quote_first": "In the old school they use now for the Village Hall, below the clock that has stood always at ", diff --git a/docs/times/22_06.json b/docs/times/22_06.json index 99f20961..5a179cde 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_06.json +++ b/docs/times/22_06.json @@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ "title": "The Shipping News", "author": "Annie Proulx", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "22:06", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "22:06 CET", + "quote_last": "
William settled down on his bunk just after ten, but he didn’t sleep. Some of the deckhands were playing cards, while others told unlikely tales of treasure they had recovered from the bottom of the ocean.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/22_07.json b/docs/times/22_07.json index a60751a3..200d0eb7 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_07.json +++ b/docs/times/22_07.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:07", + "quote_first": "“Follow the diversion sign,” he said, without even looking at her.
She glanced at the clock on her dashboard. It was ", + "quote_time_case": "10:07", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:07", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/22_12.json b/docs/times/22_12.json index 8f263a67..1f8cde62 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_12.json +++ b/docs/times/22_12.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:12", + "quote_first": "The phone rang at ", + "quote_time_case": "twelve minutes past ten", + "quote_last": ". He grabbed the receiver, and immediately recognized the voice of the local party chairman. “Good evening, Peter.”", + "title": "Mightier Than the Sword", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:12", "quote_first": "Still unable to sleep, Tengo was sitting on the floor, listening to the Duke Ellington record at low volume, when the phone rang again. The hands on the wall clock were pointing to ", diff --git a/docs/times/22_19.json b/docs/times/22_19.json index df44146b..ce1f255f 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_19.json +++ b/docs/times/22_19.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Bridget Jones's Diary", "author": "Helen Fielding", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "22:19", + "quote_first": "", + "quote_time_case": "22:19 GMT", + "quote_last": "
Jackie decided that this was even worse than a stakeout, because they were waiting for someone who wasn’t there, rather than for someone who was there and must eventually show up.", + "title": "Nothing Ventured", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/22_26.json b/docs/times/22_26.json index ec67788e..328e357b 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_26.json +++ b/docs/times/22_26.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:26", + "quote_first": "Siddons shuffled through some papers before he found the document he was looking for. He looked up at the judge and said, “I can confirm, sir, that the death certificate was signed at ", + "quote_time_case": "ten twenty-six p.m.", + "quote_last": " on Thursday the twenty-sixth of July, 1951.”", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:26", "quote_first": "As always, consciousness returned to me progressively from the edges of my field of vision. The first things to claim recognition were the bathroom door emerging from the far right and a lamp from the far left, from which my awareness gradually drifted inward like ice flowing together toward the middle of a lake. In the exact center of my visual field was the alarm clock, hands pointing to ", diff --git a/docs/times/22_35.json b/docs/times/22_35.json index 0c931c2d..4ff7402d 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_35.json +++ b/docs/times/22_35.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:35", + "quote_first": "“What time does the concert end?” he asked the first uniformed official he spotted.
“", + "quote_time_case": "Ten thirty-five", + "quote_last": ", sir, but you can’t leave your car there.”", + "title": "As the Crow Flies", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:35", "quote_first": "", diff --git a/docs/times/22_40.json b/docs/times/22_40.json index a4516569..92b43c23 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_40.json +++ b/docs/times/22_40.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:40", + "quote_first": "She climbed into bed at ", + "quote_time_case": "10:40", + "quote_last": ", but couldn’t sleep for more than an hour at a time. She occasionally flicked on the television to watch spaghetti Westerns dubbed into Lebanese.", + "title": "Honor Among Thieves", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:40", "quote_first": "There, at ", diff --git a/docs/times/22_41.json b/docs/times/22_41.json index b8432871..dc5cf0d3 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_41.json +++ b/docs/times/22_41.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "22:41", + "quote_first": "William listened to a debate on the future of Trident between Tony Blair and Michael Heseltine—both regarded as potential future leaders of their respective parties—when the lights went out in Summers’s living room at ", + "quote_time_case": "10:41", + "quote_last": ". He turned the radio off and made another entry in his notebook.", + "title": "Turn a Blind Eye", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "22:41", "quote_first": "The only two items that stood out on the whole list for Cork were two calls placed from the home of Wilfred Lipinksi, mayor of Aurora, one at 9:57 P.M. and another at ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_00.json b/docs/times/23_00.json index 227afa29..2d66bdc2 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_00.json +++ b/docs/times/23_00.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:00", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "eleven", + "quote_last": " o‘clock the dogs gave Mrs. Dearly’s hand one last kiss and took Mr. Dearly out for his last run. Perdita joined them for this. She had spent the evening with the Nannies, feeling that Pongo and Missis might wish to be alone with their pets.", + "title": "The 101 Dalmatians", + "author": "Dodie Smith", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:00", "quote_first": "Shanghai’s clocks were set an hour ahead so the city could “save daylight”, but the Bai family said: “We go by the old clock.” Ten o’clock to them was ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_16.json b/docs/times/23_16.json index cbaff990..828c73d7 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_16.json +++ b/docs/times/23_16.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:16", + "quote_first": "Eventually, at ", + "quote_time_case": "11:16", + "quote_last": ", he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:16", "quote_first": "But I couldn’t get out of the house straightaway because he would see me, so I would have to wait until he was asleep.
The time was ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_20.json b/docs/times/23_20.json index f1d1b8e4..f3e75aa6 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_20.json +++ b/docs/times/23_20.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:20", + "quote_first": "It appeared afterwards that on the same evening, at ", + "quote_time_case": "twenty past eleven", + "quote_last": ", he made another very eccentric and unexpected visit. The rain still persisted. Drenched to the skin, he walked into the little flat where the parents of his betrothed lived, in Third Street in Vassilyevsky Island.", + "title": "Crime and Punishment", + "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:20", "quote_first": "From Balboa Island, he drove south to Laguna Beach. At ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_22.json b/docs/times/23_22.json index 07c45884..c1e023a0 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_22.json +++ b/docs/times/23_22.json @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ "quote_last": ".
She knew only one thing with absolute certainty: she didn’t want to reach tomorrow. She stood up. She found a pen and a piece of paper.
It was, she decided, a very good time to die.", "title": "The Midnight Library", "author": "Matt Haig", - "sfw": "yes" + "sfw": "no" }, { "time": "23:22", diff --git a/docs/times/23_27.json b/docs/times/23_27.json index b069839d..972df6dc 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_27.json +++ b/docs/times/23_27.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:27", + "quote_first": "At ", + "quote_time_case": "11:27 P.M.", + "quote_last": " Jean-Pierre left quietly and returned to the solitude of his hotel room where he remained until 11 A.M. the next day. He phoned no one and did not use room service.", + "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:27", "quote_first": "He tells his old friend the train times and they settle on the 19.45 arriving at ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_41.json b/docs/times/23_41.json index 1dc570a6..4f6cfeaf 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_41.json +++ b/docs/times/23_41.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:41", + "quote_first": "Once he was back behind the wheel, he checked his watch: ", + "quote_time_case": "11:41", + "quote_last": ". No reason he shouldn’t make it to Shillingford in a couple of hours, although he knew his father would be pacing up and down the driveway long before then.", + "title": "Best Kept Secret", + "author": "Jeffrey Archer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:41", "quote_first": "In a little while his mind cleared, but his head ached, arms ached, body ached. The phosphorescent figures on his watch attracted his attention. He peered at them. The time was ", diff --git a/docs/times/23_45.json b/docs/times/23_45.json index 1cd09e42..6ed59323 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_45.json +++ b/docs/times/23_45.json @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ [ + { + "time": "23:45", + "quote_first": "It was ", + "quote_time_case": "fifteen minutes to midnight", + "quote_last": ", when the dead—according to Celia—threw off their coffin lids like so many blankets. Stop that, Matt told himself.", + "title": "The House of the Scorpion", + "author": "Nancy Farmer", + "sfw": "yes" + }, { "time": "23:45", "quote_first": "Billy’s plan lasts until ", diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index 0f560af1..b977bb1c 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -3045,7 +3045,7 @@ 20:57|only three minutes before nine|She points up at Watch that says 08:57, that’s only three minutes before nine. So I run into Wardrobe and lie down on my pillow and wrap up in Blanket that’s all grey and fleecy with the red piping.|Room|Emma Donoghue|unknown 20:57|three minutes to nine|"Wait," he said solemnly, "till the clock strikes. I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men, but when the clock strikes I am afraid. Stay by me until then. This woman shall be yours. You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna. On the day of your marriage I will give you $100,000 and a palace on the Hudson. But there must be no clocks in that palace--they measure our follies and limit our pleasures. Do you agree to that?"
"Of course," said the young man, cheerfully, "they're a nuisance, anyway--always ticking and striking and getting you late for dinner." He glanced again at the clock in the tower. The hands stood at three minutes to nine.|The Four Million|O. Henry|unknown 20:58|two minutes to nine|"What time is it?" she asked, quiet, definite, hopeless.
"Two minutes to nine," he replied, telling the truth with a struggle.|Sons and Lovers|D.H. Lawrence|unknown -20:59|one minute to nine|However, you will go no farther than two miles from the barracks, you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine.|As The Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw +20:59|one minute before nine|However, you will go no farther than two miles from the barracks, you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine.|As The Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:59|one minute to nine|Normally an assistant would have put [the television] on for him at one minute to nine. He sat watching a Nigerian woman give a talk on dressmaking, followed by the weather forecast man who supplied Eduardo with the revealing information that the temperature would continue to be hot for the next month.|The Coup|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 20:59|8:59 p.m.|"Well, what an amazing culinary experience," Eva said at 8:59 p.m., when Prager’s car parked in front of her apartment.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown 21:00|nine o'clock|They who had to go to bed so punctually, for whom the lights went out at nine o'clock, could stay at Obermeier Farm until the fireflies and the stars came out-until the Chinese lanterns were lit and they could walk once more about the farm with their jovial host and hostess with these beautiful, swaying, colored lights.|Bright Valley of Love|Edna Hong|unknown From 112a17c96364c1471c99882ac502de4bac2799d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Rose Battles Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:38:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 15/15] update a few titles --- docs/times/00_00.json | 2 +- docs/times/11_30.json | 2 +- docs/times/11_45.json | 2 +- docs/times/16_23.json | 2 +- litclock_annotated.csv | 8 ++++---- 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/times/00_00.json b/docs/times/00_00.json index f76dcce8..8273c9d3 100644 --- a/docs/times/00_00.json +++ b/docs/times/00_00.json @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ "quote_first": "‘Tis the year’s ", "quote_time_case": "midnight", "quote_last": ", and it is the day’s, Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;", - "title": "A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day", + "title": "A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day", "author": "John Donne", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/11_30.json b/docs/times/11_30.json index 473e0412..3969311d 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_30.json +++ b/docs/times/11_30.json @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ "quote_first": "“O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints’, and I was at the door at ", "quote_time_case": "half-past eleven", "quote_last": " to a minute as you said.”", - "title": "Far From the Madding Crowd", + "title": "Far From the Maddening Crowd", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/11_45.json b/docs/times/11_45.json index a8162e05..dd20be2b 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_45.json +++ b/docs/times/11_45.json @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ "quote_first": "I waited till a ", "quote_time_case": "quarter to twelve", "quote_last": ", and found then that I was in All Souls’. But I wasn’t much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.", - "title": "Far From the Madding Crowd", + "title": "Far From the Maddening Crowd", "author": "Thomas Hardy", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/docs/times/16_23.json b/docs/times/16_23.json index c3d70ee3..2e7dbade 100644 --- a/docs/times/16_23.json +++ b/docs/times/16_23.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "quote_first": "They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related “adjustments” to Earth’s orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at ", "quote_time_case": "4.23", "quote_last": ".", - "title": "A Visit From the Goon Squad", + "title": "A Visit from the Goon Squad", "author": "Jennifer Egan", "sfw": "yes" }, diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index b977bb1c..8f4d68b9 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ 00:00|midnight|"But wait till I tell you," he said. "We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o'clock the morning after the night before." |Ulysses|James Joyce|unknown 00:00|midnight|"Midnight," you said. What is midnight to the young? And suddenly a festive blaze was flung Across five cedar trunks, snow patches showed, And a patrol car on our bumpy road Came to a crunching stop. Retake, retake!|Pale Fire|Vladimir Nabokov|unknown 00:00|12.00|That a man who could hardly see anything more than two feet away from him could be employed as a security guard suggested to me that our job was not to secure anything but to report for work every night, fill the bulky ledger with cryptic remarks like 'Patrolled perimeter 12.00 pm, No Incident' and go to the office every fortnight for our wages and listen to the talkative Ms Elgassier.|A Squatter's Tale|Ike Oguine|unknown -00:00|midnight|'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;|A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day|John Donne|unknown +00:00|midnight|'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;|A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day|John Donne|unknown 00:00|midnight|At midnight his wife and daughter might still be bustling about, preparing holiday delicacies in the kitchen, straightening up the house, or perhaps getting their kimonos ready or arranging flowers. Oki would sit in the living room and listen to the radio. As the bells rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience.|Beauty and Sadness|Yasunari Kawabata|unknown 00:00|twelve|Bernardo: 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.|Hamlet|William Shakespeare|unknown 00:00|midnight|But, odder still - Big Ben had once again struck midnight. The time outside still corresponded to that registered by the stopped gilt clock, inside. Inside and outside matched exactly, but both were badly wrong. H'm.|Nights at the Circus|Angela Carter|sfw @@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ 11:30|half past eleven|And so it was that around half past eleven, I found myself riding down to the Village on the Fifth Avenue bus with the street address of Hobart and Blackwell in my pocket, written on a page from one of the monogrammed notepads Mrs Barbour kept by the telephone.|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|unknown 11:30|eleven-thirty|“The extraordinary thing is,” he told Livia at eleven-thirty, “you seem to be the only applicant. Or at least, the only one who’s showed up.”|The Wedding Officer|Anthony Capella|unknown 11:30|11.30|"It is now 11.30. The door to this room is shut, and will remain shut, barring emergencies, until 12.00. I am authorised to inform you that we are now under battle orders."|Singularity Sky|Charles Stross|unknown -11:30|half-past eleven|"O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said."|Far From the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown +11:30|half-past eleven|"O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said."|Far From the Maddening Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown 11:30|half-past eleven|"Thank-you," said C.B. quietly; but as he hung up his face was grim. In a few minutes he would have to break it to John that, although they had braved such dreadful perils dring the earlier part of the night they had, after all, failed to save Christina. Beddows had abjured Satan at a little after half-past eleven. By about eighteen minutes the Canon had beaten them to it again.|To the Devil a Daughter|Dennis Wheatley|unknown 11:30|11.30|This time it was Kumiko. The wall clock said 11.30.|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|Haruki Murakami|unknown 11:30|11:30|About 11:30 this morning I asked her if she was going to fix anything for Thanksgiving, and she looked at me like she didn't even know what I was talking about.|Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey|Margaret Peterson Haddix|unknown @@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ 11:44|sixteen minutes to twelve|Weiss's watch said sixteen minutes to twelve, and the detonation was set for noon, as set by a bank of electric clocks and three seperate control cables. But when the dragon embraced the bomb and tightened his grip, it was enough.|To Hold the Bridge|Garth Nix|sfw 11:45|eleven forty-five|It was eleven forty-five but my cousin still wasn’t back. It was getting close to lunchtime and the cafeteria was starting to get more crowded. All sorts of sounds and voices mixed together like smoke enveloping the room. I returned once more to the realm of memory. And that small gold pen she had in her breast pocket.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 11:45|11:45 AM|11:45 AM - 06/05/2014
More details have emerged in the investigation into the killings at Val-de-Grâce early Wednesday morning.|The Catacombs|Jeremy Bates|unknown -11:45|quarter to twelve|I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.|Far From the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown +11:45|quarter to twelve|I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.|Far From the Maddening Crowd|Thomas Hardy|unknown 11:45|quarter to twelve|"I will tell you the time," said Septimus, very slowly, very drowsily, smiling mysteriously. As he sat smiling at the dead man in the grey suit the quarter struck, the quarter to twelve.|Mrs. Dalloway|Virginia Woolf|unknown 11:45|11.45 am|I arrived at St. Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11.45 am on Thursday, the 16th by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat.|Epitaph for a Spy|Eric Ambler|unknown 11:47|eleven forty-seven|"Because the two curses that have struck here in Chicago arrived at eleven forty-seven in the morning, and damned close to that last night. Add two hours to the deaths in California to account for the difference in time zones. The curse was sent at the same time. Thirteen minutes before noon or midnight."|Blood Rites|Jim Butcher|nsfw @@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@ 16:20|twenty minutes past four|At twenty minutes past four - or, to put it another, blunter way, an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride, her head down, a parent stationed on either side of her, was helped out of the building.|Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters|J.D. Salinger|unknown 16:21|4.21 pm|4.21 pm
As they started on, Doug picked up a twig and after rubbing it off, started to move one end of it inside his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Bob asked.
"Brushing my teeth, nature style," Doug answered.
Bob grunted, smiling slightly. "I'll use my toothbrush," he said.|Hunted Past Reason|Richard Matheson|sfw 16:22|4.22 pm|Monday, 4.22 pm Washington, D.C. Paul Hood took his daily late-afternoon look at the list of names on his computer monitor.|Balance of Power: Op-Center 05|Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, and Jeff Rovin|unknown -16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit From the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown +16:23|4.23|They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related "adjustments" to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at 4.23.|A Visit from the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|unknown 16:23|16:23 CET|16:23 CET
After stowing their bags in the sleeping quarters below, the two new itinerant deckhands reported for duty on the main deck.|Nothing Ventured|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 16:24|4:24|Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was 4:24. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.|Teardrop|Travis Thrasher|unknown 16:25|4:25|He jumped off at St. Paul’s and, although he walked slowly, he was standing outside Kaufman’s bank on Cheapside by 4:25.|Mightier Than the Sword|Jeffrey Archer|sfw