O'clock Sentence Examples

It's pushing two o'clock in the morning.

A council of war, which met at two o'clock in the morning to consider the practicability of Dahlberg's proposal, at once dismissed it as criminally hazardous.

He closed the door to Brandon Westlake and told the old photographer-antique collector to come back after nine o'clock, claiming a need to do his own Internet work.

Much as he disliked making Fred wait, he decided to put off the task until nine o'clock but another phone call forced a change of plans.

As five O'clock approached, she was beginning to wish she hadn't told Keaton that she would go with him.

It's ten O'clock, and you've been sleeping longer than you think.

Court starts at nine o'clock, Dean said as he piled silverware on the kitchen counter.

I'm meeting someone at eight o'clock tonight for a final sitting.

The sale of liquor on Sunday or between one o'clock and five o'clock in the morning of any other day is unlawful.

Connor said, Jesus, it's not even nine o'clock yet and you're drinking.

It's not even nine o'clock here.

Ten O'clock found her hanging over the telephone, her cell phone on her hip.

Which reminds me, you've got a ten o'clock today with your producer to plan out shooting for the next season, Ingrid said.

For children under sixteen years of age who are so employed the hours of labour are limited to eight a day and the days to six a week, and such children must not begin work before eight o'clock in the morning or continue after five o'clock in the evening.

Next I was shown a photograph of a chubby cheeked man about forty, with short hair and a six o'clock shadow.

Thus the assailants, carrying the advanced works by storm, rushed upon the main defences on the heels of the broken advanced guard, and a general engagement was brought on which lasted from 3.30 until nine o'clock in the evening.

It was still only four o'clock.

It was past one o'clock.

The most petty limitations of Jewish commercial activity continued; thus at about this period the community of Prague, in a petition, " complain that they are not permitted to buy victuals in the market before a certain hour, vegetables not before 9 and cattle not before II o'clock; to buy fish is sometimes altogether prohibited; Jewish druggists are not permitted to buy victuals at the same time with Christians " (op. cit.).

Six o'clock arrived and, being so thirsty I was seeing cups of tea in the heat haze, I headed home.

When we got to Jersey City at six o'clock Friday evening we were obliged to cross the Harlem River in a ferry-boat.

It was about eleven o'clock.

I shut down my experiment at six o'clock.

The child, an eight year old girl named Marcia Stonehurst, was still in bed at one o'clock.

Martha was alone with an infant and it was after nine o'clock.

I had a couple of Sam Adams and a roast beef sandwich and arrived at the 30th Street station in Philadelphia just before four o'clock.

A number of those in attendance asked if the service was still on for seven o'clock.

It tells callers looking for reservations to call after four o'clock.

However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.

It was three o'clock.

He rubbed his five o'clock shadow and rose.

Yes, I can't believe it's one o'clock.

Dr Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, and the marquis of Conyngham, bearing the news of the king's death, started in a landau with four horses for Kensington, which they reached at five o'clock.

The east and west walls should run parallel to each other, and at right angles to that on the north side, in all the most favoured localities; but in colder or later ones, though parallel, they should be so far removed from a right angle as to get the sun by eleven o'clock.

For purposes of service not required to be personal, it means before six o'clock on any week-day except Saturday, and before 2 P.M.

On the 27th, the day of Oxford's resignation, the discussions concerning his successor detained the council sitting in the queen's presence till two o'clock in the morning, and on retiring Anne was instantly seized with fatal illness.

The bombardment began at two o'clock on the morning of Oct.

The Bosnians had crossed by nine o'clock, surprising and driving back the small detachment watching the bridge.

No child under fourteen years of age may be employed in any work whatever before six o'clock in the morning, after seven o'clock in the evening, or during the hours when the public schools are in session.

At ten o'clock on the 19th Gustavus mounted his horse and rode straight to the arsenal.

The heaviest shock began at 12 minutes 6 seconds past 5 o'clock a.m., Pacific standard time, and lasted 1 minute 5 seconds.

The operation is usually performed about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the opium collected the next morning.

While at supper about 6 o'clock an anonymous letter was brought by an unknown messenger which, having glanced at, he handed to Ward, a gentleman of his service and an intimate friend of Winter, the conspirator, to be read aloud.

About 11 o'clock the sheriff and his men came up and immediately began firing into the house.

During the summer months the general course of the wind along the sea-coast is interrupted about midday by an incoming current of air, the " sea breeze," which gradually increases until about three o'clock in the afternoon, and then gradually lessens until the offshore wind takes its place.

The employment of children under sixteen years of age in any mercantile establishment for more than 10 hours a day, or 55 hours a week, or between 6 o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in the morning is prohibited, except one evening each week when they may be permitted to work until 9 o'clock, and except in the evenings from the 15th to the 25th of December when they may be permitted to work until 10 o'clock.

By io o'clock the same evening the remainder of the king's guests were safely under lock and key.

At 12 o'clock that night the patriotic bishops of Skara and Strangnas were led out into the great square and beheaded.

Fawkes was brought into the king's bedchamber, where the ministers had hastily assembled, at one o'clock.

I prosecuted it last night till one o'clock; and I am sure it will be well received."

Newton received this problem about 5 o'clock in the afternoon as he was returning from the mint, but, though he was fatigued with business, he solved the problem the same evening.

He seemed a little better on the 15th of March, and on the 18th he read the newspapers and conversed with Dr Mead; but at 6 o'clock in the evening he became insensible, and continued in that state till Monday the 20th of March 1727, when he expired without pain between one and two o'clock in the morning.

During even the least rigid of these the use of flesh and lacticinia is strictly forbidden; fish, oil and wine are occasionally conceded, but not before two o'clock in the afternoon.

They breakfast at five o'clock, take an hour for their dinner at noon - usually in the field - and have their supper at seven.

Soon after the purchase President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation announcing that this land would be opened to homestead settlement at twelve o'clock noon, on the 22nd of April 1889.

His man-servant, who awoke him summer and winter at five o'clock, testified that he had not once failed in thirty years to respond to the call.

Our daily schedule involved Betsy leaving our apartment later than I and returning for a seven o'clock dinner.

However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.

Two straight days of vigorous outdoor activity coupled with a later-than-usual bedtime caused Dean to sleep through the six o'clock broadcast of Public Radio news, waking only when an extended arm felt an empty bed beside him.

Fashion shows will be at 12 o'clock and 2pm, featuring designer wedding dresses and accessories.

At six o'clock in the evening a family became aware of a fire upstairs, where an infant was fast asleep in his cot.

Toward eight o'clock in the evening the wind became very boisterous.

At four o'clock we ambled ashore and took the cable car up to Capri Town for a stroll.

It's seven o'clock sharp and the conductor gives the downbeat for the brass band to begin.

Do you really want the mating call of an African elephant blaring out at you at two o'clock in the morning without warning?

Don't wait until after eleven o'clock on November the eleven o'clock on November the eleventh to break the silence.

The 11 O'Clock Show Channel 4 Sacha Baron Cohen's creation Ali G is a typical wannabe gangsta, familiar to urban Britain.

It must have been nearly three o'clock when we reached a narrow valley gouged between high, vertical walls and located 150 meters down.

On Thursday night, about ten o'clock, he attacked a horse grenadier, who was patroling about the Horse Guards.

Mr. Hunt ascended the hustings about half-past one o'clock and proceeded to address the immense multitude.

Oh, and lest I forget, they were also lampooned on the comedy satire show, ' Not the Nine O'Clock News ' .

I rose at eight o'clock, some ladies having won a few louis, all the others were dried up.

On Thursday the Ten O'Clock News obtained pictures of an alleged massacre in Iraq.

But before we get to tonight's headliners Five O'Clock Heroes deserve an honorable mention.

At three o'clock this morning in a damp, chill mist all hands were roused to work.

That night was pretty bad, no sleep from three o'clock, therefore somewhat plaintive in the morning.

At around five o'clock the weather was actually quite pleasant.

Two o'clock and the thunderous, unbroken roar of thousands of bikers partying like crazy was plain to be heard.

At this stage the pedals may be freely rotated; the right pedal should be rotated to around the seven o'clock position.

Twelve o'clock had scarce rung out over London, ere the knocker sounded very gently on the door.

About nine o'clock I got it out and started sewing.

Near eleven o'clock I did feel a cold shiver run throughout my body.

Every morning when the alarm clock goes off at 7 o'clock, I hit snooze.

I usually get back home round about eight o'clock in the evening, and have a quick snooze in the car.

Monday 19th March Paphos headland We started early at seven o'clock for a short sojourn to the beach area.

In the harvest time we would be working up until ten o'clock and later as we had double summertime.

I hired a taxi at 2 o'clock a.m. to take me out to the pyramids.

About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.

On Christmas Day itself, at three o'clock appropriately, a chef demonstrated how to carve a turkey!

His stomach gave a twinge as he thought of food, missing its ten o'clock bacon butty.

We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing-room car throughout.

At c. 11 o'clock every day, they feed the vultures - an opportunity to get up close to hooded vultures.

Scheduling Family Viewing Policy This fixes the nine o'clock watershed.

Your standing position should be left foot forward, toes facing 2 o'clock, with your right foot double shoulder width apart behind you.

Few things are finer in music or literature than the end of the second act of Die Meistersinger, from the point where Sachs's apprentice begins the riot, to the moment when the watchman, frightened at the silence of the moonlit streets so soon after he has heard all that noise, announces eleven o'clock and bids the folk pray for protection against evil spirits, while the orchestra tells us of the dreams of Walther and Eva and ends by putting poetry even into the pedantic ineptitudes of the malicious Beckmesser.

After second Par= every conceivable means of intimidation had been tition of unscrupulously applied for twelve weeks, the second treaty of partition was signed at three o'clock on the morning of the 23rd of September 1793.

After five o'clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade (delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our retreating forces.

Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept till ten o'clock.

It's nearly ten o'clock, answered Natasha's voice.

Toward ten o'clock the men servants rushed to the front door, hearing the bells of the old prince's carriage approaching.

They praised her taste and toilet, and at eleven o'clock, careful of their coiffures and dresses, they settled themselves in their carriages and drove off.

At two o'clock the six chosen guests assembled for dinner.

Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.

It was a sunny morning and by eight o'clock it was already hot.

At eight o'clock the booming of cannon was added to the sound of musketry.

He was so much interested in that task that he was unable to sleep, and in spite of his cold which had grown worse from the dampness of the evening, he went into the large division of the tent at three o'clock in the morning, loudly blowing his nose.

Toward three o'clock the French attacks ceased.

Prince Andrew's regiment was among the reserves which till after one o'clock were stationed inactive behind Semenovsk, under heavy artillery fire.

Toward two o'clock the regiment, having already lost more than two hundred men, was moved forward into a trampled oatfield in the gap between Semenovsk and the Knoll Battery, where thousands of men perished that day and on which an intense, concentrated fire from several hundred enemy guns was directed between one and two o'clock.

By ten o'clock in the morning of the second of September, only the rear guard remained in the Dorogomilov suburb, where they had ample room.

The Russian troops were passing through Moscow from two o'clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving.

Toward nine o'clock in the morning, when the troops were already moving through Moscow, nobody came to the count any more for instructions.

Toward four o'clock in the afternoon Murat's troops were entering Moscow.

At ten o'clock that evening the Rostov family and the wounded traveling with them were all distributed in the yards and huts of that large village.

The officer searched till six o'clock in the evening without even stopping to eat.

It was already past eight o'clock.

Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night.

It was three o'clock in the morning.

A distinctive symptom was the ' three o'clock flush ' - a reddening of the face experienced by many of the workers.

Exit the roundabout at 11 o'clock to enter Victoria Street.

Two o'clock came; and they still sate there with closed doors.

At nine o'clock our knees may knock - we stagger out despite ' em By half past ten we 're sloshed again.

Following this, Dr. Hoover and four others met every day at five o'clock to pray for spiritual awakening.

At about 11 o'clock the juniors then go to the gym, pool or sports hall for some exercise.

It was four o'clock in the starlit morning when Meredith Gwyn returned home, and gave his horse into Jack 's charge.

On Christmas Day itself, at three o'clock appropriately, a chef demonstrated how to carve a turkey !

Fashion shows will be at 12 o'clock and 2pm, featuring top designer wedding dresses and fashion designs.

Is this scenario familiar to you?It's five o'clock in the morning and the sun has barely started to rise.

Next, have her point her front foot forward, so it is at the 12 o'clock position while the back foot is placed at the 3 o'clock position.

By the time we got on the road it was 9 o'clock at night.

By the time we got settled and my head hit the pillow it was 5 o'clock.

I met up with the guys at 10 o'clock at the Pussycat Lounge on Greenwich.

By 12 o'clock the rain had stopped and the sun came out.

The Police Chief, Joe Winkle, told them that roll call would be at 6 o'clock, with the warning, "Do not be late."

Baron Cohen got his start as a character on Britain's The 11 O'Clock Show in 1995, after submitting an audition tape.

At twelve o'clock (PST) on October 3, 2007, Britney Spears officially lost physical custody of her two young boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

For example it could be "Mommy's Day Off," or "It's Five O'clock Somewhere, let's get together with our dogs and kids, take a big time out and have some fun!"

As five o'clock separates the afternoon from the evening, anything worn after that time must be appropriate for the hour.

Many feel that a tie is optional for after five o'clock, but most fashion mavens insist that to be properly dressed for a cocktail event, a tie should be worn.

Four O'clock Organic Tea is a brand name for a line of tea products.

Oolong teas are less processed than black tea and more processed than green tea, however this type is not available in the Four O'clock brand.

You can find special ingredients in Four O'clock Organic Teas that may help sooth common ailments.

Browse the Trans-Herbe herb glossary to discover the herbs used in Four O'clock Organic Tea and select the flavor that suits your tastes.

Choosing from Four O'clock brand's many varieties can result in a pleasant afternoon tradition of taking time for yourself.

Hold the lenses up to a reflective surface so you can look through them, with the arms of the frames pointed at three and nine o'clock.

Rotate the lenses so the arms now point to twelve and six o'clock.

Rotating them back to three and nine o'clock should result in heavier filtration.

AlgyPerforms.com offers a set in One O Clock Jump for women and men.

It's eight o'clock at night, and your child suddenly remembers he has a project due the next morning.

Coming home to Long Island after a date at two o'clock in the morning, Savalas ran out of gas.

Walk the decks between two and four o'clock in the morning and there's a good chance you'll see an apparition or two.

Television shows that are aired between two o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening are eligible for the awards program.

Every Breitling Avenger watch comes along with self-winding mechanical movement, titanium professional bracelet, titanium case, an attractive black dial with arabic numerals, and ate indicator at 3 o'clock position.

Hinged with a black crocodile leather strap and folding buckle, polished steel case, and Chronograph function comes with black or silver dial and Date indicator between 4 and 5 o'clock position.

This exquisite model boasts of 11 sparkling diamond hour markers and a date window at 3 o'clock.

The watch has a squared Date window at 3 o'clock.

A window at the 3 o'clock hour reveals the automatic date calendar.

Other interesting features include Numerals Luminous Hands and Hour Markers with Date Displays at 6 O'clock.

Date at 6 o'clock, Elapsed and total time chronograph functions, 12 hours, 30 minutes and 60 seconds register, Automatic movement.

Automatic Chronograph movement, Date between 4 & 5 o'clock, folding buckle in polished steel, Stainless steel brushed and polished case Sapphire Crystal with 50M (165ft) Water resistant.

A highly stylized Cyclops lens frames automatic date calendar at the 3 o'clock hour.

Available in with black or white strap and dial, the Tag Heuer Golf Watch is the ideal watch for today's professional golfer; so much so that the crown is located at 9 o'clock, to avoid hurting your wrist during a swing.

To top it all off, the Seamaster 300 M Diver Chronometer is self winding, features a date display window at 3 o'clock and is topped with a durable unidirectional bezel.

It features a calendar that displays at 3 o'clock.

The Breitling Colt Quartz II Men's 613 is powered by Quartz technology, and features a calendar that displays the date at 3 o'clock.

Sweet and simple, the Breitling Navitimer Men's 601 features a calendar at the 3 o'clock position.

The Bulova Ladies Marine Star Watch with Mother of Pearl Dial & Diamonds is a smooth timepiece that features a calendar display at 6 o'clock.

The bezel is studded and there is a date indicator close to the 3 o'clock mark.

The most distinctive style of Movado watch is the Museum watch, which is easily identified by the bold watch face with a single mark indicating 12 o'clock.

Braille generally signifies the hours using a single dot, the quarter hours by two or more dots and 12 o'clock with three dots.

The pendant watch features logo markers at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock and is water resistant to thirty meters.

It also has a transparent back through which to view the LV122 caliber watch movement and an inlaid sunstone at the 12 o'clock position.

Attributes include a gold and steel case, genuine leather strap, automatic self-winding movement and calendar date window at three o'clock.

The camera is located in a tiny pinhole near the six o'clock mark on the face.

Be sure to also serve dinner around the same time every night and limit snacking after about seven o'clock in the evening.

Dinner will be ready at six O'clock.

Seven o'clock came and went without Alex.

She could set her clock by his arrival - eight o'clock every Friday night - in a blue plaid western shirt and battered black cowboy hat.

I shut off all my equipment at six o'clock when my experiment expires.

The hot chocolate did its job, but not until well after five o'clock.

It was already nearing eight o'clock.

At six o'clock we pulled off the highway and found a family style restaurant in a small Maryland town.

It grew even more overwhelming after the broadcast of the eleven o'clock news.

You could drop Molly and me off at Logan airport for the ten o'clock flight to California, be in Philadelphia by early evening, and fly out to join us the next morning.

We don't start serving until five o'clock called one of a half dozen women setting out food on a steam line.

His jaw was roughened from a five o'clock shadow.

It was four o'clock and he'd just returned from Montrose to find Cynthia still damp from her shower.

The bidding starts at eleven o'clock, but you can look the items over any time after ten.

God, I sound like 'two o'clock, brought to you by Ivory soap, tune in again tomorrow.'

It was slightly after two o'clock when Dean saw Fitzgerald emerge from The Timberline Deli and stroll to his white Blazer parked on the street.

It was near ten o'clock the next morning when Martha awoke in a festive mood with the appetite of a hibernating bear.

The couple was back in Bird Song by seven o'clock.

After milling about until nearly nine o'clock, the entire group began to trek up to the ice park and, as Claire Quincy put it, view this craziness.

Just before five o'clock he went to the kitchen to begin preparing spaghetti for Fred and himself, and Martha, whom they had invited to again stay for supper.

From it the exact time is conveyed each day at one o'clock by electric signal to the chief towns throughout the country; British and the majority of foreign geographers reckon longitude from its meridian.

In this hopeless state of affairs a false report reached Emmet at one of his depots at nine o'clock in the evening that the military were approaching.

So swiftly and noiselessly indeed had the whole revolution proceeded that as late as eight o'clock the next morning very few people in the city were aware of it.

One stirring social incident at least marked this part of his life, for, during the revolutionary insurrection in March 1848, the young mathematician, as a member of a company of student volunteers, kept guard in the royal palace from 9 o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March till 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the following day.

There could be only one reply, and on Wednesday, the 11th of October 1899, at five o'clock p.m., a state of war existed between the British government and the two Boer republics.

The plague was scarcely stayed before the whole city was in flames, a calamity of the first magnitude, but one which in the end caused much good, as the seeds of disease were destroyed, and London has never since been visited by such an epidemic. On the 2nd of September 1666 the fire broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a house in Pudding Lane.

On the following day he was with the royal family from six o'clock in the evening till six o'clock the next morning, and convinced himself that a second flight was physically impossible.

Actual firing began about 2 o'clock, when the "Merrimac" was nearly a mile from the "Congress" and the "Cumberland."

She was in such shallow water that the Confederate iron-clad ram could not get near her at ebb tide, and about 5 o'clock the Confederates postponed her capture until the next day and anchored off Sewell's Point.

It was now about eight o'clock, and the light was rapidly failing.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dahlberg leading the way, the army reached Grimsted in Laaland without losing a man.

On the 2nd-13th of August 1704 Eugene and Marlborough set their forces in motion towards the hostile camps; several streams had to be crossed on the march, and it was seven o'clock (five hours after moving off) when the British of Marlborough's left wing, next the Danube, deployed opposite Blenheim, which Tallard thereupon garrisoned with a large force of his best infantry, aided by a battery of 24-pounder guns.

The ordinary word for twelve o'clock was middceg, midday, also the equivalent of the canonical hour "sext."

On the longest day the sun rises at 3 o'clock A.M.

The custom of blowing the wakeman's horn every night at nine o'clock is said to have originated about A.D.

Until 1 o'clock there was no diminution of the Danish fire.

At 8 o'clock the frontal attack began by a vigorous artillery engagement, in which the French, though greatly outnumbered in guns, held their own, and three hours later Waldeck, whose attention had been absorbed by events on the front, found a long line of the enemy already formed up in his rear.

It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house.

At three o'clock the Throne Room was crowded with citizens, men, women and children being eager to witness the great trial.

The examination papers were given out at nine o'clock at Harvard and brought to Radcliffe by a special messenger.

Mr. Keith comes every afternoon at four o'clock, and gives me a "friendly lift" over the rough stretches of road, over which every student must go.

The exercises began at nine, and it was one o'clock before we could leave.

At one o'clock the next day Massasoit "brought two fishes that he had shot," about thrice as big as a bream.

When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o'clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day about other affairs.

One night in the beginning of winter, before the pond froze over, about nine o'clock, I was startled by the loud honking of a goose, and, stepping to the door, heard the sound of their wings like a tempest in the woods as they flew low over my house.

It was past one o'clock when Pierre left his friend.

It's now two o'clock and you dine at four.

Between twelve and two o'clock, as the day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the clavichord.

At what o'clock was General Schmidt killed?

Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who had persisted in his request to Kutuzov, arrived at Grunth and reported himself to Bagration.

However, at nine o'clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable collar and cap, went out for his usual walk.

The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent the night ten miles from Olmutz and next morning were to come straight to the review, reaching the field at Olmutz by ten o'clock.

Shortly after nine o'clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his plans to Kutuzov's quarters where the council of war was to be held.

Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one knew till after eight o'clock.

It was nine o'clock in the morning.

At eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth column, Miloradovich's, the one that was to take the place of Przebyszewski's and Langeron's columns which had already gone down into the valley.

On our right flank commanded by Bagration, at nine o'clock the battle had not yet begun.

Next day, the third of March, soon after one o'clock, two hundred and fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagration, to dinner.

The town was being bombarded by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o'clock.

They waited for him from four till six o'clock and did not begin their deliberations all that time but talked in low tones of other matters.

Before two o'clock in the afternoon the Rostovs' four carriages, packed full and with the horses harnessed, stood at the front door.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon.

It occurred to none of them that it was three o'clock and time to go to bed.

When her vocal organs needed exercise, which was usually toward seven o'clock when she had had an after-dinner rest in a darkened room, the pretext would be the retelling of the same stories over and over again to the same audience.

It was almost three O'clock in the afternoon and her stomach was screaming for something to eat.

At five o'clock sharp, Adrienne left the hospital.

At seven o'clock, I believe.