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  • After eleven-o'clock bed check, we'd stalk the hallways at one-thirty, two in the morning, carrying huge hunting knives.

    Jim Haslett, his teammates and hunting knives 2010

  • He should have gone straight home after the eleven-o'clock show last night, instead of stopping at the piano bar around the comer.

    Father Unknown Quinn, Tara Taylor 1998

  • Medical science and educational science always do conflict; but eleven-o'clock suppers, social circles, tri-weekly gad-abouts, and over-anxious parents, who yearn for a good match for their daughters, disarrange the brains and stomachs of girls oftener than any undue desire to excel in study.

    Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder

  • We were agreeably surprised to find it much nicer than it appeared as we entered it, tired out, the night before, and we had a pleasant walk before going to the eleven-o'clock service at the kirk.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The bishop had been showing her his collection of photographs, and she had promised to play the harmonium for him at the eleven-o'clock service in the morning.

    The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • The eleven-o'clock express found her, accompanied by her faithful and astonished maid, being carried toward New York.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • After my ten-o'clock class, and on the way to my eleven-o'clock lecture, I always ran in to his office a second, to gossip over what mail he had got that morning and how things were going generally.

    An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • At Ticvoria Station your representative found a seething mob intent on getting to those ever popular and already much overcrowded South-coast resorts, Paradeville, Shingleton-on-Sea, Promenade Bay, etc. The eleven-o'clock "Paradeville fast," due to start in half-an-hour, was at

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

  • "Come into my class-room after eleven-o'clock school."

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • Most of the better class of French _émigrés_ retained all their former habits of domestic life, such as taking a cup of coffee before rising in the morning and an eleven-o'clock _déjeuner à la fourchette_, while those who could afford it had a modest _petit souper_ at nine o'clock in the evening.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

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