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People can get sponsored, or if they prefer make a donation to go along to Christchurch in the City, at the top of Broad Street the church with the quarter-jack clock and either play something on their instrument, sing, create some art or write a poem.
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People can get sponsored, or if they prefer make a donation to go along to Christchurch in the City, at the top of Broad Street the church with the quarter-jack clock and either play something on their instrument, sing, create some art or write a poem.
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The rattle of the quarter-jack again from its niche, its blows for three-quarters, its fussy retreat, were almost painfully abrupt, and caused many of the congregation to start palpably.
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From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
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From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
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The rattle of the quarter-jack again from its niche, its blows for three-quarters, its fussy retreat, were almost painfully abrupt, and caused many of the congregation to start palpably.
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