the clock

• “She watched it for a full minute, the second hands still ticking together perfectly, when all of a sudden, it was as if the clock on the right hiccuped: The minute hand jumped backward instead of forward!”

  Simon & Schuster: The Lost Children

• “Ms. Pinkerton glanced at the clock over the classroom door.”

  Simon & Schuster: Maggie Bean in Love

• “Tom Glick turned back the clock several decades last week by becoming the first foreign member to attend a Football Association's council meeting since the days when representatives of Commonwealth countries had places on that august body.”

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• “They had worked round the clock for two days in the grueling conditions of the spinship, and tempers were short.”

  Simon & Schuster: Creative Couplings

• “He released the clock and we counted to T-5 minutes and held there.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “Kindly present yourself at nine of the clock to my establishment at 10, Westgate Buildings, Bath, on the 30th of September.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “He looked at the brick-red digits that glowed dimly in the clock next to the phone: 5:45 A.M. Right on schedule.”

  Simon & Schuster: Unpretty

• “The first case rolls the clock forward on the Thai Polyester Fiber Co. presented in Chapter 4 as a startup situation.”

  Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies

• “I still wake up every morning at threeA.M.,look at the clock and spend the next two hours sifting through the past, trying to think of what I could have done differently; well, more like what I would donowif I had it to do over again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter

• “Next to the clock stood an opened, half-empty bottle of Johnny Walker Red.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Love So Deep

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