church-clock

While he was still standing at the window — for even the dreary rain was a relief, because of the sound it made; a relief, also, because it moved, and had some faint suggestion, in consequence, of life and companionship in it — while he was standing at the window, and looking vacantly into the black darkness outside, he heard a distant church-clock strike ten.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Before he could begin reading the riddles printed here, the sound of the church-clock stopped him.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

The only fear was, lest the heiress should not be punctual to tryst: she often had a careless way of lingering behind time, and Caroline knew her uncle would not wait a second for any one: at the moment of the church-clock tolling two, the bells would clash out and the march begin.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

When the church-clock struck, when any other sound stirred, when a little mouse familiar to her chamber, an intruder for which she would never permit Fanny to lay a trap, came rattling amongst the links of her locket chain, her one ring, and another trinket or two on the toilet-table, to nibble a bit of biscuit laid ready for it, she looked up, recalled momentarily to the real.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

It struck four: he heard the church-clock far away.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

This station she would retain till noon was past: whatever degree of exhaustion or debility her wan aspect betrayed, she still softly put off all persuasion to seek repose until the church-clock had duly tolled mid-day: the twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

The night was silent, too; only the church-clock measured its course by quarters.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

A church-clock struck ten, then half-past, then eleven, and not for a moment was he still; his speech seemed, indeed, to gather impetus as it advanced like a mountain torrent.

Maurice Guest 2003

The church-clock was striking nine -- calm, peaceful strokes.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

About six o'clock, as I knew by the church-clock hard by, I was aroused and told to be ready to start for Liverpool, whereupon I presented myself at the door, and found an open cart in waiting.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian