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  • This week's prompt from Velvet Verbosity is the word hour.

    Final Hour The Wandering Author 2008

  • This week's prompt from Velvet Verbosity is the word hour.

    Archive 2008-07-01 The Wandering Author 2008

  • Billy rode until the few remaining lights of Cuivaca shone but a short distance ahead and they could hear plainly the strains of a grating graphophone from beyond the open windows of a dance hall, and the voices of the sentries as they called the hour.

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • The Discover Channel is thinking of picking up the million dollar an episode Sarah Palin hour.

    Think Progress » Bush wipes his hand on Clinton’s shirt after shaking hands with Haitian residents. 2010

  • You will find that you accomplish more useful things during the day when you are acting as though you are expecting someone at a certain hour.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • You will find that you accomplish more useful things during the day when you are acting as though you are expecting someone at a certain hour.

    Managing the Home 2008

  • Philip also told him the four streets in which he was to call the hour.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various

  • She was so completely at ease and so startlingly American that Mr Campion understood the total absence of any stiffness which might have been occasioned by the unconventional calling hour.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • She was so completely at ease and so startlingly American that Mr Campion understood the total absence of any stiffness which might have been occasioned by the unconventional calling hour.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • In time the lord of the castle heard of his strange visitor, and sent him a message saying he desired his presence at a certain hour.

    The Fairies and the Christmas Child 1912

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