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"Now, I shall twitch like a moment-hand all night to-night for fear o 'him!"
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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His mind glanced over the girl - tragedies that are going on in the world, hidden, unheeded, as if they were but tragedies of the copse or hedgerow, where the helpless drag wounded wings forsakenly, and streak the shadowed moss with the red moment-hand of their own death.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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Such a drama takes no long while to play out: development and catastrophe can often be measured by nothing clumsier than the moment-hand.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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"Now, I shall twitch like a moment-hand all night to-night for fear
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