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  • "Eight o'clock's leavin 'shortly f'm Platform Free!" said Sid.

    Watershed 2010

  • "Eight o'clock's leavin 'shortly f'm Platform Free!" said Sid.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • He thinks he's going out to a regular society At Home, where ten o'clock's considered just the beginning of the evening.

    Philistia Grant Allen 1873

  • Nine o'clock's my bedtime, if we are not busy, and I like to be out in the garden again by four or five.

    Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Five o'clock's tea-time, and you ought to have been here."

    The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Put one trait with the other -- the theory of rural innocence -- alternation of 'vulgar trifles' with dissertating with style of 'the utmost grandeur that _even you_ can conceive' (speak for yourself, Miss M.!) -- and that amiable transition from two o'clock's grief at the death of one's brother to three o'clock's happiness in the 'extraordinary mesmeric discourse' of one's friend.

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

  • Anyway, 11 o'clock's caught up with me, so turn on Radio 4 and you'll hear Jon Culshaw probably going through all the same sort of things.

    British Blogs Love 2010

  • Four o'clock's candidate had superb technique�he was one of the fastest and cleanest lead players Eddi had ever heard.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

  • Four o'clock's candidate had superb technique�he was one of the fastest and cleanest lead players Eddi had ever heard.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

  • Four o'clock's candidate had superb technique�he was one of the fastest and cleanest lead players Eddi had ever heard.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

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  • As in "I'm late for seven o'clock's appointment."

    November 21, 2007

  • Or "Seven o'clock's a nice time for waffles"?

    November 21, 2007

  • Overheard at the train station: "The seven o'clock's been cancelled. You'll have to take the seven-twenty-five to Birmingham."

    December 3, 2007