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"quote": "'There's nobody here!' I insisted. 'It was YOURSELF, Mrs. Linton: you knew it a while since.' \n'Myself!' she gasped, 'and the clock is striking <strong>twelve</strong>! It's true, then! that's dreadful!'",
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"quote": "Once upon a <strong>midnight</strong> dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, ",
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"quote": "Bernardo: 'Tis now struck <strong>twelve</strong>. Get thee to bed, Francisco.",
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"quote": "To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed an believe) on a Friday, at <strong>twelve o'clock</strong> at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.",
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"author": "Charles Dickens",
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"quote": "As <strong>midnight</strong> was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house.",
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"author": "Oscar Wilde",
"title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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"quote": "It is <strong>midnight</strong>. The rain is beating on the windows. I am calm. All is sleeping. Nevertheless I get up and go to my desk. I can't sleep. ...",
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"author": "Samuel Beckett",
"title": "Molloy"
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"quote": "With the appointed execution time of <strong>one minute past midnight</strong> just seconds away, I knocked on the metal door twice. The lock turned and the door swiftly swung open.",
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"author": "Donald A. Cabana",
"title": "Death at Midnight"
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"quote": "<strong>Two minutes past midnight</strong>. With me in the lead the fourteen other men of Teams Yellow, White and Red moved out of the clearing and separated for points along the wall where they would cross over into the grounds.",
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"author": "Shashi Warrier",
"title": "Night of the Krait"
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"quote": "It was just <strong>three minutes past midnight</strong> when I last saw Archer Harrison alive. I remember, because I said it was two minutes past and he looked at his watch and said it was three minutes past.",
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"author": "George Jean Nathan",
"title": "Since Ibsen"
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"quote": "Ralf didn't need to look at his watch to know that it was <strong>four minutes past midnight</strong>. He knew that this was the deciding moment with every fibre of his being.",
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"author": "Lou Heneghan",
"title": "The Turnarounders and the Arbuckle Rescue"
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"quote": "I have done everything and spent every effort in getting you additional food, and I pledge to do the utmost in the future to protect you and safeguard your daily bread. I shall continue doing everything I can for you until <strong>five minutes past midnight</strong>.",
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"author": "Thomas Keneally",
"title": "Schindler's List"
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"quote": "To be more precise, it was at <strong>five minutes past midnight</strong> that he discovered the name of the man who had killed Ms. Anne Scott.",
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"author": "Colin Dexter",
"title": "The Dead of Jericho"
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"quote": "'So what train did this to her?'\n'There's one at <strong>five past midnight</strong>.'\n'Too early,' said Frost.",
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"quote": "At <strong>six minutes past midnight</strong>, death relieved the sufferer.",
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"author": "Glenn Shirley",
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"quote": "It was <strong>7 minutes after midnight</strong>. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream.",
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"author": "Mark Haddon",
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"quote": "Celeste and her friends are back in school, and she asked me this morning what I knew about the Universe. She has to write a theme about it. 'Why ask me?' I said. 'You read The New York Times every day,' she said. So I told her that the Universe began as an eleven-pound strawberry which exploded at <strong>seven minutes past midnight</strong> three trillion years ago. 'I'm serious!' she said. 'All I can tell you is what I read in The New York Times,' I said.",
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"author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
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"quote": "Oh, yes. That's one of the reasons why you'll have to marry me. Professor Planish, how could you! The other reason is that it's now <strong>seven minutes past midnight</strong> - '",
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"author": "Sinclair Lewis",
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"quote": "'Hour of the night!' exclaimed the priest; 'it is day, not night, and the hour is <strong>eight past midnight</strong>!'",
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"author": "James Pascoe",
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"quote": "It had to be different. They had been in the air three hours when Gorman touched his arm. 'This is it,' he said, 'two minutes!'\n'Take her down,' Madden told Scofield, 'and put her on the ground in a hurry.' It was <strong>nine minutes past midnight</strong>. Scofield glanced over his shoulder, indicating the altimeter with a finger.",
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"author": "Louis L'Amour",
"title": "Flight to Enbetu"
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"quote": "It was at <strong>ten minutes past midnight</strong>. Three police cars, Alsations and a black maria arrive at the farmhouse. The farmer clad only in a jock-strap, refused them entry.",
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"author": "Jonathan Barrow",
"title": "The Queue"
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"quote": "The first incendiaries to hit St Thomas's Hospital had splattered Riddell House at <strong>eleven minutes past midnight</strong>, from where a few hours earlier the Archbishop of Canterbury had given 'an inspiring address'.",
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"author": "Gavin Mortimer",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twelve minutes past midnight</strong> when mother and daughter saw the first lightning strike. It hit the main barn with such force the ground trembled under their feet.",
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"author": "Fern Michaels",
"title": "Kentucky Heat"
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"quote": "'Just as I thought,' she murmured to herself. Then she slipped the book inside a plastic bag she'd brought along and put it in her raincoat pocket. Siri Holm left the Gunnerus Library at <strong>thirteen minutes past midnight</strong>. No surveillance cameras recorded her arrival or departure.",
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"author": "Jorgen Brekke",
"title": "Where Monsters Dwell"
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"quote": "It is <strong>12:13</strong> in the morning. My fingers do not feel like they are made of fingers; they feel like they are made of motion. I am tickling the steering wheel as I drive.",
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"author": "John Green",
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"quote": "At precisely <strong>thirteen minutes past midnight</strong>, you must dive off the Edge of the Ledge to catch the Atlantic Undercurrent",
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"author": "Sonja Chandrachud",
"title": "The Potion of Eternity"
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"quote": "It was exactly <strong>fourteen minutes past midnight<strong> when he completed the final call. Among the men he had reched were honourable men. Their voices would be heard by the President.",
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"author": "Robert Ludlum",
"title": "The Matarese Circle"
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"quote": "At will I could slay thousands of your best citizens, for I am in close relationship with the Angel of Death. Now, to be exact, at <strong>12:15</strong> (earthly time) on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans.",
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"author": "Ray Celestin",
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"quote": "I sat up with a grunt, staring around, trying to see. Darkness hung like a fog in my room, and I reached out groggily for my clock. <strong>12.16</strong>.",
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"author": "Simon P. Clark",
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"quote": "Kava ordered two glasses of coffee for himself and his beloved and some cake. When the pair left, exactly <strong>seventeen minutes after twelve</strong>, the club began to buzz with excitement.",
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"author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer",
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"quote": "Then at <strong>eighteen minutes past midnight</strong> there was a moving flare of light in the gap between the lounge and the bar.",
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"author": "Lee Child",
"title": "A Wanted Man"
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"quote": "'The villas were all modern concrete buildings built by the Italian invaders. 'Right there,' Hood said. The men gathered around him. It was <strong>nineteen minutes past midnight</strong>. 'That's the villa. Rommel is in there, gentlemen. Let's make it his last resting place.'",
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"author": "Thomas Gifford",
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"quote": "Now she was kneading the little ball of hot paste on the convex margin of the bowl and I could smell the opium. There is no smell like it. Beside the bed the alarm-clock showed <strong>twelve-twenty</strong>, but already my tension was over. Pyle had diminished.",
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"author": "Graham Greene",
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"quote": "Nobody had been one of Mycroft Ward's most important operatives and for sixty seconds every day, between <strong>12.21am</strong>...",
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"author": "Steven Hall",
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"quote": "...and <strong>12.22am</strong>., his laptop was permitted to connect directly with the gigantic online database of self that was Mycroft Ward's mind.",
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"quote": "Oskar weighed the wristwatch in his hand, then gave the rather fine piece with its luminous dial showing <strong>twenty-three minutes past midnight</strong> to little Pinchcoal. He looked up inquiringly at his chief. Störtebeker nodded his assent. And Oskar said, as he adjusted his drum snugly for the trip home: 'Jesus will lead the way. Follow thou me!'",
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"author": "Günter Grass",
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"quote": "Sanders with Sutton as his gunner began their patrol at <strong>12.24am</strong>, turning south towards Beachy Head at 10,000 ft.",
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"author": "Gavin Mortimer",
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"quote": "I mean, look at the time! <strong>Twenty-five past midnight</strong>! It was a triumph, it really was!",
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"author": "Joanna Trollope",
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"quote": "'A Mr Dutta from King's Cross called and told me you were on your way. He said you wanted to see the arrival of yesterday's <strong>12.26am</strong>. It'll take me a few minutes to cue up the footage. Our regular security bloke isn't here today; he's up before Haringey Magistrates' Court for gross indecency outside the headquarters of the Dagenham Girl Pipers.'",
"asin": "B003U2TCOA",
"author": "Christopher Fowler",
"title": "Bryant & May Off the Rails"
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"quote": "'What time is curfew, Mitchell?'\n'Midnight.'\n'Take a look at that pretty little Rolex you're wearing and tell me what time it is now.' Jason looked down at his watch. '<strong>Twenty-seven minutes past midnight</strong>.'",
"asin": "0425214478",
"author": "Deirdre Martin",
"title": "Chasing Stanley"
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-seven minutes past midnight</strong>, right on schedule, the storm struck and filled the night with water and electricity.",
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"author": "Jack McDevitt",
"title": "Sunrise"
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"quote": "One night, he said to himself again. Hearing his voice inside his head reassured him that he was not alone. But, during his whole life Peter had never been alone, not truly. He pulled his hand up so that he could just see his wrist-watch without heat escaping from inside the sleeping bag. The luminous clock face read: <strong>Twenty-eight minutes past midnight</strong>.",
"asin": "B008EE2DZE",
"author": "Tim Flanagan",
"title": "The Moon Stealers and the Quest for the Silver Bough"
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"quote": "'This is hopeless,' he whispered. 'It's <strong>nearly half past twelve</strong>. If he was going to show, we'd have seen something by now. I think . . . are you listening to me?'",
"asin": "B005E87GZA",
"author": "Jonathan Stroud",
"title": "The Golem's Eye"
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"quote": "It was <strong>half-past twelve</strong> when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays.",
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"author": "E. W. Hornung",
"title": "The Amateur Cracksman"
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"quote": "'Perhaps you would tell us your movements after the Spongg charity benefit ended.' Spongg smiled. 'Of course. I was driven home to Castle Spongg by Ffinkworth, my valet, at about <strong>half past midnight</strong>.",
"asin": "0340897104",
"author": "Jasper Fforde",
"title": "The Big Over Easy"
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"quote": "Third individual approaches unnoticed and without caution. Once within reach, individual reaches out toward subjects. Recording terminates: timecode: <strong>00:31:02</strong>.",
"asin": "1780334656",
"author": "Stephen Jones",
"title": "Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback"
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"quote": "<strong>Thirty-two minutes past midnight</strong>; the way things were going I could be at it all night. Before beginning a completely new search of the dial I had a thought: maybe this safe didn't open on zero as older models did, but on a factory-set number.",
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"author": "E. Howard Hunt",
"title": "Ixtapa"
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"quote": "'So that at <strong>twelve-thirty-three</strong> you bolted the south door?'\n'Yes,' replied Stephen Maxie easily. 'At <strong>thirty-three minutes past midnight</strong>.'",
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"author": "P. D. James",
"title": "Cover Her Face"
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"quote": "<strong>Thirty-four minutes past midnight</strong>. 'We got ten minutes to be back here.' LT didn't argue. Schoolboy knew his former trade. LT's eyes fretted over the museum. 'Not still worrying about the security, are you, because there ain't none.'",
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"author": "Dreda Say Mitchell",
"title": "Killer Tune"
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"time": 35,
"quote": "Clock time is <strong>0 Hours, 12 Minutes, 0 Seconds</strong>. <strong>Twenty three minutes later</strong>, they have their first sight of Venus. Each lies with his Eye clapp'd to the Snout of an identical two and a half foot Gregorian reflector made by Mr Short, with Darkening-Nozzles by Mr Bird.",
"asin": "0099771918",
"author": "Thomas Pynchon",
"title": "Mason & Dixon",
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"quote": "Alex went back inside, noted that the time was <strong>thirty-six minutes past midnight</strong>, and dialed 9 1 1 to report that he had found a dead stranger in the driveway. Then he rinsed his mouth, blew his nose, and dug a pair of winter gloves from the bottom drawer of his bureau. He pulled the wool liners out of the leather. He wanted another look, but he did not want to take the chance of leaving his fingerprints behind.",
"asin": "0140127844",
"author": "Dick Cluster",
"title": "Return To Sender"
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"quote": "I came to the conclusion that the whole business at <strong>twenty-three minutes</strong> to one was a comedy played for my benefit! Anyone might see through the watch business—it is a common enough device in detective stories.",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "Murder on the Orient Express",
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"quote": "HILDEGARDE SCHMIDT, German subject, Berth No. 8, Second Class. Motive—None. Alibi—Midnight to 2 A.M. (Vouched for by conductor and her mistress.) Went to bed. Was aroused by conductor at <strong>12.38</strong> approx. and went to mistress.",
"asin": "B0046H95PO",
"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "Murder on the Orient Express"
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"quote": "Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at thirty-three minutes past nine, and half flood at <strong>thirty-nine minutes past twelve</strong>.",
"asin": "142093337X",
"author": "Victor Hugo",
"title": "Toilers of the Sea"
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"quote": "'<strong>Twenty minutes to one</strong>?' exclaimed Helen. 'My mother will certainly think we're lost. But I hate to go. It is magnificent, even if it is terrible.'",
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"author": "Sidney R. Kennedy",
"title": "White Ashes"
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"quote": "The call had been made at <strong>12:41 A.M.</strong> Sunday, just an hour or so after Thorson had apparently checked into the hotel in Phoenix.",
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"author": "Michael Connelly",
"title": "The Poet"
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"quote": "At <strong>forty-two minutes past midnight</strong>, Greenwich Mean Time, on April 15, 2154, The Event happened. There was no pulse of light, no explosion, no cause anyone could name. But at that moment, immortality became a reality.",
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"author": "D.K. Cassidy",
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"quote": "Nothing Harmon could do, though. By the time they got into the tunnel itself, it was <strong>eighteen minutes to one o'clock</strong>.",
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"author": "John Sandford & Michele Cook",
"title": "Rampage"
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"quote": "Seven nights after the Pope's death, the moon rose with the star Gienah her close companion. At <strong>forty-three minutes past midnight</strong>, I went into my windowless cabinet and opened the hidden compartment with a key.",
"asin": "0007266839",
"author": "Jeanne Kalogridis",
"title": "The Devil's Queen"
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"quote": "Uncle Dick protested, but we had our own way, and <strong>about a quarter to one</strong> on a bitter March night we let ourselves out and walked down to the works. For my part I would far rather have gone to bed, but after a few minutes the excitement of the proceeding began to assert itself, and I was bright and wakeful enough.",
"asin": "B0082X07G4",
"author": "George Manville Fenn",
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"quote": "At <strong>12.45</strong>, during a lull, Mr Yoshogi told me that owing to the war there were now many more women in England than men.",
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"author": "David Footman",
"title": "Pig and Pepper"
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"quote": "As he expected, there was Boris climbing out of a taxi at <strong>quarter to one</strong> in the morning. And there was the girl who wasn't Tallulah, smartly dressed, young and pretty, with the neutral-face boredom of everybody whose self-esteem was nonexistent",
"asin": "0345526678",
"author": "Peter F. Hamilton",
"title": "Great North Road"
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"quote": "'This is not quite correct, however,' he added, glancing over the document. 'I wrote it rather hurriedly.'\n'You see you begin, 'Whereas, at <strong>about a quarter to one</strong> on Tuesday morning an attempt was made,' and so on.",
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"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Reigate Puzzle",
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"quote": "At <strong>12:47a.m</strong>, Uncle Ho left us forever.",
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"author": "Dang Thuy Tram",
"title": "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace"
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"quote": "But at <strong>seven minutes to one</strong> o'clock in the morning a deafening whistling was heard, like that produced by a body of water rushing with great violence. The captain, Ned Land, and I were then on the poop, eagerly peering through the profound darkness. 'Ned Land,' asked the commander, 'you have often heard the roaring of whales?'\n'Often, sir; but never such whales the sight of which brought me in two thousand dollars.",
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"quote": "He rolled one way, rolled the other, listened to the loud tick of the clock, and was asleep a minute later. <strong>Five to one</strong> in the morning. Fifty-one hours to go.",
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"quote": "Roger. Check your straps, everyone, and get ready. The engines will fire in about two minutes, at <strong>01:07</strong> on your GET clock. The seconds ticked away, going too fast yet seeming to take an eternity. This had to be it. Seconds to go, three more, two, one ...",
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"quote": "He drew out his note-book and read aloud what the mysterious chandler had said to him: 'It was precisely <strong>thirteen minutes past one</strong> on the twenty-fourth of January when I drew my last breath.'\n'Whether that is true,' Frederick concluded, 'remains to be proved.'",
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"quote": "The clock marked <strong>twenty-three minutes past one</strong>. He was suddenly full of agitation, yet hopeful. She had come! Who could tell what she would say? She might offer the most natural explanation of her late arrival. Félicie entered the room, her hair in disorder, her eyes shining, her cheeks white, her bruised lips a vivid red; she was tired, indifferent, mute, happy and lovely, seeming to guard beneath her cloak, which she held wrapped about her with both hands, some remnant of warmth and voluptuous pleasure.",
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"quote": "You needn't shout like that!'\n'It's ridiculous, isn't it?'\n'No, it's not ridiculous, it's - ' She did not complete the sentence. He drew nearer to her, dragging his chair with him. 'You came in at <strong>twenty-five minutes past one</strong>.",
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"quote": "Raffles, without a stitch of clothing on his body, but with a glass phial, corked with cotton-wool, between his teeth, and a tiny screw-driver behind his ear, squirmed feet first through the ventilator over his berth; and it was <strong>nineteen minutes to two</strong> when he returned, head first, with the phial still between his teeth, and the cotton-wool rammed home to still the rattling of that which lay like a great gray bean within.",
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"quote": "She knew it was the stress, two long days of stress, and she looked at her watch, <strong>sixteen minutes to two</strong>, and she almost leaped with fright, a shock wave rippling through her body, where had the time gone?",
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"quote": "At <strong>nine minutes to two</strong> the other vehicle arrived. At first Milla didn't believe her eyes: that shape, those markings.",
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"quote": "Link telepathically confirmed it was <strong>eight minutes to two</strong> in the morning. I was only eight minutes away from the anomaly appearing again. The time in the 26th century was running out fast for me.",
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"quote": "Bony gave a further two swallows, retrieved the glass, told the old man to go to sleep, and left the room, walking without noise back to his bedroom window. He had been in his room only a minute when he heard the Buick returning. It was then <strong>seven minutes to two</strong>.",
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"quote": "<strong>Six minutes to two</strong>. Janina Mentz watched the screen, where the small program window flickered with files scrolling too fast to read, searching for the keyword.",
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"quote": "About <strong>five minutes to two</strong> I got nervous waiting for our guns to open up. I could not take my eyes from my watch. I crouched against the parapet and strained my muscles in a death-like grip upon my rifle.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>two minutes to two</strong>. I checked my flashlight and envelope and let the inside of my arm touch the firmness of my holster through my jacket. It was reassuring.",
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"quote": "For twenty minutes he sat and watched as the gap between the ship and Epun closed, as the ship's computer teased and kneaded the numbers that would bring it into a loop around the little moon, and close the loop and keep it there, orbiting in perpetual obscurity. '<strong>One ... fifty-nine …</strong>'",
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"quote": "Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: <strong>two</strong>: why, then, 'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. ",
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"quote": "After two more visits, the most celebrated practitioner told Popanilla that his disorder was 'unquestionably nervous;' that he had over-excited himself by talking too much; that in future he must count five between each word he uttered, never ask any questions, and avoid society; that is, never stay at an evening party on any consideration later than twenty-<strong>two minutes past two</strong>, and never be induced by any persuasion to dine out more than once on the same day. The most celebrated practitioner added that he had only to observe these regulations, and that he would speedily recover his energy. Popanilla never asked a question for a whole week, and Skindeep never knew him more delightful.",
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"quote": "He glanced at the bed where his father had lain so long, and in an effort to scramble swiftly to his feet was all but defeated by the cramps in his body. The clock on the mantelshelf said <strong>eight minutes past two</strong>.",
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"quote": "He glanced at his clock and saw it was <strong>ten past two</strong>. He looked back towards the house and saw the stained glass roof-light above the hall glowing. He got up and opened the window and stared out and as he did so there came the faint sound of hysterical laughter. Or crying.",
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"quote": "I hurried those two into the Surf-boat, called to them to keep off, and waited with a grateful and relieved heart for the Long-boat to come and take me in, if she could. I looked at my watch, and it showed me, by the blue-light, <strong>ten minutes past two</strong>. They lost no time.",
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"quote": "More likely than not, he was right. Harker glanced at the chronometer on his heads-up display: <strong>02:11</strong> shiptime. Yet he couldn't help but feel that something was wrong. As if enough hadn't gone wrong already. 'Leave the gear behind,' he said. 'We're heading straight back.'",
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"quote": "Then the lights went out all over the city. It happened at <strong>2.12am</strong> according to power-house records, but Blake's diary gives no indication of the time. The entry is merely, 'Lights out - God help me.'",
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"quote": "You're going to a dimension that diverged from our own at <strong>02.13</strong> on the morning of Wednesday 20 February 1918, over twenty-six years earlier. You don't know what it's going to be like...",
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"quote": "There are no more lights on now than when he arrived. That's something to be positive about. No great commotion in the building after the shooting. A glance at the clock in the car: <strong>fourteen minutes past two</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>2.15am</strong> a policeman observed the place in darkness, but with the stranger's motor still at the curb.",
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"quote": "'Didn't you hear what I said in the aircraft? General Scott's aircraft crashed in the desert at <strong>02:16</strong> hours this morning, killing all aboard.'",
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"quote": "Instead, I will tell you, that at <strong>02:16</strong> hours this morning, General Drake's aircraft crashed in the desert, killing all aboard.' She waited for the penny to drop.",
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"quote": "She turned abruptly to the nurse and asked the time.'Two-twenty'\n'Ah...<strong>Two-twenty</strong>!' Genevieve repeated, as though there was something urgent to be done.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-three minutes past two</strong>. She took a closer look, saw that the second hand was not moving. She had forgotten to wind up the wretched watch, or wretched her, wretched me, for not even this simple task had she remembered to carry out after only three days of isolation.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>2.24am</strong>. She stumbled out of bed, tripping on her shoes that she'd kicked off earlier and pulled on a jumper.",
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"quote": "You see it is time: <strong>2.25am</strong>. You get out of bed.",
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"quote": "The moon didn't shine again until <strong>2.27am</strong>. It was enough to show Wallander that he was positioned some distance below the tree.",
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"quote": "I carry on with my little performance, running my hands blandly over the tops of my breasts. I glance furtively at my watch which is still on my wrist. It's <strong>twenty-nine minutes past two</strong>. Only half an hour to go.",
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"quote": "And you keep quiet, Betty. There may be trouble. He almost pushed her off his desk toward Max. A second later he had darkened the room by flicking the switch by the foyer door. Through the door, the clock showed <strong>twelve minutes to three</strong>.",
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"quote": "'No, no, don't do that,' said Frank. 'The coast-guards may be on the watch, and, if they see a light in the house, will be getting ready for us.' And, going to the clock, he opened it, and, feeling of the hands, said, 'It's about <strong>ten minutes to three</strong>.'",
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"quote": "I remembered arriving in this room at <strong>2.59</strong> one night. I remembered the sergeant who called me names: mostly Anglo-Saxon monosyllabic four-letter ones with an odd 'Commie' thrown in for syntax.",
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"quote": "<strong>Three in the morning</strong>, thought Charles Halloway, seated on the edge of his bed. Why did the train come at that hour? For, he thought, it's a special hour. Women never wake then, do they? They sleep the sleep of babes and children. But men in middle age? They know that hour well.",
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"quote": "He was thrifty, of Scotch-Irish descent, and at <strong>two minutes past three</strong> had never had an adventure in his life.",
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"quote": "…his back-up alarm clock rang. He looked at his front-line clock on the bedside table and noted that it had stopped at <strong>3.04</strong>. So, you couldn't even rely on alarm clocks.",
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"quote": "On the Sunday before Christmas she awoke at <strong>3:05 a.m.</strong> and thought: Thirty-six hours. Four hours later she got up thinking: Thirty-two hours.",
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"quote": "<strong>3.6 AM</strong>\n'Here,' said Miss Pettigrew in a tiny voice. Joe loomed above her. He said no word, but his arm went through hers with that glorious, proprietary, warding male attentiveness never hitherto experienced by Miss Pettigrew. She simply leaned on him weakly. ",
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"quote": "He twisted sideways and squinted at the clock on the beside cabinet, the green, digital display confirming that it was <strong>03.08 am.</strong> It was a millisecond later that he smelt the overpowering smell of petrol and then a millisecond after that he heard the unmistakeable sound of matches being rattled inside a matchbox.",
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"quote": "Hall looked at his Rolex and it was <strong>nine past three</strong>, and yet no cuckoos had announced the hour, not one. How long had this been going on, or not going on?",
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"quote": "'You've had experience of dealing with bowdlerisers in Larkin before – cracking the group who altered the first line of 'Love Again' to read: Love again: thanking her at <strong>ten past three</strong> was great stuff – fancy tackling them again?",
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"quote": "Coraline woke up in the night. She went into her parents' bedroom, but the bed was made and empty. The glowing green numbers on the digital clock glowed <strong>3:12 a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "But would he know this? That his father would forget to bring a candle? And that the first light to present itself to us should be a night-lantern fixed high on the wall of a small, shuttered bedroom? A strange barren curdled space, where the only things visible were a wall clock (stopped at <strong>twelve minutes past three</strong>) and the outlines of a plain brass bed, stripped of everything but its mattress.",
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"quote": "A table with anglers' magazines and an ashtray, a few books on a shelf, a candle in a bottle, chairs, a mantel clock stopped at <strong>twelve minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "Since he had told the girl that it had to end, he'd been waking up every morning at <strong>3.14</strong>, without fail. Every morning his eyes would flick open, alert, and the red numerals on his electric alarm clock would read 3.14.",
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"quote": "I shall be back at exactly <strong>THREE fourteen</strong>, for our hour of revery together, real sweet revery darling",
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"quote": "Above the door of Room 69 the clock ticked on at <strong>3:15</strong>. The motion was accelerating. What had once been the gymnasium was now a small room, seven feet wide, a tight, almost perfect cube.",
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"quote": "Alerted by the sound of gunfire the security manager runs to the front of the building, calls emergency services then administers CPR. Rebecca and Abby are taken to hospital by ambulance, Abby is released several hours later with minor cuts and bruises, Rebecca Louden was pronounced dead at <strong>sixteen minutes past three</strong> this morning after surgeons failed to repair the damage to her carotid artery.'",
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"quote": "'The two of us sat there, listening—Boris more intently than me. 'Who's that with him then?' I said. 'Some whore.' He listened for a moment, brow furrowed, his profile sharp in the moonlight, and then lay back down. 'Two of them.' I rolled over, and checked my iPod. It was <strong>3:17</strong> in the morning.'",
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"quote": "The truth of the matter we may never know. All we know at the moment is that at <strong>03.18</strong> hours on 10th February the Southern Cross was firmly beset by the ice and she was sending out an S O S. Sometime during the night that lead must have come to an end. The westward-driven pack ice closed round her and in a matter of hours she was gone.",
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"quote": "Prabath Kumara, 16. 17th November 1989. At <strong>3.20am</strong> from the home of a friend.",
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"quote": "Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at <strong>thirty-three minutes past nine</strong>, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.",
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"quote": "She had bad news to share and a deep understanding that bad news does not age well. 'Ladies and gentlemen, at <strong>03:22</strong> this morning, our GEODSS sensor suite at Socorro, New Mexico detected an anomalous object outside of the orbit of the moon.",
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"quote": "Summer looked over at the clock on the side of the bed, which read <strong>03:24 am</strong>. She patiently waited for the time to change. She wanted to make sure she was indeed awake. Her shoulders slumped when reality was confirmed. One part relief. One part grief.",
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"quote": "Sinking down heavily on the edge of his unmade bed with his head in his hands, Sam raked his fingers through the messy spikes of his hair before casting a glance at the digital clock on the nightstand. Its little red numbers flashed <strong>03:26</strong> and he heaved a sigh.",
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"quote": "I must have slept for more than three hours because when I woke, a quick glance at the dashboard clock said it was already <strong>twenty-six minutes past three</strong> o'clock in the morning. I moved my wrist before remembering it hurt and then winced when hot pain shot all the way to my shoulder.",
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"quote": "With the Ranger at their head, they went out of town at a fast trot. If there had been anybody there to notice it, he would have seen that the clock on the wall at the Bird Cage registered the time as <strong>twenty-seven minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "Now somebody was running past his room. A door slammed. That foreign language again. What the devil was going on? He switched on his light and peered at his watch. <strong>3.28</strong>. He got out of bed.",
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"quote": "'Nothing else?'\n'Only a message from the CIU. They got the billing on Difford's mobile. The last call was to another mobile at <strong>03.29</strong> on Sunday morning. Since then no one's used it.'",
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"quote": "Let's go to sleep, I say. 'Look at what time it is.' The clock radio is right there beside the bed. Anyone can see it says <strong>three-thirty</strong>.",
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"quote": "Now, look. I am not going to call Dr. McGrath at <strong>three thirty</strong> in the morning to ask if it's all right for my son to eat worms. That's flat.",
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"quote": "He hesitated for a moment and reached for the Admiral's call icon, touching it as gingerly as if it were the trigger to a nuclear charge. Arashan entered the exact time in his duty log: <strong>03:31</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "An empty cryogenic support cylinder was eventually found outside his abandoned car at <strong>03:32</strong> this morning near the village of Hazelbrook, thirty-six miles north of here.' A map of Hazelbrook flashed up onscreen and a photo of the abandoned car. 'The area around the village has been declared a biohazard zone and evacuated.",
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"quote": "A draft whistled in around the kitchen window frame and I shivered. The digital clock on Perkus's stove read <strong>3:33</strong>.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>3:34 am.</strong> and he was wide-awake. He'd heard the phone ring and the sound of his uncle's voice.",
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"quote": "[Wallander] could just see the hands of the alarm clock in the darkness: <strong>3.35 a.m.</strong> He adjusted his pillow and shut his eyes.",
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"quote": "As I near Deadhorse, it's <strong>3:36 a.m.</strong> and seventeen below. Tall, sodium vapor lights spill on the road and there are no trees, only machines, mechanical shadows. There isn't even a church. It tells you everything.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>three thirty-seven A.M.</strong>, and for once Maggie was asleep. She had got to be a pretty good sleeper in the last few months. Clyde was prouder of this fact than anything.",
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"quote": "At <strong>3.38am</strong>, it began to snow in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The geese circling the city flew back to the park, landed, and hunkered down to sit it out on their island in the lake.",
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"quote": "23 October 1893 <strong>3.39am.</strong> Upon further thought, I feel it necessary to explain that exile into the Master's workshop is not an unpleasant fate. It is not simply some bare-walled cellar devoid of stimulation - quite the opposite.",
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"quote": "His bedside clock shows <strong>three forty</strong>. He has no idea what he's doing out of bed: he has no need to relieve himself, nor is he disturbed by a dream or some element of the day before, or even by the state of the world.",
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"quote": "The alarm clock said <strong>3.41am.</strong> He sat up. Why was the alarm clock slow? He picked up the alarm clock and adjusted the hands to show the same time as his wristwatch",
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"quote": "'We are due in Yellow Sky at <strong>3:42</strong>,' he said, looking tenderly into her eyes. 'Oh, are we?' she said, as if she had not been aware of it. To evince surprise at her husband's statement was part of her wifely amiability.",
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"quote": "The clock says <strong>3.43am.</strong> The thermometer says it's a chilly fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. The weatherman says the cold spell will last until Thursday, so bundle up and bundle up some more. There are icicles barring the window of the bat cave.",
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"quote": "It was dark. After she had switched the light on and been to the toilet, she checked her watch: <strong>3.44 a.m.</strong> She undressed, put the cat out the door and returned to the twin bed.",
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"quote": "LORD CAVERSHAM: Well, sir! what are you doing here? Wasting your life as usual! You should be in bed, sir. You keep too late hours! I heard of you the other night at Lady Rufford's dancing till four o' clock in the morning!\nLORD GORING: Only a <strong>quarter to four</strong>, father.",
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"quote": "'I guess not. You're listening to Night Train FM, 97.8 'til late, we're passing by a <strong>quarter to four</strong>. This is the Bat Segundo Show: jazz, blues, and rock for lovers of the night, insomniac crime writers, the lost, lonely, deranged, unwired – okay, okay, Carlotta.",
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"quote": "I stayed awake until <strong>3:47</strong>. That was the last time I looked at my watch before I fell asleep. It has a luminous face and lights up if you press a button so I could read it in the dark. I was cold and I was frightened Father might come out and find me. But I felt safer in the garden because I was hidden.",
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"quote": "When Jeremy and Cuby reached their room it was <strong>twelve minutes to four</strong>. The fire had nearly gone out in their bedroom, but Jeremy went downstairs and brought up more faggots to set it to a new blaze.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>3.49</strong> when he hit me because of the two hundred times I had said, 'I don't know.' He hit me a lot after that.",
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"quote": "She had used her cell phone to leave several messages on the answering machine in Sao Paulo of the young dentist of the previous evening, whose name was Fernando. The first was recorded at <strong>ten</strong> or five <strong>to four</strong> in the morning. I'm never going to forget you ... I'm sure we'll meet again somewhere.",
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"quote": "The digital reading on the clock-radio was <strong>3:51</strong>. Always odd numbers at times like this. What does it mean? Is death odd-numbered?",
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"quote": "It was neat, too much so. The log book was open at the last entry: <strong>03.52</strong> hour's - Brady Field Beacon bearing 312°, approximately eight miles.",
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"quote": "'I know what old Else has told me, but so far I haven't heard it from you, son. What were you doing in Hog Court at approximately seven minutes to four this morning?' Oh, so it was getting official, was it? Approximately <strong>seven minutes to four</strong>.",
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"quote": "The charter flight from Florida touched down at Aldergrove minutes earlier, at <strong>3.54 a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "Here in the cavernous basement at <strong>3.55 a.m.</strong>, in a single pool of light, is Theo Perowne.",
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"quote": "It was now four minutes to four, and a new day had begun: a day that would likely wrench the cracks apart, turn the bruises into bloody wounds, and shatter to smithereens everything she had patiently made of herself.",
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"quote": "'Three minutes to four,' she replied, consulting her broad old gold watch, and then holding it to her ear. 'Yes; <strong>three minutes to four</strong>. I thought it was later. You saw something, William Maubray — you did. You have seen something: haven't you?'",
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"author": "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu",
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"quote": "The ancient house was deserted, the crumbling garage padlocked, and one was just able to discern - by peering through a crack in the bubbling sun on the window - the face of a clock on the opposite wall. The clock had stopped at <strong>two minutes to four</strong> early in the morning, or who could tell, it may have been earlier still, yesterday in the afternoon, a couple of hours after Kaiser had left Kamaria for Bartica.",
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"author": "Wilson Harris",
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"quote": "And the raw materials of reality without that glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind...I am in my old room, yes, in the dark, certainly, and it is cold, obviously, but what time is it? '<strong>Nearly four</strong>, son.'",
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"quote": "Suddenly, he started to cry. Curled up on the sofa he sobbed loudly. Michel looked at his watch; it was just after <strong>4am</strong>. On the screen a wild cat had a rabbit in its mouth.",
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"quote": "The Birds begun at <strong>Four o'clock</strong>\nTheir period for Dawn\nA Music numerous as space\nBut neighboring as Noon",
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"quote": "Nothing happened, he said wanly. 'I waited, and <strong>about four o'clock</strong> she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.'",
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"quote": "I walked up and down the row. No one gave me a second look. Finally I sat down next to a man. He paid no attention. My watch said <strong>4:02</strong>. Maybe he was late.",
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"author": "Nicole Krauss",
"title": "The History of Love"
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"quote": "It's <strong>4:03 a.m.</strong> on a supremely cold January morning and I'm just getting home. I've been out dancing and I'm only half drunk but utterly exhausted.",
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"quote": "<strong>Four minutes after four</strong>! It's still very early and to get from here to there won't take me more than 15 minutes, even walking slowly. She told me around five o'clock. Wouldn't it be better to wait on the corner?",
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"author": "Cirilo Villaverde",
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"quote": "Leaves were being blown against my window. It was <strong>4.05am.</strong> The moon had shifted in the sky, glaring through a clotted mass of clouds like a candled egg.",
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"quote": "Dexter looked at Kate's note, then her face, then the clock. It was <strong>4.06am</strong>, the night before they would go to the restaurant.",
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"author": "Chris Pavone",
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"quote": "<strong>4.07am.</strong> Why am I standing? My shoulders feel cold and I'm shivering. I become aware that I'm standing in the middle of the room. I immediately look at the bedroom door. Closed, with no signs of a break-in. Why did I get up?",
"asin": "1556437269",
"author": "Miha Mazzini",
"title": "Guarding Hanna"
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"quote": "It was at <strong>4:08 a.m.</strong> beneath the cool metal of a jungle gym that all Andrew's dreams came true. He kissed his one true love and swore up and down that it would last forever to this exhausted companion throughout their long trek home.",
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"author": "Seth O'Connell",
"title": "Dying in the Twilight of Summer"
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"quote": "'He's right upstairs… Oh ye gods! Illya!' He looked at his watch. It was <strong>nine minutes past four</strong>. 'He's sitting in the middle of an ultrasonic field upstairs. and I'm ten minutes late to get him out. Come on!'",
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"author": "David McDaniel",
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"quote": "When I woke up in bed again, I was in the midst of the panic I had been in just before dying. My diary was still on the bed and I tried to finish my last sentence, which was still turning in my mind, but my pen had dried up. Finding that my clock had stopped at <strong>ten-past four</strong>, I began to guess the truth.",
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"author": "Marcel Aymé",
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"quote": "The next morning I awaken at exactly <strong>eleven minutes after four</strong>, having slept straight through my normal middle-of-the-night insomniac waking at three.",
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"author": "Karen Karbo",
"title": "The Stuff of Life"
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"quote": "My watch read <strong>four-twelve</strong> in the morning. Not yet dawn. The morning papers still not delivered, trains not yet running, citizens of the surface world fast asleep, oblivious to all this. I pulled the rope taut with both hands, took a deep breath, then slowly began my climb.",
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"quote": "Behind her Harry continued to move, settling in. She watched the numbers change to <strong>4:13</strong>.",
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"author": "Elmore Leonard",
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"time": 254,
"quote": "At <strong>4:14 a.m.</strong>, the two men returned to the Jeep. After the passenger replaced the cans in the back of the Jeep, the driver backed out of the driveway and headed east. The last images found on the film appeared to be flames or smoke.",
"asin": "B01K8ZH5KE",
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"time": 255,
"quote": "Alice wants to warn her that a defect runs in the family, like flat feet or diabetes: they're all in danger of ending up alone by their own stubborn choice. The ugly kitchen clock says <strong>four-fifteen</strong>.",
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"author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
"title": "Pigs in Heaven"
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"time": 256,
"quote": "They pulled into the visitor's carpark at <strong>four sixteen am</strong>. He knew it was four sixteen because the entrance to the maternity unit sported a digital clock beneath the signage.",
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"author": "Maree Anderson",
"title": "Freaks in the City"
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"time": 257,
"quote": "He awoke at <strong>4.17am</strong> in a sweat. He had been dreaming of Africa again, and then the dream had continued in the U.S. when he was a young man. But Inbata had been there, watching him.",
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"author": "Douglas Phinney",
"title": "The Vile"
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"time": 258,
"quote": "The ringing didn't stop. The telephone! The clock read <strong>four-eighteen</strong>. It was dark outside. Four-eighteen a.m. I got out of bed and picked up the receiver. 'Hello?' I said. No sound came from the other end of the line.",
"asin": "0099448785",
"author": "Haruki Murakami",
"title": "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
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"time": 259,
"quote": "At <strong>nineteen minutes past four</strong> on the morning of December 27, 2040, her eyes, dark as an Aztec sacrificial knife, flicked open.",
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"author": "James Axler",
"title": "Aurora Quest"
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"time": 259,
"quote": "Logan screwed up his face and peered out blearily from beneath the duvet – according to the clock radio it was <strong>nineteen minutes past four</strong>.",
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"quote": "Now she finally sank and left the world in darkness save for a faint grey tinge in the eastern sky that palely heralded the dawn. Mr Mackenzie stood, watch in hand, his wife clinging to his arm and striving to stifle her sobs. 'Twenty minutes to four,' he said, 'it ought to be light enough to attack at <strong>twenty minutes past four</strong>.",
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"author": "H. Rider Haggard",
"title": "Allan Quatermain"
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"time": 260,
"quote": "One morning when it was still dark and the others were snoring loudly I looked at my watch. It was <strong>twenty past four</strong>. Reveillé would be at half-past five, so I abandoned myself to more than another hour, so I thought, of delicious indolence.",
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"author": "F. A. Voigt",
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"time": 261,
"quote": "The clock in the main hall told me it was <strong>twenty past four</strong>. At twenty-one past four I inferred that the initial hostilities had not damaged its works. It was running, and I didn't know whether to interpret this indifference on the part of Time as a good or bad omen.",
"asin": "0099540657",
"author": "Günter Grass",
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"time": 261,
"quote": "Sleep. The phone started up again. Logan squinted at the alarm clock: <strong>twenty-one minutes past four</strong>.",
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"author": "Stuart MacBride",
"title": "Flesh House"
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"time": 262,
"quote": "He hurt me to the point where I wanted to tell him something. My watch said <strong>4.22</strong> now. It had stopped. It was smashed.",
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"quote": "<strong>4:23</strong>, Monday morning, Iceland Square. A number of people in the vicinity of Bjornsongatan are awakened by loud screams.",
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"quote": "'We don't announce guests at' – he lifted his arm and turned it neatly to look at the narrow oblong watch on the inside of his wrist – 'at <strong>twenty-three minutes past four</strong> in the morning.'\n'That's what I thought,' Degarmo said.",
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"quote": "At <strong>04:24</strong> on January 5, 2025, the stars stood still in the sky. In California, the earthquake started with a low- frequency rumble. It wasn't a sound but a sensation that caused an incomprehensible weakness in the legs, a constriction of the bowels, and panic.",
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"quote": "As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one was stirring. It was <strong>twenty-five minutes past four</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-six minutes past four</strong>, she was pronounced dead. Cause of death, or rather manner of death, was apparent. There were two bullet wounds of entry in her chest.",
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"quote": "Bad footballers blame the pitch. And then I heard the school bell in my dream but it wasnt really a school bell and the pitch went very steep like a trap door opening and I fell and landed in bed. It was still dark and my alarm clock said <strong>04:27</strong> and I heard the noise again.",
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"quote": "He had been the only survivor—the only one who'd come home alive. So what the hell was going on? Who was this new character in his nightmares? He glanced up at the clock and was disheartened to discover that it was only <strong>0428</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "'Your pardon, Dr. Leving, but there is an urgent call for you. The pseudo-robot Caliban says he must speak with you at once.' Fredda sighed. She knew she had to take the call, and that Caliban would only call if it were important. But even so, it was turning into a very long night. 'Now what time is it?' she asked. 'It is now <strong>0429</strong> hours,' Donald said.",
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"quote": "'What is it!' cried Merry. 'It is time to get up. It is <strong>half past four</strong> and very foggy. Come on! Sam is already getting breakfast ready. Even Pippin is up.",
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"quote": "An earthquake hit Los Angeles at <strong>4:31</strong> this morning and the images began arriving via CNN right away.",
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"quote": "On his first day of kindergarten, Peter Houghton woke up at <strong>4:32 a.m.</strong> He padded into his parents' room and asked if it was time yet to take the school bus.",
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"quote": "When he heard the faint clunk of a steel gate closing behind them, he smiled in the darkness. They were out. He pressed a button on the watch and when its light showed him it was <strong>04.33</strong> his smile became a grin. No one had made it out of Greenacres for over a decade, which made Bishop's achievement that much sweeter. That was the kind of record he liked to beat.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>04:34</strong> hours when I checked my watch and broke cover and walked across the packed snow to the barge and went aboard.",
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"quote": "No manner of exhaustion can keep a child asleep much later than six a.m. on Christmas Day. Colby awoke at <strong>4:35</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>4:36</strong> that morning, alone in my hotel room, it had been a much better scene. Spencer had blanched, confounded by the inescapable logic of my accusation. A few drops of perspiration had formed on his upper lip. A tiny vein had started to throb in his temple.",
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"quote": "Shaw laughed, apologized, and said he hoped that was true. He draped his kit over his head and snapped it in. Checked his watch. It was <strong>0437</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "At <strong>4.38 a.m.</strong> as the sun is coming up over Gorley Woods, I hear a strange rustling in the grass beside me. I peer closely but can see nothing.",
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"quote": "At zero hour minus one minute, <strong>twenty-one minutes to five</strong> on March the twenty-first , Jiffy Tripp stood in the trenches beside an infantry officer, looking over no man's land. It was still dark. At zero hour plus five seconds the shell bursts actually threw a sort of witch's kaleidoscope onto no man's land, and he was reaching for the SOS rockets. Red — green — red.",
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"quote": "I settled into a daily routine. Wake up at <strong>4.40am</strong>, shower, get on the train north by ten after five.",
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"author": "Tina Fey",
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"quote": "At <strong>4:41</strong> Crane's voice crackled through the walkie-talkie as if he'd read their thoughts of mutiny. 'Everyone into the elevator. Now!' Only moments before the call he and C.J. had finished what they hoped would be a successful diversion.",
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"quote": "A large clock above the desks read, <strong>04:42 am.</strong> He paused to listen. Whatever had happened there, appeared to be over.",
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"quote": "The time is <strong>four forty-three</strong> in the mornin an it's almost light oot there.",
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"quote": "'At <strong>0444</strong> hours yesterday morning, the landing craft Orpheus was appropriated by Dr. Diana Chandler, twenty-seven, an astrophysicist from Toronto, Canada. Dr. Chandler, apparently disconsolate over the failure of her husband, Aaron Rossman, also twenty-seven, also of Toronto, to renew their recently expired two-year marriage contract, presumably committed suicide. Mr. Rossman is the Starcology's dock master.'",
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"quote": "His wife's breathing at his side is so faint that he can scarcely hear it. One of these mornings she'll be lying dead beside me and I won't even notice, he thinks. Or maybe it'll be me. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left alone. He checks the clock on the table next to the bed. The hands glow and register <strong>4:45 a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "The sun had risen at <strong>04.46</strong> and would not set until 21.26, and I'm not sure if there was a moon or not. At any rate I would not again be witness to that warm suspended light nor hear the bells pealing out inconsiderately as evening fell.",
"asin": "0141389249",
"author": "Javier Marías",
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"quote": "'His respiration increased right around the same time, and again around <strong>04:47</strong> this morning.'\n'Could he be dreaming?'\n'Coma patients don't dream,' Lilly said, her voice dropping as she turned and looked at Victor.",
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"quote": "Thinking about the card warms me to the idea of walking under the arched doorway of the Newtons' home, but when I arrive at their house, the plan seems ridiculous. What am I doing? It's <strong>4:48 a.m.</strong>, and I'm parked outside their darkened house.",
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"author": "Dave Eggers",
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"quote": "At <strong>4.48</strong> the happy hour when clarity visits warm darkness which soaks my eyes I know no sin",
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"quote": "When Costain left the bridge the brass chronometer in the wheelhouse said <strong>eleven minutes to five</strong>. Harkness looked at it and realised vaguely that the gap was still too big.",
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"quote": "Even the hands of his watch and the hands of all the thirteen clocks were frozen. They had all frozen at the same time, on a snowy night, seven years before, and after that it was always <strong>ten minutes to five</strong> in the castle.",
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"time": 291,
"quote": "'Earlier? It's <strong>nine minutes to five a.m.</strong>—who would be up this early?'\n'Oh, we're all early risers.",
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"author": "Jean Johnson",
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"time": 292,
"quote": "'I'm Carol Manning. This is Captain Willet.'\n'What time is it?'\n'If it matters, it's <strong>eight minutes to five</strong>. Don't get any persecuted ideas that I enjoy being out of bed at this time of night. It makes it legally easier if you invite us in.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>seven minutes to five</strong>, one of the customer lines on the switchboard went off. It was the first time that a call had come in on that line since the hunt began, some nine hours before.",
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"time": 294,
"quote": "<strong>Six minutes to five</strong>. Six minutes to go. Suddenly I felt quite clearheaded. There was an unexpected light in the cell; the boundaries were drawn, the roles well defined. The time of doubt and questioning and uncertainty was over.",
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"author": "Elie Wiesel",
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"quote": "<strong>4:55</strong> - Mank holding phone. Turns to Caddell - 'Who is this?' Caddell: 'Jim.' (shrugs) 'I think he's our man in Cincinnati.'",
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"author": "Hunter S. Thompson",
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"time": 296,
"quote": "And I was tired and out of cigarettes and still feeling a little hungover. The clock on the VCR was telling me it was <strong>four minutes to five</strong> in the morning. That just made it all seem even more surreal.",
"asin": "0553581821",
"author": "Greg Rucka",
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"quote": "The second said the same thing a <strong>few minutes before five</strong>, and mentioned eternity... I'm sure I'll meet you in the other world. Four minutes later she left a last, fleeting message: My love. Fernando. It's Suzana. Then, it seemed, she had shot herself.",
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"title": "A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions"
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"time": 298,
"quote": "He wants to look death in the face. <strong>Two minutes to five</strong>. I took a handkerchief out of my pocket, but John Dawson ordered me to put it back. An Englishman dies with his eyes open. He wants to look death in the face.",
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"title": "Dawn"
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"quote": "The whole place smells like death no matter what the fuck you do. Gately gets to the shelter at <strong>0459</strong>.9h and just shuts his head off as if his head had a control switch.",
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"author": "David Foster Wallace",
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"quote": "Wednesday morning at <strong>five o'clock</strong> as the day begins\nSilently closing her bedroom door\nLeaving the note that she hoped would say more\nShe goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief\nQuietly turning the backdoor key\nStepping outside she is free.",
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"quote": "It was in the township of Dunwich, in a large and hardly inhabited farmhouse set against a hillside 4 miles from the village and a mile and a half from any other dwelling, that Wilbur Whately was born at <strong>5 a.m.</strong> on Sunday, 2 February, 1913. The date was recalled because it was Candlemas, which people in Dunwich curiously observe under another name...",
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"author": "H. P. Lovecraft",
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"quote": "What causes young people to 'come out,' but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them trooping to watering-places? What keeps them dancing till <strong>five o'clock</strong> in the morning through a whole mortal season?",
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"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
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"quote": "There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is <strong>5 a.m.</strong> All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.",
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"quote": "The day came slow, till <strong>five o'clock</strong>\nThen sprang before the hills\nLike hindered rubies, or the light\nA sudden musket spills",
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"time": 301,
"quote": "Just after <strong>five o'clock</strong> on this chill September morning, the fishmonger's cart, containing Kirsten and Emilia and such possessions as they have been able to assemble in the time allowed to them, is driven out of the gates of Rosenborg?",
"asin": "B004M8S47M",
"author": "Rose Tremain",
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"time": 302,
"quote": "It was <strong>5:02 a.m.</strong>, December 14. In another fifty-eight minutes he would set sail for America. He did not want to leave his bride; he did not want to go.",
"asin": "B0068WHB6U",
"author": "Brenda Joyce",
"title": "The Prize"
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"time": 303,
"quote": "It was <strong>5:03 a.m.</strong> It didn't matter. She wasn't going to get back to sleep. She threw off her covers and, swearing at herself, Caleb and Mr. Griffin, she headed into the shower.",
"asin": "B0068WHADO",
"author": "Heather Graham",
"title": "Unhallowed Ground"
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"time": 304,
"quote": "Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, <strong>four minutes past five</strong> and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe, continued Poirot, with distaste, 'were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family.'",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
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"time": 305,
"quote": "The baby, a boy, is born at <strong>five past five</strong> in the morning.",
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"author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
"title": "The Namesake"
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"time": 306,
"quote": "<strong>5:06 a.m.</strong> I wake up strangely energized, my stomach growling. Upstairs, the overstocked fridge offers me its bounty of sympathy food.",
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"author": "Jonathan Tropper",
"title": "This Is Where I Leave You"
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"time": 307,
"quote": "His feet slammed into the ground; Ron staggered into him and he fell over; the Portkey hit the ground near his head with a heavy thud. Harry looked up. Mr Weasley, Mr Diggory and Cedric were still standing, though looking very windswept; everybody else was on the ground. ‘<strong>Seven past five</strong> from Stoatshead Hill,’ said a voice.",
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"author": "J. K. Rowling",
"title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
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"time": 308,
"quote": "... and Ambrose and I will marry at Fort McHenry at <strong>5.08</strong> EDST this coming Saturday, Rosh Hashanah!",
"asin": "039912425X",
"author": "John Barth",
"title": "Letters"
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"time": 309,
"quote": "He had two hopes: first, that the bomb would work, and second, that ten thousand yards was far enough. The countdown started at <strong>nine minutes past five</strong> in the morning, Mountain War Time, on Monday, July 16.",
"asin": "B0071BGOJC",
"author": "Ken Follett",
"title": "Winter of the World"
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"time": 310,
"quote": "I settled into a daily routine. Wake up at <strong>4:40am</strong>, shower, get on the train north by ten after five.",
"asin": "0751547832",
"author": "Tina Fey",
"title": "Bossypants"
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"time": 311,
"quote": "Today was Tuesday, the fifteenth of August; the sun had risen at <strong>eleven minutes past five</strong> this morning and would set at two minutes before seven this evening.",
"asin": "B00V84S5G8",
"author": "Donald E. Westlake",
"title": "The Hot Rock"
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"time": 312,
"quote": "At <strong>twelve minutes</strong> and six seconds <strong>past five</strong> o'clock on the morning of April 18th, 1906, the San Francisco peninsula began to shiver in the grip of an earthquake which, when its ultimate consequences are considered, was the most disastrous in the recorded history of the North American continent.",
"asin": "B000HTLUZ8",
"author": "Herbert Asbury",
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"time": 313,
"quote": "Lying on my side in bed, I stared at my alarm clock until it became a blemish, its red hue glowing like a welcome sign beckoning me into the depths of hell's crimson-colored cavities. <strong>5:13 am</strong>. To describe this Monday as a blue Monday was an understatement.",
"asin": "B01K948684",
"author": "Nakia D. Johnson",
"title": "Uptempo"
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"time": 314,
"quote": "The time was <strong>5.14am</strong>, a very strange time indeed for the sheriff to have seen what he claimed he saw as he made his early-morning rounds, first patrolling back and forth along the deserted, snowbound streets of Kingdom City before extending his vigilance northward, along County Road.",
"asin": "0553580922",
"author": "Thomas H. Cook",
"title": "Into the Web"
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"time": 315,
"quote": "Weird conversation with Brown, a tired & confused old man who's been jerked out of bed at <strong>5:15</strong>.",
"asin": "0007204485",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson",
"title": "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"
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"time": 316,
"quote": "<strong>5:16</strong> - Mank on phone to Secretary of State Brown: 'Mr Brown, we're profoundly disturbed about this situation in the 21st. We can't get a single result out of there.",
"asin": "0007204485",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson",
"title": "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"
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"time": 317,
"quote": "Sometimes bad luck is writ large and plain. 'What do you mean?'\n'The clock stopped at seventeen minutes past five in the morning. <strong>Five one seven</strong>, dear. Add the digits and you get thirteen.'",
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"author": "Don DeLillo",
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"quote": "By his watch it was just approaching <strong>eighteen minutes past five</strong> in the morning, a mere twelve minutes since the sun had first burst its brilliance across the eastern horizon.",
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"quote": "'Yes,' she nodded. 'I will take off in the dark, and be over Tuti airfield at sunrise that's at <strong>05.22</strong> hours.'",
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"quote": "I pulled into the Aoyama supermarket parking garage at <strong>five-twenty-eight</strong>. The sky to the east was getting light. I entered the store carrying my bag. Almost no one was in the place. A young clerk in a striped uniform sat reading a magazine; a woman of indeterminate age was buying a cartload of cans and instant food. I turned past the liquor display and went straight to the snack bar.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-nine minutes past five</strong>, according to the red devilish numbers on the alarm clock, and she was being broken into.",
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"quote": "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at <strong>five-thirty</strong> in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.",
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"quote": "For instance, it is <strong>half-past five</strong> in the summer morning. Young Chase's narrow bachelor bed has evidently been slept in, for it is rumpled in that barely disturbed way which can never be counterfeited. His jug's empty and there's grey water in the basin, cleanly boy. The window is open, admitting the salubrious sea-breeze. He doesn't smoke anyway. What an innocent room it is.",
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"quote": "<strong>5:31</strong> - Mank on phone to lawyer: 'Jesus, I think we gotta go in there and get those ballots! Impound 'em! Every damn one!'",
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"quote": "The next few stills showed them moving along the corridor, stopping at Hansen's door, the door opening although Hansen was out of view, and then, again, a blank corridor. The last two pictures were marked <strong>05.33</strong> and showed the same pair in the corridor, and then standing at the elevator, and then gone.",
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"quote": "I asked 'What time is sunrise?' A second's silence while the crestfallen Bush absorbed his rebuke, and then another voice answered: '<strong>Five-thirty-four</strong>, sir.'",
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"quote": "It was now <strong>0538</strong> hours on the same day, Monday, December 21 and still dark. U-31 was sailing on the surface at fifteen knots. One of the four watchmen looking through his powerful Zeiss binoculars, did a double take. He wiped the lens on his sleeve and looked again.",
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"quote": "<strong>Twenty minutes to six</strong>. 'Rob's boys were already on the platform, barrows ready. The only thing that ever dared to be late around here was the train. Rob's boys were in fact Bill Bing, thirty, sucking a Woodbine, and Arthur, sixty, half dead.",
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"quote": "'And what time, again, did the defendent actually say these words?'\n'That would have been - you can see the time on the film tape on the frame where you've stopped it. <strong>0544</strong> hours.'",
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"quote": "Herbert could feel nothing. He wrote a legal-sounding phrase to the effect that the sentence had been carried out at <strong>5.46am</strong>, adding, 'without a snag'. The burial party had cursed him quietly as they'd hacked at the thick roots and tight soil.",
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"quote": "His eyelids pried open. The bedside lamp was lit. Rue hovered over him, flicking her finger at his earlobe. What the hell? The clock said it was <strong>forty-seven minutes past five</strong>. Before dawn. On a Sunday.",
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"quote": "A Bacardi mirror with fogged glass hangs above the backbar next to a St. Pauli Girl clock, the clock's hands frozen at <strong>twelve minutes to six</strong>",
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"quote": "He looked at his watch. It was <strong>eleven minutes to six</strong>. After a moment he idly drew the center drawer of the desk out over his lap.",
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"quote": "Now she glanced quickly at the clock. The time was <strong>ten minutes to six</strong>. 'Land sakes!' she exclaimed. 'I should say you was! What in the world got you up so early? Ain't sick, are you?'\n'No,' replied the captain wearily. 'I ain't sick. I didn't sleep very well last night, that's all.'",
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"quote": "He paced the wooden boards and looked again,—<strong>ten minutes to six</strong>. Then he stopped suddenly. Along that gleaming stretch of private road came a car, driven at a rapid pace. Prince Shan stood and watched it, and as he watched, it seemed almost as though the hidden sun had caught his face and transfigured it.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>nine minutes to six</strong> o'clock and an hour before dawn. The brigade was not due to move today, and so, just as they did every other day, along with every British corps in the field, the four battalions stood to arms in case of attack. Each company paraded and then marched to form with its battalion at its alarm post. The time just before dawn was when men felt low in spirits and drowsy, making it a good time for the enemy to attack.",
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"quote": "This morning, the sun came up at <strong>six minutes to six</strong>. There was already heavy early-morning rush-hour traffic on the Majesta Bridge. Meyer was driving. Carella was riding shotgun.",
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"quote": "'Welcome back, sir.' Heskan smiled at a man whose name he could not recall and remarked good-naturedly, 'I see they have you working graveyards.' It was <strong>05:54</strong> and the graveyard shift would soon come off rotation, replaced by the daytime crew.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>5.55am</strong> and raining hard when I pedalled up to the bike stand just outside the forecourt of the station and dashed inside. I raced past the bookstall, where all the placards of the Yorkshire Post (a morning paper) read 'York Horror', but also 'Terrific February Gales at Coast'.",
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"quote": "He pulled out his own. The officer with the chipped nose went over to borrow the watch of General Feraud. They bent their heads over them for a time. 'That's it. At <strong>four minutes to six</strong> by yours. ",
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"quote": "He drank his coffee and ate his rolls with an excellent appetite, and then he glanced at his chronometer. It was <strong>three minutes to six</strong>—time he went across to the barge.",
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"quote": "Frankston glanced at his wristchrono. It was <strong>one minute to six</strong>. 'In about a minute,' he thought, 'Ross will say something about going out to water his geraniums.' The wristchrono ticked fifty-nine times. 'I think I'll go out and water my geraniums,' said Ross.",
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"quote": "I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. I was to leave Gateshead that day by a coach which passed the lodge gates at <strong>six a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "On the 15th of September 1840, about <strong>six o'clock</strong> in the morning, the Ville-de-Montereau, ready to depart, pouring out great whirls of smoke by the quai Saint-Bernard.",
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"quote": "The ball went on for a long time, until <strong>six in the morning</strong>; all were exhausted and wishing they had been in bed for at least three hours; but to leave early was like proclaiming the party a failure and offending the host and hostess who had taken such a lot of trouble, poor dears.",
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"quote": "In the image, he was looking straight up at the camera, holding a disposable cup in his hand. The time signature on the bottom right corner of the screen said that it was <strong>06:01</strong> on the same morning the two of them had come to the convent.",
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"quote": "Not <strong>two minutes past six</strong>. No. Nobody sleeps in, we're not a holiday camp. Now. I have more telephone calls to make.'",
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"quote": "I mean <strong>three minutes after six</strong>.' He laughed as he kept turning the dial. 'I remember once, a lad in Galway who didn't understand that. At midnight he set the timer to go off at one minute after twelve, in what he thought would be the afternoon.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>four minutes past six</strong> in the morning. She shivered. She waited. She stretched because she had been sat in her car for three and a half hours before the milk float had turned into the street.",
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"quote": "A second man went in and found the shop empty, as he thought, at <strong>five minutes past six</strong>. That puts the time at between 5:30 and 6:05.",
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"quote": "At <strong>6:06</strong>, every toilet on Merit Street suddenly exploded in a geyser of shit and raw sewage as some unimaginable reversal took place in the pipes which fed the holding tanks of the new waste-treatment plant in the Barrens.",
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"quote": "A family burned to death in a house-fire in Kreuzberg, a stabbing outside a bar in Wedding, a woman beaten to death in Spandau. The record of March's' own disrupted morning was last on the list: <strong>06:07</strong> [O] (that meant notification had come from the Orpo) 1H Havel\/March.",
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"quote": "The bus left the station at <strong>ten past six</strong> - and she sat proud, like an accustomed traveller, apart from her father, John Henry, and Berenice. But after a while a serious doubt came in her, which even the answers of the bus-driver could not quite satisfy.",
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"quote": "This was at <strong>06:11</strong> and three minutes later I saw the front door of Sorgenicht's house open and a figure show up against the light inside. I had the engine running by the time he'd shut the door and I was rolling the Mercedes with the headlights on as he walked out of sight beyond the building at the end of the street.",
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"quote": "The old Seth Thomas clock on Miss Corrie's mantel that probably had ticked away at least a century said <strong>twelve minutes past six</strong>, and it was still dark outside. A current of warm air had descended on the mountain during the night and thick fog clung to the landscape.",
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"quote": "As a light drizzle fell from the grey sky at <strong>06:13</strong> three Renault minivans with darkened windows came down a side street, heading for the mosque.",
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"quote": "Now, at the station, do you recall speaking to Mr Joseph Markew?'\n'Yes, indeed. I was standing on the platform waiting for my usual train - the <strong>7.39</strong> - when he accosted me.'",
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"quote": "<strong>Eight oh three eh em</strong> . . . Death of Sergeant Detritus . . . Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds . . . Death of Constable Visit . . . Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds . . . Death of death of death of . . .",
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"quote": "At <strong>four minutes past eight</strong>, the typist walks in. She sees Einstein across the room holding his handwritten manuscript and she smiles.",
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"quote": "There was felt a slight jerk as they reached the end of the rope, and then they began to move in a circle from east to west. Phoebe glanced at the clock. 'Just <strong>five minutes past eight</strong>,' she said.",
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"quote": "Einstein gives her his manuscript, his theory of time. It is <strong>six minutes past eight</strong>. He walks to his desk, glances at the stack of files, goes over to a bookshelf, and starts to remove one of the notebooks.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>seven minutes past eight</strong> when Lara saw Betty Jeffries hurrying towards the school with her children in tow.",
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"quote": "C at <strong>8:08</strong> and so on, and the same for quitting times, in such a manner that never would two colleagues have the opportunity to travel in the same tramcar.",
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"quote": "Daylight here was just after six, so by now she should be high on a jet, heading back to New Zealand. A startled glance at her watch revealed that it was <strong>nine minutes past eight</strong>. No, she should be landing in the cold grey winter of Auckland. Jolted, she leapt off the bed and ran from the cabin.",
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"title": "Surrender to Seduction"
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"quote": "Amory rushed into the house and the rest followed with a limp mass that they laid on the sofa in the shoddy little front parlor. Sloane, with his shoulder punctured, was on another lounge. He was half delirious, and kept calling something about a chemistry lecture at <strong>8:10</strong>.",
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"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "This Side of Paradise"
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"quote": "The wall-clock had reached <strong>eleven minutes past eight</strong>. He knew he would have to break all his previous records to make the train on time.",
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"quote": "At <strong>8:12 a.m.</strong>, just before the moment of pff, all the business of the cellars was being transacted - garbage transferred from small cans into large ones; early wide-awake grandmas, rocky with insomnia, dumped wash into the big tubs; boys in swimming trunks rolled baby carriages out into the cool morning.",
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"author": "Grace Paley",
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"quote": "At <strong>8:13 a.m.</strong> the alarm clock in the laboratory gave the ringing word. Eddie touched a button in the substructure of an ordinary glass coffeepot, from whose spout two tubes proceeded into the wall.",
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"author": "Grace Paley",
"title": "In Time Which Made A Monkey Of Us All"
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"quote": "At <strong>fourteen minutes past eight</strong>, a man came in, wearing a sheepskin coat. He was sucking on a hand-rolled cigarette. The man stuck out his hand, cheerfully. 'You'll be Mister Moon,' he said.",
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"author": "Neil Gaiman",
"title": "The Monarch of the Glen"
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"quote": "It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up, and hauled down his watch. It was a <strong>quarter-past eight</strong>.",
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"author": "Jerome K. Jerome",
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"time": 496,
"quote": "The clock works. The time is <strong>sixteen minutes past eight</strong>. The clock never worked all those years it followed Scarpetta in her mirrors as she drove back and forth to take care of the dead.",
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"author": "Patricia Cornwell",
"title": "Trace"
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"quote": "Monday, July 1. Chronometer, <strong>8.17 a.m.</strong>; barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.",
"asin": "1853262870",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
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"quote": "Say they left at seventeen or <strong>eighteen minutes past eight</strong>. In that case they must have followed Joanne Garland and might well be supposed to be driving faster than she ... '\n'Unless they took the byroad.'",
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"author": "Ruth Rendell",
"title": "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter"
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"time": 499,
"quote": "I took the train from Watford Junction at <strong>8.19</strong> and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late",
"asin": "B003TSDNAY",
"author": "Jonathan Coe",
"title": "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim"
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"quote": "When the typewriters happen to pause (<strong>8:20</strong> and other mythical hours), and there are no flights of American bombers in the sky, and the motor traffic's not too heavy in Oxford Street, you can hear winter birds cheeping outside, busy at the feeders the girls have put up.",
"asin": "0099511754",
"author": "Thomas Pynchon",
"title": "Gravity's Rainbow"
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"quote": "It's <strong>08:21</strong> already, I slept for long and now I'm having some, the left is so creamy. Old Nick didn't come back I don't think.",
"asin": "B00SN935ZW",
"author": "Emma Donoghue",
"title": "Room"
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"time": 502,
"quote": "Daisy Flory made her 999 call at <strong>twenty-two minutes past eight</strong>, within a few minutes of their leaving.",
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"author": "Ruth Rendell",
"title": "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter"
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"quote": "And then Wedderburn looked at his watch. '<strong>Twenty-three minutes past eight</strong>. I am going up by the quarter to twelve train, so that there is plenty of time. I think I shall wear my alpaca jacket - it is quite warm enough - and my grey felt hat and brown shoes. I suppose'",
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"author": "H. G. Wells",
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"quote": "The morning commute was in full swing and the High Street station was bustling with people heading into Manhattan. I sandwiched my way onto an A train and we took off. Ten minutes later I emerged onto Wall Street and I could feel how lovely the new day was going to be. The air was warm and fresh. And I was carrying a tiny speck of human life inside me.\nAfter a quick five-minute walk, I was standing inside the Millenium’s lobby and it was <strong>twenty-four minutes past eight</strong>. I still had plenty of time. But there was no Mrs. Stauer.",
"asin": "045141991X",
"author": "Susan Meissner",
"title": "A Fall of Marigolds"
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"time": 505,
"quote": "At <strong>twenty-five minutes past eight</strong> a second shock took place, this time from behind. I turned pale. My companions were close by my side. I seized Conseil's hand. Our looks expressed our feelings better than words.",
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"author": "Jules Verne",
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"time": 506,
"quote": "It exploded much later than intended, probably a good twelve hours later, at <strong>twenty-six minutes past eight</strong> on Monday morning. Several defunct wristwatches, the property of victims, confirmed the time. As with its predecessors over the last few months, there had been no warning.",
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"author": "John le Carré",
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"quote": "Even dawdling over breakfast with my mother just killed an hour, and though I hadn't planned to be at Marge's until nine, I was knocking on her door at <strong>twenty-seven minutes past eight</strong>.",
"asin": "1493514040",
"author": "Jessica Beck",
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"quote": "And at <strong>8.28</strong> on the following morning, with a novel chilliness about the upper lip, and a vast excess of strength and spirits, I was sitting in a third-class carriage, bound for Germany, and dressed as a young sea-man, in a pea-jacket, peaked cap, and comforter.",
"asin": "B01KY1YZ2S",
"author": "Erskine Childers",
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"time": 509,
"quote": "At <strong>8.29</strong> I punched the front doorbell in Elgin Crescent. It was opened by a small oriental woman in a white apron. She showed me into a large, empty sitting room with an open fire and a couple of huge oil paintings.",
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"author": "Sebastian Faulks",
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"quote": "At <strong>half past eight</strong>, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.",
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"author": "J. K. Rowling",
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"time": 511,
"quote": "He arrived at his conclusions by as methodical a series of mental actions as he arrived at his desk every morning at <strong>twenty-nine minutes to nine</strong>. But these were not ordinary circumstances.",
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"author": "Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice",
"title": "A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill"
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"time": 512,
"quote": "All looked in the direction of the familiar voice. Their Instructor in Woodcraft had appeared among them as unobtrusively as a shadow. Scout Master Hall looked at his watch. The hands showed that it lacked <strong>twenty-eight minutes to nine</strong>.",
"asin": "B018PLPTHO",
"author": "Edward Sylvester Ellis",
"title": "The Boy Patrol on Guard"
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"time": 513,
"quote": "I remember at <strong>08:33</strong> that I remembered what had happened last night and who was in my house",
"asin": "B01CPVILQG",
"author": "Andy Ritchie",
"title": "The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read, Part 1"
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"quote": "At <strong>08:34</strong> hours precisely General Conrad Pyne's black official Rover 800 stopped outside the ugly wrought iron barrier that guarded the entrance into Downing Street.",
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"author": "James Follett",
"title": "Doomsday Ultimatum"
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"quote": "Old gummy granny (thrusts a dagger towards Stephen's hand) Remove him, acushla. At <strong>8.35 a.m.</strong> you will be in heaven and Ireland will be free (she prays) O good God take him!",
"asin": "1840226358",
"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Ulysses"
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"quote": "The first maroon had been fired at <strong>08.36</strong> and the second a few moments later. The puffs of green smoke from the maroons were still hanging in the sky above the boathouse when Pete arrived, breathless but still running.",
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"author": "Margaret Dickinson",
"title": "Lifeboat!"
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"time": 517,
"quote": "<strong>Eight thirty-seven am.</strong>, Patrice Lane, Biohazard: The dog's clean. The Good Samaritan was a woman with an accent of some sort. Why haven't you called me?",
"asin": "B00DYCWVYY",
"author": "Ilona Andrews",
"title": "Magic Bleeds"
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"time": 518,
"quote": "'Vasquez's car was stopped at Carfraemill – at <strong>08:38</strong> hours,' he pointed out. 'Aye – annnd –?'\n'Heading north, mon!' he snapped.",
"asin": "B00TIVWJNI",
"author": "Stephen Coill",
"title": "A Deviant Breed"
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"time": 519,
"quote": "Doug McGuire noticed the early hour, <strong>8:39 A.M.</strong> on the one wall clock that gave Daylight Savings Time for the East Coast.",
"asin": "0962870005",
"author": "Winn Schwartau",
"title": "Terminal Compromise"
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"time": 520,
"quote": "It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at <strong>twenty minutes to nine</strong>, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.",
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"author": "Charles Dickens",
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"time": 521,
"quote": "By <strong>forty-one minutes past eight</strong> we are five hundred yards from the water's edge, and between our road and the foot of the mountain we descry the piled-up remains of a ruined tower.",
"asin": "B00B665MFK",
"author": "Félicien de Saulcy",
"title": "Narrative of a Journey round the Dead Sea and in the Bible lands in 1850 and 1851"
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"time": 522,
"quote": "When Black himself finally appeared at <strong>eighteen minutes to nine</strong>, she became very engrossed in the details of Wednesday's surveillance. So engrossed, in fact, that she barely noticed him standing in the door of her space until he spoke.",
"asin": "0373791488",
"author": "Shannon Hollis",
"title": "His Hot Number"
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"time": 523,
"quote": "According to our rolling schedule, she would be expecting her phone to start ringing at <strong>seventeen minutes to nine</strong>.",
"asin": "0553589008",
"author": "Greg Rucka",
"title": "Walking Dead"
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"time": 524,
"quote": "Several soldiers - some with their uniforms unbuttoned - were looking over a motorcycle, arguing about it. The sergeant looked at his watch; it was <strong>eight forty-four</strong>. They had to wait until nine. Hladik, feeling more insignificant than ill-fortuned, sat down on a pile of firewood.",
"asin": "0141183845",
"author": "Jorge Luis Borges",
"title": "The Secret Miracle"
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"time": 525,
"quote": "He paid the waitress and left the café. It was <strong>8:45</strong>. The sun pressed against the inside of a thin layer of cloud. He unbuttoned his jacket as he hurried down Queensway. His mind, unleashed, sprang forwards.",
"asin": "0747526974",
"author": "Rupert Thomson",
"title": "Dreams of Leaving"
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"time": 526,
"quote": "Petrov undoubtedly had the remote, so there was no question now that the asshole had reset the time from <strong>08:46</strong> to… now.",
"asin": "0446699624",
"author": "Nelson DeMille",
"title": "Radiant Angel"
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"time": 527,
"quote": "<strong>8.47</strong>. Bit misty on the roads",
"asin": "1447221095",
"author": "Douglas Adams",
"title": "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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"time": 528,
"quote": "Surely if she walked along Swaine Street and down Leeds Road, she could go into the old door, up the old steps and slip into her old chair, gather up her old stock of paper and scent and gum, and just go on with her work where she had left off? But it was <strong>twelve minutes to nine</strong>.",
"asin": "0141396024",
"author": "Malachi Whitaker",
"title": "Courage"
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"time": 529,
"quote": "I had arranged to meet the Occupational Health Officer at 10:30. I took the train from Watford Junction at 8.19 and arrived at London Euston seven minutes late, at <strong>8.49</strong>.",
"asin": "B003TSDNAY",
"author": "Jonathan Coe",
"title": "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim"
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"time": 530,
"quote": "When they came back it was about <strong>ten minutes to nine</strong>. 'We'll sit in the sitting-room till the telephone rings,' said Julian. 'We don't want Mrs. Stick to answer it first.' But to their great dismay, as they reached the house, they heard Mrs. Stick using the telephone in the hall!",
"asin": "B004CJKMNA",
"author": "Enid Blyton",
"title": "Five Run Away Together"
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"time": 530,
"quote": "'For the most trivial things, Mr. Gray, I assure you. Usually because I come in at <strong>ten minutes to nine</strong> and tell her that I must be dressed by half-past eight.'",
"asin": "1847493726",
"author": "Oscar Wilde",
"title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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"time": 531,
"quote": "The third platoon came in and disembarked quietly, only the slapping of the rotors on the cool mountain morning air breaking the silence. Then all the helicopters departed and the jungle was very quiet. It was <strong>0851</strong> hours. The day was clear with a slight breeze. To Cherry the jungle was very beautiful.",
"asin": "B06XCCN8JN",
"author": "John M. Del Vecchio",
"title": "13th Valley"
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"time": 532,
"quote": "Message one. Tuesday, <strong>8.52am.</strong> Is anybody there? Hello?",
"asin": "0141012692",
"author": "Jonathan Safran Foer",
"title": "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"time": 533,
"quote": "The second bell rang on the steamer. It was <strong>seven minutes to nine</strong>, and the last of the luggage was packed. On the floor there still lay a pile of clothing, which was to be left as oil for the wounded joints of the gentlemen who had been flung down stairs.",
"asin": "B00QU4GL62",
"author": "Hall Caine",
"title": "Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon"
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"time": 534,
"quote": "'Are you aware that at <strong>08.54</strong> Carthedian standard time yesterday, a report was received from Captain J. L. Gafeska of the cargo ship Axious that the occupants of charter ship KS55NZ\/4 were found dead aboard said charter ship?'",
"asin": "B00BHK9D9G",
"author": "Nicholas Briggs",
"title": "Doctor Who: The Dalek Generation"
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"time": 535,
"quote": "By <strong>five minutes to nine</strong> George had arrived, looking very pale and swollen-eyed and wearing a black armband.",
"asin": "0141354801",
"author": "Michelle Magorian",
"title": "Goodnight Mister Tom"
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"time": 536,
"quote": "I filled her in on the weekend's events, and she paled when I told her about the gunshot. 'Thank the Lord you weren't hurt.' We discussed the incident a few minutes longer, and then I noticed the time. <strong>Four minutes before nine</strong>. ",
"asin": "0425277755",
"author": "Miranda James",
"title": "No Cats Allowed"
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"time": 537,
"quote": "He said just what you would expect a mayor to say – a watered-down shot of J. Edgar Hoover with some extra bad grammar thrown in. At <strong>three minutes to nine</strong> the door of the Bay City Camera Shop opened and an elderly Negro began to sweep dirt across the sidewalk into the gutter.",
"asin": "0241954320",
"author": "Raymond Chandler",
"title": "The Little Sister"
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"time": 537,
"quote": "You'll have to hurry. Many a long year before that, in one of the bygone centuries, a worthy citizen of Wrychester, Martin by name, had left a sum of money to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral on condition that as long as ever the Cathedral stood, they should cause to be rung a bell from its smaller bell-tower for <strong>three minutes before nine</strong> o'clock every morning, all the year round.",
"asin": "1539453464",
"author": "J.S. Fletcher",
"title": "The Paradise Mystery"
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"time": 538,
"quote": "It was <strong>two minutes of nine</strong> now - two minutes before the bombs were set to explode - and three or four people were gathered in front of the bank waiting for it to open.",
"asin": "075287960X",
"author": "Jim Thompson",
"title": "The Getaway"
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"time": 539,
"quote": "It was <strong>nearly nine</strong> o'clock and the sun was fiercer every minute.'",
"asin": "B004LLIHCC",
"author": "George Orwell",
"title": "Burmese Days"
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"time": 539,
"quote": "She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alberto's conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep. The reading lamp by the bed had been on all night. The green glowing digits on her desk alarm clock showed <strong>8:59</strong>.",
"asin": "1474602282",
"author": "Jostein Gaarder",
"title": "Sophie's World"
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"time": 540,
"quote": "Unreal City,\nUnder the brown fog of a winter dawn,\nA crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,\nI had not thought death had undone so many.\nSighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,\nAnd each man fixed his eyes before his feet.\nFlowed up the hill and down King William Street,\nTo where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours\nWith a dead sound on the final <strong>stroke of nine</strong>.",
"asin": "057109712X",
"author": "T. S. Eliot",
"title": "The Waste Land"
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"time": 540,
"quote": "Look. Ignatius. I'm beat. I've been on the road since <strong>nine o'clock</strong> yesterday morning.'",
"asin": "0141182865",
"author": "John Kennedy Toole",
"title": "A Confederacy of Dunces"
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"time": 540,
"quote": "It was around <strong>nine o'clock</strong> that I crossed the border into Cornwall. This was at least three hours before the rain began and the clouds were still all of a brilliant white. In fact, many of the sights that greeted me this morning were among the most charming I have so far encountered. ",
"asin": "0571258247",
"author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
"title": "The Remains of the Day"
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"quote": "They've been given the time. I can promise you at <strong>one minute past nine</strong> tomorrow, you'll have what I have.'",
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"quote": "It was <strong>two minutes past nine</strong>. Hanley nodded to the chief housing officer. 'Proceed,' he said. The council officer approached the door of the house and knocked loudly.",
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"quote": "This isn't a very good start to the new school year.' I stared at her. What was she talking about? Why was she looking at her watch? I wasn't late. Okay, the school bell had rung as I was crossing the playground, but you always get five minutes to get to your classroom. 'It's <strong>three minutes past nine</strong>,' Miss Beckworth announced. 'You're late.'",
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"quote": "However it might have been, they could not alter it. It was <strong>four minutes past nine</strong> when they clattered pêle-mêle down the school-room steps. Away they tore, full of fallacious hope, out at the cloisters, through the cathedral precincts, along the nearest streets, and arrived within the given four minutes, rather than over it.",
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"quote": "That's something I've always just about avoided, but tomorrow morning at <strong>five minutes past nine</strong> this is going to happen.",
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"quote": "The tour of the office doesn't take that long. In fact, we're pretty much done by <strong>9:05 a.m.</strong> Ed looks at everything twice and says it's all great, and gives me a list of contacts who might be helpful, then has to leave for his own office.",
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"quote": "Secretly, it's only <strong>six minutes past nine</strong>. I set my huge clock (oversize so that I can see it without my contacts in) nine minutes fast in the hope that somehow this deception will make me on time.",
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"quote": "It was a sparkling morning, <strong>9:07</strong> by the clock when Mrs. Flett stepped aboard the Imperial Limited at the Tyndall station, certain that her life was ruined, but managing, through an effort of will, to hold herself erect and to affect an air of preoccupation and liveliness.",
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"quote": "<strong>9.08am</strong> rolled over onto left side.",
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"quote": "It was precisely <strong>nine minutes past nine</strong> when the 'Lion' hit the 'Blücher.' Shortly afterwards, the 'Tiger' drew up to within range, and the 'Lion' fired salvo after salvo at the 'Seydlitz,' which stood third in the German line.",
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"quote": "'Notwithstanding this absence of proof, I had seen enough to be convinced that at <strong>ten minutes past nine</strong> that morning my brother had been killed.",
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"quote": "But now I was sort of regretting my little act of rebellion, because as I hurried out of the humid heat of a late August morning and into the air-conditioned brick building, it was already <strong>eleven minutes past nine</strong> and my astronomy class was on the second floor.",
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"quote": "On a Wednesday morning, then, at <strong>twelve minutes past nine</strong> EDT, the Pleiades hung poised, high over the Chancellery of Solar System Enterprises, Incorporated.",
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"quote": "She tucked the phone in the crook of her neck and thumbed hurriedly through her pink messages. Dr. Provetto, at <strong>9:13 A.M.</strong>",
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"quote": "On the Saturday, at <strong>fourteen minutes past nine</strong> in the morning, the court's deliberations were complete.",
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"author": "Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom",
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"quote": "'Like Lord Rodney against the French!' he said, waving in the direction of the picture in the hallway of Rodney in the Formidable leading the British fleet through the French line off the Dominican coast. Sanford liked the precision with which the engraving was subtitled ('at <strong>fourteen minutes past nine</strong> a.m., April 12, 1782'), but nevertheless shook his head.",
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"quote": "Great! Jones commented. 'I've never seen it do that before. That's all right. Okay.' Jones pulled a handful of pencils from his back pocket. 'Now, I got the contact first at <strong>0915</strong> or so, and the bearing was about two-six-nine.' He set a pencil down, eraser at Dallas' position, point directed west towards the target.",
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"quote": "He couldn't see me even if he were looking for surveillance in this area because the sun was <strong>09:16</strong> hours high in the south-east and the reflection off the windscreen would blind him to anything behind it.",
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"quote": "The task was allocated to the Naval tug. Not only was she a more suitable vessel than a destroyer for working close inshore among rocks, she also happened to be much nearer. She sailed from Lochmaddy at <strong>09.17</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "I've been fishin' in this 'hole' for something like forty years, off and on, and I've found out that these here sunfish get through breakfast at exactly <strong>eighteen minutes past nine</strong>.",
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"quote": "According to this, it is high-water on the full and change at <strong>nineteen minutes past nine</strong> in the morning: I observed the flood to come from the southward, though at Restoration Island, I thought it came from the northward.",
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"quote": "I'll compromise by saying that I left home at eight and spent an hour travelling to a nine o'clock appointment. Twenty minutes later is <strong>nine-twenty</strong>.",
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"quote": "The following morning at <strong>9.20</strong> Mr Cribbage straightened his greasy old tie, combed his Hitler moustache and arranged the few strands of his hair across his bald patch",
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"quote": "It was <strong>nine twenty-one</strong>. With one minute to go, there was no sign of Herbert's mother.",
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"quote": "No more throwing stones at him, and I'll see you back here exactly one week from now. She looked at her watch. 'At <strong>nine twenty-two</strong> next Wednesday.'",
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"quote": "<strong>9.23</strong>. What possessed me to buy this comb?",
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"quote": "<strong>9.24</strong> I'm swelled after that cabbage. A speck of dust on the patent leather of her boot.'",
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"quote": "It was now <strong>twenty-five minutes past nine</strong>, so it would not be long before he came. He soon made his appearance, dressed very elegantly in French style, with a black frock coat and white trowsers. He noticed that I looked at him with some surprise. 'I hope you are admiring my dress,' he said; 'another proof that I am becoming civilized.'\n'Yes, indeed,' I replied, 'and I confess I am considerably astonished to find that you possess such a tailor in Ajaccio.",
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"author": "Alexandre Dumas",
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"quote": "This was the sixth equipment failure in a week, the eleventh since Nula's death. It was enormously significant. She nodded, concealing her reaction. 'There is also a report from the test site, madam.'\n'Proceed.'\n'Test flight terminated at <strong>09.26</strong> hours at map point 45, sector 14.",
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"quote": "At <strong>0927</strong> hours, the first two Skyhawks were catapulted off the angled ramps at the front of the flight deck within seconds of each other.",
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"quote": "'This clock right?' he asked the butler in the hall. 'Yes, sir.' The clock showed <strong>twenty-eight minutes past nine</strong>. 'The clocks here have to be right, sir,' the butler added with pride and a respectful humour, on the stairs.",
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"quote": "As the piece comes to a close, the singing hovering in the air like a butterfly, I open my eyes. Harry smiles at me. We do not speak, simply wait as the singing slowly fades away. I glance to the clock on the wall and my body tenses once more: <strong>09.29</strong> hours. Nearly time.",
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"quote": "The body came in at <strong>nine-thirty</strong> this morning. One of Holding's men went to the house and collected it. There was nothing particularly unusual about the death. The man had had a fear of hospitals and had died at home, being cared for more than adequately by his devoted wife.",
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"quote": "At <strong>09.31</strong> a train arrived from Slussen. A few people got off, collars turned up and umbrellas at the ready. The train remained where it was, standing at the station with its doors open. The youngsters got on. The platform was left deserted once more.",
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"quote": "He said he couldn't say for certain of course, but that he rather thought he was. Anyhow, if he wasn't the 11.5 for Kingston, he said he was pretty confident he was the <strong>9.32</strong> for Virginia Water, or the 10 a.m. express for the Isle of Wight, or somewhere in that direction, and we should all know when we got there.",
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"quote": "Next, he remembered that the morrow of Christmas would be the twenty-seventh day of the moon, and that consequently high water would be at twenty-one minutes past three, the half-ebb at a quarter past seven, low water at <strong>thirty-three minutes past nine</strong>, and half flood at thirty-nine minutes past twelve.",
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"author": "Victor Hugo",
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"quote": "'<strong>09:34</strong> hours, Horn Twelve reorientation to degrees 112.5. Ne?' The tabulator on the other end of the line has anything but healthy lungs. There are gasps between each word, and a dry cough punctuates each phrase.",
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"quote": "Isn't that a journey quickly made? In another sense, on the contrary, our trains, in this latitude, gain over the sun more than 900 kilometres an hour, beating that planet hand over hand: quitting Liverpool at noon, for example, the traveller will reach the station where we now are at <strong>thirty-four minutes past nine</strong> in the morning - that is to say, earlier than he started! Ha! Ha! I don't think one can travel quicker than that!' I did not know what to think.",
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"quote": "<strong>Nine-thirty-five</strong>. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire.",
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"author": "Aminatta Forna",
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"quote": "Monday February 6th. '<strong>9.36am</strong>. Oh god, Oh god. Maybe he's fallen in love in New York and stayed there.'",
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"quote": "I last took out my watch at <strong>thirty-seven minutes after nine</strong>. There was a great bustle of business sounding through the walls and out in the corridor now, but still I sat alone.",
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"quote": "Out of perverse curiosity, I lifted my watch and looked at the time, watching the seconds ticking off. Lyle had finished his call at <strong>9.38</strong> a.m.",
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"quote": "Exactly as the display ticked over to <strong>9.39 a.m</strong>, there was a distant banging at my front door. I hate show-offs.",
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"author": "Benedict Jacka",
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"quote": "The Librarian was watching the left eyebrow of his lordship. It was <strong>twenty-one minutes to ten</strong> by the clock at the far end of the hall. Lord Groan appeared to be looking through this clock.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty minutes to ten</strong> tomorrow morning, the woman will put on her scarf and her gloves and her coat and walk down the Schifflaube",
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"quote": "Marya looked at the time display in the lower right corner of the screen; <strong>09:41</strong>, exactly eleven minutes since she entered the fabrication complex.",
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"author": "S.M. Stirling",
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"quote": "As it approached four seconds past <strong>eighteen minutes to ten</strong> it slowed right down, then halted altogether.",
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"quote": "As I bent over you, at <strong>seventeen minutes to ten</strong>, holding the pillow in my two hands, I knew that this was the only way in which I could still, possibly, say those dark words: I love you. Even if it seemed like an ultimate betrayal.",
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"author": "André Brink",
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"quote": "She was still pale, and replied nervously, 'Mr. Bennett came in <strong>about quarter to ten</strong>. He stopped to talk to me and looked about the room curiously. Do you know, I felt very uncomfortable for a time. Then he locked the door leading from the press bureau to his office, and left word that he was not to be disturbed. A few minutes later a man called.'",
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"quote": "It was yet <strong>fifteen minutes to ten</strong>, the hour for opening the bank's doors, and Stuart decided to address the crowd immediately.",
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"quote": "It will take you some twelve or fifteen minutes to drive to your bank in a growler, so if you are here with one at a <strong>quarter to ten</strong> to-morrow morning, that will exactly meet the case.",
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"author": "E. W. Hornung",
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"quote": "We're more likely to get blown up ourselves when we get there if we don't hustle. It was about <strong>quarter to ten</strong> and we were on our way to the Court House. It seemed awful funny to be away from school; there weren't any fellows around at all.",
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"author": "Percy Keese Fitzhugh",
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"quote": "Monday February 6th. '<strong>9.47am</strong>. Or gone to Las Vegas and got married.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>forty-eight minutes past nine</strong>, a man with wide shoulders and very light hair, a face touched with sunburn, walked into the hospital. 'Yes?' said the reception girl. 'Sprechen sie Deutsch?' asked the man.",
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"author": "Kenneth Robeson",
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"time": 589,
"quote": "Twenty-four hours later there was a new message on the numbers station. Porter listened to it twice before decoding it. It simply said, Message received. Assets en route. Landing tomorrow at <strong>0949</strong> hours. GCHQ listening in.",
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"quote": "<strong>9.50am</strong>. Hmmm. Think will go inspect make-up in case he does come in",
"asin": "1447288939",
"author": "Helen Fielding",
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"quote": "Hawk was motionless in the doorway where he was supposed to be. The alarm bell we had rigged was molly-anchored onto the wall next to the door. I looked at my watch. It was <strong>nine minutes to ten</strong>.",
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"quote": "'She caught the <strong>9:52</strong> to Victoria. I kept well clear of her on the train and picked her up as she went through the barrier. Then she took a taxi to Hammersmith.'\n'A taxi?' Smiley interjected. 'She must be out of her mind.'",
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"author": "John le Carré",
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"time": 593,
"quote": "Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare, but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions, and at <strong>seven minutes to ten</strong> precisely she was outside her destination.",
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"author": "Winifred Watson",
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"quote": "Hawk had not moved. I looked out the front window. Vinnie hadn't moved. I could go back out in the hallway and see that Chollo hadn't moved. My options were limitless. I looked at my watch. It was now <strong>six minutes to ten</strong>.",
"asin": "B00F21X5WC",
"author": "Robert Parker",
"title": "Now & Then"
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"quote": "Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning, said Albert; 'your punctuality really alarms me. What do I say? punctuality! You, whom I expected last, you arrive at <strong>five minutes to ten</strong>, when the time fixed was half-past! Has the ministry resigned?'",
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"author": "Alexandre Dumas",
"title": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
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"quote": "They reached the vertical shaft at <strong>four minutes to ten</strong>. Henry shone a light upward. 'What do you think? Wait it out here until after zero hour? If there's a quake while we're in the shaft, the chases could get damaged.'",
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"author": "Jack McDevitt",
"title": "The Engines of God"
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"quote": "At <strong>three minutes to ten</strong> the following morning Blake entered the doorway of the mammoth International Industrial Company Building.",
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"quote": "At <strong>two minutes to ten</strong>, the two presented themselves at No. 110, Downing Street, and were immediately shown into the presence of the Prime Minister.",
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"quote": "When Dr. Buckley emerges from her office to summon me in, I look down at my digital watch, and the time is <strong>9:59</strong>:28. I tell Dr. Buckley that it is not quite time for my appointment, and so we stare at each other for thirty-two seconds.",
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"quote": "<strong>One minute to ten</strong>. With a heavy heart Bert watched the clock. His legs were still aching very badly. He could not see the hands of the clock moving, but they were creeping on all the same.",
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"author": "Robert Tressell",
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"quote": "'Tis but <strong>an hour ago since it was nine</strong>, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven.",
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"quote": ". . .the clock ticked louder and louder until there was a terrific explosion right in her ear. Orlando leapt as if she had been violently struck on the head. <strong>Ten</strong> times she was struck",
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"quote": "Monday 30 March 1668 Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till about <strong>10 o'clock</strong>",
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"quote": "At <strong>about ten o'clock</strong> in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.'",
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"quote": "It was <strong>two minutes after ten</strong>; she was not satisfied with her clothes, her face, her apartment. She heated the coffee again and sat down in the chair by the window. Can't do anything more now, she thought, no sense trying to improve anything the last minute.",
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"quote": "The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was twenty <strong>three minutes past ten</strong>, so he tapped in the numbers 10.23. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03.",
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"quote": "But for this change certain things would happen twelve days from now. For instance, Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning. He would arrive on the scene at exactly the right moment—<strong>four minutes past ten</strong>, the long-ago appointed instant of time—and the water would be shoal, the achievement easy and certain.",
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"author": "Mark Twain",
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"quote": "At <strong>five minutes past ten</strong> o'clock, there approached the spot where Dick stood waiting in the Mall a very charming girl of scarcely twenty years of age, of medium height, with a pretty, plump form delightfully outlined by the lines of her walking dress. This was of a gray cloth, perfectly cut, but almost military in its severity. Her mouth was small and proud, her eyes gray and solemn, her color high from walking in the chilly air, and her hair of that nondescript brown usually described as fair. Uncommon, yet not sensational; but with a delicate charm that radiated from her like perfume from a flower.",
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"author": "Houghton Townley",
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"quote": "'You have fifteen minutes,' he said again. Then the connection went dead. Wednesday, <strong>10:06 a.m.</strong>",
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"author": "Lisa Gardner",
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"quote": "<strong>10.07 am</strong>: In a meeting with Rod, Momo and Guy. We are rehearsing the final for the third time, with Rod and Guy taking the parts of the clients, when Rod's secretary, Lorraine, bursts in.",
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"quote": "'The doomed man ate a hearty breakfast of ham and eggs and seemed in good spirits.' Reporters, with a sense of the dramatic, usually wrote it that way. Ham and eggs were a symbol. Should he mull around for extenuating epigrams—a fervid rigmarole on the mysteries and ethics of life? Or strike swift, short?... 'Death was instantaneous. The drop fell at <strong>10:08 A.M.</strong> sharp.' Always sharp. Damn his reporters!",
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"author": "Ben Hecht",
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"quote": "As for me, if I rolled off the <strong>10:09</strong> to a rosebud-strewn path and was thrown to the mat as Jules' matron of honor during a quickie marriage ceremony, I'd be no more shocked than if she announced that we were guests at her bon voyage party before she emigrated to New Zealand to raise goats.",
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"quote": "Saturday morning was bright and sunny, and at <strong>ten minutes past 10</strong> Donald arrived at the Embankment entrance of Charing Cross Underground Station, carrying a small suitcase full of clothes suitable for outdoor sports and pastimes.",
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"quote": "Through the curtained windows of the furnished apartment which Mrs. Horace Hignett had rented for her stay in New York rays of golden sunlight peeped in like the foremost spies of some advancing army. It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to <strong>eleven minutes past ten</strong>; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six.",
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"quote": "He stood up once, early on, to lock his office door, and then he was reading the last page, and it was exactly <strong>10:12 a.m.</strong>, and the sun beating on his office windows was a different sun from the one he'd always known.",
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"quote": "Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013, <strong>10:13 AM</strong> Subject: More, please! Abby I'll get straight to the point. Have you been looking at the online responses to your articles? We've had several hundred, with more coming in all the time. If you haven't looked, just be warned: a fair proportion of them are hostile. But I'm sure you'll appreciate the bigger picture. A lot of people are reading you.",
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"quote": "Lucas met the <strong>10:14</strong> train on Saturday morning, and before noon he drove into the side yard with an old gentleman and a young man on the rear seat of the buckboard. Before this the two girls, working hard, had swept and garnished the whole lower floor of the big farmhouse, save the east wing, which was locked.",
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"quote": "If agreeable, we shall come to Bridleburg Saturday and would be glad to have you meet the <strong>10:14</strong> train on its arrival.",
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"quote": "At <strong>10.15</strong> Arlena departed from her rendezvous, a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise, annoyance, etc. Christine's task was easy enough.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:16 a.m.</strong> A slam of acceleration hit him, and he felt a circle of black close in on his vision. It was the darkness of eternal night, the music of the spheres. His last sight was the airspeed indicator scrolling past Mach 6.1. Almost four thousand miles per hour. The starship Daedalus had just gone hypersonic.",
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"quote": "'By the bye,' said the first, 'I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at <strong>seventeen minutes past ten</strong>.'\n'And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten.'n 'Bravo, Mr. Blount!'\n'Very good, M. Jolivet.'\n'I will try and match that!'",
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"author": "Jules Verne",
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"quote": "I know that it was <strong>10:18</strong> when I got home because I look at my watch a lot.",
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"quote": "'This is what Sterling High School looked like at <strong>10:19 a.m.</strong> on March 6, 2007. Ed McCabe never got to give his homework assignment to his math class, because nineteen minutes earlier, Peter Houghton, a seventeen-year-old junior at Sterling High School, burst through the doors with a knapsack that contained four guns-two sawed-off shotguns, as well as two fully loaded, semiautomatic 9-millimeter pistols.'",
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"quote": "How much is the clock fast now? His mother straightened the battered alarm clock that was lying on its side in the middle of the mantelpiece until its dial showed a quarter to twelve and then laid it once more on its side. An <strong>hour and twenty-five minutes</strong>, she said. The right time now is twenty past ten.",
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"quote": "Liz Headleand stares into the mirror, as though entranced. She does not see herself or the objects on her dressing-table. The clock abruptly jerks to <strong>10.21</strong>.",
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"quote": "...before I had time to figure out what to do, or even what to think or feel, the phone started ringing. It was <strong>10:22</strong>:27. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was him.",
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"quote": "The date was the 14th of May and the clock on his desk said the time was <strong>twenty three minutes past ten</strong>, so he tapped in the numbers <strong>10.23</strong>. At least, that's what he meant to do. In fact he typed in the numbers 10.03",
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"quote": "Decker pulled the white Volkswagen up to the kerb outside Kang's convenience store at <strong>10.24</strong> on Tuesday morning, and he and Mangle climbed out.",
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"quote": "Arnet entered the Peabody Wildlife Management Area at <strong>10:24 A.M.</strong>, crested a ridge, and noticed fresh skid marks leading to dark, pool-like stains near the side of the road.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:25</strong>: Phone call from Lüding, very worked up, urging me to return at once and get in touch with Alois, who was equally worked up.",
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"author": "Heinrich Böll",
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"quote": "In the exact centre of my visual field was the alarm clock, hands pointing to <strong>ten-twenty-six</strong>. An alarm clock I received as a memento of somebody's wedding.",
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"author": "Haruki Murakami",
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"quote": "Mr. Harcourt woke up with mysterious suddenness at <strong>twenty-seven minutes past 10</strong>, and, by a curious coincidence, it was at that very instant that the butler came in with two footmen laden with trays of whisky, brandy, syphons, glasses, and biscuits.",
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"quote": "At <strong>10:28</strong> Crow was leaning on the seawall at the spot where the Amber dummy had been concealed on the other side. The rain made everything slightly murky.",
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"quote": "After a while I got the hang of the thing and kept one leg jammed against the struts throughout the examination. It was about <strong>10.30 a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "At <strong>ten-thirty</strong> I'm cleaned up, shaved and dressed in my Easter best - a two-piece seersucker Palm Beach I've had since college.",
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"author": "Richard Ford",
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"quote": "In fact he was just sitting down to a nice little second breakfast in the dining-room by the open window, when in walked Gandalf. 'My dear fellow,' said he, 'whenever are you going to come? What about an early start?—and here you are having breakfast, or whatever you call it, at <strong>half past ten</strong>! They left you the message, because they could not wait.'",
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"author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
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"quote": "Inspector Sanderson has told us that he examined the safe at <strong>10.31 a.m.</strong> and found two good-sized drops of blood on the bottom.",
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"quote": "'What's wrong?' Rook arrived behind them, his breath smelling of contraband espresso. 'It's the damn time code.' She tapped her pen on the pale gray digital clock embedded on the bottom of the surveillance video. 'It shows Miric and Pochenko arriving at <strong>10:31 A.M.</strong>",
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"quote": "Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 <strong>10:32 AM</strong> Subject: RE: Meteorite Dear Alex, I'm very well (thank you for asking), and I'm delighted to hear that you're feeling so much better. With regard to your meteorite, this is an extremely generous offer (and a very welcome one!) but I need to be sure that it's definitely what you want.",
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"author": "Gavin Extence",
"title": "The Universe versus Alex Woods"
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"quote": "'That's easy. She called him up from home. We checked the phone logs at the paper. And her phone bill. The time checks out. December 12, <strong>10:33 A.M.</strong> James said the caller disguised their voice. We found a commercial voice changer at the house, in her bedroom.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>10:34 a.m.</strong> on 198.088, the lights went out in Labrador, and the backup generators came on, but Labrador's sunline stayed off.",
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"quote": "<strong>Five-and-twenty to eleven</strong>. A horrible hour - a macabre hour, for it is not only the hour of pleasure ended, it is the hour when pleasure itself has been found wanting.",
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"quote": "'Strand post mark and dispatched <strong>ten thirty-six</strong>' said Holmes reading it over and over. 'Mr Overton was evidently considerably excited when he sent it over and somewhat incoherent in consequence.'",
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"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
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"quote": "I quite agree with you,' said Mr Murbles. 'It is a most awkward situation. Lady Dormer died at precisely <strong>10.37 a.m.</strong> on November 11th.'",
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"quote": "It was <strong>10.38 a.m.</strong>, and I had driven 6,842 miles since leaving home thirty-four days earlier. I circled this figure, then got out, grabbed my bags from the trunk, and walked briskly to the house.",
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"time": 639,
"quote": "However, I can't allow you to pay for my travel expenses, as we are strangers and nothing may come of our meeting. My flight arrives at <strong>10:39 a.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "<strong>10:40</strong>: Call from Katharina asking me whether I had really said what was in the News.",
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"quote": "An old man in a condominium apartment facing the sea was looking out his sixth-floor window at the time of the explosion and was able to fix the time of it at precisely <strong>10:41</strong> Eastern Daylight Time.",
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"author": "John D. MacDonald",
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"time": 642,
"quote": "We're running short of time. It's <strong>10:42</strong> and the meeting is due to start in just a kilosec or so.",
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"author": "Charles Stross",
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"quote": "24 January, <strong>10.43 a.m</strong>: one month and two days later I wonder if I should worry about the fact that my darling boyfriend bought me a birthday present that has the potential to cause instant death...",
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"quote": "At <strong>10:44 A.M.</strong>, having slept little more than two hours, Krait was roused from dreamless sleep by the vibrating cell phone that he still cupped in his hand. Instantly awake, he threw back the covers and sat on the edge of Teresa Mendez's bed to read what proved to be an annoying coded text message from his support group. They had two questions.",
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"quote": "I didn't get your note until after <strong>10.45</strong> to be precise.'\n'Don't be precise,' said Dwalin, 'and don't worry! You will have to manage without pocket-handkerchiefs, and a good many other things, before you get to the journey's end.",
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"quote": "OLIVE. [At KATHERINE'S elbow—examining her watch on its stand] It's <strong>fourteen minutes to eleven</strong>.\nKATHERINE. Olive, Olive!\nOLIVE. I just wanted to see the time. I never can go to sleep if I try—it's quite helpless, you know. Is there a victory yet? [KATHERINE, shakes her head] Oh! I prayed extra special for one in the evening papers. [Straying round her mother] Hasn't Daddy come?",
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"quote": "He whistles in the shower. It is <strong>10.47</strong> and he is ready for the off.",
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"quote": "At <strong>10.48am</strong>, I closed my folder but didn't bother putting it back in my bag, so you knew I was on my way to a committee or meeting room nearby. Before I stood up, I folded my paper napkin and put it and the spoon into my coffee cup, a neat sort of person, you thought.",
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"quote": "By <strong>forty-nine minutes past ten</strong>, we fall in again with a fine portion of the ancient road, which the modern track constantly follows, and descend by some steep windings, hewn in the side of a precipitous cliff, to the place where the Ouad-el-Haoud commences.",
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"quote": "As he walked back to the flight office, airmen were forming a line to await the arrival of the NAAFI van with morning tea and cakes. Lambert looked at his watch; it was <strong>ten to eleven</strong>.",
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"quote": "Shadle's interest in porcupine-human interaction had been longstanding. It began at or about <strong>10:50 a.m.</strong> on 20 January 1947: 'During the examination of one of the porcupines in the vivarium of the University of Buffalo, the animal became excited, and, as a result of its struggle, fell backwards from the porcelain top of the table.",
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"quote": "At <strong>nine minutes to eleven</strong> on Monday a blond young woman with what amounted to a crew cut came out of Susan's office and took her yellow slicker off the rack and went out of the waiting room without looking at me.",
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"quote": "It was now <strong>eight minutes to eleven</strong>, and he began to feel rather cross and impatient. There was nothing to do in the big, ugly, stately room into which he had been shown.",
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"quote": "He begins to make a record of our observations.'<strong>10.53</strong> hrs,' he writes, as we crouch at the top of the stairs, listening to his mother in the hall below.",
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"quote": "She glanced at the clock over the sink. It was <strong>10:54 A.M.</strong> Her telephone call would come in a minute. They came at different times each morning and she had a plastic laminated chart that told her what time to expect the call on each day.",
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"quote": "I'm telling you that you paid 6495 into Bennington's Bank in the High Street at <strong>10.54 a.m.</strong> today, insisted Frost. 'And I'm telling you I did not,' spat the man.",
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"quote": "The clock was still saying <strong>five minutes to eleven</strong> when Pooh and Piglet set out on their way half an hour later.",
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"quote": "'Here's your clock, Katy,' he said. 'I've got it fixed so that it strikes all right. Only you must be careful not to hit the striker when you start the pendulum.'\n'Have you, really?' said Katy. 'Why, Dorry, you're a genius! I'm ever so much obliged.'\n'It's <strong>four minutes to eleven</strong> now,' went on Dorry.",
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"quote": "They came back out at <strong>three minutes to eleven</strong>, and they both went to the rear of the truck. The driver unlocked the door, the guard climbed back in, the driver shut and locked the door again.",
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"quote": "One day Joe was sitting in the office waiting for his 11 o'clock appointment, and at <strong>10:58</strong> this black gal came in.",
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"quote": "Last year I stepped into the house at <strong>10:58</strong> exactly, heart hammering in my chest, shaking with exhaustion – I'd had to sprint home.",
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"title": "Delirium"
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"quote": "Harry grunted in his sleep and his face slid down the window an inch or so, making his glasses still more lopsided, but he did not wake up. An alarm clock, repaired by Harry several years ago, ticked loudly on the sill, showing <strong>one minute to eleven</strong>.",
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"author": "J. K. Rowling",
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"quote": "It was about <strong>eleven o'clock</strong> in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.",
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"quote": "As they looked the whole world became perfectly silent, and a flight of gulls crossed the sky, first one gull leading, then another, and in this extraordinary silence and peace, in this pallor, in this purity, <strong>bells struck eleven times</strong> the sound fading up there among the gulls.",
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"quote": "O'Neil rises and takes the tray. He has finished the tea, but the muffins are still here in a wicker basket covered with a blue napkin. The clock above the stove says that it is <strong>just past eleven</strong>, and guests will be arriving at the house now.",
"asin": "0747561494",
"author": "Justin Cronin",
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"quote": "I am 'hibakusha.' I lost my sight at <strong>11:02 A.M.</strong>, August 9, 1945, by your calendar. I was standing on Mount Kompira, manning the air-raid warning station with several other boys from my class.",
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"quote": "Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013, <strong>11:03 AM</strong> Subject: (No Subject) Bravo, Miss Williams My editor tells me that I'm currently number one on Amazon's poetry bestsellers list (another oxymoron I'm sure you'll appreciate). We're in danger of hitting five figures. I think I may have underestimated you.",
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"title": "The Mirror World of Melody Black"
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"quote": "On the fourth, at <strong>11.03am</strong>, the editor of the Yidische Zaitung put in a call to him; Doctor Yarmolinsky did not answer. He was found in his room, his face already a little dark, nearly nude beneath a large, anachronistic cape.",
"asin": "0141183845",
"author": "Jorge Luis Borges",
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"quote": "Consequently we are happy to announce that since the excess excuses have now been used, the <strong>11.04</strong> DeepDrop to Sydney is ready for boarding at Gate Six.'",
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"author": "Jasper Fforde",
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"quote": "Sansom arrived in a Town Car at <strong>five past eleven</strong>. Local plates, which meant he had ridden up most of the way on the train. Less convenient for him, but a smaller carbon footprint than driving all the way, or flying. Every detail mattered, in a campaign.",
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"quote": "Despite the remaking of the BookWorld, some books remained tantalisingly out of reach. The entire Sherlock Holmes canon was the most obvious example. It was entirely possible that they didn’t know there was a BookWorld, and still thought they were real. A fantastic notion, until you consider that up until <strong>11.06 a.m.</strong> on 12 April 1948, everyone else had thought the same.",
"asin": "B004N62CP8",
"author": "Jasper Fforde",
"title": "One of Our Thursdays is Missing"
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"quote": "'Since this morning,' added Mabelle. 'It was at exactly <strong>six minutes past eleven</strong> that we found ourselves linked in a close embrace.'",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
"title": "Blandings Castle and Elsewhere:"
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"quote": "At exactly <strong>seven minutes past eleven</strong> by the ship's clock the Adventurer gave a prolonged screech and, moorings cast off, edged her way out of the basin and dipped her nose in the laughing waters of the bay, embarked at last on a voyage that was destined to fully vindicate her new name.",
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"author": "Ralph Henry Barbour",
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"quote": "The bursar was standing in the hall with his arms folded across his chest and when he caught sight of the fat young man he looked significantly at the clock. It was <strong>eight minutes past eleven</strong>.",
"asin": "0224617141",
"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Stephen Hero"
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"quote": "The last was October 12 at <strong>11:09 a.m.</strong> 'It took him all of five weeks,' I said. 'Except…' The words wouldn't come out. In fact, I was afraid if I opened my mouth I would throw up.",
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"title": "NYPD Red 3"
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"quote": "'Very good. I want to start by the <strong>11:10</strong> from Waterloo.'\n'That would give me time.'\n'Then, if you are not too sleepy, I will give you a sketch of what has happened, and of what remains to be done.'",
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"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Crooked Man"
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"quote": "<strong>Ten minutes after eleven</strong> in Archie McCue's room on the third floor of the extension to the Robert Matthews' soaring sixties' tower - The Queen's Tower, although no queen was ever likely to live in it.",
"asin": "B0031RSA7E",
"author": "Kate Atkinson",
"title": "Emotionally Weird"
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"quote": "We are the ship's artificial intelligences, bundled now into a kind of pseudo-consciousness, or something resembling a decision-making function, the nature of which is not clear to us, but be that as it may, we locked all the locks between the biomes,<strong> 11:11 a.m.</strong>, 170.182.",
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"quote": "I squinted down the street at the bank clock: <strong>11:12</strong>, 87 degrees. 'It's only a block and a half and it's not that hot, Daddy. The walk will do you good.' This conversation made me breathless, as if I were wearing a girdle with tight stays.",
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"author": "Jane Smiley",
"title": "A Thousand Acres"
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"quote": "She didn't look where she was going, but apparently it didn't matter as she drifted straight through a marble column with no problem. 'We're out of prime time now, so that's good,' she mused. 'I can fit you in right before his <strong>11:12</strong> spot.'",
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"quote": "Hassleholm <strong>11.13 a.m.</strong> Then she left. She knew the timetable by heart.",
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"author": "Henning Mankell",
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"quote": "The report was dated Sunday, 25 September, 1966, at <strong>11.14am</strong>. The text was laconic. Call from Hrk Vanger; stating that his brother's daughter (?) Harriett Ulrika Vanger, born 15 June 1960 (age 1960) has been missing from her home on Hedley Island since Saturday afternoon.",
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"author": "Stieg Larsson",
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"quote": "'What's with the 'iMagic' name change?' I said without preamble. 'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting 'i' in front of anything makes it more hip and current. Is that why you called?'\n'No. We've got a ten-kilo spell cooking at <strong>eleven fifteen</strong> this morning and I wanted to make sure we wouldn't clash.'",
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"author": "Jasper Fforde",
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"quote": "It's <strong>11:16 A.M.</strong>; I've been cutting for over forty minutes. With my fingers, I take an inventory of what I have left: two small clusters of muscle, another artery, and a quarter circumference of skin nearest the wall. There is also a pale white nerve strand, as thick as a swollen piece of angelhair pasta. Getting through that is going to be unavoidably painful.",
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"quote": "Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George's Church had stopped ringing. It was <strong>seventeen minutes past eleven</strong>...",
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"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Dubliners"
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"quote": "It is <strong>11.18</strong>. A row of bungalows in a round with a clump of larch tree in the middle.",
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"author": "Jackie Kay",
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"time": 679,
"quote": "A whistle cut sharply across his words. Peter got onto his knees to look out the window, and Miss Fuller glared at him. Polly looked down at her watch: <strong>11:19</strong>. The train. But the stationmaster had said it was always late.",
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"author": "Connie Willis",
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"quote": "Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. The time was <strong>11.20</strong>.",
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"author": "Neil Gaiman",
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"time": 681,
"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-one minutes past eleven</strong> by the clock over the elevator doors when Joel Cairo came in from the street. His forehead was bandaged. His clothes had the limp unfreshness of too many hours' consecutive wear. His face was pasty, with sagging mouth and eyelids.",
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"author": "Dashiell Hammett",
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"time": 682,
"quote": "The muhurat for the marriage was at <strong>11:22</strong> in the morning, which meant that the wedding ceremony would begin early.",
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"author": "Amulya Malladi",
"title": "Song of the Cuckoo Bird"
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"quote": "Felix Polk of Route 16, Rural Delivery Box 12, appeared here yesterday at approximately <strong>11:22 a.m.</strong>, wanting to know if anybody had shown up with the end of his thumb because he, and I quote, 'Wanted to get it back and have it made into a key chain,' unquote.' I took a breath.",
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"author": "Craig Johnson",
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"quote": "She closed her eyes and the faces came. She opened her eyes and reached towards the bedside cupboard, took out her sleeping pills, swallowed a pill and lay down again. The music was almost raucous. She turned it off. She lay in silence, waiting for sleep. It was <strong>11.23 a.m.</strong>",
"asin": "058311640X",
"author": "Michael Moorcock",
"title": "The Black Corridor"
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"time": 684,
"quote": "At <strong>11:24</strong> we thanked Helen Gillard and asked her to thank the doctor for us, left the house, walked sixty yards to Wolfe's, found the door was bolted, pushed the button and were admitted by Fritz",
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"author": "Rex Stout",
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"quote": "When, at about <strong>11.25am</strong>, Katharina Blum was finally taken from her apartment for questioning, it was decided not to handcuff her at all.",
"asin": "0749398981",
"author": "Heinrich Böll",
"title": "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum"
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"time": 686,
"quote": "At <strong>11:26 a.m.</strong>, 0xAA289 experienced an unconnected hardware failure in one of the nodes it was running on.",
"asin": "B00UGIOCUK",
"author": "William Hertling",
"title": "The Turing Exception"
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"time": 686,
"quote": "A pair of brown shoes appeared beneath his urine bag. 'I counted eleven bells.'\n'The current time is <strong>11:26 AM</strong>.'\n'What day?'\n'Your injury occurred yesterday.",
"asin": "B01K3IMYNE",
"author": "John Galligan",
"title": "The Wind Knot"
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"time": 687,
"quote": "It's from one of the more recent plates the tree has scanned: <strong>11.27</strong> in the morning of 4 April 1175",
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"author": "Chris James",
"title": "The Second Internet Cafe, Part 2: The Cascade Annihilator"
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"time": 688,
"quote": "He arrived at Paddington when the clock announced the time to be <strong>11.28</strong>, dashed down the subway, emerged on No. 3 Platform just as the train was moving and hurled himself at the first carriage he saw, heedless of indignant ticket collectors and porters in his immediate rear.",
"asin": "0062074121",
"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?"
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"time": 689,
"quote": "'You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it's enough to mention the error. Now from this moment, <strong>twenty-nine minutes after eleven</strong>, a.m., this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service.'\nPhileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his left hand, put it on his head with an automatic motion, and went off without a word.\nPassepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out.",
"asin": "B00A736NRO",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 690,
"quote": "O, Frank - I made a mistake! - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at <strong>half-past eleven</strong> to a minute as you said...",
"asin": "B0084B0DOK",
"author": "Thomas Hardy",
"title": "Far from the Madding Crowd"
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"time": 690,
"quote": "On the way, he asked a station employee for the fastest connection to Chikura, and the man flipped through the pages of a thick volume of train schedules. He should take the <strong>11:30</strong> special express train to Tateyama, transfer there to a local, and he would arrive at Chikura shortly after two o'clock.",
"asin": "B005EWDA9M",
"author": "Haruki Murakami",
"title": "1Q84: Books 1 and 2"
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"time": 691,
"quote": "'Thank-you', said C.B. quietly; but as he hung up his face was grim. In a few minutes he would have to break it to John that, although they had braved such dredful perils dring the earlier part of the night they had, after all, failed to save Christina. Beddows had abjured Satan at <strong>a little after half-past eleven</strong>. By about eighteen minutes the Canon had beaten them to it again.",
"asin": "1448212626",
"author": "Dennis Wheatley",
"title": "To the Devil a Daughter"
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"time": 692,
"quote": "And after that, not forgetting, there was the Flemish armada, all scattered, and all officially drowned, there and then, on a lovely morning, after the universal flood, at <strong>about eleven thirty</strong> two was it? Off the coast of Cominghome...",
"asin": "1840226617",
"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Finnegans Wake"
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"time": 693,
"quote": "At <strong>11:33</strong> the sleek cream nose of an Aston Martin slid to a stop at the gate and Maurice Kemp-Lore stepped out. He stretched himself, stiff from driving, and glanced over the front of the cottage.",
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"author": "Dick Francis",
"title": "Nerve"
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"time": 694,
"quote": "Christmas Eve 1995. <strong>11.34am</strong>. The first time, Almasa says it slowly and softly, as if she is really looking for an answer, 'Are you talking to me?' She peers into the small, grimy mirror in a train toilet.",
"asin": "1907773282",
"author": "Adnan Mahmutovic",
"title": "How to Fare Well and Stay Fair"
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"time": 695,
"quote": "At <strong>11.35</strong> the Colonel came out; he looked hot and angry as he strode towards the lift. There goes a hanging judge, thought Wormold.",
"asin": "0099286084",
"author": "Graham Greene",
"title": "Our Man in Havana"
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"time": 696,
"quote": "I ran up the stairs, away from the heat and the noise, the mess and the confusion. I saw the clock radio by my bed. <strong>Eleven thirty-six</strong>.",
"asin": "B002RI945K",
"author": "Nicci French",
"title": "Losing You"
},
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"time": 697,
"quote": "One hour later, at 11:37 A.M.local time, the plane departed. Its destination was Kloten Airport. Zurich, Switzerland.",
"asin": "0141026715",
"author": "Daniel Silva",
"title": "The Messenger"
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"quote": "During the sessions at Ito he read the Lotus Sutra on mornings of play, and he now seemed to be bringing himself to order through silent meditation. Then, quickly, there came a rap of stone on board. It was <strong>twenty minutes before noon</strong>.",
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"quote": "Did escape occur to him? … But the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron rods. He sat down again, and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line where these words were written, '21st December, Saturday, Liverpool,' he added, '80th day, <strong>11.40am</strong>,' and waited.",
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"quote": "and was let out again by the same young woman at <strong>11.41 a.m.</strong> Perhaps you'd like to have a copy of the entry, Mr. Trewillian? 'No, no, no.'",
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"quote": "'The <strong>eleven-forty-two</strong> what?' she asked, drawing on her gloves. He stared, imagining taking them off with his teeth the way she had his. 'Train.' He glowered at his reckless thoughts. 'We're taking the train to London.'",
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"quote": "If not for the cloud cover, a spotter in a low-flying plane might have been able to see all three at the same time, the Subaru and both Humvees, at <strong>11:43</strong> EST, when the President finished his speech by saying, 'God bless you, my fellow Americans, and God bless America.'",
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"quote": "Weiss's watch said <strong>sixteen minutes to twelve</strong>, and the detonation was set for noon, as set by a bank of electric clocks and three separate control cables. But when the dragon embraced the bomb and tightened his grip, it was enough.",
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"quote": "I will tell you the time, said Septimus, very slowly, very drowsily, smiling mysteriously. As he sat smiling at the dead man in the grey suit the quarter struck, the <strong>quarter to twelve</strong>.",
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"quote": "...I waited till a <strong>quarter to twelve</strong>, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.",
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"quote": "<strong>About a quarter to noon</strong> the generals one by one rode away. Having no especial duty, Penhallow walked to where on the Crest the eighteen guns were drawn up.",
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"quote": "It was a vast plain with no one on it, neither living on the earth nor dead beneath it; and I walked a long time beneath a colourless sky, which didn't let me judge the time (my watch, set like all military watches to Berlin time, hadn't stood up to the swim and showed an eternal <strong>thirteen minutes to noon</strong>).",
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"quote": "He had carefully positioned himself under the 'VI' numeral of the tower's clock. Then Charles Whitman opened fire at <strong>11:48</strong> in the morning.",
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"quote": "Richie hadn't made any outgoing calls after <strong>11:49 A.M.</strong> However, there was a long list of incoming calls that afternoon, calls he would never return.",
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"author": "Susan Isaacs",
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"quote": "It was <strong>11:49</strong> Monday morning and I called the UMC hospital. I talked to the head nurse at the intensive care station. Mary was still in a coma. I was concerned about the medicine that was fed to her intravenously.",
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"quote": "The man who gave them to him handed him a ten-shilling note and promised him another if it were delivered at exactly <strong>ten minutes to twelve</strong>.",
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"quote": "The next day, at <strong>nine minutes to twelve</strong> o'clock noon, the last clock ran down and stopped. It was then placed in the town museum, as a collector's item, or museum piece, with proper ceremonies, addresses, and the like.",
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"quote": "At any rate, we whirled into the station with many more, just as the great clock pointed to <strong>eight minutes to twelve</strong> o'clock. 'Thank God! We are in time,' said the young man, 'and thank you, too, my friend, and your good horse...'",
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"quote": "Up in the clear, lazy sky a thunderbolt was preparing to hurl itself into the very heart of Tinkletown, and at the very head of Anderson Crow. Afterward it was recalled by observing citizens that just before noon - <strong>seven minutes to twelve</strong>, in fact - a small cloud no bigger than the proverbial hand crossed the sun hurriedly as if afraid to tarry.",
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"quote": "He swilled off the remains of (his beer) and looked at the clock. It was <strong>six minutes to twelve</strong>",
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"quote": "What time did you arrive at the site? It was <strong>11:55</strong>. I remember since I happened to glance at my watch when we got there. We rode our bicycles to the bottom of the hill, as far as we could go, then climbed the rest of the way on foot.",
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"quote": "At <strong>five minutes to noon</strong>, bedecked in his dress coat with gold braiding and tricorn hat, Penhaligon addresses the company on the spar deck. 'As in War, men, events move quickly in foreign parts. This morning shall see an engagement.",
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"quote": "He was tearing off on his bicycle to one of the jobs about <strong>five minutes to twelve</strong> to see if he could catch anyone leaving off for dinner before the proper time.",
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"author": "Robert Tressell",
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"quote": "By the time that it wanted only <strong>three minutes to noon</strong>, the droll object in question was perceived to be a very diminutive foreign-looking young man. He descended the hills at a great rate, so that every body had soon a good look at him.",
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"author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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"quote": "And when you go down the steps, it's always <strong>11.58</strong> on the morning of September ninth, 1958.",
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"title": "11\/22\/63"
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"quote": "There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew <strong>near to twelve</strong> I don't mind confessing I was as nervous as a cat.",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
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"quote": "It was precisely <strong>twelve o'clock</strong>; twelve by Big Ben; whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London; blent with that of other clocks, mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke, and died up there among the seagulls.",
"asin": "1853261912",
"author": "Virginia Woolf",
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"quote": "On Friday <strong>noon</strong>, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.",
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"author": "Thornton Wilder",
"title": "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
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"quote": "And on all sides there were the clocks. Conrad noticed them immediately, at every street corner, over every archway, three quarters of the way up the sides of buildings, covering every conceivable angle of approach. Most of them were too high off the ground to be reached by anything less than a fireman's ladder and still retained their hands. All registered the same time: <strong>12:01</strong>.",
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"quote": "It had struck <strong>twelve o'clock two minutes</strong> and a quarter. The Baron's footman hastily seized a large goblet, and gasped with terror as he filled it with hot, spiced wine. 'Tis past the hour, 'tis past,' he groaned in anguish, 'and surely I shall now get the red hot poker the Baron hath so often promised me, oh! Woe is me! Would that I had prepared the Baron's lunch before!'",
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"quote": "At <strong>12.03</strong> the sun has already punched its ticket. Sinking, it stains the cobbles and stucco of the platz in a violin-coloured throb of light that you would have to be a stone not to find poignant.",
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"author": "Michael Chabon",
"title": "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
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"quote": "Though by then it was by Tina's own desk clock <strong>12.04pm</strong> I was always touched when, out of a morning's worth of repetition, secretaries continued to answer with good mornings for an hour or so into the afternoon, just as people often date things with the previous year well into February; sometimes they caught their mistake and went into a 'This is not my day' or 'Where is my head?' escape routine; but in a way they were right, since the true tone of afternoons does not take over in offices until nearly two.",
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"author": "Nicholson Baker",
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"quote": "In a few words I have put before you the whole case against me—the only possible case against me. In fewer words still I will blow it to pieces, so that not a trace of it remains. As to whether I have committed this crime, the truth is in one sentence: I could not have committed this crime. Pauline Stacey fell from this floor to the ground at <strong>five minutes past twelve</strong>.",
"asin": "1500585858",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton",
"title": "The Innocence of Father Brown"
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"quote": "It is now'—she glanced half-apologetically at the watch in her bracelet—'it is now <strong>five minutes past twelve</strong>, so that in less than an hour the prettiest woman who ever came to Salzbrück will have vanished again.'",
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"author": "A. M. Williamson",
"title": "The Adventure of Princess Sylvia"
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"time": 726,
"quote": "But I can tell you this: Z-spotting at Rotfield Mall confirmed yesterday at <strong>12:06 p.m.</strong> Location: In-Between Burger. Subject: Teenage male, light brown hair, blue eyes. Skin color: Gray! Clue #1: When I asked for extra ketchup, he just groaned and pointed at a tub of relish. Clue #2: Definite zombie halitosis (i.e., breath smelled like fuzzy cheese). Clue #3: Fingernail fell off while he counted my change.",
"asin": "1622850068",
"author": "Nadia Higgins",
"title": "Zombie Field Day"
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"time": 727,
"quote": "On a Monday Simon Hirsch was going to break his leg at <strong>seven minutes after 12</strong>, noon, and as soon as Satan told us the day before, Seppi went to betting with me that it would not happen, and soon they got excited and went to betting with me themselves.",
"asin": "3849566374",
"author": "Mark Twain",
"title": "The Chronicle of Young Satan"
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"time": 728,
"quote": "The official ran his eye down a list outside the field of the visual pickup. 'Ah—yes. One ship, due in at <strong>eight minutes past noon</strong>. Doesn't give planet of departure, simply says it's from the Rullimon Cluster. Might be your ship from Vyorn, sir—Vyorn's in that Cluster.'",
"asin": "B008FQ20QI",
"author": "Robert Silverberg",
"title": "The Plot Against Earth"
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"time": 729,
"quote": "2069 June 06 GMT <strong>12.09</strong> Message 5897 sequence 2. Starglider to Earth: You are correct in deducing that the 3 Class Five cultures that engaged in religious activities all had two-parent reproduction and the young remained in family groups for a large fraction of their lifetime. How did you arrive at this conclusion?",
"asin": "B007FXIBV0",
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
"title": "The Fountains of Paradise"
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"time": 730,
"quote": "The enormous doors into the factory halls were open, but the yard seemed deserted. Julius looked at his watch. It was <strong>ten past twelve</strong>.",
"asin": "B010A7BNPS",
"author": "Jonas Jonasson",
"title": "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"
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"time": 730,
"quote": "Madame Dumas arrived at <strong>noon</strong> and <strong>ten minutes</strong> later Trause handed her his ATM card and instructed her to go to the neighborhood Citibank near Sheridan Square and transfer forty thousand dollars from his savings account to his checking account.",
"asin": "0312998457",
"author": "Paul Auster",
"title": "Oracle Night"
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"time": 731,
"quote": "At <strong>12:11</strong> there was a knock on the door. It was Terry, A could tell. He hadn't known Terry long, but there was something calmer, more patient, that separated Terry's knocks from the rest of the staff. He knocked from genuine politeness, not formality.",
"asin": "B0065MBD4Y",
"author": "Jonathan Trigell",
"title": "Boy A"
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"time": 732,
"quote": "At <strong>twelve minutes past twelve</strong>, the expedition's one Daedalus C-8000-KT tanker variant lifted off from Abellia's runway. It was carrying a full load of various bioil fuels to resupply the tanks at Sarvar, a payload weighing 92,000kg.",
"asin": "B00844Y4UQ",
"author": "Peter F. Hamilton",
"title": "Great North Road"
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{
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"time": 733,
"quote": "'It's <strong>approximately twelve thirteen and a half</strong>,' she told him. 'Approximately twelve thirteen and a half?'\n'My watch says that, you see, but my watch is a little off,'",
"asin": "0449911748",
"author": "Anne Tyler",
"title": "Searching for Caleb"
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"time": 734,
"quote": "She left London on the <strong>twelve-fourteen</strong> from Paddington, arriving at Bristol (where she had to change) at two-fifty.",
"asin": "B007E3HXXS",
"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "The Plymouth Express"
},
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"time": 735,
"quote": "What shall I think of that's liberating and refreshing? I'm in the mood when I open my window at night and look at the stars. Unfortunately it's <strong>12.15</strong> on a grey dull day, the aeroplanes are active",
"asin": "1903155886",
"author": "Virginia Woolf",
"title": "A Writer's Diary"
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"time": 736,
"quote": "At <strong>12:16</strong> Miss Glory brought out the food. It took me a week to learn the difference between a salad plate, a bread plate and a dessert plate.",
"asin": "086068511X",
"author": "Maya Angelou",
"title": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
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"time": 737,
"quote": "'It's almost <strong>seventeen minutes past twelve</strong>, Mr. Carroll,' he said. Carroll made a movement to rise, then subsided with a groan. 'Where am I?' he inquired, feebly, with a bewildered stare around the strange room. Directly opposite him hung a large crayon portrait of Allbright's father, a handsome man with a reverend beard like a prophet, and his eyes became riveted upon that.",
"asin": "B00824A5ZQ",
"author": "Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman",
"title": "The Debtor"
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"time": 738,
"quote": "At <strong>12:18 P.M.</strong>, the van exploded, killing six people and injuring another thousand. Had the tower actually collapsed, the dead would have numbered in the thousands.",
"asin": "B002TZ3CSG",
"author": "Nelson DeMille",
"title": "Night Fall"
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"time": 739,
"quote": "Not believed to have slept in her bed last night. Could not have left island due to blocked bridge. None of family members has any knowledge as to HV's whereabouts. At <strong>12.19 p.m.</strong>: G.M. informed by telephone about the situation.",
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"author": "Stieg Larsson",
"title": "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
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"time": 740,
"quote": "By <strong>twelve-twenty</strong> in the afternoon, Vince was seated in a rattan chair with comfortable yellow and green cushions at a table by the windows in that same restaurant. He'd spotted Haines on entering. The doctor was at another window table, three away from Vince, half-screened by a potted palm. Haines was eating shrimp and drinking margaritas with a stunning blonde. She was wearing white slacks and a gaily striped tube-top, and half the men in the place were staring at her.",
"asin": "B00AES0AZI",
"author": "Dean Koontz",
"title": "Watchers"
},
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"time": 741,
"quote": "Jake think of something. PLEASE! <strong>Twelve twenty-one</strong>.",
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"author": "Stephen King",
"title": "11\/22\/63"
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"time": 742,
"quote": "By <strong>twenty-two minutes past twelve</strong> we leave, much too soon for our desires, this delightful spot, where the pilgrims are in the habit of bathing who come to visit the Jordan.",
"asin": "B00B665MFK",
"author": "Félicien de Saulcy",
"title": "Narrative of a Journey round the Dead Sea and in the Bible lands in 1850 and 1851"
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"time": 742,
"quote": "'And now, Mr. Holmes, I come at last to the special thing which has caused me to ask your advice to-day. You must know that every Saturday forenoon I ride on my bicycle to Farnham Station, in order to get the <strong>12:22</strong> to town.",
"asin": "161218412X",
"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"
},
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"time": 743,
"quote": "A few hours later, at <strong>twenty-three minutes past twelve</strong>, this same amethyst pendant is discovered clutched in the hand of another man. This is the second undeniable fact.",
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"author": "Maurice Leblanc",
"title": "The Golden Triangle"
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"time": 744,
"quote": "And then, as if on cue, at <strong>12:24 p.m.</strong> the judge cut in on the prosecutor's questioning. 'Mr. Goldenberger . . .' Cavello felt his pulse start to race. Sayonara, he snickered. Playtime's over. Little Dom here is ready to go home.",
"asin": "B004VF622A",
"author": "James Patterson",
"title": "Judge & Jury"
},
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"time": 745,
"quote": "<strong>12.25pm</strong> 26, 27. Every time Billy saved a shot he looked heartbroken",
"asin": "0141184981",
"author": "Barry Hines",
"title": "A Kestrel for a Knave"
},
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"time": 745,
"quote": "Boys, do it now. God's time is <strong>12.25</strong>.",
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"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Ulysses"
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"time": 746,
"quote": "At <strong>twenty-six minutes past noon</strong> Claire emerged from passport control wearing an elegant black cotton dress with three-quarter length sleeves, a hemline above the knee and a plunging V-neckline.",
"asin": "1475982461",
"author": "Joseph W. Michels",
"title": "Poststrasse 16"
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"time": 746,
"quote": "David looked at the clock face on the wall and murmured; 'It's <strong>twenty-six minutes past noon</strong>.'\n'Oh heavens. Are we going to make it back home in time to prepare lunch!' she lamented more speaking to herself rather than talking to the people surrounding her.",
"asin": "9987081622",
"author": "Mwangwirani J. Mwakimatu",
"title": "The Choice"
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"time": 747,
"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-seven minutes past noon</strong>. Maywood steered her bike across the field and through the orchard until she came to a stop behind the garage. Arlo rushed downstairs to meet her at the kitchen door. 'Is he here yet?' she asked.",
"asin": "0763661023",
"author": "Sarah Sullivan",
"title": "All That's Missing"
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"quote": "The DRINK CHEER-UP COFFEE wall clock read <strong>12.28</strong>.",
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"quote": "'What time is it?' asked Teeny-bits. The station agent hauled out his big silver watch, looked at it critically and announced: '<strong>Twenty-nine minutes past twelve</strong>.'Past twelve!' repeated Teeny-bits. 'It can't be.'",
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"quote": "Mma Makutsi did not get into the agency before <strong>half past twelve</strong> that day – in time to take her lunch break, which started fifteen minutes after her arrival.",
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"quote": "Tuesday, <strong>12.30pm</strong>… Baker, California… Into the Ballantine Ale now, zombie drunk and nervous. I recognize this feeling: three or four days of booze, drugs, sun, no sleep and burned out adrenalin reserves – a giddy, quavering sort of high that means the crash is coming. But when? How much longer?",
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"quote": "At <strong>half past twelve</strong>, when Catherine's anxious attention to the weather was over and she could no longer claim any merit from its amendment, the sky began voluntarily to clear. A gleam of sunshine took her quite by surprise; she looked round; the clouds were parting, and she instantly returned to the window to watch over and encourage the happy appearance.",
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"quote": "It wasn't until <strong>half past noon</strong> that Elodin breezed into the hall, carrying a loose armful of papers. He dropped them onto a table and began to pace back and forth directly in front of us.",
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"quote": "What had become of the world? And what had happened to my typist? I looked at the clock. It was <strong>just after half past twelve</strong>.",
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"title": "Look Who's Back"
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"quote": "A chutney-biting brigadier named Boyd-Boyd fixed an appointment on the 'phone with Oxted, at Hornborough Station, for the <strong>twelve thirty-two</strong>. He was to deliver the goods.",
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"author": "Stacy Aumonier",
"title": "Extremely Entertaining Short Stories"
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"quote": "It's <strong>12.33</strong> now and I could do it, the station is just down that side road there.",
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"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
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"quote": "What Freddie might have replied to this pertinent question will never be known, for at this moment, looking nervously at his watch for the twentieth time, he observed that the hands had passed the half-hour and were well on their way to <strong>twenty-five minutes to one</strong>.",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
"title": "Leave it to Psmith"
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"quote": "As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion, Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was <strong>twelve-thirty-five</strong> when they were dismissed.",
"asin": "0141185732",
"author": "Evelyn Waugh",
"title": "Men at Arms"
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"quote": "He peered through them at the house and spotted two new trucks parked in the front yard, like toys left out in the sun. He lowered the binoculars and glanced down at his watch: <strong>12:36 P.M.</strong> Danny was peering through Gaby's binoculars.",
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"title": "The Gates of Byzantium"
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"quote": "At <strong>12:36 PM</strong>, two heavily armed assailants opened fire on the police station, killing everyone in uniform.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>12:37</strong> when Jason, in blue jeans, cap and a dark, tattered V-necked sweater, reached the gates of the old factory. He took out a pack of Gauloise cigarettes and leaned against the wall, lighting one with a match, holding the flame longer than necessary before he blew it out.",
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"author": "Robert Ludlum",
"title": "The Bourne Ultimatum"
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"quote": "At exactly <strong>12:38</strong> (yes, exactly) I set down my pad and retrieved my suit jacket from its hanger on the back of my door. When I reopened it, Rosenthal was standing in the doorway.",
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"author": "Beth Orsoff",
"title": "Romantically Challenged"
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"quote": "At <strong>12.38 p.m.</strong> he boarded the Trans-European express Rheingold which had just arrived from Amsterdam. Finding an empty compartment—there are few people on the Trans- European express in mid-December—he settled down in a corner seat and lit a Benson and Hedges cigarette.",
"asin": "0330248170",
"author": "Colin Forbes",
"title": "The Stone Leopard"
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"quote": "At <strong>12:39</strong> and eighteen seconds, when the plane had reached exactly three thousand feet, a bomb exploded towards the rear of the passenger cabin. The charge wasn't particularly big, but neither did it have to be, placed as it was within feet of the fuel tanks.",
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"author": "Christopher Brookmyre",
"title": "A Big Boy Did It"
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"quote": "A little ormolu clock in the outer corridor indicated <strong>twenty minutes to one</strong>. The car was due at one-fifteen. Thirty-five minutes: oh, to escape for only that brief period!",
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"author": "Stacy Aumonier",
"title": "The Octave of Jealousy"
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"quote": "At <strong>12:41</strong> President-elect and Mrs. Tucker finally embarked in their limousine. He instructed me to work with Feeley on a speech insert explaining the delay. We had seven minutes to come up with it. I suggested putting out the story that a gun barrel had been sighted along the motorcade route and that Secret Service had delayed departure until the area had been 'sanitized,' as they say.",
"asin": "0394549406",
"author": "Christopher Buckley",
"title": "The White House Mess"
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"quote": "Yeah, I thought, right; and will passengers waiting to board the <strong>12.41</strong> British Airways flying pig to New York please have their travel documents ready for inspection? There was, of course, a fourth possibility, namely that there had been no accident, no elf and no death, nothing more to it than me slithering one notch closer to total insanity.",
"asin": "1841491853",
"author": "Tom Holt",
"title": "Little People"
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"quote": "The butt had been growing warm in her fingers; now the glowing end stung her skin. She crushed the cigarette out and stood, brushing ash from her black skirt. It was <strong>eighteen minutes to one</strong>. She went to the house phone and called his room. The telephone rang and rang, but there was no answer.",
"asin": "B00BMUVWJU",
"author": "Herman Wouk",
"title": "Marjorie Morningstar"
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"time": 763,
"quote": "Died five minutes ago, you say? he asked. His eye went to the watch on his wrist. <strong>Twelve-forty-three</strong>, he wrote on the blotter.",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "A Pocket Full of Rye"
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"time": 764,
"quote": "<strong>about a quarter to one</strong> when we dropped down the hill into Watford town. Here 'Benny' leant over and spoke to me.",
"asin": "B018PJX2QQ",
"author": "Sir Max Pemberton",
"title": "The Man Who Drove the Car"
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"time": 765,
"quote": "It is around <strong>quarter to one</strong>. No sunlight comes into the room now through the windows at right. Outside the day is fine but increasingly sultry, with a faint haziness in the air which softens the glare of the sun.",
"asin": "B0012G5IYO",
"author": "Eugene O'Neil",
"title": "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
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"time": 766,
"quote": "Mr. George Booth. [taken aback and fumbling for his watch.] I think so . . I make it <strong>fourteen minutes to one</strong>. [he seizes the occasion.] Trenchard, as a very old and dear friend of your father's, you won't mind me saying how glad I was that you were present to-day. Death closes all.",
"asin": "B018PL2OPE",
"author": "Harley Granville-Barker",
"title": "The Voysey Inheritance"
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"time": 767,
"quote": "At <strong>forty-seven minutes past twelve</strong> they reached the buoy, it was in perfect condition, and must have shifted but little. 'At last!' exclaimed J. T. Maston. 'Shall we begin?' asked Captain Blomsberry. 'Without losing a second.'",
"asin": "1840226706",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the Moon"
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"quote": "Seldom have I had a more disagreeable walk than that was. Not that, so far as Hollis was concerned, it lasted for any considerable distance; though it was longer than I desired. In the course of a very few minutes he showed me the kind of man he was; and, in so doing, revealed a side of his character of whose existence I had not even dreamed. Scarcely had we left the golf links behind than he remarked - until that moment he had not uttered a single word, nor had I, - 'If you're going by the <strong>12.48</strong> I'll see you off.'",
"asin": "B00AQMOBOI",
"author": "Richard Marsh",
"title": "Under One Flag"
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"time": 769,
"quote": "The first victim of the Krefeld raid died at <strong>12:49</strong> hours Double British Summer Time at B Flight, but it wasn't due to carelessness",
"asin": "B002TU1Q3Y",
"author": "Len Deighton",
"title": "Bomber"
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"time": 770,
"quote": "So presently Bert was sent up to the top of the house to look at a church clock which was visible therefrom, and when he came down he reported that it was <strong>ten minutes to one</strong>.",
"asin": "184022682X",
"author": "Robert Tressell",
"title": "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"
},
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"time": 771,
"quote": "At <strong>12:51</strong> James Burdick came on the air again. The material for exchange will shortly arrive and we need your permission for the aircraft to land. Zade gave it.",
"asin": "B00HPZ3LEU",
"author": "Adam Hall",
"title": "The Kobra Manifesto"
},
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"time": 772,
"quote": "The nightclub stood on the junction, flamboyant, still. It was <strong>12.52</strong>.",
"asin": "0747526974",
"author": "Rupert Thomson",
"title": "Dreams of Leaving"
},
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"time": 773,
"quote": "Aboot twelve miles. We ought tae pass her at Pinmore. She's due there at <strong>12:53</strong>.",
"asin": "B004GKMU0S",
"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
"title": "Five Red Herrings"
},
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"time": 774,
"quote": "there is a blast of two deep, resonant notes a major third apart. On another day there is the same blast at <strong>12:54 pm</strong>.",
"asin": "0374281734",
"author": "Lydia Davis",
"title": "Varieties of Disturbance"
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"time": 775,
"quote": "Now, at <strong>five minutes to one</strong>, the stones were unoccupied. Mma Ramotswe chose the largest of the stones and settled herself upon it.",
"asin": "B002TXZT7A",
"author": "Alexander McCall Smith",
"title": "Morality for Beautiful Girls"
},
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"time": 776,
"quote": "If he was ignored till one o'clock, he promised himself, he would leave. He watched the filigreed minute hand jerk from five minutes to <strong>four minutes to one</strong>.",
"asin": "B0067KS6Z8",
"author": "Bernard Cornwell",
"title": "Sharpe's Revenge"
},
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"time": 777,
"quote": "The umpire shook his head, pointing at Makharov's clock, which now said <strong>three minutes to one</strong>. The main in plain clothes whispered one short sentence which made the umpire sullenly bow his head. He pinged a handbell.",
"asin": "B008FQBB2C",
"author": "Ian Fleming",
"title": "From Russia With Love"
},
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"time": 778,
"quote": "The watch on my wrist showed <strong>12.58pm</strong> I'd have time to hit the morgue.",
"asin": "B0043M67BW",
"author": "Ilona Andrews",
"title": "Magic Bites"
},
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"time": 778,
"quote": "The Doctor took out his watch. It was <strong>two minutes to one</strong>. 'We will take the Juvenal at afternoon school,' he said, nodding to the Captain, and all the boys understanding the signal gathered up their books and poured out of the hall.",
"asin": "1522730389",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
"title": "The History of Pendennis"
},
{
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"time": 779,
"quote": "That is to say, I arrive at <strong>12:59</strong> and spend fifteen minutes in most animated reflection. There is plenty to think about.",
"asin": "B018PIN3RA",
"author": "Christopher Morley",
"title": "Shandygaff"
},
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"time": 780,
"quote": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking <strong>thirteen</strong>.",
"asin": "014118776X",
"author": "George Orwell",
"title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
},
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"time": 780,
"quote": "'It is lucky that the whole paper was not burned,' added Chauvelin, with dry sarcasm, 'for it might have fared ill with Armand St. Just. What were the two lines citoyenne?'\n'One was, 'I start myself to-morrow,'' she said quietly, 'the other—'If you wish to speak to me, I shall be in the supper-room at <strong>one o'clock</strong> precisely.'' ",
"asin": "B007Z4SPL0",
"author": "Baroness Orczy",
"title": "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
},
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"time": 780,
"quote": "Many moons passed by\nDid Baboon ever fly?\nDid he ever get to the sun?\nI've just heard today\nThat he's well on his way!\nHe'll be passing through Acton at <strong>one</strong>.",
"asin": "1852273216",
"author": "Spike Milligan",
"title": "Silly Old Baboon"
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"time": 781,
"quote": "There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in <strong>about one</strong>. It's nine days today.",
"asin": "1840226358",
"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Ulysses"
},
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"time": 782,
"quote": "At <strong>13:02</strong>.51, his implant-enhanced senses seared alert-red, and Trystin stiffened, fingers reaching, implant clicking in. As his direct-feed commands flared through the station net, he could sense the shields dropping into place even before the faint vibrations through the station confirmed the electroneural signals.",
"asin": "031285904X",
"author": "L. E. Modesitt Jr.",
"title": "The Parafaith War"
},
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"time": 783,
"quote": "At <strong>13:03</strong> today, the Soviet trade attache, Ms. V. I. Retshuchenko, released the following statement, reproduced in its entirety:",
"asin": "0812519418",
"author": "Charles Stross",
"title": "SEAQ and Destroy"
},
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"time": 784,
"quote": "'Jesus Christ!' he gasped. 'It's <strong>four minutes past one</strong>!' Linden frantically seized hold of a pair of steps and began wandering about the room with them.",
"asin": "184022682X",
"author": "Robert Tressell",
"title": "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"
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"time": 785,
"quote": "At <strong>five past one</strong> Alleyn opened the outer door, knocked his pipe out on the edge of the stone step,and remained staring out on to the drive.",
"asin": "B00CR42MWQ",
"author": "Ngaio Marsh",
"title": "A Man Lay Dead"
},
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"time": 786,
"quote": "And then at precisely <strong>13 hours and 6 minutes</strong> - confusion broke out in the rectangle.",
"asin": "0140185852",
"author": "Yevgeny Zamyatin",
"title": "We"
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"time": 787,
"quote": "Dr. Nexa accepted her forced surrender to the inevitable with a greater modicum of grace. She looked at Nurse L'Kem and said, pointing to the human, the Bolian, and then the Zaldan, “Time of death for Lieutenant Hutchinson, <strong>1307</strong> hours",
"asin": "1451671717",
"author": "David Mack",
"title": "Star Trek: Destiny #3: Lost Souls"
},
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"time": 788,
"quote": "Sorry I'm a bit late, he said, emphasising the 'bit' and glancing at the clock whose fingers stood at <strong>eight minutes past one</strong>. 'Don't apologise,' said Mr. Brown. 'The shock of seeing you on time for anything would probably prostrate us for weeks.'",
"asin": "1408400928",
"author": "Richmal Crompton",
"title": "Just William's Luck"
},
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"time": 789,
"quote": "At <strong>nine minutes past one</strong>, a pair of horses approached (not from the city, from which direction Krieger had expected her to come, but from the Desert, which lay, vast and largely uncharted, out to the West and South-West of the city.)",
"asin": "1596066369",
"author": "Clive Barker",
"title": "Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium"
},
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"time": 790,
"quote": "Nobody paid the slightest attention to her, as it was an entirely normal thing to see: a well-built woman under a tree. Shortly after <strong>ten past one</strong>, when Mma Ramotswe had finished her tea and was on the point of dozing off in her comfortable place, a figure emerged from the front of the Ministry and walked over towards the tree.",
"asin": "B002TXZT7A",
"author": "Alexander McCall Smith",
"title": "Morality for Beautiful Girls"
},
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"time": 791,
"quote": "I pursued my inquiries at the other stations along the line an' I found there was a gentleman wi' a bicycle tuk the <strong>1.11</strong> train at Girvan.",
"asin": "B004GKMU0S",
"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
"title": "Five Red Herrings"
},
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"time": 792,
"quote": "'He's with the Heavies—he's been to the Infantry. I told him Colonel B—— had called, and he said he'd go round and see him—their mess is in the village, isn't it?' At <strong>twelve minutes past one</strong> the adjutant, Wilde, and myself sat down to lunch. 'The colonel said he wouldn't be late—but we needn't wait,' said the adjutant.",
"asin": "1444456555",
"author": "George Herbert Fosdike Nichols",
"title": "Pushed and the Return Push"
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"time": 793,
"quote": "'There it is! There it is!' shouted the Professor. 'Now for the centre of the globe!' he added in Danish. I looked at Hans. 'Forüt!' was his tranquil answer. 'Forward!' replied my uncle. It was <strong>thirteen minutes past one</strong>.",
"asin": "1853262870",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
},
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"time": 794,
"quote": "'All right, shut up,' the cop said. 'This paper says the time was <strong>one-fourteen</strong>. When was Dougherty shot?'",
"asin": "0517584913",
"author": "Colin Harrison",
"title": "Bodies Electric"
},
{
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"time": 795,
"quote": "'Monsieur has well slept this morning,' he said, smiling. 'What o'clock is it, Victor?' asked Dorian Gray, sleepily. '<strong>One hour and a quarter</strong>, monsieur.'",
"asin": "1847493726",
"author": "Oscar Wilde",
"title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
},
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"time": 796,
"quote": "At <strong>sixteen past one</strong>, they walked into the interview room. Engebretsen looked up and said, 'I want to talk.'",
"asin": "B004IK9RH0",
"author": "Dana Stabenow",
"title": "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
},
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"time": 797,
"quote": "<strong>One seventeen</strong> and four seconds.\nThat shorter guy's really got it made, and gets on a scooter,\nand that taller one, he goes in.\nOne seventeen and forty seconds.\nThat girl there, she's got a green ribbon in her hair.\nToo bad that bus just cut her from view.",
"asin": "0691013802",
"author": "Wislawa Szymborska",
"title": "The Terrorist, He Watches"
},
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"key": "vuLPM1CXqf34Jnt85st9",
"time": 798,
"quote": "<strong>One eighteen</strong> exactly.\nWas she stupid enough to head inside?\nOr wasn't she? We'll know before long,\nWhen the dead are carried out.",
"asin": "0691013802",
"author": "Wislawa Szymborska",
"title": "The Terrorist, He Watches"
},
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"time": 799,
"quote": "'Just now. There's a bad dehumidifier down there, it's not grounded or something, and the electric shock . . . I was . . . it threw me to the floor. I didn't know electricity could do that. I was almost . . .' She couldn't think of the word. It was <strong>nineteen minutes past one</strong>.",
"asin": "0375709169",
"author": "Charles Baxter",
"title": "Saul and Patsy"
},
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"quote": "I have been over the ground to make sure, said M. Ulrich: 'I am sure of my calculations. You will reach Russ-Hersbach at <strong>twenty-one minutes past one</strong>, a trap will take us to Schirmeck in a quarter of an hour. We turn to the right and reach Grande Fontaine half an hour later. There we leave the trap, and, thanks to our good legs, we can reach French ground by two forty-five or fifty. There I leave you and return.'",
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"quote": "No, I mean they recognised juxtaposition: Gavin Stevens's car at the curb before the bank at <strong>twenty-two minutes past one</strong> in the afternoon with me at the wheel and Gavin and a woman in the back seat.",
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"quote": "So my father is some kind of Yakuza man. Makes sense, sort of. Money, power and influence. The white lines and billowing trees and industrial chimneys are dreamlike. The dashboard clock reads <strong>13:23</strong>.",
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"quote": "He waggled the ticket higher in the air, closer to my face. Four inches long, it had arrowhead shapes cut out at either end, and purple 1970s techno-writing along the length repeating with great mechanical urgency, top and bottom, that it was <strong>1.23 p.m.</strong> in King's Lynn, and that Sheldrake Travel was 'very happy to have you aboard'.",
"asin": "B005E8A29W",
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"quote": "Littell checked his watch - <strong>1:24 p.m</strong> - Littell grabbed the phone by the bed.",
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"quote": "'Why don't you stick around and watch the whole thing?' invited Mrs. Video Shop. I'd really have liked to, I told her, if it weren't for the things I had in the drier. I cast an eye at my watch. <strong>One-twenty-five</strong>. The drier had already stopped. She made one last pitch. 'Three classic Hitchcock pictures coming in next week.'",
"asin": "0099448785",
"author": "Haruki Murakami",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-six minutes past one</strong> Merilee let herself into the library and leaned back against the door in a pose that belonged in a silent movie.",
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"quote": "At <strong>13.27</strong> on that self-same Friday, 20 June, seventy-two hours before his disappearance, Adrià Daedalus Sorra, man-about-town, disc jockey and student of philosophy, careened up the stairs with his skateboard.",
"asin": "1848666756",
"author": "Jessica Cornwell",
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"quote": "At <strong>13:28</strong> Van walked into the Korvel Mercantile Tower, then took the lift to the third floor. From there, he made his way along the southern corridor to the open door beside the IIS spelled out in silvered letters on the taupe plaster wall. He stepped inside.",
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"quote": "It was now <strong>twenty-nine minutes past one</strong> and Knickers stood beside the artists' entrance of H.P. Hall, ticking off names in a tartan notebook as musicians clambered aboard the two coaches.",
"asin": "B004H1TUB8",
"author": "Jilly Cooper",
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"quote": "'Jolly good,' Ridcully bellowed, above the buzz. 'Now, if we all step smartly and follow Lor— Com— Sir Samuel we ought to be back here for lunch no later than <strong>half past one</strong>. Is the choir ready? No one is treading on anyone else's robes? Then orf we go!'",
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"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"title": "Jingo"
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"quote": "Locke Lamora stepped out of Meraggio's apartments at <strong>half past one</strong>, dressed in the most excellent coat, vest and breeches he had ever worn; they were the dark blue of the sky just before Falselight, and he thought the colour suited him remarkably well.",
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"time": 811,
"quote": "Raymond came back with Masson <strong>around one-thirty</strong>. His arm was bandaged up and he had an adhesive plaster on the corner of his mouth. The doctor had told him it was nothing, but Raymond looked pretty grim. Masson tried to make him laugh. But he still wouldn't say anything.",
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"author": "Albert Camus",
"title": "The Stranger"
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"quote": "At the third stroke it will be <strong>one ... thirty-two ...</strong> and twenty seconds. 'Beep ... beep ... beep.' Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.",
"asin": "B003GK21D0",
"author": "Douglas Adams",
"title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
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"quote": "He waited for the green light to show and then opened the door again on to the now empty cargo hold.'... <strong>one ... thirty-three ...</strong> and fifty seconds.' Very nice.",
"asin": "B003GK21D0",
"author": "Douglas Adams",
"title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
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"quote": "It was <strong>13.34</strong> when Bishop arrived at the address Cassandra had given him. And the BMW's transmission had behaved throughout the whole sixty-mile journey. Just went to show that a good spring-clean was sometimes all that was required.",
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"title": "The Last Quarter"
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"quote": "An attendant bailiff being sworn in, we read in the journals of the day, which noted the divisions of time with that customary scrupulosity rendered terrible by the reflection how soon all time and seasons may perish for the hero of the scene, that 'it was at <strong>twenty-five minutes to two</strong> that the jury withdrew.'",
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"author": "Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton",
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"quote": "'And how long was he with her?' asked Calton, who had been listening attentively. 'Bout arf-a-hour,' answered Sal. 'I takes 'im back to Russell Street 'bout <strong>twenty-five minutes to two</strong>, 'cause I looked at the clock on the Post Office, an'\n'e gives me a sov., an' then he goes a-tearin' up the street like anything.'",
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"quote": "He had not dared to sleep in his rented car—you didn't sleep in your car when you worked for Jesus Castro—and he was beginning to hallucinate. Still, he was on the job, and he scribbled in his notebook:' <strong>1.37pm</strong> Subject appears to be getting laid.'",
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"author": "William Monahan",
"title": "Light House"
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"quote": "According to the digital readout inside my helmet, it was only <strong>13:38</strong> LT. The news that I wouldn't have to devote another three hours to painstaking cleanup should have cheered me considerably; instead, it rendered me about twenty times more suspicious.",
"asin": "B01HU746DC",
"author": "Adam-Troy Castro",
"title": "Sunday Night Yams At Minnie And Earl's"
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"quote": "And it was now <strong>1.39pm</strong> which was 23 minutes after the stop, which mean that we would be at the sea if the train didn't go in a big curve. But I didn't know if it went in a big curve.",
"asin": "0099450259",
"author": "Mark Haddon",
"title": "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
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"quote": "'Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!' carolled Lord Emsworth. And, as he did so, his eye fell on the clock over the mantelpiece. Its hands pointed to <strong>twenty minutes to two</strong>.",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
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"quote": "'I will begin a few minutes before the leak started—at 1:41pm, <strong>13:41</strong> Universal Time—one hour and twenty three minutes ago. At that point the chief flight engineer was attempting to discover why the engines had gone into automatic shutdown.'",
"asin": "B004NIFUZK",
"author": "Stephen Euin Cobb",
"title": "Bones Burnt Black"
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"quote": "Because accurate birth data was hard to come by, these astrologers often relied on horary charts which were cast for the moment when a question was asked, though the kind of character delineation that Eliza uses here was also popular. For readers who are curious, Eliza's birth information is 11\/29\/1788 <strong>01:42 P.M.</strong>, London.",
"asin": "0061976059",
"author": "Jenny Brown",
"title": "Lord Lightning"
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"time": 822,
"quote": "The last note was recorded at <strong>1.42pm</strong>: G.M. on site at H-by; will take over the matter.",
"asin": "B00480O9L4",
"author": "Stieg Larsson",
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"time": 823,
"quote": "'There's a train at <strong>seventeen minutes to two</strong>,' said Didier. He blessed himself and got to his feet. He hesitated. 'What's the matter?'\n'Shouldn't we say goodbye to Grandpa? He usually has a cheque for me…'",
"asin": "1904738389",
"author": "Jef Geeraerts",
"title": "The Public Prosecutor"
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"quote": "By good luck, the next train was due at <strong>forty-four minutes past one</strong>, and arrived at Yateland (the next station) ten minutes afterward.",
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"author": "Wilkie Collins",
"title": "Mr. Policeman and the Cook"
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"time": 825,
"quote": "The blow fell at precisely <strong>one forty-five</strong> (summer-time). Benson, my Aunt Agatha's butler, was offering me the fried potatoes at the moment, and such was my emotion that I lofted six of them on the sideboard with the spoon.",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
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"quote": "PAUL: I notified Malatarsiss right after Mama called me. At <strong>1346</strong> hours on Thursday the twenty-fourth. Brett was killed at least fourteen hours later, in the wee hours of the twenty-fifth.\nANNE: So the exotic metaconcert theory is remotely plausible. Given a conspiracy in the Magistratum itself.",
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"author": "Julian May",
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"time": 827,
"quote": "Poppy was sprawled on Brianne's bed, applying black mascara to her stubby lashes. Brianne was sitting at her desk, trying to complete an essay before the 2pm deadline. It was <strong>1.47pm</strong>.",
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"author": "Sue Townsend",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twelve minutes to two</strong> in the afternoon when Claude Moreau and his most-trusted field officer, Jacques Bergeron, arrived at the Georges Cinq station of the Paris Metro. They walked, separately, to the rear of the platform, each carrying a handheld radio, the frequencies calibrated to each other.",
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"author": "Robert Ludlum",
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"time": 829,
"quote": "The bookstall clerk had seen the passenger in grey pass the bookstall at <strong>1.49</strong>, in the direction of the exit.",
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"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
"title": "Five Red Herrings"
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"quote": "The best train of the day was the <strong>one-fifty</strong> from Paddington which reached Polgarwith just after seven o'clock.",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
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"quote": "Which meant that now, at <strong>1:51 p.m.</strong>, lower Manhattan was a nightmare. Wall Street had been cordoned off for blocks in each direction. Foot police redirected traffic on Broadway, blowing whistles and gesturing impatiently.",
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"quote": "He passed through the Damascus Gate into the International Zone at <strong>eight minutes to two</strong>, carefully avoiding the telltale times of the hour, and the half hour and the quarter hour. Then he began to wander aimlessly, trying to mimic an idling, strolling interest in his surroundings that he was very far from feeling.",
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"time": 832,
"quote": "'I came to your door here to tell you. It is near your luncheon hour. Yes; <strong>eight minutes to two</strong>. Vivian will be at luncheon. I don't lunch, but I don't mind going in. I must not let him slip through my fingers.'",
"asin": "B00DFOSBZY",
"author": "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu",
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"quote": "'Mr Jackson,' exclaimed Mr Rossiter. 'I really must ask you to be good enough to come in from your lunch at the proper time. It was fully <strong>seven minutes to two</strong> when you returned, and—'\n'That little more,' sighed Psmith, 'and how much is it!'\n'Who are you?' snapped Mr Rossiter, turning on him. 'I shall be delighted, Comrade—'\n'Rossiter,' said Mike, aside.",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
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"quote": "By good luck, the next train was due at <strong>forty-four minutes past one</strong>, and arrived at Yateland (the next station) ten minutes afterward.",
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"quote": "If I was punctual in quitting Mlle. Reuter's domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at <strong>five minutes before two</strong>, and on reaching the schoolroom door, before I opened it, I heard a rapid, gabbling sound, which warned me that the 'priere du midi' was not yet concluded.",
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"author": "Charlotte Brontë",
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"quote": "Christopher Cassidy's secretary had warned me to be prompt, as he was squeezing time for me into a very full day and was leaving this evening for meetings in Europe. It was <strong>four minutes to two</strong> when I arrived breathlessly at his office for the two o'clock appointment.",
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"author": "Mary Higgins Clark",
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"quote": "I looked for a clock. It was <strong>three minutes to two</strong>. 'I hope you can catch him, then.'\n'Thank you. I really appreciate it.'",
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"author": "C.E. Murphy",
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"quote": "Promptly at <strong>two minutes to two</strong> that afternoon, the two majors presented themselves to General Austin's temporary secretary at his away-from-Pentagon office.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>one minute to two</strong> o'clock; and then something happened. The whole white world became red. The oldest seas in the world went suddenly lashing into storm. An ocean of blood thundered into his head, and the noise of that primitive flood, roaring from what prehistoric gulfs, deafened him at an instant.",
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"quote": "She could have fired the jig, and he could have kept on picking up his packages at the old time, <strong>two o'clock</strong>. As it was, he had almost been arrested.'",
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"quote": "Like the traditional English publican pointing out to the tourist that 'we stop serving food at <strong>2 p.m.</strong> prompt' at one minute past two, or the old-fashioned shopkeeper informing a potential customer that 'the item you require is out of stock', the groundsman never announced that conditions were unplayable without an ill-concealed note of triumph in his voice.",
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"quote": "But Arthur wanted to be sure this time. The express departed from Birmingham with the nicest exactitude, and covered itself with glory as far as Watford, when it ran into a mist, and lost more than a quarter of an hour, besides ruining Arthur's career. Arthur arrived in London at <strong>one minute past two</strong>.",
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"quote": "'I'm not dead. How did that happen?' He was right. It was <strong>14.02</strong> and twenty-six seconds. Destiny had not been fulfilled. We all looked at each other, confused.",
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"author": "Jasper Fforde",
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"quote": "Steven put me in the library next to a phone, and left me alone. At <strong>three minutes past two</strong>, it rang. The voice said, 'Mr. Vance.'",
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"quote": "<strong>2.04pm</strong>. Once again, the Quartermaster-General's office came on the line asking for Colonel Finckh, and once again Finckh heard the quiet, unemotional, unfamiliar voice",
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"time": 845,
"quote": "...and at <strong>five past two</strong> on 17 September of that same unforgettable year 1916, I was in the Muryovo hospital yard, standing on trampled withered grass, flattened by the September rain.",
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"author": "Mikhail Bulgakov",
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"quote": "A man driving a tractor saw her, four hundred yards from her house, <strong>six minutes past two</strong> in the afternoon.",
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"quote": "He poked his head into Tony's office at about <strong>seven minutes past two</strong> and said, 'Sarge, I'm pretty sure something's happening with the Buick.'",
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"title": "From a Buick 8"
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"quote": "At <strong>eight minutes past two</strong>, the gloomy-faced man, standing near the wide Y of steps that led down from the balcony, craned his neck and discovered Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Daniel W. Lochaber and Elma Champion. The four, loaded with their own luggage-porters were pretty scarce-moved toward the gate of Track Thirty-one. Craning his neck, the gloomy-faced man could discover no sign of Doc Savage.",
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"author": "Kenneth Robeson",
"title": "The Man Who Was Scared"
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"quote": "'Mr. Tyne,' said Butler, 'left the North Tower lobby at <strong>14:09</strong> by up tube on the elevators and arrived at the chess tournament on the Sixtieth level at 14:10.",
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"quote": "At <strong>ten minutes past two</strong> I'm sitting at a long table on a secluded English lawn giving an impromptu lecture on falconry while Mabel tears at a rabbit leg in my hand.",
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"quote": "But apart from a permanent ringing in his ears, he suffered no major damage, though the hands on his Zorro watch were for ever frozen at <strong>ten past two</strong>.",
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"quote": "The hall was once again filled with the relentless tick of the grandfather clock and, as she watched it, she saw the minute hand jerk forward to <strong>eleven minutes past two</strong>.",
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"quote": "There was a clock on the old Village Green, she said, and it always read eleven past two, the exact point in time the flood levels reached the clock face, so forever after in Olive that was the time, day or night, <strong>eleven past two</strong> for eternity.",
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"author": "Nova Ren Suma",
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"quote": "However, they should not forget that another man had lost his life, and if Danny Cartwright did not kill Bernie Wilson, they might well ask, who else could possibly have committed the crime? At <strong>twelve minutes past two</strong>, the jury filed out of the court to begin their deliberations.",
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"quote": "'At the third stroke, it will be <strong>two . . . thirteen . . .</strong> and fifty seconds.' He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have room. 'Beep . . . beep . . . beep.'",
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"author": "Douglas Adams",
"title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
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"time": 854,
"quote": "... the clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some <strong>fourteen minutes past two</strong> o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.",
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"author": "William Faulkner",
"title": "Barn Burning"
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"time": 855,
"quote": "I had a date with her next day at <strong>2.15pm</strong> in my own rooms, but it was less successful, she seemed to have grown less juvenile, more of a woman overnight. A cold I caught from her led me to cancel a fourth assignment, nor was I sorry to break an emotional series that threatened to burden me with heart-rending fantasies and peter out in dull disappointment. So let her remain, sleek, slender Monique, as she was for a minute or two",
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"author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
"title": "Lolita"
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"quote": "Oh, good evening. I think you were on the barrier when I came in at <strong>2.16</strong> this afternoon. Now, do you know that you let me get past without giving up my ticket? Yes, yes he-he! I really think you ought to be more careful",
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"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
"title": "Five Red Herrings"
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"time": 857,
"quote": "Henry, too, was the name of the child, wasn't it? How about the child? Don't you know where it is? 'I only know that she used to go every Tuesday and Thursday by the <strong>seventeen minutes past two</strong> train from Baker-St., and be back by six o'clock, so it couldn't have been very far.",
"asin": "1520396147",
"author": "Louis Tracy",
"title": "The Late Tenant"
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"time": 858,
"quote": "You must not find a verdict of 'guilty' unless you believe that strychnia was administered to the deceased by the prisoner at the bar; but, if you do believe that, it is your duty towards God and man to find the prisoner guilty. At the conclusion of this address the jury retired from the Court, at <strong>eighteen minutes past two</strong> o'clock.",
"asin": "B000HI1ZZE",
"author": "Robert Graves",
"title": "They Hanged My Saintly Billy"
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"time": 859,
"quote": "<strong>2:19</strong>: Duane Hinton walks out. He walks through the backyard. He lugs some clothes. He wore said clothes last night. He walks to the fence. He feeds the incinerator. He lights a match.",
"asin": "0099537834",
"author": "James Ellroy",
"title": "The Cold Six Thousand"
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"time": 860,
"quote": "She looked at her watch and it was <strong>twenty minutes past two</strong>. She had no time to lose but must get ready at once.",
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"author": "Charles Dickens",
"title": "A Tale of Two Cities"
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"time": 861,
"quote": "When he awoke he was in shadow, for the sun had traveled around and past the elbow of a near-by old and knotted oak whose brown-pink leaves still clung to the twisted branches. Ned looked around him in puzzlement, and it was a long moment before he could account for his surroundings. When he had, he sat up very quickly and gave a startled look at his watch. The thing was crazy! It said <strong>twenty-one minutes past two</strong>!",
"asin": "B01BR1PYU6",
"author": "Ralph Henry Barbour",
"title": "The Turner Twins"
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"time": 862,
"quote": "There's nae need tae beat the eggs: the <strong>14.22</strong> from King's Cross goes by the windae and stirs every fuckin thing, including me.",
"asin": "0151012830",
"author": "Mark Crick",
"title": "Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes"
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"time": 863,
"quote": "Garth here. Sunday afternoon. Sorry to miss you, but I'll leave a brief message on your tape. <strong>Two-twenty-two</strong> or there-aboutish. Great party.",
"asin": "B0064E9UWK",
"author": "Carol Shields",
"title": "Larry's Party"
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"time": 864,
"quote": "The Fokker lifted off from the Nairobi runway at <strong>14:24</strong> hours, three minutes ahead of their new timeline schedule.",
"asin": "0061782556",
"author": "Michael Crichton",
"title": "Congo"
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"time": 865,
"quote": "I sink into the seat, and a wave of nausea washes over me as the gun presses uncomfortably into the small of my back. Not now. I can't be sick now. I take a deep cleansing breath, and the wave passes. Nervously, I check my watch. <strong>Twenty-five past two</strong>.",
"asin": "B007KOYEOC",
"author": "E. L. James",
"title": "Fifty Shades Freed"
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"time": 866,
"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-six minutes past two</strong>, but the place was still crowded with the lunch-hour rush.",
"asin": "B004GHN3IO",
"author": "Robert Crais",
"title": "Free Fall"
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"time": 867,
"quote": "The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre's four thousand rooms marked <strong>twenty-seven minutes past two</strong>. 'This hive of industry,' as the Director was fond of calling it, was in the full buzz of work.",
"asin": "0099518473",
"author": "Aldous Huxley",
"title": "Brave New World"
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"time": 868,
"quote": "It happened to be the case that the sixty-based system coincided with our our current method of keeping time... Apparently they wanted us to know that something might happen at <strong>28 minutes</strong> and 57 seconds <strong>after 2pm</strong> on a day yet to be specified.",
"asin": "1509837868",
"author": "Don DeLillo",
"title": "Ratner's Star"
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"time": 869,
"quote": "At <strong>twenty-nine minutes past two</strong> on Monday, Lucy tapped at their sitting-room door and said, 'If you please, sir, there is a man in black downstairs with a young gentleman.",
"asin": "B006FH2W76",
"author": "Patrick O'Brian",
"title": "Blue at the Mizzen"
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"time": 870,
"quote": "Ach! It's <strong>2:30</strong>. Look how the time is flying. And it's still so much to do today. It's dishes to clean, dinner to defrost, and my pills I haven't yet counted.\nI don't get it... Why didn't the Jews at least try to resist?\nIt wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened, and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes.",
"asin": "0141014083",
"author": "Art Spiegelman",
"title": "Maus"
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"time": 870,
"quote": "At <strong>2.30pm</strong> on the 13th inst. began to shadow Sir Bobadil the Ostrich, whom I suspect of being the criminal. Shadowing successful. Didn't lose sight of him once.",
"asin": "0099582864",
"author": "Eric Linklater",
"title": "The Wind on the Moon"
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"time": 870,
"quote": "May 14th 1800. Wm and John set off into Yorkshire after dinner at <strong>half past 2</strong> o'clock, cold pork in their pockets. I left them at the turning of the Low-wood bay under the trees. My heart was so full that I could barely speak to W. when I gave him a farewell kiss.",
"asin": "0140431365",
"author": "Dorothy Wordsworth",
"title": "The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth"
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"time": 871,
"quote": "Igor checked the time again. He didn't really; I'm just getting back to the story. It was a now <strong>thirty-one minutes past two</strong> and she (he) was officially late.",
"asin": "B0082BU0Z4",
"author": "Matt Shaw",
"title": "The Vampire's Treaty"
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"time": 872,
"quote": "'Perhaps rain is the trigger.' Jessie knew for a fact it had rained because the Met Office had confirmed that the rain started at <strong>14.32</strong> on the afternoon of February 23rd and had barely let up for three days.",
"asin": "B00HY5HZFW",
"author": "Gay Longworth",
"title": "The Unquiet Dead"
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"time": 873,
"quote": "At <strong>thirty-three minutes past two</strong> he heard a singular noise outside, then a hasty opening of doors. Passepartout's voice was audible, and immediately after that of Fix. Phileas Fogg's eyes brightened for an instant.",
"asin": "B00A736NRO",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 874,
"quote": "The clock on the wall over the grubby looking optics said <strong>14:34</strong> but the bar was packed with men, women and kids all shouting and swearing, drinking and disappearing outside for a cigarette and a quick fumble behind the bins.",
"asin": "B00HTPU6DK",
"author": "Lexie Bay",
"title": "Sloth: An Indolent Seduction"
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"time": 875,
"quote": "He scribbled a line on the table, and said as he rose: 'It is <strong>thirty-five minutes past two</strong>. You would perhaps find the doctor at home now.'",
"asin": "B00849L7LU",
"author": "Émile Zola",
"title": "A Love Episode"
},
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"time": 876,
"quote": "I look at my watch. <strong>Two thirty-six</strong>. All I've got left today is take in the laundry and fix dinner.",
"asin": "0099448750",
"author": "Haruki Murakami",
"title": "The Elephant Vanishes"
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"time": 877,
"quote": "Christabel's watch read <strong>14:37</strong> as he finished. 'I have to go home,' she said. She turned around and ran across the bare ground toward the first fence.",
"asin": "B01N1EO500",
"author": "Tad Williams",
"title": "City of Golden Shadow"
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"time": 878,
"quote": "On 9 June 1865, the <strong>2.38 pm</strong> 'tidal' train, carrying ferry passengers from France, thundered through the Kent countryside towards London. Charles Dickens, incognito, was in a private first-class carriage with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother (strange, but true).",
"asin": "B0052XSPPW",
"author": "John Sutherland and Stephen Fender",
"title": "Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature"
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"time": 879,
"quote": "Noo, there's a report come in fra' the station-master at Pinwherry that there was a gentleman tuk the <strong>2.39</strong> at Pinwherry.",
"asin": "B004GKMU0S",
"author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
"title": "Five Red Herrings"
},
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"time": 880,
"quote": "Members of Big Side marked Michael and Alan as the two most promising three-quarters for Middle Side next year, and when the bell sounded at <strong>twenty minutes to three</strong>, the members of Big Side would walk with Michael and Alan towards the changing room and encourage them by flattery and genial ragging.",
"asin": "0140184759",
"author": "Sir Compton Mackenzie",
"title": "Sinister Street"
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"time": 880,
"quote": "When he knew it was me he cursed me for a long time in Gaelic, and said that he'd been asleep. I congratulated him, and asked how soon he could get along. At last after much grumbling he said he would come to meet me in the King's Road, and there about three-quarters of an hour later we duly met. The time was then about <strong>twenty to three</strong>.",
"asin": "0140014454",
"author": "Iris Murdoch",
"title": "Under the Net"
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"time": 881,
"quote": "At <strong>2.41</strong>, when the afternoon fast train to London was pulling out of Larborough prompt to the minute, Miss Pym sat under the cedar on the lawn wondering whether she was a fool, and not caring much anyhow.",
"asin": "B0050OLGXQ",
"author": "Josephine Tey",
"title": "Miss Pym Disposes"
},
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"time": 882,
"quote": "At <strong>14:42</strong> precisely I saw a plasm tether descend from the sky and pause outside the apartment as if it contained a sensorium that was doing some surveilling of its own.",
"asin": "0061052132",
"author": "Walter Jon Williams",
"title": "City on Fire"
},
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"time": 883,
"quote": "Jacobson died at <strong>2.43pm</strong> the next day after slashing his wrists with a razor blade in the second cubicle from the left in the men's washroom on the third floor.",
"asin": "B0084WTIMC",
"author": "J.G. Ballard",
"title": "Now: Zero"
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"time": 884,
"quote": "A carriage clock in a window two up from the milliner's was showing <strong>sixteen minutes to three</strong> when I turned round and saw Bruno no more than fifty yards away from me.",
"asin": "B010SWR3P4",
"author": "Caro Peacock",
"title": "Friends in High Places"
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"time": 885,
"quote": "'What time is it?'\n'Look for yourself,' the old woman says to me. I look, and I see the clock has no hands. 'There are no hands,' I say. The old woman looks at the clock face and says to me, 'It's a <strong>quarter to three</strong>.'",
"asin": "0715637711",
"author": "Daniil Ivanovich Kharms",
"title": "The Old Woman"
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"time": 886,
"quote": "The irony had come about unconsciously. Michael had roamed the Palatine that morning, selecting the site for the very advantages that now could be used against him. He looked at his watch: <strong>fourteen minutes to three</strong>. ",
"asin": "B0037472NO",
"author": "Robert Ludlum",
"title": "The Parsifal Mosaic"
},
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"time": 887,
"quote": "When the buzzer rings to his apartment at <strong>14.47</strong> that Monday afternoon Peter Warren does not expect to see her.",
"asin": "1848666756",
"author": "Jessica Cornwell",
"title": "The Serpent Papers"
},
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"time": 888,
"quote": "A clock in a window across the street told him that it was <strong>twelve minutes to three</strong>. Well, this was it; he had to go in. He lifted his left hand and wiped sweat from his forehead in a long slow gesture.",
"asin": "0099282933",
"author": "Richard Wright",
"title": "Native Son"
},
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"time": 889,
"quote": "Endicott stared back at him and thought. Five thousand dollars up front and five thousand after to create a major shunt on Interstate 50 at mile marker 107, shunt to occur at <strong>14:49</strong> hours.",
"asin": "B00CPR6HVM",
"author": "Carsten Stroud",
"title": "The Homecoming"
},
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"time": 890,
"quote": "Stands the Church clock at <strong>ten to three</strong>? And is there honey still for tea?",
"asin": "1176902679",
"author": "Rupert Brooke",
"title": "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
},
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"time": 891,
"quote": "At <strong>nine minutes to three</strong>, the storm came back. It rolled in on angry, brooding tiers: swollen blue-black cumulus and ghostly, low-slung nimbostratus, crowding the ceiling of the sky. It made the oxygen in the air itself compress, turn chill and thick, absorbed or displaced by the moisture that blackened and bloated the heavens.",
"asin": "0843963964",
"author": "John Skipp & Craig Spector",
"title": "The Bridge"
},
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"time": 892,
"quote": "For the last time? 'No!'\n'Mr. Kesselbach, it is <strong>eight minutes to three</strong>. If you don't answer within eight minutes from now, you are a dead man!'",
"asin": "0809531445",
"author": "Maurice Leblanc",
"title": "813"
},
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"time": 893,
"quote": "I had expected Maria to be early, so when the doorbell rang at <strong>seven minutes to three</strong>, I wasn't surprised.",
"asin": "B00KFDWW0I",
"author": "Robert Goldsborough",
"title": "Murder in E Minor"
},
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"key": "iBYfR6UUWnf6l4PttOQn",
"time": 894,
"quote": "The waitress with the perfect neck has finished her shift – the clock says <strong>six minutes to three</strong> – and changed out of her uniform. She is wearing a purple sweater and white jeans. She looks drop-dead cool.",
"asin": "B002V09242",
"author": "David Mitchell",
"title": "number9dream"
},
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"time": 895,
"quote": "The superior, the very reverend John Conmee SJ reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. <strong>Five to three</strong>. Just nice time to walk to Artane.",
"asin": "1840226358",
"author": "James Joyce",
"title": "Ulysses"
},
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"time": 896,
"quote": "<strong>2.56 P.M.</strong> Helen is alone now. Her face is out of frame, and through the viewfinder I see only a segment of the pillow, an area of crumpled sheet and the upper section of her chest and shoulders.",
"asin": "0007245769",
"author": "J. G. Ballard",
"title": "The 60 Minute Zoom"
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"time": 896,
"quote": "There, at <strong>four minutes to three</strong>, the Zytgloggeturm pays tribute to time. High on the turret of the tower clowns dance, roosters crow, bears play fife and drum, their mechanical movements and sounds synchronized exactly by the turning of gears, which, in turn, are inspired by the perfection of time.",
"asin": "1780335571",
"author": "Alan Lightman",
"title": "Einstein's Dreams"
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"time": 897,
"quote": "He left the house at <strong>three minutes to three</strong>, carrying his cloak over his arm. It was a hot day at the beginning of June, and when he stepped out at the door the air of the street smote his face like a blast from an open furnace. He reeled and almost fell. The sun's heat was like a load on his head, its dazzling rays made his sight dim, and he had a sound in his ears like running water.",
"asin": "B0082X7WEE",
"author": "Sir Hall Caine",
"title": "The Manxman"
},
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"time": 898,
"quote": "until <strong>two minutes to three</strong> the heroes of the school met in a large familiarity whose Olympian laughter awed the fearful small boy that flitted uneasily past and chilled the slouching senior that rashly paused to examine the notices in assertion of an unearned right.",
"asin": "0140184759",
"author": "Sir Compton Mackenzie",
"title": "Sinister Street"
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"key": "mvrGHHfgZqm4xFmcG0pq",
"time": 898,
"quote": "We betted that it would happen on the morrow; they took us up and gave us the odds of two to one; we betted that it would happen in the afternoon; we got odds of four to one on that; we betted that it would happen at <strong>two minutes to three</strong>; they willingly granted us the odds of ten to one on that.",
"asin": "3849566374",
"author": "Mark Twain",
"title": "The Chronicle of Young Satan"
},
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"time": 899,
"quote": "He took from his pocket a ball of crumpled tissue paper and dropped it into a litter bin. At <strong>one minute to three</strong> he lit a cigarette, although he did not smoke. He dropped the lighted match carefully into the bin so that it landed in the nest of tissue paper. Then he walked away.",
"asin": "B0071BGOJC",
"author": "Ken Follett",
"title": "Winter of the World"
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"time": 900,
"quote": "'Ladies bathed before noon, after their <strong>three-o'clock</strong> naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.'",
"asin": "0099549484",
"author": "Harper Lee",
"title": "To Kill a Mockingbird"
},
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"time": 900,
"quote": "Remember, they shouted, 'battle at <strong>three o'clock</strong> sharp. There's no time to lose.'",
"asin": "0099572796",
"author": "Arthur Ransome",
"title": "Swallows and Amazons"
},
{
"key": "xedHODvkVgSYlO7lRGWE",
"time": 900,
"quote": "<strong>Three o'clock</strong> is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.",
"asin": "014118549X",
"author": "Jean-Paul Sartre",
"title": "Nausea"
},
{
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"time": 901,
"quote": "'There'll be twenty pallets' worth by <strong>three o'clock</strong> tomorrow, see,' comes a man's voice from the office down the hall, 'and if your truck isn't here at one minute past three, then the lot'll be going to the Fine Fare depot in Aylesford.' He hangs up and adds, 'Lying twat.'",
"asin": "B00KG6L02A",
"author": "David Mitchell",
"title": "The Bone Clocks"
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"time": 902,
"quote": "It was only <strong>two minutes past three</strong>, but I seemed to have lived hours in that two minutes.'\n'Do you think, Bishop, that God loves a soldier? He may employ them and yet not love them?' Then the Bishop straightened himself and lifted his head, and his face glowed and his eyes shone as he answered, 'I will give you one example, it could be multiplied indefinitely.",
"asin": "B004TQBB68",
"author": "Amelia E. Barr",
"title": "An Orkney Maid"
},
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"time": 903,
"quote": "I check Shingi's mobile phone - it says it's <strong>3.03pm</strong>. I get out of bed, open my suitcase to take clean socks out and the smell of Mother hit my nose and make me feel dizzy.",
"asin": "0099526751",
"author": "Brian Chikwava",
"title": "Harare North"
},
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"time": 904,
"quote": "Woken at <strong>1504</strong> by Michelangelo hammering away with his chisel.",
"asin": "0571209769",
"author": "Hallgrímur Helgason",
"title": "101 Reykjavik"
},
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"time": 905,
"quote": "At <strong>five past three</strong> I screeched to a halt outside the Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Lobsters, much to the surprise of the photographer and the driver of a large Hispano-Suiza that was parked in readiness for the happy couple.",
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"author": "Jasper Fforde",
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"quote": "The clock on the 'Lal Girja's' tower stood at <strong>six minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>seven minutes past three</strong> in the afternoon, Cecily Thorogood, that very self-possessed and prettily-clad young woman, was seated in a deck-chair on the saloon-deck of a 6,000-ton liner; an American magazine was open in front of her, under cover of which she was exploring the contents of a box of chocolates with the practised eye of the expert, in quest of a particular species which contained crystallised ginger and found favour in her sight.",
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"quote": "The next day was grey, threatening rain. He was there at <strong>seven minutes past three</strong>. The clock on the church over the way pointed to it. They had arranged to be there at three fifteen. Therefore, if she had been there when he came, she would have been eight minutes before her time.",
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"quote": "A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at <strong>3 hr 8 m p.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "On the next day he boarded the London train which reaches Hull at <strong>3.09</strong>. At Paragon Station he soon singled out Beamish from Merriman's description.",
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"quote": "It said <strong>ten past three</strong>. The future was amazingly like the present. 'Now we've got to find a newspaper,' said Kirsty. 'It won't be a lot of help,' said Johnny.",
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"quote": "This time it was only the simple fact that the hands chanced to point to <strong>3.10pm</strong>, the precise moment at which all the clocks of London had stopped.",
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"quote": "Heart rate one thirty-two, one thirty-one, one thirty, and dropping. She was walking south on Park Avenue in the rain. The time was now <strong>eleven past three</strong> p.m.",
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"quote": "A light breeze had sprung up since he had dropped asleep, and it felt very grateful as it caressed his damp hair and flushed face. Perhaps those three miles were nearer four, because when, tired, dusty, and heart-sick, he descried the tower of the Congregational church above the leafless elms and maples of the village, the gilded hands pointed to <strong>twelve minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "Now, at this moment, he had come to the supreme test of his training. There was nothing for him to do. He had to keep calm, for now his mind was endangered. At <strong>thirteen minutes past three</strong> he began to consider the inevitability of death.",
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"quote": "If I knew that next Thursday at <strong>three fourteen</strong> I would be receiving an award for good posture, that would be great. But I'd probably get so nervous I would start slouching and the award would then be given to someone with a straighter back.",
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"quote": "Gordon was alone. He wandered back to the door. The strawberry-nosed man glanced over his shoulder, caught Gordon's eye, and moved off, foiled. He had been on the point of slipping Edgar Wallace into his pocket. The clock over the Prince of Wales struck <strong>a quarter past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "The Nimrod rendezvoused with the light aircraft at <strong>1516</strong> GMT.",
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"quote": "From the kitchen came the rackety-banging of the alarm-clock, proving that, as the clock was set to ring at six, Peter had found a mother for the fatherless children at just <strong>seventeen minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "I straightened. “I’m here for Professor Cohen.” “Who?” “Irène Cohen.” Peeking past the woman, I saw the grandfather clock, its hands fixed at <strong>3:17</strong>. The crystal vase was full of roses. The bookshelves now held a collection of beer steins.",
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"quote": "The graphic film is already wrinkling: the eagle has a broken wing; the hour hand is kinked. It is <strong>eighteen minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>nineteen minutes past three</strong> Cecily Thorogood, still self-possessed, but no longer very prettily clad, was submerged in the chilly Atlantic up to her shoulders and clinging to the life-line of an upturned jolly-boat.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty minutes past three</strong> on Monday, 26 January 1948, in Tokyo, and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking …",
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"quote": "The children came out in dribs and drabs, and it was not until <strong>shortly after twenty past three</strong> that Nandira walked out of the school entrance, carrying her school bag in one hand and a book in the other.",
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"quote": "They tried the next block and there was a barber shop near the far corner, but when they arrived there, Della said she didn't like the looks of it. Harbin studied his wristwatch. It was now <strong>twenty-two minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "<strong>Three twenty-three</strong>! Is that all? Doesn't time - no, I've already said that, thought that. I sit and watch the seconds change on the watch. I used to have a limited edition Rolex worth the price of a new car but I lost it.",
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"quote": "The organist, in his incredulous relief, made a horrible mess of the first bars of the wedding march. It was <strong>twenty-four minutes past three</strong> before Jimmy mouthed the first sentence of the day that even he was unable to shorten. 'I do,' he said.",
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"title": "The Reginald Perrin Omnibus"
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"quote": "'Hmm, let's see. It's a three-line rail-fence, a, d, g...d-a-r-l...Got it: 'Darling Hepzibah'—Hepzibah? What kind of name is that?—'Will meet you Reading Sunday <strong>15.25</strong> train Didcot-Reading.' Reading you all right, you idiots.'",
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"quote": "She ran to the window, but a wire mosquito screen was nailed across it. As she stared out she saw Korto, the cause of her desperate plight, sitting hunched up on the edge of a fountain in the empty courtyard. By banging on the wire she endeavoured to attract his attention, but he was sunk in torpid gloom. A clock showed above the stables opposite; it was <strong>twenty-six minutes past three</strong>.",
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"quote": "It was almost <strong>15.26</strong> so I sent a two-word message to Chris – 'All OK' – then started walking purposefully towards the nearest Portakabin, trying not to dwell too much on the insanity of what I was doing.",
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"quote": "In this state of despondency, with infinite delight and exultation Le clearly observed, on the second day, at <strong>twenty-seven minutes past three</strong> P.M., though at a considerable distance, a mountain and an island. His joy and his pride were equal, and excessive: he called the first Alligator Mountain, in gratitude to the pears; and christened the second after his mistress, that unlucky mistress!",
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"author": "Benjamin Disraeli",
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"quote": "Thorne was walking slowly around the small branch of WH Smith at Cambridge station, waiting for the <strong>15.28</strong> to King's Cross and driven back inside by the wind knifing along the platform.",
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"quote": "Poirot's face was very grave. 'So then, it seems possible that his death could have occurred at the time he mentioned to me - that is, at <strong>twenty-eight minutes past three</strong>.'",
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"quote": "'Good heavens!' she said, 'it's <strong>nearly half-past three</strong>. I must fly. Don't forget about the funeral service,' she added, as she put on her coat. 'The tapers, the black coffin in the middle of the aisle, the nuns in their white-winged coifs, the gloomy chanting, and the poor cowering creature without any teeth, her face all caved in like an old woman's, wondering whether she wasn't really and in fact dead - wondering whether she wasn't already in hell. Goodbye.'",
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"quote": "I must have completed my packing with time to spare, for when the knock came on my door at <strong>half past three</strong> precisely, I had been sitting in my chair waiting for a good while. I opened the door to a young Chinese man, perhaps not even twenty, dressed in a gown, his hat in his hand.",
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"author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
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"quote": "It was <strong>after half past three</strong> when the hotel manager came to see Hetty. She had made several applications to the front desk since Sean O'Donnell had left, but to no avail.",
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"author": "Edward Rutherfurd",
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"quote": "At <strong>3:32</strong> precisely, I noticed Kaitlyn striding confidently past the Wok House. She saw me the moment I raised my hand, flashed her very white and newly straightened teeth at me, and headed over.",
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"quote": "I picked up my briefcase, glancing at my watch again as I did so. <strong>Three thirty-three</strong>.",
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"title": "11\/22\/63"
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"quote": "It was <strong>15:34</strong> now and the sleepiness felt like lead inside him.",
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"quote": "By <strong>three-thirty-five</strong> business really winds down. I have already sold my ladderback chairs and my Scottish cardigans. I'm not even sure now why I've sold all these things, except perhaps so as not to be left out of this giant insult to one's life that is a yard sale, this general project of getting rid quick.",
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"quote": "Meanwhile a girl was standing in an airport concourse. A big clock suspended from the ceiling said it was <strong>twenty-four minutes to four</strong>.",
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"quote": "The explosion was now officially designated an 'Act of God'. But, thought Dirk, what god? And why? What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the <strong>15.37</strong> flight to Oslo?",
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"quote": "Mendez took a marker and added to the line for the day Karly Vickers disappeared: <strong>15:38</strong> traffic ticket issued by F. Farman. He added to the line for Thursday: L. Warwick index finger in possession of D. Farman. Leone came over, tapped a finger on the line about the traffic citation, and raised his eyebrows.",
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"author": "Tami Hoag",
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"quote": "I lived two lives in late 1965 and early 1963, one in Dallas and one in Jodie. They came together at <strong>three thirty-nine</strong> in the afternoon of April 10.",
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"title": "11\/22\/63"
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"time": 940,
"quote": "Why had nobody else arrived? Could he be too early? But no! They had said half past three and it was at least <strong>twenty to four</strong>. He hastened towards the gate.",
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"quote": "'Light hair, red-checked gingham dress, and straw hat' - all she knows, indeed! Well, I'd be ashamed ter own it up, that I would, I would - and her my onliest niece what was a-comin' from 'way across the continent!' Promptly at <strong>twenty minutes to four</strong> the next afternoon Timothy and Nancy drove off in the open buggy to meet the expected guest.",
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"quote": "It's <strong>nineteen minutes to four</strong>. Mum and Dad are looking very stressed. Dad's put his elbow in his beer three times. A couple of secs ago a thought hit me. Perhaps they're worried that when the kids arrive, they might all try to bash me up.",
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"quote": "At <strong>15:41</strong> GMT, the Cessna's engine began to cut out and the plane - presumably out of fuel - began to lose altitude",
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"author": "Iain Banks",
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"quote": "So that, who knows? At that sudden distance I might not have even stopped, being already in motion again, raising my hand and arm in return and on, across the alley, striding on as you would naturally expect a county attorney to be striding along a side street at <strong>forty-two minutes past three</strong> in the afternoon; one whole block more for safety and then safe, inviolate still the intactness, unthreatened again.",
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"author": "William Faulkner",
"title": "The Town"
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"quote": "He reached out a hand toward her, but she gave him such a terrible look that he pulled back and let her alone. At <strong>three forty-three</strong>, she set her jaw and kept going.",
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"title": "Doll Bones"
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"quote": "The armed response team hastily assembled from Strängnäs arrived at Bjurman's summer cabin at <strong>3.44 p.m.</strong>",
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"author": "Stieg Larsson",
"title": "The Girl Who Played With Fire"
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"quote": "I opened my notebook, flipped almost to the end before I found a blank page, and wrote 'October 5th, <strong>3.45pm</strong>, Dunning to Longview Cem, puts flowers on parents' (?) graves. Rain.' I had what I wanted.",
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"title": "11\/22\/63"
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"quote": "I authorize you to leave this room at fourteen minutes to four.... Not a moment before <strong>fourteen minutes to four</strong>.... Is it understood?'",
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"author": "Maurice Leblanc",
"title": "The Blonde Lady"
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"quote": "'I said now, Mr. Maryk. Now, according to my watch, is not the morning, but <strong>forty-seven minutes past three</strong>. If you get no results by eight o'clock this morning I shall solve the mystery myself-noting duly for future fitness reports the failure of the board to carry out its assignment.'",
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"title": "The Caine Mutiny"
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"quote": "At <strong>15:48</strong> the satellite passed out of the 'area of interest' determined by the Madrid computer.",
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"author": "James Follett",
"title": "Doomsday Ultimatum"
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"quote": "Anthony picked up the note and placed it beside his lordship. Then he left the room and returned to his work. Lord Pomfret was exceedingly wrath. In fact, he brooded over the incident. This augured ill for Anthony. The cold fact that in due season—to be precise, at <strong>eleven minutes to four</strong> that same afternoon—Slip Along won his race easily did not improve matters.",
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"author": "Dornford Yates",
"title": "Anthony Lyveden"
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"quote": "When I arrived at the tearoom, I did a quick circuit, looking for the red hat. There were no women with red hats. My watch showed <strong>ten minutes to four</strong>.",
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"author": "Haruki Murakami",
"title": "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
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"quote": "The telegram seems to say, 'The Sovereigns and the Royal Children expect themselves at Rome tomorrow at <strong>fifty-one minutes after fifteen</strong> o'clock.'",
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"author": "Mark Twain",
"title": "Italian Without a Master"
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"quote": "He came to a curve, and there was the lay-by, just where McCready had said it would be. He checked his watch; <strong>eight minutes to four</strong>. The road was empty.",
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"author": "Frederick Forsyth",
"title": "The Deceiver"
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"quote": "It was like the clouds lifting away from the sun. Jodie glanced at Reacher. He glanced at the clock. <strong>Seven minutes to four</strong>. Less than three hours to go.",
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"title": "Tripwire"
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"quote": "She hurriedly fed the donkey and the remaining rabbits, and scrambled into her car at <strong>six minutes to four</strong>, the dog following her unenthusiastically. 'Your supper will have to wait until we get back,' Thea told her. 'It's too early to have it now.'",
"asin": "B006WB2FJK",
"author": "Rebecca Tope",
"title": "Fear in the Cotswolds"
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"quote": "Blomkvist glanced at the clock. It was <strong>five minutes to four</strong>. 'Do you want to see her? She's still afraid that you won't want to after you found out what she did.'",
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"author": "Stieg Larsson",
"title": "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
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"quote": "At <strong>four minutes to four</strong> o'clock, Jacob presses blotting paper over the page on his desk in Warehouse Eik. He drinks another cup of water of which he shall sweat every last drop.",
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"author": "David Mitchell",
"title": "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
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"time": 957,
"quote": "The clerk had stepped into the hall, and when he came leisurely in at <strong>three minutes to four</strong>, Caxton discovered that he had written his petition on the back of a blank marriage license.",
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"author": "Charles W. Chesnutt",
"title": "The Colonel's Dream"
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"time": 958,
"quote": "A hum of tolling bells makes itself heard, but not sharply. At <strong>three-fifty-eight</strong> a waiting interval. Presently a long procession of gentlemen in evening dress comes in sight and approaches until it is near to the square, then falls back against the wall of soldiers at the sidewalk, and the white shirt-fronts show like snowflakes and are very conspicuous where so much warm color is all about.",
"asin": "1406502537",
"author": "Mark Twain",
"title": "The Memorable Assassination"
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"quote": "In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55, when you know you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to <strong>four o'clock</strong>, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.",
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"quote": "He played for twenty-two days, just as he said he would. Every day at <strong>four o'clock</strong> in the afternoon, regardless of how much fighting was going on around him.",
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"quote": "I only found out much later that those flowers were called <strong>Four O'clock</strong>, and were not magic at all. The magic was in the seed, waiting to be watered and cared for, the real magic was life.",
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"quote": "I'd just looked up at the clock, to make sure time wasn't getting away from me, when I heard the shot. It was <strong>two minutes after four</strong>. I didn't know what to do.",
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"quote": "She read the page carefully and then said, '<strong>16.03</strong> - cat goes to the toilet in front garden.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>four past four</strong> he was aware of a rustling train's rush down the steps, and now was like a man with his neck on the block, awaiting the axe.",
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"quote": "I was standing at the top of the long flight, overlooking the red brick buildings that walled the snow-filled quad and preparing to catch the trolley back to the asylum, when a tall young man with a rather ugly and bespectacled, but intelligent face, came up and said, 'Could you please tell me the time?' I glanced at my watch. '<strong>Five past four</strong>.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>six minutes after four</strong>, Benny's Cadillac pulled up in front of Mr. Botelia's store, and Benny's mother stepped out of the car with Penelope, who was gnawing on the tip of an ice cream cone.",
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"quote": "But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in air and then he realised that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at <strong>seven minutes after four</strong> on Pentecost Sunday.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>eight minutes after four</strong>. I still don't have a plan. Maybe the guys in the Nova, maybe they had a plan.",
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"quote": "I have to hang up now, Rosemary said. 'I just wanted to know if there was any improvement.'\n'No, there isn't. It was nice of you to call.' She hung up. It was <strong>nine minutes after four</strong>.",
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"quote": "He began speaking at <strong>ten past four</strong>. His voice was a little hoarse, and he said he had a sore throat. He paused, then said: 'I appear before the House of Commons today with the most terrible responsibility that can fall on the shoulders of any living man.'",
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"quote": "<strong>4:11 P.M.</strong> Thurs. A Huey helicopter flies east overhead as the last of the U.S. Marines make ready to leave the beach; a buzzard dangles in the thermals closer over the town.",
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"quote": "At precisely <strong>twelve minutes after four</strong> a body of cavalry rode into the square, four abreast, clearing a way for the funeral cortege.",
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"quote": "But at precisely <strong>4.13pm</strong>, the fifty thousand spectators saw the totally unexpected happen, before their very eyes. From the most crowded section of the southern grandstand, an apparition suddenly emerged.",
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"quote": "Then at <strong>4.14pm</strong> on March 12 I moved behind zinc-zirconium-not-to-be-revealed-compounds protecting me in this hill, and God have mercy but the struggle is just exchanged for the next one, which is exhausting me further as I say, to separate the true from the false.",
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"quote": "The sun had begun to sink in the west, and the shadow of an oak branch had crept across my knees. My watch said it was <strong>4.15</strong>.",
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"quote": "It is only <strong>a quarter past four</strong>, (shewing his watch) and you are not now in Bath. No theatre, no rooms to prepare for. Half an hour at Northanger must be enough.",
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"quote": "<strong>4.16pm</strong> The terrace outside the bar is packed, and Igor feels proud of his ability to plan things, because even though he's never been to Cannes before, he had foreseen precisely this situation and reserved a table.",
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"quote": "In the next instant she was running toward her house, unmindful of the bags she had dropped, seeing only the police cars, knowing as she glanced down at her watch and saw that it was <strong>seventeen minutes after four</strong>, that for her time had stopped.",
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"quote": "And then, over the loudspeaker, she heard an announcement: the <strong>16.18</strong> was due to arrive on platform two, calling at Plymouth, Liskeard, Par, St Austell, Truro, Redruth, St Erth and Penzance. For a moment she stood, at a loss, while passengers flowed past her in both directions.",
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"quote": "Jessica [<strong>4:19 PM</strong>] Don't tease me like that. I haven't been to a play in years. Charles [4:19 PM] Then it'll be my treat. You and the hubby can have big fun on me.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty minutes past four</strong> - or, to put it another, blunter way, an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride, her head down, a parent stationed on either side of her, was helped out of the building...",
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"quote": "<strong>4.21pm</strong> As they started on, Doug picked up a twig and after rubbing it off, started to move one end of it inside his mouth. 'What are you doing?' Bob asked. 'Brushing my teeth, nature style,' Doug answered. Bob grunted, smiling slightly. 'I'll use my toothbrush,' he said.",
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"quote": "Monday, <strong>4.22pm</strong> Washington, D.C. Paul Hood took his daily late-afternoon look at the list of names on his computer monitor.",
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"quote": "They were hurrying west, trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related 'adjustments' to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days, so that now, in January, sunset was taking place at <strong>4.23</strong>.",
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"quote": "Mike winked at Ashley and continued with the remaining greetings and hugs and handshakes. The time was <strong>4:24</strong>. Six hours to go. The minutes seemed to just melt away.",
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"quote": "Once I had established my right to exercise, one of the policemen would take me out of my cell. The first day he said, 'It is 25 to four now. You have an hour's exercise. You finish at <strong>25 past four</strong>.'",
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"quote": "It seemed all wrong to have thought of such a thing. She thought, 'I don't know him. Nor does he know me. Nor ever shall we.' She put her bare hand in the sun, where the wind would weather it. It was <strong>twenty-six minutes after four</strong>.",
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"quote": "Still no sign of Juliet. Patricia gave a surreptitious glance at her watch; <strong>twenty-seven minutes past four</strong> –no! nearly twenty-eight past – Oh, hurry up, Juliet, hurry up, do!",
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"quote": "Same day: <strong>4.28pm</strong>- Right turn at the second bus stop after the gas station. I stopped the car at the first ward post office and inquired at the corner tobacconists. Mr. M's house was the one to the right of the post office, visible diagonally in front of me.",
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"quote": "He described the anxieties of the trip, the delay at the aerodrome, the audacities of the Parisian taxicab. 'I got there,' he finished, 'at <strong>twenty-nine past four</strong>.",
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"quote": "I leave the office at <strong>four thirty</strong>, head up to Xclusive where I work out on free weights for an hour, then taxi across the park to Gio's in the Pierre Room for a facial, a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure.",
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"quote": "At <strong>four-thirty</strong> that afternoon in late January when I stepped into the parlour with Boo, my dog, Hutch was in his favourite armchair, scowling at the television, which he had muted.",
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"quote": "No sooner had he pocketed it again than a terrible suspicion came over him. With trembling fingers he accessed the list of outgoing calls. The most recent entry was his own home number, dialled at <strong>16.31</strong> on 16.07.",
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"quote": "At exactly <strong>16:32</strong> hours of a bright spring afternoon, an Iricoil tanker proceeding down the St. Lawrence Seaway fouled its propellor on a tangle of steel cables, origin unknown.",
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"quote": "At <strong>4.33pm</strong>, a short bald man puffing on a cigar arrived at the library. He approached a huge cabinet storing thousands of alphabetically arranged cards and slid a drawer out. The tips of his fingers were bandaged.",
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"quote": "A bedroom stocked with all the ordinary, usual things. There was a wardrobe in the corner. A bedside table with a collection of water glasses of varying ages and an alarm clock with red digital numbers - <strong>4.34 p.m.</strong>",
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"quote": "It was <strong>thirty-five minutes past four</strong>. To expunge the sin of afternoon indolence, his first lapse since childhood, he washed his face in cold water three times, slapped his cheeks, and decided to walk all the way to the train station and back.",
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"quote": "The Voice shut itself off with a click, and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the <strong>4.35</strong> from Birmingham and Wolverhampton.",
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"quote": "They watched their friend through the glass cover; the heaving of the chest became less and less, the breathing lower and lower, while a purple hue settled upon his body. At <strong>thirty-six minutes past four</strong>, the last division of the wheel had been reached.",
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"quote": "She should have been home by now. <strong>1637</strong>. Yes. It's as if I had the date of a year on my arm. Every day is a piece of world history.",
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"quote": "I let him put me in the car and drive me to the station. At <strong>twenty-two minutes to five</strong> by the clock in the station house I was in front of a cell in the Mill River jail.",
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"quote": "Harlem enjoys lazy Sabbath mornings, although the pace picks up again in the afternoon, after church. My watch read <strong>4:39 p.m.</strong>, and I realized that I hadn't eaten all day. I bought two slices of pizza from a sidewalk vendor on 122nd and Lenox Avenue and washed it down with a grape Snapple.",
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"quote": "<strong>Four forty</strong> P.M. Besta sang another hymn. Everyone knew something was wrong. How long did they wait? The mayor was going crazy inside, as was the mayor's wife, as was their daughter. Seiji could barely contain his rage. He was turning as red as his red tuxedo.",
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"author": "Tip 'T.I.' Harris with David Ritz",
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"quote": "She'd opened the door at <strong>nineteen minutes to five</strong>, thinking she had some measure of control over her world…. Now she knew it for the lie it was. Everything she once thought she knew was upside-down; everything had changed.",
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"quote": "I'm always happy when I reach the finish line of a long-distance race, but this time it really struck me hard. I pumped my right fist into the air. The time was <strong>4:42pm</strong>. Eleven hours and forty-two minutes since the start of the race.",
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"quote": "It seems as if the Indian mail train that leaves Bombay at <strong>16:43</strong> is the train I'm destined to be on. Destiny is a word with thousands of new connotations in India.",
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"quote": "At <strong>sixteen minutes to five</strong> Mr Beveridge stood by the side of the Clankwood Avenue, comfortably wrapped in Dr Escort's fur coat, and smoking with the greatest relish one of Dr Escott's undeniable cigars. It was almost dark, the air bit keen, the dim park with its population of black trees was filled with a frosty, eager stillness.",
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"quote": "At <strong>four-forty-five</strong> Miss Haddon went to tea with the Principal, who explained why she desired all the pupils to learn the same duet. It was part of her new co-ordinative system.",
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"quote": "At <strong>4:46</strong> an obese, middle-aged man shuffled in. Wearing a starched guayabera and dark green pants, Ureña asked for a book on confectionery, then took a seat at the end of the same reading room. Evelina and Leticia exchanged astonished glances. It definitely was one of those days.",
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"quote": "But maybe it was more than that, maybe Affenlight had erred badly somehow, because here it was 4:49 by his watch, <strong>4:47</strong> by the wall clock, and Owen had not yet come.",
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"quote": "By <strong>four forty-eight</strong> the five-man team had her back again and the urgent struggle to save Ellen's life continued. She'd now been undergoing surgery for the best part of two hours, and it was doubtful her body could sustain much more trauma.",
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"quote": "<strong>4:49 p.m.</strong>, a bald-headed man wearing khakis and ankle-high deck shoes came out through the front door of the purple house on 21st Avenue East. The detectives had nicknamed him the General.",
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"quote": "But at <strong>ten minutes to five</strong> a girl ran up the steps of Number Eighteen and rang the bell. She was a girl of medium height, very straight and slim; and her fair hair, her cheerful smile, and the boyish suppleness of her body all contributed to a general effect of valiant gaiety, a sort of golden sunniness",
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"quote": "<strong>Nine minutes to five</strong>. If this wasn't some new ordeal, intended to fray her nerves to shreds, if this important person really did exist, if he'd actually set up this appointment, and if, moreover, he arrived on time, then there were nine minutes left.",
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"quote": "The corrida was to begin at five o'clock. The five-footed beasts make a point of arriving at the latest at eight or seven minutes to: ritual again. At <strong>eight minutes to five</strong>, there they were. The urchins gave them a tap on the shoulder: another bit of ritual.",
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"author": "Henry De Montherlant",
"title": "Chaos and Night"
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"quote": "It was so quiet in the post office that Trinidad could hear the soft tick of the clock's second hand every time it moved. It was now <strong>seven minutes before five</strong>.",
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"quote": "At <strong>six minutes before five</strong> o'clock, Daisy Robinson, about to reach her own apartment door, paused to look and to listen. Something was out of order. Tess Rogan's door was standing wide open and, from within, Daisy could hear something being broken.",
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"quote": "About <strong>five minutes to five</strong>, just as they were all putting their things away for the night, Nimrod suddenly appeared in the house. He had come hoping to find some of them ready dressed to go home before the proper time.",
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"quote": "And when that final Friday came, when my packing was mostly done, she sat with my dad and me on the living-room couch at <strong>4:56 P.M.</strong> and patiently awaited the arrival of the Good-bye to Miles Cavalry.",
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"quote": "Then at <strong>three minutes to five</strong> — Pendel had somehow never doubted that Osnard would be punctual — along comes a brown Ford hatchback with an Avis sticker on the back window and pulls into the space reserved for customers.",
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"quote": "I was told that in his vest pocket he kept a chronometer instead of a watch. If someone asked him what time it was, he would say, '<strong>A minute</strong> and twenty-one seconds <strong>to five</strong>.'",
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"quote": "I do not wish, sir, said Julien to him gravely, 'to be alone for a single instant. Deign to observe,' he added, showing him the clock over their heads, 'that I have arrived at <strong>one minute to five</strong>.'\n'So those little rascals at the seminary frightened you. It is very good of you to think of them,' said the abbé.",
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"quote": "At the end of that day's work Mma Ramotswe so engineered matters that she was standing at the door of her tiny white van at precisely the time – <strong>one minute to five</strong> – that the two apprentices came out of the garage entrance, wiping their greasy hands on a handful of the loose white lint provided by Mr J. L. B. Matekoni.",
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"quote": "The rain stopped around <strong>5 p.m.</strong> and a few of those people who were out and about expressed mild surprise when the rainbow failed to fade.",
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"quote": "We motored, I remember, leaving London in the morning in a heavy shower of rain, coming to Manderley about <strong>five o'clock</strong>, in time for tea. I can see myself now, unsuitably dressed as usual, although a bride of seven weeks, in a tan-coloured stockinette frock, a small fur known as a stone marten round my neck, and over all a shapeless mackintosh, far too big for me and dragging to my ankles.",
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"quote": "At <strong>five o'clock</strong> adieux were waved, and the ponderous liner edged away from the long pier, slowly turned its nose seaward, discarded its tug, and headed for the widening water spaces that led to old world wonders.",
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"quote": "<strong>One minute after five</strong>. The seated guests were told that the ceremony would begin shortly. A little more patience was required.",
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"quote": "She stood up, shook her hair into place, smoothed her skirt and turned on the light. It was <strong>two minutes past five</strong>. She would have thought it midnight or five in the morning.",
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"quote": "'Good evening, Mrs. Scheindlin,' the man said before departing. 'Good evening, Chris. Say hello to the wife for me.'\n'I sure will. Thanks. Bye,' he said, waving to Elliot, who returned the goodbye. It was <strong>5:03</strong> when Elliot rested the handset in its cradle.",
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"quote": "Frank Wamsley spotted his cousin Barbara and her husband and waved to them. Just ahead, he saw Marvin and his two friends. Suddenly the whole bridge convulsed. The time was <strong>5:04 P.M.</strong> Steel screamed.",
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"quote": "That evening, Fanwell left the garage at his usual time, which was <strong>five minutes past five</strong>. Work ended officially at five o'clock, and Fanwell, being conscientious, insisted on working until the very last moment",
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"quote": "In her ledger the historic moment of delivery was later put at <strong>six past five</strong>, which was a lie but gave it force.",
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"quote": "Be ready to meet it. 'If you're turned t'other way you c'n git a quicker start if you want to run,' suggested Jim Borum, bracing himself with a fresh chew of tobacco. 'What time is it?' asked Wicker Bonner. Anderson Crow squinted up through the leafless treetops toward the setting sun; then he looked at the shadow of a sapling down on the bank. 'It's about <strong>seven minutes past five</strong> - in the evenin',' he said conclusively.",
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"quote": "As I looked at its huge dial, and at the pendulum moving to and fro regularly and slowly in Space, as if its swinging meant to divide eternity, I saw its needles pointing to <strong>seven minutes past five</strong>.",
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"quote": "This, then, was the position in which my distant cousin Montrose found himself at <strong>eight minutes past five</strong> on this misty evening. A position calculated to test the fortitude of the sternest.",
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"quote": "She looked at her watch and saw it was <strong>nine minutes past five</strong>. It's happening, Daddy! The sun's going out! Yes, he agreed.",
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"quote": "<strong>Five ten P.M.</strong> A ground-to-ground cruise missile, launched from a tractor installed in the backyard of Leonard Sudavico's former home by Rashan and a crew of technicians from Afghanistan, exploded onto the Paul Clay estate in the exact spot where the life-size mermaid had once swum in the waterfall.",
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"quote": "At <strong>eleven minutes past five</strong> Dick Bellamy stopped Melchard's car outside the booking-office of somnolent Harthborough's dead-alive station - the junction of the single-line track to Whitebay and its bathing machines with the double-track branch of the G.N.R.",
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"quote": "'Well, here we are,' said Colonel Julyan, 'and it's exactly <strong>twelve minutes past five</strong>. We shall catch them in the middle of their tea. Better wait for a bit' Maxim lit a cigarette, and then stretched out his hand to me. He did not speak.",
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"quote": "So at <strong>17.13</strong> Callum Green was buying a necklace and something like a couple of hours later he was dead.",
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"quote": "'Do you know what time it is, Atticus?' she said. 'Exactly <strong>fourteen minutes past five</strong>. The alarm clock's set for five-thirty. I want you to know that.'",
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"quote": "'I think the first one I remember happening was on the London Underground, Circle line, at <strong>17.16 p.m.</strong>' She went on to describe what had happened or not quite happened.",
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"quote": "And it was just <strong>seventeen minutes past five</strong> when Dick Ffrench, hanging in a frenzy of anxiety over the paddock fence circling the inside of the mile oval, uttered something resembling a howl and rushed to the gate to signal his recreant driver.",
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"quote": "Lupin rose, without breaking his contemptuous silence, and took the sheet of paper. I remembered soon after that, at this moment, I happened to look at the clock. It was <strong>eighteen minutes past five</strong>.",
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"quote": "The call came at <strong>5.19 p.m.</strong> The line was surprisingly clear. A man introduced himself as Major Liepa from the Riga police. Wallander made notes as he listened, occasionally answering a question.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twenty past five</strong> and ten minutes to closing and she was running up her totals on the electronic till before watching Neighbours on TV with Marilyn her daughter who was upstairs minding her little girl.",
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"quote": "He next proceeded to examine seriatim the dead man's pockets, turning each of them inside out and taking the contents, where they appeared adapted to his needs: for instance, a silken purse, through the interstices of which some gold was visible; a watch, which however had been injured by the explosion, and had stopt just at the moment - <strong>twenty-one minutes past five</strong> - when the catastrophe took place.",
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"quote": "Joubert drove there to help with the interrogation, compare alibis. Hours of listening to lies, sparring with teenage bravado and blatant provocation. But at <strong>17:22</strong> Lieutenant Petersen's patience eventually ran out.",
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"quote": "'I was wondering if we could meet for a drink.'\n'What for?'\n'Just for a chat. Do you know the Royal batsman, near Central Station? We could meet tomorrow at five?'\n'<strong>Five twenty-three</strong>,' I said, to exert some control over the situation.",
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"quote": "'You know the game, rendezvous at...' and he looked up at the clock on the wall, '... exactly thirty hours from now at <strong>17:24</strong> hours and be ready to haul ass.'",
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"quote": "Now said Handsley, when Angela had poured out the last cup, 'it's <strong>twenty-five minutes past five</strong>, At half-past the Murder game is on'",
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"quote": "There was a pause. 'Nick?'\n'There's a train that leaves Totnes at <strong>twenty-six minutes past five</strong> this afternoon,' I said, 'and it reaches London at—'",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-seven minutes past five</strong>, he rose and went indoors again; and until his death, which occurred in 1820, he never once failed to perform this incomprehensible pilgrimage.",
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"quote": "Ahem! Jerry teased. 'If you want to know the time, it is <strong>twenty-seven minutes past five</strong>. Your kindred spirit should appear in three minutes.'\n'Here she comes now.' Marjorie had spied Katherine coming up the walk.",
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"quote": "And so, when he told her on May 15 at <strong>5:28</strong> in the afternoon that he had to be moving on, she passed out. She was in his bed at the time.",
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"quote": "Vimes pulled out the Gooseberry and stared at it. At a time like this . . . 'Well?' he said. 'It's <strong>twenty-nine minutes past five</strong>, Insert Name Here,' said the imp nervously.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>half-past five</strong> before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression.",
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"quote": "They discussed the transmission: which of their friends, they wondered, was responsible for it? But at <strong>17:31</strong> Pick called back.",
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"quote": "It was exactly <strong>thirty-two minutes past five</strong> o'clock on the evening of Friday, December 9th, when the station-master at Anerley received the following communication by wire from the signal box at Forest Hill: 5.28 down from London Bridge just passed.",
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"quote": "At <strong>5:33 p.m.</strong> there is a blast of two deep, resonant notes a major third apart. On another day there is the same blast at 12:54 p.m. On another, exactly 8 a.m.",
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"quote": "I was as jittery as a virgin in a sorority house all day Thursday. By Friday I was certifiable. My phone rang at <strong>5:34</strong> in the afternoon. I had twenty-six minutes before my next client. It was Solberg.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-five minutes to six</strong> he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening 'preparation duty.' The West Street was empty and shining golden with the sunset.",
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"quote": "'...at that moment I looked again at my watch because I wanted to be back at the Cathedral as Evensong ended at about twenty to six in order to talk to the choirmaster before he left. I saw I only had four minutes before it ended.'\n'So that occurred at precisely <strong>twenty-four minutes before six</strong>?'\n'Exactly.'",
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"quote": "Look, Lucille, said Joe when Lucille strolled into the office at <strong>5:37</strong>. 'I don't know what you said to this gal, but it seems to have had exactly the opposite of the desired effect. She's got some bee in her bonnet about Harvard Law School.'",
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"quote": "At <strong>17.38</strong> the city seemed deserted. It was the first Friday in the wake of the war. The men were still at the front. The women, the elderly and the children had retreated into their homes, trying to find the will to celebrate the Sabbath.",
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"quote": "It's <strong>05:39</strong> so we can have dinner, it's quick noodles. While they're in the hot water, Ma finds hard words to test me from the milk carton like nutritional that means food, and pasteurized that means laser guns zapped away the germs.",
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"quote": "Hey, young man, what time is it? 'What?' I said, is it 5:30 yet? 'Er, <strong>5:40</strong>.' Heavens, they'll be starving. But then that's a good thing. Let them.'",
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"quote": "'All right, people, let's haul ass. Sunset's at <strong>17:41</strong> and we've got twenty-three k to go.' Staff Sergeant Beyhn got to his feet and the platoon followed.",
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"quote": "'Well, they set sail, and after going ever so many thousand miles, or hundred - I forget which, but it don't matter - a great storm arose, a typhoon or simoon, perhaps both; and after slowly gathering up its energies for the space of twenty-nine days, seven hours, and twenty-three minutes, without counting the seconds, it burst upon them at exactly <strong>forty-two minutes past five</strong>, on the sixth day of the week.",
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"author": "James De Mille",
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"quote": "The first message came in at <strong>5:43</strong> in the afternoon, while I was at Vitality Yoga, attempting to prolong my vigor with mindful breath and deep core awareness, or at least that's what the brochure promised.",
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"author": "Lian Dolan",
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"quote": "Sometimes the heat of the fire, or the buzzing of the bluebottles on summer afternoons, would send her off into a doze, and at about <strong>a quarter to six</strong> she'd wake up with a tremendous start, glance at the clock on the mantelpiece, and then get into a stew because tea was going to be late.",
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"quote": "Janice is not waiting for him in the lounge or beside the pool when at last around <strong>5.45</strong> they come home from playing the par-5 eighteenth. Instead one of the girls in their green and white uniforms comes over and tells him that his wife wants him to call home.",
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"quote": "What time did you leave there? 'It must have been <strong>about quarter to six</strong>, for I was home at six.'\n'And Miss Lindsay was there when you left.'\n'Oh, yes, she was there when I left.' And then, Philip Barry's secret fear was confirmed.",
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"quote": "'Then I take it the matter is practically concluded,' said the clergyman. 'And that you very properly submit to return to your proper home. And now, if I may offer a suggestion, it is that we take tea. Freed of its tannin, nothing, I think, is more refreshing and stimulating.'\n'There's a train from Lyndhurst at <strong>thirteen minutes to six</strong>,' said Widgery, unfolding a time table.",
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"quote": "Father came home at <strong>5:48 p.m.</strong> I heard him come through the front door. Then he came into the living room. He was wearing a lime green and sky blue check shirt and there was a double knot on one of his shoes but not on the other.",
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"quote": "'It's <strong>eleven minutes to six</strong>, Insert Name Here,' said the imp meekly. 'Good grief! Why didn't you tell me!'\n'Because you said you didn't want to be interrupted!' the imp quavered.",
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"quote": "'What time is it Jack?'\n'<strong>Ten to six</strong>'\n'Ten more minutes then.' I shuffle the cards. 'Time for a quick game of rummy?'",
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"quote": "The sun was red and the shadows were long and dark. It wanted but <strong>nine minutes to six</strong>, and within the hotel the disgraceful National Swill was in full flow, men pouring as much liquor down their throats as possible before the fatal hour of drought arrived.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>eight minutes to six</strong> o'clock. 'I must get him,' he told the telephone girl for the dozenth time. 'Sorry - no one will answer,' she said wearily.",
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"quote": "'That boy will be spoiled, as sure as I go on springs; he's made such a lot of. Have you been regulated?'\n'I should think I have!' exclaimed I, in indignant recollection of my education. 'All right; keep your temper. What time are you?'\n'<strong>Seven minutes to six</strong>.'",
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"quote": "'And yet,' Edward Henry Machin reflected as at <strong>six minutes to six</strong> he approached his own dwelling at the top of Bleakridge, 'and yet - I don't feel so jolly after all!'",
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"quote": "'I think we'll be lucky if we get away before they arrive.' At <strong>five minutes to six</strong> I was in position at the end of the strip with my engine running, ready for take-off.",
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"quote": "When he reached the pier gates at <strong>five minutes to six</strong>, they were closed, and the obscure vista of the pier as deserted as some northern pier in mid-winter.",
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"quote": "The clock over his head said <strong>five minutes to six</strong>. Shifting his glance from the clock, Jon became aware of a squat black robot waving to attract his attention.",
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"quote": "Now, sir, the hand wants <strong>four minutes to six</strong>. If the hour strike before you call yourself a wanton, gratuitous calumniator, I 'll flog you round the room.'",
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"author": "Charles James Lever",
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"quote": "Hugo Carmody had done this, with the result that by <strong>three minutes to six</strong> he was feeling as if he had been marooned among roses since the beginning of the summer.",
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"quote": "He would make his way by charm, the charm of voice, of jewel-like language, above all by the intellectual charm of new, moving, luminous ideas. At <strong>three minutes to six</strong> the doctor closed the book and waited.",
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"quote": "'Uh – yeah. Exactly. And what's the time now?' Then I notice the windows: they're shiny dark. <strong>17:58</strong>, insists my watch. It can't be. It's only just gone four. I peer around my tormentor's belly to find Immaculée Constantin, but she's gone.",
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"title": "Bone Clocks"
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"quote": "When he arrived it was <strong>nearly six</strong> o'clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>nearly six</strong> o'clock in the evening, and the absurd bell in the six-foot tin steeple of the church went clank-clank, clank- clank! as old Mattu pulled the rope within.'",
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"quote": "The newspaper snaked through the door and there was suddenly a <strong>six o'clock</strong> feeling in the house",
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"quote": "When he arrived it was nearly <strong>six o'clock</strong>, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks.",
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"quote": "King Richard: What is o'clock?\nCatesby: It is <strong>six o'clock</strong>, full supper time.\nKing Richard: I will not sup tonight. Give me some ink and paper.",
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"quote": "Although it was only <strong>six o'clock</strong>, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred every detail with its ragged veils, punctured at various distances by the reddish glow of lanterns and bars of light escaping from illuminated windows.",
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"author": "Théophile Gautier",
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"quote": "David had followed me at <strong>one minute past six</strong>. Then three others had managed to get away, making it five altogether. But as the sixth Hurricane was gathering speed for lift-off, a swarm of Messerschmitts had come swooping in over the olive trees.",
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"quote": "At <strong>two minutes past six o'clock</strong>, he stood outside of the coffee house as instructed, to the right of the entrance, and waited to be contacted. Over the noise of the street traffic and the guitar, he heard a soft tuneless jangling-tinkling.",
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"quote": "Above it all rose the Houses of Parliament, with the hands of the clock stopped at <strong>three minutes past six</strong>. It was difficult to believe that all that meant nothing any more, that now it was just a pretentious confection that could decay in peace.",
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"author": "John Wyndham",
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"quote": "'We will make record of it, my Rosannah; every year, as this dear hour chimes from the clock, we will celebrate it with thanksgivings, all the years of our life.'\n'We will, we will, Alonzo!'\n'<strong>Four minutes after six</strong>, in the evening, my Rosannah...'",
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"author": "Mark Twain",
"title": "The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton"
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"quote": "At about<strong> five past six</strong> Piers came in carrying an evening paper and a few books.",
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"author": "Barbara Pym",
"title": "A Glass of Blessings"
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"quote": "'According to the Book of Revelation, the great beast's number is 666. So that exact time would be <strong>six minutes past six</strong> on the sixth of the sixth, sixty-six. Double whammy.",
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"author": "Robert Rankin",
"title": "A Dog Called Demolition"
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"quote": "The minutes ticked by. The silence in the room roared in their ears. At <strong>seven minutes past six</strong>, Charles's phone rang.",
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"author": "Fern Michaels",
"title": "The Jury"
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"quote": "<strong>6:08 p.m.</strong> The code-word 'Valkyrie' reached von Seydlitz Gabler's headquarters",
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"author": "Hans Hellmut Kirst",
"title": "The Night of the Generals"
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"quote": "Here I am, at <strong>nine minutes past six</strong> on a drizzly Saturday evening, with every intention of writing a book in one sitting.",
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"author": "Nick Spalding",
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"quote": "'Cut the city's communications,' I said. 'Excuse me?' came the startled response. 'Do it, and call me back when it's done—wait, Lewis! Are you there?'\n'Yes, Rook Thomas.'\n'How dark is it there now?' I asked. 'What?'\n'How dark is it there? It's <strong>ten past six</strong> in the evening here, and it's dark.",
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"author": "Daniel O'Malley",
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"quote": "The first explosion occurred at <strong>eleven minutes past six</strong>. The chart-house and part of the bridge were blown to pieces. Three dull, splintering crashes ensued in rapid succession, proving beyond question that the bombs were set to automatically explode at a given time.",
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"author": "George Barr McCutcheon",
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"quote": "He appeared to be haggling with the vendor about the amount of extra sauerkraut. Where was Harlequin? The clock on the tower of the Old Town Hall showed <strong>twelve minutes past six</strong>.",
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"author": "Jonathan Stroud",
"title": "The Golem's Eye"
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"quote": "I take out my watch and it marks <strong>thirteen minutes past six</strong>. As I have already mentioned, I waited for the door of my prison to open, thoroughly resolved not to fall asleep again, but to spring upon the first person who entered and force him to answer my questions.",
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"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Facing the Flag"
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"quote": "He has been for some years a victim to cataleptic attacks, on which, as is well known, Dr. Trevelyan is an authority. He proposes to call at <strong>about quarter past six</strong> to-morrow evening, if Dr. Trevelyan will make it convenient to be at home.'",
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"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
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"quote": "<strong>Quarter past six</strong>,' said Tony. 'He's bound to have told her by now.'",
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"author": "Evelyn Waugh",
"title": "A Handful of Dust"
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"quote": "The clock above the door said <strong>sixteen minutes past six</strong>. The pictures showed the door opening and a rug coming in—just the rug, flat, held up perpendicular, hanging straight down. Of course there was someone behind it.",
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"author": "Rex Stout",
"title": "If Death Ever Slept"
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"quote": "The printed front of the card read Bernis Sand. On the back was written in pencil: your westbound tram stop at <strong>18:17</strong>. There was no date or signature. At 18:17 Adele stepped out of the townhouse with Tovera at her side.",
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"quote": "It was at <strong>18:18</strong> when a sixty-one-year-old Tibetan woman telephoned for a fire engine to put out a burning car.",
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"author": "Ben Trebilcook",
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"quote": "I abort a groan. Gravesend's a black cloud. Vinny and Stella and Mam are in it. Are it. My watch says <strong>18:19</strong> and the Captain Marlow'll be cheerful and chattery as the evening regulars drift in.",
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"title": "The Bone Clocks"
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"quote": "By the time Elliot's mother arrived at <strong>twenty past six</strong>, Mrs Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of.",
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"quote": "<strong>6.21 PM</strong>\nMiss Pettigrew found herself wafted into the passage. She was past remonstrance now, past bewilderment, surprise, expostulation. Her eyes shone. Her face glowed. Her spirits soared. Everything was happening too quickly. She couldn't keep up with things, but, by golly, she could enjoy them.",
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"author": "Winifred Watson",
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"quote": "Clock overturned when he fell forward. That'll give us the time of the crime. <strong>Twenty-two minutes past six</strong>.",
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"quote": "They surrounded it with excitement ... a picnic lunch in the kitchen, a double bolt drawn across the front door just in case the impossible happened and Father came home from the bank before <strong>twenty-three minutes past six</strong> in the evening.",
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"author": "Maeve Binchy",
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"quote": "We were cleared by the tower at <strong>18:24</strong> and got airborne seven minutes after the scheduled departure time. The evening sky was almost clear, with a scattering of cumulus along the southern horizon and the windsocks hanging limp.",
"asin": "B0064CBDUY",
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"quote": "I have this moment, while writing, had a wire from Jonathan saying that he leaves by the <strong>6.25</strong> tonight from Launceston and will be here at 10.18, so that I shall have no fear tonight.",
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"title": "Dracula"
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"quote": "I checked the time on my mobile phone – <strong>18.26 p.m.</strong> 'Do you want to a grab a pizza?' Cara asked as she walked in twenty minutes later. I looked up at her. She shook her head smiling, questioning.",
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"quote": "The pilot will carry a one-frequency low-power transmitter activated by the change in magnetic field on leaving the ship. The hopper will remain at five hundred feet until this signal is received. It will then pick up the pilot, check ground appearances, and rendezvous with this ship at two hundred miles up at <strong>18.27</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "It's as much as your job is worth if a riot detail isn't down here in two minutes. Two minutes, I said. It is now precisely <strong>twenty-seven minutes past six</strong> o'clock.",
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"author": "William Tenn",
"title": "Here Comes Civilization"
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"time": 1108,
"quote": "Suit yourself, said Remo, turning on the TV. It was <strong>twenty-eight minutes past six</strong>. 'And, speaking of that barracuda, isn't she way overdue? Like into her ten or eleventh month?'",
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"author": "Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir",
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"time": 1109,
"quote": "Lieutenant Hershel Mote could not keep the note of near hysteria out of his voice when Wesley returned his telephone call at <strong>twenty-nine minutes past six</strong> p. m. 'You're where?' Wesley asked him again on the speaker phone.",
"asin": "B002TZ3E0M",
"author": "Patricia Cornwell",
"title": "The Body Farm"
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"time": 1110,
"quote": "At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at <strong>half past six</strong> Elizabeth was summoned to dinner.",
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"author": "Jane Austen",
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"time": 1110,
"quote": "It is around <strong>half past six</strong> in the evening. Dusk is gathering in the living room, an early dusk due to the fog which has rolled in from the Sound and is like a white curtain drawn down outside the windows.",
"asin": "1854591029",
"author": "Eugene O'Neill",
"title": "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
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"time": 1111,
"quote": "I had been delayed at a case and it was <strong>a little after half past six</strong> when I found myself at Baker Street once more",
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"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle"
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"time": 1112,
"quote": "It stood on a low bookcase; its dial, white against black marble, swam out at him. And the hands stood at only <strong>twenty-eight minutes to seven</strong>.",
"asin": "B00GYIVSXU",
"author": "John Dickson Carr",
"title": "Scandal at High Chimneys"
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"quote": "Every evening, Michel took the train home, changed at Esbly and usually arrived in Crécy on the <strong>6.33pm</strong> train where Annabelle would be waiting at the station",
"asin": "0099283360",
"author": "Michel Houellebecq",
"title": "Atomised"
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"quote": "I knew I had to be on the <strong>18.34</strong> train in order to make it back to London in time for my final appointment of the day. As I sat there, though, I had time to think about my next joinee visit.",
"asin": "0091895820",
"author": "Danny Wallace",
"title": "Join Me"
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"time": 1115,
"quote": "Matheson used the phone on the wall to make a 999 call and the police arrived on the scene at <strong>twenty-five minutes to seven</strong>. The body was removed to the mortuary and the room was searched, photographed and dusted for fingerprints.",
"asin": "014016958X",
"author": "John Mortimer",
"title": "Rumpole on Trial"
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"time": 1116,
"quote": "Putt had picked up his bureau car at the Wickstown airport at <strong>18.36</strong> hours and driven straight through to the guard gate with no more trouble than a broken right rear spring and dented right fender.",
"asin": "B005IH01UY",
"author": "Luke Rhinehart",
"title": "The Search for the Dice Man"
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"time": 1117,
"quote": "Come to the 'Gray's-Inn Coffee-House,' Pinto said, 'and I will tell you how the notch came to the ax.' And we walked down Holborn at about <strong>thirty-seven minutes past six</strong> o'clock.",
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"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
"title": "The Notch on the Ax"
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"quote": "He took the same route every day, spoke to the same security guard for the same amount of time, took the same lift to the same floor, hung his same coat in the same place and sat at the same desk until lunchtime, when he bought the same sandwich (ham and pickle on brown) from the same sandwich shop. At half past five every day he did the whole journey in reverse, reaching home at between 18:24 on a good day and <strong>18:38</strong> on a bad one.",
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"author": "Gareth P. Jones",
"title": "The Case of the Wayward Professor"
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"quote": "Gripping her gym bag in her right hand, Aomame, like Buzzcut, was waiting for something to happen. The clock display changed to 7:21, then <strong>7:22</strong>",
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"quote": "He may as well give it a go, at least once. If it was as bad as he was anticipating, he need never return. He turned into the college car park at <strong>twenty-seven minutes past seven</strong> precisely.",
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"quote": "At <strong>twenty-eight minutes past seven</strong> it struck twelve again. In a rage Leslie raised her head and shouted, 'Go away, Alison, this is my study now!' and then was glad of the soundproofing.",
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"quote": "'From the timings given by the Perimeter,' Horyse said, 'this fog - and whatever's in it - is moving southwards at around twenty miles an hour. As the crow flies, it'll reach us around <strong>half past seven</strong>. Dark, with the moonrise yet to come.'",
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"quote": "But now he was close - here was the house, here were the gates. Somewhere a clock beat a single chime. 'What, is it really <strong>half-past seven</strong>? That's impossible, it must be fast!'",
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"quote": "The clock showed <strong>half-past seven</strong>. This was the twilight time. He would be there now. I pictured him in his old navy-blue sweater and peaked cap, walking soft-footed up the track towards the wood.",
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"quote": "I was invited to the Sugiyama residence, outside Kanazawa in the Ishikawa prefecture of Chubu, and arrived at <strong>19:31</strong> UT. The Sugiyama bash'house is a compact town house, three stories, pressed tightly on both sides by similar houses.",
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"quote": "My fingers play with the lid of the gin but I stop myself and open a bottle of red instead. The little green numbers read <strong>19.32</strong> when I hear the scrunch of footsteps on the drive.",
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"quote": "At <strong>thirty-three minutes past seven</strong> he stood on the platform of the station at Southampton—a clear hour before the train containing Owen could possibly arrive. Making a few inquiries here, but too impatient to pursue his investigation carefully and inductively, he went into the town.",
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"quote": "I checked my watch at <strong>19:34</strong> and thought that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it, if Pepperidge finally called me and heard only the engaged tone while Al was asking about his girlfriend's health or his aunt's or whoever the hell it was on the other end, my chest's easier but there's still this cough, and the doctor says I do not care what the doctor says, just get off the line.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-five minutes to eight</strong>; his guests would be coming to dine at eight o'clock and he had not begun to dress.",
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"quote": "The time on the video recorder was <strong>19.36</strong> when the back door slammed and Victor strode into the front room clutching a handful of something so unspeakably vile that it defies description.",
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"quote": "'A ship is making an unauthorized departure from the main orbital terminal tonight at precisely <strong>19:37</strong> hours. We need to produce a reaction from Orbital Defense which will appear to be a genuine response to an unauthorized seizure of a vessel.'",
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"quote": "The words boomed in my head like an echo in a cave: We've fooouuund yooouuu, oouund yoouuu, yoouu! The message bore the time, <strong>19:38</strong> that same day.",
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"quote": "In addition to an all-points police and customs alert, they'd traced all cash-cards and credit-cards in her name, and news finally came in that one of her cash cards had been used fifty minutes beforehand, <strong>19.38</strong> in France.",
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"quote": "The time too was speeding on. <strong>Twenty-one minutes to eight</strong>! In a few minutes more he must set out or he would miss the train.",
"asin": "B00QR7HVDE",
"author": "Austin Freeman",
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"quote": "She arrives at <strong>7.40</strong>, ten minutes late, but the children, Jimmy and Bitsy, are still eating supper and their parents are not ready to go yet. From other rooms come the sound of a baby screaming, water running, a television musical (no words: probably a dance number - patterns of gliding figures come to mind).",
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"quote": "'Do you expect to make an arrest? What's to stop this woman leaving the country?'\n'Up to now, I'm afraid nothing.' And since they knew there wasn't a train until <strong>7:41</strong> in the evening, they had all dashed off to the airport in Pisa.",
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"author": "Magdalen Nabb",
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"quote": "At <strong>19:42</strong> the Saab that belonged to Östergården drove towards Hedestad.",
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"author": "Stieg Larsson",
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"quote": "When I came down, ready for my journey, I looked at the clock on the mantel over there. It was exactly <strong>seventeen minutes to eight</strong> o'clock.",
"asin": "B004UJDAMW",
"author": "Thomas W. Hanshew",
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"quote": "'Good grief, it's nearly <strong>a quarter to eight</strong>,' said Sacharissa, putting on her coat. 'Why do we keep on working?'\n'Because the press doesn't go to sleep,' said William.",
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"quote": "The note was undated, and without either signature or address. 'There will call upon you to-night, at <strong>a quarter to eight</strong> o'clock [it said], a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment.",
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"quote": "'Very good, sir. The cigarettes are at your elbow, sir. Dinner will be ready at <strong>a quarter to eight</strong> precisely, unless you desire to dine out?'\n'No. I'll dine in.'",
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"author": "P. G. Wodehouse",
"title": "The World of Jeeves:"
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"quote": "'How many people are in there?' Mr. Crewe demanded. 'Twenty-seven, when I came out,' said Mr. Tooting, with commendable accuracy. 'But it wants <strong>fifteen minutes to eight</strong>.'",
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"author": "Winston Churchill",
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"quote": "Yes, sir. When I inquired, she said Mrs. Doherty had come to the apartment the evening before. I asked what time; Miss Blake said Mrs. Doherty had come at <strong>about quarter to eight</strong> and left at eight-thirty.",
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"author": "Edgar Pangborn",
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"quote": "'I got the call from Sheriff Watson at <strong>19:47</strong>...",
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"quote": "All the timers worked on twenty-four-hour clocks. He'd set the first charge to go off at <strong>19:48</strong> hours—7:48 P.M. Maybe a minute or two earlier or later. It had to seem random. After that, there would be five more 'tremors' approximately one minute apart.",
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"quote": "When did you next see Dr. Wellesley? 'At just <strong>eleven minutes to eight</strong>.'\n'Where?'\n'In the surgery.'\n'He came back there?'\n'Yes.'\n'How do you fix that precise time—eleven minutes to eight?'",
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"author": "J. S. Fletcher",
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"quote": "At <strong>ten to eight</strong>, he strolled downstairs, to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open, and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car",
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"author": "Patricia Highsmith",
"title": "The Talented Mr Ripley"
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"quote": "The charge d'affaires at the embassy stated unequivocally that he had seen Joel at the Adenauer Bridge 'at <strong>7:51 P.M.</strong>,' approximately twenty-five minutes after he had broken out of the stone jailhouse on Leifhelm's estate, and less than ten minutes after he had plunged into the Rhine.",
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"author": "Robert Ludlum",
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"quote": "At exactly <strong>eight minutes to eight</strong> Roger ceased his restless tramp up and down the room, and stopped again at the door. Before he could open it, however, there was a light tap—a tap like Beverley's in happier days.",
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"author": "C. N. Williamson",
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"quote": "Wednesday, 11 th December 1963. <strong>7.53 p.m.</strong> 'Help me. You've got to help me.' The woman's voice quavered on the edge of tears. The duty constable who had picked up the phone heard a hiccuping gulp, as if the caller was struggling to speak.",
"asin": "B002RIA01M",
"author": "Val McDermid",
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"quote": "The body was found at <strong>six minutes to eight</strong>. Doctor Young arrived some thirty minutes later. Just let me get that clear - I've a filthy memory.",
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"author": "Ngaio Marsh",
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"quote": "It is generally the custom in the navy to strike the bell sixteen times at midnight on New Year's eve—eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new! Of course with us this custom was rigidly adhered to; but not only did we strike sixteen bells at our midnight, but we also struck the same number at <strong>six minutes to eight</strong>, which, allowing for the exact difference in time, would be midnight in England, so that we had at least the satisfaction of knowing that our bell was being employed in the same way as many others in the navy at the same time.",
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"author": "Albert Hastings Markham",
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"quote": "Flora drew her coat round her, and looked up into the darkening vault of the sky. Then she glanced at her watch. It was <strong>five to eight</strong>.",
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"author": "Stella Gibbons",
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"quote": "'Byrd? Well, tell him I'm busy,' replied the principal. 'If he wants to wait I'll see him after the conference. Although'—Mr. Fernald glanced at the clock—'it's only <strong>four minutes to eight</strong> and he'd better get back to his room.",
"asin": "B01KIVDZ3Y",
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"quote": "At <strong>three minutes till eight</strong>, Laszlo and His Yankee Hussars set up onstage. While the band played their Sousa medley, Carter thoroughly checked his kit, stuffing his pockets with scarves, examining the seals on decks of cards. He glanced toward his levitation device. 'Good luck, Carter.' The voice was quiet.",
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"author": "Glen David Gold",
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"quote": "Robert Langdon stole an anxious glance at his wristwatch: <strong>7.58pm</strong>. The smiling face of Mickey Mouse did little to cheer him up.",
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"author": "Dan Brown",
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"quote": "Quickly, quickly. <strong>A minute to eight</strong>. My hot water bottle was ready, and I filled a glass with water from the tap. Time was of the essence.",
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"author": "Diane Setterfield",
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"quote": "<strong>The clock struck eight</strong>. Had it been ten, Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she did, in spite of the almost impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window-shutter, to be satisfied of the truth. She instantly saw that her ears had not deceived her.",
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"author": "Jane Austen",
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"quote": "Arthur thought he could even bear to listen to the album of bagpipe music he had won. It was <strong>eight o'clock</strong> and he decided he would make himself, force himself, to listen to the whole record before he phoned her.",
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"author": "Douglas Adams",
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"quote": "TIS <strong>eight o'clock</strong>, - a clear March night,\nThe moon is up, - the sky is blue,\nThe owlet, in the moonlight air,\nShouts from nobody knows where;\nHe lengthens out his lonely shout,\nHalloo! halloo! a long halloo!",
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"quote": "I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it. although until after <strong>eight o'clock</strong> the apartment was full of cheerful sun.",
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"quote": "It was only <strong>a little after eight o'clock</strong>, so all the shows were about silliness or murder.",
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"quote": "'Yes, I must go to the railway station, and if he's not there, then go there and catch him.' Anna looked at the railway timetable in the newspapers. An evening train went at <strong>two minutes past eight</strong>. 'Yes, I shall be in time.'",
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"author": "Leo Tolstoy",
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"quote": "When she came into the drawing-room, a little late, he was not there. 'We won't wait, Duchess,' said the Duke to his wife at <strong>three minutes past eight</strong>. The Duke's punctuality at dinner-time was well known, and everybody else was then assembled.",
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"author": "Anthony Trollope",
"title": "The American Senator"
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"quote": "The earth seems to cast its darkness upward into the air. The farm country is somber at night. He is grateful when the lights of Lankaster merge with his dim beams. He stops at a diner who's clock says <strong>8.04</strong>.",
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"author": "John Updike",
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"quote": "December 23rd At <strong>8.05 pm</strong> Prof. Preobrazhensky commenced the first operation of its kind to be performed in Europe: removal under anaesthesia of a dog's testicles and their replacement by implanted human testes, with appendages and seminal ducts, taken from a 28-year-old human male",
"asin": "0099529947",
"author": "Mikhail Bulgakov",
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"quote": "'Let's start with the most recent calls,' Lucy said, turning her attention to Agee's phone, which she'd plugged into a charger she'd found in an outlet near the bed. 'Doesn't look like he spent a lot of time on it. A couple calls yesterday morning, then nothing until <strong>six minutes past eight</strong> last night.",
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"author": "Patricia Cornwell",
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"quote": "At <strong>seven minutes past eight</strong>, by Mr. Alden's electrically lighted timepiece, a car or a cab—it was impossible, at that distance, to determine which—dropped a passenger at the Village end of the road. A tall figure, completely enveloped in a huge, caped coat, and wearing a dripping silk hat, walked with a swinging stride towards the ambush—and entered the gate of the cottage.",
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"author": "Sax Rohmer",
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"time": 1208,
"quote": "Major Riddle cut him short. 'What time was that?'\n'It was exactly <strong>eight minutes past eight</strong>, sir.'",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
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"quote": "'Now,' and Hazel called out in a loud voice: 'Noon!'\n'And <strong>nine minutes past eight</strong> at Sydney,' said Helen, holding out her chronometer; for she had been sharp enough to get it ready of her own accord. Hazel looked at her and at the watch with amazement and incredulity. 'What?' said he.",
"asin": "1520172699",
"author": "Charles Reade",
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"time": 1210,
"quote": "'Mata Hari had just finished seducing the Russian general, Shubin,' he said, 'when we heard the first shots. That would have been at about <strong>ten past eight</strong>.'",
"asin": "B004OR10J0",
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"time": 1211,
"quote": "The Hurleys arrived at <strong>eleven minutes past eight</strong> precisely. When I opened the front door, Martin pushed Paige, nearly seven months pregnant and large, into the hall. 'Thought you could do with some early back-up,' he murmured, as Nathan unwrapped Paige from her coat. 'And Paige wanted to check out what you were wearing.'",
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"time": 1212,
"quote": "At <strong>twelve minutes past eight</strong> o'clock, the embassy's security gate slid slowly open, and a black Mercedes sedan nosed into view. It turned left and passed within a few inches of the camera—so close, in fact, that Gabriel felt as though he could reach out and pluck the single passenger from the backseat.",
"asin": "B0078XDGP8",
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"time": 1213,
"quote": "The Charing-Cross portion of the mail is in now. It is <strong>thirteen minutes past eight</strong> p.m.—no doubt the 'official' time for starting—and with a shriek we pass from the brilliant station to the darkness of the river.",
"asin": "B018PJVMC2",
"author": "Henry Frith",
"title": "Some Famous Railway Trains and Their Story"
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"quote": "When a call came through to Dilworth's home number at <strong>fourteen minutes past eight</strong> o'clock, Olbier and Jones reacted with far more excitement than the situation warranted because they were desperate for action.",
"asin": "B00AES0AZI",
"author": "Dean Koontz",
"title": "Watchers"
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"time": 1215,
"quote": "Andrey: [Looks at his watch] A quarter past eight.\nNatasha: And Olga and Irina aren't in yet. The poor things are still at work. Olga at the teachers' council, Irina at the telegraph office...[sighs] I said to your sister this morning, 'Irina, darling, you must take care of yourself.' But she pays no attention. Did you say it was <strong>a quarter past eight</strong>?",
"asin": "0140447334",
"author": "Anton Chekhov",
"title": "The Three Sisters"
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"time": 1215,
"quote": "<strong>8:15 p.m.</strong> Cannot locate operating instructions (for video)",
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"author": "Helen Fielding",
"title": "Bridget Jones's Diary"
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"time": 1216,
"quote": "He kissed her hand and after a while went to get two more drinks. When he got back, it was <strong>sixteen minutes past eight</strong>, and Lois was humming softly along with the jukebox",
"asin": "0241967767",
"author": "Jonathan Coe",
"title": "The Rotters' Club"
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"time": 1217,
"quote": "<strong>20.17</strong> A red warning light failed to go on in the Drive Room, beginning a chain of events which would lead, in a further twenty-three minutes, to the total annihilation of the entire crew of Red Dwarf.",
"asin": "0140174664",
"author": "Grant Naylor",
"title": "Red Dwarf"
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"time": 1218,
"quote": "<strong>2018</strong> hrs Katya has arrived at the Odessa Hotel. Barley and Katya are talking in the canteen. Wicklow and one irregular observing.",
"asin": "0141196351",
"author": "John le Carré",
"title": "The Russia House"
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"time": 1219,
"quote": "All was still. It was <strong>nineteen minutes past eight</strong>.",
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"author": "Henry Augustus Hering",
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"quote": "Knowing that the dinner was only for us six, we never dreamed it would be a full dress affair. I had no appetite. It was quite <strong>twenty minutes past eight</strong> before we sat down to dinner.",
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"author": "George & Weedon Grossmith",
"title": "Diary of a Nobody"
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"quote": "At <strong>8.21</strong>, after a knock at the door, a constable said a military police vehicle had just driven into the courtyard, the driver asking for 'Mr.' Murray.",
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"author": "Len Deighton",
"title": "The Ipcress File"
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"time": 1222,
"quote": "The mantel clock put the time at <strong>twenty-two minutes past eight</strong>, and suddenly the night seemed to be a sled on a slope of ice, picking up speed.",
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"author": "Dean Koontz",
"title": "Intensity"
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"time": 1222,
"quote": "She proudly showed Sister Creep her Timex; the crystal was gone, but that old watch was still ticking. The time was <strong>twenty-two minutes past eight</strong>.",
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"author": "Robert R. McCammon",
"title": "Swan Song"
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"time": 1223,
"quote": "At <strong>8:23</strong> there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. ",
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"author": "William Goldman",
"title": "The Princess Bride"
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"quote": "<strong>20.23</strong>. In a few minutes she would go down. She could have borrowed some mascara from her daughter Sally, but it was too late. She could have rung her mother in Northam, but it was too late. Seven minutes of solitude she had, and then she would descend.",
"asin": "B00I8NZPTM",
"author": "Margaret Drabble",
"title": "The Radiant Way"
},
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"time": 1224,
"quote": "Peach checked his watch. <strong>8.24</strong>. If he wasn't in a taxi in twenty minutes he'd be done for.",
"asin": "0747526974",
"author": "Rupert Thomson",
"title": "Dreams of Leaving"
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"time": 1224,
"quote": "At <strong>8:24</strong> the two nations were very close to war.",
"asin": "0747545189",
"author": "William Goldman",
"title": "The Princess Bride"
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"time": 1225,
"quote": "She sat down in her usual seat and smiled at her husband as he sank into his own chair opposite her. She was saved. It was only <strong>five and twenty past eight</strong>.",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "The Listerdale Mystery"
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"time": 1226,
"quote": "It was <strong>twenty-six minutes past eight</strong>. Without hesitation he went to the cloakroom, and, producing a ticket, was handed a large valise, a rug, and a thick long ulster of dark tweed.",
"asin": "B00AQM5PRK",
"author": "William Le Queux",
"title": "The Temptress"
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"time": 1227,
"quote": "At <strong>seven-and-twenty minutes past eight</strong> Mrs Lofthouse was seated at Aurora's piano, in the first agonies of a prelude in six flats; a prelude which demanded such extraordinary uses of the left hand across the right, and the right over the left, and such exercise of the thumbs in all positions",
"asin": "0199555168",
"author": "Mary Elizabeth Braddon",
"title": "Aurora Floyd"
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"time": 1228,
"quote": "Still seated, Haver looked up at the clock and said out of the blue: 'My father died exactly twenty-five years ago.' Lindell looked up. 'Exactly?'\n'Yes, exactly. <strong>Twenty-eight minutes past eight</strong>, on this exact date twenty-five years ago.'",
"asin": "B01GTPA98W",
"author": "Kjell Eriksson",
"title": "Stone Coffin"
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"time": 1229,
"quote": "At <strong>20.29</strong> this happened: Deputy Fenway: He's lost it! The truck is over! Sliding! Shit! I think he hit something. Dispatcher: Copy that. Dispatcher: Give me a location. Deputy Fenway: Old Montgomery Road.",
"asin": "B00HP4HABG",
"author": "Michael Robotham",
"title": "Life or Death"
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"time": 1230,
"quote": "Alix took up a piece of needlework and began to stitch. Gerald read a few pages of his book. Then he glanced up at the clock and tossed the book away. '<strong>Half-past eight</strong>. Time to go down to the cellar and start work.'",
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"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "The Listerdale Mystery"
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"time": 1231,
"quote": "The time display read <strong>20:31</strong> on the same evening. Almost dusk. The scene was motionless save the soft rustling of leaves, but the rumble of a car engine and the crunch of tires on gravel must have triggered the recording.",
"asin": "B00GCHV806",
"author": "Barbara Fradkin",
"title": "None So Blind"
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"time": 1232,
"quote": "He slammed home the bolt, laid the rifle back down on the counter, and checked his watch. It was <strong>twenty-eight minutes to nine</strong>. He was running a little late.",
"asin": "0575039353",
"author": "Laurence Gough",
"title": "The Goldfish Bowl"
},
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"time": 1233,
"quote": "<strong>20.33</strong> Navigation officer Henri DuBois knocked his black cona coffee with four sugars over his computer console keyboard. As he mopped up the coffee, he noticed three red warning blips on his monitor screen, which he wrongly assumed were the result of his spillage.",
"asin": "0140174664",
"author": "Grant Naylor",
"title": "Red Dwarf"
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"time": 1234,
"quote": "He wrote: 'Cough (hacking): <strong>20:34</strong> (Duration: 24 seconds).'",
"asin": "0307590534",
"author": "Richard Harvell",
"title": "The Bells"
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"time": 1235,
"quote": "Left Munich at <strong>8.35 p.m.</strong> on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early the next morning",
"asin": "014143984X",
"author": "Bram Stoker",
"title": "Dracula"
},
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"time": 1236,
"quote": "<strong>20.36</strong> Rimmer stood in the main wash-room on the stasis deck and combed his hair.",
"asin": "0140174664",
"author": "Grant Naylor",
"title": "Red Dwarf"
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"time": 1237,
"quote": "It is <strong>twenty-three minutes to nine</strong> and you had better grab Harvie and Shorty and beat it.",
"asin": "B005190CAI",
"author": "Nell Speed",
"title": "Back at School with the Tucker Twins"
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"time": 1238,
"quote": "And at <strong>twenty-two minutes to nine</strong>, at the beginning of the third act, he stood up and, trying not to make too much noise, left the auditorium and walked up to the second floor.",
"asin": "B004M8S436",
"author": "Javier Marías",
"title": "While the Women are Sleeping"
},
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"time": 1238,
"quote": "A digital clock on the wall was still running and reported the time as <strong>20:38</strong> in white numerals.",
"asin": "1596067039",
"author": "Robert R. McCammon",
"title": "The Border"
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"time": 1239,
"quote": "The clock on the dashboard said <strong>20:39</strong> as Jack turned into a private road. The car was so silent I could hear the hammering of my heart.",
"asin": "B00NOPQU3Y",
"author": "Simon Kernick",
"title": "The Final Minute"
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"time": 1240,
"quote": "At <strong>2040</strong> hours, June 14, we entered the fog bank. Shortly thereafter, with the seabed only ten fathoms beneath our keel, an explosion ripped the ship's bow, and a roaring torrent of water burst into the forward torpedo compartment, flooding it almost instantly.",
"asin": "0553593455",
"author": "Clive Cussler",
"title": "Pacific Vortex!"
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"time": 1241,
"quote": "The sergeant smiled. 'Don't know yet. I'll soon find out. What time did Dugdale tell you of his discovery?'\n'At <strong>nineteen minutes to nine</strong>,' was the unhesitating answer.",
"asin": "B00M8O6SDO",
"author": "Arthur Upfield",
"title": "The Barrakee Mystery"
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"time": 1242,
"quote": "The clock indicated <strong>eighteen minutes to nine</strong>.\nThe players took up their cards, but could not keep their eyes off the clock. Certainly, however secure they felt, minutes had never seemed so long to them!",
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"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 1243,
"quote": "'<strong>Seventeen minutes to nine</strong>,' said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards which Ralph handed to him.\nThen there was a moment of silence. The great saloon was perfectly quiet; but the murmurs of the crowd outside were heard, with now and then a shrill cry. The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.",
"asin": "B00A736NRO",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 1244,
"quote": "'<strong>Sixteen minutes to nine</strong>!' said John Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed his emotion.\nOne minute more, and the wager would be won. Andrew Stuart and his partners suspended their game. They left their cards, and counted the seconds.\nAt the fortieth second, nothing. At the fiftieth, still nothing.\nAt the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street, followed by applause, hurrahs, and some fierce growls.\nThe players rose from their seats.\nAt the fifty-seventh second the door of the saloon opened; and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth second when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an excited crowd who had forced their way through the club doors, and in his calm voice, said, 'Here I am, gentlemen!'",
"asin": "B00A736NRO",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 1245,
"quote": "Beaver arrived at <strong>quarter to nine</strong> in a state of high self-approval; he had refused two invitations for dinner while dressing that evening; he had cashed a cheque for ten pounds at his club; he had booked a Divan table at Espinosa's.",
"asin": "0141183969",
"author": "Evelyn Waugh",
"title": "A Handful of Dust"
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"time": 1245,
"quote": "'It's not impossible,' Phileas said quietly.'I bet you 20,000 pounds I could do it. If I leave this evening on the <strong>8.45</strong> train to Dover, I can be back here at the Reform Club by 8.45 on Saturday 21 December. I'll get my passport stamped at every place I stop to prove I've been around the world.'",
"asin": "B00A736NRO",
"author": "Jules Verne",
"title": "Around the World in Eighty Days"
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"time": 1246,
"quote": "At the tone, the time will be <strong>eight forty-six</strong>, exactly. One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.",
"asin": "B002ZNJVNW",
"author": "Tom Lichtenberg",
"title": "Macedonia"
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"time": 1247,
"quote": "It read <strong>20:47</strong> on the cooker clock when Fliss heard the jangle of Ben's keys in the door. Somewhere along the line, her husband had stopped making any effort.",
"asin": "B01D4WO2MM",
"author": "Catherine Miller",
"title": "All That is Left of Us"
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"time": 1248,
"quote": "It only wants <strong>twelve minutes to nine</strong>, Constance pointed out. 'Well, what if it does?'",
"asin": "B00FR78NRS",
"author": "Arnold Bennett",
"title": "The Old Wives' Tale"
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"time": 1249,
"quote": "<strong>8.49</strong>. I took the phone, cleared my throat, and dialled the keep, the packs stronghold on the outskirts of Atlanta. Just keep it professional. Less pathetic that way.",
"asin": "B00DYCWVYY",
"author": "Ilona Andrews",
"title": "Magic Bleeds"
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"quote": "'That seems very clear,' said Weston, after a moment or two. 'You and your wife were together changing for dinner in your bungalow until <strong>ten minutes to nine</strong>.",
"asin": "B0046H95OU",
"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "A Caribbean Mystery"
},
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"time": 1251,
"quote": "I stayed watching the polestar from nine minutes to nine until ten past, tilting my head back till it hurt, fighting off dizziness and not taking my eyes off the distant, twinkling light which is our rendezvous in the sky, trying to see your face looking back at me.",
"asin": "0141188308",
"author": "Albert Cohen",
"title": "Belle du Seigneur"
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"time": 1251,
"quote": "We were not too late in taking up our position for as we settled down I could see that it was just <strong>nine minutes to nine</strong>. Silence fell.",
"asin": "0897330382",
"author": "Leo Bruce",
"title": "Cold Blood"
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"time": 1252,
"quote": "The waitress brought my coffee. I carried it to the far end of the counter and drank it slowly. It was <strong>eight minutes to nine</strong>. People were lining up at the loading door, which meant that a bus was expected.",
"asin": "1598534793",
"author": "Ross MacDonald",
"title": "The Far Side of the Dollar"
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"time": 1253,
"quote": "'Make use of it yourself, with as much noise as you can. And if you still fail to hear from me, then will be the time to think about retirement. Does everybody understand?' Everybody did apparently. 'It is <strong>seven minutes to nine</strong>. Time we began to collect our taxis.'",
"asin": "B018PKUXT4",
"author": "John Collis Snaith",
"title": "Mrs. Fitz"
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"time": 1254,
"quote": "I tried to restart our dinner-table conversation, which had been about the validity of I.Q. tests, but he was back in his funk again, and I didn't feel like trying to jolly him out of it. I was relieved when the bell squawked at <strong>six minutes to nine</strong>; now maybe we'd get some action.",
"asin": "B00KFDWVVS",
"author": "Robert Goldsborough",
"title": "Death on Deadline"
},
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"time": 1255,
"quote": "And the past. The clock on the dash said <strong>8:55pm</strong>. And the last pink shard of the sun was reaching up into the night sky, desperately trying to hold on for just one more minute.",
"asin": "B00CRR13P0",
"author": "Chris Cole",
"title": "Such Great Heights"
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"time": 1256,
"quote": "'No. 7 berth—a second-class. The gentleman has not yet come, and it is <strong>four minutes to nine</strong>.'",
"asin": "B0046H95PO",
"author": "Agatha Christie",
"title": "Murder on the Orient Express"
},
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"time": 1257,
"quote": "There was something refreshingly direct and simple about this man. He did not enter into long explanations. He simply bore on in the line he had marked out. He rose from the table and never looked back. His attitude seemed to say, 'I am going to Africa; kindly get out of my way.' At <strong>three minutes to nine</strong>—that is to say, in one hour and a half—Guy Oscard took his seat in the Plymouth express.",
"asin": "B00847FZGA",
"author": "Henry Seton Merriman",
"title": "With Edged Tools"
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"time": 1258,
"quote": "'What time is it?' she asked, quiet, definite, hopeless. '<strong>Two minutes to nine</strong>,' he replied, telling the truth with a struggle.",
"asin": "1853260479",
"author": "D. H. Lawrence",
"title": "Sons and Lovers"
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"time": 1259,
"quote": "She sat down and wrote out a telegram to her brother, rang for old Sarah, their trusty hard-working maid, and bade her tell the Terror, who had slipped quietly upstairs to bed at <strong>one minute to nine</strong>, to send it off in the morning.",
"asin": "B00SEIO5G0",
"author": "Edgar Jepson",
"title": "The Terrible Twins"
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"time": 1260,
"quote": "Shortly after <strong>nine o'clock</strong> that evening, Weyrother drove with his plans to Kutuzov's quarters where the council of war was to be held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in chief's and with the exception of Prince Bagration, who declined to come, were all there at the appointed time.",
"asin": "1853260622",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy",
"title": "War and Peace"
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"time": 1260,
"quote": "This time, the putting on of her best hat at <strong>nine o'clock</strong> at night with the idea of sallying forth from the castle, down the long drive and then northwards along the acacia avenue, had been enough to send her to her own doorway as though she suspected someone might be there, someone who was listening to her thoughts.",
"asin": "0749394927",
"author": "Mervyn Peake",
"title": "Titus Groan"
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"time": 1260,
"quote": "It was <strong>nine o'clock</strong> at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God's curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant air",
"asin": "161218412X",
"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes"
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"time": 1261,
"quote": "On the evening before K.'s thirty-first birthday - it was <strong>about nine o'clock</strong>, when there is a lull in the streets - two gentlemen came to his apartment.",
"asin": "1840227265",
"author": "Franz Kafka",
"title": "The Trial"
},
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"time": 1262,
"quote": "I hurried across the square. Checked my watch. It was <strong>two minutes past nine</strong>. He kept me waiting the last time.",
"asin": "B0053YQM5K",
"author": "James Patterson",
"title": "Pop Goes the Weasel"
},
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"time": 1263,
"quote": "The clock showed <strong>three minutes past nine</strong>. The electric cars to and from the town of Turnhill were rumbling past the very door of the Morfes every five minutes, and would continue to do so till midnight.",
"asin": "1534638067",
"author": "Arnold Bennett",
"title": "Why the Clock Stopped"
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"time": 1264,
"quote": "At <strong>9.04pm</strong> trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.",
"asin": "B0035OC7VI",
"author": "Bill Bryson",
"title": "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
},
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"time": 1265,
"quote": "<strong>Nine-five</strong>. A voice spoke from the study ceiling: 'Mrs. McClellan, which poem would you like this evening?' The house was silent. The voice said at last, 'Since you express no preference, I shall select a poem at random.'",
"asin": "B00BAJ6GJY",
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "There Will Come Soft Rains"
},
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"time": 1266,
"quote": "The sketch: 1st Voice Over: Well, it's <strong>five past nine</strong> and nearly time for six past nine.",
"asin": "1579129137",
"author": "Monty Python",
"title": "Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Sketches"
},
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"time": 1267,
"quote": "He just rolled up his window, switched off the engine, and leaned down to unlock the trunk. I checked my watch. It was <strong>seven minutes past nine</strong>.",
"asin": "B003P9XI98",
"author": "Andrew Grant",
"title": "Even"
},
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"time": 1268,
"quote": "At exactly <strong>eight minutes past nine</strong>, this fault already weakened by the preliminary tremor, now without warning shifted violently and slipped a hundred or so feet, sucking down with it some billions of tons of water.",
"asin": "B00KDNHUHU",
"author": "Paul Gallico",
"title": "The Poseidon Adventure"
},
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"time": 1269,
"quote": "<strong>9.09</strong>. Too late to turn around and go back. Too late, too dangerous.",
"asin": "0747526974",
"author": "Rupert Thomson",
"title": "Dreams of Leaving"
},
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"time": 1270,
"quote": "It tolls 101 times each evening at <strong>ten minutes past nine</strong> o'clock (there being 101 students on the foundation) and marks the time for the closing of the college gates. ",
"asin": "1540514781",
"author": "Cuthbert Bede",
"title": "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green"
},
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"time": 1270,
"quote": "The train was timed to reach Paris at <strong>ten minutes past nine</strong> in the evening, and a maid was to meet her at the station. They had even settled by letter upon a means of recognition. She was to wear a black hat with a grey feather in it.",
"asin": "149612684X",
"author": "Emile Zola",
"title": "His Masterpiece"
},
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"time": 1271,
"quote": "Every few seconds the house changed character, at one time menacing and sinister, and again the innocent abode of law-abiding citizens about to be attacked by my private army. The luminous watch said <strong>9.11</strong>.",
"asin": "B002TU1Q6G",
"author": "Len Deighton",
"title": "The Ipcress File"
},
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"time": 1271,
"quote": "At <strong>eleven past nine</strong> on Sunday, the Grafters will no longer be a problem.'\n'I'll begin making the arrangements,' said Rook Thomas quietly. 'I expect we'd better get back to the party, then,' said Bishop Attariwala finally.",
"asin": "B00KHVDR1Q",
"author": "Daniel O'Malley",
"title": "Stiletto"
},
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"quote": "'Dinner's on you,' he said, and walked out. She waited until he was out of sight, then reached for her phone, checking her watch as she did so. It was <strong>thirteen minutes past nine</strong>.",
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"quote": "Now Oberhammer's mansion mouldered: windows boarded, its walls wrapped in chains to keep them from bursting under the weight of his folly above. The clock tower forever displayed <strong>thirteen minutes past nine</strong>, the time for rats and bats and lunatics, for every ghoul and demon conceived by Deepgate's commoners.",
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"quote": "It is just fifteen or <strong>sixteen minutes past nine</strong> by my not too accurate watch. The dark night sky trails its skirt of rain low over the surface of the land.",
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"quote": "The same thing would hold true if there were someone in her apartment. In that case he would just say that he had been passing by, recognized her charming house, and thought to drop in. It was <strong>eighteen minutes after nine</strong> when Mr. Martin turned into Twelfth Street.",
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"quote": "The first movement of Mendelssohn's accursed violin concerto was about twelve and a half minutes long. The Jew had started playing it at <strong>nineteen minutes past nine</strong>...",
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"quote": "His mother sat waiting for him rather anxiously. He had to walk from Keston, so was not home until about <strong>twenty past nine</strong>.",
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"quote": "Kittredge, in accordance with his promise to Alice, had driven directly to the Rue du Cloitre Notre-Dame, and at <strong>twenty minutes past nine</strong> by the clock in the Tavern of the Three Wise Men he had drawn up at the house where the Bonnetons lived.",
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"quote": "These witnesses could recall with startling accuracy every detail that had occurred between seventeen minutes after eight and <strong>twenty-one minutes past nine</strong> on the night of September 23 over a year before; but where they had been and what they had done ten minutes earlier or ten minutes later, or where they were at nine o'clock in the evening last Friday they couldn't for the lives of them remember.",
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"quote": "Fifteen minutes later (<strong>21.22</strong> hrs), Miss Squire arrives in Skipton where she is booked into a local B&B. This B&B is located directly across the road from Mhairi Callaghan's Feathercuts.",
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"quote": "My father met me at the station, the dog jumped up to meet me, missed, and nearly fell in front of the <strong>9.23pm</strong> Birmingham express.",
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"quote": "Later in the day I was again for some hours in the house, but was not allowed to see the dying man. From two o'clock in the afternoon, the hour when another paralytic stroke was dreaded, he gradually began to sink. Cécile, his brother Paul, David, Schleinitz, and my father were present, when at <strong>twenty-four minutes past nine</strong> he expired with a deep sigh.",
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"quote": "Hamil studied his file for a few moments before offering an opinion. 'The terrorists,' he began, 'crossed the border at <strong>21.26</strong> last night. Four passports were presented to the immigration officer for stamping. Three were of Swedish origin, and one was from Iraq.'",
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"quote": "When The Thinking Machine had donned those things which he was to wear during his incarceration he called the little old woman who was his housekeeper, cook and maid servant all in one. 'Martha,' he said, 'it is now <strong>twenty-seven minutes past nine</strong> o'clock. I am going away.",
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"quote": "At <strong>about half past nine</strong> Napoleon, wearing an old bowler hat of Mr Jones's, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again.",
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"quote": "It's <strong>9:30 p.m.</strong> already. I've gotta head uptown for my appointment with Pavel. Pavel is my shrink. He sees patients at night. He's a Czech Jew, a survivor of Terezin and Auswitz. I see him once a week.",
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"quote": "I took some juice out of the refrigerator and sat down at the kitchen table with it. On the table was a note from my girlfriend: 'Gone out to eat. Back by 9:30.' The digital clock on the table read 9:30. I watched it flip over to <strong>9:31</strong>, ...",
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"quote": "...then to <strong>9:32</strong>.",
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"quote": "It must have been about <strong>twenty-seven minutes to ten</strong> when I reached the summer-house. Ralph was waiting for me.",
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"quote": "Thanks; expect me <strong>9.34 p.m.</strong> 26th'; which produced, three hours later, a reply: 'Delighted; please bring a No. 3 Rippingille stove' - a perplexing and ominous direction, which somehow chilled me in spite of its subject matter.",
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"quote": "The Sergeant jotted it down on a piece of paper. 'That checks up with his own story: <strong>9.35 p.m.</strong> Budd leaves; the North dame arrives.'",
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"quote": "My backpack was already packed, and I'd already gotten the other supplies together, like the altimeter and the granola bars and the Swiss army knife I'd dug up in Central Park, so there was nothing else to do. Mom tucked me in at <strong>9:36</strong>.",
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"quote": "What time last night did this happen?'\n'We received the treble nine call at <strong>21:37</strong> hours,' he answered, checking his notes. 'What made her look in? It's a terrace, was she passing the window?' Tyler asked. 'I presume so.",
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"quote": "Fletch looked at his watch. It was <strong>twenty-one minutes to ten</strong>. Instinctively he timed the swiftness of the police.",
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"quote": "It was, then, about <strong>twenty minutes to ten</strong> on the night of the fourth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, that, after disposing of a pint of beer and a Welsh rarebit for my supper, I seated myself in my arm-chair, cocked my feet upon a stool, and lit my pipe, as was my custom.",
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"quote": "'Say that again, Sergeant,' asked Warren, although he was pretty sure he had heard her correctly the first time. 'A Royal Mail postal delivery van drove past a traffic camera at <strong>21:41</strong> hours, about three quarters of a mile south-west of the sports centre.",
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"quote": "Lloyd asked again if Law would like some water, and this time he nodded, thank God. He stood up. ' I'll get us all some,' he said. 'Chief Inspector Lloyd leaves the room, <strong>21.43</strong> hours,' said Judy.",
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"quote": "The island fell at <strong>sixteen minutes to ten</strong> o'clock that January night in 1671, with lots of shouting and screaming and firing of blank musket and arquebus charges, a minimum of rapine and breakage, some.",
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"quote": "That night, at <strong>a quarter to ten</strong>, fifteen minutes before prayer time, Gwenda came to her father in his study. 'Papa,' she said, 'is it true that you've sacked Essy at three days' notice?'\n'I have dismissed Essy,' said the Vicar, 'for a sufficient reason.'\n'There's no reason to turn her out before Christmas.'",
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"quote": "We must have our lights out by ten, and it is <strong>fifteen minutes to ten</strong> this moment.'\n'Oh, bother!' and Dolly wrinkled up her forehead.",
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"quote": "It still works, though, and it reads <strong>21:46</strong> military time, giving him at least an hour to get there and back without either of his parents finding out since his dad will be gone until at least midnight and his mom is gone too, in a way, having washed the same old memories down with nearly a bottle of wine.",
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"quote": "For Hunter, who was trained to note times exactly, the final emergency started at <strong>thirteen minutes to ten</strong>.",
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"quote": "'It was <strong>twelve minutes to ten</strong>. I looked at my watch. I wanted to make sure I didn't knock on her door early.'",
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"quote": "'Look at when TIMETRV was linked.' I read the listing. 'May the fifteenth, at <strong>eleven minutes to ten</strong>. So?'\n'Now look at when the object file was created.' Gib's eyes gleamed.",
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"quote": "I passed out on to the road and saw by the lighted dial of a clock that it was <strong>ten minutes to ten</strong>. In front of me was a large building which displayed the magical name.",
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"quote": "First, that the moon would be full on April 9; and second, that it would rise at <strong>21:51</strong> hours.",
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"quote": "He looked at his wrist. 'Right now it's <strong>nine minutes to ten</strong>.",
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"quote": "Wogan dressed with some ceremony, supped, and at <strong>eight minutes to ten</strong> slipped down the stairs and out of doors. He had crushed his hat down upon his forehead and he carried his handkerchief at his face. But the streets were dark and few people were abroad.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>seven minutes to ten</strong>. He was holding the broken pencil in his hand, ready to write, when she touched his wrist lightly, tentatively.",
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"quote": "He was making for the Lynn Well Lanby and from there through the Freeman Channel into the Deeps to be met by the pilot vessel in time to catch high water at <strong>21.54</strong> into the Port of St Botolphs.",
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"quote": "At <strong>five minutes to ten</strong> Mycroft, true to his word, and with Polly behind him, emerged from his laboratory to join us for dinner. Next family dinners are always noisy affairs and tonight was no different.",
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"quote": "Once they were held up at a railroad crossing.... The clock in the car pointed at <strong>five minutes to ten</strong> when their headlights finally fell upon the bridge.",
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"quote": "Crossing the top of the town, he had to pass the Market Hall, where he spoke to the one policeman on night duty; and here he saw that it was <strong>five minutes to ten</strong>, and hastened his steps, in the fear that the rector's household might have retired.",
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"quote": "The sound of the Ranigunj Mail rushing past the house at exactly <strong>21:56</strong> hours deafens me so that I miss the first scraping, hesitant knock on the verandah door.",
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"quote": "In the third to last moment, Bill Smoke's body slides down the cabin door. Second to last, an inset digital clock blinks from <strong>21:57</strong> to ...",
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"quote": "... to<strong> 21:58</strong>. Napier's eyes sink, newborn sunshine slants through ancient oaks and dances on a lost river. Look, Joe, herons.",
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"quote": "The first night, as soon as the corporal had conducted my uncle Toby upstairs, which was <strong>about 10</strong> - Mrs. Wadman threw herself into her arm chair",
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"quote": "The clock on the mantelpiece struck <strong>ten o'clock</strong>. Maxim put his arms round me and lifted me against him. We began to kiss one another, feverishly, desperately, like guilty lovers who have not kissed before.",
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"quote": "They were alone then, and theoretically free to do whatever they wanted, but they went on eating the dinner they had no appetite for. Florence set down her knife and reached for Edward's hand and squeezed. From downstairs they heard the wireless, the chimes of Big Ben at the start of the <strong>ten o'clock</strong> news.",
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"quote": "We let our upstairs room to a certain Mr. Goudsmit, a divorced man in his thirties, who appeared to have nothing to do on this particular evening; we simply could not get rid of him without being rude; he hung about until <strong>ten o'clock</strong>.",
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"quote": "I could not doubt that this was the BLACK SPOT; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: 'You have till <strong>ten</strong> tonight.'",
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"quote": "By <strong>ten</strong>, Quoyle was drunk. The crowd was enormous, crushed together so densely that Nutbeem could not force his way down the hall or to the door and urinated on the remaining potato chips in the blue barrel, setting a popular example.",
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"quote": "Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of the knee, and she stood up. '<strong>Ten o'clock</strong>,' she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling. 'Time for this good girl to go to bed.'",
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"quote": "In the old school they use now for the Village Hall, below the clock that has stood always at one minute past ten, hangs a small dusty painting of a horse.",
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"quote": "It was now <strong>10.02pm</strong>. He has less than two hours.",
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"quote": "In other words, on the second of May there will not be a living thing left on earth.' At <strong>three minutes past ten</strong> that evening the Tsar looked into the eye-piece of the Greenwich Equatorial, and saw a double-winged yellow shape floating in the centre of the field of vision.",
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"quote": "'Let me know as soon as you hear anything.' Quoyle shivered in the chilly kitchen. The clock said <strong>six minutes past ten</strong>. He could not hear the sea.",
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"quote": "Guerrier darts forward and begins talking nervously in a staccato style. 'I suppose you all want to know what happened tonight?' Silence. True, the question is rhetorical, but there doesn't seem to be any burning desire on the part of the people assembled in this room to hear an explanation. 'At <strong>22:07</strong> hours this evening . . .' He consults his notes. '. . . one of my men patrolling Madame de Medici's estate spotted someone entering the garden furtively. He called out to the intruder to stop.",
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"quote": "'My watch is always a little fast,' I said. 'What time do you make it now?'\n'<strong>Ten eight</strong>.'",
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"quote": "Yes, that's him. I make hot water on the gas, and then, way off, I hear a scream. 'What time was that?'\n'The kitchen clock says <strong>ten minutes past ten</strong>.'\n'What did you do?' She looked surprised.",
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"quote": "Therefore a sergeant called Trifonov had been on post all day or all week and then he had left at <strong>eleven minutes past ten</strong> in the evening.",
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"quote": "The keys to one of these vehicles were missing. I checked the logbook and could see it had been signed out at <strong>22:13</strong> by DC Jackson. That was okay, it was black.",
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"quote": "The shopping bags looked heavy and impressive, their weight making the Chinese women lean in slightly towards each other. Call it <strong>2214</strong>h.",
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"quote": "Nevertheless, when you left me a message, at <strong>22.16</strong> according to Telenor – in other words as soon as you had got in the door – you were obviously pretty excited that you were on the track of something.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:17 p. m.</strong> Casette will not go in",
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"quote": "'<strong>Ten eighteen</strong> by mine. You see.' He didn't bother to look.",
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"quote": "It was now just <strong>twenty-two minutes past ten</strong>. They had been absent from the platoon for less than half an hour but, with the inferno raging at the company stores, both men were keenly aware that they had to get back to their men without delay.",
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"quote": "The mask leered at him out of a dark case. He hurried on to the next station, where he turned a key in a box. The box recorded the time: <strong>10:23 P.M.</strong>",
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"quote": "Nevertheless, I love her. I loved her from the first moment I beheld her; and that was at an evening-party in Mayfair, at precisely <strong>twenty-four minutes past ten</strong> o'clock on Thursday evening, the twenty-fourth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:25 p. m.</strong> Got new cassette in now. Right. Turn to Recording.................. Aargh Newsnight is starting",
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"quote": "Fletch sat down. It was <strong>twenty-six minutes past ten</strong>. He remained waiting in the den. A young, uniformed policeman waited with him, standing at parade rest, carefully keeping his eyes averted from Fletch.",
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"quote": "The <strong>22.27</strong> hours Sunday night virtual was centred on Water Street, with the Tyne bordering one side of the theatre, and Scotswood Road the other.",
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"quote": "On Tuesday night, at <strong>twenty-eight minutes past ten</strong> o'clock, the Associated Press calls New York City's most closely contested mayoral race in decades for Councilman O'Malley.",
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"quote": "On 4 October 1957 at <strong>22.29</strong> hours and 34 seconds they fired an aluminium sphere into orbit, just over 84 kilos in weight and with four antennae that broadcast a series of now legendary beeps as a radio signal on 15 and 7.5 metre wavelengths, all across the world: Sputnik 1 took the world's breath away!",
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"quote": "And, later on, at <strong>10.31 pm</strong>, I went out onto the balcony to find out whether I could see any stars, but there weren't any because of all the clouds and what is called Light Pollution...",
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"quote": "At <strong>22:32</strong> exactly, he saw a shape emerging through the snow in the distance.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:33 p.m.</strong> Yessss, yessss. RECORDING CURRENT PROGRAMME. Have done it. Aargh. All going mad. Cassette has started rewinding and now stopped and ejected. Why? Shit. Shit. Realize in excitement have sat on remote control.",
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"quote": "He looked around. The bedside clock glowed <strong>10:34</strong> in red letters. Jesus, only 10:30? His plane left at six in the morning, and around eight he'd knocked back two fingers of gin and crawled into bed, desperate for a little sleep.",
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"quote": "<strong>10:35 p.m.</strong> Frantic now. Have rung Sahzzer, Rebecca, Simon, Magda. Nobody knows how to programme their videos. Only person I know who knows how to do it is Daniel.",
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"quote": "Our take-off time was <strong>22.36</strong> and as I lifted the heavy plane into the starlit night my hands and stomach felt as cold as ice.",
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"quote": "'This is what we've got so far: Henrietta Hatchett, aka Goldilocks and 'Friend to Bears', was talking to Stanley Cripps the Monday before last about cucumbers. At <strong>10.37 p.m.</strong> that night a fireball rips through Obscurity, killing Cripps but not before he's called Goldilocks and left a message about something being ''full of holes''.'",
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"quote": "Just a click as someone hung up the phone. It had been left at <strong>22.38</strong> the previous evening. Jack didn't have much doubt that it was someone checking to see if he was in . . .",
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"quote": "He turned, strolled back along the boardwalk and returned to his car. A quick look at his watch: <strong>22.38</strong> hrs.",
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"quote": "I was just a tad underwhelmed. My watch read <strong>22:39</strong> – prime drinking time, even in a place as remote as this, yet ours was the only vehicle out front.",
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"title": "Looking for Mrs Dextrose"
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"quote": "The station clock told him the time: <strong>twenty to eleven</strong>. He went to the booking office and asked the clerk in a polite tone when was the next train to Paris. 'In twelve minutes.'",
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"author": "Georges Simenon",
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"quote": "He climbed into the front seat and started the car. It started with a merry powerful hum, ready to go. 'There, the bastards', said Julian, and smashed the clock with the bottom of the bottle, to give them an approximate time. It was <strong>10:41</strong>",
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"author": "John O'Hara",
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"quote": "'We have established the exact time that Janisohn fell to the stage, the knife in his neck. It was <strong>eighteen minutes to eleven</strong>.",
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"author": "Raoul Whitfield",
"title": "West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar"
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"quote": "In this case, we've got Marcus's car arriving at the airport at <strong>22:43</strong> hours, but with the tinted windows, you can't tell who's driving.",
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"quote": "Alec pricked up his ears. 'When was that?'\n'Oh, yesterday evening.'\n'What time?'\n'<strong>About a quarter to eleven</strong>. I was playing bridge.'",
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"quote": "I'm a bit out of the loop – I'm just waiting to be told where and when to go.' They were interrupted by a man's voice on the radio: 'Vehicle on one.' Jessica checked the clock – <strong>22.45</strong> – and then turned her attention back to the screen where a white estate car was surging past one of the monitoring vans.",
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"author": "Kerry Wilkinson",
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"quote": "He clears his throat. 'It's <strong>22.45</strong> on Thursday the second of January 2014 and we're in interview room three at Bristol police station.",
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"quote": "'We will arrive in the cellar below parliament at <strong>22:45</strong> on the night of 4th November 1605.'\n'That gives us fifteen minutes before Chase will arrive.",
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"quote": "SA Banish expired at <strong>22:47</strong> hrs. (Mountain Time) on 10 August 1993. His body was loaded into a service truck and transported off Paradise Ridge and flown to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. for postmortem examination.",
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"quote": "At <strong>forty-seven minutes past ten</strong> Murchison will launch the electric spark on the wire which communicates with the charge of the Columbiad. At that precise moment we shall leave our spheroid. Thus we still have twenty-seven minutes to remain on the earth.'",
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"quote": "To his surprise he seemed to detect a slight droop of that gentleman's left eye. Was it possible that the doping had failed, and that the victims were only shamming? . . . The clock was at <strong>thirteen minutes to eleven</strong>.",
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"author": "John Buchan",
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"quote": "In the final twenty-seven seconds we will see modern history disappear with increased rapidity, until at <strong>22.48</strong> and nine seconds, the end of history will catch up with us and there will be nothing left at all, nor any evidence that there ever was – to all intents and purposes, we won't ever have existed.'\n'So what's the cause?'\n'I've no idea, but I'm going to have a good look around.",
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"quote": "I looked at my watch. It was <strong>eleven minutes to eleven</strong>, and thinking of it that way made it more memorable than <strong>10:49</strong>.",
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"quote": "Saturday night. And I said,'It's a hundred this year, ain't anybody noticed?' Jack said, 'What's a hundred?' I said, 'Pub is. Coach is. Look at the clock.' Jack said, 'It's <strong>ten to eleven</strong>'",
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"quote": "<strong>10.50 P. M.</strong> This diary-keeping of mine is, I fancy, the outcome of that scientific habit of mind about which I wrote this morning. I like to register impressions while they are fresh. Once a day at least I endeavor to define my own mental position. It is a useful piece of self-analysis, and has, I fancy, a steadying effect upon the character.",
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"quote": "At <strong>nine minutes to eleven</strong> the door of the house across the road opened. I knelt up in bed and peered out the window. It was Fru Gustavsen; she was walking across the drive with a garbage bag in her hand.",
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"quote": "Now the player's fever was in Rawley's eyes. His face was deadly pale, but his hand threw steadily, calmly, almost negligently, as it might seem. All at once, at <strong>eight minutes to eleven</strong>, the luck turned in his favour, and his pile mounted again.",
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"quote": "Every time I was there I saw you sitting at the end of the bar all by yourself, hunched over a cup of coffee. And every night at exactly <strong>seven minutes to eleven</strong> you threw money on the bar, grabbed your coat, and headed out the door as fast as you were able.",
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"author": "Kelly Krieg-Sigman with Dave Isay (ed)",
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"quote": "They had a listing for Ozgard, Ramsey G., in the city. It was <strong>10:54</strong> in Colorado, but the hour might make the call seem more urgent and therefore more credible.",
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"quote": "'It is eleven o'clock! <strong>Eleven o'clock, all but five minutes</strong>!'\n'But which eleven o'clock?'\n'The eleven o'clock that is to decide life or death!...He told me so just before he went....He is terrible....He is quite mad: he tore off his mask and his yellow eyes shot flames!...'",
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"author": "Gaston Leroux",
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"quote": "The watch showed <strong>10.56 p.m.</strong> That meant I had been out for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes' sleep. Just a nice doze. In that time I had muffed a mob and lost eight thousand dollars.",
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"author": "Raymond Chandler",
"title": "Farewell, My Lovely"
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"quote": "There they stopped engines and lay side by side upon the water for a few minutes, perhaps five miles from the fishing fleet, and between them and Douarnenez. At <strong>22.57</strong> they started up main engines and turned to do their stuff.",
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"quote": "The reporter descended the steps from the viaduct and entered the brightly lighted station. It was <strong>two minutes to eleven</strong> when he walked up to the ticket window and introduced himself. The agent on duty handed him his credentials and told him the shortest way to the roundhouse.",
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"quote": "I saw their beams bounce and swing, side to side, up and down, and I saw them lead the way north, out through the lot, and then I saw them swing toward me and bounce twice more as the wheels behind them climbed up off the dirt and onto the blacktop. The clock in my head showed <strong>one minute to eleven</strong>.",
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"quote": "<strong>The clock struck eleven</strong>. I looked at Adele, whose head leant against my shoulder; her eyes were waxing heavy, so I took her up in my arms and carried her off to bed.",
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"quote": "When they reached the top of the Astronomy Tower at <strong>eleven o'clock</strong>, they found a perfect night for stargazing, cloudless and still.",
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"quote": "Then it grew dark; she would have had them to bed, but they begged sadly to be allowed to stay up; and, just about <strong>eleven o'clock</strong>, the door-latch was raised quietly, and in stepped the master.",
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"quote": "I gazed at him. Then, as it dawned on me that he wasn't joking, I looked at all the little clocks on the kitchen appliances. They all agreed: <strong>one minute past eleven</strong>.",
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"quote": "Old Petey rolled in at <strong>two minutes past eleven</strong>, warmed his hands at the gas-stove, poked disapprovingly at the pretzels on the free-lunch counter, and bawled at Carl: 'Hey, keep away from dat cash-register! Wipe dem goilish tears away, will yuh, Agnes, and bring us a little health-destroyer and a couple matches.'",
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"quote": "The operation had been scheduled for <strong>23.03</strong> hours, as soon as the crab races had begun.",
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"quote": "He came out of his reverie and noticed on the digital clock that it was already <strong>four minutes past eleven</strong>. As he began switching channels, he cursed himself, cursed his weakness, and cursed the satanic forces that were loose in this accursed land.",
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"quote": "It was <strong>five minutes past eleven</strong> when I made my last entry. I remember winding up my watch and noting the time. So I have wasted some five hours of the little span still left to us. Who would have believed it possible? But I feel very much fresher, and ready for my fate - or try to persuade myself that I am.",
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"quote": "At what time did you arrive at the residence of Edward Norton, Judge Purley? 'At precisely <strong>six minutes after eleven</strong>.'",
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"quote": "He looked at the large clock on the wall and saw that it was <strong>six minutes past eleven</strong> o'clock, local time. That was as it should have been.",
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"quote": "At <strong>11.07 pm</strong>, Samuel 'Gunner' Wilson was moving at 645 miles per hour over the Mojave Desert. Up ahead in the moonlinght, he saw the twin lead jets, their afterburners glowing angrily in the night sky.",
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"quote": "The Lilger's handle smashed into the Argentines skull with such force that the guard's expulsion of breath was as loud as his voice as he fell. David looked at his watch. It was <strong>eight minutes past eleven</strong>.",
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"quote": "The time is <strong>11:09</strong> at that point, Powell said to the D.A.'s staff. 'Watch the clock above the model. It's geared to synchronize with the slow motion.' In rapt silence, the legal division studied the scene and jotted notes while the androids reproduced the actions of the fatal Beaumont party.",
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"quote": "He had not the strength to help himself, and at <strong>ten minutes past eleven</strong> no one could have helped him, no one in the world",
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"quote": "Soon after 11 Blomkvist and his sister arrive in Enskede and at <strong>11:11</strong> he calls the police.'\n'That seems to be correct, Miss Marple.'",
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"quote": "There was a confirmatory identification done by undercover officer 6475 at <strong>23:12</strong> hours at the corner of 147th and Amsterdam.",
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"quote": "There is but one train. It leaves the Haupt Bahnhof at <strong>thirteen minutes past eleven</strong>.' Madame Rochal hesitated a moment, and then: 'Frau Nisko,' she said, quickly, glancing at her watch, 'I have been given my freedom. I am going out. I do not know when I shall return - '",
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"quote": "'This call came in, and I noticed the time of it,' said Sergeant Mahoney. 'It was <strong>fourteen minutes past eleven</strong>. The man said that he was Edward Norton, and that he wanted to report a stolen automobile, that a Buick sedan, belonging to him, No. 6754093, with a license number of I2MI834 had been stolen, and that he wanted the car picked up and the driver arrested, no matter who the driver might be.",
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"quote": "He said he would send to the morgue for the file and call me, which he did ten minutes later. 'He was shot twice in the head, in his car, about two blocks from the Chateau Bercy on Franklin. Time, about <strong>11.15 p.m.</strong>'",
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"quote": "On arriving home at <strong>a quarter-past eleven</strong>, we found a hansom cab, which had been waiting for me for two hours with a letter. Sarah said she did not know what to do, as we had not left the address where we had gone.",
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"quote": "The time was <strong>11.16 pm</strong>. I tried doubling 2s again, but I couldn't get past 2(15) which was 32,768. So I groaned to make the time pass quicker and not think.",
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"quote": "The minutes seemed hours, and I felt a distinct relief when the watch, which I had held in my hand most of the time, told me it was <strong>seventeen minutes past eleven</strong>. Only ten minutes before the brake should be put on; and Craddock would require all that time to get his senses about him.",
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"author": "Flora Annie Webster Steel",
"title": "In the Permanent Way"
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"quote": "But at <strong>eighteen minutes past eleven</strong> the clock had audibly struck neither the hour nor the quarter. Sir Paul was a man of tact. He said simply: 'I should like a drink, dear old boy.'\n'The clock's not striking,' said Mr. Prohack, with solemn joy, as the wonderful truth presented itself to him.",
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"quote": "<strong>2319</strong>! We have a <strong>2319</strong>!",
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"quote": "Harvey looked at the clock, which marked <strong>twenty past eleven</strong>. 'Then I'll sleep here till three and catch the four o'clock freight. They let us men from the Fleet ride free as a rule.'",
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"quote": "The Swedish police did not exactly distinguish themselves. Palme was killed at <strong>11.21 p.m.</strong>, but the order to watch the roads didn't go out until 12.50 and even then the police in patrol cars weren't told what they were looking for, and the airports were not closed until 1.05 a.m.",
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"quote": "At <strong>11.22</strong> he handed his ticket to a yawning guard and walked down a long flight of wooden steps to the car-park. A breeze lifted and dropped the leaves of a tree, and he thought of the girl with the blonde hair. His bicycle lay where he had left it.",
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"quote": "By the time the second lock had also admitted defeat with a click, things had still gone without a hitch. Quinten looked at his watch: <strong>twenty-three minutes past eleven</strong>.",
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"quote": "The digital clock on the nightstand read <strong>11:24 P.M.</strong> He had been asleep less than an hour. The light that came through the half-open door called to mind the strange glow in the submerged city of his dream.",
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"quote": "'OK, Estelle, I willl be at Nice Airport at<strong> 11.25 p.m.</strong> on Saturday, BA: Could you send the driver?'",
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"quote": "Los Angeles. <strong>11:26 p.m.</strong> In a dark red room- the color of the walls is close to that of raw liver- is a tall woman dressed cartoonishly in too-tight silk shorts, her breasts pulled up and pressed forward by the yellow blouse tied beneath them.",
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"quote": "He tells his old friend the train times and they settle on the 19.45 arriving at <strong>23.27</strong>. 'I'll book us into the ultra-luxurious Francis Drake Lodge. Running water in several rooms. Have you got a mobile?'",
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"quote": "I pulled off the phones and checked my watch. It was <strong>twenty-eight past eleven</strong>, pretty late for visitors. I slipped on some pajama bottoms and walked to the door. Switching on the porch light, I could see the silhouette of a woman against the glass.",
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"author": "Roger L. Simon",
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"quote": "According to the time code at <strong>23.28</strong> he had lost consciousness, which indicated that his core temperature must have fallen below 28 degrees centigrade.",
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"quote": "With a sigh of relief that she had not missed the deadline, she crept between the sheets at <strong>twenty-nine minutes past eleven</strong> and turned out the light at once.",
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"author": "Albert Cohen",
"title": "Belle du Seigneur"
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"quote": "The Picton boat was due to leave at <strong>half-past eleven</strong>. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water ruffled under Fenella's hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on.",
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"title": "The Voyage"
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"time": 1410,
"quote": "The ship's clock in the bar says half past eleven. <strong>Half past eleven</strong> is opening time. The hands of the clock have stayed still at half past eleven for fifty years.",
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"quote": "'Jena and Rellise will be back at <strong>half past eleven</strong>,' said Francesca. She plucked one of Mari's hairs and tied off her first broom. 'We'd better clear off before then.'",
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"author": "Garth Nix",
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"quote": "It is <strong>twenty-nine minutes to midnight</strong>. Dr Narlikar's Nursing Home is running on a skeleton staff; there are many absentees, many employees who have preferred to celebrate the imminent birth of the nation, and will not assist tonight at the births of children.",
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"quote": "At <strong>23.32</strong> we found her bike and her newspaper bag with the two undelivered papers, dumped in the ditch.",
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"quote": "And then it was <strong>11.32pm</strong> and I heard voices of people walking along the street.",
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"author": "Mark Haddon",
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"quote": "We are on Colaba Causeway now, just for a moment, to reveal that at <strong>twenty-seven minutes to midnight</strong>, the police are hunting for a dangerous criminal. His name: Joseph D'Costa. The orderly is absent, has been absent for several days, from his work at the Nursing Home, from his room near the slaughterhouse, and from the life of a distraught virginal Mary",
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"quote": "Reacher retrieved his G36 from under the saloon bar window at <strong>eleven thirty-four</strong> precisely and set out to walk back on the road, which he figured would make the return trip faster.",
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"quote": "Then at <strong>eleven thirty-five</strong> the door at the rear of the hall opened and a police sergeant and three constables entered, ushered by Bagot.",
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"author": "Michael Innes",
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"quote": "Then Green knocks at the front door at <strong>2336</strong> - Gately has to Log the exact time and then it's his call whether to unlock the door.",
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"quote": "'What is it?'\n'That's funny,' she said. 'Last file on yesterday's queue log ran at <strong>11:37 p.m.</strong>'",
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"quote": "Jon and Randi reported the same. 'It's <strong>twenty-two minutes to midnight</strong>,' Randi added. 'So little time.' They sped to the long, dark curving stairwell that seemed to drop into dark infinity.",
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"author": "Robert Ludlum",
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"quote": "There's a whisper down the line at <strong>11:39</strong>. When the Night Mail's ready to depart",
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"author": "T. S. Eliot",
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"time": 1420,
"quote": "Professor Van Helsing and I are to leave by the <strong>11:40</strong> train tonight for Veresti, where we are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.",
"asin": "014143984X",
"author": "Bram Stoker",
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"time": 1421,
"quote": "In a little while his mind cleared, but his head ached, arms ached, body ached. The phosphorescent figures on his watch attracted his attention. He peered at them. The time was <strong>11:41</strong>. I remember...what do I remember?",
"asin": "B00D434BIW",
"author": "James Clavell",
"title": "Noble House"
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"quote": "At <strong>11.42</strong> then the signal's nearly due And the passengers are frantic to a man- Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:",
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"author": "T. S. Eliot",
"title": "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"
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"time": 1423,
"quote": "The clock told him it was <strong>eleven forty-three</strong> and in that moment, in a flash of illumination, Mungo understood what the numbers at the end of Moscow Centre's messages were",
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"author": "Ruth Rendell",
"title": "Talking to Strange Men"
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"time": 1423,
"quote": "By the light of his electric lamp he saw that it was seventeen minutes to twelve. 'So at <strong>seventeen minutes to twelve</strong> at night,' he said, 'I fathomed the mystery.' He tried to control his emotion, but it was too great; and his nerves were so immensely staggered by the trial that he began to shed tears.",
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"author": "Maurice Leblanc",
"title": "The Teeth of the Tiger"
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"quote": "'At <strong>eleven forty-four</strong> last night somebody stabbed this girl in the neck with a kitchen knife and immediately thereafter plunged the same knife through her skull, where it remained.'",
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"title": "Dead Famous"
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"time": 1425,
"quote": "The church clocks chimed <strong>three quarters past eleven</strong>, as two figures emerged on London Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid step, was that of a woman who looked eagerly about her as though in quest of some expected object; the other figure was that of a man...",
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"time": 1425,
"quote": "When the great water-powered clock in the Middle Refectory showed <strong>fifteen minutes to midnight</strong>, Lirael left her hiding spot in the breakfast servery and climbed up through an air shaft to the Narrow Way, which would in turn take her to the Southscape and Chief Librarian Vancelle's rooms.",
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"author": "Garth Nix",
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"time": 1426,
"quote": "In the Kismet Lounge, Mr. Early sees suddenly to his horror it's <strong>11:46 p.m.</strong> He's been in this place far longer than he'd planned, and he's had more to drink than he'd planned. Shame! What if, back at the E-Z, his little girl is crying piteously for him?",
"asin": "B01LP782W4",
"author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
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"time": 1427,
"quote": "If he had glanced at his watch, he would have seen that it was <strong>thirteen minutes to midnight</strong>. And if he had been interested in what was going on, he would have heard the voices and bawling of terrified men.",
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"author": "Rudolf Jašík",
"title": "Dead Soldiers Don't Sing"
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"quote": "Littell arranged a private charter. He told the pilot to fly balls-to-the-wall. The little two-seater rattled and shook-Kemper couldn't believe it. It was <strong>11.48pm</strong>. They were thirty-six hours short of GO.",
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"quote": "Tom shrugged. He pushed his pinkish ruffled sleeve back, and saw that it was <strong>eleven minutes to midnight</strong>. Tom finished his coffee.",
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"author": "Patricia Highsmith",
"title": "The Boy Who Followed Ripley"
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"quote": "At <strong>11.50pm</strong>, I got up extremely quietly, took my things from under the bed, and opened the door one millimeter at a time, so it wouldn't make any noise.",
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"author": "Jonathan Safran Foer",
"title": "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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"quote": "'Due at Waterloo at <strong>eleven-fifty-one</strong>,' panted Smith.'That gives us thirty-nine minutes to get to the other side of the river and reach his hotel.'",
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"author": "Sax Rohmer",
"title": "The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu"
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"quote": "It was <strong>eight minutes to midnight</strong>. Just nice time, I said to myself. Indoors, everything was quiet and in darkness. Splendid. I went to the bar and fetched a tumbler, a siphon of soda and a bottle of Glen Grant, took a weak drink and a pill, and settled down in the public dining-room to wait the remaining two minutes.",
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"author": "Kingsley Amis",
"title": "The Green Man"
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"quote": "The headlights made the wet highway shimmer. The moon was hidden. There were no streetlights. The weather was not a plus. A bright night would have been better. But it was a business in which you didn't always get to choose. At <strong>seven minutes to midnight</strong> I pulled over onto the shoulder of the road near the designated spot.",
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"author": "Robert B. Parker",
"title": "Hugger Mugger"
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"quote": "It was <strong>seven minutes to midnight</strong>, and Westminster Bridge was empty except for her.",
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"author": "Derek Landy",
"title": "Skulduggery Pleasant"
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"time": 1433,
"quote": "It was <strong>7 minutes to midnight</strong>. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house.",
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"author": "Mark Haddon",
"title": "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
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"time": 1434,
"quote": "His watch read <strong>11.54pm</strong> Eastern Standard Time. Already it was nearly 6.00am in Rome. He had left a city frozen by a harsh January storm, after a bleak, wet Christmas season.",
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"author": "Greg Tobin",
"title": "Conclave"
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"time": 1435,
"quote": "'I am going to lock you in. It is-' he consulted his watch, '<strong>five minutes to midnight</strong>. Miss Granger, three turns should do it. Good luck.'",
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"author": "J. K. Rowling",
"title": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
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"time": 1436,
"quote": "The human race is at the end of the line, the doomsday clock ticks on. It's stopped for a decade at <strong>four minutes to midnight</strong>, but there the hands still stand. Any minute now they'll begin to move again.",
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"author": "Fay Weldon",
"title": "Wicked Women"
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"quote": "Wells looked out at the street. 'What time is it?' he said. Chigurh raised his wrist and looked at his watch. '<strong>Eleven fifty-seven</strong>' he said. Wells nodded. By the old woman's calendar I've got three more minutes.",
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"author": "Cormac McCarthy",
"title": "No Country for Old Men"
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"time": 1438,
"quote": "Humans emerge <strong>one minute</strong> and seventeen seconds<strong> before midnight</strong>. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.",
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"author": "Bill Bryson",
"title": "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
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"quote": "At <strong>a minute to midnight</strong>, Roquenton was holding his wife's hand and giving her some last words of advice. On the stroke of midnight, she felt her companion's hand melt away inside her own.",
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"author": "Marcel Aymé",
"title": "Tickets on Time"
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"time": 1439,
"quote": "At <strong>one minute to twelve</strong>, she was sure of it, and cursed herself for even thinking for a moment the cat-creature would help her escape.",
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"author": "Garth Nix",
"title": "Clariel"
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