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  • It has been a long time since two-o'clock this morning ...

    Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Chaffin) 1996

  • There were inconsistencies in Foster's confession: he claimed the car he'd stolen was green, rather than blue; that he'd been absent from the club all night, rather than returning shortly before the two-o'clock closing, as his fellow valets had testified; that he'd abandoned the car by the side of the road, rather than in another ravine.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • The club was closed, but Larkey had said he would be there for our two-o'clock appointment.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • It was Easter Tuesday following, about two-o'clock in the afternoon, that the afore-mentioned Lofthouse, having occasion to water a quickset hedge not far from his house, as he was going for the second pailful, an apparition went before him in the shape of a woman, and soon after set down against a rising green grass plot, right over against the pond.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

  • Or, assuming the San-Francisco standard, we have gained three hours on the sun, and, instead of taking a two-o'clock lunch, as our friends are doing in New York, sit down to an eleven-o'clock breakfast crowned with melons, grapes, and strawberries, in the sweet seclusion of the Ladies 'Ordinary.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • The two-o'clock bell at the Technical College had just begun to ring, and a stream of students appeared out of the long straggling buildings and poured through the gate, breaking up then into little knots and groups that went their several ways into the town.

    The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

  • And so it came to pass that Pierson went to bed at the sound of Scarborough's two-o'clock rising gong and pieced out his sleep with an occasional nap in recitations and lectures and for an hour or two late in the afternoon.

    The Cost 1904

  • It's going to be in the morning at twelve o'clock, so they can take the two-o'clock train for Richmond and go on to New York.

    Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • Now you don't mean to say that you forgot that she was leaving by the two-o'clock train?

    Comedies of Courtship Anthony Hope 1898

  • Away in the night, when all the sounds was late sounds, and the air had a late feel, and a late smell, too -- about a two-o'clock feel, as near as I could make out -- Tom said the professor was so quiet this time he must be asleep, and we'd better --

    Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

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