The fate of the Corporation was clearly doomed from the hour the House of Commons sanctioned the appointment of a prejudiced and illegal tribunal.
Anxious to make friends in hishour of extremest peril, he despatched the infamous Jefferies to Guildhall to announce the restoration of the ancient privileges of the City.
When post time drew near, he was wont to retire for half an hour or an hour, and then and there scribble off the necessary amount of matter for the press.
Miss Emily, for her part, had consented to be one of the party of excursionists, so after half-an-hour at the bridge she and I climbed the rising ground to the house to go to the church.
As you see, it must be either you or I to whom this bedstead within one hour will turn out to be the death-bed.
I heard Langler playing Gregorian chants on the organ in the oratory, for he had the habit of playing chants about that hour of the evening, but had rather given it up since the miracles.
It would seem, then, that with the same motive her absence and mine from Goodford House during that particular three-quarters of an hour was a thing to be desired.
One of the girls said that half-an-hour before, when Miss Langler was coming down the great stair to join the party, she had handed to Miss Langler a note which one of the villagers of Mins had given her.
If you had waited one little hour for me," she said as I went in, "I should have been back to go to the church with you.
But do you see, by yon clock, that the dinner-hour approacheth?
It was perhaps three-quarters of an hour later when Enoch entered the kitchen, wiping his face, nervous, weary, embarrassed.
He had been, for an hour after his mishap, walking more rapidly than was his habit up and down the entire length of the hall that divided the house into two distinct sides, and his head had hung low upon his bosom.
But at the eleventh hour another voice broke in on his, and spoke as one having authority.
What had happened during that hour to reverse the steadfast resolve which she had made then?
General and Mrs. Marston were the next to leave, starting an hour later, and going in the opposite direction.
If she had half an hour of leisure she could not fix her attention to anything.
A tall inlaid clock in the gallery mentioned the hour by one sedate stroke; the church clock told the village the time of day a second later.
The air was sweet and soft, with a voiceless whisper of melancholy in it, as if the summer knew, for all her smiles, her hour had wellnigh come.
Charles heard the carriage roll away again, and when half an hour later he sauntered back towards the house, he was surprised to see Lady Mary sitting in the drawing-room window.
I went for them this morning, half anhour ago, at father's request.
I am starting within an hour or so for Deemouth, but could not bear to go without telling you that your father has no objection to my saying to you what I please.
When the hour for the noonday meal arrived, Isy appeared with her mother- in-law and old Eppie, carrying their food for the labourers, and leading little Peter in her hand.
Blatherwick's hourwas on its way, slow-coming, but no longer to be shunned.
He could almost have felt it in him to draw back at the eleventh hour were he not ashamed to face in himself such cowardice.
At the hour appointed the priest was at the altar, a little body of devout persons was gathered in the church, and the poor woman was brought there, suffering, but still with good hope.
I was not sensible of it till after having made my thanksgiving, which was near a quarter of an hour after.
Mr. Dixon inquired what time this occurred, and she replied about 10 o'clock, the hour at which the fatal accident took place.
I spent an hour with them last evening, and saw them at communion at early mass this morning.
Eleven days after her cure, Anne walked through the streets of Metz in a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, which lasted an hour and a quarter, to the astonishment and admiration of all who had known her former sad condition.
In an hour and a half the dog returned with the cord around his neck.
After walking for about an hour and a half, and when a few miles from Sutton Coldfield, where all of a sudden, as regards locality, he realized the minutest details of the dream, two men coming through the hedge suddenly overtook him.
About an hour after they left Portlaw, in a lonely part of the mountain, just near the place observed by Rogers in his dream, Caulfield took the opportunity of murdering his companion.
At the hour appointed, the latter waited upon the Bishop, and found with him only one priest and a lay gentleman.
President of the United States shall hear how praiseworthy was your conduct in the hour of danger, and the Representatives of the American people will give you the praise your exploits entitle you to.
The hour rule of Congress might be useful, though far less needed among the frogs than among the profane croakers of the fens at Washington.
Yet you can experience them without horror; can weigh, observe and test them, and wait with the patience of confidence for the hour when they shall affect you no longer.
There are beings who, from the moment of their birth to the hour of their death, utter only cries of suffering and despair.
I question if Neb thought at all of Chloe, for the next hour or two!
So, Master Wallingford, you must consent to take your breakfast an hour earlier than common, or go without it, altogether.
I have said, an hour thus passed before we could even guess at the probable result.
Moses laughed, and as I saw that both he and his new-found mother were in a fit state to be left together, and that the sun now wanted but an hour or two of setting, I rose to take my leave.
My good friend, Mr. Hardinge, told it to me for the first time, only half an hour since.
Rather less than an hour since, Grace told me that thehour was at hand.
There has not been an hour since her death, that I have not seen her sitting at my side, and conversing in sisterly confidence, as we did from infancy to the day she ceased to live!
The hour is near, brother," Grace whispered, as she lay on my bosom.
My dear Moses, this is a very hopeful frame of mind; carry out this feeling in all things, leaning on the Saviour alone for your support, and your dying hour may well be the happiest of your life.
I have foreseen this from the hour I first met her, after my return; though a single ray of hope dawned on me, when Post advised the change of scene.
Half an hour later, when the boys were beginning to think of seeking their bunks, for they were very tired from the day of preparation, the ship suddenly lurched to one side.
We've got an hour yet, and likely more, for they'll never start on time.
I think I'll go up a trifle," announced Mr. Glassford, when at the end of half an hour of speeding they had gained little if anything on the red machine.
But at this hour of the night the sight struck him as so extraordinary that, curiosity afire, he hurriedly let himself out of the side door he had just locked, and crossed the lawn.
She shot out of the driveway like a stone out of a catapult, and was off down the mile road to the station, All conveyances going to that train had passed quarter-hour before, and the course was nearly clear.
Going to see an out-of-town patient at this hourof night?
I should think he might put his toes through one of those in an hour or two," he suggested.
I'm beginning to get a bit of reaction, of course; should have liked an hour or two of jollity.
If it had been physical fatigue alone which had brought him to this pass he might have dropped asleep where he sat, and waked, after an hour or two, to drag himself away to bed, like one who had been drugged.
The Scottish surgeon accepted without hesitation Burns's suggestion that Doctor Grant should stay and keep him company for an hour or two while he got used to his arm, and should then sleep under his roof.
Two days later Burns, starting toward home in the Imp at a late hour in the morning, passed a figure on a corner of a city street waiting for the outward-bound trolley.
Martha has waited half anhour for me and given me up, and she's perfectly furious.
When Chester left he was thinking that, except for the outward signs of his adventure, Burns did not look as unfit as might have been expected for a happy hourwith an old friend.
Couldn't have slept an hour if I hadn't come back," he said in a low tone.
Ordinarily, Burns would have gone into Chester's den and settled down for an hour of talk before bedtime.
His patient had given him a bad hour of anxiety immediately after leaving the table, and he could not desert her until she had rallied.
The fellows said it wouldn't; stood around and croaked for an hour beforehand.
Only, an hour later, the engineman came up and forward to stare into the faster-flowing water.
That glimpse of Hayti would remain with him, he thought, yet within the hour he was striving desperately to hold it.
An hour later Annie lay on the lounge in the sitting room, still aching with terrible weariness, but divinely content.
All the happiness of his life, he felt, waited for this girl's answer, this little yellow-haired girl whom he had never seen until a quarter of an hour before.
For an hour nothing lived but the universe, the bright dust in the sky.
Within an hour it was all to come back to him--the terror, the panic, the agony of that far-away time.
A full hour had passed since he and his servant had fought the mugger in the ford.
You never helped anybody do plain sewin' at fifteen cents a hour nor had to borrow money to get a decent dress to be married in.
At night the village folk kept in their huts, and such wood-cutters and gipsies as slept without wakened every hour to tend their fires.
Limited only by her small knowledge of such things, she revelled in a dream of affluence and luxury which was only dissipated when gradually she became conscious that throughout the past hour she had been clinging to a grimy, coverless book.
If they can make forty-five an hour on it, I'm crazy.
Very, very slowly, in that special half hour an inscrutable little smile printed itself experimentally across the right hand corner of the Senior Surgeon's upper lip.
At the edge of the bottom step a precipitous lilac branch that must have budded and bloomed in a single hour smote him stingingly across his cheek.
The disgust was still in his walk as he left the house an hour later.
The annoyance added two scowls to his already blackly furrowed face, and at least ten miles an hour to his running time; but nothing whatsoever to his conversational ability.
And it hadn't been a grinning day, and he certainly didn't intend to begin grinning at any such late hour as that in the afternoon.
Senior Surgeon explosively half an hour later after interminable miles of absolute silence--and dingy yellow field-stubble--and bare brown alder bushes.
The hypothesis is, that the prisoner was walking from point A to point Z, along a distant road, at the hour when the crime was committed.
Mr. Malvern arrived at the manor-house about an hour after Sir Thomas breathed his last.
Breton proceeded at the appointed hour to the Old Manor-House.
At length--half an hour had perhaps thus passed--the troubled meanings became for a few moments clearly audible.
In about an hour or so, out came the little girl again, with the letter in her hand.
We shall see, if, at this unusual hour of the night, there is any bustle in or near any of these places; if any smoke is coming out of any one of their furnaces, where the melting takes place.
Well, in my opinion, judging from where she was when I was on the look-out a quarter of anhour agone, not under three hours.
She had not been gone half an hour before two gentlemen rushed into the shop in a state of grievous chagrin; one was the Bank clerk who had changed the note.
Half an hour later the Yucatan dropped anchor a mile off shore and the small boats were lowered for such passengers as desired to land.
Half an hour later he made his way over the side of the Yucatan and was soon back aboard the cruiser.
Half an hour later one of them returned bearing the German commander and his officers.
An hour later Captain Von Blusen joined them and after awhile Captain Anderson stopped to exchange a few words.
An hour later a small boat put off from the ship and headed shoreward.
For half an hour the cab continued its way and then it came to a stop.
Half an hour after his departure Consul Harrington returned with General Seauterey and half a dozen troopers.
For an hour they continued on their way, and then suddenly the force began to increase as men appeared from other directions and joined the main body.
The girls stood upon the upper deck aft and looked about with interest; but after an hour of this they grew tired and went down to breakfast.
Shirley knocked on the next door and aroused the others, and an hour later, after a hearty breakfast, all stood forward on the promenade deck enjoying the fresh morning breeze.
Noon came and passed and still the big steamship was in the canal; but with the coming of the supper hour the Pacific ocean became visible in the distance.
Half anhour later the train plunged into the tunnel under the Hudson river.
Yet I ne'er felt it till an hour ago; I stood, heigho!
I was so firm and hard an hour ago; Suddenly I grew soft---- Pygmal.
Or kill myself--(if thou shouldst wish me die) One hour on that soft breast to lie.
I came at a good pace myself, and set out hardly half an hour after him.
An hour later Miska had had a bath, and had donned a clean shirt and the becoming livery worn by the royal pages of the second rank.
But now he was so consumed with curiosity that he actually kept his steed waiting a whole quarter of an hour later than usual, while he watched for the reappearance of the ladies.
A long hour passed, and still the king did not send for Michael, though the governor had lost no time in announcing his arrival.
But Miska's business was with the castle, not the palace; and at last, after a journey which was becoming every hour more and more wearisome, he beheld it rising before him in the distance.
If I go out of my room and tell him he cannot go, he will sit on a chair by an open window or play about on the floor for an hour at a time, and never think of flying out of the window or going out of the door.
They had to hang on and keep the ropes tight; that was all, but only those who have worked in stock-yards, hour after hour, know how difficult such an apparently simple task really is.
The mounted men rode slowly to and fro around the cattle for an hour or two.
It was still an hour or so before sunrise when the white boys had their first lesson in bush cookery.
The moon was half-full in a cloudless sky, and the drover had no difficulty in seeing, but, after an hour or two, he had the greatest difficulty in the world to keep awake.
Trees do not grow from the ground, become old, and die and lose most of their branches in less than an hour of a summer's night.
The brown curtain passed on, trailing its fringe over the desert, and the back of it could be seen as distinctly as the front had been a short half-hour before.
No other living thing was seen hour after hour, save a solitary eagle high in the air, a few lizards darting about the clumps of porcupine grass, and ants and flies.
As hour after hour went by, and Sax or Vaughan rode round the horses or squatted on the ground with the quietly breathing saddle-horse standing near, these lads were slowly but surely changed from school-boys to men.
An hour or two before dawn, as soon as it was light enough to distinguish one beast from another, all hands went down to the yards for drafting.
It was about half an hour after sunset and nearly dark, and the bonfire lit up the plain and could be seen for miles.
It was still an hour before sunset when Boss Stobart, after giving the cattle a final inspection, was riding back to camp to make a damper and cook a bucket of meat, when he was startled by seeing a boot track.
It happened, therefore, that though Sax was just able to keep control of himself throughout the terrible night which followed Yarloo's departure, Vaughan lost consciousness and became delirious about half an hour before sunset.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
After waiting an hour on the train, they heard the welcome whistle of the engine, and the still more welcome clang of the starting cars, and off they went amid loud cheers and silent tears.
Hour after hour passed, and he still remained wakeful as a spirit doomed never to sleep again.
The fire from the shore gradually slackened, and thousands of hearts swelled anew as the hour seemed at hand when the troops were to land and carry the works at the point of the bayonet.
And so his anticipated hour of enjoyment was changed to one of bitterness.
An hour passed quickly away, with all its busy preparations, consultations, and leave takings; and the last moment arrived.
That evening at a late hour Swift made his way to the four-hundred-dollar team under whose protecting shelter he had ensconced his patient with such poor comfort as was possible.
To take boarders out sailing at the rate of seventy-five cents an hour was the kind of work he would do.
About an hour after, an acquaintance of his drove the span up, and said they had been found unchecked, grazing near the Smithsonian Institute.
After half an hour of waiting, during which the two police officers had sent out several messages, the coachman was ushered in among the impatient quintet.
Business was brought to a standstill and stocks fell in half an hour from five to twenty per cent.
We have been children for an hour or more, forgetful of all things save love; but now let us be what we are, a man and a woman who have perils to face.
The hour came when she entered a carriage again to be driven to the steamship wharf; when she stood upon the deck near the rail, and gazed, as she honestly believed, over the house tops of a city she would never see again.
Only an hourago you said that you owed me a debt that you could never repay.
I will never go to Siberia for I have the means to cheat you out of the pleasure of sending me there, and when you read this, I shall have been an hour dead.
Or did your half hourin the garden upset you, Dubravnik?
During the drive which lasted nearly an hour we remained perfectly silent.
In an hour every man who is waiting to take my life will be in prison.
After that, we three passed a very happy hour together, after which I hurried away, with the assurance that Zara would accompany me into the presence of the czar, that evening.
