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"Hour" Quotes from Famous Books

... DEAREST LUCY,—Until I met Mr. Prendergast yesterday, I was not sure that you had actually returned, or I would not have delayed an hour in assuring you, if you could doubt it, that my pardon is ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... would not see it. When Dodd saw she wanted, not an explanation, but a grievance, he ceased to thwart her. "I am neglecting my duties to no purpose," said he, and left her without ceremony. This was a fresh offence; and, as he went out, she declared open war. And she made it too from that hour: a ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... hour or more before she came down, and at once we left the house, letting ourselves out. All the way home my mother never once spoke, but walked as one in a dream with eyes that saw not. With her hand upon the lock of our gate she came ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... his sin and misery along with it; for at the moment of death a voice from heaven came forth and said, "Rabbi Eliezar, the son of Durdia, is appointed to life everlasting." When Rabbi the Holy heard this, he wept, and said, "One wins eternal life after a struggle of years; another finds it in one hour." ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... An hour later, Houston presented himself at the sorting rooms, where Haight met him with many smiles, offering to show him ...

— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

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