"Time of day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doing so. Just so in this case; if faith, meditation, or concentration of thought fail you, then will you also fail to operate on others. First, you must have a yearning for the person you wish to make think of you; and, secondly, you must learn to guess at what time of day or night, he may be unemployed—passive—so that he may be in a proper state to receive the thought which you dispatch to him. If he should be occupied in any way, so that his nervous forces were needed to complete his task, his "human battery," or thought, would not be in a recipient ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... my watch, and, having ascertained the time of day, I got up and proceeded to dress hastily enough, wondering to hear no signs ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... are joined by various native wayfarers who stop and pass the time of day: they light a little smouldering fire of leaves and twigs to keep the sociable pipe going. It is a little earthen cup without a stem; they hold this in the points of their fingers and suck the smoke between their thumbs so the pipe touches no one's lips, and they have a drink from a ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
... Phormio, "you write your promises in water, or better in oil, black-scaled viper. We know what time of day it is with ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... a little different from the idea I had—but I thought I might go around and get acquainted with the grandees, anyway—not exactly splice the main-brace with them, you know, but shake hands and pass the time of day." ...
— Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • Mark Twain
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