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Updated: June 17, 2025
It was so still, Gwen could hear the swift tick-tick-tick in the watch-pocket at the bed's head; and, when she listened to it, her consciousness that the big clock in the kitchen was at odds with the hearth-cricket, rebuking his speed solemnly, grew less and less. For the sound we look to hear comes out of the silence, when no other sound has in it the force to speak on its own behalf.
She got tired of knitting, tired of twisting her pretty curls round her finger, and tired of looking at pictures. "Let's guess riddles," she whispered to Nancy Glover, who sat on the bench beside her. "I can make up riddles just as easy! There's something in this room, in Miss Parker's watch-pocket, goes tick tick. Now guess that: that's a riddle." "I wish you'd behave, Prudy Parlin," said Nancy.
Rogers now began looking around the house, which was built of sun-dried bricks about one by two feet in size, and one end was used as a storehouse. As he looked in, a man came to him and wanted a black, patent leather belt which Rogers wore, having a watch-pocket attached to it. He offered a quart or more of coarse corn meal, and Rogers made the trade.
This is a fine handsome countryman, a regular village cock, with a pink-and-blue cravat around his neck, and a huge gold chain dangling from his watch-pocket. He seems to be very proud of his appearance and looks around with an air of the most perfect self-satisfaction. In the same way he relates his meeting with the accused in a tone of great importance.
Vandy and I when in the East reduced the time for bathing and dressing in the morning to seven minutes. Of course, we have long since given up the folly of shaving. The coat buttons close to the chin, and has a small upright collar, and a watch-pocket outside; no cuffs, collars or neckties.
You will want some dinner before long. 'What time do you dine? I asked, putting my hand to my watch-pocket. 'Ah! you've got a watch have you? But indeed, on a day like this, I dine when I can. You needn't fear. I will take care of you. 'Mayn't I go into the armoury? 'If you don't mind the risk of meeting Mr Close. But he's not likely to be there to-day.
While Rectus and I were dressing, for he got up at the same time that I did, our captain came to us, and brought me a little package of greenbacks. "The master of the bark gave me these," said the captain, "and said they were pinned in your watch-pocket. He has had them dried and pressed out for you." There it was, all the money belonging to Rectus and myself, which, according to old Mr.
Pickwick, having been carried about, beneath the shadow of his waistcoat, for a greater number of years than we feel called upon to state at present. The possibility of going to sleep, unless it were ticking gently beneath his pillow, or in the watch-pocket over his head, had never entered Mr. Pickwick's brain.
But the retainers shrank from the undertaking, therefore Edmund sprang from the throne like a tiger and buried his talons in the robber's tresses. There was a mixture of feet, legs, teeth, and features for a moment, and when peace was restored King Edmund had a watch-pocket full of blood, and the robber chieftain was wiping his stabber on one of the royal tidies.
Then he said, "All right! she's a puttin' in again, lickety-switch! Good watch, that." Then he set it "by guess." Then he was returning it to his pocket, when a new thought seemed to strike him. "What do ye do for a watch-pocket, Frank? Gov'ment don't provide watch-pockets, seems." "I made one for myself," said Frank. "Sho now! ye didn't, though did ye? What with?"
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