"Alarm clock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... much too good for Jane," I protested. "Besides, a servant wants an alarm clock to get ...
— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne
... Tom to himself the next day, as he carefully read and re-read the important document, "that alarm clock played me a lowdown trick, but it's sure been a good friend of yours, all provided I can get ...
— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall
... which Father John had taught her, though he could not himself explain it, Dorothy "set her mind" like an alarm clock to wake her at six the next morning and it did so. She bathed and dressed with utmost carefulness and succeeded in doing this without waking anybody. Those whose business it was to be awake, as the house servants, gave her a silent nod for good-morning ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond
... luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue soubrette luvs an alarm clock; that is I like it a lot, but not a heluva lot. Fer four hours at a strech I leand over the side of the ship; I wuzn't interested in the ocean or the study of fishes, only I felt I had sumpin I must give up. Finally, after givin up everything, even standin for some of Skinny's jokes, I managed ...
— Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie • Barney Stone
... he said, cheerfully, "my time being too valuable for me to sleep, I will go wake up that nigger engine-driver and set his alarm clock at five-thirty. Five-thirty, I believe you said. All right; good-night." And whistling cheerfully to himself MacWilliams disappeared up the hill, his body hidden in the darkness and his legs showing fantastically in the light ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... him curiously, his jaws still resting between his two palms, his eyes red-rimmed and swollen, his lips loose and trembling. A dollar alarm clock ticked resonantly, punctuated now and then by the dull clink of silver as Bud lifted a coin and let it drop on ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... awake half the night in order to be able to call her husband in time to catch his train it's rather hard to be hated for it, just like an alarm clock. ...
— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland |
