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4447	5	five o'clock	true	145	147	I crossed the ground she had traversed , noting every feature surrounding it , the curving wheel-track , the thin prickly sand-herbage , the wave - mounds , the sparse wet shells and pebbles , the gleaming flatness of the water , and the vast horizon-boundary of pale flat land level with shore , looking like a dead sis...
4447	12	the fall of the winter noon	true	68	74	So profoundly penetrated with thoughtfulness was the tone of his voice that I could not take umbrage . The attempt to analyze his signification cost me an aching forehead , perhaps because I knew it too acutely . She was on horseback ; I on foot , Schwartz for sole witness , and a wide space of rolling silent white cou...
28999	12	midday	true	46	47	And here is Hendon , and it is time for us to dress . '' Daisy got up and kissed her aunt with a quick , trembling caress . `` I think you are a perfect darling , '' she said . The Dover boat , midday service , was on the point of starting from the quay at Calais , and luggage was being swung on to it in square trucks ...
28999	12	midday	true	133	134	Sorrows and trials she had had in plenty in her life , but these the sweetness of her nature had transformed , so that from being things difficult to bear , she had built up with them her own character . Sorrow had increased her own power of sympathy ; out of trials she had learnt patience ; and failure and the gradual...
28999	0	midnight	true	43	44	Jeannie joined her friend in the window-seat . `` Yes , just the same , '' she said . There was silence for a little while . An hour had passed since they began to talk , but it was still short of midnight , and the hansoms and motors still swept about the square like a throng of sonorous fireflies . Just opposite a bi...
28999	5	five o'clock	true	51	53	It looks so welcoming . Books , too ; everybody likes a book or two in his room . It 's so easy to do little things like that , and people appreciate it enormously . There 's the whole of the afternoon before us ; nobody will arrive till the five o'clock train . '' `` But I thought you said you expected him -- '' began...
28999	4	four o'clock	true	124	126	Yet some little spirit of companionship had escaped her again , when she quoted the line , `` In the darkness thick and hot . '' And then , after that , she had walked back to the house , made him play billiards with Daisy , and had gone upstairs at the earliest possible opportunity . Nobody with the slightest prospect...
28999	10	a quarter to eleven	true	52	56	`` I am I , and I am yours . Never doubt that . '' All that day there was no possible cause for his doubting it . The conspirator-plan succeeded to admiration , and Lord Lindfield and Daisy , with a somewhat faint-intentioned Gladys , had waited in the hall till a quarter to eleven . Then it was discovered that Jeannie...
28999	8	ten minutes past eight	true	56	60	Lord Lindfield , indeed , alone supported Jeannie . `` I want ten minutes , '' he said ; `` neither more nor less . Jim , it 's time for you to go , else you will keep us waiting for dinner . I see that Mrs. Halton and I will be left alone at ten minutes past eight , and I at a quarter past . '' Jeannie heard this perf...
28999	5	five o'clock	true	52	54	It might have been by Gad , but it was by Worth . Four shades of grey , and pearls . Mrs. Beaumont distinctly thought that this was not the sort of dress to dash into the faces of a quiet country party . It was like letting off rockets at a five o'clock tea . Only a woman could dissect the enormity of it ; men just sta...
19398	8	eight o'clock	true	131	133	At last the day came when everything was complete , the water casks filled , and the last packet and bale stored away in the hold ; and even Reuben Hawkshaw admitted that there was nothing else that he could think of , requisite either for the safety or navigation of the ship , or the provisioning or health of the crew...
19398	0	midnight	true	157	158	You have only yielded to my solicitations , and if we go to our death it is our choosing , and none of thine . '' `` Should the Swan come back without you , Reuben -- as may possibly be , for if there be any danger you are sure to expose yourself in the front of it -- Roger shall be as a son to me ; and shall either in...
19398	12	midday	true	106	107	In a cabin underneath this , the three petty officers and twenty of the sailors lived together , the main body of the crew occupying the raised forecastle and the cabin underneath it . The galley was forward , built up against the forecastle , and thus sheltered from heavy seas which might sweep the waist of the vessel...
19398	12	midday	true	78	79	A day 's march through the mountains brought them into a lofty plateau , some seven thousand feet above the sea . Here were wide-spreading forests of trees , which Roger recognized as large oaks and cypress . Around the villages were clearings , and whereas in the plains below maize was chiefly cultivated , the largest...
19398	12	noon	true	106	107	Seen through the clear mountain air it seemed but three or four miles away , and Roger had difficulty in believing the merchants , when they assured him that it was fully twenty . This was Tepeaca . The slaves , wearied as they were , quickened in their pace ; and in two hours they emerged from the mountain gorges onto...
19398	15	three hours after noon	true	108	112	The slaves , wearied as they were , quickened in their pace ; and in two hours they emerged from the mountain gorges onto the temperate plateau . Here they halted for some hours near a post house , a courier being sent on to Tepeaca , to inform the king 's envoys that they had arrived thus far ; and to ask whether they...
19398	12	noon	true	63	64	A strong force at once landed on the mainland , and threw up a fortified camp . The Mexicans came in , in crowds , with fruit , vegetables , flowers , and other articles , which they bartered with the Spaniards . They brought news that the Mexican governor of the province intended to visit them , the next day . Before ...
19398	12	noon	true	105	106	Roger at once fell back into the crowd , and soon took an opportunity to extricate himself from it , and to go down a side street . He and Bathalda then ascended to the top of the wall , where they were likely to be undisturbed , and waited there for an hour . They then went back to the palace . The square in the front...
19398	0	midnight	true	122	123	He would trust the caziques , for men of rank in whatever country are faithful to their word , and do not pretend friendship when they mean hostility . Were Montezuma guided by them , there would be no fear of treachery ; but as he has given himself to the priests , and they can , by means of the oracles , persuade him...
19398	10	ten o'clock	true	36	38	`` I will be going . Roger Hawkshaw will help you , '' Cuitcatl said . `` It will take some time for Bathalda to get the litters and the men . `` It is now ten o'clock . In three hours the litters shall be outside the little gate of the garden , and I will bring six porters to the private door at the foot of the stairs...
19398	2	two o'clock	true	47	49	He found the boatmen asleep in their canoe . As soon as he aroused them , they seized their paddles and , on his taking his seat , pushed off . `` There is no occasion for speed , '' he said . `` It is but two o'clock now , and it is of no use our reaching Mexico until daybreak ; for the gates of the palace will be clo...
19398	0	midnight	true	119	120	A portable bridge had been prepared for crossing the canals which intersected the causeway ; the intention being that it should be laid across a canal , that the army should pass over it , and that it should then be carried forward to the next gap in the causeway . This was a most faulty arrangement , necessitating fre...
19398	1	one o'clock on July 1st, 1520	true	87	94	This was a most faulty arrangement , necessitating frequent and long delays , and entailing almost certain disaster . Had three such portable bridges been constructed , the column could have crossed the causeway with comparatively little risk ; and there was no reason why these bridges should not have been constructed ...
19398	0	midnight	true	149	150	Impossible as it seems , the Spaniards may yet extricate themselves from the toils ; in which case I should join them . If not , and I find my escape by the coast cut off , by the rising of the tribes there , the only thing that I can see is to take to the mountains ; and to live there , as I did with Bathalda , on the...
19398	20	eight o'clock in the evening	true	85	90	The latter rose to his feet and , with the aid of the native , unfastened the cords that bound his ankles together . For half an hour he paced up and down the chamber , to restore the circulation to his feet . Then the guard replaced the cords , but did it in such a way that , though they seemed as tight and secure as ...
19398	0	nearly midnight	true	130	132	He had told Roger that he was to listen for the cry of an owl outside , twice repeated ; and that upon hearing this , he would know that his friends were without . Roger listened anxiously for the password from his new guard ; but as it did not come , he concluded that Cuitcatl had not been able to bribe him , and that...
19398	0	midnight	true	45	46	I trust that you may live , and be happy , yet . '' `` Let us not stand here talking , '' the young cazique said . `` It is not as it was before . Then you might walk through the city at midnight , without meeting with a single person . We sleep no longer now , but make nightly attacks on the Spaniards ; and at any mom...
19398	9	nine o'clock	true	57	59	`` The cazique has sent off a messenger for a party of his people to meet you . A boat will be in readiness to take you across the lake , at sunset . You will be carried in litters from the landing place to his palace . '' This programme was carried out and , by nine o'clock that evening , Roger and Amenche were both s...
5980	0	Midnight	true	70	71	Given a character or two and a situation , the beginning of one of those romances is , or was , pretty likely to be something like this : `` It was a black night . Heavy clouds had obscured the setting sun and now , as the clock in the great stone tower boomed twelve , the darkness was pitchy . '' That is a good safe b...
5980	6	six o'clock	true	52	54	`` Yes , '' drily ; `` and we saw Sothern and Marlowe and had dinner at the Holland . The rest of the time we talked shop . That was the first visit . The second was more exciting still ; we talked shop ALL the time and you took the six o'clock train home again . '' `` You 're wrong there . I saw the new loan collectio...
5980	11	a quarter to twelve	true	68	72	It was not much of a story , and , as I read it , I kept thinking that I could write as good a one . I had had such ideas before , but nothing had come of them . This time , however , I determined to try . In half an hour I had evolved a plot , such as it was , and at a quarter to twelve that night the story was finish...
5980	3	three o'clock	true	62	64	It seems to me that we did nothing else . I bought what I needed the very first day , clothes , hat , steamer coat and traveling cap included . It did not take me long ; fortunately I am of the average height and shape and the salesmen found me easy to please . My shopping tour was ended by three o'clock and I spent th...
5980	5	five o'clock	true	80	82	she sniffed , `` that 's the first time I ever knew you to give in that there WAS a Little Frank . All right , I sha 'n' t say any more , but I hope the foreign poorhouses are more comfortable than ours , that 's all . If you make me keep on this way , I 'll fetch up in one before the first month 's over . '' We left f...
5980	12	twelve o'clock	true	42	44	`` Holland is pretty wet , so they say , but we should be able to find some dry spots . '' She did not laugh . `` You know what I mean , '' she observed . `` To-morrow night at twelve o'clock we shall be far out on the vasty deep . '' `` We shall be on the ` Princess Eulalie , ' '' I answered . `` Go to sleep . '' Neit...
5980	12	Twelve o'clock	true	14	16	`` What ? '' he queried . `` The ` Princess Eulalie ' ? Twelve o'clock , I believe , I 'm not sure . '' `` You 're not sure ! And it is after nine now . It strikes me that -- '' `` Never mind what strikes you .
5980	12	noon	true	21	22	`` Lunch together ! '' gasped Hephzy . `` Why , Mr. Campbell ! the ` Princess Eulalie ' sails at noon . You said so yourself ! '' Jim smiled . `` I know I did , '' he replied , `` but that is immaterial .
5980	1	one o'clock	true	47	49	Jim smiled . `` I know I did , '' he replied , `` but that is immaterial . You are not concerned with the ` Princess Eulalie . ' Your passages are booked on the ` Plutonia ' and she does n't leave her dock until one o'clock to-morrow morning . We will meet here for lunch at twelve-thirty . Come , Kent . '' I did n't at...
5980	16	four in the afternoon	true	73	77	`` Bring me tea , '' she said to our table steward on the third morning . `` I 've tried most every kind of coffee and lived through it , but I 'm gettin ' too old to keep on experimentin ' with my health . Bring me tea and I 'll try to forget what time it is . '' We had tea at breakfast , therefore , and tea at four i...
5980	0	about midnight	true	24	26	`` Yes . But we did have extraordinarily good weather for that . '' `` Why , not particularly good . We slowed down about midnight . There was a real fog then and the glass was low . The second officer told me it dropped very suddenly and there was a heavy sea running . For an hour between twelve and one we were making...
5980	12	noon	true	51	52	And you think our run will be better than five hundred and eighty ? '' `` It should be , unless there is a remarkable change . This ship makes over six hundred , day after day , in good weather . She should do at least six hundred by to-morrow noon , unless there is a sudden change , as I said . '' `` But six hundred w...
5980	11	nearly eleven o'clock	true	58	61	I sha 'n' t be surprised at anything anymore . I 'm in England and on my way to London ; that 's surprise enough . NOTHIN ' could be more wonderful than that . '' In Which We Are Received at Bancroft 's Hotel and I Receive a Letter It was late when we reached London , nearly eleven o'clock . The long train journey was ...
5980	9	a quarter after nine	true	47	51	I could not eat , either , but I made the pretence of doing so . The next morning , at breakfast in the sitting-room , we were a silent pair . I do n't know what George , the waiter , thought of us . At a quarter after nine I turned away from the window through which I had been moodily regarding the donkey cart of a fl...
5980	10	ten in the morning	true	50	54	Pity and charity and all the rest of it I would not consider . Right was right , and justice was justice . I would end a disagreeable business as quickly as I could . Mrs. Briggs ' lodging-house , viewed from the outside , was no more inviting at ten in the morning than it had been at four in the afternoon . I expected...
5980	6	six o'clock	true	28	30	I did not sleep at all that night , nor did I forget . God help me ! I was realizing that I never could forget . At six o'clock I came downstairs , made a pretence at eating some biscuits and cheese which I found on the sideboard , scribbled a brief note to Hephzy stating that I had gone for a walk and should not be ba...
5980	5	five o'clock	true	68	70	We tried to trace her , of course . That is , I tried and Hephzy did not dissuade me , although she realized , I am sure , the hopelessness of the quest . Frances had left the rectory very early in the morning . The hostler at the inn had been much surprised to find her awaiting him when he came down to the yard at fiv...
5980	11	eleven o'clock	true	85	87	The little sleep I had was filled with dreams , dreams from which I awoke to toss restlessly . I rose and walked the floor , calling myself a fool , a silly old fool , over and over again . But when morning came my plan , a ridiculous , wild plan from which , even if it succeeded -- which was most unlikely -- nothing b...
5980	0	nearly midnight before	true	51	54	I 'll ask Hepton to give me an itinerary of the trip and I will wire when and where I will join you . You must go , Hephzy ; I insist upon it . '' In spite of my insisting Hephzy still declared she should not go . It was nearly midnight before she gave in . `` And if you DO N'T come in three days at the longest , '' sh...
5980	10	a quarter to eleven	true	60	64	Would I wish to send up my name now ? Again I declined , to the polite astonishment of the concierge , who evidently considered me a queer sort of a friend . He was called to his desk by a guest , who wished to ask questions , of course , and I waited where I was . At a quarter to eleven Herbert Bayliss emerged from th...
5980	0	Midnight	true	93	94	At ten-thirty , as my cab buzzed into the square and pulled up at the curb , the electric signs were blazing , the sidewalks were , if not yet crowded , at least well filled , and the sounds of music from the open windows of The Dead Rat and the other cafes with the cheerful names were mingling with noises of the stree...
5980	2	nearly two o'clock	true	57	60	I did not join in `` the cheer Americain , '' but I did burst out laughing , a proceeding which caused the young lady at my left to pat my arm and nod delighted approval . She evidently thought I was becoming gay and lighthearted at last . She was never more mistaken . It was nearly two o'clock and I had had quite enou...
5980	0	midnight	true	39	40	So Jim wrote , professing to find material gain in the affair . `` Great stuff , '' he wrote . `` Two chapters at least . The hero , pursuing the villain through the streets of Paris at midnight , is run down by an auto driven by said villain . ` Ah ha ! ' says the villain : ` Now will you be good ? ' or words to that ...
5980	0	midnight	true	50	51	Hurry back ! Do hurry back , for my sake . And I hope -- Oh , I do hope you 'll bring no bad news . '' L'Abbaye , at eight-thirty in the evening was a deserted place compared to what it had been when I visited it at midnight . The waiters and attendants were there , of course , and a few early bird patrons , but not ma...
5980	6	six o'clock	true	80	82	I had not seen him for a fortnight , for his calls had ceased even before Frances ' last visit . Hephzy had said that , in her opinion , his meals must be disagreeing with him . Judging by his appearance his digestion was still very much impaired . He was in evening dress , of course ; being an English gentleman he wou...
5980	12	noon	true	23	24	She 's not in . '' She asked if we would leave cards . Hephzy said no . `` It 's ` most noon , '' she said . `` They 'll be back pretty soon . We 'll wait . No , we wo n't come in .
5980	1	one o'clock	true	40	42	Also I shall play the optimist at our next directors ' meeting ; I see signs of a boom in the literature factory . Go to it , my son . You have my blessing . '' We took the one o'clock train for Boston , remained there over night , and left on the early morning `` accommodation '' -- so called , I think , because it ac...
5981	12	Noon	true	88	89	Not one but had lost someone dear to him . They scattered with a will when Warren and Ivan told them about the two children , but the boys who had been nearest the Professor 's house , all said that they had not seen the little girls at all . There were no troops moving about that part while the boys were talking and p...
5981	3	three o'clock	true	100	102	There was no one to ask and none to object when they scrambled over the heaps of stone and plaster and wood , and tried the doors of the great ovens . Sure enough , there they found , well cooked and safe , a supply of bread and meat and sweets . Warren and Jack were broken-hearted at the absence of the slightest clue ...
5981	7	7 o'clock	true	134	136	They reached the house after a hard walk , and were soon feeling some sense of bodily comfort after all the hardships of the day . They decided to act as nearly as possible as though they were but little disturbed by the past events , and to assume the position of foreigners who felt themselves under the protection of ...
5981	12	noon	true	76	77	Thinking rapidly , he resolved to wait until the men again left the place , when he would rap at the door , and try to get in on whatever excuse he might need to invent when the moment arrived . He crossed the street , and entered an abandoned building . For two hours he waited in biding , never suspecting the anxious ...
5987	14	about two in the afternoon	true	102	107	Towards the end of the week , and notably on a Saturday , every passer-by is an unshorn brigand capable of the darkest deeds of villany , while twenty-four hours later the land will be found to be peopled by as clean and honest and smart , and withal as handsome , a race of men as any on earth . Before long all habitat...
5987	12	midday	true	115	116	The people are half Moorish still , and from the barred windows look out deep almond eyes and patient faces that have no European feature . The narrow streets were empty as the travellers entered the town , and the clatter of the mules slipping and stumbling on the cobble stones brought but few to the doors of the low-...
5987	6	six o’clock	true	38	40	` And the other man ? Seemed a nice enough fellow ... ' inquired Conyngham . The General raised one gloved hand as if to fend off some approaching calamity . ` He died this morning -- at six o'clock . ' Conyngham looked down at this gentle soldier with a dawning light of comprehension . This might after all be the Gene...
5987	5	nearly five o’clock	true	48	51	` When shall I start for Madrid ? ' he asked . ` Oh , to-morrow morning will be time enough , ' was the reply , uttered in an easy-going , indolent tone , ` if you are early astir . You see , it is now nearly five o'clock , and you could scarcely be in saddle before sunset . ' ` No , ' laughed Conyngham , ` scarcely , ...
5987	6	Six o’clock	true	32	34	` Then there is nothing more to be said ? ' inquired Conyngham with a good-natured laugh . ` Nothing , except the hour at which your Excellency starts . ' ` Six o'clock , ' put in General Vincente quietly . ` Let me see , your name is Concepçion Vara . ' ` Yes , Excellency -- of Algeciras . ' ` It is well .
5987	10	ten in the morning	true	54	58	With great care and a multitude of oaths he lifted Conyngham on to his cart and proceeded with him to Madrid . ` God help me ! I know nothing -- can but pray . ' IT was Father Concha 's custom to attend , at his church between the hours of nine and ten in the morning , to such wants spiritual or temporal as individual ...
5987	9	nine o’clock	true	67	69	` God help me ! I know nothing -- can but pray . ' IT was Father Concha 's custom to attend , at his church between the hours of nine and ten in the morning , to such wants spiritual or temporal as individual members of his flock chose to bring to him . Thus it usually happened that the faithful found the old priest at...
5987	10	ten o’clock	true	139	141	But to Father Concha the sum represented five hundred cups of black coffee denied to himself in the evening at the café -- five hundred packets of cigarettes , so-called of Havana , unsmoked -- two new cassocks in the course of twenty years -- a hundred little gastronomic delights sternly resisted season after season ....
5987	10	about ten o’clock	true	116	119	Sir John took a certain cold interest in his surroundings , and in due course was recommended to spend an evening at the Café des Ambassadeurs , as it styled itself , for the habit of preferring French to Spanish designations for places of refreshment had come in since the great revolution . Sir John went , therefore ,...
5987	0	midnight	true	77	78	He was not deceived by the picturesque manner of Julia 's lover , but knew exactly how much was assumed of that air of simple vanity to which Larralde usually treated strangers . He probably gauged at one glance the depth of the man 's power for good or ill , his sincerity , his possible usefulness . In the hands of Si...
5987	12	midday	true	99	100	Day after day the sun glared down from a cloudless sky , and all Castile was burnt brown as a desert . In the streets of Madrid there arose a hot dust and the subtle odour of warm earth that rarely meets the nostrils in England . It savoured of India and other sun-steeped lands where water is too precious to throw upon...
5987	8	eight o’clock	true	47	49	` And yet , ' he said gaily , ` it is the best game of all -- is it not so ? ' The troopers shrugged their shoulders . One may have too much of even the best game . ` The carriage is ordered for eight o'clock , ' continued the practical Concepçion , rolling a cigarette , which he placed behind his ear where a clerk wou...
5987	9	nine o’clock	true	47	49	said the nervous soldier , and his hand shook on the bridle . His companion smiled at the recollection of former fights passed through together . It is well , in love and war , to beware of him who says he is afraid . Shortly after nine o'clock the silence of that deserted plain was broken by a distant murmur , which p...
5987	0	midnight	true	27	28	` I will sing . In Andalusia we can all sing . The pigs sing better there than the men of Castile . ' It was after midnight when the party rode past the Church of the Cristo de la Vega , and faced the long hill that leads to the gate Del Cambron . Above them towered the city of Toledo -- silent and dreamlike . Concepçi...
5987	0	midnight	true	79	80	He always remains in the background . ' In the tents of Kedar men sleep as sound as those who lie on soft pillows , and Conyngham was late astir the next morning . Sir John Pleydell was , it transpired , already at his breakfast , and had ordered his carriage for an early hour to take the road to Talavera . It was thus...
5987	9	nine o’clock	true	113	115	Nearly half of Spain was for Don Carlos . The Church sided with him , and the best soldiers were those who , unpaid , unfed , and half clad , fought on the southern slopes of the Pyrenees for a man who dared not lead them . Sir John Pleydell had intended crossing the frontier into Portugal , following the carriage conv...
5987	12	midday	true	79	80	he muttered , ` with your jokes about my wife . Now you may make a false journey for all the help you receive from me . ' And a few minutes later Concepçion rode across the Bridge of Alcantara , some paces behind Conyngham , who deemed it wise to return to his duties at Madrid without delay . Despite the great heat on ...
5987	20	about eight o’clock in the evening	true	78	84	` There is doubtless something astir , ' said the waiter , who , in the intervals of a casual attendance on Sir John , spoke of these things , cigarette in mouth . ` There is doubtless something astir , since General Vincente is on the road . They call him the Stormy Petrel , for when he appears abroad there usually fo...
5987	12	midday	true	171	172	With Concha he was as simple , as direct , and as unsophisticated as the old priest himself , and now took his leave without attempting to disguise the fact that he had accomplished a foreset purpose . Without difficulty he found the small stationer 's shop next to the synagogue in the Calle de Madrid , and bade the st...
5987	12	midday	true	102	103	Larralde gave a little nod of self-confidence and satisfaction , as one who , having conceived and built up a great scheme , is pleased to see each component part of it act independently , and slip into its place . The General 's first thought was for Estella 's comfort , and he utilised the long hill which they had to...
5987	12	midday	true	53	54	And the horses will be forthcoming , no doubt . ' ` They will be forthcoming , ' said the man . ` And the Excellency 's carriage is ready . ' In the early morning light they drove on , now descending towards the great valley of the Guadiana , and at midday , as Vincente had foreseen , gained a sight of the ancient city...
5987	4	about four o’clock	true	100	103	Even while General Vincente , that unrivalled strategist , detailed his plans , she kept harking back to the question that puzzled her , and but half listened to his instructions . Those desirous of travelling without attracting attention in Spain are wise to time their arrival and departure for the afternoon . At this...
5987	10	about ten o’clock	true	89	92	The travellers took their places in the carriage , and again the monotony of the road , the steady trot of the horses , the sing-song words of encouragement of their driver , monopolised the thoughts of sleepy minds . It seemed to Estella that life was all journeys , and that she had been on the road for years . The sw...
5987	0	nearly midnight	true	64	66	The General , leaning out of the carriage window , was also looking back anxiously . ` They have sent a messenger to Madrid , Excellency , with the news that the Queen is on the road to Toledo , ' said Concepçion . ` It is well , ' answered Vincente , with a laugh . As they journeyed , although it was nearly midnight ,...
5987	0	Midnight	true	73	74	No one of these spies escaped the notice of Concepçion , whose training amid the mountains of Andalusia had sharpened his eyesight and added keenness to every sense . ` It is like a cat walking down an alley full of dogs , ' he muttered . At last the lights of Toledo hove in sight , and across the river came the sound ...
5987	0	midnight	true	77	78	` As quiet as a watching cat , ' replied Vincente . ` What lot is mine Whose foresight preaches peace , my heart so slow To feel it ! ' THROUGH these quiet streets the party clattered noisily enough , for the rain had left the rounded stones slippery , and the horses were too tired for a sure step . There were no light...
32484	12	noon	true	58	59	The sooner the better . '' `` Oh , and about the Russians , '' said Captain Robb , smiling . `` There 's been nothing but a steady stream of ` no comment ' out of the Kremlin since we landed here . '' `` Right now , '' said Hamston , `` it 's probably high noon for every scientist behind the iron curtain . '' `` I wond...
22267	0	midnight	true	49	50	`` SENATOR 'S DAUGHTER RUNS FOR MAYOR . '' `` MEN TO BE LAID ON THE POLITICAL SHELF . '' `` SENATOR VAN DEUSEN WILL TURN IN HIS GRAVE IF DAUGHTER ACCEPTS NOMINATION . '' were some of the head-lines which Roma editors had produced by late use of midnight oil , and the articles that followed them were incredulous , mildl...
22267	10	ten o'clock	true	87	89	But it seems to some of us sufficient reason for going down on our knees with thankfulness that a good and an able woman will consent to serve her city in such capacity . And we owe it to her , to ourselves as men , and to our city as voters and citizens , that we shall go out and work for her . Has anyone a definite p...
22267	12	noon	true	75	76	And having read it , she placed it on the glowing coals , smiling softly to herself the while . A Political Trick The campaign was a furious one after that . The women , instead of leaving the management of things to men , were stirred to wonderful activity . They worked , not only among the men of their own acquaintan...
22267	7	a quarter to eight	true	59	63	At half-past seven her maid came up from the door : `` They 've sent for you , '' she announced . `` An automobile is at the door . '' `` Why , I did n't know the committee was going to send for me , '' said Miss Van Deusen . `` I ordered the carriage for a quarter to eight . Go down and ask the chauffeur -- no , never...
22267	0	midnight	true	99	100	The hall had been closed an hour before and the disappointed audience , after listening impatiently to the extempore speakers who had tried to fill the time until the principals in the joint debate should appear , had gone home doubtful of the morrow . The auto stopped outside the gate in front of Van Deusen Hall and o...
22267	8	eight o'clock	true	66	68	I wonder how we would have met if I had never gone into politics . I wonder if he would have liked me then , really ? '' Modern Journalism The `` Progressive Workers '' has been especially busy in arranging for the joint debate between their own and the Republican candidates , and they were in full force and early at t...
22267	7	half past seven	true	55	58	Telephone over to her house , Anna , and see if she has left , wo n't you ? I have to attend to things here . '' Mrs. Stillman hurried to the telephone , coming back later with a puzzled expression on her aristocratic features . `` Her cousin says she left there at half past seven in an automobile , '' she said . `` It...
22267	8	half past eight	true	50	53	I have to attend to things here . '' Mrs. Stillman hurried to the telephone , coming back later with a puzzled expression on her aristocratic features . `` Her cousin says she left there at half past seven in an automobile , '' she said . `` It is half past eight now . '' `` An automobile ? '' said Mrs. Bateman . `` Di...
22267	11	eleven o'clock	true	121	123	After a hurried consultation with the representatives from Allingham 's committee , the meeting was opened and the speaking began . But although those who addressed the audience were eloquent enough , they were unprepared , and moreover , were conscious that their listeners were keeping one eye upon the door ; in short...
22267	1	one o'clock in the morning	true	106	111	Thus doth fate pursue the over - ambitious and wreck their plans . `` When the chauffeurs returned from the farmhouse whence they had gone for help in extricating their machines , Allingham , the aristocrat , lay prone on the ground with his head in the lap of her who had been his whilom opponent for the mayor 's chair...
22267	7	seven o'clock	true	136	138	`` The couple , erstwhile at swords ' points , but now tucked cosily together in one electric cab , were later brought back to Roma at one o'clock in the morning -- she none the worse for her skillful evasion of the platform contest , and he with a slight scalp wound only , to show that he had been worsted . `` It rema...
22267	6	six o'clock	true	49	51	`` But we shall never learn the truth . The trick was done so well that the perpetrators know how to cover their tracks . '' But a bevy of voters coming in , the conversation ended and Gertrude did not see her opponent again that day . At six o'clock that evening , she lay on the couch in her own room , weary with the ...
22267	10	ten o'clock	true	66	68	With them were many of the `` Progressive Workers , '' eager for news . The Union Club , the hotels and Burke 's headquarters were crowded , while John Allingham and his trusted lieutenants were gathered at the Municipal League rooms . Returns came in slowly and the crowds on the street clamored for news faster than th...
22267	0	midnight	true	122	123	It leaked out , too , that there were two men with the cab which carried John Allingham , lest , -- the people said , -- he should try to break the plate glass front and jump from his moving prison . But that the plot was a well-matured one was proven by the fact that outside locks had been placed on the doors to both ...

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Dataset Card for the Gutenberg Time dataset

Dataset Summary

A clean data resource containing all explicit time references in a dataset of 52,183 novels whose full text is available via Project Gutenberg.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

Time-of-the-day classification from excerpts.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
    "guten_id": 28999,
    "hour_reference": 12,
    "time_phrase": "midday",
    "is_ambiguous": False,
    "time_pos_start": 133,
    "time_pos_end": 134,
    "tok_context": "Sorrows and trials she had had in plenty in her life , but these the sweetness of her nature had transformed , so that from being things difficult to bear , she had built up with them her own character . Sorrow had increased her own power of sympathy ; out of trials she had learnt patience ; and failure and the gradual sinking of one she had loved into the bottomless slough of evil habit had but left her with an added dower of pity and tolerance . So the past had no sting left , and if iron had ever entered into her soul it now but served to make it strong . She was still young , too ; it was not near sunset with her yet , nor even midday , and the future that , humanly speaking , she counted to be hers was almost dazzling in its brightness . For love had dawned for her again , and no uncertain love , wrapped in the mists of memory , but one that had ripened through liking and friendship and intimacy into the authentic glory . He was in England , too ; she was going back to him . And before very long she would never go away from him again ."
}

Data Fields

    guten_id - Gutenberg ID number
    hour_reference - hour from 0 to 23
    time_phrase - the phrase corresponding to the referenced hour
    is_ambiguous - boolean whether it is clear whether time is AM or PM
    time_pos_start - token position where time_phrase begins
    time_pos_end - token position where time_phrase ends (exclusive)
    tok_context - context in which time_phrase appears as space-separated tokens

Data Splits

No data splits.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The flow of time is an indispensable guide for our actions, and provides a framework in which to see a logical progression of events. Just as in real life,the clock provides the background against which literary works play out: when characters wake, eat,and act. In most works of fiction, the events of the story take place during recognizable time periods over the course of the day. Recognizing a story’s flow through time is essential to understanding the text.In this paper, we try to capture the flow of time through novels by attempting to recognize what time of day each event in the story takes place at.

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

Novel authors.

Annotations

Annotation process

Manually annotated.

Who are the annotators?

Two of the authors.

Personal and Sensitive Information

No Personal or sensitive information.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Allen Kim, Charuta Pethe and Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University

Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@misc{kim2020time,
      title={What time is it? Temporal Analysis of Novels}, 
      author={Allen Kim and Charuta Pethe and Steven Skiena},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2011.04124},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}