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As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club. Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context This force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork. Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context By and by, there comes a great bustle downstairs, and a lanky chap with a red nose and a white neckcloth rushes up, and sings out, "Here's the shepherd a-coming to wisit his faithful flock;" and in comes a fat chap in black, vith a great white face, a-smilin' avay like clockwork. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

? References in classic literature

As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club.

Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

This force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork.

Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context

By and by, there comes a great bustle downstairs, and a lanky chap with a red nose and a white neckcloth rushes up, and sings out, "Here's the shepherd a-coming to wisit his faithful flock;" and in comes a fat chap in black, vith a great white face, a-smilin' avay like clockwork.

The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context

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