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Examples
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The clock-mender philosophically reached for his tools.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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"Your highness does not recognize me, then?" asked the clock-mender.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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Aware of a shadow between him and the fading daylight, the clock-mender looked up from his work.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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But the clock-mender bent over his work; all he was conscious of was the eternal tick-tock! tick-tock! on and on, without cessation.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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The bony hands of the clock-mender shot out and clutched the other's coat in a grip which shook, so intense was it.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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The watch, slipping from the clock-mender's hand, spun like a coin on the counter, while the clock-mender himself, his eyes bulging, his jaw dangling, it might be said, staggered back upon his stool.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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He came to a stop in front of the dingy shop of the clock-mender.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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You will go to the grand duke and ask immunity for this Gipsy and this clock-mender, as witnesses to the disclosure which I shall make to his highness.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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And in this condition of mind Grumbach found him; Grumbach, accompanied by the old clock-mender from across the way, and a Gipsy Carmichael had never seen before.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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The clock-mender, his heavy glasses hanging crookedly on his nose, his whole aspect that of a weary, broken man, took down his pail and shuffled noiselessly out.
The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901
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