eight-o'clock

But there comes a time when there's no scapegoat handy, and you have to do the business yourself - and that's when you sweat at the thought of the black cap and the noose at the end of the eight-o'clock walk.

Watershed 2010

While The Simpsons 'glory days passed a decade ago, the show is still reliable for some intelligent laughs, and comfortably sits in its eight-o'clock Sunday spot, watched by 10 million viewers every week.

Simpson Family Values Ortved, John 2007

She sits down kitty-corner to Mary at eight-o'clock sharp.

independent lives impetuousme 2006

As Kelly and Bonnie started up the office steps, Carla, the leader for that morning's eight-o'clock trip, stepped out the door.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

But there comes a time when there's no scapegoat handy, and you have to do the business yourself - and that's when you sweat at the thought of the black cap and the noose at the end of the eight-o'clock walk.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Wrapped in each other's arms, they would fail to get up for their eight-o'clock classes; they would doodle the beloved's name in their blue-covered exam books and fail the course; they would elope in their junior year.

WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

The mademoiselle had to be home early tonight, so they wouldn't be able to take his offer of an eight-o'clock table.

The Doctor's Daughter Bowen, Judith 1999

I still wasn't completely out of the narcosis thing and I hadn't slept since eight-o'clock last night and it was now six-thirty and he was still pitching it at me.

The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

But she did not rise till the maid rapped on her door with the eight-o'clock salutation:

North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Saturday-night dance supplied them with a pleasant stimulating sense of being liked and welcomed, or when general greetings on the eight-o'clock train in the morning were mingled with comments on the thunderstorm or the epidemic of nursery chicken-pox.

The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923