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He caught himself in the middle of a yawn, pulled out his watch, saw the time was halfpast eleven, and marched off, with

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

It was early for him to be about — no more than halfpast four; we farm-hands had not yet started for the fields.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

I went to the janitress and asked her if she had noticed any one in the corridors before halfpast one.

Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

We had just concluded one of our lunchtime programmes at the Strand Theatre and a rehearsal for the following day's programme, and at halfpast three I was standing with Miss Iden and the secretary of the theatre on the curb outside the theatre, when the warning siren sounded, and almost immediately afterwards in a gap between the clouds in the fading afternoon light, we saw the German bombers heading for North London.

Shakespeare in War and Peace 1947

Just to give you an instance of what men will do for their fellow men and for their country; as we lay at halfpast four one afternoon we were going into the trench, and at the command we were to make a smash out at the line, which we did.

United Canada's Answer to the Call 1916

I accompanied Kershaw's division, and we got in sight of the enemy's fires at halfpast three o'clock.

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States, 1912

She turned from the window with a little shudder, finished very clumsily her stocking, and as the cuckoo clock struck halfpast three went down to the drawing-room.

The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912

"It must be after halfpast one," said Jimmie Dale -- and suddenly snapped off his light.

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909

They drift in between half past eleven and twelve -- you get there a little _before_ halfpast eleven.

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909

It was about halfpast eight when I left the apartment.

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909