Citations:clock


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock.
 * All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it.
 * He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.








 * to notice (and catch)




 * seems to exceed just "to notice" and go into "to track" territory?