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A great brush swept smooth across his mind, sweeping across it moving branches, children's voices, the shuffle of feet, and people passing, and humming traffic, rising and falling traffic.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 84.
PLACE: Regent's Park, London
TIME: 1920's
It was precisely twelve o'clock; twelve by Big Ben; whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London; blent with that of other clocks, mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke, and died up there among the seagulls,...
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc. New York, 1925, p.142.
PLACE: London
TIME: 1920's
The sound of Big Ben flooded Clarissa's drawing-room, ....And the sound of the bell flooded the room with its melancholy wave; which receded, and gathered itself together to fall once more, when she heard, distractingly, something fumbling, something scratching at the door. Who at this hour? .... For with overpowering directness and dignity the clock struck three; and she heard nothing else; but the door handle....
Love - but here the other clock, the clock which always struck two minutes after Big Ben, came shuffling in with its lap full of odds and ends, which it dumped down as if Big Ben were all very well with his majesty laying down the law, so solemn, so just, but she must remember all sorts of little things ....
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc. New York, 1925, p. 178, p. 193.
PLACE: Westminster, London
TIME: 1920's
Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 194.
PLACE: London
TIME: 1920's
One of the triumphs of civilisation, Peter Walsh thought. It is one of the triumphs of civilisation, as the light high bell of the ambulance sounded.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 229.
PLACE: London
TIME: 1920's
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