"Big Ben" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... across Westminster Bridge on my homeward way it seemed as if London had grown less hostile. Big Ben chimed twelve and there was a distinct Dick Whittington touch about the music. The light on the tower no longer mocked me. As I passed by the gates of Palace Yard, a policeman on duty recognised me and saluted. I strode ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... this House of Woe, Where yawns are numerous while Big Ben is knelling. It is not on the Session dull and slow, These pale M.P.'s are dwelling. Oh, very, very dreary is the gloom, But M.P.'s heed not HEALY's elocution; Each one is wondering what may be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892 • Various
... women of Bury beat the single women by 80 runs, and thereupon, uniting forces, challenged any team of women in the county. Not only did the women of Bury shine at cricket, but in a Sussex paper for 1791 I find an account of two of Bury's daughters assuming the names of Big Ben and Mendoza and engaging in a hardly contested prize fight before a large ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... the moment, Professor von Schalckenberg opened the door of the smoke-room at the "Migrants'," and entered the apartment as the deep-toned notes of Big Ben were heard sounding the hour of noon on the day following that upon which occurred the conversation recorded in the preceding chapter. Sir Reginald Elphinstone was already there; and after a few words of greeting the two men left the club together, and, entering ...
— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... "Ah will set the Big Ben to-night, I think," said Mr. Brewster, "so that we will not miss Simms and his party at Lone ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... and out at the Cape in a regiment of Yeomanry; the pictures he had looked at in the illustrated papers gave materials for his fancy; and he saw himself on the Veldt, in khaki, sitting with other men round a fire at night. When he awoke he found that it was still quite light, and presently he heard Big Ben strike seven. He had twelve hours to get through with nothing to do. He dreaded the interminable night. The sky was overcast and he feared it would rain; he would have to go to a lodging-house ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... from his father—the conqueror of Big Ben Brain, "whose skin was brown and dusky as that of a toad"—the love of fisticuffs which was so prominently marked in his career. It was this which led him to become the pupil in boxing of "the terrible Thurtell," executed for the murder of Weare, January 9th, 1824 ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper
... recovered from the surprise of the inspector's mysterious disappearance, when our old acquaintances, Charley, the proprietor of the "Californian's Retreat," and "Big Ben," made their appearance, and seated themselves upon boxes in our tent without the formality of being asked. Ben was smoking away desperately at a short pipe, nearly as black as his beard, while Charley, as became the owner of an established business, confined his attention to a cigar which ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes |
