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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- cover
- simulator
- docter is his mother
- cares
- emergency room
A MAN AND HIS SON WERE IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. TWO AMBULANCES COME AND CARRY THEM TO DIFFERENT HOSPITALS. THE SON NEEDS EMERGENCY SURGERY, BUT UPON ENTERING THE ROOM THE DOCTOR SAYS I CAN NOT OPERATE ON HIM, HE IS MY SON. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? (YES, HIS REAL DAD IS BEING CARED FOR AT ANOTHER HOSPITAL. ) | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- ragamuffin
- changeling
- peter
- european
- leaf node
Peter's mother has three children nicolas,penny and guess the third child. | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- program
- friends
- projection
- device
- video recorder
What listens and sees, and then talks and shows the same amount? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- accessory
- garment
- print
- tissues
- pad
what kind of shoes don't go on your feet? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- inappropriate
- wrong because wrong is wrong
- remorse
- falsification
- formula
What is spelled wrong in the dictionary? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- sitter
- chair bed and toothbrush
- sable
- lobby
- nap
what do you sit in, sleep on and, brush your teeth with? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- single
- burial site
- playing
- because he is still alive
- where he died
Simon Simpleton was born in London, England. His mother was Welsh and his father Scottish. When Simon was eight his mother died. When Simon was ten his father married an Irish women and suddenly Simon had an Irish sister. When Simon was twenty four he graduated as a lawyer and took a job in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is now sixty six. Why can he not be buried on the banks of Loch Lomond in his favourite village of Luss, in Bonnie Scotland? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- doctors
- fatherhood
- chief surgeon is his mother
- dads
- healing
A man and his son are going for a drive, and the car crashes. The father is killed, and the son is rushed to hospital in critical condition. He is just about to be operated on, when the chief surgeon says, "I can't operate on him. He is my son. " How is this possible? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- fell
- pepsi cupboard
- takedown
- river boat
- pete pete repete
Pete repete was on a boat. Pete repete fell off. Who is left? | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Use the following options to predict a possible question for them:
- sylph
- mother hen
- knockout
- bolo
- aztec
This both describes gorgeous woman and an excellent punch | riddle_sense | answer_to_question | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
It will not die when hung, and will dry when wrung
Options:
- device
- laundry
- diemaker
- dampness
- bell buoy
laundry | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
I am the smallest eye, what am I?
Options:
- handkerchief
- swallow
- sclera
- minuscule
- neddle
neddle | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
Black and Blue. Red and Green. Yellow and Blue. Green and Grey. I am all colours. You can try to get close to me, but you can't escape my vision. If you get greedy, you will try to take your colours for yourself, but before you know it, I will be eating you for lunch. What am I?
Options:
- yard
- chameleon
- cream
- shade
- louisiana
chameleon | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
whos is farsighted, and has a true shot, and who rarely tires?
Options:
- legolas
- musket ball
- myth
- cassia
- car tire
legolas | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
If it takes a chicken a day and a half to lay an egg and a half. . . How long does it take two chickens to lay two eggs?
Options:
- leap year
- streamer
- boundary
- day and half
- minute
day and half | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
A duck is swimming in a lake. A cat is sitting in her tail. If the duck dives, what happens to the cat?
Options:
- swimming
- surface
- isle
- he gets wet
- salt
he gets wet | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 What numbers are next?
Options:
- 1112213211
- probability
- solve equation
- amount
- rime
1112213211 | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
What driver never gets arrested?
Options:
- bail
- screw driver
- captain
- memory
- probable cause
screw driver | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
I am as round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and Michigan Lake cant fill me up. What am I?
Options:
- sound
- deep freezer
- ammunition
- clio
- pastdrainer
pastdrainer | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Given the options below, select the most suitable answer for the following question:
the farmer went to town on sunday stay for three days and came back on sunday. How is that possible?
Options:
- sunday morning
- utah
- fields
- sunday school
- horses name was sunday
horses name was sunday | riddle_sense | most_suitable_answer | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
What do you answer to but do not talk to. . . .
email | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
My bottom is very large, my top is small, and I have ears.
mountaineers | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
What's Heavier, A Pound Of Rocks, Or A Pound Of Feathers?
there both one pound | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
David was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
david is bald | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
Sam walked for thirty minutes in the pouring rain without getting a single hair on his head wet. He didn't have a hat or an umbrella and his coat had no hood. How did he do that?
sam is bald | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
where i may rest and you may not, upon my hord of gems and gold,where dragons eggs stay nice and warm, my house, my home, my hall of old
my lair | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
This dip for chips is a spanish style sauce, mainly consisting of peppers, diced tomatos and spices for a spicy flavor
salsa | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
I went in the woods and got it, when I got it I couldn't get it out. So I took it home with me. What is "it"?
spilnter or sawdust | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
A man walks into a hardware store and sees the cost of a thing what he cannot work out what it is. it says you can buy 1 for 50p, 23 for £1 and 267 for £1. 50. what am it is the unknow item?
there door numbers | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Answer the following question:
Why did some business people sit around a clock while at their job?
because theyre working around it | riddle_sense | answer_given_question_without_options | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
What goes around the world but stay in a corner?
Options:
- A: take
- B: authority
- C: street corner.
- D: stampgolb
- E: indonesia
D | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
What did the pizza slice say to the other one to move?
Options:
- A: steak
- B: mozzarella
- C: pizza hut
- D: pizza parlor
- E: olive
C | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
A man and a dog were walking on a street. The man rode yet walked. How is this possible?
Options:
- A: roads
- B: trod
- C: jog
- D: yet was the dogs name
- E: dust
D | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
I can crunch in your mouth I can also melt in your mouth at the same time What am I??????
Options:
- A: see
- B: crunch bar
- C: winter
- D: purpose
- E: track record
B | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
Some ants are taking a walk . There is an ant in front of 2 ants ,an ant behind 2 antsand an antbetween 2 ants. What is the total number of ants?
Options:
- A: agent
- B: nan
- C: 3 ants
- D: double take
- E: degree
C | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
What Walks On Its Head All Day Long?
Options:
- A: hammerhead
- B: nail in horse shoe
- C: hash head
- D: headboard
- E: story
B | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
To cross the water I'm the way, For water I'm above: I touch it not and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move. What am I?
Options:
- A: bridge to help you cross
- B: water flea
- C: water wings
- D: ice rink
- E: creek
A | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
What I want is what I hate Why you give is why i wait Those who quit are naught but fools Those who try are bound to lose To own me you must set me free And tell the truth yet lie to me The secret is as clear as day yet dark as night, so now let's play. . . .
Options:
- A: doll
- B: love
- C: wage war
- D: buy
- E: misoneism
B | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
aboy goes to the school he goes to the zoo after school he buy pizza and he makes money how did he make money
Options:
- A: he sold his lunch
- B: alma mater
- C: marker
- D: dancing school
- E: take
A | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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Given the following options, what do you think is the correct answer to the question below:
two men are playing chess and they both win there's no tie, stale mate, nothing like that how is this possible.
Options:
- A: compare
- B: they werent playing each other
- C: win
- D: entertainment
- E: railroad track
B | riddle_sense | question_to_answer_index | 1tasky
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how can you make 7 even?
- seven even
- make circle
- quickset
- remove the s from it
- flimsy
remove the s from it | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes first. Where others increase it keeps all things the same. What is it?
- gush
- activity
- 1
- carbon
- dust
1 | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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A man walked into a bar in resort area and said to the bartender, "Water, water. " The bartender immediately pulled out a gun from under the bar and shot it. The man said, "Thank You. " and left. Why?
- droplet
- fountain
- minus
- launch
- he had hiccoughs
he had hiccoughs | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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A gleaming beach, Scorching hot, Gone at night, Back at day. Goldie locks, And beautiful sunflowers. What am i?
- flowering plant
- yellow
- green light
- mustard oil
- baking
yellow | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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just because the sun is out dosen't mean it's day and just because the moon is out dosen't mean it's night. just because the ground has a whole in it means you will fall through. the fish are warmer than you but, colder than the you. where are you?
- iced tea
- dennys
- cold sore
- cold comfort
- alaska
alaska | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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A man walked in to a bar and asked for a glass of water the bar man toke out a gun and poined it at him the man who asked for the glass of water just smiled and walked away happy Why?
- he had the hicupps
- male person
- remembering
- wonder boy
- water wheel
he had the hicupps | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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Black and Blue. Red and Green. Yellow and Blue. Green and Grey. I am all colours. You can try to get close to me, but you can't escape my vision. If you get greedy, you will try to take your colours for yourself, but before you know it, I will be eating you for lunch. What am I?
- yard
- chameleon
- cream
- shade
- louisiana
chameleon | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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What tree is most warmly clad?
- cherry tree
- ailanthus
- fir tree
- flood control
- burl
fir tree | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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When your mom says, "Say the magic word". What should you say?
- determiner
- magic word
- alchemist
- thesaurus
- illusions
magic word | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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i am a word, my meaning means something loud, i am in past tense, i am one sllyable, it is a proven fact that i am the longest one-sllyable word. What am I?
- byte
- surface
- mean many things
- word schreeched
- allomorph
word schreeched | riddle_sense | question_answering | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
In the middle , dominating the situation , was a Greco-Roman pavilion , with a handsome Doric portico elevated ten or twelve feet above the ground , on a large , handsome terrace paved with asphalt and shaded by horse-chestnut trees . Under this noble esplanade , and ventilating themselves into it , were the kitchen and offices and pantry , and also the refectory -- a long room , furnished with two parallel tables , covered at the top by a greenish oil-cloth spotted all over with small black disks ; and alongside of these tables were wooden forms for the boys to sit together at meat -- `` la table des grands , '' `` la table des petits , '' each big enough for thirty boys and three or four masters . M. Brossard and his family breakfasted and dined apart , in their own private dining-room , close by . In this big refectory , three times daily , at 7.30 in the morning , at noon , and at 6 P.M. , boys and masters took their quotidian sustenance quite informally , without any laying of cloths or saying of grace either before or after ; one ate there to live -- one did not live merely to eat , at the Pension Brossard . Breakfast consisted of a thick soup , rich in dark-hued garden produce , and a large hunk of bread -- except on Thursdays , when a pat of butter was served out to each boy instead of that Spartan broth -- that `` brouet noir des Lacédémoniens , '' as we called it . Everybody who has lived in France knows how good French butter can often be -- and French bread . We triturated each our pat with rock-salt and made a round ball of it , and dug a hole in our hunk to put it in , and ate it in the play-ground with clasp-knives , making it last as long as we could .
noon | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
The inhabitants were deeply apprehensive of their treatment by the Prussians since seeing what had occurred in Hanover . On the evening of the battle , as we have said , the news of the disaster had reached Frankfort , and from the next day , the 15th , the conviction that its occupation would be immediate had cast an aspect of mourning over the town . Not a single person was to be seen on the fashionable promenade . The Prussians , so it was said , would make their entry on the 16th after midday . Night came , and with it a strange solitude in the streets , where , if one met a wayfarer it was evident from his hurry that he was on urgent business , carrying perhaps jewels or valuables for deposit at one of the foreign legations . At an early hour the houses had been shut up . Behind the bolted doors and windows one guessed that the inmates were silently digging holes for the concealment of their treasures .
midday | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
The low-growing tamarisk , wormwood , and soda-bushes afforded no shade . Wild fowl and larks were the only creatures that inhabited the waste . The herds of cattle , goats , and swine had disappeared , for Attila 's army of half a million had eaten them up , and his horses had not left a single edible blade of grass . At noon the caravan came suddenly to a halt , for on the eastern horizon there was visible a town with towers and pinnacles , on the other side of a blue lake . `` Are we there ? '' asked Edeko . `` Impossible ; it is still twenty miles , or three days ' journey . ''
noon | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
drink , '' said old Sechard , putting down a bottle of wine , a loaf , and the cold remains of the dinner . `` You will need your strength . I will go and look for your bits of green stuff ; green rags you use for your pulp , and a trifle too green , I am afraid . '' Two hours later , towards eleven o'clock that night , David and Kolb took up their quarters in a little out-house against the cellar wall ; they found the floor paved with runnel tiles , and all the apparatus used in Angoumois for the manufacture of Cognac brandy . `` Pans and firewood ! Why , it is as good as a factory made on purpose ! '' cried David .
eleven o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
Gourville and the Abbe Fouquet talked over money matters -- that is to say , the abbe borrowed a few pistoles from Gourville ; Pellisson , seated with his legs crossed , was engaged in finishing the peroration of a speech with which Fouquet was to open the parliament ; and this speech was a master-piece , because Pellisson wrote it for his friend -- that is to say , he inserted everything in it which the latter would most certainly never have taken the trouble to say of his own accord . Presently Loret and La Fontaine would enter from the garden , engaged in a dispute upon the facility of making verses . The painters and musicians in their turn , also , were hovering near the dining-room . As soon as eight o'clock struck , the supper would be announced , for the surintendant never kept any one waiting . It was already half-past seven , and the appetites of the guests were beginning to be declared in a very emphatic manner . As soon as all the guests were assembled Gourville went straight up to Pellisson , awoke him out of his reverie , and led him into the middle of a room , and closed the doors . `` Well , '' he said , `` anything new ? ''
eight o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
The knowledge of having the skin map and the thought of the Cave of Gold to which it pointed the way , did not keep Thure and Bud from feeling this excitement , this wild desire to hurry , as their little company swung into line on the trail and rushed madly on with the rest . True the skin map and the gold nugget , still in the miner 's buckskin bag , hung , safely hidden , under the armpit of Thure 's left shoulder ; but the old miner himself had found the Cave of Gold , and , if he had found it , why might not some other man find it ? That was the disturbing thought that had troubled the two boys all along ; and now , when they began to realize how great was the flood of gold-seekers constantly pouring into the mining regions and how their keen eyes would be searching everywhere , their anxiety to get to their fathers as quickly as possible grew apace , until they were almost as eager to reach the mines as was Tim Perkins himself ; and , by a constant urging of their pack-horses , managed to keep their places with Jud Smith and his company . However , in spite of all their hurrying , it was after nine o'clock at night and dark before they reached the west bank of the Sacramento River opposite Sacramento City . Here they found a hundred wagons and many animals and men ahead of them , waiting to be ferried across the river ; and , to their very great disappointment , they were obliged to wait until the next morning before crossing over to Sacramento City . `` Well , we are within sight of Sacramento City anyhow , '' declared Thure , when Jud Smith returned from the ferry with the news that they would be obliged to camp on that side of the river for the night ; `` and , I reckon , it is just as well that we do n't cross over to-night . I 'll feel just a little better entering a town like that in the clear light of day , '' and his eyes looked in astonishment and wonder across the dark waters of the river to where the myriad lights of Sacramento City shone along the opposite bank .
nine o'clock at
night | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
But this day was to put an end to her mind 's prolonged and painful suspense , in regard to him . From about nine o'clock in the morning , she began to look momently for his arrival . But the time slowly wore on , and yet he did not come . Ten , eleven twelve , one o'clock came and went , and the boy was still absent from his mother , whose heart yearned to see his fair face , and to hear his voice , so pleasant to her ear , with unutterable longings . But still the hours went by -- two , three , four , and then the dusky twilight began to fall , bringing with it the heart-aching assurance that her boy would not come home . The tears , which she had restrained all day , now flowed freely , and her over-excited feelings gave way to a gush of bitter grief . The next day came and went , and the next , and the next -- but there was no word from Henry .
one o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
An hour later , indeed , the whole Catholic force , horse and foot , were seen to march away by the road along which they had come . As soon as they did so , a trumpet summoned the defenders from the walls and house . The women and children also poured out into the courtyard and , the minister taking his place by the side of the countess on the steps of the chateau , a solemn service of thanksgiving to God , for their preservation from the danger that had threatened them , was held . It was now five o'clock , and the short winter day was nearly over . Many of the tenants would have started off to their farms , but Francois begged them to remain until next morning . `` The smoke told you what to expect , '' he said . `` You will find nothing but the ruins of your houses and , in this weather , it would be madness to take your wives and families out .
five o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
Will you ? '' `` Gladly . I have n't had afternoon tea since I left New York . '' `` Then shall we say four o'clock ? Do n't fail me , please , Miss Walton , for Zephania and I will be terribly disappointed if you do . It 's our first tea , you know . '' `` Indeed we wo n't fail you ! ''
four o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Given the following text, what time reference is reported in the text?
The fight , or set-to , lasted only a quarter of an hour , and the young supernumerary displayed so much science , and such a thorough use of his fists , as to defy the brutal force of his opponent , who could not touch him , and who was glad to retreat to his berth , followed by the groans and hisses of all the midshipmen , in which I most cordially joined . After so clear a proof of the advantages of the science of self-defence , I determined to acquire it ; and , with the young stranger for my tutor , I soon became a proficient in the art of boxing , and able to cope with Murphy and his supporters . There was a part of my duty which , I am free to confess , I hated : this was keeping watch at night . I loved sleep , and , after ten o'clock , I could not keep my eyes open . Neither the buckets of water which were so liberally poured over me by the midshipmen , under the facetious appellation of `` blowing the grampus , '' nor any expostulation or punishments inflicted on me by the first lieutenant could rouse my _ dormant _ energies after the first half of the watch was expired . I was one of the most determined votaries of Somnus ; and for his sake , endured every sort of persecution . The first lieutenant took me into his watch , and tried every means , both of mildness and coercion , to break me of this evil habit .
ten o'clock | gutenberg_time | asking_the_time_reference | 1tasky
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "About eight o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
`` He had been out all day , and when he returned in the evening he said it was of no use serving dinner , for he was suffering such agonies from neuralgia that he could not eat anything . He had called at the doctor 's on his way , but he was not at home . `` He asked me to bring him a cup of strong coffee , which I did . `` About eight o'clock I went in to the study to light the gas , and when I opened the door there was a strong smell of some apothecary 's stuff , '' -LRB- here the man became visibly affected -RRB- , `` and something in that and the way my master was lying on the sofa attracted my attention . I spoke to him , but he did not answer me . I lifted his arm which was hanging over on the carpet , but it fell again when I let it go . `` Then I ran out of the house for a doctor .
8 | gutenberg_time | asking_the_hour_affirmative | 1tasky
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "midnight"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
Afterwards , the boy remembered nothing of the story , but a scrap of the dialogue meaninglessly remained with him ; and when the pirate captain appeared with his bloody crew and said , hoarsely , `` Let us go below and get some brandy ! '' the boy would have bartered all his hopes of bliss to have been that abandoned ruffian . In fact , he always liked , and longed to be , the villain , rather than any other person in the play , and he so glutted himself with crime of every sort in his tender years at the theatre that he afterwards came to be very tired of it , and avoided the plays and novels that had very marked villains in them . He was in an ecstasy as soon as the curtain rose that night , and he lived somewhere out of his body as long as the playing lasted , which was well on to midnight ; for in those days the theatre did not meanly put the public off with one play , but gave it a heartful and its money 's worth with three . On his first night my boy saw `` The Beacon of Death , '' `` Bombastes Furioso , '' and `` Black-eyed Susan , '' and he never afterwards saw less than three plays each night , and he never missed a night , as long as the theatre languished in the unfriendly air of that mainly Calvinistic community , where the theatre was regarded by most good people as the eighth of the seven deadly sins . The whole day long he dwelt in a dream of it that blotted out , or rather consumed with more effulgent brightness , all the other day-dreams he had dreamed before , and his heart almost burst with longing to be a villain like those villains on the stage , to have a moustache -- a black moustache -- such as they wore at a time when every one off the stage was clean shaven , and somehow to end bloodily , murderously , as became a villain . I dare say this was not quite a wholesome frame of mind for a boy of ten years ; but I do not defend it ; I only portray it .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "three o'clock in the morning"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
Why do n't you go into Wall Street an ' get poor ? ' '' ` Tired of play ! ' Bill exclaimed . ` Why , Grace , night before last you were playing bridge until three o'clock in the morning . ' '' ` Well , it 's a way of doing nothing skilfully and on the competitive plan , ' said she . ` It gives me a chance to measure my capacity . When I get through I am so weary that often I can go to sleep without thinking .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "nine
o’clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
Then see , in one end of the room , three pine tables ; in the other , a closet and a deal dresser . The latter is filled with mugs , dishes , pipes , tankards , earthen and glass bottles , and is guarded at one end by a brass-hooped keg standing upon long legs . Everything is dim with tobacco smoke , but otherwise as clean as soap and sand can make it . Next , picture two sleepy , shabby-looking men , in wooden shoes , seated near the glowing fireplace , hugging their knees and smoking short , stumpy pipes ; Mynheer Kleef walking softly and heavily about , clad in leather knee breeches , felt shoes , and a green jacket wider than it is long ; then throw a heap of skates in the corner and put six tired well-dressed boys , in various attitudes , upon the wooden chairs , and you will see the coffee room of the Red Lion just as it appeared at nine o'clock upon the evening of December 6 , 184 -- . For supper , gingerbread again , slices of Dutch sausage , rye bread sprinkled with anise seed , pickles , a bottle of Utrecht water , and a pot of very mysterious coffee . The boys were ravenous enough to take all they could get and pronounce it excellent . Ben made wry faces , but Jacob declared he had never eaten a better meal .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "noon"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
Now it is their hour , and mayhap ours . Come , lady , these are no sights for you , though you might do well to learn to bear them , since if you escape you may see many such . Come , and if you wish we will pray for these Jews , especially for their children , who are innocent , and for ourselves . '' That day at noon , most of the poorer and least protected Jews of the city having been killed , the Syrians began their attack upon the fortified palace of Benoni . Now it was that the defenders learned that they had to deal with no mere rabble , but with savage hordes , many thousands strong , directed by officers skilled in war . Indeed these men might be seen moving among them , and from their armour and appearance it was easy to guess that they were Romans . This , in fact , was the case , since Gessius Florus , the wicked , and after him other officers , made it part of their policy to send Romans to stir up the Syrians against the Jews and to assist them in their slaughter .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "eleven o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
One room was the official apartment , furnished chastely with a flat-top desk , a hammock , and three uncomfortable cane-seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul 's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the gallery facing the sea -- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The breakfast consisted of shark 's fin soup , stew of land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a freshly cut pineapple , claret and coffee . Geddie took his seat , and unrolled with luxurious laziness his bundle of newspapers .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "three o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
The infantry marched along some ridges parallel with the railway , but a mile away , while the Devonshire regiment kept along the low ground by the line . The 5th Dragoon Guards , with some troops of Colonials and one of the field batteries , moved forward on the left . The Manchesters were on the right of the infantry , the Gordons in the centre , and the Devons on the left , as they set their faces towards the Boer position . At three o'clock the action began , the Boer riflemen opening a heavy fire . It was still too distant , however , to do any serious execution , and the British moved forward as regularly and unconcernedly as if it had been a field day . The Boer fire grew in intensity , and one of our batteries opened with shrapnel to drive them from the lower ridges . At half-past three the Boer artillery joined their deeper roar to the rattle of musketry and the sharp cracks of the British guns .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "nine o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
I am not so sure of success there , but if you do n't like it when you see it , I promise you that I will restore it to its former condition , now let us be off ; if I am not mistaken there is something going on , I saw several battalions of National Guards marching through the streets ; and there is a report that 50,000 men are to march against Versailles . We may as well see them start , it may turn out to be an historic event . '' The march against Versailles did not take place on the first of April , although the Communists had every reason to believe that they would meet with no opposition , as on the previous night two regiments of the army , forming the advanced guard between Versailles and Paris , came in , together with a battery of artillery , and declared for the Commune . The next morning Cuthbert went up at nine o'clock , as he had arranged to take Mary out early , and to work in the afternoon . Just as he reached the house he heard a cannon-shot . `` Hurry on your things , '' he said as he met her , `` a gun has just fired ; it is the first in the Civil War ; perhaps the National Guard are starting against Versailles ; at any rate it will be worth seeing . '' The girl was ready in two or three minutes , and they walked briskly to the Arc de Triomphe .
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "nine
o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
Before I found her , however , I saw in the papers that Ferruci had committed suicide ; also that Lydia -- who had gone to Dover to meet me , thinking I was returning from Paris -- had been arrested . Then I saw Mrs. Clear 's advertisement saying she would betray me if I did not pay the money . I consented to meet her in order to implore her silence , and so fell into the clutches of the law . `` I may state that I did not kill Clear , as I never saw him after nine o'clock , and then he was alive . In spite of what the doctor said , I am still inclined to think he killed himself . Now I have made a clean breast of it -- I am willing to be punished ; but I hope Lydia will be set free , for whosoever is guilty , she is innocent . I have been an unlucky man , and I remain one at this moment when I sign myself for the last time , JABEZ CLYNE . ''
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Answer the following question using the passage below: what hour is the phrase "eight o'clock"? Give the integer answer using 24 hour format.
You go on then , please , to the hospital and find out all you can about this case and call me on the long-distance to-night -- no , that wo n't do either . I do n't know where I 'll be . I may be in Peekskill or in Albany -- I ca n't say which . I tell you -- I 'll call you at eight o'clock ; that will be better . `` No , no ! '' she went on impetuously , reading on his face the protest he meant to utter . `` My wrist is well bandaged and giving me no pain .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "Tuesday morning about eleven o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
And while the echo of the words yet held the girl motionless he was gone . * * * * * Down by the road which runs past the hotel , sunken ten feet below its level , are the tennis-courts , and soldiers in scarlet and khaki , and blue-jackets with floating ribbons , and negro bell-boys returning from errands , and white-gowned American women with flowery hats , and men in summer flannels stop as they pass , and sit on the low wall and watch the games . There is always a gallery for the tennis-players . But on a Tuesday morning about eleven o'clock the audience began to melt away in disgust . Without doubt they were having plenty of amusement among themselves , these tennis-players grouped at one side of the court and filling the air with explosions of laughter . But the amusement of the public was being neglected . Why in the world , being rubber-shod as to the foot and racqueted as to the hand , did they not play tennis ?
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "one o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
To be a saint when sick ; to find the conscience active when defeat overwhelmed it -- that was for the weak dregs of humanity . But such paltering was not for him . On the one hand revenge , on the other duty -- which was he to follow ? The wretched man could come to no decision ; and when the fingers of his watch pointed to one o'clock he lay down on the couch to rest . It was not sleep that he wanted ; sleep had of late become too full of terrors ; but sleep overcame him , nevertheless . His face , when he slept , was the face of a man in pain ; and dreams came that were the distorted reflections of his waking thoughts . He dreamed that he had died in infancy .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "twelve o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
`` Now , here is another matter of much more importance . '' He showed , but retained , another envelope . `` Behind the house where you 're to find Miss Rothvelt there 's a road into Cole 's Creek bottom . The house you 're to stop at to-night , say from twelve o'clock till three or half-past , is on that road , about five miles from Wiggins , from Clifton and from Fayette . I 'm sending you there expecting the people in that house will rob you if you give them half a chance . '' `` I understand , General ; they 'll not get it . '' `` Smith , I want them to get it .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "nine
o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
So the cakes and fudge were placed on the shelf in the closet , where with the big can full of oysters and milk they became close neighbors with the hat-boxes . Then Vera and Elf sat down to prepare their lessons for the next day . They had invited Betty Chase and her chum , Valerie Dare , to spend the evening with them , and enjoy the treat . They were to go to bed at the usual time , have their light out at nine o'clock , and as soon as they heard Miss Fenler pass down the hall , and then descend the stairs , they were to open their door softly , close it behind them , and then , with greatest caution , make their way along the hall to Vera 's room . Night came , their lessons were prepared for the morrow , their lights were out , when they heard Miss Fenler pass their door , then , -- why did she return and pass the door a second time ? Was it imagination , or did she pause before going on ? Their hearts beat faster , and Valerie laid her hand over hers , she afterward said , to hush it so that the dreaded Miss Fenler might not hear it .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "two o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
She had been seen walking one moonlight night with a young lad at Bangor : the lad was her nephew ; but some one had perhaps jested about Miss Todd and her beau , and since that time she was always talking of eloping with her own flesh and blood . But Miss Todd was not a bad woman . She spent much in feeding those who perhaps were not hungry ; but she fed the hungry also : she indulged a good deal in silk brocades ; but she bought ginghams as well , and calicos for poor women , and flannel petticoats for motherless girls . She did go to sleep sometimes in church , and would sit at a whist-table till two o'clock of a Sunday morning ; but having been selected from a large family by an uncle as his heir , she had divided her good things with brothers and sisters , and nephews and nieces . And so there were some hearts that blessed her , and some friends who loved her with a love other than that of her friends of Littlebath and Ems , of Jerusalem and Harrowgate . And she had loved in her early days , and had been told and had believed that she was loved . But evidence had come to her that her lover was a scamp -- a man without morals and without principle ; and she had torn herself away from him .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "nine o’clock" A.M. or P.M.?
They are used to seeing you go out early in the morning for your appointments with Reine , and therefore -- '' `` It is to this shepherdess you would send me ! '' interrupted the artist , as he began to undress himself ; `` in that case I will go to bed again . Enough of that ! '' `` I am to fight with Bergenheim at nine o'clock ! '' said Gerfaut , in a low voice . `` Stupendous ! '' exclaimed Marillac , as he jumped back a few steps , and then stood as motionless as a statue .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "twelve o'clock on Saturday" A.M. or P.M.?
h 'm ! ... not dear at the price . But stop a bit ! ` Until twelve o'clock on Saturday next copies of the above , with revolving bookcase , can be secured for the low price of seven pounds ten . ' ... '' This did not seem to increase the speaker 's confidence and he continued , as he wrestled with a rearrangement of the sheet : `` Shiny paper , and every volume weighs a ton . Very full of matter -- everything in it except the thing you want to know . By-the-bye ... what a singular thing it is , when you come to think of it , that so many people will sell you a thing worth a pound for sixpence , who wo n't give you a shilling outright on any terms !
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "midnight" A.M. or P.M.?
Alice asked . `` In about a week . I 'm going to write a letter to Sarah to-night to pave the way . '' It was midnight when Aunt Ella completed a letter that seemed to fit the case . `` MY DEAR SISTER SARAH : -- I write to let you know that Florence and her husband will sail for America in about a week . This may not be news to you , for probably Florence has written you , but it will be news when I tell you that Maude and her husband , Mr. Merry , will sail on the same steamer . They have visited Florence and are now here with me .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "six o'clock" A.M. or P.M.?
I sold him a horse , and he paid me for it . '' `` Very well , '' said Bézard , with some hesitation . `` Let us pass to the eighth of April . At six o'clock that morning you drove to Thillot-sous-les-Côtes , where you met a stranger at the entrance to the village , and walked with him , and held a long and earnest conversation . '' Paul was silent for a moment . The incident recalled was one that he would fain have forgotten , one the truth of which he intended at all hazards to conceal . `` I admit that I went to Thillot in secret , '' he answered in a changed voice .
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Given the passage below, is the phrase "noon" A.M. or P.M.?
I exulted in these symptoms of our crude and lusty youth . I watched my countrymen going abroad . Not only through the Summer but straight on into the Fall they came by tens of thousands out of the West , people who had made some money and were going to blow it in , to buy things and to see things , to learn things and to eat things . One day at noon , on the end of a dock , when the ship was already far out in midstream and all the crashing music and cheers had died away , a meek old lady wiped her eyes and murmured very tearfully , `` I suppose they 'll be eating their luncheon soon . '' And then the loud voice of her daughter replied : `` Eat ? Why , ma , God bless their hearts , they 'll sit on that boat and eat all day ! '' And I echoed her wish with a keen delight .
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There's a time phrase of "two
o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
Really , it would have melted a stone to hear her . She was still a moment and then she began to cry and whimper , and I knew that it had made no difference . `` She wo n't go -- she wo n't go , '' she said , crying , `` not even for Nannie ! '' Well , I talked to her and read to her and stroked her head , and by two o'clock or so she was off for an hour , and I got a nap myself . But from three till nearly five she was awake again , and I had to light up the room ; she said she hardly saw her then -- only felt her , and that was n't so bad . I do n't know that anything different took place for a week after that . We went through the same business every night , and I took a nap every afternoon when she did .
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There's a time phrase of "nine o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
Dryfoos saw it , too , the wound that he had feared to look for , and that now seemed to redden on his sight . He broke into a low , wavering cry , like a child 's in despair , like an animal 's in terror , like a soul 's in the anguish of remorse . The evening after the funeral , while the Marches sat together talking it over , and making approaches , through its shadow , to the question of their own future , which it involved , they were startled by the twitter of the electric bell at their apartment door . It was really not so late as the children 's having gone to bed made it seem ; but at nine o'clock it was too late for any probable visitor except Fulkerson . It might be he , and March was glad to postpone the impending question to his curiosity concerning the immediate business Fulkerson might have with him . He went himself to the door , and confronted there a lady deeply veiled in black and attended by a very decorous serving-woman . `` Are you alone , Mr. March -- you and Mrs. March ? ''
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There's a time phrase of "six o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
The morning hours she passed in solitude , reading such books of devotion and serious matter as most suited the sad temper of her mind ; precisely at mid-day she and Sister Gabrielle breakfasted together in a sort of solemn state ; and at three o'clock the great landau , with its black horses and mourning liveries , stood under the inner gate . The two ladies appeared five minutes later , and by a gesture Corona indicated whether she would be driven up or down the valley . The dashing equipage descended the long smooth road that wound through the town , and returned invariably at the end of two hours , again ascended the tortuous way , and disappeared beneath the dark entrance . At six o'clock dinner was served , with the same solemn state as attended the morning meal ; Corona and Sister Gabrielle remained together until ten , and the day was over . There was no more variation in the routine of their lives than if they had been moved by a machinery connected with the great castle clock overhead , which chimed the hours and the quarters by day and night , and regulated the doings of the town below . But in spite of this unchanging sequence of similar habit , the time passed pleasantly for Corona . She had had too much of the brilliant lights and the buzzing din of society for the last five years , too much noise , too much idle talk , too much aimless movement ; she needed rest , too , from the constant strain of her efforts to fulfil her self-imposed duties towards her husband -- most of all , perhaps , she required a respite from the sufferings she had undergone through her stifled love for Giovanni Saracinesca .
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There's a time phrase of "noon" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
He remembered the story , of the faithful troubadour , Blondel , who sought his master , Richard of the Lion Heart , imprisoned somewhere in a castle in Austria , and who , finding him , sang under his window to let him know one loyal friend was there . But Richard , under the light of history , had become merely a barbarous king , cruel to his enemies and unjust to his friends . John felt that his own quest was higher and better . Toward noon he was in the middle of a valley down which a swift little river flowed . Old men , women and children were at work in the fields preparing for the new crop , and again John 's frank eyes and hearty voice won him a welcome . He was a man of Lorraine who had been on the far western front and they welcomed Ulysses on his travels . They said that he was going to Zillenstein at a fortunate time , as the prince had just returned for a space and the great castle was full of people .
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There's a time phrase of "noon" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
Meanwhile you had better go on -- fighting . '' Corporal Connal paid the penalty of his crime before the sun was far above the hill held by the enemy . There was abundance of circumstantial evidence against him , besides the direct testimony of Raffles and myself , and the wretch was shot at last with little ceremony and less shrift . And that was the one good thing that happened on the day that broke upon us hiding behind the bushes overlooking the donga ; by noon it was my own turn . I have avoided speaking of my wound before I need , and from the preceding pages you would not gather that I am more or less lame for life . You will soon see now why I was in no hurry to recall the incident . I used to think of a wound received in one 's country 's service as the proudest trophy a man could acquire .
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There's a time phrase of "midnight" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
No answer was vouchsafed , but the dim light of a lamp , placed by the intruder on the floor , disclosed a figure wrapped from head to foot in the shrouding mantle of the time , not tall , but appearing a stout muscular person , banishing on the instant Nigel 's scarcely-formed hope that it was the only one he longed to see . `` What wouldst thou ? '' he said , after a brief pause . `` Doth Edward practise midnight murder ? Speak , who art thou ? '' `` Midnight murder , thou boasting fool ; I love thee not well enough to cheat the hangman of his prey , '' replied a harsh and grating voice , which , even without the removal of the cloak , would have revealed to Nigel 's astonished ears the Earl of Buchan . `` Ha !
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There's a time phrase of "one o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
`` If I see anybody again , I 'll shoot off my gun and call the corporal , '' announced Codfish . His whole manner showed that he was much disturbed . His post was along the edge of the wood beyond where Randy was stationed , but the latter saw that the sneak never walked very close to the trees and brushwood . The time dragged heavily , and Randy heaved a sigh when he looked at his watch and found that it was only one o'clock . The young cadet , as was the custom with many of the lads , had supplied himself with a thin cake of sweet chocolate , and to help pass the time he munched on bits of this . Then it commenced to rain , the scattering drops making quite a noise on the trees and fallen leaves . Fortunately Randy had brought his raincoat with him .
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There's a time phrase of "Eleven o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
And he had been heading for Whitehall . He would never go to the Regency again without seeing her -- either a head leaning against his knee at rehearsal as they sat on a platform over the orchestra , or in their box , hand in hand , as on the first night of `` The Bomb-Shell , '' when his nerves were jangling like the broken wires of a harp ; he could never go to Mrs. Shelley 's house without hearing her singing Madame Butterfly 's song -- and without some fool 's asking if he had seen anything of Lady Barbara lately ... . A telegram was waiting for him , when at last he reached his office : Barbara would come up that day and dine with him ; she hoped that he had received no bad news ... . Eleven o'clock ; and he would not see her until eight . He was too restless to work and at one o'clock he handed his papers to a colleague and slunk into the street . His foot-steps were turned towards the Thespian Club ; but he could not pass the hall-porter without looking for a note , as on the night when he dined in his triumph with Lord Ettrick ; he could not see a page-boy without expecting to find that Barbara had telephoned to him ... . Half-way across the Horse Guards ' Parade , he encountered George Oakleigh .
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There's a time phrase of "nine o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
He had now flung open the windows and we were gazing out upon the silent and motionless landscape . `` Let me consider , '' he continued . `` It was about three , or a little after , yesterday afternoon that the world finally entered the poison belt to the extent of being completely submerged . It is now nine o'clock . The question is , at what hour did we pass out from it ? '' `` The air was very bad at daybreak , '' said I. `` Later than that , '' said Mrs. Challenger . `` As late as eight o'clock I distinctly felt the same choking at my throat which came at the outset . ''
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There's a time phrase of "11 o'clock" in the passage below. Determine whether the time the phrase is referring to is “A.M.” or “P.M.”.
Evidently they had a considerable search before them to discover the location of the Graham cottage without making open inquiry as to where it stood . First they walked out upon the promontory , which had a flat table-like surface and was well suited for the arousing of the curiosity of tourists . There they had a good view up and down the bluff-jagged , hilly and tree-laden coast . `` It 's 11 o'clock now , '' said Hazel , looking at her wrist-watch . `` The motorboat will be here at about 1 o'clock , and we have two hours in which to get the information we are after unless we want to share honors for success with the other girls when they arrive . '' `` Let 's take a walk through this place and see what we can see , '' Katherine suggested . `` The road we came along runs through it and undoubtedly there are numerous paths . ''
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "midnight" indicate?
`` Now ? At midnight ? '' asked the pharaoh . `` Her exact words were that at midnight thou wouldst wake , holiness . '' The pharaoh meditated , then answered the adjutant that he would wait for the queen in the golden hall . He thought that there no one could overhear them . Rameses threw a mantle over his shoulders , put on sandals unfastened and commanded to light the golden hall brightly .
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "midnight" indicate?
And yet , by ingenious contrivance , this gilded minority , instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged , was marching head up and banners flying , at the other end of it ; had elected itself to be the Nation , and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come at last to accept it as a truth ; and not only that , but to believe it right and as it should be . The priests had told their fathers and themselves that this ironical state of things was ordained of God ; and so , not reflecting upon how unlike God it would be to amuse himself with sarcasms , and especially such poor transparent ones as this , they had dropped the matter there and become respectfully quiet . The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear . They were freemen , but they could not leave the estates of their lord or their bishop without his permission ; they could not prepare their own bread , but must have their corn ground and their bread baked at his mill and his bakery , and pay roundly for the same ; they could not sell a piece of their own property without paying him a handsome percentage of the proceeds , nor buy a piece of somebody else 's without remembering him in cash for the privilege ; they had to harvest his grain for him gratis , and be ready to come at a moment 's notice , leaving their own crop to destruction by the threatened storm ; they had to let him plant fruit trees in their fields , and then keep their indignation to themselves when his heedless fruit-gatherers trampled the grain around the trees ; they had to smother their anger when his hunting parties galloped through their fields laying waste the result of their patient toil ; they were not allowed to keep doves themselves , and when the swarms from my lord 's dovecote settled on their crops they must not lose their temper and kill a bird , for awful would the penalty be ; when the harvest was at last gathered , then came the procession of robbers to levy their blackmail upon it :...
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "midnight" indicate?
Usually Sunday night was dull , all the men having spent their spare money the night before , and it being a bad night for married men to make excuses for getting away from home . Maud explained that , except `` out-of-towners , '' the married men were the chief support of their profession -- `` and most of the cornhuskers are married men , too . '' But Susan had the novice 's luck . When she and Maud met Maud 's `` little gentleman friend '' Harry Tucker at midnight and went to Considine 's for supper , Susan had taken in `` presents '' and commissions twenty-nine dollars and a half . Maud had not done so badly , herself ; her net receipts were twenty-two fifty . She would not let Susan pay any part of the supper bill , but gave Harry the necessary money . `` Here 's a five , '' said she , pressing the bill into his hand , `` and keep the change . ''
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "10 o'clock" indicate?
`` Yes , sir , '' Carthew replied , with a calmness to match his employer 's . `` As I was coming here from the garage I met the mistress . She was looking for a taxi and she took me . '' `` But did you tell her that I asked you to be here at 10 o'clock ? '' `` No , sir . '' `` Did you tell her that I was in London ? '' `` No , sir . ''
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "ten o'clock" indicate?
This was at nine o'clock . Less than two hours later a mounted orderly set forth with dispatches from the temporary post commander to Colonel Byrne at Prescott . A wire from that point about sundown had announced the safe arrival of the party from Camp Sandy . The answer , sent at ten o'clock , broke up the game of whist at the quarters of the inspector general . Byrne , the recipient , gravely read it , backed from the table , and vainly strove not to see the anxious inquiry in the eyes of Major Plume , his guest . But Plume cornered him . `` From Sandy ? ''
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "eleven
o'clock" indicate?
The presence of a dozen other herds holding along it forced us into a permanent camp a short half-day 's ride from the town . The horse-wrangler was pressed into service in making up the first guard that night , and taking Morg Tussler with me , I struck out for Dodge in the falling darkness . On reaching the first divide , we halted long enough to locate the camp-fires along the Mulberry to our rear , while above and below and beyond the river , fires flickered like an Indian encampment . The lights of Dodge were inviting us , and after making a rough estimate of the camps in sight , we rode for town , arriving there between ten and eleven o'clock . The Dodge House was a popular hostelry for trail men and cattle buyers , and on our making inquiry of the night clerk if a Mr. Siringo was stopping there , we were informed that he was , but had retired . I put up a trivial excuse for seeing him , the clerk gave me the number of his room , and Tussler and I were soon closeted with him . The detective was a medium-sized , ordinary man , badly pock-marked , with a soft , musical voice , and apparently as innocent as a boy .
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "twelve o’clock" indicate?
Peter smiled inwardly , but he said never a word . His companion was already chattering on about something else . Peter crossed the hall a few minutes later , to speak to an acquaintance , slipped out to the telephone booth and spoke to his servant . `` A bag and a change , '' he ordered , `` at Euston Station at twelve o'clock , in time for the Irish mail . Your mistress will be home as usual . '' An hour later the dinner party broke up . Early the next morning , Peter crossed the Irish Channel .
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "ten o’clock at night" indicate?
Everybody was wondering what Mr. Swaffer would do with him . `` He simply kept him . `` Swaffer would be called eccentric were he not so much respected . They will tell you that Mr. Swaffer sits up as late as ten o'clock at night to read books , and they will tell you also that he can write a cheque for two hundred pounds without thinking twice about it . He himself would tell you that the Swaffers had owned land between this and Darnford for these three hundred years . He must be eighty-five to-day , but he does not look a bit older than when I first came here . He is a great breeder of sheep , and deals extensively in cattle .
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "five o'clock" indicate?
Rosa was delighted , got up softly so as not to awaken anyone , and went and fetched the child . She took her into her warm bed , kissed her and pressed her to her bosom , cossetted her , lavished exaggerated manifestations of tenderness on her , and at last grew calmer herself and went to sleep . And till morning , the candidate for confirmation slept with her head on the prostitute 's naked bosom . At five o'clock , the little church bell ringing the _ Angelus _ , woke the women up , who usually slept the whole morning long . The peasants were up already , and the women went busily from house to house , carefully bringing short , starched , muslin dresses in band -- boxes , or very long wax tapers , with a bow of silk fringed with gold in the middle , and with dents in the wax for the fingers . The sun was already high in the blue sky , which still had a rosy tint towards the horizon , like a faint trace of dawn , remaining . Families of fowls were walking about outside houses , and here and there a black cock , with a glistening breast , raised his head , which was crowned by his red comb , flapped his wings , and uttered his shrill crow , which the other cocks repeated .
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Given the following text. What hour (between 0 and 23) does the phrase "noon" indicate?
I relapsed into that state so well known to you all , when one seems caught in the meshes of a dream existence which has had no beginning and which is destined never to have an end . We were to hunt seals , and fish , and pry bivalves from the rocks at low tide , and build fires , and talk , and alternate between suspicion and security , between the danger of sedition and the insanity of men without defined purpose , world without end forever . The inevitable happened . One noon Pulz looked up from his labour of pulling the whiskers from the evil-smelling masks . `` How many of these damn things we got ? '' he inquired . `` About three hunder ' and fifty , '' Thrackles replied .
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