Posted by Ed Kiser on September 15, 2002 at 01:06:58 from 64.12.96.103 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Nancy's watch posted by John Wilson on September 14, 2002 at 10:05:27:
This search for the word, "watch", does not include the books:
MISSEE LEE, PETER DUCK, GREAT NORTHERN? (Have not typed these
in yet.)
The word, "watch", appears many more times than shown here, but
most usages involving watching for something, as in looking
for something, as in "observing". There is also the occasional
reference to being on duty, as being on watch.
The people that were found to have a "watch":
The Eelman in BIG SIX
Dick (Frequent references)
He frequently is quite precise as to the time.
Believe it is a pocket watch, as he "pulled it out".
Mrs. Barrable
Tom Dudgeon
Mr. Farland in COOT CLUB (twin's Father)
Jim Wooddall, the wherryman
Roger (busted in PP)
Captain Flint (PP - reference to his WATCH CHAIN, but not
just a watch, so presume that means there is a
watch on that watch chain.)
He does have a watch he uses when firing the cannon
to start the boat race - SD.
John - sometimes calls his a chronometer.
His mother thought it was frequently wrong.
When getting into position for a boat race, John wished
the second hand had not busted off, as it would have
helped in the more precise timing of when to go to the
starting line.
His watch was in Ipswich being mended for SW, but he
had it just before this in WD.
In WH, he does not have it.
Great Aunt - so she knows when it is mealtime
Nancy - WRIST WATCH - used to decorate the totem in SW.
Susan had an alarm clock, but she had left it on GOBLIN.
Captain Walker (note rank) in SW.
He also had one in WD.
Boatman, who was to repair the broken rudder - SW.
The GOBLIN had a clock.
Dutch Pilot
In the following set of excerpts, the books appear in
no particular order.
Hope this collection from the MAGIC SEARCH is helpful...
Ed Kiser, South Florida.
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p50 chapter 3 BIG SIX
At the eelman's, for the all night eeling...
An hour and more went by, and again the old man looked
at the big watch hung on its nail. Again he opened the door
to the night air, but this time Pete and Joe went with him in
the boat and Tom and Bill watched from the hulk as the boat
moved slowly out along the net, the lantern glowing in the
dark.
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p346 chapter 31 BIG SIX
Dick is developing the photograph of the bad guys...
For a minute or two the water from the tap sluiced this
way and that over the film. Then Dick lowered it into the
dish with the hypo solution and worked it to and fro as he
had done when it was in the developer.
"What's the time?" he said. "Where's the Admiral's
watch?"
"I've got it," said Pete, and held Mrs. Barrable's watch in
the red glow of the lamp.
"Five past nine," said Dick. "They'll be at Mr. Farland's
already. And we've got to get it dry and take a print of it."
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P348 same chapter and book
Dick is getting a good look at the negative...
"Look like [NWORD] to me," said Pete.
"You wait... I say, what's the time now?"
"Quarter past nine," said Pete, looking at Mrs. Barrable's
watch.
"Oh gosh," said Dick. "And we can't print it till it's dry or
it'll stick to the paper." He went on blowing at the film, and
waving it in the air.
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P191 chapter 16 COOT CLUB
Tom has been sleeping in his little boat...
Tom woke, remembered that the Titmouse was in the dyke at
home, looked at his watch, saw that it was close on six
o'clock, and, a moment later, had wriggled out of his
sleeping-bag and was scrambling ashore bare-footed and in
pyjamas to have a look at the weather.
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P193 same chapter and book
Mrs. Barrable is boiling some eggs in the TEASEL...
"Fill his mug, Dot," said the Admiral. "Slip in here, Tom.
Two eggs, Dot, and have a look at the watch when you put
them in."
(...whose watch is it? Mrs. Barrable's?...)
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P203 Chapter 17 COOT CLUB
Mr. Farland is getting ready to leave on business...
"What is it, A.P.?"
Mr. Farland looked at his watch and compared it with the
clock on the mantelpiece, a clock won by the Flash at
Wroxham Regatta the year before.
"Seven minutes for breakfast... Yes, Mrs. McGinty, if
you will be so good. The small suit-case. Everything for a
week.
"You aren't going away?" said Port.
[This is right after the "dunderheads" phone call.]
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P219 chapter 18 COOT CLUB
They are timing how fast they can get the mast down...
"Let's have the mast down now," said the Admiral, "and
then we'll be ready when the tide's ready for us, and we can
have our tea while we're waiting for it."
"Come on, Dick," said Tom, "Acle over again."
"Nine minutes," said the Admiral, watch in hand, when
the mast, after coming slowly down, rested beside the boom.
"It's always a wee bit quicker getting it up," said Tom.
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P231 chapter 19 COOT CLUB
On the wherry, getting a late start down river...
"They didn't cotch him," said Jim Wooddall. "They'd be
going to Horning or Wroxham to raise a bobbery else. Eh,
Simon," he broke off, looking at huge old watch, "We'll
never get to Gorleston on this tide. They'll be laughin' at us
when we go through Acle Bridge."
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P236 same chapter and book
The wherryman is concerned maybe he's missed the tide...
And now here was Sir Garnet leaving
Stokesby with ten miles to go to Yarmouth, and Jim and his
mate knew that if they had been an hour earlier they would
not have been a minute too soon. Jim kept taking a look at his
big watch, and at the mud that was showing below the green
at the sides of the river. Once the tide turned it would be a
long time before they could get down to Gorleston against it.
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P298 chapter 25 COOT CLUB
The TEASEL's crew is concerned about the tides...
"We can't turn back," said Tom.
On and on they went, beating down the Yare against the
wind but helped by the outflowing tide. And then, after
being afraid of being too late, they began to be afraid of
being too early. The Coots kept looking anxiously at Tom's
watch and at the Admiral's, which she lent to Starboard
because, as she said, she was tired of being asked the time.
They kept looking at the mud that showed how far the level
of the river had dropped since high water. It had dropped so
little that anybody could see that the ebb must last for a long
time yet.
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P47 chapter 5 PICTS AND MARTYRS
The Amazons are showing the hut to the D's for the first time.
"Let's start the fire again and make tea," said Dorothea.
"What's the time?" said Nancy.
Dick pulled out his watch. "Twenty-two minutes to six."
"Good-bye, Picts," said Nancy. "She'll be here before we're
ready if we don't go."
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P61 chapter 7 PICTS AND MARTYRS
Dick is timing the boiling of eggs...
The woodpecker spoilt the eggs for them. Dorothea had put
them in the saucepan of boiling water and pushed it in at the
side of the fire. She was hard at work stirring the cocoa first in
one mug and then in the other and Dick was timing the egg-
boiling with his watch, when he heard that tap, tap, close out-
side the hut. "A minute and a half gone," he said. "I'm sure
that's a woodpecker... Two minutes..." He moved quietly,
watch in hand, to the doorway. The tapping seemed to come from
a tree behind the hut... Dorothea added more water and went
on stirring, wondering if breakfast was over at Beckfoot and
how soon one or other or perhaps both the martyrs would escape
and come racing up through the wood. "It must be four min-
utes now," she thought, and was not at all sure whether Susan
boiled eggs for four minutes or for three. "Dick," she called.
There was no answer. She went out and could not see him.
"Dick!"
"He's gone. But I saw him all right. Great Spotted. Black and
white with a red patch." Dick slipped his watch back into the
breast pocket of his shirt and pulled out his notebook.
"But the eggs," said Dorothea.
He looked at his watch again. "I can't remember where the
minute hand was when we started. I'm awfully sorry."
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P97 chapter 10 PICTS AND MARTYRS
The Amazons have to be back by 4:30...
Then they both gasped at once. The boat had come into sight
below the lawn, gliding down the river. They had last seen it
with a crew of wet dishevelled savages. Now it was being rowed
by a girl in a white frock with a pink ribbon round her hair.
Another girl, just like her, was sitting in the stern, idly trailing a
hand in the water. The boat turned into the boathouse. A minute
later, they saw the two girls walking hand in hand towards the
house.
Dick looked at his watch. "Half a minute to half-past four,"
he whispered. "They've done it."
"I say," whispered Dorothea. "How many more days? They'll
never, never be able to keep it up like that."
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P105 chapter 11 PICTS AND MARTYRS
Dorothea is trying to time the boiling of eggs. They are
meeting Jacky for the first time...
"Look at your watch, Dick," she said. "We'll try to get these
just right."
"Three minutes and a half," said the small boy. "That's what
my mother gives 'em."
Dick looked at his watch and waited, holding it in his hand.
This time, at least, there should be no mistake.
p106, still timing the eggs...
"Two minutes," said Dick, looking at his watch.
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P133 chapter 14 PICTS AND MARTYRS
Dick is waiting for word about the pigeon's message...
A red squirrel came leaping and swinging through the feathery branches
of larch trees, saw Dick, and kept taking a look at him first round
one side of the trunk and then round the other, and then chat-
tered at him as if asking what business he had in the wood. Any
one of these things on ordinary days would have been enough to
make Dick forget the time and everything else. Today he kept
looking at his watch, and at last began to worry not because time
was going too slowly but because it was going too fast. How long
did it take to cook a rabbit?
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P156 chapter 16 PICTS AND MARTYRS
The D's are coming home from their first sail with the SCARAB,
trying to slip by Beckfoot quietly...
The whole sail came quietly down into the boat.
"Good," said Dick. He pulled up the centreboard, got out the
oars and began to row.
"What time is it now?" asked Dorothea.
"Eleven minutes past nine... I say, I couldn't help splash-
ing with that oar when I looked at my watch."
"Sorry."
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P163 chapter 17 PICTS AND MARTYRS
The D's are waking up in the hut...
Dick woke first, and, almost before his eyes were open,
reached up for his watch and his spectacles that he had put
for the night on the top of the beam above his head. It was still
raining. The drips from the roof were splashing as they fell in a
lake that was widening over the floor of the hut, but he hardly
noticed them. "Dot," he called. "Quick. We've overslept. It's
long after time to get up."
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P167 same chapter and book
Dick is bailing the SCARAB to be ready to shove off as
soon as they get the message from Beckfoot...
Suddenly the rain came down again really hard. Big bubbles
showed on the still water in the channel between the reeds. Big
drops splashed on the wet thwarts. Dick lowered the sail and
bundled it loosely along the gaff. With rain coming down like
this, there would be more baling to do when the time came to
sail. With that, he remembered that he did not yet know what
the message was. Perhaps by now Nancy was already at the hut.
He looked at his watch, found that the morning was gone as if
by magic, leapt ashore and raced for home.
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P281 chapter 27 PICTS AND MARTYRS
The D's are bringing the GA home from the houseboat...
Dick did not know what to do, because while she was sitting
where she was he could not use the tiller.
"Do you happen to know what time it is?" she asked.
Dick pulled himself together and looked at his watch. "Twenty-
nine minutes past eleven," he said.
"How long will it take you"?" asked the Great Aunt.
"Not very long if the wind keeps like this," said Dorothea.
"I have a conveyance ordered to call for me at Beckfoot at
one o'clock," said the Great Aunt.
p287 same chapter and story
They had left the islands and were sailing
along towards the Beckfoot promontory. The Great Aunt had
asked again about the time. Dick, narrowly avoiding a gybe while
he looked at his watch, had told her. The Great Aunt had said,
"That is very well. It would be unfortunate if I were not ready at
one o'clock. I am ready very much obliged to you both."
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P302 chapter 30 PICTS AND MARTYRS
"Has she found out or hasn't she?" said Dorothea.
"She's going indoors," said Dick. "What's Peggy carrying?"
"Nancy's gone in, too."
"Timothy's talking to Colonel Jolys," said Dick.
"And the doctor," said Dorothea. "If she asked him questions
he'll have told her everything. He said he would."
Dick looked at his watch.
"What time is it?" asked Dorothea.
"Fourteen and a half minutes to one."
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P25 chapter 2 PIGEON POST
"Jolly well done," he said. "Hullo. You've got another
pigeon."
"Hop aboard," said Peggy. "And hang on to the pier.
We've got to send her off with a message. What's the time?"
"My watch is bust," said Roger. "It always is."
"Fourteen minutes past seven," said Dick.
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P215 chapter 21 PIGEON POST
"Slater Bob'll show us how to make it into ingots. We
must have at least one ready for Captain Flint."
"We might make him a pair of gold ear-rings," said Titty.
"Like Black Jake had in PETER DUCK."
"He'd never wear them," said Peggy doubtfully.
"A good big shiny blob to hang on his watch chain," said
Nancy.
"And enough to make a gold collar for Timothy," said
Dorothea.
There was a sudden melancholy pause.
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P223 chapter 22 PIGEON POST
They are learning that pounding that mortar is hard work...
"Come on and try," said Nancy.
"You time me, Dick," said Roger, putting his goggles on
and taking Nancy's place.
At the second or third blow he looked a little surprised.
"It's quite easy," he said, but hardly sounded as if he
meant it.
"Half a minute," said Dick, looking at his watch.
"On look here," said Roger. "It must be more than that."
"Don't stop crushing while you talk," said Nancy.
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P262 chapter 25 PIGEON POST
The younger ones are trying to get back across the top
of the mountain after their experience of the cave in
in the Old Level.
"If only we had a compass," said Roger.
"You can get lost even with one," said Titty. "Remember
that fog on the way back to Swallowdale."
Dick stopped and pulled out his watch. "There is a way,"
he said. "I found it in a book last term. You point the hour
hand at the sun, and then half-way between the hour and
twelve o'clock is south... or north..."
"South," said Titty, looking at the watch which Dick held
in the palm of his hand. "It can't be anything else. But
where's High Topps?"
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P299 chapter 28 PIGEON POST
They are starting the cooking of the woodpile to make
charcoal...
Here and there they lifted a clod, and the smoke poured
out, tawny, greenish, choking.
"It's all right," said Nancy. "Getting hold properly
inside. So long as we don't let the whole pile flare up."
"What time is it now?" said Peggy.
"How long does it have to stay lit?" asked Dick, pulling
out his watch. "It's nearly three o'clock..."
"Then it's all right for anybody to be hungry," said
Roger.
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P62 chapter 6 SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
Waking up on the island...
"Where's Susan?" said Roger.
"Still asleep."
"No, she isn't," said Susan, rolling over on her haybag
and rubbing her eyes. "What time is it? Is it time to fetch
the milk?"
John disappeared to look at his watch, which was now called
a chronometer because John was the master of a ship.
"Three minutes to seven," he said. He had thought of putting
it into ship's time, but it would have taken him a moment or
two to be sure what it was.
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P284 Chapter 27 SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
The "watch" referred to here is no one's in particular.
Considering time pieces, remember JOHN had a CHRONOMETER...
"Remember," they shouted, "battle at three o'clock sharp.
There's no time to lose." Really, in spite of bathing and fetching
the milk and having breakfast and dinner, it seemed a very long
time before the small hand of the chronometer crawled round
past the II, and nearly as far as the III, on the chronometer face.
A watched pot never boils, and a watched watch seems to lag
on purpose. But at last Captain John looked at it for the last time,
and gave the order. The Grand Fleet set sail.
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P326 chapter 30 SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
Not a specific reference to a WATCH, but...
"What time is it, John?" called Susan.
"Four bells of the middle watch," said Captain John, who had
looked at the chronometer with his pocket torch and had just
put it into ship's time for himself.
"What is it in real time?" asked Peggy.
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P30 chapter 2 SWALLOWDALE
Making camp again on Wild Cat...
Almost everything was to be kept in the stores tent, but Roger
had got a new fishing-rod and would not let it be stacked with
the others, but wanted it with him in his own tent. "It doesn't
take any room longwise," he said, "and I might want to fish
with it any time." Titty would not be parted from her box of
writing things. And, of course, John kept in his own tent the
tin box with the ship's papers, and had his watch and the little
barometer he had won as a prize at school hanging from hooks
on the bamboo tentpole at the head of his tent, so that he could
unhook them and look at them in the night without having to
get up.
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P222 chapter 17 SWALLOWDALE
The GA has a watch, too...
"Anything would be too good for her," said Nancy. "It isn't
as if it was only us. We can stand it. But she will go for mother.
There was an awful row again just because we ran into a calm the
day we helped you to move camp. And, anyway, who can help
being late in summer? But the moment she looks at her watch
and thinks there ought to be a meal she doesn't wait decently till
the gong's been banged once or twice in the house and then taken
out in the garden and banged good and proper in case we're up
on the fell. She just goes into the dining-room and waits. And ten
to one cook isn't ready. And the old gong doesn't go until she is.
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P229 chapter 17 SWALLOWDALE
The Amazons are late to be leaving for home - again...
Nancy's cheerful voice changed suddenly. "The great-aunt
won't be saying how good we are if we're a minute late for
supper. Come on, Peggy. What's the time, John?"
John looked at his watch, but did not put the time into bells.
It was far too serious for that.
"All three meals," said Peggy.
"We've fairly done it this time," sand Nancy. "Come on.
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P310 chapter 25 SWALLOWDALE
Amazons have taken the Swallows half way up the mountain, but
must run back home to keep the GA happy...
"No time," Peggy was wriggling out of the straps of the boy's
knapsack. "So long, Swallows," she said, and hurried after
Nancy, who was already on her way back down the valley to
the place where they had left the Beckfoot war canoe. For a few
moments the Swallows watched the two red knitted caps bobbing
up, now here, now there, along the rocky wooded bank until
they were hidden by a bend in the river.
"What time is it?" asked Susan.
John showed her his watch.
"They haven't much time to lose," she said.
"The rowing's all downstream," said John. "They ought to do
it all right."
[And just a few paragraphs further...]
"Don't move,
Roger," called Titty. "There's a dipper, bobbing... there...
Farther up... On the other side..." John looked at his watch
and then tried to find a place where the trees did not get in the
way, so that he could see the top of the mountain. "It's not a bad
thing that we've got to wait for the milk," he said. "We can't
be very far from the camping-place, and it'd be a pity to get there
too early."
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P408 chapter 34 SWALLOWDALE
Mother is coming to visit them at their camp. She has a
rather low opinion of the ability of John's watch to be right.
I don't remember any other indication that his watch was
to be considered unreliable.
For a moment mother thought she might have mistaken the
day, and that they were not yet back from Kanchenjunga; but
no, she had seen Captain Flint that morning and he had told her
that Miss Turner was gone, and that Nancy and Peggy had joined
the camp in Swallowdale. Well, perhaps John's watch had gone
wrong again. It often did. It was a pity that none of them were
there to help her with the big basket of good things from Holly
Howe, but it couldn't be helped. She would probably meet
them before she got to the top of the wood. And she would not
be going very fast, because of Bridget. "Come along, Bridgie,"
she said, "let's see how far we can get before they meet us."
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P418 chaper 35 SWALLOWDALE
Captain Flint is using a watch to time the start of the
sailing race, signalling with the firing of his cannon...
A cloud of grey smoke blew away from the foredeck of the
houseboat, and they saw Captain Flint reload the little cannon
and stand beside it waiting, looking at the watch in his hand.
Nancy and Peggy in Amazon were also ready, and the two little
ships were sailing to and fro in the bay, their skippers watching
each other, each skipper hoping to be sailing for the line when the
second gun should go, and near enough to it to be over it and
away without losing a second.
[and just a few paragraphs further...]
"He's waved his handkerchief," said Titty.
"One more minute to go," said John. "I do wish I hadn't lost
the seconds-hand off my watch. Listen! They've got theirs all
right. They'll know to a second when the gun's coming."
[Something else wrong with John's watch!]
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P34 chapter 2 SECRET WATER
Getting ready to shove off to adventure...
"Captain Nancy'd just love to be marooned," said Titty.
"But I expect they're doing something too. Sure to be.
They'll probbly write and tell us about it. She wouldn't have
sent three million cheers unless they were up to something
pretty larky."
"They won't be doing anything as good as this," said
Roger.
Captain Walker looked at his watch.
"Are you ready, Mary?" he said. "All aboard. Hurry up
and say goodbye to Miss Powell. We'll have to start at once to
make sure of having the tide with us going in."
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P58 Chapter 5 SECRET WATER
They have just returned from gathering reeds for the fireplace.
"What's the time, John?" asked Susan.
"Haven't got a watch," said John. "Mine's still in Ipswich
being mended."
"I thought it was,"said Susan. "I've done the most awful
thing. I've gone and left my alarm clock in the Goblin."
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P132 Chapter 11 SECRET WATER
The Amazons have joined the Swallows at their camp.
"What's that?" said Nancy.
"Meal-dial," said Roger.
"I say, have you got a watch?" exclaimed Susan. "Thank
good ness you have. I went and forgot my alarm clock in
Goblin."
"Here you are," said Nancy. "But a meal-dial's even better.
Wouldn't Dick have liked it?"
"Oh good," said John. "We'll be all right about tides now.
A meal-dial's only good for meals."
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P142 chapter 12 SECRET WATER
Waking up in the camp with the Amazons...
Nancy woke the camp with a war cry long before the
shadow on the meal-dial was anywhere near the breakfast
peg. Susan, who had Nancy's watch in her tent, saw that it
was terribly early, but knew that there was no hope of getting
anybody to sleep again with the sunshine pouring through the
walls of the tents.
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P158 chapter 13 SECRET WATER
Decorating the totem...
"We'll give it something better," said Susan. "Let's give it
Nancy's watch. You don't mind, do you?"
"Good idea," said Nancy, and unstrapped her wrist watch
and then, fastening the buckle, slipped it over the eel's head of
the totem, and let it hang there.
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P211 chapter 17 SECRET WATER
The totem has been stolen... And that's not all...
"Where's the totem?" said Nancy. "We're going to hurl it
back."
Titty stretched her cramped arms and rolled over.
"Isn't it there?" she said.
"No it isn't," said Nancy. "There's the hole where it was
and there's my watch."
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P217 chapter 18 SECRET WATER
The stealing of the totem...
Inch by inch he crawled up over the edge
of the dyke, and between two of those white tents. Yes. There
it was, only half a dozen yards from that girl. What had those
palefaces hung round its sacred neck? A watch? Eel-like he
wriggled forward. Titty moved and he lay still.
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P269 Chapter 23 SECRET WATER
Preparing to walk across the RED SEA to get rudder repaired.
It was a broiling hot day. The hard sharp shadow of the
meal-dial was moving towards the dinner peg. Nancy's
watch, hanging on the totem, said that it was getting on for
twelve o'clock, when the Wade would be dry, and the
explorers would be able to cross the Red Sea, survey the road,
and take the damaged rudder to the town.
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P283 Chapter 24 SECRET WATER
They are talking to the man at the boatyard about getting
the rudder fixed.
The man looked at an enormous watch. "I've another job
on hand," he said, "and my man's away..."
"I'll help," said John. "If you think I'd be any good."
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P342 Chapter 29 SECRET WATER
Waking up on the last day on the island.
"What's the time?"
"Half past seven. Here's Nancy's watch. Hang it on the
totem so it won't get forgotten."
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P348 same chapter and book
Getting things packed to be ready to leave and go home.
Nothing was left but the painted
totems with the necklece of shells and Nancy's watch hung round
the eel at the top of it and the meal-dial, the shadow of which
had already left the breakfast stick behind. Evrything else was
packed in the boats of the savages ready to be ferried off.
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P364 chapter 30 SECRET WATER
Explorers have just finished the last bit of the map, with Titty
and Roger shouting to Nancy and Peggy.
Titty waved her own.
"We've discovered the North West Passage," she shouted.
"What time is it?"
"Don't know. Susan's got my watch. I say, you haven't
been right round?"
"Yes, we have," shouted Roger. "We had breakfast before
sunrise."
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p148 chapter 11 WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
Rough seas; Susan was quite ill.
"Daddy says lots of sailors are sick every time they go to
sea," said Roger.
"It was partly because we oughtn't to be at sea at all," said
Susan. "How many hours have we been sailing?"
"Hours and hours," said Roger.
"My watch is in the cabin," said John. "Have a look at the
clock, Roger."
Roger opened one half of the door to the companion and
craned in. "Gosh," he said. "It's nearly seven..."
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P256 chapter 20 WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
The pilot had taken them into the harbor, coming in right
beside the liner that they will discover has Daddy on it.
The pilot pulled out his watch and looked at it, and pointed
towards the liner.
"Sailing for Harwich... Where you come from," he called
out proudly to John. "Nederland steamer."
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P291 chapter 23 WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
They were all talking at once telling Daddy why there had
come to be there.
And a nasty lot of banks between you and them... Sinbad?
... I don't suppose your mother'll mind..." And then he
looked at his watch. "It's that Jim Brading of yours I'm
worried about... If he's gone and told your mother he's lost
you... Well, hurry up, Roger. The sooner we put to sea the
better..."
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P324 chapter 27 WINTER HOLIDAY
John and Susan are looking for the missing D's in the storm.
"We'll do it properly tomorrow," said Susan. "do let's go on
and find them now."
"In case we miss them," said John; and scribbled hurriedly:
"Relief Expedition passed Cache Island, 10th February." "What's
the time? I haven't got my watch."
"Horrible late," said Susan.
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