There were no clocks and she had no cell phone.
Body and mind are like two clocks which act together, because both have been set together by God.
Their proceedings were very cautious and tentative; they excited the curiosity and interest of even the more intelligent Chinese by their clocks, their globes and maps, their books of European engravings, and by Ricci's knowledge of mathematics, including dialling and the projection of maps.
She added, Perhaps I'll find one of those clocks that just flashes lights!
Alarm clocks ringing in the middle of the night, ghosts walking around, everyone hopping into someone else's bed, half the people wanting to kill the other half!
