five o'clock shadow

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.