Meaning of a. m. | Babel Free

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Adverb. [B2]

Examples

“Yeſterday at half paſt five a. m. I received information from Captain Hancock, then off Oſtend, that the enemy’s flotilla was hauling out of that pier, and had already twenty-one one-maſted veſſels, and one ſchooner, outſide in the roads;”

“[…]; and remain with the outward bound as per last, except the Mary for Calcutta, which sailed at five a. m.”

“Come again Tuesday at 10 a. m.[…]TUESDAY at 10 a. m. Mr. Oliver Whidden was no sooner in the chair than the dentistress synchronously began dental and verbal operations.”

“He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee. He looks into things. THIS SAME young man’s bride, also a college student and part-time researcher, came in at 3:55 a. m and her contribution to lore was that the first home air-conditioning unit was seven feet high, six feet wide and twenty feet long and was installed in the three-story mansion of Charlie Gates, son of John W. (Bet-a-Million) Gates.”

“At Five A. M. we got almoſt up with the Chace, and found them to be a large Ship and two Frigates.”

“[…]; at Five A. M. the Commodore made the Signal to tack, both Squadrons in company.”

“His people all rise at five A. M., by the ringing of a bell, as in a ship or a factory.”

““Train to Richmond at six-thirty a. m.,” I said. “What time is it now?””

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