What is "half-past"

Usage examples of "half-past".

They talked for an hour, then it was time for Adela to hasten homewards, in order to have dinner ready by half-past one.

God created the world, the sun has always gone down at half-past five, and at six the bells have always been tolled for the Angelus.

I would see him at half-past eleven in the ducal gardens, only requesting him to appoint another hour in case mine was not convenient to him.

About half-past nine my housekeeper looked out, and saw Le Duc by the moonlight coming along at a good pace.

Desarmoises was my croupier, and I warned the company that every card must have the stake placed on it, and that I should rise at half-past seven.

I addressed myself to Armelline, and observed smilingly that she knew perfectly well that she must be home by half-past twelve at latest.

Going reluctantly downstairs a few minutes after half-past seven, she found Haso sitting with his aunts, listening gravely to them.

He left her at half-past ten in the morning, and after four hours spent alone together, she had been induced by his piety and gentleness to make confessions that could not be wrung from her by the threats of the judges or the fear of the question.

At half-past three in the morning, well before daylight, the mounted infantry picket at the junction of the roads from Landmans and Vants Drifts was fired into by the Doornberg commando, and retired upon its supports.

Following the other nights he had spent at Jackdaws, he had left at half-past five, after a bath in Mrs.

About half-past eleven, John Mangles and Wilson, who stayed on deck throughout the gale, were suddenly struck by an unusual noise.

At half-past seven the next morning the Prime Minister and the Chief Organiser sat at breakfast, making a perfunctory meal, and awaiting the return of the Home Secretary, who had gone in person to superintend the releasing of Platterbaff.

We got up at the same time, and quested for regular hours, and went to bed at half-past ten.

When he had become a man at half-past fifteen, he had assumed the senseless shibboleths of his flaminate without a murmur or a look, and Aurelia had heaved a sigh of relief.

Regularly at half-past four Mama would ask Sigismund if she might leave me, Oskar, in his care, for it was getting late and she still had a few important errands.