horologe

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Linn�us, classification of, 282; horologe of, 381-382; discovery of daughter of, 431 et seq.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

But these were mere Cassandra-voices—the horologe of time was striking for Rome’s successor, as it did for Rome herself.

From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.

By the light of the stained-glass windows the famous astronomical clock in the south transept can be descried, still containing some fragments of the horologe constructed by the mathematician Conrad Dasypodius in 1574.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

On May 10, 1774, "with a sound absolutely like thunder," has the horologe of time struck, and an old era passed away.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir