horologe

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In truth it had occupied some five minutes, as I discovered, holding my horologe to the moon, and had not occupied so long if it were not for my groping and pausing.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine

One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

It might be amusing, were it not melancholy, to refer to one of his proofs of this position: "Une horologe mesure le temps; certes, c'est là un effet intellectuel produit par une cause physique!"

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James

"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Looking at the horologe my lord had given me, I saw that it lacked yet two hours of the time when we should be aboard.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine