horologe
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The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.
From Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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 Katharine Tynan
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 Katharine Tynan
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