horologe
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A thousand years are but as one tick of the mighty horologe of time—and the allotted life of man but three score years and ten!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
Therewith she gave into my hands No hour-glass running golden sands, Only a horologe forlorn Set against a cross of thorn, And cold and stern the current seemed That through its clouded crystal gleamed.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Yet does the horologe itself teach, that all liabilities to these things should be checked as much as possible, though it is certain they can never be utterly eradicated.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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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