horologe

Example Sentences

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Many a one is now pushing forward the hand on the horologe of time and hastening nothing thereby but the hour of his own execution.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

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