horologe
Example Sentences
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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
"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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 Charles E. Derbyshire
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
This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers."
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
