horologe

Example Sentences

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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 Graves, Alfred Perceval

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

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

The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

They are only to be checked, then, because, if entirely unrestrained, they would finally run into utter selfishness and human demonism, which, as before hinted, are not by any means justified by the horologe.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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