horologe

Example Sentences

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One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.

From Poems by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)

With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

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 Richardson, David Lester