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 Alfred Perceval Graves
The horologe of Time Strikes the half-century with a solemn chime, And summons us together once again, The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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
