horologe
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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
For a soul in torment there is no horologe.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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
The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.
From Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
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 Lewis Spence
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