horologe
Example Sentences
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In truth it had occupied some five minutes, as I discovered, holding my horologe to the moon, and had not occupied so long if it were not for my groping and pausing.
From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan
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
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
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
"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
