horologe
Example Sentences
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Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
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)
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 Spence, Lewis
The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
