horologe
Example Sentences
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"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
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
Looking at the horologe my lord had given me, I saw that it lacked yet two hours of the time when we should be aboard.
From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan
"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
