horologe

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Linn�us, classification of, 282; horologe of, 381-382; discovery of daughter of, 431 et seq.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

It might be amusing, were it not melancholy, to refer to one of his proofs of this position: "Une horologe mesure le temps; certes, c'est là un effet intellectuel produit par une cause physique!"

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

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