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

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 Tynan, Katharine

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 Graves, Alfred Perceval

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

"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil