horologe
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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 James Buchanan
A thousand years are but as one tick of the mighty horologe of time—and the allotted life of man but three score years and ten!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
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
"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
Yet does the horologe itself teach, that all liabilities to these things should be checked as much as possible, though it is certain they can never be utterly eradicated.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
