horologe

Example Sentences

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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 Melville, Herman

There was a time when the clock on the London Houses of Parliament was the last word in the art—a veritable triumph of the horologe.

From Christopher and the Clockmakers by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)

Silent hours In ghostly pantomime on tip-toe tripped The stately minuet of the passing years, Until the horologe of Time struck One.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

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

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 Tynan, Katharine