horologe
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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
For a soul in torment there is no horologe.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
They are only to be checked, then, because, if entirely unrestrained, they would finally run into utter selfishness and human demonism, which, as before hinted, are not by any means justified by the horologe.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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