horologe
Example Sentences
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The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.
From The Tiger Hunter by Mayne Reid
By the light of the stained-glass windows the famous astronomical clock in the south transept can be descried, still containing some fragments of the horologe constructed by the mathematician Conrad Dasypodius in 1574.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
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
"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
