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
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
Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
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
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
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