horologe
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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
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
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
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