horologe
Example Sentences
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For a soul in torment there is no horologe.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.
From Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
Therewith she gave into my hands No hour-glass running golden sands, Only a horologe forlorn Set against a cross of thorn, And cold and stern the current seemed That through its clouded crystal gleamed.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.
From The Tiger Hunter by Mayne Reid