horologe
Example Sentences
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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
The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.
From Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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
There was a time when the clock on the London Houses of Parliament was the last word in the art—a veritable triumph of the horologe.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
