horologe
Example Sentences
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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
This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers."
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester
For a soul in torment there is no horologe.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
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 Tynan, Katharine
Silent hours In ghostly pantomime on tip-toe tripped The stately minuet of the passing years, Until the horologe of Time struck One.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
