horologe

Example Sentences

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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

For a soul in torment there is no horologe.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Looking at the horologe my lord had given me, I saw that it lacked yet two hours of the time when we should be aboard.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine

But these were mere Cassandra-voices—the horologe of time was striking for Rome’s successor, as it did for Rome herself.

From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.