horologe

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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 Graves, Alfred Perceval

For a soul in torment there is no horologe.

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

The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

Yet does the horologe itself teach, that all liabilities to these things should be checked as much as possible, though it is certain they can never be utterly eradicated.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval