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

A thousand years are but as one tick of the mighty horologe of time—and the allotted life of man but three score years and ten!

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

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 Spence, Lewis

Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

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 Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)