horologe

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

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

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

"My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

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