horologe

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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

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

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

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