horologe

Example Sentences

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The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.

From Poems by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)

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

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)

Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one.

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

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