horologe

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The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

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

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

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

"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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