horologe

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

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.

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

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

"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

Yet does the horologe itself teach, that all liabilities to these things should be checked as much as possible, though it is certain they can never be utterly eradicated.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman