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Before there were hour-glasses and clepsydras, most phenomena could be estimated as to their durations and intervals, with no greater precision than degrees of hardness can be estimated by the fingers.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

During his residence at Toledo he constructed two clepsydras, the waters of which decreased and increased according to the waning and growing of the moon, and these two basins were destroyed only in A.D.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.

The flight of time in New England houses was marked without doors by sun-dials; within, by noon-marks, hour-glasses, and rarely by clepsydras, or water-clocks.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

It seems probable that some of these water clocks could have been simple drip clepsydras, with perhaps a striking arrangement added.

From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla)

"As near accuracy," I said, "as any clepsydras ever made."

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas