horologe
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of horologe
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin hōrologium horologium; replacing Middle English orloge < Middle French < Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Many a one is now pushing forward the hand on the horologe of time and hastening nothing thereby but the hour of his own execution.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
They are only to be checked, then, because, if entirely unrestrained, they would finally run into utter selfishness and human demonism, which, as before hinted, are not by any means justified by the horologe.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— Forever—never!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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
"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
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