hour
noun
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes.
hourless
-
a word derived from
hour.
Example Sentences
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A pleasant light, both dusky and hourless, filters through stained-glass windows.
From Economist ● Dec. 20, 2016
An hourless clock, a leafless wreath, A bed sans sheet, a board sans meat, A bell sans tongue, a saw sans teeth To make his nothingness complete.
From Time Magazine Archive
In vain, together, separately, we sought to break that silence which divides the mortal moment from hourless time.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
Fern-deep I fall, lose sight and song, The slim palms close above my head, And Life, the Shadow, weaves The charm on sleepers laid Till Time's spent ghost comes not nor grieves An hourless Gilead.
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan
New York, always the cleanest and least smoky of cities, lay asleep in a queer, pearly, hourless light.
From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke
