pendule
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Well, according to rule, she came in, found fault with the clock, but took care not to have it altered to match her gimcrack French affair in her bedroom, which she always called her pendule.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn
Besides, a pendule, weighing 85 ℔s., and 40 ft. in length, was attached, which could, telescope-like, be drawn up when necessary.
From Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences by Wm. G. Krueger
A pendule on the mantel-piece struck nine o'clock.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
On the stone mantelpiece, painted gray marble, there were, for ornaments, two pots of common flowers, covered in with green moss; a small case of boxwood contained a silver watch instead of a pendule.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Her blood throbbed quicker than the beat of the golden pendule on the marble table; but, like a bird, the good impulse again escaped her grasp.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
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