Time's wingéd chariot

1. A phrase from the seventeenth-century English poem “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell. It appears in these lines: “But at my back I always hear / Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near.”

Example Sentences

When Pynchon’s jacket summary of this tale of two cities first surfaced six months ago, cynics could be forgiven for wondering whether an 88-year-old man, hearing time’s winged chariot idling at the curb, hadn’t just taken two half-completed works in progress and spot-welded them together.

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But in my heart I always know Time’s wingèd chariot moves too slow; And yonder all before us lie, Valleys of vast uncannity.

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How could you set out a picnic while time’s winged chariot was bearing down on you?

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Nor were her characters deaf to the rumble of time’s winged chariot: Anne Elliot’s vain father, Sir Walter, entertains a theatrical horror of aging.

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There’s a clear sense that Earth itself can hear “Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”

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