| 单词 | sundial |
| 例句 | "I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “And it’s somewhere around three o’clock in the afternoon according to my sundial.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Werner’s favorite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Later, after we finished reading about how ancient Sumerians built sundials, Jack whispered: “Do you ever want to beat those kids up?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z "We got a lot of sticks. We could have a sundial each. Then we should know what the time was." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “You have to see fresh patterns in the stars. Patterns, Saturns, Saturday, Sunday, sundial. It’s all about measuring the passing day. Do you get it?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In a video for The Charlotte Observer, Tom Moore, a friend of Mr. McLemore’s who was featured on the podcast, showed off an intricate sundial Mr. McLemore had made. Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Attenborough chuckles but does not dwell on the remark, instead commenting on a nearby sundial positioned in the shade of a tree, rendering it useless. Light-hearted Queen Elizabeth jokes in her garden in new TV show 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z What good is a sundial that sits in a shade? Leonard Nimoy's music blurred line between man and Vulcan 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The museum begins with them as well, mounting models of some of the sun-oriented stones of Stonehenge, displaying sundials, explaining astrolabes. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z Display cases resembling old portholes and stacked chests revealed the accouterments of old-time shipboard journeys, from “hardtack” sailor biscuits to sextants and sundials. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z For 28 years the Latvian immigrant toiled to create towers, giant rocking chairs, stunningly accurate sundials and even a nine-ton revolving gate--all of which he claimed to have made himself. Great American Castles 2010-12-10T17:45:00Z The covers can also conceal clocks, sundials, first aid supplies, inkwells, sewing kits, food, cigarettes, microscopes, cameras, toys, office supplies, recipes, cosmetics, mirrors, jewels, lingerie, collars, musical instruments, radios, tape recorders and keys. Collecting Books That Are Just Covers 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. McLemore’s passion for sundials and timepieces, and his staggering talent in building and repairing them, was central to the story. Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The bay is small, perhaps 150 by 50 feet, sheltered on three sides by small but steep cliffs, with a central group of tall palm trees throwing shade that circles the beach like a sundial. Off the beaten track in Barbados: readers’ tips 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The largest of the group by far, “Point of Infinity,” is also a sundial in a sense, though without hour markings. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z At American Primitive is a limestone sundial elevated on a Janus head with faces pointing in opposite directions, which in turn is supported by four equine-hoofed legs that converge at the neck. Art Review: A Smorgasbord of Fine Art, the Strange and the Old 2011-01-20T23:18:38Z Some of the art is purely decorative: enormous roses, intricate sundials, abstracts and landscapes. Hubcaps as canvas: Artists turn junk into jewels 2011-06-01T12:01:05Z There are droll shots of sundials in period movies. Christian Marclay's The Clock: a masterpiece of our times 2011-04-07T12:05:43Z The island was built in the early 1920s to look as artificial as possible, a circle with the obelisk at its center, appearing in early pictures like a sundial in the middle of the bay. Once on This Island, a D.I.Y. Art Show 2010-12-05T22:54:00Z “There was a time when it was an important complication because you set your clock by the sundial,” said Jack Forster, editor-in-chief of Revolution USA, a specialty watch magazine. Special Report: Watches: Complications Turn Perpetual 2010-03-17T20:20:00Z He cracked the eggs in, spacing them apart as if on a sundial, and cheered when they didn’t spread. These Poached Eggs Aren’t Picture-Perfect. That’s What Makes Them Beautiful. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z A gnomon is the perpendicular part of a sundial, the part that casts a shadow. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Facing the cathedral is the university’s oldest surviving building, the Gustavianum, with a bulbous dome that doubles as a sundial. Sweden’s Uppsala is happy center of learning and ancient culture 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He has shepherded sheep around this flagpole, to the sound of church bells; he has filmed the city's itinerant workers queuing in its shadow, as it sweeps like a sundial through the long day. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z Like Stonehenge in southern England, Arctic Henge acts as a kind of huge sundial, capturing sunlight and casting shadows. From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essay 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z This includes clocks of the wall, mantel, grandfather and bedside-table variety; clocks on steeples, towers, dashboards and bombs; and clocks in train stations, shop windows and spaceships as well as the occasional hourglass and sundial. Art Review: As in Life, Timing Is Everything in the Movies 2011-02-03T21:43:44Z It's possible there's a sundial somewhere in England bearing a fragment of Quarles's text. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z Past a sundial that reminds visitors to “count only sunny hours” is a bust of Shakespeare that watches over the space. Finding peace in San Francisco’s storied Golden Gate Park 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The pelican perches on an armillary sphere — a model of the cosmos as it was understood in 1581 — which in turn sits on a complex pillar sundial etched with mathematical, astronomical and magical symbols. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead, while everyone else dined on the night flight to Singapore, I sat in the dark, and, after we arrived, rotated like a sundial around a south-facing office window. The Travel Industry’s New Fix for Jet Lag 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Crumpled pipes show where Untermyer’s gardeners planted what The New Yorker in 1940 called the “only living sundial in the world”: a clock face with Roman numerals, all made from flowers. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z The pole serves as a gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time. Reattaching the bowl of a cast-iron birdbath 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The staircase curved around the outer edge of a circular slab that rotated, like a sundial. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z If it’s true that the muse says, as Sir Philip Sidney had it, “Look in thy heart and write,” she has also been known to glance at her sundial and say, “Get to the point.” Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z A long, overhead shot of a green lawn flanked by two parallel rows of teardrop-shaped bushes, a stretch of water at the top of the shot and a large sundial centered at the bottom. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z They riff on the ancient Greek advancements of the sundial, making natural light part of their deal, allowing their surfaces to shift and dance as a viewer moves around them. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z And as we explored the ruins — an old sundial, a church — I inhaled a sweet scent that one of my travel companions identified as honeysuckle. Imprint: On Turkey?s Datca Peninsula 2010-08-13T21:34:00Z The history of clocks, of course, starts with ancient sundials, then moves to the first mechanical clock in the year 723. The weird histories of four common household items 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z An original painting by Timmy Mallet of a garden scene with a sundial suffered damage to the frame, while a signed print by the artist was damaged beyond repair. Mallet art damaged in gallery theft 2014-03-17T16:43:29Z Because of Einstein’s thick accent, the shop owner heard “sundials.” Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Cross the orbit of 6446 Lomberg, the asteroid named in honor of his contributions to science, and sail by Mars, where the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers bear sundials he helped design. This space artist changed the way we see the universe 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z He kept track of time through a sundial during the day and stars at night, though he says he was given a watch near the end of his detention. ‘It was hell’: Hostage freed after years in Africa recounts ordeal and frustrations with US response 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The ancient Egyptians invented the first water clocks and sundials more than 3,500 years ago. Who Invented the Measurement of Time? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The skylight windows of the warehouse space create a sundial out of the exhibition during the day. The MOCA gala catches its light by embracing club culture with DJ Carl Craig 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The club's badge is predominantly occupied by a sundial signifying a 'new dawn'. 'We can't stop watching' - Arsenal's reluctant rebel fans 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It began at the sundial in the city centre at 13:00 GMT and proceeded to The Lighthouse, the location of the first vigil held for the teenager. March held in Plymouth for murdered Bobbi-Anne McLeod 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z This is the kind of time indicated by sundials, and it probably represents the earliest measure of time used by ancient civilizations. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The oldest sundial on record came from Egypt and was made around 1500 B.C.E. Who Invented the Measurement of Time? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It also serves as a sundial and astronomical calendar. Georgia monument that some called satanic damaged by bomb 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The stage was minimally furnished with a large drum on its side holding a stairway to heaven, the two together creating a sundial. “I watched you grow up and you watched me grow up:” Lorde shows growth, no shushing at Seattle show 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Aside from this discovery, the first precision-geared mechanism known is a relatively simple—yet impressive for the time—geared sundial and calendar of Byzantine origin dating to about C.E. An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial. Perspective | Why do clocks have IIII for 4 o’clock rather than the Roman numeral IV? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Other early sundials measured time by the length of a stick’s shadow as the sun moved across the sky rather than by the movement of the shadow across the base, Gautschy says. Who Invented the Measurement of Time? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “We used to call that thing ‘the sundial,’ ” she says. Questions light up a childlike look at the Van Asselt flambeau in South Seattle 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Time seems to be charted not in hours and minutes, but in bands of golden light, falling on the interior like on a sundial. Perspective | A lot of museums reopened this year. But I was waiting for the Hirshhorn. Here’s why. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z By the same token, our current designer proteins, as exciting as they are, are just sundials and wagon wheels. Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z As he left with bags of merch, he stepped on a flat sundial shape about the size of a manhole on the sidewalk, not realizing he was treading on Eastlos royalty. Column: The sad fate of East L.A.'s forgotten Walk of Fame 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The sundial employs the viewer’s shadow to tell time and is its own work of art in concrete, ceramic, shells and bronze. This popular Seattle landmark grew from polluted dirt 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The trail further thickened with two Notre Dame timeouts and one officiating review, making the whole thing seem measurable by sundial. Alabama advances to the national title game with an artful offensive performance 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The Golden Jubilee of 2002 saw a sundial installed in Westminster's Old Palace Yard, while the 1977 Silver Jubilee resulted in a fountain being built in nearby New Palace Yard. Platinum Jubilee: MPs and peers search for gift fit for the Queen 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z We finished at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital, winding through a warren of old buildings and passing a stone sundial dated 1902. 57 cool walks in L.A. that get you 10,000 steps 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The singer beamed in front of his sundial alongside business owners and politicos. Column: The sad fate of East L.A.'s forgotten Walk of Fame 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z A simple circle, it is the direct descendant of the sundial, connecting us to the mysteries of our forebears and their weird scientific achievements, to a time when the sky told humans how to live. How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z This year, Tilden joined them, climbing a ladder to clean the top of the sundial. The apology: 20 years later, Alaska Airlines CEO delivers soothing words for families of those lost on Flight 261 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z It will be held on the beach that overlooks the crash site, where a monument featuring a bronze sundial and dolphins —designed by Santa Barbara artist Bud Bottoms — was placed in 2003. ‘Time stopped for all of us’: 20 years after Alaska Flight 261 crash, families plan memorial at Sea-Tac 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Their discoveries serve as entry points into the history of the river and its environs: scenes from long ago emerge from Roman castration clamps, medieval brooches, and sixteenth-century ivory sundials. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z At noon, with the sun blazing directly above, the cubes are intensely animated, each a shimmering box-within-a-box casting dramatic shadows that change shapes and positions throughout the day, like a sundial. What are those glowing red cubes outside MOCA? Meet Larry Bell's latest work 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The design involves a sundial memorial , allowing the sun to enter and mark precise points on the grounds and shine on various monuments. Updated Dyess Memorial Park opens in Texas, honors military 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The findings presented in this dataset seem to support this interpretation, when, for example, pictures that show clear shadows on a brightly-lit surface are misidentified as sundials. If you can identify what’s in these images, you’re smarter than AI 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Three pathways carved into the ground and flanked by stones lead to a sundial that opens up to the sky and to great views of Puget Sound. West Seattle’s Solstice Park offers a quiet, contemplative spot for gazing at the heavens 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z It contains instruments of astronomy, navigation and mathematics - as well as globes, sundials and telescopes dating from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. Museum housing Darwin's microscope reopens 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Last spring, students held a protest on the campus sundial. Students in Rural America Ask, ‘What Is a University Without a History Major?’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z “I got a book here about the history of sundials,” Perlman said. Nicole Perlman Harnesses Her Superpowers 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And the pace at which he prefers to play, measured with a stop watch rather than a sundial, was not remotely attainable. George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018: Golf loses one of its greatest advocates - Golf Digest 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Last week, I took the train to Clumber Park, in Nottinghamshire, where the shape of a vanished mansion—complete with internal corridors and a sundial in the garden—reappeared in July. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z At this moment, the work depicts an aerial view of the power plant, concentric circles of tile-like mirrors with a tower at its center that, all together, resembles an ancient, slate-gray sundial of sorts. LACMA debuts its 'Solar Reserve,' a digital sculpture addressing energy conservation 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z On the back of the headstone is a rendering of a sundial with a phrase McLemore once said on the podcast: “Life is tedious and brief.” S-Town’ podcast impact still felt in Woodstock, 1 year later 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The private garden is registered with the Smithsonian and includes a sundial. $26.75 million Medina mansion is priciest local home sale ever, and it could be a teardown 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The result showed a snippet explaining a sundial, which is actually a match for “how did Romans tell time?” but is still related to the initial query. Google is testing new features to improve its snippets function after inaccurate and offensive results 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z These are the days of a thousand sundials. ‘It’s so still’: A winter solstice filled with peace at the National Arboretum 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The sundial, carved from limestone, features a concave face with 11 hour lines intersected with three curves indicating the season with respect to summer and winter solstices and the equinox. Ancient Sundial Find Celebrated Roman Election Win 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z For instance, Grant County operated entirely by a system of sundials and groundhogs; in Pulaski County it was just 7:45 p.m. all the time. 5 reasons we’ve got to set our clocks back another damn year - Golf Digest 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z One had a sundial over the door, a Latin inscription and a date: 1709. From rust belt to mill towns: a tale of two voter revolts | Thomas Frank 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “Oh, sure, you have a sundial out there.” Danny McBride’s Horror Show 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He used his sundial compass to find his way into what would become Rhode Island to establish the colony of Providence, where he set the stage for religious freedom law in America. Smithsonian project reveals religious backstory to ordinary items of early American life 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z See the ancient ham-shaped sundial that was a Roman pocket watch. Ancient Sundial Find Celebrated Roman Election Win 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z His zeal to mark our place in the universe long ago manifested itself in a fascination with sundials. Seattle astronomer Woodruff Sullivan searches for life in the stars 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It was stamped on coins, engraved on tombs and inscribed on sundials, jewelry and synagogue furnishings. Why Does the Hanukkah Menorah Have Nine Branches? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The time on your wristwatch is not the same as solar time on a sundial. New York Today: Remembering Pearl Harbor 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It began where a spoked handwheel, rusted red, had been pressed into the dirt as if it were a sundial, a clock, stopped. The Film J. D. Salinger Nearly Made 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Originally, the sundial was likely placed in a prominent spot in the town's forum, yet archaeologists found it near an entrance to the nearby theater. Ancient Sundial Find Celebrated Roman Election Win 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z How did he capture so many disparate elements swirling around the university’s iconic sundial with such clarity? An image that captured the scene and the feel of Yardfest 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z In a Roman mosaic from antiquity, a man on a street studies the sundial atop a tall column. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The memorial is made of limestone, granite and marble, includes a sundial and is built in the High Victorian style. 6 Sites Recognized by Britain for Significance to Gay History 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why he looks as lumbering as Frankenstein with a throwing motion long enough to be timed with a sundial. NFL Week 6 Predictions: Steelers, Cardinals, Texans All Fall Short of Covering 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Rio residents can often be spotted with their beach chairs moving like sundials, slowly rotating throughout the day to catch direct rays. Tourists really don’t know how to fit in at Rio’s famous beaches 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z “I was thinking of it as a sundial,” Ms. Halvorson said, “a place to measure time as well as height.” At Storm King, a Landscape of Stars, Rulers and Pipes 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z A small sundial found in the tomb of a Roman physician suggested that it was more than a prestige object. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z An elaborate steel minaret abuts a facade still decorated with the sundial that French Protestants installed in the 18th century. What Brexit might mean for Europe’s most cosmopolitan city 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z And I only use it when I can’t see the sundial. Just call me The Court Jester of Dud Suds 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Among the weird and wonderful designs are telescopes with mirrors made from polished rock, inflatable telescopes and ornamental telescopes that double as sundials. Seeing farther 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Military experts say the cloud and its dark shadow can be seen as a kind of sundial that suggests when an American plane took the photograph. The Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud That Wasn’t 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z A bronze sundial in the center of one gallery is marked for use in 30 localities at latitudes ranging from Egypt to Britain. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The yard was always full of half-built boats, sundials, and meteorological equipment. The Astonishing Rise of Jeremy Corbyn 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Lin's piece at Penn Station, called Eclipsed Time, is embedded in the ceiling near the 7th Avenue exit, and has the appearance of a downward-facing clock mashed up with a sundial. Inside America's worst train station 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Aside from a handful of touchscreen displays intended for lost tourists, and a limited train arrival countdown system that's about as modern as a sundial, the subway is decidedly stuck in the past. The New York City subway is stuck in the past, but can glimpse the future 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The engraved bricks will enhance a walkway leading to the sundial area. Golf classic event to benefit LSSC athletics 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The exhibition features more than 100 objects on loan from international collections, including a dozen or so sundials. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Each is fitted with a photometric calibration target, a small sundial that serves as a test pattern for their cameras. Bill Nye to Grads: Change the World 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Dot your i’s and cross your t’s digitally: Faxing is the digital equivalent of a sundial in 2015 — while it works, there are a lot of easier ways to send a document. Here's How To Go Completely Paperless This Year 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z It called for an amusement park with sundials, sandglasses and other antiquated time-telling devices, the Beijing News reported. Beijing's old backstreets are right up too many tourists' alley 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z He explains in his work how for centuries the time was linked directly to the sun's passage across the sky, the time standard being called "local solar time", as indicated on a sundial. Why do mornings get darker after 21 December? 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z A few centuries later, portable sundials were introduced. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z One might argue that the new Driver Destination program takes things back to the sundial era, but with a most modern twist. Lyft, Uber Both Move To Put The Sharing Back In 'Ridesharing' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The pacemakers involved are as different as stopwatches and sundials. Biological Clocks Operate on Many Scales 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z A sundial, dating from the 1740s, is mounted high on the wall. Strolling Along East London's Fournier Street 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Wherever you were, high noon was high noon, and on a clear day a quick glance up into the sky or down at a sundial told you everything you needed to know. The element that redefined time 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Six of these small sundials are displayed in the exhibition. A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The community sculpture in the courtyard of the Pass Christian Library is a sundial - not an intentionally accurate “clock,” but representational. Community art project tells Pass Christian’s story 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z A catalog from the 1920s offered a sundial called the Priory, described as based on an original from 1679 found on the “south buttress of Bolton Abbey” in Yorkshire. The Quirky Retail History of New York’s East 57th Street 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Others, like “Ingenious Devices,” showcasing sundials, astrolabes and other instruments, and “the Geometry of Light,” exhibiting geometric mosaics, textiles and other objects, focus on scientific developments related to light or enlightenment. Museums Special Section: Shedding a Light on Islamic Art’s Great Treasure 2014-03-19T20:38:07Z The first sundials were simply stakes placed in the ground that indicated time by the length and direction of the resulting shadow. Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, but only 24 hours in day? 2014-01-19T16:00:00Z “I thought it was important to sample the local genetic diversity,” he said, bending over a handful of sundial lupines that were surviving in a patch of sunlight. In the Garden: Native Flora Garden Opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2013-06-12T22:57:31Z “It was never intended to really be a true sundial, but the theme is time. The thing is based on time,” said Pass Christian artist Marie Lamb, the lead designer. Community art project tells Pass Christian’s story 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z He says the master carpenter's chest, for example, contained three plates, a tankard, a sundial, a book and even a backgammon set - indicating "quite a wealthy person". The Mary Rose crew members revealed 2013-05-30T00:14:44Z That is, we would never notice it if we all just used sundials. Elliptical Answers to Why Winter Mornings Are So Long 2013-01-14T23:11:26Z Without the aid of sundials, dividing the dark interval between sunset and sunrise was more complex than dividing the sunlit period. Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, but only 24 hours in day? 2014-01-19T16:00:00Z In 2005, a large Moore work was taken from the foundation in Hertfordshire, while a sundial by the artist was removed from the same location this July. Council to sell Moore sculpture 2012-10-05T13:52:34Z But it’s one thing to turn back the clock, and it’s a whole another thing to buy a case of sundials on eBay. NHL owners trying to turn back the clock 2012-09-16T23:20:06Z The remains of this pre-Norman monastery include three concentric stone walls, a ruined church, the foundations of several other buildings and even a sundial. In pictures: Hidden churches 2012-08-26T02:08:54Z Well before the 12:30 start time here, the grounds were packed, hundreds of fans lining up around the Wind in the Willows-themed water jump and around the sundial. Equestrian Events Garner Attention at the London Games 2012-07-31T03:00:06Z Thanks to documented evidence of the Egyptians’ use of sundials, most historians credit them with being the first civilization to divide the day into smaller parts. Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, but only 24 hours in day? 2014-01-19T16:00:00Z They will trot past a badger brandishing a candle, a bandstand and sundials. Olympic Equestrian Course Features Tower of London, Mr. Badger and More 2012-07-29T21:27:53Z The sundial sculpture, valued at up to £500,000, and the plinth were taken from the grounds of the foundation museum in Much Hadham. Two charged with sculpture theft 2012-07-22T17:01:42Z Just above the surfing beach at Perranporth, there's a monument to the slightly untethered reality you find in Kernow: a massive stone sundial celebrating a 12-minute deviation from Greenwich Mean Time. Free Cornwall! 2012-06-23T23:08:01Z In the garden I have studied the sundial on sunny and cloudy days. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The next-generation sundial likely formed the first representation of what we now call the hour. Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, but only 24 hours in day? 2014-01-19T16:00:00Z The Rockies don’t use a radar gun when Moyer pitches, they use a sundial. Junkman Jamie Moyer back on the baseball diamond at age 49 2012-04-08T21:37:49Z A sundial, which he constructed on the wall of the house at Woolsthorpe, is still shown. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z She proposed making it larger and adding a human sundial, through which a person’s shadow will tell time from cities across the world. For Some New Yorkers, a Grand Experiment in Participatory Budgeting 2012-03-30T16:22:46Z Sir Anthony rejoined, as he rested one hand on the sundial. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z During the era when sundials were first used, however, Egyptian astronomers also first observed a set of 36 stars that divided the circle of the heavens into equal parts. Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, but only 24 hours in day? 2014-01-19T16:00:00Z They paused to inspect the sundial, a giant Butterfly with closed wings, a replica of the stone monster in the Yew Walk. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z A most interesting instrument that has recently come to light is a brass sundial made in Philadelphia in 1764. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z And he took his clothes from the sundial, and began to put them on. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z A hundred times they passed and repassed the old sundial, but it was nothing to them. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Still, he invented a novel sundial, preserved in the British Museum, and a tide-mill for which the Society of Arts awarded him a prize of £50. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z They came by and by to the sundial. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z He eventually established himself at Winchester and built a brass foundry and a shop where he produced clocks, surveying compasses, sundials, apothecary and money scales, surgical instruments, compasses, telescopes, and other items in metal. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z The shadow of the sundial fell between us; the garden was still; here and there a leaf fluttered slowly down, or a seed fell. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Then she stepped outside, and stood on the gravel listening to the murmur of the brook, and looking at the old sundial which gleamed white on the lawn. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Nothing is prettier than a vista through the smooth-shaven green alley, with a statue or sundial or pavilion at the end; or an archway framing a peep of the country beyond. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z I will say that my watch is stopped, and I will send you to see the time by the sundial in the court.' Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z How appropriate, then, that the newest rover, Curiosity, should carry a sundial with sentiments and illustrations worthy of classic children’s literature. Storybook Wishes for Martian Rovers 2012-01-17T17:15:14.523Z Mademoiselle grasped the sundial and leant against it, her face colourless, and, for an instant, I thought that she was fainting. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Having decided in favour of one of these royal ladies, he endowed her with a sundial, as a sign of supremacy, as he thought she could well assert herself by “setting the time of day.” Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Or, should there be no wide main walk, and the garden-plot be treated as one composition, the central bed will have a statue, sundial, fountain, or other architectural feature. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The Temple of the Earth, for instance, which is also very extensive, has some very fine buildings, a delightful old sundial, and an emblematic well. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Among the messages and illustrations on the sundial is the name “Mars” written in 16 different languages, including ancient Sumerian and Inuktitut, around the edges. Storybook Wishes for Martian Rovers 2012-01-17T17:15:14.523Z The captain had removed his doublet, and stood in his shirt leaning against the sundial, his head bare and his sinewy throat uncovered. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It also increased the demand for portable sundials by which watches could be set to time. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z But sunny hours alone the sundial names; All unrecorded are the midnight spans And vain within the dusk the watcher scans The marble face; thereon no record flames. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z If we were called upon to name the one invention that stands between savagery and the growth of civilization we might fairly choose the timepiece of sundial. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z A few miles from Canterbury, in Chilham churchyard, stands a beautiful sundial, the graceful stone pedstal of which was designed by the famous Inigo Jones. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z A convolvulus had climbed to the sundial, wrapping it round and round, and had laid its bold white trumpet flowers on the leaded disk itself. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The need to gauge the divisions of the day and night led the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to create sundials, clocks and other early chronometric tools. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z With fingers softer than the touch of death The sundial writes the passing of the day, The hours unfolding slow to twilight gray, The gleaming moments vanish in a breath. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Proclus speaks of such a line as a gnomon, a common name for the perpendicular on a sundial, which casts the shadow by which the time of day is known. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z On the extreme left behind Hermes is a sundial, to which his hand is pointing. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Fashioned like a tiny wall sundial, across its face was written in faded gold letters, "I only mark the sunny hours." Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Ingenious inventors devised sundials, which indicate time by the length or direction of the sun’s shadow, to track temporal hours during the day. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z And where the aged, moss-grown sundial lies, The peacock pert unfolds his wheel-rim tail, Showing a hundred jewelled Argus eyes: With harsh, shrill cry he bids the day "All hail." The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z You make the sundial, and he’ll wave the handkerchief at four o’clock.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z When runners are on base, umpires must use common sense — and perhaps a sundial — to determine how much time between pitches is too much. Tv Sports: When Hardball Becomes a Slow-Pitch Game 2011-08-10T00:54:16Z Sometimes they serve for boundary stones, and are yearly beaten; occasionally they support a sundial; not seldom the Ordnance Surveyors have outraged them with bench marks. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z The sundial’s nocturnal counterpart, the water clock, was designed to measure temporal hours at night. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z Liz had characteristically pulled one of the little stools called "banquettes" from under the sundial, and had seated herself between my father's knees. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Soon after he had sat down again he wondered what the time was, and recollected the sundial. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The sundial indicated four o'clock in the afternoon; the Duke had had the horses saddled and the outriders had already started. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z There is a curious sundial actually in the church; oddly placed on a stone foundation on the splayed sill of the south-east window. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z They were talking very earnestly, and they passed by the side of the sundial where Jessie had stood not so many nights before waiting for the signal to come. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z Some have the addition of a sundial or compass at the top; they may also be formed for a watch-stand. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Also made were nautical instruments, quadrants, sundials, sectors, globes, scales, model solar systems, and air pumps. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z The veiled sunlight threw but a faint shadow on the sundial, pointing to the Roman VII. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Dialling, the art, of making sundials; also the art and practice of mine-surveying, in which the theodolite and magnetic needle are employed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z He hastened into the garden, and up to the sundial, but he found no comfort there. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:41.313Z A certain magazine once paid $100 for four prints of sundials. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z Albano punished himself with several days of voluntary absence, till the unclean clouds should have cleared away from within him which had overshadowed the gnomon of the sundial of his inner man. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Inside that park is a very fine old house, and inside the house is a very fine old sundial. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The foliage drooped motionless in the heavy air and the shadows it cast lengthened along the dusty ground as steadily as the streak on a sundial. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z Lady Lilias, coming to the sundial, leans her arm upon it, and puts her head in the right position. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z There is the later Temple of the Winds, as it is called—a sort of public clock, with sundials and fine reliefs of the Wind-gods on its outward surfaces, and arrangements for a water-clock within. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z When he was eleven or twelve years old he taught himself, having no teacher to aid him, the principles of the sundial, so that he could make dials for any latitude. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Then he checked his wristwatch, big and gleaming as a sundial. WashPost: Wall faces fame, pressure as No. 1 pick 2010-06-25T04:40:00Z Through the air above us, like gnomons of a vast sundial, the Aiguilles cast their fanlike shadows, which moved round as the day advanced. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Sometimes she stands beside a sundial, with her head to one side, and a carefully educated and very much superannuated peacock beside her. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Before me stretched the 250 feet of ploughed slope which was to be my sundial lawn. The Idyl of Twin Fires It lay upon her soul like the shadow on the sundial, and time was measured by it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Jasper, leaning a fat elbow upon the stone sundial, went on. The Princess Galva A Romance The iron spire of the one still towers aloft in the air; the other spire is bent: like the hands on a sundial it shows the time—the time that is gone. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 A sundial, old and green with honorable age, uprears itself upon a chilly bit of sward. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z It’s as perfect in its way as–as your sundial! The Idyl of Twin Fires On the sundial lay a rosary of dark beads—Sophia could see its steel cross glitter in the evening light. Beggars on Horseback And here, with a prodigious flutter of her print gown, my lady seated herself on rustic bench beside the sundial. Our Admirable Betty A Romance "Let us go and be lazy on that seat by the sundial in the rose garden," she said, with a smile of invitation. A Traitor's Wooing There is a brick terrace on the hillside, with an ornamental sundial, where one may enjoy the rich champaign below. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway This was a new one on me, but I kept silent, while she led us around the house, and lifted the plank which led up from the sundial lawn to the south door. The Idyl of Twin Fires Daily differences in time as recorded by sundials and clocks became more noticeable. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 And behind his thoughts was a line from the posy on the sundial: "Youth is joyous, Age is melancholy:" The Major sighed. Our Admirable Betty A Romance A lady in a pink dress was sitting on the step at the other side of the sundial. Man and Maid But she was no sundial marking only the bright hours; life had to go on when twilight came and night fell. Carnival The ghost of Rome in roses is marching across the lawn beyond the white sundial, and there are arches in perspective now beneath the level superstructure. The Idyl of Twin Fires Finally, in the second half of the 17th century, some attempt was made to construct mechanical clocks combined with sundials as well as astronomical clocks. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 And rising she turned away and leaned round elbows on the sundial. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Graceful explanations are not best given by one sprawling on his stomach across a sundial. Man and Maid Lines 10 and 11 have been used, both in England and in France, as a motto on the face of sundials. The Bible Story I had unexpectedly found a pedestal, and was experiencing for the first time the real sensation of garden warmth and intimacy and focussed light which a sundial, rightly placed, can bring. The Idyl of Twin Fires Equation sundials were also developed which were elaborately ingenious, but they were not completely practical. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 He had loved June passionately, but the beautiful body he'd held in his arms lay under that sundial by the riverside. The Brightener Her eyes dwelt on my right hand, which lay on the sundial. Man and Maid In the factor's garden is an old sundial which adds the needed touch of romance to the place; also, it connotes a fine leisureliness. Seeds of Pine Yes, I think they’d be lovely round the sundial, with something tall on the outside, in clumps. The Idyl of Twin Fires Yes, mistress," said a young slave anxiously, "the slave at the sundial has already announced the fourth hour. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 Instead of a gravestone there was a sundial, with the motto "All her days were happy days and all her hours were hours of sun." The Brightener I found the sundial again, and stretched myself along the warm brick of the wide step where she had sat: and called myself a fool. Man and Maid Everything betokened neglect and ruin; even the sundial had fallen across the walk, and lay moss-grown and forgotten; as though to say that Time had no need of a record there. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The post-office appealed to me more than the peas, and I laboured harder over my photographs of the sundial beds than over the beds themselves. The Idyl of Twin Fires On leaving the temple he glanced at the gnomon or sundial, which at that height marked the time for all Rome. Sónnica A rose made him think of quaint gardens and gracious ladies and Edmund Waller and sundials, and a thousand pleasant things that, at one time or another, had befallen him or some one else. Pot-Boilers The sundial stood on a mass of masonry, too low and wide to be called a pillar. Man and Maid In the centre of the open space is a quaintly disposed grass-plot, dotted about with stunted box, and in the centre of that stands a weather-beaten stone sundial. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Removing the papers, I held in my hand an old bronze sundial plate, a round one to fit my column, and upon it, freshly engraved, the ancient motto– My first thought was of its cost. The Idyl of Twin Fires Ancestor of the mechanical clock has been thought by some to be the sundial. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass Some men lazily raked new-cut grass and a peacock preened itself by the sundial. The Gorgeous Girl I spun the coin—it fell on the brick steps of the sundial, and stuck upright there, wedged between two bricks. Man and Maid “There are still a few late chrysanthemums, and you will find blue and white violets in the grass by the sundial.” Olive in Italy Then it whitened the sundial lawn, reminding us to take the wooden dial post in for the winter. The Idyl of Twin Fires The greatest source of doubt arises from the confusion between sundials, water-clocks, hand-struck time bells, and mechanical clocks, all of which are covered by the term horologium and its vernacular equivalents. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass Bernard took a cup from Mrs. Halliday and glancing at the long shadows that stretched across the lawn, indicated a sundial on a pillar. Partners of the Out-Trail Then I thought if I could fix a pole in the middle it ought to cast a shadow, and tell the time like a sundial. The Manor House School She’ll walk five times round the sundial and twice to the gate.” The Madcap of the School “I suppose they are breakfast bells,” said I. “This is no time for bad puns,” she answered, dragging me swiftly down through the orchard, and up again to the sundial. The Idyl of Twin Fires It is the thesis of this part of my argument that the ordinary time-telling clock is no affiliate of the other simple time-telling devices such as sundials, sand glasses and the elementary water clocks. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass "I wonder why they carve such melancholy lines on sundials," somebody remarked. Partners of the Out-Trail A sundial, if any such were in existence, would only indicate the position of the sun, and therefore could give no evidence in the matter. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture I remember a rose-garden with a sundial in the middle of it. A Padre in France The lawn will look like a lawn by then, and possibly I shall have achieved a sundial plate.” The Idyl of Twin Fires Sir William Temple died in 1699, and was buried by his wife's side in Westminster Abbey; all but his heart, and that was laid in a silver box under the sundial in his garden. Highways and Byways in Surrey He moved a few yards away, and then turned round towards her, resting his elbow on the sundial. Once on a Time It has been generally assumed that it was an actual sundial upon which this sign was seen. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture No one has seen her since ten of the sundial. The Doomsman “We want another bench on the sundial lawn,” said I, wisely. The Idyl of Twin Fires Outside, the shingled turret tells the time with, instead of a clock, a fine old sundial. Highways and Byways in Surrey She glided gracefully behind the sundial in a pretty affectation of alarm . . . and the next moment Udo decided that the contest between them was not to be settled by such rough-and-tumble methods as these. Once on a Time But there is no reason to think that the word rendered in our Authorized Version as "dial" was a sundial at all. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower-beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen-garden bed. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life That sundial lawn had now taken possession of my imagination. The Idyl of Twin Fires On the east side of the south doorway is an old stone having a sundial graven on it; now built into masonry which must have come from some other part of the fabric. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter There were no rugs nor carpets of any kind; only clocks and watches, a great number of them, and a few sundials and hour-glasses. The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure For the staircase, wherever constructed, was probably not meant to act as a sundial, and was only so used because it chanced to have some rough suitability for the purpose. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Slowly he swung around to face the window and the gray ship, standing like a Gargantuan sundial counting the last days of Earth. Alien Offer But how shall the trellis be designed, and where shall the sundial be, and where the flower beds?” The Idyl of Twin Fires Then some ingenious creature thought out the sundial whereby the hour could be gauged by a shadow; also marks were made where the sun would strike at a given time—perhaps at noon. Christopher and the Clockmakers While the porter consulted his list, the great college sundial, over the lodge, which had lately been renovated, caught Tom's eye. Tom Brown at Oxford Beside, a sundial is not a portable instrument, and Joshua and his men had something more pressing to do than to loiter round it. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture You have been as true as the sundial itself.' The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing I don’t know whether I got the sundial beds right or not. The Idyl of Twin Fires The sundial at best was none too correct. Christopher and the Clockmakers At the head of the walk was a sundial, and at the further end a fountain. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Clepsydræ or clocks are of later date, and no more than a sundial are they portable. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture In one world were sundials and moonlight and the thrill of a woman's eyes; there was slow music and the ache of unfilled desire ever about to be gratified by some hoped-for miracle. Penguin Persons & Peppermints After dinner she approved the sundial beds with a mock-judicial gravity, and then she went at the trellis, working with a kind of impersonal nervous intensity that troubled me, I didn’t quite know why. The Idyl of Twin Fires Moreover, a sundial, to be of practical value, had to be kept steady. Christopher and the Clockmakers A staff of bookbinders was to clothe the manuscripts in decorous attire; self-supplying lamps were to light nocturnal workers; sundials by day, and water-clocks by night, enabled them to regulate their hours. The Care of Books Before the house, beyond a rose-embowered terrace, a wide lawn, soft as thickest velvet, terminated in two great yews, set far apart, a sundial between them, and backgrounded by the sea and sky. Antony Gray,—Gardener A generation has passed since the Nineties, and there are no stage sundials any more. Penguin Persons & Peppermints You are going to stay here a long time–till these roses bloom, or at any rate till the sundial beds have come to flower. The Idyl of Twin Fires "The sundial was about as much good as a fan would be in Greenland," grinned Christopher. Christopher and the Clockmakers In the middle of the lawn stood a square of clipped yew trees, making a hollow chamber of the kind that formal gardeners call a yew-parlour, with a stone sundial in the middle of it. The Tragic Bride It was just three minutes after the hour, as shown by the sundial, which stood in front of the courthouse, that the sheriff appeared. The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys It has been many years since I have seen a sundial on the stage. Penguin Persons & Peppermints “Gee, but you must fill up those sundial beds, this year,” said she. The Idyl of Twin Fires "You don't for a moment imagine men leaped from sundials to clocks, do you?" interrogated the Scotchman quizzically. Christopher and the Clockmakers A white figure had turned the road by the sundial, and was coming on with the step of a greyhound. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Most likely this sundial told the time when Charles the First was beheaded, and recorded the death-devouring progress of the Great Plague and the Fire of London. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune Do you remember the sundial, exactly at stage centre, in the latter play? Penguin Persons & Peppermints Our next quest was for a sundial plate, but it was a vain search, for not a store in town carried such an article. The Idyl of Twin Fires Easy and far better than the sundial, too, for water would drip either in light or darkness, on cloudy days as well as bright ones. Christopher and the Clockmakers But he gathered no tidings by the way, for Billy by the mill knew nothing, and the woman by the sundial had gone to bed. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 It's a fine big house, and splendid gardens, and a lawn with a sundial, and the tallest trees anywhere about here. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune For, as you may have guessed, the sundial is a symbol. Penguin Persons & Peppermints The grape arbour along the west side of the sundial lawn was also built, of plain chestnut. The Idyl of Twin Fires Instead of telling when, as the sundial did, the clepsydra, by measuring a given interval, told how long, which was a very different thing indeed. Christopher and the Clockmakers They appear to me like the gnomons of enormous sundials," remarked the doctor; "and, indeed, their uses must certainly be astronomical. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner He was just reading the part about the sundial, which he had noticed from the train when we went to Bexley Heath. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune I think as I work of the glory around my sundial in July, I arrange and rearrange the colors in my mind—and presently the job is done. Penguin Persons & Peppermints When the dial and the gnomon were understood, dialling became a popular science, and ere long the sundial on the church tower, in a public place, or in a private garden, told the time. Chats on Household Curios "Then it couldn't have been much better than the old sundial," the lad sniffed, with contempt. Christopher and the Clockmakers Now the rose garden was used as a rubbish heap for tins; and by the over-grown sundial, chipped and scarred by a stray shell, two wooden crosses stuck out of the long rank grass. Mufti She walked with me as far as the sundial, and I left her sitting on the seat while I went to look for you. A harum-scarum schoolgirl At one time a sundial and ball crowned the structure, but these have been replaced by a cross. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Some further references to the sundial will be found in Chapter XVII, the sundial being one of the accompaniments of the old-world garden. Chats on Household Curios We did not, to be sure, revert to water clocks; but our forefathers did not scorn to resort to sundials, sand glasses, and noon marks. Christopher and the Clockmakers May it mark the hours Upon the sundial of her life— in flowers! Happy Days Past the sundial ran the girl, and around to the rear of the house. Janet of the Dunes To him the very mention of stone moss-grown walks, a sundial, roses, and green lawn conjures up a vision of delight. The Book-Hunter at Home A writer in the sixteenth century, describing an English garden of his day, wrote: "Every garden of account hath its fish pond, its maze, and its sundials." Chats on Household Curios There is a motto very commonly engraved upon a sundial, which means that the moments of time are perishing, and are being recorded in God's Book. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles Of all the beautiful scenery round King’s Weston the view from this terrace, and especially from this sundial, is the pleasantest. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Charles amused many hours of leisure by mechanical employments in which he was assisted by one Torriano, who constructed a sundial in the convent-garden. Heroes of Modern Europe "You'll get no hasty signatures to a petition in this city—we remember the sundial!" Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Many fine old fountains or miniature fishponds remain, and sundials are among the curios associated with the outdoor life of the home. Chats on Household Curios At first sight, from the air, it looked like a sundial, a slender tower rising like a gnomen above a circle of low buildings and formal gardens. Space Viking In the jamb of the south door of the Norman wall is a sundial, without which, one might say, no church is completely perfect. Highways and Byways in Sussex Young Gould supported himself by odd jobs at surveying, paying his way by erecting sundials for farmers at a dollar apiece, frequently taking his pay in board. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune The petition recited that a sundial in Central Park, the gift of a wealthy citizen, was weathering badly. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year There is, adjoining the Palace of Holyrood, an ancient garden of the old kings of Scotland: in it is a curious sundial, with Queen Mary's name on it. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. In the centre of the grass is a sundial. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Over the wall hangs an acacia-tree, and on the front of the house is an old sundial—altogether a house one could well associate with an imaginative novelist. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London Once she pointed out to me at the end of her dictation-book a publisher's colophon of a sundial with the word Finis above it, and, underneath, the words "Every Hour Shortens Life." The Adventures of Harry Revel There was a sundial in the centre of it, which had seen many a sunny day since it had been set up to mark the passing of time for the visitors to the rose garden. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Hence, wherever a sundial is to be constructed, we must take the equinoctial shadow of the place. The Ten Books on Architecture And pretty soon the sun will be out, and you can set up a stick and watch the shadow and make a sundial for yourself.” More Jonathan Papers Facing south on its tower is a sundial with the appropriate motto, "Time and tide stay for no man." Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London In front of the pillared porch there was a little square of white cobble-stones and in the middle of these an old grey sundial. The Dark Forest They had walked to the end of the path, and were standing by the sundial. The Guests Of Hercules If one has no knowledge of these matters, he will not be able to have any comprehension of the theory of sundials. The Ten Books on Architecture Lot's wife, the witch of Endor, Jonah's whale, the sundial of Ahaz, and the population of Nineveh, were all duly discussed, together with the bodies in which the angels dined with Abraham. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity At the summit of the old gable stood a block of masonry carrying a sundial; this, when the transept was altered, was removed, the new gable being finished with a cross. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings At last I was in the garden, though, and it was very quaint and pretty, with unexpected nooks, old, moss-covered stone seats, and a sundial that you'd pay hundreds of dollars for in America. My Friend the Chauffeur "Goodbye, dear old sundial, that has told so many of my hours," she said. The Guests Of Hercules He took her through the grand old park where the herd of fallow deer were grazing; he showed her the Dutch and Italian gardens; he knew even the history of the sundial on the terrace. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers About this time he made a water-clock, and also that sundial which can be seen today, carved into the stone on the corner of the house. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists A pillar was built in the churchyard to the south of the western tower in 1894, and on it the block from the transept bearing the sundial was placed. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings "I think our yard at home is big enough for two or three statues; and a marble well-head and a sundial would be lovely," exclaimed Aunt Kathryn. My Friend the Chauffeur Nevertheless, there was too much of everything about it: too many rambler roses, too many rustic baskets and mighty palms; too many urns, and stone benches, and sundials and fountains. Flood Tide "That would be about actual sunset plus or minus an hour; these people aren't astronomers, they don't even have good sundials, and it might be a cloudy day," Stranor Sleth said. Temple Trouble And from this was originated the pendulum-clock, where before we had depended on sundials. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists The second must be for some kind of sundial, but the description is very obscure. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator "I will not leave this place without that well-head, the statue of Neptune, and the yellow marble sundial," said Aunt Kathryn in a casual tone which masked a breaking heart. My Friend the Chauffeur Here were more rosebushes and an interminable space broken by walks and a sundial, masked by shrubs, with which he collided violently. An Alabaster Box I usually carried the sundial slung round my neck, so that it was easy to pick it up and consult it. South with Scott Certainly every one could read the sundials; and the gondoliers would, as they said, understand his figures if he wrote them. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century At last they sat down on the stone benches which surrounded a fine grass-plot with an ancient sundial in the middle. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old A rapid-growing, tender annual from India, and while rather stiff in form of growth, very decorative for the summer borders surrounding a sundial. The Garden, You, and I But we had decided that, if it were possible, we must effect an entrance, to see whether the turf about the sundial had been disturbed. Berry And Co. I forgot whether Lashly or Crean led then, but I marched alongside, keeping in touch with the trace by hitching the lanyard of my sundial on to it and holding this in my hand. South with Scott THE SUNDIAL, BRADING.—When clocks and watches were not common, a sundial was of great service to the public. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight In summer, ease-loving guests took their pleasure here, but when winter held the hills, wild deer came down and gingerly picked their way close to the sundials and marble basins of the sunken gardens. Destiny Then, too, last Christmas, Bart's parents sent us a dear old sundial, with a very good fluted column for a base. The Garden, You, and I As carefully as I could, I stepped to the sundial. Berry And Co. Then the expectation died away; the hope grew fainter and fainter, like a shadow that the sun casts upon the sundial until, at an hour before setting, it is scarcely discernible. Sally Bishop A Romance Still less are all the sundials and Spaniards in the world, equal to one of Her Majesty's Maids of Honour. Oddsfish! They are the sundials of the glacier, recording the hour by the advance of the sun's rays upon them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Just how he knew it so well he could hardly have told, after all, for there was no hint of house, or wall, or even summer-house, sundial, terrace, or other significant sign. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular "After breakfast I'm going to whittle out a wildwood pipe and make a birch canoe, and likely I'll weave a rush mat and a willow bed and carve some spoons and forks and a sundial." Diane of the Green Van The tune was not that which sings for candy, not at all, the tune which is celebrating is that which makes a sundial show more pleasure. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories A sundial is not so important as a Christian lady; and a bunch of raisins is not, legally, a blow in the face. Oddsfish! At the sundial she left the drive and took to the lawn gleaming with the frost of late October. Love Stories At Kirkdale church, which is situated close to the cave already described, there was discovered about the year 1771 a sundial bearing the longest known inscription of the Anglo-Saxon period. The Evolution of an English Town In one story Page 257the fathers of the town place the municipal sundial under cover to protect it from the rays of the sun. A Wanderer in Holland Clocks and watches, and probably even sundials, were then unknown, so these divisions were marked by burning candles of equal lengths. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader The sun, at that moment, broke forth from behind a cloud, and showed, by the sundial, that the clock was half an hour behind the right time. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader So Jacqueline and the boy went into the flower garden, and she showed him the roses and the peacock and the sundial. Lewis Rand At Sinnington church another of these very crude sundials has been discovered, and what may be part of a similar one is high up on the east wall of the chancel of Ellerburne church. The Evolution of an English Town In the year 1828 an ancient building on Inner Temple Terrace was demolished, and with it a sundial bearing the strange but not inappropriate inscription, "Begone about your business." Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 At this point three young girls stepped into the garden through the little iron gate in the churchyard wall and started along the gravel walk toward the round bed and the sundial. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The carving over the doorway represented a pelican feeding its young with blood from its own breast, and a sundial bore the very significant motto: Every hour shortens man's life. From John O'Groats to Land's End Each twelve month the gnomon on the literary sundial is likely to cast some shadow one will not willingly forget. Shandygaff At Edstone church there is another sundial over the south doorway as at Kirkdale, and there is every reason to believe that it belongs to the same period. The Evolution of an English Town No account of the Temple would be complete without some mention of its many curious sundials. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 It was an exceptionally beautiful day; the heliotrope growing in a neat bed around the sundial was still in bloom, and the soft breeze that was stirring bore its fragrance over to them. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 But in spite of all he made headway, and soon he was creeping up the middle walk, past the great central sundial, which seemed high as a church-steeple above him. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Before you go outdoors draw on the platform of the sundial a straight line from angle B of the gnomon to the front edge of the platform. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Nothing is known of Lothan beyond the making of this sundial, so that the fixing of the date can only be by comparative reasoning. The Evolution of an English Town A pillar sundial in the centre of the grass bears the date 1770, and the iron gate, surmounted by a winged horse, which guards the entrance from the terrace, was erected in 1730. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Almost behind the church tower was the moon, which shed its light upon the grassy plot with the sundial and the heliotrope beds. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 She had taken an old house, because it had pleased her fancy, because it had Tudor gables, pretty panelling, and a sundial. The Testing of Diana Mallory Poughkeepsie boys and girls will be interested to know that if a sundial be brought to them from Rome, it will be right for them. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The sundial, without any gnomon, occupies the central portion of the stone, which is about 7 feet in length, and the inscription is closely packed in the spaces on either side. The Evolution of an English Town East of the sundial is a hoary old sycamore, sole survivor of three sisters, carefully protected by railings, under whose grateful shade, says local tradition, Johnson and Goldsmith were wont to chat. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 They were sitting on the shady tile walk, with their backs to the drawing room and facing the circular bed and the sundial. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 There is an old sundial in the garden, which caught the moonbeams. Miss Bretherton Now screw the sundial in this position to the column you have made for it to rest upon. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Like the sundial in the first court, this bridge, leading to soft meadows beneath the shade of great trees, is attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Beautiful Britain—Cambridge There are several different designs of sundials, but the most common, and the one we shall describe in this article, is the horizontal dial. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do The sundial was gone and in the place where it had stood there lay since yesterday a white marble slab with nothing on it but "Effi Briest" and a cross beneath. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The patient shadow on the antique sundial wound its way imperceptibly from left to right, and long slanting threads of light and shadow pierced in time between the branches of the poplars. In the Days of My Youth I watched the day go round there, on that little, white, round place, like a sundial. The Inferno On the S. porch is an old sundial, and in the churchyard the base of a cross. Somerset The design of the sundial is left to the ingenuity of the maker. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do The house stood close by the church, having an open space of grass in front, with an old sundial, and a low wall separating it from the churchyard. Father Payne This is kind of like the sundial in the color landscape. Color Images from Mars Rovers In old St. Pancras churchyard, now used as a playground, she has erected a sundial as a memorial to its illustrious dead. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Magnificence in obscurity is equally vain with a sundial in the grave. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces The square pillar surmounted by sundial and ball which for years supplanted the original finial has in turn been replaced by a new canopy and cross. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter We arrested several of these little aëronauts in their flight, and placed them on the brass gnomon of the sundial, and had the gratification to see them prepare for, and recommence, their aerial voyage. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 The great sundial over the door, bearing the date 1636, is scarcely less useful now than when it was placed there. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Ut illum, etc.: may the gods confound him who first invented the hours, and who first placed a sundial in this city. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero Then, he had helped his wife with the sundial. The Tarn of Eternity Several noteworthy features may be seen, including a Saxon sundial from the original church. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter There was a vertical sundial on the front gable; and as the carpenter passed beneath it, he looked up and noted the hour. House of the Seven Gables There was under the castle and the Pentapyla a lofty and conspicuous sundial, which Dionysius had set up. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans The place was all greensward, and terraces, and sundials, and beeches, and even those rhododendrons without which no English novel or country estate is complete. One Basket He had turned again to the beauties about him, and at that moment he spied the sundial—something he had never seen before. Just David The wild red figure reeled an instant against the sundial; the next it had rolled down the steep bank and lay at the American's feet, faintly moving one arm. The Wisdom of Father Brown As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Before the trees were planted there seems to have been a sundial on the side of the hill, the precipitous scar on the top forming the gnomon. Yorkshire You could hear feet, feet in heavy soled boots, clanking on the drive that ringed the grass-plot and the sundial; the eager feet of a young man. Mr. Waddington of Wyck Well, they were; and really" persisted the boy, in answer to the merriment in her eyes; "now wouldn't it be nice to be like the sundial, and forget everything the sun didn't shine on? Just David He paused by the sundial to break a yellow rose from the vine out of which its fluted supporting column emerged. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories None did come for a week, and then yesterday morning I found this paper lying on the sundial in the garden. The Return of Sherlock Holmes The inscription is on a sundial over the south porch in both churches; but while that of Kirkdale is quite complete and perfect, this one has words missing at the beginning and end. Yorkshire "I will go look at the sundial, Mistress Alice," said the gallant, rising and colouring, through a sense of the contempt with which he thought himself treated. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier You know I haven't liked them,—all those hours till four o'clock came,—and I was so glad, after I saw the sundial, to find out that they didn't count, anyhow. Just David The column was featureless, resembling those on which sundials are usually placed. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. The Return of Sherlock Holmes The arch of the tower and the door below the sundial have the narrowness and rudeness suggesting the pre-Norman age, but more than this it is unwise to say. Yorkshire Although they remained silent, each knew that the other felt the same weight of responsibility, the shadow-finger of the sundial travelling over them. The Trespasser "Yes, the sundial, you know, where my Lady of the Roses lives." Just David The sundial is said to be still in existence at Woolsthorpe, on the corner of the house where Isaac dwelt. Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial. The Return of Sherlock Holmes There stands the village cross where the preachers stood in Saxon times and converted the people to Christianity, and there the old sundial on a graceful stone pedestal. English Villages And when he played with his bricks, he built a White House for himself with terraces and sundials—two dozen at a time. Dame Care So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'" The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah Yet we must not say that the sundial has lasted longer than its maker; for Isaac Newton will exist long after the dial—yes, and long after the sun itself—shall have crumbled to decay. Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") When you crossed the bridge we had three stone and concrete steps up the bank and Gordon cemented a sundial on top of a three foot high stone and concrete base. The Biography of a Rabbit Out in the open, where there were remnants of rough cultivation, was a sundial made of a jagged-edged flat piece of tin, the figures scratched with a knife. A Trip to Manitoba "And where are the glass balls and the sundial?" he asked. Dame Care Perched, or half suspended, thus, she was just high enough to look over the top of the yew-tree hedge into the circle round the sundial. Phantom Fortune, a Novel One had an intihuatana, or sundial nubbin, on it; another was carved in the shape of a saddle. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Outside, in the high elms beyond the level, well-kept lawn, with its grey old sundial, the homecoming rooks were cawing prior to settling down for the night. The House of Whispers Down in the rose-garden, where an old sundial marked "only the sunny hours," the afternoon shadows grew long. The Spanish Chest He had imagined everything a thousand times more beautiful; if they had cheated him regarding the glass balls and the sundial as well, he would not have been surprised. Dame Care There wasn't much to invent," Hugh replied modestly; "it's on the same principle as a sundial. The Happy Adventurers The sundial was yet in use, and when the flight of time was to be noted in hours or parts, people resorted to the hour glass. A Brief History of the United States But furniture played a prominent part in the place, and there were statues and sundials and stone-seats scattered about with almost too profuse a hand. Queen Lucia Issac Newton was a genius, who in his childhood designed and built model windmills, water wheels, water clocks, and sundials. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III It was much larger and more beautiful than the one at Mussainen, but there was nothing to be seen of a sundial. Dame Care Near them is one of the old-fashioned orangeries, with a great deal of wall and very little glass, and near it stands the sundial of Newtonian fame. John Keble's Parishes In the British Museum is a sundial made by Humphrey Gainsborough, and it must stand to his credit that he made the original fireproof safe. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Wilt thou give him this message from me, that in no wise he forget the oath which he swore upon the finger-ring as it lay on the sundial of the Garden of the Face? The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale At luncheon next day our invalid, a real invalid no longer, joined us at table in the pleasant dining-room, the broad window of which opened upon the formal garden with the sundial in the center. Kent Knowles: Quahaug "And now I will show you the sundial," continued the child. Dame Care In their lily-leaved pool, sunk deep in the old flagged terrace, upon whose borders the blackbird whistles his early-morning song, they remind me of sundials and lavender and old delightful things. Not that it Matters It may be that Mrs Atherley and I would take the flower and march in procession round the fountain, singing a suitable chant, while Bob and Archie with shaven heads prostrated themselves before the sundial. The Holiday Round Above and beyond was a sundial cut out in the turf, from his own observations after the hints that the hermit and the friar had given him. The Herd Boy and His Hermit Rachael, dear," Florence said sweetly, when the greetings were over, "will you take the bishop down to look at the sundial? The Heart of Rachael "And this is the sundial," she went on. Dame Care He spent a little while in the sun with a compass and a few wooden pegs, and a sundial lay on the ground just outside the verandah. We of the Never-Never Our fore-fathers had to regulate their clocks by a sundial, or perhaps by a mark at the corner of the house, which showed where the shadow of the house fell at noon. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science At All Souls' College, Oxford, in the first quadrangle, grave, thoughtful men raised to the top story, two hundred years ago, a grand sundial, the largest, perhaps, and noblest in the kingdom. A Woman-Hater The bishop sat down on the carved stone bench that had been set in the circle of shrubs that surrounded the sundial, and Rachael sat down, too. The Heart of Rachael The child laughed, and said that this was the sundial. Dame Care Dan looked at it askance, and harked back to the sundial and education. We of the Never-Never But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. The Good Soldier Like the face and figure of its master, so was this little garden, whose sundial the sun seldom reached-refined, self-conscious, introspective, obviously a creature of the town. Fraternity He ran his forger round the sundial's edge. The Island Pharisees The sundial in the garden of the White House was the first great disappointment of his life. Dame Care You dwell upon the sundial; you mention for a second time the Adams fireplace. They and I The windows were upon a small grassy court, with a sundial in the centre; a door opened on a paved court. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald Hilary, beneath the acacia-tree not yet in bloom, marked an early butterfly flitting over the geraniums blossoming round an old sundial. Fraternity "That's a nice old article of virtue," he said, pointing with his chin; and, walking round the sundial, he made its acquaintance from the other side. The Island Pharisees The gravel-strewn paths shone like silver threads through the branches, and the sundial, which had been the dream of his childhood, stood out darkly behind them. Dame Care In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed. Madame Bovary His heart was buried under a sundial which still stands in his favourite garden. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 And he took his clothes from the sundial and began to put them on. Under the Red Robe To complete the mournful and tender impressions which seize the soul, on one of the walls there is a sundial graced with this homely Christian motto, 'Ultimam cogita.' La Grande Breteche The disciples or successors of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, were credited with advancing knowledge through the invention or introduction of the sundial. A History of Science — Volume 1 Within are the very words which were upon my father’s last message: ‘K. K. K.’; and then ‘Put the papers on the sundial.’ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes With this she gave him a small box containing what might have been a sundial or compass. A Book of Scoundrels The Captain had removed his doublet, and stood in his shirt leaning against the sundial, his head bare and his sinewy throat uncovered. Under the Red Robe This was a very formal garden, with a sundial, gravelled walks, bordered flower beds, and clipped border hedges. The Land of Footprints "No," said I, leaning on a sundial which stood by the seat. Dolly Dialogues Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes You see that sparrow on the sundial, swearing at the blackbird down below? The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle The shadow of the sundial fell between us; the garden was still; here and there a leaf fluttered slowly down. Under the Red Robe Within this enclosure have been planted many trees, now of good size; a pretty garden with abundance of flowers, ornamental shrubs, a sundial, and lawns. The Land of Footprints "You will become," I pursued, idly drawing patterns with my finger on the sundial, "wrinkled, rough, fat—and, perhaps, good." Dolly Dialogues What have I to do with sundials and papers? The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes On the opposite side the garden is shut in by a box hedge; and there is a little sundial on the turf, with an iron chair near it. Mrs. Warren's Profession Mademoiselle grasped the sundial and leant against it, her face colourless; and, for an instant, I thought that she was fainting. Under the Red Robe There just below her, trampling the flower beds, tracking the gravel walks, endangering the sundial, stood a hippopotamus! The Land of Footprints |
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