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单词 electric clock
例句 electric clock
The electric clock on the wall had whirred, for a very long time, and Kingshaw had just lain there. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every day the newspapers are filled with reward notices for the return of stolen typewriters, Persian rugs, electric clocks, fabrics, etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
I watched him remove a heavy engineer's watch from his breast pocket and squint at the dial importantly, then turn to check it with an electric clock that glowed from the wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
There were bookshelves; on one shelf an electric clock hummed quietly to itself. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was a dead silence while the electric clock chimed eleven times, and then the robopsychologist said, “Very peculiar,” and the corners of her lips moved downward. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
She meant that their keepers were making the electric clocks in the dome go fast, then slow, then fast again, and watching the little Earthling family through peepholes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The electric clocks on street corners are dismantled, public phones are stripped down to the last wire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Mancinis don’t have an electric clock in their bedroom because it would never tell the right time anyhow. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
Bed—without canopy—dresser, closet, electric light, television, radio, electric clock, books. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
Over the stove the old electric clock was five minutes early. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Houseman watched the electric clock on the studio wall, fretting that Welles had slowed down the beginning of the program too much. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
That is the year when he added a little electric clock on the back of the frame. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z
Most remarkably, it has attached to the outside a working elevator made of metal and powered by an electric clock motor. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
It would also not include electric clocks, in spite of their 24-hour-per-day usage, because they are very low power devices. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
His father was employed by the Standard Electric Time Co., which manufactured electric clocks, and his mother was a homemaker. Curtis Blake, co-founder of the Friendly’s ice cream chain, dies at 102 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z
One of Alexander Bain's electric clocks will be going on display in one of the new galleries opening in the summer of 2016 at the National Museum of Scotland. Emmy for Scottish TV pioneer Alexander Bain - BBC News 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z
A weekday morning, for me, begins at 5:20 am with the shrieking of my alarm clock, a cheap electric clock with glowing red digits. How Your Morning Starts With Quantum Physics 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z
Caddies are paid "from the time of their employment until the time they are discharged, to be determined by an electric clock, at such rate per hour as may be determined by the Green Committee." The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z
I exhausted my resources in filling up fifteen minutes, and the hand of the electric clock seemed as tremulous with indecision as it had before been jerky with haste. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z
The old wooden wheels were first used, then brass was introduced and the watch-makers learned to make the eight-day clocks—the last word in time-keepers until the advent of the modern electric clocks. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
An electric clock on the dresser pointed at eleven. Ye of Little Faith
The electric clock showed 20 minutes to midnight. The Brain
The electric clock was purring soberly around the dial. The Tunnel Under The World
He checked the electric clock in the kitchen. The Six Fingers of Time
Ten p.m. had just been registered by the electric clocks in the famous observatory overlooking the college, when the sound of running feet came down the long corridors. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships
In a storage warehouse in Boston, the fire doors are connected with the watchman's electric clock system, so that all openings of fire doors are matters of record on the dial sheet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
Matt glanced up at an electric clock with an oversized second hand. The Raid on the Termites
The minute hand of the electric clock pushed forward. Little Lost Sister
It seemed to him that he could see a slight trembling movement and then an almost imperceptible jump as the hand of an electric clock advances with a jerk. A Voyage with Captain Dynamite
He had constructed an electric clock having a seconds pendulum, and recording an impulse once a minute. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
Babies arrived as rapidly as Nature would allow and with the regularity of an electric clock—although, of course, there wasn't any electricity then. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
The room was silent, except for the small insectile hum of the electric clock. The Cosmic Computer
They drilled as light infantry, and moved like electric clocks. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
For a time, the only sound in the room was the tiny insectile humming of the electric clock on the wall. Graveyard of Dreams
Marion, groaning, pressed the button of the electric clock that stood on the table by her bedside, and looked up at the monstrous white dial it threw on the ceiling. The Judge
At a certain time, severely calculated upon electric clocks which beat the seconds at the same instant, the inhabitants were invited to take their places at the same banquet. The Moon-Voyage
And the watch on his desk clicked off the valuable seconds, and the electric clock on the wall jumped to mark the passing minutes. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant
It describes his electric clock in which there is an electro-magnetic pendulum, and the electric current is employed to keep it going instead of springs or weights. Heroes of the Telegraph
At certain hours, successively calculated, marked by electric clocks which beat the seconds at the same time, the population were invited to take their places at the banquet tables. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
I had these instruments made at Mr. Hamblet's, who had a little shop where he was engaged in experimenting with electric clocks. Edison, His Life and Inventions
The Captain pressed an electric clock three times. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant. Around the World in 80 Days
There is a manufactory of electric clocks, also of recent date. Holidays in Eastern France
Down in the kitchen the cooking is carried on almost mechanically by means of an electric clock controlling the heating circuits to the various utensils. Marvels of Modern Science
They ought to have some law to pierce the heart and make sure or an electric clock or a telephone in the coffin and some kind of a canvas airhole. Ulysses
On the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant. Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition
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