| 单词 | horologe |
| 例句 | Looking at the horologe my lord had given me, I saw that it lacked yet two hours of the time when we should be aboard. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z For in their wickedness downright wicked men sin as much against their own horologes, as against the heavenly chronometer. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 There was a time when the clock on the London Houses of Parliament was the last word in the art—a veritable triumph of the horologe. Christopher and the Clockmakers The eternal horologe is about to sound the first. The Tiger Hunter In truth it had occupied some five minutes, as I discovered, holding my horologe to the moon, and had not occupied so long if it were not for my groping and pausing. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z Yet does the horologe itself teach, that all liabilities to these things should be checked as much as possible, though it is certain they can never be utterly eradicated. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z For a soul in torment there is no horologe. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' By the light of the stained-glass windows the famous astronomical clock in the south transept can be descried, still containing some fragments of the horologe constructed by the mathematician Conrad Dasypodius in 1574. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Chaucer uses the ward horologe in more places than one. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Silent hours In ghostly pantomime on tip-toe tripped The stately minuet of the passing years, Until the horologe of Time struck One. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems They are only to be checked, then, because, if entirely unrestrained, they would finally run into utter selfishness and human demonism, which, as before hinted, are not by any means justified by the horologe. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn. A Celtic Psaltery And if any ghost peeped out, 'twould only be to duck under again, all a-tremble lest, the underground horologes being out of gear, a poor shade had somehow overslept cockcrow and missed his accustomed airing. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Many a one is now pushing forward the hand on the horologe of time and hastening nothing thereby but the hour of his own execution. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig On May 10, 1774, "with a sound absolutely like thunder," has the horologe of time struck, and an old era passed away. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History O’er the horologe’s mystic dial, Watch the sweep of shadowy ages Ere the pens of seers and sages Wrote men’s deeds on fadeless pages. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Therewith she gave into my hands No hour-glass running golden sands, Only a horologe forlorn Set against a cross of thorn, And cold and stern the current seemed That through its clouded crystal gleamed. A Celtic Psaltery This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers." Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden "The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay. Poems A thousand years are but as one tick of the mighty horologe of time—and the allotted life of man but three score years and ten! Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 But these were mere Cassandra-voices—the horologe of time was striking for Rome’s successor, as it did for Rome herself. The Social Cancer Ay, honest Davy can regulate his horologes better than his family.— The Fortunes of Nigel The horologe of Time Strikes the half-century with a solemn chime, And summons us together once again, The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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