Usage examples (34)

• Do you hear the ticking of the horologe of time with each pulsation of your heart?
• "My twelve-hours is unusual sharp to-day," said Petullo, consulting a dumpy horologe out of his fob.
• ‘The hour is close at hand, then,’ said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as a full-grown orange.
• Thomas Carlyle said, "It costs too much to have a revolution strike on the horologe of time to tell the world what o'clock it is"; and so it was important that...