The clepsydra was a kind of water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
He compares this process to what occurs in a clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing] Reference
Very well, then we have all we need, except the clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Either slow like the dripping of the remnants of water in a clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
For hard she finds it patient to abide till the clepsydra will have run its course. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
With the clepsydra taken away and the sun obscured, it was impossible to tell time. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Babylonians develop the clepsydra, a clock that measures time using the flow of water. From Wordnik.com. [25 Great Moments In Robotics History] Reference
Thus Empedocles compares the proc - ess of respiration with the action of a clepsydra (water clock). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock. From Wordnik.com. [Sailing on and on] Reference
The clepsydra had already accomplished three turns, and yet I roamed by the railing under the dryandra trees. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
While we were thus busy, useful, and happy, the dripping rain, like a clepsydra, told off the morning moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
He does not close an eye at night, and if he dozes off for an instant his mind flies instantly to the clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
The construction of the clepsydra, or water-clock, de - pends on this proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh] Reference
They had but two measures of time -- the clepsydra, or water-clock, and the sun-dial. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago] Reference
The want of correct means of measuring time and temperature was severely felt; the clepsydra of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
From the middle of the seventh century a clepsydra of Chinese origin was used to mark the hours. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
It is pretty clear that the first request of the Burgundian King was for a clepsydra of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
As the sound of the bells died away, the last drop of water fell from the clepsydra and marked the hour of midnight. From Wordnik.com. [In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] Reference
Anxious to turn the channel of her meditations in another direction, she rose from her seat to examine the clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
Indeed, the record on one tablet has been interpreted as noting that the astronomer's clock or clepsydra had stopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
A water-clock or clepsydra which was made at Norwich by an ingenious person named Parson in 1610. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
What is this if it is not a clepsydra?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
“Saracens” were the perfecters of the clepsydra. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
If Life's swift clepsydra have run. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days. From Wordnik.com. [Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses] Reference
When Times clepsydra will be nearer dry. From Wordnik.com. [Praeterita ex Instantibus] Reference
When Time's clepsydra will be nearer dry. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure] Reference
The sand runs, monarchs! the clepsydra weeps. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Certainly this clepsydra was. ". From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and the Clockmakers] Reference
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