The consultation took some little time, the second half of one sandglass and the beginning of the next. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
He glanced at the sandglass that he had turned over just moments ago and then thoughtfully back to the Masterharper. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Fire]
The set designer explains that the sandglass chamber was not meant to be disassembled, but stuff like this happens all the time on a movie production - making the impossible possible. From Wordnik.com. [/Film Visits The Set of Prince Of Persia - Part 1 | /Film] Reference
“J” pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Frequently we read by an old spoiled sandglass, which runs in a minute or two. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI. Book VIII] Reference
Countdown screen is supplemented with a picture of sandglass where the sand pours out as time goes. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
Partridge squatted beside the ring with a sandglass — used for timing the casting of the log — in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
To look out fairly was impossible; for not only was all the lower part of the frame hillocked up like a sandglass, and the sides filled in with dusky plaits, but even in the middle, where some outlook was, it led to very little. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
If it is true that the sea was once upon a time our native element, into which we must plunge our cooling blood if we are to recover our strength, it is the same with the oblivion, the mental non-existence of sleep; we seem then to absent ourselves for a few hours from Time, but the forces which we have gathered in that interval without expending them, measure it by their quantity as accurately as the pendulum of the clock or the crumbling pyramid of the sandglass. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
We’re explained that this will be the sandglass chamber. From Wordnik.com. [/Film Visits The Set of Prince Of Persia - Part 1 | /Film] Reference
A box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt "J" pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, price. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
She looked at the sandglass. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Apart from a sandglass, maybe. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
She looks at the sandglass on the pedestal. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
“and without the loss of so much time as would be told by ten grains of the sandglass. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
We have a sandglass and it runs out. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
And occasional Briticisms -- sandglass for ` hourglass ') the Dictionary is now available in America -- and a good thing, too, when you consider that it is just in time to meet the rush on the chess playing computers that is bound to develop for Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2] Reference
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