horologe

NOUN
  1. a measuring instrument or device for keeping time
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How To Use horologe In A Sentence

  • Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
  • She may do very well for skippers 'wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty's horologer, excepting and saving myself. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • As to this nonpareil of lovely flesh and blood, her name was Lucy Mainspring, the daughter of a horologer, sir, -- a watchmaker -- _vulgo_ so called -- and though fattish, she was very fair -- fair! by Jupiter, (craving your honour's pardon for swearing,) she fairly made me give all other thoughts the cut, and twisted the passions of my heart with the red-hot torturing irons of love. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828
  • A number of horologes have been developed with removable or movable faces.
  • One Qf them, a young horologe from Lara Sig, told Danlo that it was time to hike back to the City. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Seiko is one of the most prolific of these horologers with a huge scope of different theoretical accounts available.
  • Although the Romans were backward in the science of gnomonics and slow to adopt any particular form of horologe, they eventually constructed many beautiful sundials of various designs.
  • The Doctor referred him to Mr. George Graham, the distinguished horologer, inventor of the dead-beat escapement and the mercurial pendulum. Men of Invention and Industry
  • Its first master, or president, was David Ramsay, who was mentioned as having been ‘constructor of horologes to His Most Sacred Majesty, James I,’ and is one of the characters in Scott's novel ‘The Fortunes of Nigel.’
  • She may do very well for skippers’ wives, chandlers’ daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty’s horologer, excepting and saving myself. The Fortunes of Nigel
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