How To Use Horologe In A Sentence
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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.
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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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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
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A number of horologes have been developed with removable or movable faces.
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One Qf them, a young horologe from Lara Sig, told Danlo that it was time to hike back to the City.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Seiko is one of the most prolific of these horologers with a huge scope of different theoretical accounts available.
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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.
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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
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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.’
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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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Towards 1760, simultaneously in France and in England, two horologers succeeded in creating the first detached escapements.
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And since it is known that they divided the time into eight tides, and that the oldest horologes have the fewest spaces, it seems more than likely that many dials so marked owe their existence to these hardy invaders.
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For horologers, the sky is also a perpetual source of inspiration.
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A French horologer moved to Switzerland, carrying his trade with him, and as a result there soon grew up in Geneva a guild of workmen not to be outranked.
Christopher and the Clockmakers
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We mention these things at the mair length, because we would have you all to know, that it is not without due consideration of the circumstances of all parties, that we design, in a small and private way, to honour with our own royal presence the marriage of Lord Glenvarloch with Margaret Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Having worked with Tanishq and the Swatch group, they know a thing or two about selling expensive horologes.
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At the top of the entry stairs stands a massive gilt astronomer's clock made by the great French horologer Detouche for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855.
The Journe Identity
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The single most distinctive visual element of any horologe or timepiece is its face.
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Émile Reynaud's father was an horologer and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Émile.
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David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction.
The Fortunes of Nigel
