18 examples of clockmakers in sentences

Its contents range from the Clockmaker of Sam Slick to the Imitation of Thomas a Kempis, from Little Dorrit to the Greek Lexicon.

But the pendulum was soon brought into the service of the clockmakers, and ultimately to the determination of the form of the earth, by its minute irregularities in diverse latitudes, and finally to the measurement of differences of longitude by its connection with electricity and the recording of astronomical observations.

Degrees (see also Orders and Elections to Societies) Deighton, publisher De La Rive De La Rue De Launay Deluge, The De Morgan, A. Denison, E.B. Denison, Sir W. Denison, H. Denmark, King of Dent, clockmaker Dent-dale Devonshire, Duke of Dobbs, pupil Dobree, lecturer Docks (see Harbours) Dolcoath experiments Dollond, instrument maker Drainage Drinkwater, Bethune Double-image micrometer Douglas, Sir H. Dover (see Harbours)

Vernon Harcourt (see Harcourt) Vetch, Capt. Vibrations of ground Vignoles, C.B., engineer Vulliamy, clockmaker Wales, Prince of Walker, Byatt Walker, James, engineer Walker, Sydney, Warburton, H. Washington, Capt. Water telescope (see also Fluid telescope)

He respites you in no place but a tavern, where he sells his minutes dearer than a clockmaker.

Her family were fairly well-to-do; her grandfather, Mr. Charles Smith, was a currier in Bermondsey; her cousin, also Charles Smith, was a clockmaker of repute in Bunhill Row.

Like "The Conscript," its predecessor, the charm of "Waterloo" consists largely in the character of Joseph Bertha, the young clockmaker of Phalsbourg, who tells the story.

38 MY UNCLE, THE CLOCKMAKER.

Eli Terry; clockmaker of Connecticut.

American clocks and clockmakers.

Eli Terry; clockmaker of Connecticut.

American clocks and clockmakers.

Peter Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, born at Paris on the 24th of January, 1732, son of a clockmaker, had already acquired a certain celebrity by his lawsuit against Councillor Goezman before the parliament of Paris.

If it is true that a clockmaker cannot find himself in a room in the presence of a clock without experiencing the irresistible wish to wind it up, how much more must the whaler, before a whale, be seized with the imperative desire to take possession of it?

The clockmaker proposed to the parish "to do one thing, which London shall not show the like," and we hope our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from oblivion.

ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD, born at Preston, Lancashire; bred to the trade of a barber; took interest in the machinery of cotton-spinning; with the help of a clockmaker, invented the spinning frame; was mobbed for threatening thereby to shorten labour and curtail wages, and had to flee; fell in with Mr. Strutt of Derby, who entered into partnership with him; prospered in business and died worth half a million.

BERTHOUD, a celebrated clockmaker, native of Switzerland; settled in Paris; invented the marine chronometer to determine the longitude at sea (1727-1807).

SLICK, SAM, a clockmaker and pedlar, a character illustrating Yankee peculiarities, and remarkable for his wit, his knowledge of human nature, and his use of "soft sawder," a creation of JUDGE HALIBURTON'S (q. v.).

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