8 examples of horologe in sentences

It was the primitive clock, the horologe of the first world.

And many other flowers close and open their petals at certain hours of the day; and thus constitute what Linneus calls the Horologe, or Watch of Flora.

Hence the Horologe or Watch of Flora is formed from numerous plants, of which the following are those most common in this country.

The horologe of centuries moves slowly in Cathay.

"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.

This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers.

O'er the horologe's mystic dial, Watch the sweep of shadowy ages

The hands were moved backward on the horologe of mortality as we move backward the pointers on the dial of a clock: her face ticked at the hour of two in the afternoon of life instead of half-past five.

8 examples of  horologe  in sentences