22 examples of timekeepers in sentences

This, or the reverse, which we believe might happen any year, and could certainly not be detected without far more accurate observations and calculations for the mean sea-level than any hitherto made, would slacken or quicken the earth's rate as a timekeeper by one- tenth of a second per year.

He took hold of a steel watch-chain, which carried a large, square gold key at one end and was supposed to have some kind of timekeeper at the other.

The timekeeper, who was standing in the doorway with his hands in his pockets, watched him with interest.

The girl came down the stone passage, passed the timekeeper without appearing to notice his familiar "Good-evening!" and stepped out into the murky street.

There were two chairs by the side of it, one for him and one for the timekeeper.

The timekeeper called the seconds.

Far away and muffled he heard, amid the murmurs of the multitude, the fateful voice of the timekeeper counting off the seconds.

His chair and his hat were both tilted at an extreme angle; he and the timekeeper smiled at each other.

Chronometers, of course, at that time were in process of evolution, several makers were endeavouring to gain the prize which had been offered for a reliable timekeeper.

The timekeeper raised one hand warningly.

"It's a bit too big, but it's a rare good timekeeper.

" A timekeeper stepped forward out of the little knot of spectators that crowded the trench, and Macalister requested him to notify them when only one minute of the five was left.

"One minute to go," said the timekeeper.

The timekeeper is perfectly placed.

and the watch had done up twenty-four hours in double magnetic-telegraph time!The English language was wound up to run some thousands of years, I trust; but if everybody is to be pulling at everything he thinks is a hair, our grandchildren will have to make the discovery that it is a hair-spring, and the old Anglo-Norman soul's-timekeeper will run down, as so many other dialects have done before it.

At last, however, the Timekeeper, and Starter, assisted by various members of the Kennel Club, had cleared a space into which the first entry was led with great ceremony.

The Timekeeper stood with his watch in his hand, and the Starter beside him.

MILHAM, WILLIS I. Time & timekeepers.

MILHAM, WILLIS I. Time & timekeepers.

NAGLE 'Tis the best timekeeper that ever was.

He consulted his large bull's-eye silver watch (a capital timekeeper), and found that it was half past three o'clock, and he never knew her to be out before four.

The reliance for the longitudes was, however, principally upon timekeepers, and of these the party was furnished with one box and two pocket chronometers by Parkinson & Trodsham, one pocket chronometer by Molyneux, one by French, one by Barraud, and one by Morrice.

22 examples of  timekeepers  in sentences