Even if he suspected that he was watching a commercial designed to put him in a state of anxiety, in order to change the channel and remove himself from the externally imposed tension, he would have to move the popcorn off his lap, pull up the lever on his recliner, walk up to the television set and manually turn the dial.

Meton set up a sun-dial at Athens in the year 433 B.C., but the length of the hour varied with the time of the year, since the Greeks divided the day into twelve equal parts.

CHAPTER VII A STRANGE PEOPLE Ten hours after the start of the submarine, Dave Tower's eye anxiously watched the dial which indicated a rapidly lessening supply of oxygen, while his keenly appraising mind measured time in terms of oxygen supply.

He couldn't read the dial.

The seat by the sundial was screened on every side by the clipped yew hedge, dense and tall, surrounding the circular, gravelled space, in the centre of which stood the old granite dial, with its octagonal pedestal and moss-grown steps.

He took out his watch and held it in his hand, studying the dial, and the colonel knew that his time limit was taken literally.

Howland held the dial of his watch to the light of the stars.

and it illumined a graduated white dial on which was a glass tube about thirty inches long, the whole resembling a barometer.

The weather record for 1760 was kept on blank pages of The Virginia Almanac, a compendium that contains directions for making "Indico," for curing bloody flux, for making "Physick as pleasant as a Dish of Chocolate," for making a striking sun-dial, also "A Receipt to keep one's self warm a whole Winter with a single Billet of Wood."

Lanyard smiled cheerfully and sat up in his chair, watching the captain while he unlocked the door in the pedestal and with shaking fingers manipulated the combination dial.

Close around them in the darkness was the heavy fragrance of perishing blossomsearth dials of yesterday; close around them the clean sweetness of fresh onesbreath of the coming morn.

It was set up, as the old books have it, in the year 1669, by order of Charles II.; and in addition to the parts represented in the cut, the inventer intended to place a water-dial at each corner, which he had nearly completed when the original Dial for want of a cover, as he quaintly observes, (which according to his Majestie's Gracious Order should have been set over it in the Winter) was much injured by the snow lying frozen upon it.

There is a piscina in the S. wall, and over the S. porch a sun-dial of 1653.

But for the ordinary Roman, who possessed no sun-dial or was not within reach of one, the day fell into four convenient divisions, as with us it falls into three,morning, afternoon, and evening.

Either he dodged, however, or my aim was inaccurate; for all I accomplished was the demolition of the crystal which protected the dial of the clock upon the mantelpiece.

His eyes rested on the instruments before him, their white dials glowing under the little penthouses of their metal shields.

The minute hand was moving 'round the dial, faster than an ordinary second-hand.

It did her ladyship much good, and she sauntered out upon the lawn and shyly sought the sun-dial and brought from it a nosegay of bridal-roses and fled, shamefaced, with them to her own chamber, there to seat herself by the open window to wait and watch for her young lord.

Time did not lag that eventful day; the hands seemed to sweep round the dial on the Old State House as though they had been swords in pursuit of some dilatory debtor.

We use the dial to select which program we are going to receive and then we submit to it.

With icy finger, she her charge directs, To view the faithful dial of the sun, Whose moral tells how tide and time pass on.

Great metal containers bearing dials and lights of various colors took up much of the space.

The whole of the meters work the common dial shown in Fig.

On the instant he was the trained newspaper man again, cheating the clock dial and trimming minutes: his words were sharp and decisive.

Since they sat down the short hand of the clock had nearly circled the dial.