Clock. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Clock


The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.)	1
Great Nature’s well set clock in pieces took; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of life and motion; and with equal art Made up again the whole of every part. Cowley.—The Davideis, Book I. Line 743.	2
The clock of his age had struck fifty-eight. Cellini.—Quoted by Disraeli in the First Vol. of his Cur. of Lit., page 99.	3
Haggard and hollow and wan, and without either thought or motion, E’en as the face of a clock from which the hands have been taken. Longfellow.—Evangeline.	4
Look at the clock. Barham.—Ingoldsby Legends.	5