-- The clepsydra was a kind of water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in it. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
Stationed beside the clepsydra was a special officer whose duty it was not only to fill it but to stop the flow whenever a speaker was interrupted, thereby making certain he was not cheated of any of the time due him. " ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"The clepsydra comprised the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac each of which, in their turn, spouted water to mark the various hours of the day with the exception of midday, when this elaborate hydraulic mechanism triggered all of the animals simultaneously," Courteault said. ❋ Jan (2009)
Christie's carried a detailed introduction of the two bronzes on its website, saying that the two formed part of the zodiacal clepsydra that decorated the Calm Sea Pavilion in the Old Summer Palace of Emperor Qianlong 1736-1795. ❋ Jan (2009)
They were originally part of a rococco clepsydra, or water clock, that featured the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac and was affixed to a pavilion inspired by Versailles. ❋ Eakin, Hugh (2009)
But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Do you imagine that there are any teachers in the world so clever as to be able to convince others of the truth about acts of robbery or violence, of which they were not eye - witnesses, while a little water is flowing in the clepsydra? ❋ Unknown (2007)
But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing him to expatiate at will: and there is his adversary standing over him, enforcing his rights; the indictment, which in their phraseology is termed the affidavit, is recited at the time: and from this he must not deviate. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Babylonians develop the clepsydra, a clock that measures time using the flow of water. ❋ By Forbes Staff (2006)
Pilate, the starter, pulling out his clepsydra or water clock, an operation which wet his hands unless he had merely spit on them -- Pilate gave the send-off. ❋ Gwenda (2004)
For hard she finds it patient to abide till the clepsydra will have run its course. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The clepsydra had already accomplished three turns, and yet I roamed by the railing under the dryandra trees. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The news of the victory had arrived in some inexplicable way at the third hour of the night; the clepsydra of Khamon had just completed the fifth as they reached Malqua; then Matho opened his eyes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Wad-el-Khalouf is dry, except in winter, but its bed is bored with inexhaustible wells, whose waters are distributed among the gardens by means of a clepsydra, or a vessel which drops so much water in an hour. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Either slow like the dripping of the remnants of water in a clepsydra. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He compares this process to what occurs in a clepsydra. ❋ Unknown (2002)
What! the clepsydra is to kill the white-haired veteran, who, in fierce fighting, has so oft covered himself with glorious sweat, whose valour at Marathon saved the country! ❋ Unknown (2000)
