The chronometer, which is merely the least imperfect time-piece man has devised, makes possible the surest and easiest method by far of ascertaining longitude. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having completed them to my satisfaction, I again looked toward the time-piece, and was half inclined to believe in the possibility of odd accidents when I found that, instead of my ordinary fifteen or twenty minutes, I had been dozing only three; for it still wanted seven and twenty of the appointed hour. ❋ Unknown (2008)
However, if a musician typically uses simple drumming as a time-piece to music, but then switches to afro-centric drumming while singing about images of rape, drug use, murder, etc (I use these examples as the stereotypical "boogeyman" for racism against black people), then yes, the context of those drums could very well be considered covertly racist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Scheduled appointments have no meaning on a Venezuelan time-piece; you're left languishing in a (hopefully) air-conditioned reception for possibly hours on end to be allowed to enter the hallowed precincts of said executive's office although the appointment made by the gorgeous Miss Venezuela secretary out front may (officially) have been hours ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The accuracy and precision of Mr. Lacy, in all of his course of life in the past, is well-symbolized by this time-piece, which is so located as to guide and regulate in Dryden village the affairs of men in the future. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If you start now, you might get every time-piece around your house set one hour ahead by 2 a.m. Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Reason tells me that plan and order, meaning and goal exist, that a time-piece does not come into being by accident, even less so the living organism that is a plant, an animal, or, above all, man. ❋ Denyse O (2005)
And more than once he had glanced at the time-piece, not to hurry me, but as if he dreaded its announcements. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
For the first time for seven years or more the pain forgot the time-piece. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Tom took the purse, and his ring, and time-piece, and then handed them back with a very low bow, saying that it was against all usage for him to rob a robber. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The eyes and ears of his hearers were anxiously strained, as if to gain some sight or sound which might be converted or wrested into a type of approbation, and ever and anon dark looks were turned on the dial-plate of the time-piece, to watch its progress towards the moment of execution. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The time-piece and candelabra were of white marble incrusted with gold; and cashmere covered the single table, while several flower-stands filled up the corners, with their roses and other blooms. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The star's role as a triangulating device or as a time-piece depends upon its inert objectal status. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Although it was the noon of night, it was light as at six o'clock in the afternoon; and, indeed it is not an easy thing to tell the hour of the day without referring to a time-piece; for there is but a very slight difference in this part of the globe, during the summer months, between the darkness of night and the transparency of day. ❋ William A. Ross (N/A)
"If you wouldn't mind accepting it," said Josiah, pulling out his fine old turnip-shaped time-piece, "as a memento of our friendship -- which, though brief, has I trust been sincere -- it would give me great pleasure." ❋ Various (N/A)
The following words were inconsistently hyphenated: house-wife/housewife time-piece/timepiece ❋ An American Lady (N/A)
And so they worked, and so they talked, till I and the time-piece had counted many an hour which they took no account of, when one of them yawned, and said, "How tedious are these wet days; it is really impossible to spin out one's time without a walk." ❋ An American Lady (N/A)
As the regulations were very strict as to attendance and four unexcused absences a matter for the higher powers, it was not long before a student rose in Chapel and requested permission to reinstate the Campus time-piece, -- which was graciously granted. ❋ Wilfred Shaw (N/A)
But Phillip Lawson needs no praise, and Marguerite goes on with her work, occasionally glancing at the time-piece to see how long her father had been sleeping. ❋ Rebecca Agatha Armour (N/A)
The piece time [negotiations] were shared over a [saucy] [margherita] ❋ Newton Orchid (2018)
Gary: My time is a piece of wax, falling on a termite
Vince: Can you [fucking stop] quoting that [stupid song]?
Gary: [Who's choking on the splinters]! ❋ Fuckfacemcidiot (2017)
