hourglasses

I saw small, clean factories making small, quiet wind turbines resembling hourglasses and window fans.

Dar Williams: Blow Your Own Green Bubble Dar Williams 2010

We lie on our beds and die, and there our withered hearts are drained of what would make us rage since the life is draining out of them, those old hourglasses.

A Death in the Family « Unknowing 2009

Sometimes, flocks shift in shape from globes to hourglasses, thickening and thinning in the atmosphere.

Why birds of a feather flock together 2011

I saw small, clean factories making small, quiet wind turbines resembling hourglasses and window fans.

Dar Williams: Blow Your Own Green Bubble Dar Williams 2010

They were clear plastic hourglasses filled with dyed water and a brightly colored co-polymer solution, or “goo.”

The Snow Whale John Minichillo 2011

I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor.

Mark Axelrod: "Spanish Is a Language of the Ghetto"; or, Newt y Yo Mark Axelrod 2012

There were hourglasses of every shape, size, and vintage on the mantel and shelves, even a huge glass the size of a barbell in the corner.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

It was a parlor filled with dusty chairs draped with antimacassars and tables and sideboards crammed with knick-knacks–souvenir plates, china teacups, candlesticks, glass birds, and at least a dozen hourglasses of various sizes and materials.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

I could see all the hourglasses, with fifty-nine minutes of sand in the top of each one.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

We said good-bye and shook hands and I saw that all the hourglasses had run out of sand.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010