sun-dial

He was standing by the sun-dial, perhaps ten paces from his victim.

THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

His nose projected from the front of his broad vulgar face, like the stile of an old sun-dial, twisted all of one side.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

He was intently watching an agate ball that rolled over a sun-dial, and awaited its final settlement.

The Magic Skin 2007

Put a sun-dial in the middle, so that whoever looks to see what time it is must read my name whether he wants to or not.

Satyricon 2007

They played delightful games in a grass-covered court where there was a sun-dial set about with flowers.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

The sun is shining with the utmost brilliancy in a great quiet park or garden; there is a palace in the background, and a statue basking in the sun quite lonely and melancholy; there is a sun-dial, on which is a deep shadow, and in the front stands Peter

George Cruikshank 2006

Moonlight was frosting the dew, and an old sun-dial threw a long shadow.

To Let 2004

I have known some men possessed of good qualities, which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Thoughts on Various Subjects 2003

Indefinitely from somewhere a bell boomed the quarter-hour, and Amory, pausing by the sun-dial, stretched himself out full length on the damp grass.

This Side of Paradise 2003

Uncle Sam, who sits by me, has just been reading the above motto, the inscription on a sun-dial in Venice.

The Girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward, b. 1850 1996