Device to measure the passage of time.
1 Once more granules drain from top portion of the hour glass .
2 Upon the tomb is an hour glass , and on this are crossbones.
3 Only a few sands now remained in the half- hour glass .
4 Knocker turned the half- hour glass by the binnacle and said, "Ready, sir."
5 Three cups were on the table, and coffee for three was mounting in the hour glass .
6 Lars Pedersson is renewing the oil of the night-lamp and turning the hour glass . )
7 As the sand runs through an hour glass , so you run your short race on this earth.
8 Last night saw ' hour glass ' dolphins about.
9 I glanced at the half- hour glass .
10 It ain't harder than it is to tell when the sand will be out of an hour glass .
11 But in this case, once expanded in the blood vessel the device assumes the shape of an hour glass .
12 New Year's Day Party Invitations may be in hour glass form cut from heavy white paper, or bell shape.
13 The hour glass below the book counsels the diligent use of time; the crown above symbolizes the reward of knowledge.
14 This spider is shiny black in colour with a red hour glass mark on the ventricle side of the abdomen.
15 As slowly and silently as sand running through an hour glass , I raised my gun until it was pointing at him.
16 The half- hour glass that you gave me is a great enchantment to my husband, and has already suggested some divine production.
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