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Meanings of sundial in English

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Usage of sundial in English
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There is an old sundial in the garden, which caught the moonbeams.
Miss Bretherton
2
Thinking fast, he pulled out his sundial and clicked on the torch.
The curse of deadman's forest
3
There's a sundial in this picture pointing to quarter after ten o'clock.
Death Mask
4
St. Maurice has a Norman doorway and St. Michael a Saxon sundial.
Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
5
There were hedges and gravel paths, a sundial and an iron bench.
The Sandman Book of Dreams
6
Curiously, he turned the sundial in that direction, and the shadow thickened.
The curse of deadman's forest
7
The design of the sundial is left to the ingenuity of the maker.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
8
The heliotrope around the sundial is dearer to me than Mentone.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
9
Dan looked at it askance, and harked back to the sundial and education.
We of the Never-Never
10
His eyes moved back to the sundial, however, and he sighed.
The curse of deadman's forest
11
That was why he was so intent on discovering how the sundial worked.
The curse of deadman's forest
12
Ethel and Dee set up a sundial in Ethel's own backyard.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
13
It was the middle of the afternoon, so I whipped out my sundial.
The Secret Crown (2010)
14
But Ian was already staring in amazement back down at the sundial's surface.
The curse of deadman's forest
15
This is a sundial that works in the overcast-oreven indoors.
One of our Thursdays is missing
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Ian reached into his trouser pocket and pulled out the sundial.
The curse of deadman's forest
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