When you have secured the watch time of local apparent noon, subtract 30 minutes from it and notify the quartermaster that at that time by your watch the deck clocks are to be set to 11.
The clocks can then be slightly but accurately changed at 11.
If this change of time is very great (providing you are on an almost easterly or westerly course), it is wise to have the clocks set back in the night watches to allow for most of the time you figure you will lose.
The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled up the interval of silence.
These instruments possess the character rather ofclocks than of chronometers, inasmuch as they are designed to hang against a bulk-head, and they would not appear unsuitable to house purposes.
Clocks of the earlier period had, as we have said, instead of the pendulum now in use, a balance, vibrating on the top of the clock, as the regulating medium.
Carillons attached to Church or Turret Clocks are being set up in various churches and mansions in different parts of the kingdom, and it is not improbable that the taste for such chimes may grow with the opportunity for hearing them.
Graham is the one in most general use for the best clocks made by London makers of the highest repute.
The clocks had struck nine and Christopher was finishing his dinner, when the little man, shining and dapper, pleased and impersonal, was shown in.
When at last Lucy was gone she lit her candle and lay there, hearing the clocks strike the hours, wondering when the day would come.
He was afraid the Indians would step on the poppies and the phlox, and trample down the four o'clocks which were just beginning to branch out and look nice and bushy, and to blossom.
The scent of the four o'clocks had been in his nostrils when he came out at dusk with his fur overcoat which mother had told him must not be left behind.
In the first place it marks the time most exactly; and, in the next, it communicates this power to other clocks as well.
Covered with its simple mahogany case, this Mother clock, as it is called, is not unlike one of those venerable wooden-cased clocks that one meets with sometimes in the old English manor-houses.
Water clocks and other devices in which natural forces governed a pointer were known in antiquity, as were counters of the type of the odometer.
Even the possession of an income of eighteen million dollars and a unique collection of clockscannot place a woman above the making of the obvious remark.
One of the large clocksnear the door was beginning to strike the hour.
Like so many scenes of childhood, the room of the clocks was sharply stamped on Betty's memory, and, as she came into it now, it seemed to her that nothing had changed.
There were the clocks, all round the walls, of every shape and size, the big clocks with the human faces and the small, perky clocks.
To general praise of her collection of clocks she was impervious; it was unique, and she did not require you to tell her so, but exhibit admiration for the clock with the little trumpeter, and she melted.
It was as if all the clocks in the world had been gathered together into that one room.
Those were her two hobbies, and her only extravagances--clocks and charity.
The Clocks at the Parish Church and St. George’s Chapel had been set going again at the instance of the Town Council.
As he reaches it, he hears, with annoyance, the hotel clocks striking one.
He thinks at first that the clocks must have stopped, but finds, on examination, that they are all ticking, and all unanimous.
The manufacturers of the watches and clocks soon made instruments for surveyors as well as the much needed compasses.
Long ago it was a manufacturing town and was noted for the fine clocks and watches which were splendid time-keepers for the punctual and thrifty Valley folk.
It might be used to make clocks speak--to tell when it was time to come to meals.
Rumours of this new "handiness" spread, and colliers from far and near sent their watches and clocks to him to doctor.
Supposin' I wake in the night, and think of him, and hear the clocks strike!
Eight-day clocks stood upon pedestals and niches; and the whole room whirred, and ticked, and chimed; never had Dimoussi dreamed of anything so marvellous.
The shrine was dark, and the ticking of the clocks in the gloom filled Dimoussi’s soul with awe and wonderment.
He raised his head and all the ticking clocks cried out to him: “Thou art the man.
He tried several before he dropped on to his feet; cocoa to begin with, then clocks and watches, and, finally, leather.
For the shrine was crowded with clocks: grandfather clocks with white faces, and gold faces, and enamelled faces, stood side by side along the walls, marking every kind of hour.
Britten's Old Clocksand Watches and their Makers, &c.
Britten's Old Clocksand Watches and their Makers, 1904.
Then that sad, sighing music of a bygone day died too; the clocks of the city struck six of the morning; day was rising over the Bayerischenwald.
Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an inclined plane, which turns every minute.
He saw some putting the hands of clocks forward, some putting the hands of clocks backward, some endeavouring to stop the clock entirely.
Another murderer might have acted differently, even with those clamorous clocks and accusing mirrors around him, but not this murderer.
It was cold, bleak, biting, foggy weather; and the city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already.
But mummies, mummies even more often than clocks and chests, are "possessed" by denizens of the occult world.
And it has often struck me how well the clocks of old castles were kept, for they regularly struck just as the ghost appeared.
To accomplish this, she does two things: the large clock in her room is stopped, all other clocks are removed; not even the wrist watch on her night-table is suffered to remain.
Frequently she had actually been awakened by this painful sensation and now this fear of an erection of the clitoris caused her to remove all ticking clocks during the night.
Our patient gradually learns to understand that she has banished clocks and watches from her room during the night because the clock is the symbol of the female genital.
But the usual clocks were there, a dozen or more, all of them ugly, several of them tawdry.
Even the clocks in his bungalow had to tick softly, and were not allowed to strike above a whisper.
The clocks recorded minutes and the smaller divisions of time; great care, however, was required to obtain good results from them.
Weight clocks had been in use as time-measurers since the thirteenth century, but they were, as we have seen, difficult to control and otherwise unreliable.
There were four clocks in the observatory, of which the largest had three wheels, one wheel of pure solid brass having twelve hundred teeth and a diameter of two cubits.
However, in 1657 Christian Huygens applied the pendulum to weight clocks of the old stamp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
