Clepsydræ or clocks are of later date, and no more than a sundial are they portable.
It has been generally assumed that it was an actual sundial upon which this sign was seen.
But there is no reason to think that the word rendered in our Authorized Version as "dial" was a sundial at all.
Beside, a sundial is not a portable instrument, and Joshua and his men had something more pressing to do than to loiter round it.
When the dial and the gnomon were understood, dialling became a popular science, and ere long the sundial on the church tower, in a public place, or in a private garden, told the time.
Some further references to the sundial will be found in Chapter XVII, the sundial being one of the accompaniments of the old-world garden.
It will make a good effect for you to emerge from the forest on horseback, and anyhow, what with the rabbit skin, the tent, and the sundial and the other things, you have a lot to carry.
There is a sundial in its courtyard, by which the Council of the Home can tell the hours of the day and when to ring the bell.
The shadow on the sundial marks off a half-hour while we dress and eat our breakfast in the dining hall, where there are five long tables with twenty clay plates and twenty clay cups on each table.
How to Lay Out a Sundial [261] The sundial is an instrument for measuring time by using the shadow of the sun.
Sun time to local mean time,- add those marked + subtract those Marked - from Sundial lime.
The design of the sundial is left to the ingenuity of the maker.
I forgot whether Lashly or Crean led then, but I marched alongside, keeping in touch with the trace by hitching the lanyard of my sundial on to it and holding this in my hand.
I usually carried the sundialslung round my neck, so that it was easy to pick it up and consult it.
So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.
The clepsydra and the sundial were Babylonian inventions for measuring time.
The sundialof Ahaz was probably of Babylonian design.
The sundial stood on a mass of masonry, too low and wide to be called a pillar.
I found the sundial again, and stretched myself along the warm brick of the wide step where she had sat: and called myself a fool.
The wing of the mansion looking toward the garden and park cast its broad shadow over a white and green checkered tile walk and extended out over a large round bed, with a sundialin its centre and a border of Indian shot and rhubarb.
The sundialwas gone and in the place where it had stood there lay since yesterday a white marble slab with nothing on it but "Effi Briest" and a cross beneath.
It was an exceptionally beautiful day; the heliotrope growing in a neat bed around the sundial was still in bloom, and the soft breeze that was stirring bore its fragrance over to them.
The heliotrope around the sundial is dearer to me than Mentone.
Almost behind the church tower was the moon, which shed its light upon the grassy plot with the sundial and the heliotrope beds.
It had been selected by Paul for a workroom because of its charming outlook upon the secluded little garden with its sundial and irregularly paved paths, and because it was the largest room in the house.
One morning, when the girls were sitting chatting round the sundial at eleven o'clock recreation, they noticed the telegraph boy from Chetbourne ride up on his bicycle and deliver a message at the door.
She said: 'Wilt thou give him this message from me, that in no wise he forget the oath which he swore upon the finger-ring as it lay on the sundial of the Garden of the Face?
The square pillar surmounted by sundial and ball which for years supplanted the original finial has in turn been replaced by a new canopy and cross.
Several noteworthy features may be seen, including a Saxon sundial from the original church.
A much maltreated market cross stands in the main street with a sundial stuck on the summit of its shaft.
There was an old moss-grown stone sundial close to the house; she paused for a moment beside it to pick up a scarf which was laid on the top and so passed through the window, whence in a moment or two a lamp-light shone.
I will say that my watch is stopped, and I will send you to see the time by the sundial in the court.
Nay, there's a sundial in the court there,' he said, and over his shoulder bade the lackey go and look at it.
There is the Italian garden, you know, Wave, a sundial would do very nicely there, and we could choose an inscription.
The shrubbery was thick, but every now and then Waveney had glimpses of little shut-in lawns, one with a glorious cedar in the middle, and another with a sundial and peacock.
Before the trees were planted there seems to have been a sundial on the side of the hill, the precipitous scar on the top forming the gnomon.
The inscription is on a sundial over the south porch in both churches; but while that of Kirkdale is quite complete and perfect, this one has words missing at the beginning and end.
The arch of the tower and the door below the sundial have the narrowness and rudeness suggesting the pre-Norman age, but more than this it is unwise to say.
The sundial seemed rooted to the ground, so little would it give.
To be accurate a sundial must be made especially for the section where it is used.
We know the sundial had something to do with it too.
Beyond, a sundial of peculiar design and construction, attracted her attention.
If only we could have the sundial opened, I know we'd find the pearls!
They pointed out the brokensundial which Miss Swenster planned to repair, the desk with the secret panel, and told a story which held their friends spellbound.
You don't need to guess with a sundialsuch as this.
According to this diary, Uncle George must have been making the sundial on the very day that the pearls were disposed of!
Although Miss Swenster had said little, Madge could tell that she did not care to have the sundial broken.
She knew that it was John Swenster who had been prowling about the garden and now she was convinced that he had broken open the sundial in an attempt to locate the pearls.
It really was urgent that thesundial be investigated that very afternoon.
It was not particularly startling, merely reading: "Uncle George is to mix cement for the new sundial tomorrow.
Look at that broad-faced, flat-headed sundial away down there.
The thirteenth chapter of John is the Lord's sundial on feet-washing.
The sundial is said to be still in existence at Woolsthorpe, on the corner of the house where Isaac dwelt.
But sunny hours alone the sundial names; All unrecorded are the midnight spans And vain within the dusk the watcher scans The marble face; thereon no record flames.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sundial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
