If you were superior to my son in making timepieces and automata, you should, as his wife, always let him suppose you thought him superior in that art to yourself.
It is not necessary to know about timepieces to know how to be so necessary to the happiness of an An, who cares for timepieces, that he would rather give up the timepieces than divorce his Gy.
It required a disastrous wreck to bring home to the railroads and make clear the necessity for absolute accuracy in the timepieces of their employees.
We have arrived, then, at a time when a small percentage of the total population carried accurate timepieces and was able to profit by the more efficient adjustment of its actions thus secured.
The Athenians used to carry these timepiecesas we do our watches.
As did those wise men of old Babylon, so do we even now, spying upon the mighty master clock of the universe to correct all our little timepieces thereby.
Through all this age man continued to regulate his expanding affairs by the timepieces of the sky—the sun, the moon, and the stars.
He presented the French Academy with a marine timekeeper superior to the timepieces of the period, and a memoir describing it.
In all this journey, covering thousands of years, one thing has made itself clear to us—the story of timepieces is not a mere mechanical story; it is a human story.
There again is shown the old idea about watches; they were not timepieces but toys.
Therefore, the man who makes or sells unreliable timepieces is false to his trust.
Ah yes, the stars were there, even in the very beginning—and the moon and the sun, they were as regular then as now; perhaps these were the timepieces of his earliest ancestors.
Derham (1734) uses the term to indicate all timepieces driven by springs.
The man who has to do either with the manufacture or sale of timepieces does well to take his position seriously since he is a most important link in our entire civilization.
This was very unreasonable, for he always found that the two timepieces told the truth; at least, that they agreed with each other.
During one of Ned's comparisons of the two timepieces the door opened, and Mr Auberly entered, with a dark cloud, figuratively speaking, on his brow.
In England the chamber clocks, as distinguished from the costly and elaborate timepieces which adorned public buildings, appear to have been introduced about the year 1600.
In London, Joseph Williamson produced some of the finest astronomical timepieces of this type that have been known.
Father Borghesi listened willingly and as his understanding of timepieces grew, his curiosity increased.
His apprenticeship over, Bertolla returned to his native region where he soon established a reputation for himself as one of the most skillful clockmakers in the Tridentina and produced timepieces of fine quality in some quantity.
Thus the reader will see that, while the business of the clock-maker has prospered so extraordinarily, valuable timepieces have been brought within the reach of even the poorest.
It will be best," he added significantly, "if you all hand over your timepieces to me at once.
Only among the most highly civilized nations are timepieces carried by the common people.
The use of jewels in timepieces was reinvented in 1704 A.
Timepieces are cheaper and better made and more accurate than they were two hundred years ago, but no really important discovery has been made since the pendulum was introduced.
There was a time when the names of Graham and Tampion on timepieces were guarantees of the most exquisite workmanship and of unquestioned integrity.
And which of thesetimepieces goes the truest, Margaret?
Here you sit almost under the shadow of one of the largest timepieces in the universe and fail to appreciate the wonder that towers above your head.
It is interesting also to note how these two mammoth timepieces differ.
Not only did they want to be sure no poor clocks were made but they also wished to keep the monopoly of all the timepieces turned out.
This clock on the insurance building is one of the most unique timepiecesyet made.
Both timepieces were good ones that never before had led their owners astray; but on this fatal day they were responsible not only for the deaths of two blameless engineers but also a number of mail clerks.
David Rittenhouse of Philadelphia was an exceedingly skillful clockmaker who not only had to his credit many fine timepieces but also some very complicated and remarkable ones.
A good many such timepieces were made for the interiors of churches or for their steeples.
There was now some hope that ultimately timepieces would furnish correct time, which after all is, I suppose, the only excuse a clock has for being.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timepieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
