"Dial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the grizzled beard put his face into the fur around the eyepiece of the telescopic-'visor and twisted a dial. "You have good eyes, Miss Quinton," he complimented. "The fifth's inside the handling machine. One of the ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... the trees, through which I had watched it. Up, up—It was broad daylight now. Behind me, I was conscious of a sharp, mosquito-like buzzing. I glanced 'round, and knew that it came from the clock. Even as I looked, it marked off an hour. The minute hand was moving 'round the dial, faster than an ordinary second-hand. The hour hand moved quickly from space to space. I had a numb sense of astonishment. A moment later, so it seemed, the two candles went out, almost together. I turned swiftly back to the window; for I had seen the shadow of the window-frames, ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... stick pointing to the pole-star, in relation to one held horizontally. If, instead of two sticks, we cut out a piece of metal or wood to fill up the enclosed angle, we get the earliest form of the sun-dial, known as the gnomon, and according to the shape of the gnomon the latitude of a place is determined. Accordingly, it is not surprising to find that the invention of the gnomon is also attributed to Anaximander, ...
— The Story of Geographical Discovery - How the World Became Known • Joseph Jacobs
... quiet sea as trans, of silea bigong, and compares Goth. anasilan, to be still; Swed. dial, sil, still water between waterfalls.—Zachers ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... a lawyer's testimony to the moral qualities of his brethren. In the garden of Clement's Inn may still be seen the statue of a negro, supporting a sun-dial, upon which a legal wit ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
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