clock-faces

Here were sold live rabbits and birds; there, paper clock-faces, engravings, songs, and figures of saints.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

This infant genius (but it was the infant Hercules struggling with the snakes) was bound down by his master to cut clock-faces and door-knockers -- ay, clock-faces and door-knockers!

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various

If the writer ever plans a modern city he will plant a belfry in the very centre, with four clock-faces on it, a sun-dial, a thermometer, and a peal of bells.

The Automobilist Abroad

We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and struting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and strutting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them.

A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 Mark Twain 1872

The old portion of the city has some remains of the Gothic, and abounds in archways and rambling alleys, that suddenly become broad streets and then again contract to the width of an alderman, and portions of the old wall and city gates; old feudal towers stand in the market-place, and faded frescoes on old clock-faces and over archways speak of other days of splendor.

Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The old portion of the city has some remains of the Gothic, and abounds in archways and rambling alleys, that suddenly become broad streets and then again contract to the width of an alderman, and portions of the old wall and city gates; old feudal towers stand in the market-place, and faded frescoes on old clock-faces and over archways speak of other days of splendor.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Having secured this implement, he burst from his conductor, and, leaping into the hatch, as clowns generally spring into the clock-faces, when in pursuit of harlequin in the pantomime, -- that is, back foremost, -- broke into a fit of loud and derisive laughter, kicking his heels merrily all the time against the boards.

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843