clock-winding

I need more caffeine, to offset my loss of an hour of sleep to my region's move to "daylight saving time," which as Bill Kauffman points out is "that puzzling ritual of mass clock-winding ill befitting freeborn Americans."

Libraries Maxine 2009

What we get instead is brisk, narrative clock-winding that quickly sets up the problem ("King Richard's being held hostage by Leopold of Austria" ...), the villains (Prince John and Sir Guy of Gisbourne), and the heroes (Robin of Locksley and Will Scarlett).

Archive 2008-04-01 Jeff Massie 2008

What we get instead is brisk, narrative clock-winding that quickly sets up the problem ("King Richard's being held hostage by Leopold of Austria" ...), the villains (Prince John and Sir Guy of Gisbourne), and the heroes (Robin of Locksley and Will Scarlett).

Happy Birthday, Robin Steve Hulett 2008

Oh, and you boot the thing up by cranking an antique clock-winding key.

Steampunking Technology 2007

I was too busy wondering whether there could be anything in his clock-winding story after all.

Mr. Justice Raffles 1893

Nowadays, Montgomery, as the last of his race, had been promoted to accompany his grandmother on this clock-winding tour, and had once innocently asked:

The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876

However, he soon forgot the matter save to obey her wish, though afterward this clock-winding, which he had thought a "bother an 'n-n-nuisance," seemed fully as sacred an act as the church-going which followed it.

The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876