Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large form of clock, adapted for use on public buildings, church-towers, etc.
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Examples
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But now one tower-clock after another booms forth the twelve solemn strokes all over the city; the cafés empty themselves, and from the music-halls crowds of people swarm into the streets.
Shallow Soil 2003
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The sun sank, sank deeper; a tower-clock in the city somewhere boomed forth the hour.
Shallow Soil 2003
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The brownstone is midway in the block, next to a church where a blue tower-clock tolls the hours.
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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The brownstone is midway in the block, next to a church where a blue tower-clock tolls the hours.
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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The tower-clock struck twelve as in his walk he approached the gate to his little garden: he hesitated, and then noiselessly opened it.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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He turned in rather abruptly at a side door of the dark-red pile of building which boasted the illuminated tower-clock and a jutting ell with barred windows.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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Across from the gloomy pile of old Jefferson Market, she stood, reading up at an illuminated tower-clock, softly, her lips moving.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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The sun sank, sank deeper; a tower-clock in the city somewhere boomed forth the hour.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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But now one tower-clock after another booms forth the twelve solemn strokes all over the city; the cafés empty themselves, and from the music-halls crowds of people swarm into the streets.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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And the tower-clock tolls five, and he admits at last,
Poems Alan Seeger 1902
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