Sentence examples for carriage clock from inspiring English sources

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carriage clock

noun

A small clock with a carrying handle, originally designed for travelling

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Carriage clock.

The Bafta fellowship can't be some kind of carriage clock?

It's not quite time for my carriage clock.

Staffordshire figures of soldiers paraded on either side of a carriage clock on the mantelpiece.

It sure beats a gold carriage clock, and is again substantially better than other state employees.

Give that man a small bonus, a carriage clock perhaps – but not yet.

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Seventeen clocks -- tall case musicals, mantle regulators, English bracket clocks, carriage clocks -- tick-tocked.

The Conservative party doesn't do carriage clocks for people like Michael Gove.

In the living room, Mr. Berger arranged seven gold-plated carriage clocks, each the size of a small flowerpot, in a semicircle on the floor.

Most sinister of these are a travelling actor with the stage name of Amade Volpay, who adopts the boys, and a fat pawnbroker worthy of Dostoyevsky, stuffing himself with rancid meat amid the carriage clocks and silver services of an empire falling ever deeper into hock.

He amassed a personal collection that ran from thirteenth-century carriage clocks to modern quartz pieces.

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