"Chronometrical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... properly prepared chemically he can get no pictures. As Calliope had said of her evening with Eb and Elspie, "the air in the room was easy to get through with what you had to say—it was that kind of evening." Sometimes I wonder if an hour like that is real time; or is it, instead, a kind of chronometrical fairy, having no real existence on the ...
— Friendship Village • Zona Gale
... following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King
... reached the height of his glorious career, the possession of a professorship in the institute of Barcelona, he used to visit Cinta every afternoon, passing an hour and a half in her parlor with chronometric exactitude. Never did the slightest impure thought agitate the professor. The past had fallen into oblivion.... But he needed to see daily the captain's wife weaving laces with her two little nieces, as he had ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
