Dial Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words dial and/or instrument:

“The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)