What is "clock faces"

Usage examples of "clock faces".

Picton announced, looking up at one of the four clock faces what were set into each side of the tower’.

The walls, themselves psychedelic whirls of midnight blues and purples, were festooned with a variety of clock faces showing either the declared hour or a few minutes to, interwoven with every form of lamp known to man, from clay prehistoric to enzyme decay light canisters.

The light in the room was off, and as he flicked the button on the hilt, and the sparks leapt, crescents had flared on the edges of the clock faces over the wall.

By using clock faces instead of chapter titles or numbers in _Deadline at Dawn_, he makes us feel in our bones, like Quinn and Bricky, the inevitable approach of the dreaded sunrise.

He snapped the cover plate back over the multiple clock faces, and turned away.

There was one great clock mechanism buried deep in the warmer depths of the place, some vast assemblage of gears and creaking cogs which powered all the clock faces in the ramshackle shell of the castle.

And the other was city highway, where the lanes were narrower and there was no median strip and the traffic was full of delivery vans and pickup trucks and there were many many exits and many many signs and the road's design was a modified roller coaster, elevated over slums and factories, undulating and curving inside low concrete walls, sweeping past tall sooty brick buildings with clock faces mounted high on their facades that always told the wrong time.

Todays were particularly fanciful: saffron yellow with a bold black pattern of clock faces.

Why was St George's Church in Southwark built with three white clock faces and one black?