What is "clockface"

Usage examples of "clockface".

He took his ticket and turned away, glancing up at the enormous clockface on the opposite wall.

Clinging together, they swung like an octopedal pendulum above the inverted clockface of Theeo, hooked on a taut line.

And above the clockface, itself above her head, a crowned king and queen knelt before an Amyrlin Seat in her enameled stole, with the Flame of Tar Valon, carved from a large moonstone, atop a golden arch over her head.

An illuminated clockface mounted on the facade of a great banking establishment showed an hour and a half until midnight.

In fact they were soon to become an item around Shade Creek, out to all hours among the milling sleepless of the town, along the smoky indoor promenades lit by shadow-patched fluorescent bulbs, across covered bridges lined with shops and stalls, beneath the many clockfaces beaming from overhead, past Thanatoid dogs lounging in groups, who had learned how to give up wagging their tails and now gestured meaningfully with them instead.

Instead of normal whites or pupils, her eyes held miniature digital clockfaces, glowing green.

The belvedere was well sited to give a semicircular panorama to the horizon, and the Beta androids appeared like minute dots on a clockface.

Others, less practiced in patience, stared wistfully at the clockface above them, like spurned lovers who are still allowed to bepresent so long as they never declare their love.

Instead of having just one clockface on the top surface, it had a whole little screen type of thing, just like on a digital watch except that it wasn't showing anything right now, just gray and blank.

Above the great clockfaces the Belfry was floodlit by mobile searchlight-units of the NTCROTC and the various Telerama departments.

He had a dreamlike sense of having somehow entered one of those paintings where steam engines are coming out of brick fireplaces or clockfaces are lying limply over tree limbs.

And before him was the tower of Big Ben, its carved sandstone fascias glowing golden in the light of the spots at its feet, and the big translucent clockface shining from within.