He stiffened for a moment, listening, but the only sound was the light tick of a large eight-day clock above the bridge windows.

The Maicoletta had a dashboard with a speedometer and an eight-day clock.

He remembered an old eight-day clock on a back stair, which was never going.

It was an eight-day clock which struck the quarters and hours on fine cathedral-tone bells.

Mrs. Chaffery had come upon it in the case of her eight-day clock when the time to wind it came round.

I was there from one to nearly four, getting wound like an eight-day clock.

Methought, as I read, I could hear my heart strike like an eight-day clock.

In addition to farming and printing, he practised medicine, and manufactured tall eight-day clocks.

Half the china on the table was shattered, while the eight-day clock stopped.

In 1873 Sargent created the first time lock, using parts from eight-day clocks.