A
"grandfather clock" is a type of tall clock that stands on the floor and has a long pendulum.
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The oversized wine glasses, blown - up hands
of grandfather clocks, and other random objects are feel somehow completely necessary in the room.
Mahogany hallway
with grandfather clock Hallway decorating 25 Beautiful Homes Housetohome.co.uk Credit: Robert Sanderson
There is an eclectic, vintage vibe going on in here with some mismatched chairs, farmhouse table, rustic bench with a textured pillow, artwork, an
old grandfather clock and a brass coat rack.
Furnishings in the new dining room include an antique
grandfather clock case and rustic table in distressed white.
In Adjusting Time, an olive green
grandfather clock stands partially dismantled, with citron yellow tools, springs, and screws floating above a table nearby, errant numbers strewn on the floor.
A Scottish silver -
faced grandfather clock bought from the Royal Dublin Society looks completely at home in this spacious Georgian hallway.
Earnhardt would like to replicate the Martinsville magic his teammates have experienced and add a coveted
Martinsville grandfather clock to his collection.
In my third eye, a vision of an old
mahogany grandfather clock with a swinging pendulum and hand - painted Roman numerals on the dial.
Despite the room's 18 - foot ceilings, the principal's office is an unintimidating space, strewn with piles of papers and a Mickey Mouse tote bag and watched over by an
oak grandfather clock.
An 18th
century grandfather clock featured in the new book Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks will be offered for sale by Strasburg, PA - based Baldwin House Antiques.
i was able to get a
lovely grandfather clock for half price before the official «half price time» simply because i quietly suggested that i doubted anyone would buy a broken clock other than me.
First there was our crazy «nesting» phase where we gave the front foyer a complete makeover with a drop zone and a cleverly
incorporated grandfather clock.
A leaflet in the July issue of Homes & Gardens showed a room furnished with an unusual style
of grandfather clock in one of the pictures.
I have an old - fashioned, store bought tassel hanging from my
old grandfather clock... I'm thinking I will update that tassel to a more untraditional tassel like yours... so much prettier than mine!
As the recipient of the award, Dairy Enterprises received
a Grandfather clock.
The Earth's
grandfather clock is not audible to all, but it must be obeyed by those who hear its eternal ticking and tocking.
Ever since he was a young boy Dale Earnhardt Jr. wanted
a grandfather clock, which is awarded to the winner of a Martinsville race.
Earnhardt desperately wanted
a grandfather clock of his own, but in 29 previous Martinsville starts he had come up short.
The solemn tick - tock of
a grandfather clock, the book - lined walls, the enormous desk - any Foreign Office ministers would be pleased with this.
Once, during floor votes, he took a cellphone call from inside
a grandfather clock.
Consider the pendulum of
a grandfather clock.
The refrigerator - size device, shown here and built in 2000, measures the frequency at which mercury ions oscillate between a higher and lower energy state, then uses that alternation to keep time — similar to a pendulum in
a grandfather clock.
Similar to the way
a grandfather clock's pendulum ticks off the seconds before signaling the gears to turn its hands, frequency combs count oscillations and convert them into useful electronic signals.
Much as a pendulum in
a grandfather clock requires gears to record its swings and slowly turn the clock's hands, an optical atomic clock uses an optical frequency comb to count the oscillations of light and convert them into a useful electronic signal.
A simple dynamical system is a function that describes the movement of
a grandfather clock's pendulum.
Though he comes across as a mild sociopath at times (like in one scene where he matter - of - factly tells Phil that he wants to rip open his antique
grandfather clock to see how it works), Gyllenhaal imbues Davis with enough charisma that he turns an otherwise unsympathetic character into someone whose erratic behavior is understandable, if not completely relatable.
So has Arthur Less, once pink and gold with youth, faded like the sofa he sits on, tapping one finger on his knee and staring at
the grandfather clock.
The sound of
the grandfather clock ticking away in the living room gave way to the television laughter issuing softly from the bedroom down the hall.
Like her Keeshond - Italian Greyhound mix, Trooper, she's treat motivated, but only one of them has tried to eat
a grandfather clock.
This hip and trendy boutique in downtown Santa Barbara uses colorful customized vinyl decals of peacocks, chandeliers,
grandfather clocks, giraffes with... Read More