stable-clocks

Updated: May 20, 2025

It had given the law to house-clocks, stable-clocks, kitchen-clocks nay, even to Hamley Church clock in its day; and was it now, in its respectable old age, to be looked down upon by a little whipper-snapper of a French watch which could go into a man's waistcoat pocket, instead of having to be extricated, with due effort, like a respectable watch of size and position, from a fob in the waistband?

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters