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Such a drought affected Hippo in the most productive months of Augustine's bishopric that clepsydras had to be replaced by sandglasses.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
"...they greeted him with a reserved severity, pursed lips and significant looks at their watches, or in default of watches, at a Chinese clepsydra by the dried medicinal serpents."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 204