“Each swing of the clock's pendulum advanced a set of gears that in turn moved the clock's hands.”

“It may be an ancient pendulum clock, whose sinking weight, after it has been wound, will supply the energy.”

“You see, all mechanical clocks are driven by a weight, like a pendulum, or a tightly wound spring.”

“And then, taking a knife from his pocket, he cut the pendule off, leaving a bit of torn cloth on the side of his jacket.”

“My eye instantly perceived that the one pendule was still missing from his jacket.”

“Just at this moment, the pendule in the adjoining room struck six.”

“Besides tarot reading there are also runes, pendulums, Numerology, palm reading, tealeaf reading, scrying, and dowsing.”

“One contains constrained bodies that fall slowly, the other pendulums that repeat their motions again and again.”

“He also worked on cycloidal pendulums, the laws of resistance in a fluid and differential geometry.”