1 His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 2 One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing altogether.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 3 This was the last oscillation of the pendulum.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL 4 It's not to be denied that one of 'em has left her sphere, has shot, has eloped, to put it plainly, with the entrails of a time-piece, the mere pendulum of a grandfather's clock.'
5 He's gone; she's gone; and the old clock that the rascal made himself into a pendulum for is the only one of 'em all to stop.'
6 That done, the pendulum returned to its right-left, right-left oscillation.
7 On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs.
8 The pendulum of the great clock went to and fro, and the hands turned, and everything in the room became still older; but they did not observe it.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE OLD HOUSE 9 All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting.
10 Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.