sands of time
English
Noun
the sands of time pl (plural only)
- (literary) time considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass
- 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life.”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, and Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 7:
- […] And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time […]
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Derived terms
- footprints on the sands of time
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