"The illusion of time is an agreed-upon factor" (Nancy Kautz, Pilgrimage Toward Freedom).  Our illustration is from The British Workman and Friend of the Sons of Toil, 1855.

"Stay, morning has not come, / and night has not closed. / Time grows thin, / the two to be equalled, / and quiet returns" —A Gabriela Mistral Reader, 1993.  Our thin grandfather clock appears in Chambers's New Geographical Readers, 1891.

Shaking a fist at 8 o'clock, from Once a Week, 1878.

An elk adjusts the clock in 1907.

Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)

From 1970.

From Simboli Predicabili by Carlo Labia, 1692.

The dial of a Japanese astronomical clock, from Time and Its Measurement by James Arthur, 1909.

Here's how it works.  From Regula Emblematica Sancti Benedicti, 1780.

Here's how Father Time gets around, from Fun magazine, 1864.