Hourglasses is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 808 anagrams from letters in hourglasses (aeghlorsssu).
First recorded in 1505-15; hour + glass
I think an hourglass running out would help the notion; perhaps her little tilings upon his knee, or in his hand.
There is a good oak pulpit, with hourglass holder, and some heavy 15th-cent.
Sometimes his leather jackets were sporty and rakish, at others they were sculpted into prim, hourglass shapes.
The latter had an hourglass on his head, and in his hand a scythe, with which he aimed a blow at Mercury's feet.
It seems to refer to paired crossing lines as part of hourglass figures.
The marble was but roughly hewn, in lines that held the suggestion of an hourglass.
The hourglass figure can of course be construed as the "filled-in angle" enlarged.
To calculate it one must reckon a century for every turn of the hourglass.
There were bold minidresses with molded bodices that exaggerated an hourglass figure.
At the sound the bearded old man raises his sceptre, opens his mouth, and turns an hourglass.