The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth (1901)
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W. R. H. Trowbridge's epistolary novel follows Elizabeth's observations and romantic entanglements through letters from her mother. The Waterbury appears not as a possession but as an everyday comparison: Elizabeth describes a feverish pulse as ticking with the speed and regularity of the inexpensive watch. (Open Library)
Watches
- Waterbury watch
- Elizabeth describes a feverish pulse as ticking like a Waterbury watch, using the real inexpensive watch as a familiar comparison.
Source text: Then he did so strange a thing that I am sure it was done in delirium; he asked me to feel how fast his pulse was beating—it went tick-tock like a Waterbury watch—and he put his arm with the bad thumb round my waist, and called me an angel in the back of his throat and was hot all over. So I knew he had fever. (Project Gutenberg ebook 41302)