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eight-day

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Adj.1.eight-day - lasting for eight days
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
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And others are there who are like eight-day clocks when wound up; they tick, and want people to call ticking--virtue.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
All slept; the gas in the hall had been left faintly burning to light his return; a dreadful stillness reigned, broken by the deep ticking of the eight-day clock.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
It was a dirty little box, this counting-house, with nothing in it but an old ricketty desk and two stools, a hat-peg, an ancient almanack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight-day clock which hadn't gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minute-hand had been twisted off for a tooth-pick.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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