In front of the pillared porch there was a little square of white cobble-stones and in the middle of these an old grey sundial.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
Then I thought if I could fix a pole in the middle it ought to cast a shadow, and tell the time like a sundial.
"The Manor House School"
Angela Brazil
At first sight, from the air, it looked like a sundial, a slender tower rising like a gnomen above a circle of low buildings and formal gardens.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper