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...ft it with a straw My first natural impulse was to apply this principle to guns and ironclads, and all the material and methods of war, and from that ... ... the stuff he was going to turn 15 H. G . Wells out than if he had been a machine that makes guns. This was a possible substance, and he was going to... ...oing to turn 15 H. G . Wells out than if he had been a machine that makes guns. This was a possible substance, and he was going to make it! V’la tout... ...ch im- mersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) ... ...ever and again came gusts of turmoil, hammering, the clanging and throb of machinery, and presently—the bellowing of great beasts! 61 H. G . Wells Ch... ... up a ravine, and then we passed over a place of sounds, sounds of beating machinery as if some huge hall of industry came near the surface there. And... ...ings, and who ever got to any sort of understanding with ants?” “But these machines and clothing! No, I don’t hold with you, Bedford. The difference i... ...ight put the thing on a sounder footing. Come back in a bigger sphere with guns.” 98 The First Men in the Moon “Good Lord!” cried Cavor, as though th... ...bably get reinforced. Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare—guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes—this unknown world below our feet, this ...

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...is new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the world waited for more than fiv... ...y had made the most 14 The World Set Free partial of substitutions. Steam machinery and factory pro- duction were visibly revolutionising the conditi... ... blow us and everything about us to fragments; if I could turn it into the machinery that lights this city, it could keep Edinburgh brightly lit for a... ...and by the autumn of 1954 a gigantic replacement of industrial methods and machinery was in progress all about the habitable globe. Small wonder was t... ...rto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that... ..., were being flung out of employment by the superior efficiency of the new machinery, the rapid fall in the cost of transit was destroying high land v... ... though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed that they could go over broken ground. In a... ...e dangled little wooden ob- jects, the symbols of infantry and cavalry and guns, as they were disposed upon the frontier. He did not seem to be aware ... ...they were not so much ended as distracted by the distant thud- ding of the guns that were opening fire at long range upon Namur.’ S S S S Section 7 ec...

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...u give me for my syllogism? Not a slap in the eye, I hope. We stick to our guns. The seats are cheap. That has a nasty proletarian look about it. But ... ...ppings from the illustrated press. It may be that a miner is a complicated machine for cutting coal and voting on a ballot-paper. It may be that coal-... ...how, granted that men are men still, that not all of them are bits, parts, machine-sections, then we have added another tragic possibility to the list... ...I dislike so extremely. Now it really became a case of men working against machines, flesh and blood working against iron, for a livelihood. Still, it... ... now I hardly know my own pits, with the great electric plants and strange machinery, and the new coal-cut- ters—iron men, as the colliers call them—e... ...or one minute pulled themselves up and conquered their mania for money and machine excite- ment, the whole thing would be solved.—Would you like me to...

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...was Ted lofty with her. He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints for the blueprints came. “That’ll do now!... ... like a bum.” “Wish there were more folks that were so generous with their machines,” dutifully said the victim of benevolence. “Oh, no, ‘tain’t a que... ... superior and powerful, like a shuttle of polished steel darting in a vast machine. As always he ignored the next two blocks, decayed blocks not yet r... ...d and twenty-six bones. But I don’t figure I was stuck, George, not a bit. Machine looks brand new now—not that it’s so darned old, of course; had it ... ...y. Regarding each new intricate mechanism—metal lathe, two-jet carburetor, machine gun, oxyacetylene welder—he learned one good realistic-sound- ing p... ...lair Lewis to jail, along with some nice, clean, pious, high-up trac- tion guns!” “Well, Stan, looks like we were coming down to cases. That deal—Ther... ...hot and dusty, and no wonder he wants to beat the tar out of those sons of guns!” Gunch said nothing, and watched; and Babbitt knew that he was being ... ... My friend Sir Gerald Doak told me that Lord Wycombe is one of the biggest guns in England—well, Doak or somebody told me.” “Oh! Do you know Sir Geral... ... the dickens you trying to do? Wreck the firm? You don’t suppose these Big Guns will stand your bucking them and springing all this ‘liberal’ poppycoc...

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...vely early age. We find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns loaded to the muzzle, ere yet he had had a party in honour of his te... ...ion of his crew to the taper spars of a ship lying snug in harbour under the guns of a fort. ‘She shall be ours at sunrise,’ said he. ‘Serve out a dou... ...t slow to return her fire; and a terrific can nonading ensued, in which the guns of ‘The Beauty’ did tremendous execution. The Latin grammar master w... ...od aim. ‘Fire!’ The ringing voice of Boldheart was lost in the report of the guns and the screeching of the savages. Volley after volley awakened the ... ...ssel, and pointed out everything worthy of notice. He also fired his hundred guns, and found it amusing to witness their alarm. The entertainment surp... ...ned that the young lady is going to bathe. Even now she waits her turn for a machine. The tide is low, though rising. I, in one of our town boats, sha... ...orth in her bathing dress into the shallow water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her and pre vent her return. Do you the...

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...g, dangerous underworld, mindless, inhuman. They sounded also like strange machines, heavy, oiled. The volup- tuousness was like that of machinery, co... ...etimes she beat her wings like a new Daphne, turning not into a tree but a machine. And yet, she was overcome by the nostalgia. She struggled to get m... ...e glamour, their voices were full of an intolerable deep resonance, like a machine’s burr- ing, a music more maddening than the siren’s long ago. She ... ...But he was really imper- sonal, he had the fineness of an elegant piece of machinery. He was too cold, too destructive to care really for women, too g... ... ally he detested and despised them. In the mass they fasci- nated him, as machinery fascinated him. They were a new sort of machinery to him—but inca... ...ed to go out of the lodge gates. At the gates were stationed sentries with guns. Gerald stood near them in delight, whilst gangs of derisive miners st...

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..., oh, thank you!” One of the men was clamoring at Kennicott, “I brought my machine down to take you home, doc.” “Fine business, Sam!” cried Kennicott;... ...blouse. Sam Clark’s Hardware Store. An air of frankly metallic enterprise. Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beau- tiful shiny butcher knives. ... ...arricade of green and gold wheels, of shafts and sulky seats, belonging to machinery of which Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, si... ...ellows, and a man was pasting up red bills with lovely pictures of washing-machines on them. and the jeweler was laying out bracelets and wrist- watch... ...nd and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads. Mr. Stowbody felt out of p... ...ndinavian farmers down there so: their big red barns and silos and milking-machines and everything. Do you all know that lonely Lutheran church, with ... ...farmer sitting on sacks of wheat in a bobsled argued with the wheat-buyer; machinery within the mill boomed and whined, water gurgled in the ice- free... ...oke of these details to Sam Clark…rather often. In all his games, cars and guns and land, he expected 204 Main Street Carol to take an interest. But ... ...ott and the other solid citizens of Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles. The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who c...

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... ought to know, and just enough to keep him comfortable! So we work like a machine, signorina. Only, not through that Beppo, for he is vain of his leg... ...ovidence. Barto raised his hand. “We’re too low down here for that kind of machinery,” he said. “They say that Providence is on the side of the Austri... ...very one of insincerity and of faithlessness; and, being the master of the machinery of the plots, he was ready, upon a whispered justification, to de... ...urse did, know best: nevertheless it was bound to be nothing better than a machine in the hands of the dull closeted men in Vienna, who judged of diff... ...long as you can hold out, keep single: ‘ade!’’ Fifteen hundred men and six guns were counted as they marched on to one gate. Barto Rizzo, with Battist... ...osecutor, so to, isolate or extinguish them. Who can say? Oh, ay! Yes! the machinery that can so easily be made rickety is to blame; we admit that; bu... ...finger at the dear brave men whom she had hurled upon the bayonets and the guns. It was an unendurable anguish. Giacinta was compelled to let her cry,... ...nance, and refused to hear that they were unintelligible in the roaring of guns and floods and hurrahs, and the thumping of the tremen- dous big drum ... ...polish. Shot was piled in pyramids beneath their mouths. He exam- ined the guns admiringly. There were rows of daggers along shelves; some in sheath, ...

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...th and early manhood have given place now to more scientific and efficient machinery. When I was a boy, Bromstead, which is now a borough, was ruled b... ...reluctantly agreed to stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the elementary s... ... was destined to alter the scale of every human affair. That something was machinery and a vague energetic dis- position to improve material things. I... ..., they did not want their children made strange to them. There was all the machinery and all the men needed to teach the old subjects, and none to tea... ...ic reconstruction at which I aimed. I wanted to build up a new educational machine altogether for the governing class out of a consolidated sys- tem o... ... issues of war. There were no wagons in our war game, and where there were guns, there it was assumed the ammunition was gath- ered together. Finance ... ...d from our scheme of illusion. All through my middle Cambridge period, the guns boomed and the rifles crackled away there on the veldt, and the horsem... ...en order attacks of helmeted men in khaki, the scarce visible smoke of the guns, the wrecked trains in great lonely places, the burnt isolated farms, ... ... and Neal about the relative efficiency of the new French and German field guns. Wrassleton joined in and a little drunken shrivelled Oxford don of so...

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...y, when in the great dark glade there stood one, two, three great men with guns, and when one took hold of the damsel’s bridle and told her to come wi... ...very country where they have set foot. I would as soon hear of an infernal machine in the country as a Pole!” “Poles deserve justice as well as other ... ... for by his uncle, who offered an exhibition of his model- farm-buildings, machines, cattle, &c. Fain would Viola and I have gone in the train of the ... ...men to clear the space whence it would be easiest to see the action of the machinery. I made a rush after him, and found him all over dust, dragging a... ... essays and poems where he had tried to work out his thought; fragments of machines, the toys of his constructive brain, among which the travellers fo... ... of the workmen directed me to him, as he was helping to put in order some machine for hoisting that was out of gear. “Bless you, ma’am,” said the man...

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...d front, behind which the wounded retreated, and the others reloaded their guns. Then, suddenly, with the agility already shown by Marche- a-Terre, th... ...s. There they made a rampart of the trees and pointed the muzzles of their guns on the Republicans, who were rapidly reformed under 32 The Chouans re... ... aim at the Chouan, whose fixed eyes did not blink at the muzzles of their guns, fired at short range, and brought him down. When they ap- proached th... ...ith difficulty have stowed themselves. The narrow quarters of this rickety machine not admitting of any crowding, and the box which formed the seat be... ...ouans were still occupying it, and the sun, glinting on the muzzles of the guns, showed them to him, each like a dazzling spot. Giving 43 Balzac a la... ...ice and after a slight pause. * * * At a distance of three or four gunshots from the plateau, now abandoned, a little scene was taking place w... ...pulled for the benefit of the State; to keep the running-gear of the great machine we call govern- ment in good order, and fasten to it the desires of...

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...n Jones IF I could have lived another year I could have finished my flying machine, And become rich and famous. Hence it is fitting the workman Who tr... ...n town, Stepped off with Daisy Fraser. Abel Melveny I BOUGHT every kind of machine that’s known— Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes... ... have the slightest need of, As things turned out, and I never ran— A fine machine, once brightly varnished, And eager to do its work, Now with its pa... ...ager to do its work, Now with its paint washed off— I saw myself as a good machine That Life had never used. 84 Spoon River Anthology Oaks Tutt MY mo... ...River, Where I could study my Kant in peace And eke out a living repairing guns Look at my moulds! My architectonics One for a barrel, one for a hamme... ...iving Had anything else but duplicate moulds Of these I show you—well, all guns Would be just alike, with a hammer to hit The cap and a barrel to carr... ... and all Acting against each other alike. And there would be your world of guns! Which nothing could ever free from itself Except a Moulder with diffe... ...ian creed. And then: The bank collapsed. I stood and hooked at the wrecked machine— The wheels with blow-holes stopped with putty and painted; The rot...

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... on each left wing will be killed. I see bonfires, and hear the noise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the Frenc... ...he Duke of Burgundy s administration; but the genius that animated the whole machine being gone, will be the cause of mighty turns and revolutions in ... ...e days a prodigious journey by land and sea. In the evening I hear bells and guns, and see the blazing of a thousand bonfires. A young admiral of nobl...

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...s lines of batteries were vomiting fire and brimstone; when all those dark guns that you see poking their grim heads out of every imaginable cleft and... ...ating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thundering great guns at the bows and stern, its busy crew swarming on the deck, and a crowd... ...d we could see that enormous “Caledonia,” with her flashing three lines of guns. We looked at the little boats which ever and anon came out of this mo... ...nant should find the yards of his ship manned as he went on board, all the guns firing an enormous salute (only without the least noise or vile smell ... ...hat they were much more afraid of the Kabyles without the city than of the guns of the French squadron, of which they seemed to make rather light. I h... ...r hire. I have a picture of one of them now in my eyes:a little green oval machine, with flowers rudely painted round the window, out of which two smi...

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...sible, relatively necessary factor in the big whirring social and official machine. That fixed obligation was the fact he could think of with the leas... ... unclassified odds and ends: Effie’s croquet- box and fishing rods, Owen’s guns and golf-sticks and racquets, his step-mother’s flower-baskets and gar... ...o; but in my time there used to be half a dozen fagged ‘hands’ to tend the machine, and Miss Viner was one of them. I’m glad she’s out of it, poor gir... ...ce of things-as-they-came, as though she had been some wonderful automatic machine which recorded facts but had not yet been perfected to the point of... ... fib about it? Those poor young things that have to go about among us like machines—oh, if you knew how I pity them!” “If you pity her, why not let he...

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...rred by the French code, and so I must change my proposal. I walked the floor, turning the thing over in my mind, and finally it occurred to me that G... ...under the strain which had been put upon it. He named sixty-five yards. I nearly lost my patience. I said: “Sixty-five yards, with these instruments? ... ...ith the ends hanging and flapping down our backs—an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. Harris carried the little watch... ... mile away, now—perhaps it was the murmur of a storm; and now it was nearer—not a quarter of a mile away; was it the muffled rasping and grinding of d... ...ion—said their pauses and accompanying movements were so continuous and regular that a stranger would think himself in the presence of a couple of aut... ...t was upon me, and I said that as I had committed myself I would not back down; I would ascend Mont Blanc if it cost me my life. I told the man to sla... ...h column; no police- court reports; no reports of proceedings of higher courts; no information about prize-fights or other dog-fights, horse- races, w...

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...allest capital. The workshop is, as we have seen, any convenient wall; the machinery costs about ten francs. The apprentice slept, like his master, in... ...olks.” “A fine piece of work,” said the old man, examining the mischievous machine. “It is very well to pick up the sous now, papa,” said Mam T onsard... ...people, every time the sieve dips down into the taxation-pot by means of a machine called the budget. Adolphe, working early and late and earning litt... ...enes, was heated by a porcelain stove, on each side of which were sporting-guns suspended on the walls. These adornments, which cost but little, were ... ... where he kept various contrivances for the public games, such as weighing-machines, merry-go-rounds, see-saws, all in readiness for the Tivoli when o... ...olated and close to the woods. Courtecuisse and Vaudoyer had brought their guns to accompany the bride. The neighborhood was otherwise fast asleep; no... ...k Vaudoyer, Courtecuisse, Tonsard, and Bonnebault went out, carrying their guns, though none of the women took any notice of them. They came back in a... ...acques’ ‘Social Compact’! and I—I am harnessed to the so- 297 Balzac cial machine that works it! Good God! what will the kings be soon? More than tha...

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...wer for the world’s service—a subtle force that could set in motion mighty machines, men’s muscles, and awaken also in human breasts an unbounded devo... ...were ar- ranged firearms: Winchester carbines, revolvers, a couple of shot-guns, and even two pairs of double- barrelled holster pistols. Between them... ...le to profane eyes. Some scornful young men, insignificant pieces of minor machinery in that eleven-storey-high work- shop of great affairs, expressed... ... this Charles Gould’s only answer had been: “You may begin sending out the machinery as soon as you like.” And the great man had liked this imperturba... ...their own burros, brave like lions. I have led them to the very muzzles of guns—I, who stand here before you, señora—in the time of Paez, who was full... ...nd dismantled little fort at the harbour entrance. Half a battery of field guns had been hurried over there from the Sulaco barracks for the purpose o... ...ed Señora Gavilaso de Valdes rolled by, handsome and dignified, in a great machine in which she used to travel to and from her country house, surround... ...ed silence. With a hollow rumble of wheels on the planks a couple of field guns, dragged by hand, rolled by. Then, after a small body of men had march... ...nto Sulaco, had been getting 345 Joseph Conrad hold of the administrative machine by making ap- pointments, giving orders, and signing proclama- tion...

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...h,” replied Carter, negligently. “There are a few muskets and two sporting guns aft; that’s about all—I fancy it’s too much, or not enough,” he added ... ...and beating about violently. Then, with a quick double report, as of heavy guns, both topsails filled at once and the brig fell over swiftly on her si... ...our-pounder swivel in the longboat’s bow. Cast off the sea lashings of the guns, but don’t run ‘em out yet. Keep the topsails loose and the jib ready ... ...trader after the Wajo manner, and in a stout sea-going prau armed with two guns and manned by young men who were related to his fam- ily by blood or d... ... the sun had descended half-way to its rest the brig was anchored within a gunshot of the slimy mangroves, in a place where for a hun- dred years or m... ... The shock to his moral being had ended by affecting Mr. Travers’ physical machine. He was aware of hepatic pains, suffered from accesses of somnolenc...

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...accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have used — supposing the machine to be a trifle out The Ad... ... occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather bel... ...n in the bags and the boys took it up to the cross rock. “Now less fetch the guns and things,” said Huck. “No, Huck — leave them there. They’re just t... ...r, and hogsheads, and I’ll stick to ‘em, too. Blame it all! just as we’d got guns, and a cave, and all just fixed to rob, here this dern foolishness h...