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...nd or Tahiti will do so with interest; inven- tors of patent punka-pulling machines, carriage couplings, and unbreakable swords and axletrees call wit... ...ass, and the office is darkened to just above reading-light, and the press-machines are red-hot to touch, and nobody writes anything but accounts of a... ...to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o’clock and the machines spun their fly-wheels two and three times to see that all was in o... ...e sec- ond said, “So it is!” And they both laughed almost as loudly as the machinery roared, and mopped their foreheads. “We seed there was a light bu... ...s had happened before. A few great men had died in the past two years, the machines worked with more clatter, and some of the trees in the office gard... ...ny- thing in particular to eat, but first they took off the boxes with the guns and the ammunition, till two men came along driving four mules. Dravot... ...— with yellow hair and remarkable well built. Says Dravot, un- packing the guns, ‘This is the beginning of the business. We’ll fight for the ten men,’... ...knew how to hold arms pretty straight. Even those cork- screwed, hand-made guns was a miracle to them. Dravot talked big about powder-shops and factor... ...’ It was me really, but Dravot was too angry to remember. ‘Who bought your guns? Who repaired the bridges? Who’s the Grand Master of the sign cut in t...

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...ry where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the machine he is employed to work.” “You are a singular man,” said Villefort. ... ...Why do you like that best?” “Because then I have no responsibility. I am a machine then, and nothing else, and so long as I work, nothing more is requ... ...aph room. Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the machine was worked. “It is very interesting,” he said, “but it must be very... ...ere found, and they thought of bring- ing up the jars. Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thr... ... distraction. “Behind the women came a guard of twenty men armed with long guns and pistols, and dressed in the costume which the Greeks have assumed ... ... with eager eyes the arrival of the boats. They were armed with their long guns inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver, and cartridges in great number... ...ed and life went on with the utmost ease. Albert found in his anteroom two guns, with all the accoutrements for hunting; a lofty room on the ground-fl... ...empty. Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artis- tic bronze... ...ding at the only outlet to the cell, and behind that man shapes armed with guns continually passed. His resolution not to sign lasted two days, after ...

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...ers 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 French ... ...uke of Burgundy’s admin istration; but the genius that animated the whole machine being gone, will be the cause of mighty turns and revolu tions in ... ...ys a prodigious jour ney by land and sea. In the evening I hear bells and guns, and see the blazing of a thousand bonfires. A young admiral of noble ... ...ls mere wood within, And legislators rang’d in state Are oft but wisdom in machine. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 43 A stoc...

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...e we are! What else could have happened, with Michael and his infernal War Machine in the very centre of Europe, but this tremendous disaster? It is a... ...n a number of casualties; there were smashed rifles about and a smashed-up machine gun emplacement, and the men were dog-tired and many of them sleepi... ...temporary history. By devious routes I went on to certain batteries of big guns which had played their part in hammering the Austrian left above Monfa... ...t and the hoisting of one gun into position there may block the retreat of guns and material from a great se- ries of positions. Mountain surfaces are... ... surprised to see a sudden lunge forward on that front, and hear a tale of guns and prisoners. This will not mean that she has made a sud- den attack,... ...upon the icy pinnacles are observation posts directing the fire of the big guns on the slopes below, or machine-gun stations, or little garrisons that... ...servation posts directing the fire of the big guns on the slopes below, or machine-gun stations, or little garrisons that sit and wait through the ble... ... and ammunition and advancing by night. They were subjected to rifle fire, machine-gun fire and bombs of a peculiar sort, big iron balls of the size o... ...omes much more difficult when the site is occupied by hostile persons with machine guns. In March, as the winter’s snows abated, the boring machinery ...

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...y the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarines. Much, no doubt... ...buses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and clattered instead of creaking, and became affected in flavour... ...ome confusion of ideas about armour plates, was inclined to consider a war machine. There followed actual flight. This, however, was not an affair tha... ...didn’t come. There was a hitch. They flew—that was all right; they flew in machines heavier than air. But they smashed. Some- times they smashed the e... ...he engine, sometimes they smashed the aeronaut, usually they smashed both. Machines that made flights of three or four miles and came down safely, wen... ...r having for one moment dropped the subject. Pictures of flying and flying machines returned to the newspapers; articles and allusions increased and m... ...mpsed ever and again. Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construc- tion halted by the roadside, with a number of bu... ...erything was extraordinarily clear as well as minute. Once or twice he saw guns and soldiers, and was reminded of the stir of military preparations he... ...ions were abnor- mal or to explain an occasional faint irregular firing Of guns 58 The War in the Air that drifted up to him …. “Wish I knew how to g...

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...hing which puts calm into a sea of fabric, and yet is the opposite pole to machine fixity. But the leading tenor was the chief pain. He was large, sto... ...on’s Rod “So should I,” said Jim, in a luscious sort of voice. “What price machine-guns at the end of the Strand! That’s a day to live for, what?” “Ha... ... “So should I,” said Jim, in a luscious sort of voice. “What price machine-guns at the end of the Strand! That’s a day to live for, what?” “Ha! Ha!” l... ... me. But I couldn’t stand bombs. You could tell the difference between our machines and the Germans. Ours was a steady noise—drrrrrrrr!—but their’s wa... ...thing you know—how you don’t notice things. In—let me see—1916, the German guns were a lot better than ours. Ours were old, and when they’re old you c... ...y’ll go beyond the mark, or whether they’ll fall short. Well, this day our guns were firing short, and killing our own men. We’ d had the order to 11... ...that after he’d been dead two days …. “The Germans were wonderful with the machine guns— it’s a wicked thing, a machine gun. But they couldn’t touch u... ...er he’d been dead two days …. “The Germans were wonderful with the machine guns— it’s a wicked thing, a machine gun. But they couldn’t touch us with t... ...AR. I would like to kill my en- emy. But become a bit of that huge obscene machine they called the war, that I never would, no, not if I died ten deat...

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...tered sparse on the ramparts, 17 Thomas Carlyle hardly a cannoneer to two guns; our dastard Commandant Lavergne no where shewing face; the priming wo... ...ven become applauses. For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be point- ing eastward, with stiff violence, this momen... ...nce, this moment; and then do but touch some spring dexterously, the whole machine, clattering and jerking seven-hundred-fold, will whirl with huge cr... ...appes, near Mons. And fire-hail is whistling far and wide there, the great guns playing, and the small; so many green Heights getting 78 The French R... ... these thou- sand years; and has become, one way and other, a most strange Machine. Surely, if needful, it is also frightful this Machine; dead, blind... ...ces back, with his staff, some fifteen paces, “To arms! Cannoneers to your guns!”—flashes out his puissant sword, 145 Thomas Carlyle as the Staff all... ...rigade, of extreme diligence, who of- ten takes his nap of sleep among the guns; a short taci- turn, olive-complexioned young man, not unknown to us, ... ...ions; and also devices! For the indomitable Old-dra- goon constructs wing-machinery, of Paperkite; saws win- dow-bars: determines to fly down. He wil... ... of Robespierre; for this is a conscious Mumbo-Jumbo, and knows that he is machinery. O seagreen Prophet, unhappiest of windbags blown nigh to burstin...

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...ud and pebbles and coaly défilements of Port Burdock, a row of six bathing machines, and a shelter on the parade in which the Three Ps sat after a sat... ...bsence of promising “openings.” He turned aside from the road, wheeled his machine along a faintly marked attractive trail through bracken until he ca... ...magine.” “They’ll have to do without you,” said Mr. Polly, sticking to his guns. A clock in the town began striking. 85 H G Wells “Lor’!” said Miriam... ...lly secured some ham and carried it off and sat himself down on the sewing machine on the floor in the corner to devour it. He was hun- gry, and a lit... ...t comes from inadequate training and sheer aimlessness, or improvements in machinery or the drift of trade, been thrown out of employment, and who set... ...y a trophy of spades and garden 121 H G Wells shears and a knife-cleaning machine, and by her expression he knew instantly that she understood. The c...

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...sparrows on that pipe, I suppose—” “It grew in a field of mine which bears guns,” replied Michu. “Look! this is how I sow them.” The bailiff took aim ... ... wounded an assailant. Laurence, instead of wringing her hands, loaded the guns with extraor- dinary coolness, and passed the balls and powder to thos... ...am at the mercy of some event, some fortunate pistol-shot, some infer- nal machine which does its work. Even I don’t know the whole conspiracy; they d... ...jarring of opinion came to the surface after the explosion of the infernal machine in the rue Saint-Nicaise, the first royalist attempt against the co... ...iority of this great statesman, as evidenced in the affair of the infernal machine and in the conspiracy with which we are now concerned, he returned ... ... another revolution.” “When did she go?” asked Peyrade. “When she saw your guns.” “Which road did she take?” “I don’t know.” “There’s another horse mi... ...asant, for instance, will quarrel with you for riding over his field; your guns are in your hands, you are hot-tempered, and something hap- pens. In y... ...word of the Emperor was able to inspire in his political or administrative machine. That pow- erful will seemed to impress itself as much upon things ... ...l operation required to produce it would, like the ef- fect of a pneumatic machine, be exceptional and anoma- lous. Whatever a case may be, the mind b...

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... person was in his company, though he could not discover him; for that two guns had been discharged al most in the same instant. And, says he, “We ha... ...resolved to know, acquainting the culprit with the circumstance of the two guns, which had been deposed by the squire and both his servants; but Tom s... ...nion in his sport: everything which the squire held most dear, to wit, his guns, dogs, and horses, were now as much at the command of Jones, as if the... ... the utmost importance arise. The world may indeed be considered as a vast machine, in which the great wheels are originally set in motion by those wh... ... the secret springs which move the great state wheels in all the political machines of Eu rope, must surely, with very little difficulty, find out wh...

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...val of the new lord (for whom, you may be sure, a feast was got ready, and guns were fired, and tenants and do- mestics huzzahed when his carriage app... ...his sleeping closet. The side of the house facing the east had escaped the guns of the Cromwellians, whose battery was on the height facing the wester... ...n to admit the hand which was to 43 Thackeray work upon the spring of the machine. “When I am gone,” Father Holt said, “you may push away the buffet,...

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... that could not be replaced , be dispensed with! To such length has modern machinery reached. Bankruptcy, we said, was great; but indeed Money itself ... ...rror and a sign,—if peradventure France might be reconquered by theatrical machinery, by the picture of a Royalist Army done to the life! (Dampmartin,... ...to the Moralist in these times seems surprising, they have sworn to become machines; and nevertheless they are still partly men. Let no prudent person... ...s the black mortcloth, close at hand, nor the requiems chanted, and minute guns, in- cense-pans and concourse right over his head: none of these; but ... ...oil; out of which has visibly come, as we often say, an Epic Preternatural Machinery of suspicion; and within which there has dwelt and worked,—what s... ...rdered otherwise; and even bellowed, in his extremity, “Cannoneers to your guns!”—two old honey-combed Field-pieces, empty of all but cobwebs; the rat...

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...id, of anything on a limited scale, and firing away with those blank great guns because he carried no small arms whatever—that really I could not help... ...ir being run down to death. The place in Lincolnshire is all alive. By day guns and voices are heard ringing in the woods, horsemen and carriages enli... ...blunderbus is loaded with slugs. Lawrence Boythorn.” “Man traps and spring guns are set here at all times of the day and night. Lawrence Boythorn.” “T... ...unning about, and a clatter of crockery, and a rumbling up and down of the machine which 275 Bleak House – Dickens brings the nice cuts from the kitc... ...and lies asleep upon the floor. The little man is dressed something like a gunsmith, in a green baize apron and cap; and his face and hands are dirty ... ...s face and hands are dirty with gunpowder and begrimed with the loading of guns. As he lies in the light before a glaring white target, the black upon... ...pockets and is going on in his business consideration of the matter like a machine. “My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I... ...wisted and wrenched into eccentric and perverse forms as separate parts of machinery; mountains of it broken up, and rusty in its age; distant furnace...

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...oyce and Clennam what a start and a sur- prise for though not far from the machinery and foundry busi- ness and surely might be taken sometimes if at ... ...uickening of his pace and a corresponding increase in the labouring of his machinery, Arthur did not pursue the matter, and they soon arrived at his h... ...s nothing but ruin; nothing but burn- ing hulls, bursting magazines, great guns self-exploded tearing friends and neighbours to pieces, drowning men c... ... the eve of removal to a superior abode. But my course as a profes- sional machine is clear; I have nothing to do with it. Is it your good pleasure to... ...s an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. Y ou will profit by the failure, a...

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...ns were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-whit... ...at during the night the Martians had been sur- rounded by troops, and that guns were expected. Then—a familiar, reassuring note—I heard a train runnin... ...ow, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rif... ...ckling accompaniment, sounded more like the working of a gigantic electric machine than the usual detonating reverberations. The flickering light was ... ...nt flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand. Then suddenly the trees in the pine wood ahead... ...een nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, a... ...eatly at equal distances pointing towards Woking. The gunners stood by the guns waiting, and the ammunition waggons were at a business-like distance. ... ...umber of men in white fatigue jackets throwing up a long rampart, and more guns behind. “It’s bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow,” said the... ...ad been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey, and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred fo...

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...sually expressed sorrow, and swore 9 Stephen Crane by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permis- sion. The youth, on guard duty one ... ...wl-ing reptiles. From the road came creakings and grumblings as some surly guns were dragged away . The men stumbled along still muttering specu-latio... ...ge of a grove. The men crouched among the trees and pointed their restless guns out at the fields. They tried to look beyond the smoke. Out of this ha... ...ar of the grove a bat-tery was throw- ing shells over it. The flash of the guns startled the youth at first. He thought they were aimed directly at hi... ... tion, he was aston-ished beyond measure at such persistency. They must be machines of steel. It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, woun... ...attery addressed them. The youth pitied them as he ran. Methodical idiots! Machine-like fools! The refined joy of planting shells in the midst of the ... ...s forward way. The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its com-plexities and powers, its grim processes, fasci- na... ... this crowd and marched along with it. The torn bodies expressed the awful machinery in which the men had been entangled. Orderlies and couriers occas... ...ch a possibility. His education had been that success for that mighty blue machine was certain; that it would make victories as a contrivance turns ou...

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...land or Tahiti will do so with interest; inventors of patent punka-pulling machines, carriage couplings, and un- breakable swords and axletrees call w... ...ass, and the office is darkened to just above reading-light, and the press-machines are red-hot to touch, and nobody writes anything but accounts of a... ...to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o-clock and the machines spun their fly-wheels two and three times to see that all was in o... ...e sec- ond said, “So it is!” And they both laughed almost as loudly as the machinery roared, and mopped their foreheads. “We seed there was a light bu... ...s had happened before. A few great men had died in the past two years, the machines worked with more clatter, and some of the trees in the office gard... ... anything in particular to eat, but first they took off the boxes with the guns and the ammunition, till two men came along driving four mules. Dravot... ...e—with yellow hair and remarkable well built. Says Dravot, unpack- ing the guns, ‘This is the beginning of the business. We’ll fight for the ten men,’... ... knew how to hold arms pretty straight. Even those cork-screwed, hand-made guns was a miracle to them. Dravot talked big about powder-shops and factor... ...’ It was me really, but Dravot was too angry to remember. ‘Who bought your guns? Who repaired the bridges? Who’s the Grand Master of the sign cut in t...

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...or; and on its arrival, as on its departure from France, a great firing of guns took place. First, the “Oreste” French brig-of-war began roaring out a... ...he frig- ate; then the “Dolphin” English schooner gave her one- and-twenty guns; then the frigate returned the compli- ment of the “Dolphin” schooner;... ...i- ment of the “Dolphin” schooner; then she blazed out with one-and-twenty guns more, as a mark of particu- lar politeness to the shore—which kindness... ...l at the quay, the cannons of the forts and the ‘Belle Poule’ fired minute-guns. After an hour’s march the rain ceased for the first time since the co... ...ushed off from the quay, the batteries ashore fired a salute of twenty-one guns, and our ships returned the salute with all their artillery. Two other... ...e, and transferred to the car; and fancy the car, a huge Jug- gernaut of a machine, rolling on four wheels of an an- tique shape, which supported a ba... ...s the imperial crown, covered with violet velvet crape, and the whole vast machine was drawn by horses in superb housings, led by valets in the imperi...

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...Her aunt knew not how her heart ached after the home she had left, but the machine of the family went its own way and trod her under its wheels.’ This... ...y young lady in the place who can do plain needle- work properly.’ ‘Sewing-machines can work. What the use of fussing about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ sa... ...d,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of order, and as all the machinery ... ...or ladies didn’t know what to do, and couldn’t work without them.’ ‘Sewing-machines are a recent invention,’ said Dolores. ‘Oh! you didn’t think I mea... ...out fresh! Here’s the ‘Evening Star.’ It was suggested by the sound of the guns firing at the autumn manoevres; here’ s the ‘Bereaved Mother’ s Addres... ...ave his word of honour to obey im- plicitly and take no liberties with the guns. Fergus would gladly have gone with them, but he was still young enoug...

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...ned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolv ers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor saving ma... ...de rose slowly up and stared into the sky. I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through my v... ... rest — but I said I would by and by; no hurry yet, and too much government machinery to oil up and set to rights and start a going. We had one tourn... ...ld then have been in office six or seven years, and I believed my system and machinery would be so well developed that I could take a holiday with o... ...t Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 57 questions for. “Why, great guns,” I said, “don’t I want to find the castle? And how else would I go ... ...st unison, and the sound of it was like to the muffled burr of subterranean machinery. The havoc continued an hour and a half, and unimagin able was... ...ild asleep. Just as we stepped across the threshold the executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry from both the prisoner and the w... ...se in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machin... ... to that end. Of course, the whole drove was housed in the house, and, great guns! — well, I never saw anything like it. Nor ever heard anything like ...