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...s were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal machines, huge stones and blocks of wood to impel ...

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... 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... ...r torrent was choked with the bodies of horses and splintered parts of war machines. It had come to pass that his wound pained him but little. He was ... ...Its foliages now seemed to veil powers and hor-rors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders that started the charge, although from the cor-ners of ... ...h other in all manner of hoarse, howling pro-tests. But the regiment was a machine run down. The two men babbled at a forceless thing. The soldiers wh... ...a din fitted to the universe. It was the whirring and thumping of gigantic machinery, complica-tions among the smaller stars. The youth’s ears were fi...

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...as Hela, has died out into the clanking of a World-MA- CHINE. “T ree” and “Machine:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to ... ...e:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to be no machine! I say that it does not go by wheel-and-pinion “motives” self-inter... ...jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it is not a machine at all!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world tha... ...l!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world than these poor Machine-Sceptics: the old Heathen Norse were sincere men. But for these poo... ...g-down of cant; a saying to oneself: “Well then, this world is a dead iron machine, the god of it Gravitation and selfish Hunger; let us see what, by ... ...lot- box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a whit. It is in the perfect state; an ... ...sh, that Great Men could again appear in the world! Nature, turned into a “Machine,” was as if effete now; could not any longer produce Great Men:—I c...

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... beats—Might a common man make so bold as to inquire where the whit- ening machine is, Miss?” This was addressed to Jane, who had come up with some of... ...luable than the raw cotton, because the manufacture costs wear and tear of machinery, wear and tear of the factory, rent of the ground upon which the ... ... were willing to labor in this way, but they had no factory to work in, no machinery to work with, and no raw cotton to work on, simply because all th... ...to recoup him for what he sup- plied them with: rent, shelter, gas, water, machinery, raw 64 An Unsocial Socialist cotton—everything, and to pay him ... ...y gave for nothing to my father was large. He bought more cotton, and more machinery, and more factories with it; employed more men to make wealth for... ...red pounds, in spite, he said, of his own great losses. Then he bought new machines; and, as women and children could work these as well as men, and w... ... the sources and instruments of production—of land on the one side, and of machinery on the other? This very ground on which we are resting was the pr... ... Artists don’t keep factories.” “No; but the factory is only a part of the machinery of the system. Its basis is the tyranny of brain force, which, am... ...es further in a day than I can carry myself alone. Such are the marvels of machinery. But I know that we cut a very poor figure beside you and that ma...

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...erican humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

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...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...

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...t true-blue. But that's because he is developing his tank in secret, and they don't know he's concentrating on winning the war the American way, with machines. The second problem is that the German spies have penetrated the secret of what is being built in the high-security shop on the Swift property. And they will stop at nothing to steal its design - not kidnapping Tom, ...

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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...

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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...

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...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 ... ...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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...noted no more than the lowing of the cattle, or the drone of the thrashing machine. He lay half lifted up on his pillows, drawing his breath short wit...

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...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... ...athetic ripple in the Bun Hill establishment. Grubb routed out his flying- machine model again, tried it in the yard behind the shop, got a kind of fl... ...a person in khaki, an engi- neer, who presently took an interest in Bert’s machine. It was a sturdy piece of apparatus, and it had acquired a kind of ... ...or Asia, or America, or Africa, that hasn’t got at least one or two flying machines hidden up its sleeve at the present time. Not one. Real, workable... ...hidden up its sleeve at the present time. Not one. Real, workable, flying machines. And the spying! The spying and manoeuvring to find out what the o...

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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... ...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 ... ...d rapidity of rifle fire, with which we may include the development of the machine gun; secondly the increasing use of the spade, and thirdly the inve... ...ins as a line of trenches behind wire, containing infantry with rifles and machine guns. Against this an infantry attack 53 H G Wells with bayonet, a... ...r the preliminary bombardment, get into the dug-outs with their rifles and machine guns, and emerge as fresh as paint as the attack comes up. Obviousl... ...in which the location of the defender’s secondary trenches, guns, and even machine-gun positions becomes a matter of extreme precision—provided only t...

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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... ... 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... ...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... ...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... ...f a hole. “Well,” he said, “you’ve got men and nations, and you’ve got the machines of war—so how are you going to get out of it? League of Nations?” ... ...and which knows all about it. The devilish spirit of iron itself, and iron machines. So, with his strange, old smile showing his teeth rather terribly... ...face, without say- ing anything. And even the Jew Rosen put away his deaf- machine and began awkwardly to take his leave. His long nose was smiling to...

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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... ...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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...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... ... 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... ...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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... 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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...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 ... ...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... ...and the ministers were faithful to him; but they made him the pivot of the machine and the cat’s-paw of the machination. To return to my tale. “‘Bonap...

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... to the sliding seat; but I guess it’ll do.” Kitchell glanced at the human machine that once was No. 5 in the Yale boat and then at the water hissing ... ...uds, spewed up again from the bowels of the earth—a veritable god from the machine who in a single instant was to disentangle all the unexplained comp...

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...she knew very well how to manage him. The good dyer had for a crony a silk machinery manufacturer who was small in stature, deformed for life, and ful... ...joke by the people of Tours. Carandas—for so was named the manufacturer of machines to weave, to spin, to spool, and to wind the silk—was not sufficie... ...he town of Bruges, where certain merchants had sent for him to arrange the machinery for making hauberks. During his long absence, Carandas, who had M...