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...herhood that grew presently among men, of the saving of laws and books and machines, of the strange change that had come over Iceland and Greenland an... ...ere miles of floating hotels, and huge floating stages to which the flying machines came. They called it a pleasure city. Of course, there was none of... ... details; even the ornament of the book-cover that lay on my wife’s sewing-machine in the breakfast-room recalled with the utmost vividness the gilt l... ... think too clearly what the real thing would be like. And these flying war machines, you know, were only one sort of the endless war contrivances that... ... And after that we noted to the northward and very high Evesham’s fighting machines hanging high over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats. 50 The D... ...that Paestum Temple with a dead woman in my arms. I read my letters like a machine. I have forgot- ten what they were about.” He stopped, and there wa... ...her voice just one half-note too high. “That dreadful theory of yours that machinery is beau- tiful, and everything else in the world ugly. I thought ... ...ause he would stand kicking—a habit with Holroyd— and did not pry into the machinery and try to learn the ways of it. Certain odd possibilities of the... ...t Camberwell. The two that had been there since the begin- ning were small machines; the larger one was new. The smaller machines made a reasonable no...

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...a complete or- chestra, and which he called a Panharmonicon. “If it is the machine in that huge case, which brings down on us the complaints of the ne... ...y with the harmonies of the strings. But the un- finished condition of the machine set limits to the composer’s execution, and his idea seemed all the...

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... ery day take new pains to make them both familiar, will be, I may hope, a machine in such working order as that they can keep it going. I know I need...

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.............................. ........................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES ..................................................................... ... day’s training added something to the spread and effectiveness of the two machines. As a conse quence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than a... ...nd is filled with jars, and bottles, and electrics, and wires, and strange machines; and every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, ... ... every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, and used the machines, and discussed, and made what they called experiments and discover... ...en you have deserved: the wanton insult of Old Age.” *** THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES From My Unpublished Autobiography SOME DAYS AGO a correspondent ... ...SE MY NAME in any way. Please do not even divulge that fact that I own a machine. I have entirely stopped using the typewriter, for the reason that ... ...hout receiving a request by return mail that I would not only describe the machine, but state what progress I had made in the use of it, etc., etc. I ... ...t is sort of lifetime. In that wide interval much has happened—to the type machine as well as to the rest of us. At the beginning of that interval a t... ...ine as well as to the rest of us. At the beginning of that interval a type machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But...

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...ace of a leopard; his waistcoat reminded me of one; he was like a piece of machinery in free action. Pleased by my enthusiasm, he gave me a lesson, pr... ...raction). They helped me for a time; they kept off self-pity, and kept the machinery of the mind at work. They lifted me, as it were, to an upper floo... ...idering their growing power, do you not?’ ‘ Ay, ay! it’s a great gossiping machine, mon Roy. I prefer to let it spout.’ ‘I crave your permission to in... ...iend Jorian. They are cousins. ’Tis the fashion to have our tattle done by machinery. They have their opportunity to compare the portrait with the ori... ... is as much in danger of being lost as a limb given to a wheel in spinning machinery; so it occurred to me, until I reflected that Prince Ernest might... ... might make the same remark, and deplore the dam- age done to the superior machinery likewise. My movements appeared to interest the girl. She was up ... ...welling on the subject, with the plea that it was an essential part of his machinery of action, and the usual comparison of ‘the sagacious General’ wh...

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...of pumps, road engines, steam-diggers, steam-ploughs, and steam- threshing machines; and I have it on Fleeming’s word that what he did was full of ing... ...d now with a touch more precise and dainty than a pianist’s. The taste for machinery was one that I could never share with him, and he had a certain b... ...tivity, now in London; now at Birkenhead, fitting out ships, inventing new machinery for new purposes, and dipping into electrical experiment; now in ... ...cough and cured his toothache.’ – ‘The whole of the paying out and lifting machinery must be designed and ordered in two or three days, and I am half ... ...and have been busy since I came here drawing, ordering, and putting up the machinery – uninterfered with, thank goodness, by any one. I own I like res... ...– off they went, slipping round and off the pulleys instead of driving the machinery. Tighten them – no use. More strength there – down with the lever... ...the African coast, can be spoken through. I am very glad I am here, for my machines are my own children and I look on their little failings with a par... ...lves to keep us hanging at the same spot: depth supposed about a mile. The machinery has behaved admirably. Oh! that the paying-out were over! The new... ...achinery has behaved admirably. Oh! that the paying-out were over! The new machinery there is but rough, meant for an experiment in shallow water, and...

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...David had neither audacity enough nor capital enough for such speculation. Machinery for pro- ducing paper in any length was just coming into use in E... ...ont to act. So, strange coincidence! while Lucien was drawn into the great machinery of journalism, where he was like to leave his honor and his intel... ...as the “bears” contemptuously called them), and showed him the magnificent machines, twelve in number, now at work in the Cointets’ great printing off... ...wide interest are submitted to him that he does not look upon procedure as machinery for bringing money into his pocket, but as a weapon of at- tack a... ...he immense majority of Frenchmen, a minute description of some part of the machinery of bank- ing will be as interesting as any chapter of foreign tra... ...” Marion made half a franc a day by working half time in a paper mill as a machine tender, and her wages contributed to the support of the household. ... ...re industrial problem; and when he has in- 61 Balzac vented some piece of machinery, or made a discovery of some kind, he takes out a patent and imag... ... entirely in M. Sechard’s father’s hands. I should owe him the hire of the machinery as well as the house-rent; and my husband would still be open to ... ...this kind would be forced to leave the place. In the absence of recognized machinery, therefore, the arrest of a debtor is a problem presenting no sma...

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... for every Barbarian’ s head, or setting fire to their camp with ships and machines. His colleague Gisco, on the other hand, wished them to be paid. B... ...red like billows around her, and the slightest storm shook this formidable machine. The treasury was exhausted by the Roman war and by all that had be... ...moved in a single body , and seemed to live like an animal and work like a machine. T wo cohorts of elephants flanked it in regular array; quivering, ... ...clature (which changed several times in the course of the centuries) these machines might be reduced to two systems: some acted like slings, and the r... ... the gaiety of their work they gave utterance to jests on the names of the machines. Thus the plyers for seizing the rams were called “wolves,” and th... ...e jokes, which were ever the same, kept up their courage. Nevertheless the machines did not demolish the rampart. It was formed of two walls and was c... ... Spendius went on obstinately with the siege. He sought to invent terrible machines such as had never before been con- structed. The other Barbarians,... ...them to fight on the same level. The top of it should be paved so that the machines might be rolled along. Then Carthage would find it quite impossibl... ...igher, all the material in the arsenals piled up in the Acropolis, and the machines repaired once more. Sinews taken from bulls’ necks, or else stags’...