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...and his hair standing on end as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine in full operation. ‘People must know that, some time or other—withi... ...himed in O’Bleary. (He had once seen one, outside a tinman’s.) ‘Disgusting machines!’ rejoined Evenson, who extended his dislike to almost every creat... ...ed time. ‘Going this minute, sir, ’ was the reply;—and, accord- ingly, the machine trundled on for a couple of hundred yards, and then stopped again. ... ...ung ladies, each furnished with a towel, tripped up the steps of a bathing-machine. In went the horse, floundering about in the water; round turned th... ...chine. In went the horse, floundering about in the water; round turned the machine; down sat the driver; and presently out burst the young ladies afor... ...a-going in on this side!’ exclaimed Mrs. Tuggs, in a tone of horror. Three machines—three horses—three flounderings— three turnings round—three splash... ...s no end to the rivalry between them. Now, as Mr. Samuel Briggs was a mere machine, a sort of self-acting legal walking-stick; and as the party was kn... ...e little innocent had either got his head in the water, or his legs in the machinery. ‘What is the matter?’ shouted the agonised father, as he returne... ...ficiated as ‘cad’ to the ‘Lads of the Village, ’ which was the name of the machine just noticed. Dumps crossed. ‘This vay, sir!’ shouted the driver of...

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... be used on the muddiest foreshore of the beach, far away from the bathing-machines and pierheads, below the grassy slopes of Fort Keeling. The tide r... ...handles,’ she went on, ‘and they’ve got one of them penny-in-the-slot cash-machines, so if you get wrong by a penny at the end of the day—but then I d... ...ting, except that the leading one was pierced in front for the muzzle of a machine-gun, and the second at either side for lat- eral fire. The trucks t... ...with my permanent way if we don’t stop ‘em.’ ‘Right O!’ ‘Hrrmph!’ said the machine gun through all its five noses as the subaltern drew the lever home...

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... her figure after the birth of a couple of children, and she became a mere machine in her husband’s house of no more use than the late Lady Crawley’s ... ... with countless dimples, speckled with white sails, with a hundred bathing-machines kissing the skirt of his blue garment—that the Londoner looks enra... ...d seawards, so as to command every pleasure-boat, herring-boat, or bathing-machine that comes to, or quits, the shore, &c., &c. But have we any leisur... ...g, twice or thrice a week, Miss Briggs used to betake herself to a bathing-machine, and disport in the water in a flannel gown and an oilskin cap. Reb... ...scope in their sitting-room, which faced the sea, to bear upon the bathing-machines on the beach; saw Briggs arrive, enter her box; and put out to sea...

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...dy my breakfast, before going to her day’s work of turning the handle of a machine, at which hard drudgery she earned five- pence. Her husband, a cabi...

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...or, on the previous occasion, he had been listened to attentively. So many machines could not be set in motion without some noise being heard abroad. ... ...y , their spite. Will it be believed that it was necessary to put all this machinery in motion? At last, by working on them by the most power- ful mot... ... I obtained the co-opera- tion of the Marechal de Boufflers. Such were the machines that my friendship for those to whom I was attached, my hatred for... ...captains existed who really deserved the name. When they were no more, the machine kept moving some time by impulsion, and from their influence. But s... ...hat with buildings, gardens, waters, aqueducts, the curious and well known machine, statues, precious fur- niture, the park, the ornamental enclosed f... ...ct. The proposer of the idea had for it six thousand livres pension; and a machine admi- rably invented and of easy and instantaneous application, was... ...he had been taken it would have been all over with him before the ordinary machinery of negotiation (delayed as it was likely to be by the weakness of...

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... horses, my dogs, a contented household. I move in the centre of a perfect machine, and I am dissatisfied. I rise early. I do not digest badly. What i...

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...ven more impressive. He seemed to come from the humming oily centre of the machine where the polished rods are sliding, and the pistons thumping; he g... ...ook at it in this way, Miss Vinrace; conceive the state as a compli- cated machine; we citizens are parts of that machine; some fulfil more important ... ...nging for some 59 Virginia Woolf one to talk to, with the image of a vast machine, such as one sees at South Kensington, thumping, thumping, thumping...

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...ions of safety to the inhabitants; while all the public treasure, military machines, and arms were delivered to the victors, together with the further... ...rrying burdens, bringing in for- age, provisions, and tribute; working the machines in the sieges; and, above all, spreading consternation among the T...

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...chez claimed 7 hours and 1 minute stop page on account of fog and repairing machinery. The R. E. Lee was commanded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the... ...n City of the Missis sippi: has a great wholesale jobbing trade; foundries, machine shops; and manufactories of wagons, carriages, and cotton seed o... ...nually; she has a large lumber and grain commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in man... ...00; added a third story to the mill, increased its length to 317 feet; added machinery to increase the capacity to 10,300 spindles and 304 looms. The ... ...eder; but the gutters are flushed now, two or three times a day, by powerful machinery; in many of the gutters the water never stands still, but has a... ...e was a wilderness of tubs and tanks and vats and filters, pumps, pipes, and machinery. The pro cess of making sugar is exceedingly interesting. Firs... ...nce of the discordant, ear splitting, metallic laugh com mon to his breed—a machine made laugh, a Frankenstein laugh, with the soul left out of it. H... ...as done by an edu cated man.” The literary artist had detected the literary machinery. If you will look at the letter now, you will detect it yoursel...

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...ion. A business to pay for,—that thought was the mainspring which kept the machine going and gave it an infernal activity. Rogron was really only head...

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...able than a milk diet, or all the rem- edies bestowed on my poor shattered machine, even to effect- ing the utmost possible reestablishment of it. The... ... and wonderful construc- tion of the various parts that composed the human machine; my apprehensions were instantly increased, I expected to feel mine... ...he elements, ailments, noise, silence, motion, rest, all act on the animal machine, and consequently on the mind: all offer a thousand means, almost c... ...uld have wished he had prepared himself a retreat there, in case the great machine had fallen in pieces, which seemed much to be apprehended; and stil...

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...er funds, which were not excessive, would admit of the hire or purchase of machines that might allay the burn- ing aspirations of her young people. Th... ...so well as Aunt Jane,” said Primrose, “because nobody else understands his machines.” Thekla made a grimace. 31 Yo n g e “Ah!” said Primrose. “I see ... ...s, looked 32 Modern Broods remarkably pretty and graceful upon V aletta’s machine; while Paula, whom Mysie and Valetta were both assisting, learnt mo... ...“I call it abominable selfishness, dog in the mangerish, to shut up such a machine as that, and condemn her sisters to one great lumbering one.” “That... ...in a few very carefully-selected tales, where they were more the necessary machinery than the main interest, for she had been bred up in an orphanage ... ...be happy till Magdalen knew.” “Why, no harm was done! There’s her precious machine all safe! It was just for the fun of the thing, and to try how it g... ...lation; so they took leave hastily, Agatha however, coming as far as their machines, and confiding to them, “Poor Polly, it is a great blow to her, bu... ... yourself?” “Draw your own conclusions,” responded Wilfred, mount- ing his machine, and spinning down the hill faster than they could follow on foot. ...

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...tucked under her body. Three flat cars, loaded with bright-painted farming machines, were on the siding above the station, while, on the switch be- lo... ...pt, the safe, the letter-press and letter- files, and Harran’s typewriting machine. A great map of Los Muertos with every water-course, depression, an... ... had been obliged to put her off, now for one reason, now for another; the machine would not as yet run of itself, he must still feel his hand upon th... ...t there was a fair chance that the ranch would lie idle for want of proper machinery. It was ten minutes before train time when Harran reached the dep... ...us caught sight of the three flat cars loaded with bright- painted farming machines which still remained on the siding above the station. He laid his ... ...e reins and Harran checked the team. “Harran,” observed Magnus, fixing the machinery with a judicial frown, “Harran, those look singularly like our pl... ...ss of the Denver, Pueblo, and Mojave road. We will have to get in with the machine some way and that’s particularly why I want Magnus with us. He know... ...e click of buckles, the creak of straining leather, the sub- dued clash of machinery, the cracking of whips, the deep breathing of nearly four hundred... ...moving whirl of things. Underneath him was the jarring, jolting, trembling machine; not a clod was turned, not an obstacle encountered, that he did no...

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...ad any skill as a Boxer, even in his Buoyant Boyhood Bathed from a Bath ing machine at Bognor, Bangor, Bournemouth, Brighton, or Broadstairs, like a ...

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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...

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...ng’ the head of the inventive youth who had first suggested the use of the machine, Mr. Pickwick was placed in it, and off the party set; Wardle and t...

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...s were then shaken by the receiving ves sel, which, moving like a winnowing machine, scat tered far away from one another the elements most unlike, ...

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...pleased though sad recognition of the esplanade, the pebbly beach, bathing machines and fishing boats, and pointing them out to her sons, who, on thei... ...han Miss Williams is. There had been a general smash of all the locomotive machinery on this side, and the wretched monster could do nothing but growl...

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...regard to the exten- sion and progression of the successive pieces of this machine of hers, ’tis no wonder if, on the contrary, that of children towar...

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...-bound boxes of rivets, pli- ers, cutters, duplicate parts of the riveting-machines, spare pumps and chains. The big crane would be the last to be shi... ...ing a corner in a hurry. After that alteration it made a beautiful salting-machine, if you held tight, because there was nothing to catch your feet wh... ...ous sun as falls impartially on the outside an’ the inside of the pampered machine o’ the trottin’-track, or the bloated coupe- horses o’ these yere E... ...thout traces er collar er breast-strap er somefin’,” said Marcus. “A Power-machine for sawin’ wood is most the only thing there’s no straps to. I’ve h... ...traps to. I’ve helped saw ‘s much as three cord in an afternoon in a Power-machine. Slep’, too, most o’ the time, I did; but ‘tain’t half as interesti... ... enjoy the profit of his labours. Let him work intelligently, an’ not as a machine.” “There ain’t no horse that works like a machine,” Marcus began. “... ...’ that doesn’t mean goin’ to pole er single—they never put me in the Power-machine—er un- der saddle,” said Rick. “Oh, shucks! We’re talkin’ same ez w... ...shark-mouthed, hair-trunk- thrown-in-in-trade son of a bronco an’ a sewin’-machine!” “I think we’d better get home,” I said to my companion, when Rod ... ... outcome of forty years of ex- periments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she...