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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... ... 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... ...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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...reign people, she kept it on her shoulders, and the headsman put aside his machine. Though the other decree, organising the Grand National Gynaecium, ... ...icades? “Barricades,” replied Sallenauve, “have nearly always seemed to me machines which turned of themselves and crushed the men who raised them. We... ...at I am talking about. You don’t need to be told that if in our poor human machine some one part gets out of order, it is on that that any strong emot...

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...iou. “But we can use Gaillard for the cousin,” replied Leon. “What sort of machine is that?” asked Gazonal. “He isn’t a machine, he is a machinist. Ga... ...etence of being hands, played nonchalantly with a pack of cards, like some machine the movement of which is about to run down. The body, a species of ... ...lace, we sha’n’t let the cannon in, and, in the second, we’ve got a little machine more powerful than all the forts in the world,—a machine, due to a ...

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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... ...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... ...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... ...nto Sulaco, had been getting 345 Joseph Conrad hold of the administrative machine by making ap- pointments, giving orders, and signing proclama- tion... ... a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a 415 Joseph Conrad twowheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scrag...

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... been studying his rhetoric and philosophy. While grinding the ministerial machine, he had no leisure to cultivate letters, still less the arts; but h... ...aw that we may never part. My wife, heavens! what could she be to me but a machine for child-bearing? whereas the divinity, the sublime being will be—... ...thful; it would all go into his inven- tions of perpetual motion and other machines of various kinds which have already ruined him, and me, too.” “The... ...s like his? I thought him reformed. A manager, I said to myself, is only a machine; he can do no harm. I expected to find him a man of straw; well, I ...

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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... ...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... ...I belonged to the church, 36 I, born in Weimar 48 I bought every kind of machine that’s known— 83 I could not run or play 47 I grew spiritually fa...

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...t able to draw the people over to his opinion by any human reason, set his machines to work, as in a theater, and employed prodigies and oracles. The ... ...rchus simply invents in his history, where he all but uses an actual stage machine, and brings in Neocles and Demopolis as the sons of Themistocles, t... ... which, how- ever, were, it would seem, but trifles for Archimedes and his machines. These machines he had designed and contrived, not as mat- ters of... ... of support, he proceeded as it might be on the stage, to avail himself of machinery, and to try the effects of divine 733 Plutarch’s Lives agency up... ...t a figure of Victory, with a crown in her hand, which the Pergamenians by machinery from above let down on him, when it had almost reached his head, ... ...things carried in it, but consisted chiefly in vast quantities of arms and machines of the king’s, with which he adorned the Flaminian circus, a spect...

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...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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...roat, in which even my breath was arrested. The wretch! Turned into a mere machine by professional habits, he only came to a deathbed to accomplish a ...

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... a close scrutiny revealed the marks made by decrepi- tude upon that frail machine. He wore a white waistcoat embroidered with gold, in the old style,...

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...n your own” which was perfectly savage in me, her lace being the commonest machine-make washed and torn besides, but I had been put into a state to be...

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...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 ...

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...e lottery was a great charity, the friend of the people, a vast beneficent machine that recognized neither rank nor wealth nor station. The company be... ...t was surprising; it had become for her a thing miraculous, a god-from-the-machine, suddenly descending upon the stage of her humble little life; she ... ...dies, very gay. The bay window should have been occupied by Trina’s sewing machine, but this had been moved to the other side of the room to give plac... ...cheeks were dis- tended, his eyes wide, his huge, salient jaw moved with a machine-like regularity; at intervals he drew a series of short breaths thr... ... the sound of a great mill. Mingled with this was the purring of dis- tant machinery, the splashing of a temporary fountain, and the rhythmic jangling... ...head and the roller-sweeper in her hand. She covered the bureau and sewing machine with sheets, and unhooked the chenille portieres between the bedroo... ... an affair and began to assume the proportions of a Republican po- litical machine—he found he could make a little, a very little more than enough to ... ...l had her five thousand, and Uncle Oelbermann paid her the interest with a machine-like regu- larity. Now that McTeague had left her, there was one le... ...at from a second-hand store up on Polk Street, I guess. It’s a fairly good machine; a little tinkering with the stops and a bit of shellac, and we’ll ...

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...talk with her, you would perceive that she’s meant for more than to make a machine of her throat. What a throat it is! She has the most comical notion... ...honour—not individual honour, I mean. I suppose being part of a victorious machine is exhilarating. I confess I should not think much of wearing that ... ...his (he was hap- pily as ignorant as any other youth of the working of his machinery) prompted him to bid her sing before they parted. Emilia checked ... ... as they were, they could not, by the aid of any of their intricate mental machinery, look down on him. They tried to; they tried hard to think him de... ...mprehend him. Gross facts in relation- ship with the voice, this grievous “machine, not man,”—as they said—stated to them, harshly, impetuously. The l... ...d. “So you are, you. En- glish. Always, ze law! But, we are men—we are not machine. Law for a machine, not a man! We punish him, perhaps. Well; he is ... ...armony among the sons of dis- cord! He kept his head down, fiddling like a machine. The old potatoe-days became pathetically edged with dead light to ... ... if he saw that a man could flush for a woman’s name. Wilfrid stood like a machine with a thousand wheels in revolt. Sensations pricked at ideas, and ... ...she was exceedingly youthful, and had not reckoned upon man’s being a live machine, possessing impulses of his own. A violent seizure of her waist, an...

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...led in unison, all the bows moving together like parts of a well-regulated machine. The kettle-drums, marking the cadences, rolled at exact intervals.... ...ife was tremendous. All around, on every side, in every direction the vast machinery of Commonwealth clashed and thundered from dawn to dark and from ... ...her disperse it. She was a little frightened—frightened of the vast, cruel machinery of the city’s life, and of the men who could dare it, who conquer... ...to being with the tap of the nine-thirty gong, a whole new system of brain machinery began to move with the first figure called in the Pit. And from t... ...alert, eyes all alight, the breath deep, strong, and slow, and the stride, machine-like, even as the swing of a met- 121 Frank Norris ronome, thrown ... ...of the farmer worked upward through the cogs and wheels of the whole great machine of business. It was as though a lubricant had dried up. The cogs an... ...han I think we’ve suspected. He wants to be more than a mere money-getting machine, he says, and he wants to cultivate his mind and under- stand art a... ... At the last-named price Crookes acknowledged defeat. Somewhere in his big machine a screw had been loose. Somehow he had miscalculated. So long as he... ...ties save one lapsed away and ceased. Only one function of the complicated machine persisted; but it moved with a rapidity of vibra- tion that seemed ...

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...ation of a noble vision, in the Brother- hood of Man. But, alas! the human machine does not have such divine proportions. Souls that are vast enough t...

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... that was fifty- one—” And he would have gone on like a little calculating machine, with the entire reckoning in his head, if the others had had patie... ... or his slate. “That boy will stupefy himself and his admirable cram- ming machine!” exclaimed Uncle John, when coming out into the court after tea to...

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...ravis executed a banjo “piece” of no little intricacy. “That’s just like a machine—like a hand-piano. “Order in the gallery!” she retorted, without pa... ...little, quiv- ering, choking sigh. The letter was a veritable god from the machine, the one thing lacking to complete their happiness. “I don’t know h...

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...ith descrip- tions of the changes in the fashion of weapons, tourneys, and machines, and especially delighted in histories of the marvellous effects o...

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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...