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...vna’s skirt. As though tears were the indispensable oil, without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two siste... ... who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine. But it appeared that the carpenter was repairing the harrows, whic... ...ing a bit of straw in his hands. “Why isn’t the carpenter at the thrashing machine?” “Oh, I meant to tell you yesterday, the harrows want repairing. H... ...lstoy dance with his words. That’s what will happen. He’s not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he’s angry,” she added, recalling Alex...

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...the better man. As for this little Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all on one pat- tern, and all precious rubbish. But if he were a... ...God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched. This piece of news irritated Levin. The... ...d partly invented by Levin. The bailiff had always been against the drying machine, and now it was with suppressed triumph that he announced that the ... ...m, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,” said the bailiff. “I did inform you about the machine.” This question was enough to take Levin back to all the details of...

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...dow, of Etiquette: at intervals the growl of Chapel Organs, like prayer by machinery; proclaiming, as in a kind of horrid diabolic horse-laughter, Van... ...to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gratuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, at... ...ng mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of Supernatural Machinery wondrously move the Epos of the Revolution. The Brigands are here... ...llets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery? To most people none; but not to French people, in a time of Revo... ...128 The French Revolution: V ol. One therein a cunningly devised Beheading Machine, which shall become famous and world-famous. This is the product of... ...ine derivative name, as if it were his daugh- ter: La Guillotine! “With my machine, Messieurs, I whisk off your head (vous fais sauter la tete) in a t... ...racted vortex, where wisdom could not dwell. Your cunningly devised Taxing-Machine has been got together; set up with incredible labour; and stands th... ...ird Estate will get in motion, with the force of all France in it; Clergy- machinery with Noblesse-machinery, which were to serve as beautiful counter... ...ter 1.5.II. Mercury de Breze. Now surely were the time for a ‘god from the machine;’ there is a nodus worthy of one. The only question is, Which god? ...

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... when it strikes the hour; these are all put into motion by winding up the machine. At the entrance into the park from Whitehall is this in- scription...

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...— Dr. Stockmann. The worthy man spoke the truth. A party is like a sausage machine; it mashes up all sorts of heads together into the same mincemeat—f...

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...oast, have adorned themselves with a couple of hotels and a row of bathing-machines. He walked so far that the shadows had begun to lengthen before he...

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...ss of the wood, and my having no other way, made me a long while upon this machine, for I worked it ef- fectually by little and little into the form o... ...common there; besides that, my grind- stone was very large and heavy. This machine cost me a full week’s work to bring it to perfection. APRIL 28, 29.... ...n. APRIL 28, 29. – These two whole days I took up in grinding my tools, my machine for turning my grindstone perform- ing very well. APRIL 30. – Havin...

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... administration, that might take the case be- fore the Council of state,—a machine very difficult indeed to move. After the second day Jacquet was obl...

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...cted through its paper-mills with the art of typography in Paris, the only machinery in use was the primitive wooden invention to which the language o... ... made of marble, literally deserved its name of “impression-stone.” Modern machinery has swept all this old-world mechanism into oblivion; the wooden ... ...ner, I am opposed to your replacing these presses by your cursed cast-iron machinery, that wears out the type. You in Paris have been making such a to... ...ents. Sechard senior living at a distance, far from the work- shop and the machinery which possessed such a fascination for him, reminding him, as it ... ...c- tive and industrious men of business would have bought new type and new machinery, and made an effort to secure or- ders for cheap printing from th... ...he two camps detested the other the more cordially. Un- der the Empire the machinery worked fairly smoothly, but the Restoration wrought both sides to... ...se they were invented in Italy by Aldus of Venice. Before the invention of machine-made paper, which can be woven in any length, the largest sized she... ...the best paper in the world. Well, here in Europe the work must be done by machinery; machinery must take the place of cheap Chinese labor. If we coul...

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...ony of English numbers than in all that has been written since; there is a machine about a poetical young lady, and another about either Charles or Ja... ...fore I had my holiday, thinking to enjoy it more; and instead of that, the machinery near hand came sundry in my hands! like Murdie’s uniform. However...

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...18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More...

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...Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nob... ...ievously deceived, injured, ruined. Y ou were the moving power of all this machinery before my birth; your stronger spirit has been infused into all m... ...understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in keeping off the snobs. This das... ...fully!—in the shadow of the Marshalsea wall. 261 Little Dorrit CHAPTER 23 Machinery in Motion MR MEAGLES BESTIRRED himself with such prompt activity ... ...r F.’s Aunt slipping through the steps and bruised all over and you in the machinery and foundry way too only think, and never told us!’ Thus, Flora, ... ...ople—very polite but more polite than true I am afraid, for to go into the machinery business without so much as sending a line or a card to papa—I do... ...was not discharged without some heavy labouring on the part of Mr Pancks’s machinery. ‘This is a singular visit, Mr Pancks. It strikes me as rather ex... ...ying mo- notony, always the same reluctant return of the same sequences of machinery, like a dragging piece of clockwork. The wheeled chair had its as... ...sitor again, as he did during the whole of this dialogue, like some screw- machine that fell short of its grip; for the other never changed, and he al...

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...18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More...

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...Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nob... ...ievously deceived, injured, ruined. Y ou were the moving power of all this machinery before my birth; your stronger spirit has been infused into all m... ...understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in keeping off the snobs. This das... ...he shadow of the Marshalsea wall. 261 Little Dorrit – Book One CHAPTER 23 Machinery in Motion MR MEAGLES BESTIRRED himself with such prompt activity ... ...r F.’s Aunt slipping through the steps and bruised all over and you in the machinery and foundry way too only think, and never told us!’ Thus, Flora, ... ...ople—very polite but more polite than true I am afraid, for to go into the machinery business without so much as sending a line or a card to papa—I do... ...was not discharged without some heavy labouring on the part of Mr Pancks’s machinery. ‘This is a singular visit, Mr Pancks. It strikes me as rather ex... ...ying mo- notony, always the same reluctant return of the same sequences of machinery, like a dragging piece of clockwork. The wheeled chair had its as... ...sitor again, as he did during the whole of this dialogue, like some screw- machine that fell short of its grip; for the other never changed, and he al...

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...bservant, except of foot-tracks, animal-like. She felt that she was a fine machine, and noth- ing else: and she was rapidly approaching those ladies! ...

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... in vain, convinced him either that this universe was one grim, piti- less machine, grinding down humanity by mere law of ne- cessity, or if they woul...

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...le she laughed, as at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the per- formance is the wretched source of amusement... ... in the night to behold visually the spectre cast forth from the perplexed machinery inside them, stare at it for a space, till touching conscious- ne... ...esume the distance to be. Well, sir, and a dilettantism costly in time and machinery is as ornamental as foxes’ tails and deers’ horns to an independe... ...ound her life, but her accel- erated pulses narrowed her thoughts upon the machinery of her project. She herself was metal, pointing all to her one ai... ...ulations at work, Willoughby stood above himself, contemplating his active machinery, which he could partly criticize but could not stop, in a singula... ... world outside. This hateful world had caught him and transformed him to a machine. The discovery he made was, that in the gratifica- tion of the egoi...

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...s Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth, My Likeness I Dream'd in a Dream What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Lo...

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...o. Just talk about it?" The words ground into Alex's stomach like a sausage machine. "Is he all right?" "I don't know. I'm waiting word from my t... ...cture. It showed the anger and fear of its citizens. It was the American news machines that portrayed the propaganda of a nation in mourning. Soule’...

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...rototypes for a new generation of Man. The body skeleton, made of modern metal clusters, that would never decay, was almost indestructible. His inner machine workings were covered in a flexible carbon hybrid. The carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, Simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...the flat, feeling cold and used. Exactly four minutes later a motorbike roared up bearing a leather-clad, helmeted Martian who jumped off, locked his machine and panted over. ‘I’m not too late am I? She sounded pretty awesome.’ ‘No, you’re fine. Rather you than me, though.’ Upstairs, water was still splashing around in the bathroom. ‘Is that him?’ Frances yelled. ‘Yes...

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...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

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... ters. It cannot be fifteen years ago since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how... ...er London, dropping a hundredweight or so of ex- plosive upon the printing machines of The Times, and return- ing securely to Calais for another simil... ...n. It is extremely desirable that people should realise that these foreign machines are not a tempo- rary and incidental advantage that we can make go... ...in my mind. The age of natural democracy is surely at an end through these machines. There comes a time when men will be sorted out into those who wil... ...eth against the upper, and then it passed. The nose of the car and all the machine was slanting downwards, we were gliding quickly down, and yet there... ... back to his law courts and keep him there, it is necessary to destroy the machinery of the party system that sustains him, and to adopt some electora... ...er willingness to do work for ourselves, a great economy of labour through machinery and skilful management. So much is unavoidable if we are to meet ... ...ry to clean and modernise to the utmost our representative and legislative machinery. It is remarkable how dominant is this disposition to get a phras... ...irected first to reducing the amount of such irksome work by labour-saving machinery, by ingenuity of manage- ment, and by the systematic avoidance of...

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...pose a social group because they all work for a common end. The parts of a machine work with a maximum of coopera- tiveness for a common result, but t... ...large number of human relationships in any social group are still upon the machine-like plane. Individuals use one another so as to get desired result... ...rtation, our ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do not, by themselves or in their... ...usiness aggregations that prey upon the public while serving it, political machines held together by the interest of plun- der, are included. If it is... ...er way about, to have an aim is to act with meaning, not like an automatic machine; it is to mean to do something and to perceive the meaning of thing... ...opic. Suppose, however, you are not skilled, or that, even if you are, the machine does not work well. You then have to use intelligence. You do not w... ...you have written, to your movements, to the ribbon or the mechanism of the machine. Your attention is not distributed indifferently and miscellaneousl... ... quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine-like simulation of the attitudes of intel- ligent interest. The tea... ...how to do; how to walk, talk, read, write, skate, ride a bicycle, manage a machine, calculate, drive a horse, sell goods, manage people, and so on ind...

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...r. Brooke, who offered no bait 22 Middlemarch except his own documents on machine-breaking and rick-burn- ing. Mr. Casaubon was called into the libra... ...tand or fall, Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; if Mrs. Wimple insisted on a ... ...ties whose disposition it is to regard every institution of this town as a machinery for carrying out their own views? I tax no man’s motives: let the... ...his disap- pointment about Fred, and Parliament going to be dissolved, and machine-breaking everywhere, and an election coming on—” “Dear papa! what c... ...st begin to get documents about the feeling of the country, as well as the machine-breaking and general distress.” “As to documents,” said Will, “a tw... ... the bench a good while—I’ve always gone a good deal into public questions—machinery, now, and ma- chine-breaking—you’re many of you concerned with ma... ...ery, and I’ve been going into that lately. It won’t do, you know, breaking machines: everything must go on—trade, manufac- 459 George Eliot tures, co... ...vor of another candidate, to whom he left the advantages of his canvassing machinery. He himself called this a strong measure, but ob- served that his...

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... to the French Government, asking whether the French could not lend them a machine and an expert to cut off the criminal’s head; and if so, would the ... ...hat the cost would be. The letter was sent. A week later the reply came: a machine and an expert could be supplied, and the cost would be 16,000 franc... ...Italian Government wrote that they would have pleasure in supplying both a machine and an expert; and the whole cost would be 12,000 francs, including...

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...s skilled work. Once the way is discovered, the methods laid down, and the machinery provided, the work of the states- man is done, and that of the of... ... all directions if a single thread of it be cut. Ibsen’s similitude of the machine- made chain stitch, which unravels the whole seam at the first pull...

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...n to admit the hand which was to 45 Thackeray work upon the spring of the machine. “When I am gone,” Father Holt said, “you may push away the buffet,... ...and placed her in a higher sphere. As you have seen the nymph in the opera-machine go up to the clouds at the end of the piece where Mars, Bacchus, Ap...

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... own. I’ll be bound, Lady Ashton understands ev- 271 Sir Walter Scott ery machine for breaking in the human mind, and there are as many as there are ... ...hich could serve her object, and prepared at leisure every species of dire machinery by which the human mind can be wrenched from its settled determin...

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...in my house when a workman could not readily be got, and to construct little machines for my experiments, while the intention of mak ing the experime... ...hlet, and working it up into his own, and mak ing some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and ... ...g. He procur’d an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were nicely form’d by instrum...

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...ntify the metal item or items that caused the alarm. In addition, an X-ray machine would have screened the hijackers’ carry-on belongings.The screenin... ...int. Mihdhar and Moqed placed their carry-on bags on the belt of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off the al... ...y tried to call his wife, Julie. He left a message on their home answering machine that the plane had been hijacked. He then called his mother, Louise... ...rtant and obvious layer of security.Walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines operated by trained screeners were employed to stop prohibited ite... ...s did not set off metal detectors, or were hard to distinguish in an X-ray machine from innocent everyday items. 56 While FAA rules did not expressly ... ...e relied on any objec- tive factor that could be detected by “scores” or a machine. Good people who have worked in such jobs for a long time understan... ... deviations were necessary because of the placement of heavy elevators and machine rooms, and were located between the 42nd and 48th floors and the 76... ...ney general and the secretary of state issue to all non-U.S. citizens only machine-readable, tamper-resistant visas and other travel and entry documen...

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...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...

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...n, lifting up his hands. ‘Oh the nerves, the nerves; the myster ies of this machine called Man! Oh the little that unhinges it: poor creatures that w...

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...thus embraced and remoulded it began—did they not?—by being a wheel in the machine. I can only be crushed. Mahomet had the sword; Jesus had the cross;...

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...nt to form a judgment, was abandoned. And, indeed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach, how could it change its position with such astonish... ...inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command was not likely. Where, when, and how was it built? a... ...? Cer- tainly a Government might possess such a destructive 9 Jules Verne machine. And in these disastrous times, when the inge- nuity of man has mul... ... a State might try to work such a formidable engine. But the idea of a war machine fell before the declara- tion of Governments. As public interest wa... ...would be flattened as if you had been drawn from the plates of a hydraulic machine!” “The devil!” exclaimed Ned. “Very well, my worthy harpooner, if s... ..., putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American coast was left une... ...e air was engulfed in its lungs, like the steam in the vast cylinders of a machine of two thou- sand horse-power. “Hum!” thought I, “a whale with the ... ...ary to communicate with the beings, whatever they were, shut up inside the machine. I searched all over the outside for an aperture, a panel, or a man... ...masked faces, appeared noiselessly, and drew us down into their formidable machine. CHAPTER VIII MOBILIS IN MOBILI THIS FORCIBLE ABDUCTION, so roughly...

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... Master Wilding, you won’t catch Joey Ladle muddling the Armony. A pecking-machine, sir, is all that I am capable of proving myself, out of my cellars... ...It was observed on the following Wednesday that Joey’s action as a Pecking Machine was impaired at dinner, and it was rumoured about the table that th... ...r met him with a new face. Marguerite had an interest in it now! The whole machinery which Wilding’s death had set in motion, to realise the value of ... ...of debts, the taking of stock, and the rest of it—was now transformed into machinery which indicated the chances for and against a speedy marriage. Af...

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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...

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...ator has regulated the law of inheritance, he may rest from his labor. The machine once put in motion will go on for ages, and advance, as if self-gui... ... ev- erything is in motion, the hand which gives the impulse to the social machine can nowhere be discovered. Nevertheless, as all peoples are obliged... ...edisposed, every new method which leads by a shorter road to wealth, every machine which spares labor, every instrument which diminishes the cost of p...

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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...

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...to stop too. Then Evie comes out, and does some calisthenic exercises on a machine that is tacked on to a green-gage-tree—they put everything to use—a... ...ished concern?” Leonard had no idea. He understood his own cor- ner of the machine, but nothing beyond it. He de- sired to confess neither knowledge n... ... be serious, and enjoyed being agitated. Here were the lower wheels of the machine that was tossing Evie up into nuptial glory. A little boy blocked t... ...u practical!” “Yes, I’m practical,” she murmured, stooping over the mowing-machine and playing with the grass which trickled through her fingers like ...

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...human being is mer t the human being is mer t the human being is mer ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ,, ,,, and ... ...e lathes, drills, planers, punches, pol ishers, in a word all the cunning machines of a great factory? Y.M. It could. O.M. What could the stone engin... ...y? Y.M. It could. O.M. What could the stone engine do? Y.M. Drive a sewing machine, possibly—nothing more, perhaps. O.M. Men would admire the other en... ....M. Yes. O.M. But not the stone one? Y.M. No. O.M. The merits of the metal machine would be far above those of the stone one? Y.M. Of course. O.M. Per... ...o the matter” is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in th... ...fining, and so forth. Y.M. You have arrived at man, now? O.M. Yes. Man the machine—man the impersonal en gine. Whatsoever a man is, is due to his ma... ...e borrowed materials together. That was done automatically—by your mental machinery, in strict accordance with the law of that machinery’s con struc... ...law of that machinery’s con struction. And you not only did not make that machinery yourself, but you have not even any command over it. Y.M. This i... ...but that one? O.M. Spontaneously? No. And you did not form that one; your machinery did it for you—automatically and instantly, without reflection or...

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...his hole. A vast quantity of wheels, pinions, and other cabalistic—looking machinery stood opposite the hole, close to it; and through the hole there ... ... hole, close to it; and through the hole there passed an iron rod from the machinery. Between the wheels and the wall where the hole lay there was bar... ... was not all a desert, and Pompey not altogether cruel. The ticking of the machinery amused me. Amused me, I say, for my sensations now bordered upon ... ...t to startle the strongest nerves. My eyes, from the cruel pressure of the machine, were absolutely starting from their sockets. While I was thinking ... ...her the fool could not, or the villain would not perceive me. Meantime the machine rapidly soared, while my strength even more rapidly failed. I was s... ...g air of a horse- jockey, and adjusted therein a somewhat singular-looking machine, in a very dexterous manner, that I could not alto- gether comprehe... ...e understanding, who make no scruple in pronounc- ing the Automaton a pure machine, unconnected with human agency in its movements, and consequently, ... ...the drawer together, an answer is returned only to the lower one. When the machinery is wound up, the movements continue about an hour, during which t... ...tor stated that the means by which the different medallions acted upon the machinery, so as to produce the proper answers to the questions which they ...

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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...