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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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...most best, believe it. Adieu. ‘Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him, HAMLET.’ This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me...

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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...

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...on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving a ma- chine.” Chapter III IN WHICH A CO... ...ly beyond misgiv- ing upon accomplishing his task? There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, colli- sions, bad w... ...did not veer round to the east, if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery, the Henrietta might cross the three thousand miles from New York... ... which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision of a machine knocked Fix down. “Well hit!” cried Passepartout, “Parbleu! that’s ...

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...he affair into a ballad. It is a grand subject, and worthy of supernatural machinery. The storm, the startling knock at the door, the entrance of the ... ...on wherewith these greasy citizens gained breath enough to keep their life machinery in slug gish movement appeared to make them only the more sen s... ...d together, announcing a fire, which brought out the engine men and their machines, like an army with its artillery rush ing to battle. Hour by hour...

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...The stranger was readily ushered to a chamber, where swords, scourges, and machines, which seemed to be implements of torture, were suspended on the w... ...is song are “of a very loose kind.” 609. Blanche’s song. Jeffrey says: “No machinery can be con- ceived more clumsy for effecting the deliverance of a...

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...mal world, when not rigorously watched, will always crown with success the machine supplying its appetites. The old dog-world took signal from it. The... ...e; it was marriage in the abstract: her own mistake and the world’s clumsy machinery of civilization: these were the capital of- fenders: not the wife... ...w it to be as little a Stradivarius as I am a Paganini. It is an eccentric machine, in tune with me for the moment, because I hap- 161 George Meredit... ... Botany Bay,’ Diana said to Emma; who answered: ‘A metaphor is the Deus ex machine, of an argu- ment’; and Whitmonby, to lighten a shadow of heaviness... ...d was a craving for excitement; for incident, wild action, the primi- tive machinery of our species; any amount of theatrical he- roics, pathos, and c... ...or a hurried change of front of all the actors, are not a part of our slow machinery. Nor is she to show herself to advantage. Only those who read her...

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...s I was passing. I was perhaps a little to blame. He asked me to bring his machine to Cam- bridge. He went on in the car… . It is all perfectly simple... ...e of that. No- body could dispute the equal importance of every wheel in a machine, of every atom in the universe. Prothero and Carnac were angry beca... ...strong man over men. Essen comes, the new thing, the tyranny of the strong machine…. “Science is either slave or master. These people—I mean the Germa...

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...ith difficulty have stowed themselves. The narrow quarters of this rickety machine not admitting of any crowding, and the box which formed the seat be... ...pulled for the benefit of the State; to keep the running-gear of the great machine we call govern- ment in good order, and fasten to it the desires of...

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...women who go through life not know- ing love. They are inanimate automatic machines, who lay them down at last, inquiring wherefore they were caused t...

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...nctum, where he expected to find monstrosi- ties, gigantic engines, flying-machines, and material sub- stances all alive. “No, monsieur, but a young m...

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...od, where my re- sponsibility ends and his commences. Man is a self-acting machine. He cannot cease to be a machine; but, though self- acting, he may ... ...s or that saying—what suggested it. May not one be admitted to inspect the machinery of wisdom? I feel curi- ous to know how thoughts—real thoughts —a... ...whose constant exclamation with regard to him, was: “Poor Hippias! All his machinery is bare!” and had no hope that he would ever be in a condition to... ...as had that hope, and so he told his brother, making great exposure of his machinery to effect the explanation. He spoke of all his physical experienc... ...being turned inside-out to the rabble. I confess I don’t desire to have my machinery made bare to them.” Sir Austin assured the wise youth that Hippia... ...sing. An audience will come to whom it will be given to see the elementary machinery at work: who, as it were, from some slight hint of the straws, wi... ...dent—a misfortune—a terrible misfortune”… “The God of this world is in the machine—not out of it,” Sir Austin interrupted her, and pressed her hand to... ...the game had been in his hands so long, so long had he been the God of the machine, that having once resolved to speak plainly and to act, he was to a...

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...o get lost in! That had been her husband’s phrase. And now, with the whole machinery of official investigation sweeping its flash-lights from shore to... ... was the victim of the theories she renounced. It was as though some giant machine of her own making had caught her up in its wheels and was grinding ...

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...s is dimly shadowed out. Which of us here has seen the working of that great machine whose voice has just now ceased?’ Mr. Pickwick had, of course, an...

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... which I had stepped from outside; giving a touch of human intimacy to the machinery of official relations. I felt adopted. His experience was for me,... ...th the clatter of hoofs on the granite setts, and the yellow, up- roarious machine jolted violently behind them, fantastic, lighted up, perfectly empt...

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...dow, was as little recognizable as her son. Clapart, a victim of Fieschi’s machine, had served his wife better by death than by all his previous life....