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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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...though his heels had been tugged, and were dangling some length out of the machine; but his comrade, with a determined blow of the lungs, gave another... ... has come to pass. A thing has come to pass which we feel to be right! The machinery of the world, then, is not entirely dislocated: there is harmony,... ...ed touchingly for news of the par- tridges. It was like the unlocking of a machine. Seymour was not blythe in his reply, but he was loud and forcible;...

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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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...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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...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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...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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...e present enterprise had been long laid, and he now only put in motion the machinery, which many years had been prepared for the purpose. Scarcely had... ... of events, which strike like a hand from heaven, into the nicely adjusted machinery of human plans, and carry the con- templative mind to a higher or... ... from the scene; — stopping for a time the whole movement of the political machine, and disappointing all the calculations of hu- man prudence. Yester...

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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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...d the Philip pines will be marked upon our sales of cottons, agricul tural machinery, and other manufactures. The neces sity of the establishment o... ...or himself, let every generation look out for itself,” while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the le... ...tiveness of law en forcement we must critically consider the entire Federal machinery of justice, the redistribution of its functions, the simplifica... ...ITED STATES 346 our earnings and savings and watched the great indus trial machine that had made us the most productive people on Earth slow down an...

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...ontinents and seas, that he was unable as yet to emulate; from vast modern machineries and facilities whose acquaintance he had still to make, but as ... ...ce of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the Book I, Chapter 1 11 antidote to superstition, wh... ...to the stale summer day, rattled down at the turn of some crank. There was machinery again, just as the plate glass, all about him, was money, was pow... ...mselves were the immensity of the result; they were one with perfection of machinery, they had constituted the kind of acquisitive power engendered an... ... causes, and Mr. Verver grew in time even a little amused at the amount of machinery Mrs. Assingham had seemed to see needed for pointing it. She was ... ...ose tacit and abstemious presence, never betrayed by a rattle of her rusty machine, a room in the attic and a plate at the side table were decently us... .... If the Princess moreover had failed of her occult use for so much of the machinery of diversion, she would still have had a sense not other than sym...

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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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.... A few im- provements have likewise been introduced in some of the simple machinery; but even to the present day, water is removed from some mines by... ...uch rivulet had drained this great tributary. It was curious to behold the machinery, if such a term may be used, for the drainage, all, with the last... ...ound the farm-yard there were stables, a thrashing-barn with its winnowing machine, a blacksmith’s forge, and on the ground ploughshares and other too... ...team- boat, two of which are constantly plying backwards and forwards. The machinery of one of these vessels was entirely manufactured in this colony,...

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...s it was directly ahead, the little brig, which was no better than a bathing machine, plunged into it, and all the forward part of her was under water... ... lift up the main stay; the blocks rattled and flew about; but the force of machinery was too much for her. ‘‘Heave ho! Heave and pawl! Yo, heave, he... ... so bound by the compression of her cargo, forced into her by so powerful machinery, that she was like a man in a straight jacket, and would be but...

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... to let everything about me go on, day by day , unquestioned, like a great machine—that was its habit and mine—and to take it all for granted, and con...

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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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...ones was confidential clerk to Sir Roger. That is to say, he was a writing-machine of which Sir Roger made use to do certain work which could not well...

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...othing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and t... ...ail, rickety, bent and already de- praved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long, the vile language and the drink, the drink—is... ... of them? I hate that America already! And though they may be wonderful at machinery , every one of them, damn them, they are not of my soul. I love R...