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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....

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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, uproari- ous machine jolted violently behind them, fantastic, lighted up, perfectly empt...

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...nd worldly soci- ety, with no old familiar notions and customs to keep the machine moving; and then to be made acquainted with such a mass of informat... ... for personal indifference and apathy; we have no momentum to carry on the machine. We have to start it, and give it the first impulse, under the guid... ...o the nicer points of structure, &c. ‘But somehow a cut and dried teaching machine of a man, however methodical, and good, and conscientious, won’t do... ... as the “friction” that attends the working, of a new and somewhat untried machine.’ ‘Y ou know that we are few in number; indeed (Codrington being ab... ...ship, for which he had henceforth to depend entirely on his own staff. The machinery of the routine had been so well set in order by Mr. Pritt that it... ...ng cocoa-nut trees and sowing flower seeds, or trying experi- ments with a machine for condensing water, in his moments of relaxation, which were few,...

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...erable buttons, and I was too much occupied in admir- ing the build of the machine, and the extreme tightness of the fellow’s inexpressibles, to look ...

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...r hire. I have a picture of one of them now in my eyes:a little green oval machine, with flowers rudely painted round the window, out of which two smi...

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...he did get on better than before, and learnt something, though more like a machine than a musician. Then she went out again till the hottest part of t...

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...not constant work hardened his features, and given him the appearance of a machine with a mind. His face was full of intellect, but devoid of natural ...

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...white jersey were leaning in the bows; a gentle- man was bending over some machinery in the middle of the boat, while the sailor in the low stern was ... ...who hated to hear her speak in cold condemnation. ‘He was attending to the machinery or something.’ ‘That was scarcely his first business,’ said she, ... ... was not. All the time he could feel his brain working ceaselessly, like a machine running with unslackening rapidity. This went on, inter- rupted by ...

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...will send to inquire to-morrow, but I can- not come—ha, ha! a new infernal machine. Good-bye, Friar Bacon.’ Away he went, and Maurice stood looking af...