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Sentences ending with machine

It was November when Howells finally fell under the baleful influence of the machine. [5]
But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. [9]
In battle he was always under fire, so that Kutuzov reproved him for it and feared to send him to the front, and like Dokhturov he was one of those unnoticed cogwheels that, without clatter or noise, constitute the most essential part of the machine. [2]
In the letter to Howells which follows we get another glimpse of Mark Twain's philosophy of man, the irresponsible machine. [5]
Do you think the waking mind and the dream mind are the same machine? [5]
He said that the Government was a Corliss-engine running a sewing machine. [11]
In one of the committee-rooms she saw Hollowell, looking at ease, and apparently an indispensable part of the government machine. [4]
It was so that his eyes were opened to the view of the monster which maims the vitality of the Republic, --the political machine. [9]
It was all so swift, noiseless, exact--like a beautifully ordered machine. [5]
He seemed to see the dice in the box, and his hand threw them out with the precision of a machine. [11]

Short sentences using machine

The machine doesn't take hold. [4]
The machine was not hurt. [5]
It is a machine. [5]
The machine isn't done. [5]
Henderson is a big machine. [4]
Man the Machine. [5]

Sentences containing machine two or more times

I don't know much of this life yet; but it seems to me that they are all part of a machine, not the idea behind the machine. [11]
I think the mind is purely a machine, a thoroughly independent machine, an automatic machine. [5]
I hope the machine will be finished this month; but it took me four years and cost me $100,000 to finish the other machine after it was apparently entirely complete and setting type like a house-afire. [5]
He had a machine to sell; an amazing machine, endowed with human intelligence and more than human infallibility; for when it made a mistake it stopped. [9]
The machine was finished several weeks ago, and has been running ever since in the machine shop. [5]
Man has a finer and more capable machine in him than those others, but it is the same machine and works in the same way. [5]
The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working. [2]

More example sentences with the word machine in them

That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
Children, if you would think, you would remember the machine isn't done. [5]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
George Washington's machine would act upon the right one; Pizarro would act upon the wrong one. [5]
If they could work constantly it would complete the machine in 21 days, of course. [5]
Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off, and the entire machine was out of service. [5]
In the machine which stands for him. [5]
I don't know whether I am going to make this typewriting machine go or nto: that last word was intended for n-not; but I guess I shall make some sort of a succss of it before I run it very long. [5]
The machine knows what it's about. [5]
My next venture was with a machine for doing something or other. [5]
At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
That early machine was full of caprices, full of defects--devilish ones. [5]
Jones "let his victim down easy" with friendly words, but it was the end, for the present, at least, of machine financiering. [5]
Then we started up the machine slowly, by hand, and fastened our eyes on the space-selecting pins. [5]
There is that undefined something, more like a machine than an aggregate of human sensibilities, which is set going in a "season," or at a watering-place, or permanently selects itself for certain social manifestations. [4]
It is a type-setting machine which I undertook to build for the inventor (for a consideration). [5]
This was the type-setting machine investment, which, in the end, all but wrecked Mark Twain's finances. [5]
Afterwards, having dictated two telegrams which she wrote out on her machine, he leaned back in his chair; and though the business for the day was ended, showed a desire to detain her. [9]
It made me tug and pant and perspire; and still, labor as I might, the machine came almost to a standstill every little while. [5]
Having found the Truth; perceiving that beyond question man has but one moving impulse--the contenting of his own spirit--and is merely a machine and entitled to no personal merit for anything he does, it is not humanly possible for me to seek further. [5]
This machine is totally without a rival. [5]
Presently Joan pointed to it and said: "Fair duke, step out of your tracks, or that machine will kill you. [5]
Gentlemen, I regret to have to say, for obvious reasons, something which you all know, that my father is at the head of the Northeastern machine, which is the Republican party organization. [9]
Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well. [2]
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? [6]
He was never thoroughly happy unless he was taking the machine apart or setting it up again. [5]
Each of you--bear this in mind--is a main-wheel in the great machine of the state, and can serve an end only by acting unresistingly in obedience to the motive power. [10]
We note in this communication that Clemens says that he has been at the machine three years and seven months, but this was only the period during which he had spent the regular monthly sum of three thousand dollars. [5]
Yet she seemed then, as she always appeared to be, free from any action that should set the machine of penalty going against herself. [11]
Dryfoos apologized for the streets because they were hand-made; said they expected their street-making machine Tuesday, and then they intended to push things. [8]
By and by the sounds of the infernal machine began to trouble and pursue me. [6]
The light of the sky above was a soft radiance, as of a happy Arcadian land; the fire of the toil beneath was the output of human striving, an intricate interweaving of vital forces which, like some Titanic machine, wrought out in pain--a vast destiny. [11]
The merits of the metal machine would be far above those of the stone one? [5]
For two reasons: the machine will be at work again by that time, and we want to hear the rest of the dream-story; Mrs. Clemens keeps speaking about it and hankering for it. [5]
Three months later the machine was still in his possession. [5]
The price of the machine was one hundred and twenty-five dollars. [5]
We are fools, the machine isn't. [5]
V More About the Machine Note.--When Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has answered her question herself. [5]
But scarcely was the ink dry on the receipts from his creditors when he was once more borne into the clouds on the prospect of millions, perhaps even billions, to be made from a marvelous carpet-pattern machine, the invention of Sczezepanik, an Austrian genius. [5]
This was about the end of the machine interests so far as Clemens was concerned. [5]
That is unquestionably the boss machine of the world, but is the toughest one on prophets, when it is in an incomplete state, that has ever seen the light. [5]
He found, however, that the machine was already in common use in that metropolis. [6]
The truth is that the development of the modern journal has been so sudden and marvelous that its conductors find themselves in possession of a machine that they scarcely know how to manage or direct. [4]
He was on that side, shoving up the machine; we all came down with a crash, he at the bottom, I next, and the machine on top. [5]
I am hoping that along about this time I shall hear that the machine is beginning its test in the Herald office. [5]
Sufficient to show that a dumb animal's mental machine is just the same as a man's and its reasoning processes the same? [5]
Get to work --take the machine down.--No--Hold on! [5]
Between the files stood an unmistakable gipling sergeant with a crimson face and a bristling little chestnut moustache, talking like a machine gun. [9]
The machine was still breaking the types now and then, and no doubt Paige was itching to take it to pieces, and only restrained by force from doing so. [5]
Just as we stepped across the threshold the executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry from both the prisoner and the woman; but I shouted, and the executioner released the strain without waiting to see who spoke. [5]
There is a speck of dirt on one of those types, and the machine is putting in a thinner space to allow for it! [5]
It was a slower machine, but it was simpler, less expensive, occupied less room. [5]
Did it not seem probable that the Great Machine had, in its automatic movement, tossed him up again on the shores of Time because he had not fallen on the trap-door predestined for his eternal exit? [11]
That is to say, if a man once violates the law and is caught, he is put into a machine from which it is very difficult for him to escape without further deterioration. [4]
How did you say you loaded the machine? [5]
My gran'fadder he say dat Mathurin have a machine in his head. [11]
Nasby and I saw the machine through a window, and went in to look at it. [5]
In Sweden I saw a vast machine receive a block of wood, and turn it into marketable matches in two minutes. [5]
It may be said that this is not the age of pure literature--and I'm sure I hope the English patent for producing machine novels will not be infringed--but the English language was never before written so vigorously, so clearly, and to such purpose. [4]
Paige had always said that the machine would measure invisible particles of dirt and allow for them, but even he had forgotten that vast fact for the moment. [5]
It is very rough; for the machine does at last seem perfect, and just a bird to go! [5]
But, to speak right out plain, I don't know how long this machine will run. [11]
The machine went right ahead, spaced the line, justified it to a hair, and shoved it into the galley complete and perfect! [5]
And the Frenchmen, Renan, Zola, and the others who have followed, are equally deterministic, but viewing the human body as a highly organized machine with which we may amuse ourselves by registering its sensations. [9]
When you have reached the point in bicycling where you can balance the machine tolerably fairly and propel it and steer it, then comes your next task--how to mount it. [5]
She began to perceive that she was not free, that she was a part of a social machine, the power of which she had not at all apprehended, and that she was powerless in its clutch. [4]
They said the pay of the army and of the navy and of the whole governmental machine was far in arrears, and unless something was done, and done immediately, national bankruptcy must ensue, and possibly insurrection and revolution. [5]
The apples are pared, cored, and sliced in spirals, by machinery, and dried on tin sheets in a patented machine. [4]
How easily this or that tune flows!--you say,--there must be no end of just such melodies in him.--I will open the poor machine for you one moment, and you shall look.--Ah! [6]
But they are on the old plan, which must be radically modified or entirely cast aside, and doubtless will be when the new method is comprehended, and teachers are well enough furnished to cut loose from the machine. [4]
I am standing on the Mount Morris volcano with help from the machine a long way off--doubtless a long way further off than the Connecticut Co. imagines. [5]
The saddle hangs on Tara's walls down below in the stable, and the machine is at Bliss's grimly pursuing its appointed mission, slowly and implacably rotting away another man's chances for salvation. [5]
The bloody machine offered but a doubtful outlook--and will still offer nothing much better for a long time to come; for when Davis's "three weeks" is up there's three months' tinkering to follow I guess. [5]
The mutual taking-in of the pretty street costume and the pretty morning toilet was the work of a moment--the photographer has invented no machine that equals a woman's eyes for such a purpose. [4]
It was one of the most useful motions in mechanics, the pedal movement; so I made a note in my memorandum book, purposing some day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sewing machine with it. [5]
The good people of Northampton had a very remarkable man for their clergyman,--a man with a brain as nicely adjusted for certain mechanical processes as Babbage's calculating machine. [6]
A small part of my ownership consists of a royalty of $500 on every machine marketed under the American patents. [5]
In this process of "working up to 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 the performance of either? [5]
But there was occasionally an air of bravado in some of his followers as if they had taken out a patent for some knowing machine which was to give them a monopoly of its products. [6]
And Phil had observed, with the earnestness which marked his more serious statements, that it wouldn't surprise him if young Carter, Hubbell's candidate for mayor, overturned that autumn the Beatty machine. [9]
In a brief note following the foregoing letters Clemens wrote Hall: "It is now past the middle of July and no cablegram to say the machine is finished. [5]
The machine did not do both capitals and lower case (as now), but only capitals. [5]
And it is not a personal demerit in the stone machine that it does so little? [5]
It's because the Northeastern owns the Republican party machine, which is the lobby, and because most of the twenty State senators are dependent upon the Northeastern for future favours. [9]
Whatever the banker might have felt, or whether his body had now become a mere machine mechanically carrying on a life-long habit of action, the impression was one of the tremendousness of the man's consistency. [9]
They began about May or April or March 1886--along there somewhere, and have always kept from a dozen to two dozen master-hands on the machine. [5]
It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. [5]
I told the man to slant his machine in the proper direction and let us be off. [5]
You really think man is a mere machine? [5]
Unless the will maintain a certain control over these movements, which it cannot stop, but can to some extent regulate, men are very apt to try to get at the machine by some indirect system of leverage or other. [6]
Yet both are machines; they have done machine work, they have originated nothing, they have no right to be vain; the whole credit belongs to their Maker. [5]
We examined the machine, but it was not in the least injured. [5]
You know the machine, and you appreciate its future enormous career better than any man I know. [5]
They've got their machine to working a thousand to the minute, and everybody they have a slant on is going into line. [9]
That damned military machine of theirs seems invincible--it keeps grinding on. [9]
They've put a machine in the mine, an' timed it, an' it'll go off when my friend comes out of the mine at noon to-morrow. [11]
He went to London with the view of introducing a hydraulic machine, which he and his Vermont friends regarded as a very important invention. [6]
Harris carried the little watch-like machine called a "pedometer," whose office is to keep count of a man's steps and tell how far he has walked. [5]
The Mergenthaler machine, like the Paige, was also at this time in the middle stages of experimental development. [5]
In the next letter we get a sidelight on the type-setting machine, the Frankenstein monster that was draining their substance and holding out false hopes of relief and golden return. [5]

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