1 He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 2 He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 3 The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 4 Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
5 Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
6 Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
7 Aunt Bessie and Mrs. Bogart were at the window, and Carol saw that they were staring so intently that they answered her wave only with the stiffly raised hands of automatons.
8 They move to their terrible end as automatons move.