1 A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
2 It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit.
3 Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 4 On this table he placed the mechanism.
5 The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism.
6 I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.
7 An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
8 Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
9 She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
10 Here Vronsky showed them the mechanism for ventilation on a novel system.
11 And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.
12 And all the while, like a hidden magician, Chichikov's lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look round.
13 The estate had only recently been put on to the new reformed system, and the new mechanism worked, creaking like an ungreased wheel, warping and cracking like homemade furniture of unseasoned wood.
14 The mechanism of life, the arrangement of the day so as to be in time everywhere, absorbed the greater part of his vital energy.
15 The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of wood, iron and cords.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS