Wind-up mechanism

Usage examples of clockwork.

Four servants came forward, two carrying a clockwork man of polished brass and steel, the other two a huge and heavy box full of cogs, pins, hooks, fastenersand most curiously of all, a large chessboard of alternating brass and steel squares.

Cooper, the overseer of the new plantation at Panola in Mississippi, was a splendid fellow, who ran the estate as if it was his own, and Mitchell, the overseer here at The Forks, was thoroughly reliable, maintaining a clockwork efficiency, and if not actually liked by the slaves, he was MERGING 315 not too bitterly resented by them, Sally thought.

And then they began to move, slowly at first, choreographing their clockwork movements to music from a grindingly slow fairground organ.

Lady Maranta, for the edification of the masses, has sponsored a clockworks exhibition at City House.

The right cross came at me regular as clockwork and I moved under it and landed two and sometimes four punches to the spot under his heart.

Time ambushed them on Mondays, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, regular as clockwork.

But it is the metaphors of Cartesian clockwork and hydraulics rather than Cartesian dualism which concern me at present.

The Nihilists, he told me, often use clockworks to set off their machines at the time they decide on.

Instead of slowmatches you have to light, you crank this clockwork spring and the wheel spins and spits sparks into a pan.

Or perhaps they were, after all, frail and gentle folk who could not even resist the kidnapping of one of their numberBut who then loosed the clockwork machines to destroy the valley?

Still, for all he knew, its associates had set one of the clockwork monsters on their trail.

That was what he intended-a cold, clean stream and a moment to rest in a more sheltered place, difficult for -die clockwork machines to negotiate.

Baptiste went into the tower to see that the clockwork was in order for the night.

There were no more accidents to the clockwork after the first one was repaired.

It was not a desperate vigil like that affair with the broken clockwork eight years before.