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Usage examples of interlock.

Already I was aware that the interlocked radiator grilles of our cars formed the model of an inescapable and perverse union between us.

On it, he could see the impress of his rough frieze, a pink trough of interlocking chainwork, where she had gripped him so hard.

They fumbled with levers embedded in their integral backpacks, setting in motion some powerful, hidden engine that dragged them off the streets and into the air as the belt-pulley turned, its powerful cogs interlocking and hauling the dark, bulky figures back up into the belly of their airship.

That war, and its long-drawn sequelae, released the human mind to the potentialities and dangers of an imperfectly Europeanized world--a world which had unconsciously become one single interlocking system, while still obsessed by the Treaty of Westphalia and the idea of competing sovereign states.

Two constables sat at a table in the larger room, one with hands interlocked behind his head, looking directly at the observer.

George had already removed two others from her back who had interlocked their hips well enough for both to use her rectum.

The obverse of the gypsum panel, out in the hall, was covered in the faded Jugendstil paper, a pattern of tall interlocking poppies, that decorated all the hallways of the building.

The spikes stand in such a position that, when the lobes close, they interlock like the teeth of a rattrap.

The ceiling of interlocked palmlike fronds did not so much block sunlight as filter it, dappling the forest floor in yellows and greens.

The interlocking fangs which protruded sicklelike from both jaws parted slightly, revealing an uninviting dark gullet.

But more than a century ago, Borgo Prime had been stripped clean of even the least-desirable ore- leaving a spongelike network of interlocked caves, fully equipped with all the life-support systems and transportation airlocks the miners had needed.

As always, the Tharparkar, as Hakim thought of it, was a natural barrier more formidable than endless fortifications, mine-fields, and interlocking fields of fire.

And then our memories will decay, like the heavier transuranium elements, and we will find ourselves divorced from other people and living in big houses with interlocking pavement stones, room deodorizers, and genuine ten-karat gold faucets.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

Already Jan had gone off to the eternal realm of card houses and castles in Spain, where men believe in happiness, whereas the Home Guards and I -- for at this moment Oskar counted himself among the Home Guards -- stood amid brick walls, in stone corridors, beneath ceilings with plaster cornices, all so intricately interlocked with walls and partitions that the worst was to be feared for the day when, in response to one set of circumstances or another, all this patchwork we call architecture would lose its cohesion.