Cuckoos in clocks, e.g

Usage examples of automatons.

But it would have been worse if I hadn't released my Viper automatons.

Now, have your men ready to supervise the transfer of the Viper automatons to the cargo shuttles.

The initial quick in and out had been expanded and expanded again until the hard, hand-chosen warriors of yore became a group of near automatons.

Experience had taught them that the automatons reacted with reliable precision but much too slowly.

He couldn't get excited about an attack on automatons after having been thru many a fierce fight.

Recalling his remaining automatons, Roger sent out a shielding screen, against which the defenders of their planet raged in impotent fury.

Behind the man, as if attending him, were two of the sickle-handed automatons of iron.

Above him, in the hills, and beyond and beyond, there were only regul automatons, that drew minerals from the earth and provided regul Kesrith its reason for existence.

But they must be removed from the path of the human advance or the mri would continue like automatons to dash themselves to death against the inevitable.

Jacob Philadelphia made a good living with his automatons, and they didn't require a whole lot of effort from him.

Over the course of his career he amassed an enormous collection of automatons.

Forgive me, but everything your brother knows about automatons—or any other subject for that matter—could be printed very comfortably on this wine cork.

Were there a great many automatons in the house when you were growing up?

If I were to become Count, it would certainly be disastrous for d'Armand Automatons—and the good of the family is, after all, paramount.

Nontheless, family came first—and if Cousin Roger wanted the financial benefits of d'Armand Automatons, he would have to shoulder some of the responsibility.