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  • I can still close my eyes and see Bugs Bunny whacking away at Elmer Fudd's lather-covered face with a straight razor "There, you're nice and clean / Although your face / Looks like it might have gone / Through a ma-chine".

    Why 'Fantasia' Mattered—Just Ask Gunther Schuller Terry Teachout 2011

  • A single ma-chine, an ancient device left behind by a civilization clever enough to build but not to survive.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • They would push the ma-chine out of the den when they returned, but now there was a scent on the wind that drove them to the hunt with urgent hunger.

    Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992

  • For the next two months, wherever we went in the field, someone got the job of moving the five-hundred-pound ice ma-chine as part of our field gear.

    Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

  • That kept him from sliding out, but the torn skin of the stump flapped in the wind, spraying blood along the outside of the ship and all over Reacher as he sat behind his ma-chine gun.

    Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

  • Some-times his un-cle let him ride the mow-ing ma-chine, and at such times he was ve-ry proud.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • One far-mer who lived out a short dis-tance from the vil-lage, had an old-fash-ioned ma-chine which had been in his cel-lar for a great man-y years.

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • Jer-ry Jar-vis, fath-er of one of the pu-pils, said that he had turned the crank of that ma-chine time and time a-gain when he was a boy, and that he was will-ing to go on the stage with it at that time if it would help a-long the "Show," and raise mon-ey for the "Cause."

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • "I do not sup-pose such a per-fect ma-chine as I am could be made in an-y place but a fair-y land."

    Ozma of Oz 1887

  • Facing nine felony charges, including possession of a ma-chine gun, possession of an assault rifle, felon in possession of a firearm and felon in possession of ammunition, the

    The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA News, Sports, & Weather 2009

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