steam-engines

According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

And then there is the river Charles, no longer clear and bright, as when trees and hills and flowers were mirrored on its surface, but foul, turbid, and polluted, with ship-yards and steam-engines and cranes and windlasses on its margin; and here Quebec ends.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

But the system is one which has for its object the transformation of reason into instinct the lowering of a rational being into a machine scarcely more intelligent in appearance than some of our own ingeniously-contrived steam-engines.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Objectophiles who harbor passionate sexual love for buildings and steam-engines

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

At an iron-foundry I was surprised to find that steam-engines and flour-mill machinery could not be manufactured fast enough to meet the demand.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

For, as he walked along in the silence of the sea-twilight, on the soft white ocean floor, he was aware of a hissing, and a roaring, and a thumping, and a pumping, as of all the steam-engines in the world at once.

The Water Babies 2007

The island rang as yet with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches; a gay sight was the road in merry England in those days, before steam-engines arose and flung its hostelry and chivalry over.

The Newcomes 2006

Voltaire does in the above exquisite lines; nor about to expatiate on the beauties of error, for it has none; but the clank of steam-engines, and the shouts of politicians, and the struggle for gain or bread, and the loud denunciations of stupid bigots, have wellnigh smothered poor Fancy among us.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006