clock-work

If they could only make it once, they would understand, and then it would go like clock-work.

CHAPTER 23 2010

With decades of experience under her belt, all occasions that Her Majesty attends are planned with skilled precision, and run like clock-work.

Yvonne Yorke: Queen Livid Over Prince William's Wedding Plans Yvonne Yorke 2011

With decades of experience under her belt, all occasions that Her Majesty attends are planned with skilled precision, and run like clock-work.

Yvonne Yorke: Queen Livid Over Prince William's Wedding Plans Yvonne Yorke 2011

A clock-work doll sits atop a wobbly mountain of rubble.

Harlequin 2010

Visiting the Pumpkin-Field Dorothy let Button-Bright wind up the clock-work in the copper man this morning -- his thinking machine first, then his speech, and finally his action; so he would doubtless run perfectly until they had reached the Emerald City.

Love Letters 2010

"I am all wound up and work-ing fine-ly," said the clock-work man to Dorothy.

Love Letters 2010

It wouldn't beso dire if anything that has been predicted by the so-called doom-sayers hasn't come true almost like clock-work.

Name This Economic Disaster 2008

The heart monitor never wavers, beep, beep. beep…like clock-work….. a mocking sign that evil sometimes perseveres when good fades…..

Phil Spector Guilty In Lana Clarkson Murder 2008

Dame Glendinning was all this while on her knees, her head mechanically turning from the one church officer to the other, which, as they stood one on each side of her, had much the appearance of a figure moved by clock-work, and so soon as they were silent, most devotedly did she kiss the munificent hand of the Abbot.

The Monastery 2008

But yet they would be no distinct species to men ignorant of clock-work, and the inward contrivances of watches, who had no other idea but the outward shape and bulk, with the marking of the hours by the hand.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007