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Renault brothers, four cylindered, of twenty horsepower, and with
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Then there came a jolt, a ripping sound, and Cora's big, four - cylindered machine banged into the Streak, for, in spite of all Cora and Walter could do, the Whirlwind could not be stopped in time.
The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose
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The aeronaut nodded grimly, and turned more gasolene into the twenty-cylindered engine.
Tom Swift and His Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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In vain Betty and the others poked about in the forward compartment trying to locate it, and they might not have succeeded had not a man, passing in a little one-cylindered boat, kindly stopped and discovered that one of the spark plug wires was loose.
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Laura Lee Hope
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John deftly lifted off the thin veneer hood of the airplane, and disclosed a very small four-cylindered rotary pneumatic engine of bewitching simplicity and lightness, which a baby could have held out in its pudgy palm.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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Four-cylindered, sliding-gear transmission, three speeds forward and reverse, long-wheel base, new ignition system, and all sorts of other things mentioned in the catalogue.
The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose
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It appeared that when Madame Rangon went away for a few days she dispersed the whole of the female side of her establishment also, and she'd left her son with nobody to look after him except an old man we'd seen in the yard mending one of these double-cylindered sulphur-sprinklers they clap across the horse's back and drive between the rows of vines ....
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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Then he slowed down and threw up the hood, disclosing two complete multi-cylindered motors.
El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914
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This engine was markedly similar to the six-cylindered Anzani, having all the valves mechanically operated, and with auxiliary exhaust ports at the bottoms of the cylinders, overrun by long pistons.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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Coming to the Lebaudy brothers and their work, their engine of 1902 was a 40 horse-power Daimler, four-cylindered; it was virtually
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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