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  • A creature which looked to Eddie like a large mechan-ical bat thudded to earth between the place where Eddie now lay and the one where Susannah knelt beside Roland.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • He started to say, "Andrew Wexler, please, tell him it's?" but a mechan-ical voice, familiar and indifferent to interruption, broke in on his request.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • He walked right in, unchallenged by human or mechan-ical intervention.

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • Then I believed that of my discoveries in energy generation and gravity-field mechan-ics.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • 'But what about the booby-traps and trigger mechan - isms these Pandora people have been talking about?' asked Dr Price.

    Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • 'But what about the booby-traps and trigger mechan - isms these Pandora people have been talking about?' asked Dr Price.

    Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • The distinction of classical-romantic occurs for the first time in Coleridge's lectures, given in 1811, and is there clearly derived from Schlegel, since the dis - tinction is associated with that of organic and mechan - ical, painterly and sculpturesque, in close verbal adherence to Schlegel's phrasing.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Page 245, Volume 1 molecule and with its preoccupation with the mechan - ical interactions between molecules, there has been an increase in macroscopic modelling.

    BIOLOGICAL MODELS R. C. LEWONTIN 1968

  • Even in late medieval Europe the development of the mechan - ical clock did not spring from a desire to register the passage of time but rather from the monastic demand for accurate determination of the hours when the vari - ous religious offices and prayers should be said.

    TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968

  • Harvey had made a splendid advance in this field with his mechan - ical theory of the circulation of the blood.

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

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